joewalker/loop-the-loop

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Indexed issues: 56

Dominant language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Jun 7, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 21, 2026
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56 open issues indexed

loop(): an interrupted run leaves a non-expiring claim, so the prompt is silently skipped forever on resume Open

bug S2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#94 · Opened Jun 8, 2026
Add support for reading environment variables from a `.env` file Open

S2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#92 · Opened May 27, 2026
LoopState: 'inProgress' is loaded from disk and round-tripped to writes, but never consulted to influence behavior Open

bug S4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 39/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#90 · Opened May 25, 2026
LoopState.save uses non-atomic writeFile, so a crash mid-write corrupts the state file and loses all progress Open

bug S4

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#89 · Opened May 25, 2026
parseArgs: --help and --version silently accept extra positional arguments Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#88 · Opened May 25, 2026
loadCliConfig: --dry-run still resolves systemPrompt {{include:...}} macros even though the agent is replaced Open

bug S3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#86 · Opened May 25, 2026
Git exec(): stdout and stderr are concatenated into a single buffer, so callers cannot tell them apart Open

bug S4

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#85 · Opened May 25, 2026
Git exec(): child killed by a signal rejects with new Error('') and loses the signal information Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#84 · Opened May 25, 2026
Git.commit: --author value is wrapped in literal double quotes, corrupting author names that contain a quote character Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#83 · Opened May 25, 2026
Git.commit: CommitOptions.date only sets the author date, not the committer date Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#82 · Opened May 25, 2026
types.ts: SuccessfulInvocationResult.structuredOutput docstring says 'Present only when structured output was requested', but openai-sdk sets it for any non-string output Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#80 · Opened May 25, 2026
types.ts: LoopCliConfig.maxPrompts docstring claims 'null/undefined' is unlimited, but the type only permits 'undefined' Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 90/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#79 · Opened May 25, 2026
types.ts: LoopCliConfig.logger docstring says 'VerboseLogger instance' but LoggerSpec accepts any Logger Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#78 · Opened May 25, 2026
types.ts: typo "ran a prompt through and an Agent" in ErrorInvocationResult docstring Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 95/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#77 · Opened May 25, 2026
YamlReporter: structuredOutput is stored as a JSON-encoded string inside a block scalar, not as native YAML data Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#76 · Opened May 25, 2026
JsonlReporter.append: spread merge silently lets InvokeResult fields overwrite same-named Prompt fields Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#74 · Opened May 25, 2026
JsonlReporter: #path field is not declared readonly, inconsistent with the rest of the codebase Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#73 · Opened May 25, 2026
reporters.ts docstring claims a 'fileExtension' static and a 'create(basePath)' factory that no reporter implements Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#72 · Opened May 25, 2026
createReporter: unknown reporter names produce cryptic 'reporterConstructors[type] is not a function' TypeError Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#71 · Opened May 25, 2026
YamlReporter silently drops prompt text, so the YAML report cannot be paired with the prompt it answered Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#70 · Opened May 25, 2026
util/config: assertOptionalStringArray '// istanbul ignore else' hides untested 'array contains non-strings' branch Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#68 · Opened May 25, 2026
util/config: assertRequiredString reports 'must be a string' when the property is missing, hiding 'required field omitted' errors Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#67 · Opened May 25, 2026
TestPromptGenerator: array-index ids silently skip new prompts when the prompts list is modified between runs Open

bug S3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#66 · Opened May 25, 2026
PerFilePromptGenerator: prompt template includes are re-read from disk once per file Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#65 · Opened May 25, 2026
PerFilePromptGenerator: relative filePattern resolves against process.cwd() instead of the config file directory Open

bug S3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#64 · Opened May 25, 2026
JsonPromptGenerator: object fields named 'id' or 'index' silently shadow the built-in {{id}} / {{index}} template variables Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#63 · Opened May 25, 2026
gitlab prompt generator: assertGitLabSearchParams doesn't validate enum values for state/scope/sort Open

bug S3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#61 · Opened May 25, 2026
gitlab prompt generator: normalizeGitLabTaskConfig accepts unknown task-level properties and an unvalidated 'gitlab' field Open

bug S3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#60 · Opened May 25, 2026
GitHub.searchIssues: dryRun=true short-circuits before logQuery, so logQuery is useless for previewing the URL Open

bug S4

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#59 · Opened May 25, 2026
GitHub.resolveToken: explicit tokenEnv pointing at an unset env var silently sends unauthenticated requests Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#58 · Opened May 25, 2026
GitHub.searchIssues silently drops 'incomplete_results: true' from search responses Open

bug S3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#57 · Opened May 25, 2026
GitHub.searchIssues fails with 422 when perPage does not evenly divide the 1000-result cap Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#56 · Opened May 25, 2026
github-types.ts: GitHubIssue.assignees and labels arrays are not typed as nullable, inconsistent with other nullable fields Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#55 · Opened May 25, 2026
github-types.ts: GitHubConstructorOptions.origin doc says 'Defaults to GitHub.com' but default is 'https://api.github.com' Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#54 · Opened May 25, 2026
github-types.ts: GitHubIssue.repository field is declared but never populated by the search API Open

bug S4

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 86/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#53 · Opened May 25, 2026
expandPrompt: docstring claim about 'body last' protection is incomplete; placeholders in earlier variable values are still expanded Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#52 · Opened May 25, 2026
GitHubPromptGenerator: splitRepository validation runs after the network search, hiding the clear error behind an API failure Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#51 · Opened May 25, 2026
expandPrompt: dollar-sign sequences in variable values are silently corrupted by String.prototype.replaceAll Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 86/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#50 · Opened May 25, 2026
bugzilla prompt generator: normalizeBugzillaTaskConfig accepts unknown task-level properties and an unvalidated 'bugzilla' field Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#49 · Opened May 25, 2026
BugzillaPromptGenerator: missing nullish defaults cause 'undefined' in templates when 'bugFields' is used Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#48 · Opened May 25, 2026
JsonPromptGenerator: nested object/array fields render as '[object Object]' in templates Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#46 · Opened May 25, 2026
github prompt generator: normalizeGitHubTaskConfig accepts unknown properties, masking config typos Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#45 · Opened May 25, 2026
createPromptGenerator: unknown generator names produce cryptic 'creator is not a function' TypeError Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#44 · Opened May 25, 2026
loop: 'Loaded loop state from ...' is logged even when no state file exists, conflating fresh and resumed runs Open

bug S4

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#43 · Opened May 25, 2026
loop: pauses interPromptPause seconds after the last prompt even when the generator is exhausted Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#42 · Opened May 25, 2026
loop: loopState.end is called before git.maybeCommitAll, so a crash or commit failure leaves the working tree dirty while state shows completed Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#41 · Opened May 25, 2026
createLogger: invalid logger string (e.g. typo'd 'VERBOSE') silently passes through and crashes with 'logger.state is not a function' Open

bug S3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 85/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#40 · Opened May 25, 2026
index.ts: LoopState is part of the PromptGenerator extension contract but is not re-exported from the package root Open

bug S3

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#39 · Opened May 25, 2026
openai-sdk: empty systemPrompt produces trailing blank lines in agent instructions Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#38 · Opened May 25, 2026
openai-sdk: normalizeFinalOutput treats null as a success and returns output "null" Open

bug S4

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

joewalker/loop-the-loop#37 · Opened May 25, 2026

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