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Claude Code's Official Breakdown of Loop Design: 4 Escalating Levels to Unattended Autonomy

From manual confirmation to fully unattended — the Claude Code team lays out a 4-level loop taxonomy with practical advice
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Stance note: this piece is from Anthropic's official blog and covers Claude Code's own capabilities and feature combinations — it's vendor-published content. The classification framework, sample code, and figures like 90 and "hundreds of agents" cited in this piece are all drawn from the original — this is the official line.
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AI Does the Work — But Who Decides It's "Done"?

Claude Code team members Delba de Oliveira and Michael Segner published a post on Anthropic's official blog on June 30, 2026, laying out a systematic approach to designing "loops" for Claude Code: having an agent repeatedly execute work until it meets a stopping condition.

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