five-minute-maintainer-loop

Every few minutes while you work, makes one small verified repository improvement - a flaky test, a stale comment, a missing type - one change, one commit.

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Install (Claude Code)

mkdir -p .claude/loops && curl -fsSL https://doutorai.pt/data/lib/loops__five-minute-maintainer-loop.md -o .claude/loops/five-minute-maintainer-loop.md

Paste this command into the terminal, in your project folder, and the component installs automatically.

Content

---
name: five-minute-maintainer-loop
description: Every few minutes while you work, makes one small verified repository improvement - a flaky test, a stale comment, a missing type - one change, one commit.
category: engineering
interval: 5m
stop-condition: You end the session, or there is no safe low-risk improvement left to make this pass.
components: [agent:development-team/test-runner, command:git-workflow/commit, hook:quality-gates/scope-guard]
tags: [maintenance, hygiene, automation, loop]
---

# Five-Minute Maintainer Loop

> **Loop Engineering** - the `/loop` verb repeats a task *while

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