agent-autoloop: background CLI agents that keep working and ask before acting
agent-autoloop lets command-line AI agents pick up queued work in the background and follow it through, only surfacing an approval card when a decision is genuinely ambiguous; 3,600 stars in three days.
Why it matters
It turns a CLI agent from a foreground chat into a background worker with a human approval gate, so long task queues run unattended without handing the agent a blank cheque.
What you could build with it
A solo developer could let a CLI coding agent keep working through a backlog overnight, with agent-autoloop queuing follow-up tasks and only asking for approval when a decision is genuinely ambiguous.
Does it hold up?
Usable for its narrow job: the author and early writeups run Claude Code and Codex in the background on cron and GitHub issues, with approval cards for decisions; Windows support and real-account scenario recipes were still pending as of Nov 7, so expect rough edges outside macOS and Linux.
Built with agent-autoloop
- Agent Autoloop: Background Hub for Claude Codeexplainx · Setup guide and risk notes: cron, GitHub-issue and webhook triggers route to Claude Code or Codex, with approval cards when a decision is needed; macOS and Linux only.
- The Agent That Clocks Out While It Waits for Youheatdrop · Deep dive on the 1,651-line zero-dependency kernel, its event-sourced state model and the 200,000-step failure simulation and 1,000 forced-kill crash test.
- Agent Autoloop: Claude Code use caseideabot · The author automated daily reports from notes and Git commits and GitHub-issue follow-ups with Claude Code and Codex running in the background.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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