How to Run Claude Code in a Loop (Autonomous Coding That Ships While You Sleep)
Run Claude Code in an autonomous loop that keeps a fresh context every iteration, stops on an explicit completion promise, and stays sandboxed.
Run Claude Code in an autonomous loop that keeps a fresh context every iteration, stops on an explicit completion promise, and stays sandboxed.
Geoffrey Huntley popularized the Ralph technique by running a coding agent in a plain Bash loop until a working programming language fell out the other end. Here is where the idea came from and why it stuck.
Give an autonomous coding agent a real boundary instead of trusting its permission prompts. Here is how Docker Sandboxes isolate an agent in YOLO mode without exposing your machine.
Spec-driven development hands an AI coding agent a PRD, a task list, and acceptance criteria instead of a vague prompt. Here is the full workflow and how Ralph runs it.
Long autonomous runs fail on three axes (context, cost, crashes). Here is the architecture that keeps an AI coding agent productive overnight and across days.
An agentic coding CLI is an AI agent you drive from the terminal. Here is the field guide to the six Ralph supports and how to run any of them in a loop.
The Ralph technique runs a coding agent in a loop until it signals completion. Fresh context each iteration, state on disk, and a promise tag that tells the loop when to stop.