cobusgreyling/loop-engineering · freshness 100/100 · rescored August 4, 2026
loop-engineering
Practical patterns, starters & CLI tools for loop engineering with AI coding agents. Design systems that prompt and orchestrate agents (inspired by Addy Osmani and Boris Cherny). Includes loop-audit, loop-init, loop-cost.
The answer
Yes. loop-engineering is actively maintained — last commit today, freshness 100/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | none | Pushed today. |
| Commits, 90 days | 100+ | none | 100+ commits in the last 12 weeks. |
| Last release | v1.6.0 · 14 days ago | +4 | Released v1.6.0 14 days ago; 2 releases in the last year. |
| Release cadence | 20 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 2 sampled | not scored | |
| Committers, 90 days | 15 | +5 | 15 people committed in the last 90 days. |
| Bus factor | 5 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | MIT | not scored | |
| Stars | 9,829 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 11 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: The signals totalled 109; 100 is the ceiling. For it: Released v1.6.0 14 days ago; 2 releases in the last year. 15 people committed in the last 90 days.
Last push today, 100+ commits in the last 90 days, last release v1.6.0 14 days ago, 15 committers in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; cobusgreyling/loop-engineering carries 9,829 stars and 11 open issues.
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