# Discussion Guide

Use [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/discussions) to share operating examples, challenge definitions, suggest evidence, and improve annotations in public.

Seed thread: [Show your Loop Engineering patterns](https://github.com/ChaoYue0307/awesome-loop-engineering/discussions/2).

## Suggested Categories

- **Pattern Examples**: real or anonymized loop patterns with trigger, intake, state, verification, budget, and escalation.
- **Resource Suggestions**: candidate papers, blogs, docs, tools, benchmarks, critiques, or adjacent lists.
- **Definitions And Scope**: questions about what is or is not Loop Engineering.
- **Runtime Implementations**: Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Agentic Workflows, custom workflow engines, and related tooling.
- **Translations**: language-specific discussion and translation maintainers.

If GitHub's default categories are used, prefix discussion titles with the category name, such as `[Pattern Example] PR babysitter for docs-only repos`.

## Starter Discussion Prompts

### Pattern Examples

```text
What loop patterns are you using?

Please share the objective, trigger, intake, agent roles, verification gate, durable state, budget, escalation path, and receipts if public or anonymized.
```

### Definitions And Scope

```text
Where should the boundary between Harness Engineering and Loop Engineering sit?

Useful answers should include concrete examples and explain whether the system repeats, persists state, verifies, and decides next actions.
```

### Runtime Implementations

```text
Which runtime primitives make Loop Engineering easier?

Examples: schedules, goals, hooks, worktrees, skills, plugins, subagents, workflow state, traces, approvals, and dashboards.
```

## Moderation Standard

Follow `CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md`, stay focused on recurring AI-agent and coding-agent systems, and support claims with inspectable evidence. Promotional posts need concrete technical detail or may be closed.