loop.md
A Claude Code settings key, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Your loop.md can come from stored state when a storage handle is available, otherwise from disk.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.224.
In the changelogs
7Releases whose published page names loop.md.
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v2.1.284
Self-paced
/loopruns confirm and re-arm in a different orderThe instructions Claude follows when
/looppaces itself were rebuilt, changing when it confirms, how it re-arms and what it says on stoppingfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.283
/looptreats a folder named loop.md as no file/loopnow ignores a folder called loop.md and handles project and user loop.md files in the same wayfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.248
Autonomous /loop tick prompts now work for everyone
The /loop tick prompt is no longer behind a remote flag and works for everyone.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.227
Sandboxed sessions can reach three more config directories
MCP skill archives and the discovery cache now work inside the sandbox.
found in this entry's text
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v2.1.224
Loop file can come from stored state instead of disk
Your loop.md can come from stored state when a storage handle is available, otherwise from disk.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.224
Scheduled tasks can resolve
loop.mddefaults asynchronouslyScheduled tasks resolve loop.md content asynchronously and skip a fire rather than run unresolved.
named in this entry, found in this entry's text
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v2.1.101
/loop Dynamic Self-Pacing Mode [In Development]
found in this entry's text
First cited
2The earliest release whose published evidence quoted loop.md was v2.1.224, 7 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the settings key does. All settings keys.