Claude Code team shares how it runs long-lived agent loops with /loop and /goal
petergyang · x · 2026-07-21
Key takeaways from Claude Code’s loop workflow
Thariq from the Claude Code team explains how they use /loop, /goal, and workflows to run long-lived agent sessions differently.
- Before building, ask Claude to look for blind spots in the plan and surface unknown unknowns in the codebase.
- The team says they cut Claude Code’s system prompt by 80% as models got smarter and needed less direction.
- Planning is described as an iterative process of exploring, investigating, and discovering what you don’t know.
- The episode also covers a live demo of editing launch videos with Claude and using HTML artifacts to plan and learn.
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