Strategy
Loop Hiring Manager
Hire loops like employees: for recurring work with clear outcomes.
Use when
You have lots of automation ideas and need to decide which loop deserves oxygen.
Cadence
When a project accumulates recurring chores
Verification
At most three candidates fill proven recurring gaps, with one recommended safe manual trial.
Structured loop spec
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Loop Hiring Manager |
| Category | Strategy |
| Trigger | When a project accumulates recurring chores |
| Objective | Hire loops like employees: for recurring work with clear outcomes. |
| Allowed inputs | Relevant files, source notes, logs, tests, screenshots, metrics, or task state for this loop |
| Allowed actions | Define the exact scope, source of truth, and approval boundary.; Inspect current state and rank the highest-risk gap.; Make one small, reversible improvement.; Run the stated verification and record evidence.; Stop on success, budget, no progress, or approval required. |
| Verification | At most three candidates fill proven recurring gaps, with one recommended safe manual trial. |
| Stop condition | Stop when the verifier passes, the budget is exhausted, no progress is made, a blocker appears, or approval is required. |
| Budget | Set a time, turn, token, retry, file, or dollar cap before running the loop. |
| Approval boundary | Human approval required before publishing, sending, deleting, spending, changing accounts, touching production, or making reputational/legal/financial commitments. |
| Safe output | Draft, report, checklist, table, or approval-gated recommendation |
| Works with | Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, any tool-using AI assistant |
Steps
- Define the exact scope, source of truth, and approval boundary.
- Inspect current state and rank the highest-risk gap.
- Make one small, reversible improvement.
- Run the stated verification and record evidence.
- Stop on success, budget, no progress, or approval required.
Prompt
Run the Loop Hiring Manager loop. Use it when You have lots of automation ideas and need to decide which loop deserves oxygen. Work in bounded iterations: inspect current state, choose the highest-risk gap, make one reversible improvement, verify it, and record evidence. Stop when At most three candidates fill proven recurring gaps, with one recommended safe manual trial. or when blocked, budget exhausted, or approval is required.Run in Claude Code
Paste this into Claude Code (or any tool-using agent) to run the loop bounded: one change per round, the same verification every round, durable state files, and explicit stop conditions.
Run the "Loop Hiring Manager" loop from AI Loop Library (https://ailooplibrary.com/loops/loop-hiring-manager/) as a bounded loop.
Goal: Hire loops like employees: for recurring work with clear outcomes.
Rules: one change per round; run the same verification every round (At most three candidates fill proven recurring gaps, with one recommended safe manual trial.); append each round to docs/loops/loop-hiring-manager/progress.md and update docs/loops/loop-hiring-manager/state.json; stop on verifier pass, 8 rounds, 3 consecutive failed verifications, no progress, a blocker, or anything needing human approval (money, production, outbound, deletion). Finish with a proof report: rounds used, changes made, verification output, remaining risk, and the next human decision.