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title: "Agent Loops - New Runtime"
description: "A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about agent loops."
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# Agent Loops - New Runtime

A New Runtime topic hub collecting signals, patterns, field notes, and public sources about agent loops.

## Short Answer

- Agent Loops is tracked here as an evidence-linked topic, not as a static glossary entry.
- The page connects raw observations to pattern hypotheses, longer analysis, and public sources.
- Use it as the canonical landing page before drilling into individual records.

## Patterns

- [Goal-scoped loops replace manual continuation](https://newruntime.com/patterns/goal-scoped-loops-replace-manual-continuation/): An autonomous loop becomes operationally useful when completion is an external contract rather than a model's subjective decision to stop.

## Field Notes


## Recent Raw Signals

- 2026-07-14: [Airbnb frames agentic coding as a loop inside development](https://newruntime.com/signals/airbnb-agentic-coding-loop/)
- 2026-07-10: [Deep Agents packages a harness for long-running tasks](https://newruntime.com/signals/deep-agents-package-long-running-harness/)
- 2026-07-07: [Claude Code can recover after a failed command](https://newruntime.com/signals/claude-code-recovers-after-failed-command/)
- 2026-07-05: [Loop Engineering Expands Beyond Coding](https://newruntime.com/signals/loop-engineering-expands-beyond-coding/)
- 2026-06-16: [Codex Can Run as a Maintainer Loop](https://newruntime.com/signals/codex-can-run-as-a-maintainer-loop/)

## Public Sources

- https://academy.langchain.com/courses/foundation-introduction-to-deepagents
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/goal
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/whats-new/2026-w26
- https://cursor.com/changelog/06-18-26
- https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-17-github-copilot-app-generally-available
- https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts
- https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/blob/main/skills/github-project-triage/SKILL.md
- https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts/blob/main/skills/maintainer-orchestrator/SKILL.md
- https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/2071988145667928442
- https://x.com/steipete/status/2064998499780084154
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=o6oYc9-X9Iw