Optimize Loop

Optimize Loop is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by gaasher in Agent-Loop-Skills.

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Install Optimize Loop

Copy Optimize Loop into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills/tree/main/loops/optimize-loop ~/.claude/skills/optimize-loop

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: loops/optimize-loop/SKILL.md in gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/optimize-loop
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Optimize Loop does

Optimize Loop runs an evaluator-optimizer cycle that keeps a correctness gate passing while reducing a measured cost. Use it to refactor code or tune SQL when results must stay unchanged but complexity or latency should drop.

Optimize Loop is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Optimize Loop comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-loops, agentic-workflows, ai-agents and anthropic.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Optimize Loop

An evaluator-optimizer loop with a pluggable correctness gate + minimized metric. The artifact is some editable thing (a code module or a SQL query); the feedback signal is two-part: a bound gate that must pass (behaviour/results unchanged) and a bound metric that must drop (the cost you minimize). You apply one change, check the gate, measure the metric, and keep the change only if the gate passes AND the metric improves — otherwise you revert. Repeat until the metric stops improving or the budget runs out. Once the loop starts, do not pause for permission.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Optimize Loop provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Optimize Loop

What else does gaasher publish alongside Optimize Loop?
Optimize Loop is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Alpha Evolve, Anomaly Investigation and Blue Team. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Optimize Loop does, and is maintained by gaasher in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the gaasher/Agent-Loop-Skills page.
How does Optimize Loop compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Optimize Loop ranks #3337 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Optimize Loop against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.