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Agent skill

Loop Northstar

by rome-os in rome-os/rome

Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Loop Northstar

skills CLI
$ npx skills add rome-os/rome --skill loop-northstar -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install rome-os/rome loop-northstar --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rome-os/rome.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/loop-northstar .claude/skills/loop-northstar && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
loop-northstar
GitHub stars
725
Token cost
~1k tokens
SKILL.md length
616 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
18
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones.

  • Works in 5 steps: Orient. Read the existing doc if there… → Discuss to consensus. Draft in chat and… → Name each statement's decider. For every… → …
  • Tasks that involve Project management
  • SKILL.md covers The ideal-state doc, Milestones and Flow
  • Calls gh

What it does

Loop Northstar is an agent skill from rome-os/rome. Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones.

Its SKILL.md is about 1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Project management. The repository describes itself as: A compounding agent OS for recursive agents. Also an open source alternative to Grok Bot and Meta's Muse. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Project management

Example prompts

  • “/loop-northstar”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Orient. Read the existing doc if there is one, the repository's open milestones and loop-reconcile issues, and the code the doc covers.
  2. Discuss to consensus. Draft in chat and iterate with the user. Push back on any statement that fails an admission rule.
  3. Name each statement's decider. For every statement the session lands, new and existing, name the code a reader opens to decide compliance…
  4. Check consistency. Walk the full Statements list — new and existing statements together — and surface any two that cannot both hold. A…
  5. Land the artifacts, only after the user's go-ahead in chat

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ed26d88. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • gh

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Loop Northstar loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 34 tokens; SKILL.md has 616 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~34
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from rome-os/rome at commit ed26d88, republished under its MIT licence (© rome-os). 616 words, ~1,044 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/loop-northstar/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
loop-northstar
description
Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones.
disable-model-invocation
true

Loop: north star

Goal end-state: the ideal state of the target area is written down and agreed — as a doc PR, and when the session slices it, as approved repository milestones.

This is the interactive half of the reconciliation loop. The autonomous half (loop-reconcile) computes the gap between these artifacts and the codebase and files work issues. This session files no work issues.

The ideal-state doc

The doc lives in docs/northstars/, one file per area, named for the area it describes. It describes the ideal present — what should be true. Never how to get there, and never what used to be. Prose follows WRITING.md.

The body takes whatever form fits the subject — contract tables, flow descriptions, diagrams, examples — with one required section: Statements, a bullet list of checkable claims. Only the Statements section has authority. loop-reconcile computes the gap against it, and everything else is illustration.

Admission rules for every statement:

  • Declarative present tense. No "currently", no "we will", no "migrate from", no milestone names.
  • Checkable: an agent can verify compliance by reading the code.
  • Open: more than one implementation can satisfy it. The test: the statement stands without naming a file, function, or type. A statement only one implementation satisfies is code transcribed into prose.
  • A statement asserting that something is answered one way, or once, names the question it answers. Compliance turns on which reads count as the same question, so a uniqueness claim without its question cannot be checked.

Content that never enters the doc:

  • Milestones. They go to the repository's milestone list and die there.
  • Rationale. It goes to an ADR.
  • Migration policy. It lives in loop-reconcile.

Milestones

A milestone is an intermediate ideal state. Its description is a Statements list — typically a subset or a weakened version of the north star's statements — plus optional notes. The same admission rules apply: what, never how.

  • Slice the end state into pillars or layers. Pillars are independent and build in any order. Layers stack and build bottom up.
  • A milestone must describe a state worth pausing at indefinitely. If pausing there leaves the codebase incoherent, the slice is wrong.
  • Milestones are born approved. Consensus happens in this session, and the record lands as repository milestones. No proposed state exists.
  • A milestone that falls behind a revised doc gets fixed here too: loop-reconcile reports the drift and stops, and the next session revises the milestone.
  • A session that revises a doc also walks the open milestones and updates any statement the revision changed or removed, while the human is present to confirm.
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Flow

  1. Orient. Read the existing doc if there is one, the repository's open milestones and loop-reconcile issues, and the code the doc covers.
  2. Discuss to consensus. Draft in chat and iterate with the user. Push back on any statement that fails an admission rule.
  3. Name each statement's decider. For every statement the session lands, new and existing, name the code a reader opens to decide compliance. A statement whose decider you cannot name is not checkable, and it does not land. This is the step that catches a statement describing a question the code does not ask.
  4. Check consistency. Walk the full Statements list — new and existing statements together — and surface any two that cannot both hold. A revision session checks against the whole doc, not only the edited part.
  5. Land the artifacts, only after the user's go-ahead in chat:
    1. The doc: open a branch and a PR. The user merges.
    2. The milestones: create each on GitHub with gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/milestones -f title=... -f description=... — the title names the slice, the description holds its Statements list. Create layers in build order.

Nothing lands before the go-ahead.

© rome-os, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/loop-northstar of rome-os/rome.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ed26d88

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Questions about Loop Northstar

What does Loop Northstar do?

Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones. Loop Northstar is an agent skill from rome-os/rome. Hold an interactive session to create or revise an ideal-state doc, or to slice it into approved repository milestones.

When should I use Loop Northstar?

Loop Northstar fits situations like: tasks that involve Project management.

How do I install Loop Northstar in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add rome-os/rome --skill loop-northstar -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/loop-northstar in rome-os/rome) into .claude/skills/loop-northstar in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Loop Northstar in Codex?

Run `npx skills add rome-os/rome --skill loop-northstar -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/loop-northstar in rome-os/rome) into .agents/skills/loop-northstar in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Loop Northstar in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add rome-os/rome --skill loop-northstar -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/loop-northstar, .gemini/skills/loop-northstar, .github/skills/loop-northstar and .opencode/skills/loop-northstar in your project.

What does Loop Northstar need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Loop Northstar needs the command-line tools its instructions call (gh).

Does Loop Northstar access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Loop Northstar safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Loop Northstar use?

Loop Northstar is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Loop Northstar use?

About 1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Loop Northstar?

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Who maintains Loop Northstar?

rome-os (a GitHub organization) maintains it in rome-os/rome, which has 725 GitHub stars. The repository holds 18 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: rome-os/rome on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.