Advanced Claude Code: Designing Loops and Automation

Topics covered

• •The four ways a Claude Code loop can start and stop
• •How to hand off verification instead of checking everything yourself
• •How to set a measurable finish line instead of babysitting every turn

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• •Trigger — your prompt.
• •Judge — Claude decides the task is done, or asks you for more context.
• •Best for — short, one-off tasks outside any recurring process.

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• •Trigger — a fixed time interval.
• •Judge — you cancel it, or the underlying work reports itself finished.
• •Best for — recurring checks or work that depends on something changing externally.

Topics covered

• •Understand what a workflow is and how it differs from ordinary subagents
• •Recognize when a task has genuinely outgrown a simpler approach

Topics covered

• •Tell apart the main ways of working on multiple things at once
• •Choose based on who's coordinating, and whether the tasks touch the same files