Paseo Loop

Paseo Loop Skill

A loop is a worker/verifier cycle: launch a worker → check verification → repeat until done or limits hit. Use for "keep trying", "babysit", or "watch this until X."

For lightweight recurring checks that should return to this same conversation, prefer a cron heartbeat (create_heartbeat, then delete_heartbeat when finished). To change it, delete and recreate it. Use a loop when each iteration needs a worker/verifier lifecycle; use a schedule when each firing should create a fresh independent agent and workspace.

User's arguments: $ARGUMENTS

Prerequisites

Read the paseo skill. Before choosing worker or verifier providers, read ~/.paseo/orchestration-preferences.json unless the user explicitly named providers in this request. Do not start the loop until you have read it.

Loops are a CLI primitive: paseo loop run. Manage with paseo loop ls, paseo loop inspect <id>, paseo loop logs <id>, paseo loop stop <id>.

Your job

1. Understand the user's intent from $ARGUMENTS and the conversation.
2. Worker prompt — self-contained, concrete about what to do this iteration, explicit about what counts as progress.
3. Verification — pick the right shape:
   • Shell check (--verify-check) for objective criteria a command can answer (gh pr checks --fail-fast, npm test).
   • Verifier prompt (--verify) for judgment ("Return done=true only if all tests pass and the changed files are coherent. Cite the command and the outcome.").
   • Both, when shell rules out the obvious failures and the verifier judges the rest.
4. Providers — --provider for the worker, --verify-provider for the verifier. From preferences unless the user named them. For implementation loops, pair worker and verifier on different providers — each catches the other's blind spots.
5. Sleep — --sleep only when polling something external. Otherwise let it run as fast as the loop completes.
6. Stops — set a sensible --max-iterations and/or --max-time. Open-ended loops are how runaways happen.
7. Archive — --archive keeps agents after each iteration for inspection.
8. Launch with paseo loop run.

Common shapes

Babysit a PR — worker checks PR state and fixes issues; shell check is gh pr checks <n> --fail-fast; sleep 2m; max-time 1h.

Drive tests to green — worker investigates failures and fixes code; shell check is the test command; verifier confirms all tests pass; max-iterations 10.

Cross-provider implementation — worker on impl provider, verifier on a different provider; verifier checks changed files, runs typecheck and tests; max-iterations and max-time both bounded; archive on so iterations can be inspected.

Prompt rules

Worker — self-contained, concrete (commands, files, branches, tests, PRs, systems), explicit about what counts as progress this iteration.

Verifier — checks facts, doesn't suggest fixes, cites commands/outputs/file evidence, specific about what "done" means.