Use Claude Code /loop to Watch and Auto-Fix Failing GitHub Actions

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-18 · Open on X

Topics: AI Dev Tools & Productivity, AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP · Level: intermediate

Summary

Shows how to use the /loop command in Claude Code to repeat a task on a schedule. The creator had it check a failing GitHub Actions release job every 5 minutes and fix it when it failed, which it did. It's a handy pattern for watching CI without doing it yourself.

Key points

• Claude Code's /loop command runs a prompt again and again at a set interval
• Use case: a GitHub Actions release job kept failing
• Set /loop to check every 5 minutes whether the job failed
• Tell Claude Code to fix the failure when it finds one
• It works well for repetitive monitor-and-fix tasks like CI

Resources mentioned

• Claude Code · tool · code.claude.com · paid · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Build agents and pipelines from the terminal; the guide's main agentic coding tool.
  Also in: Create Claude Code Plugins with /plugin-authoring (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), Claude Code mods: customize behavior and UI with plugins (Melvin Vivas on X · notes), AI Engineer Roadmap Overview: From ML Foundations to RAG, Agents & Ops (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes), SkillsBento: Free Plugin Marketplace for Codex and Claude Code (Melvin Vivas on X · notes) and 101 more
• GitHub Actions · tool · github.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  GitHub's CI/CD automation platform, used to run the self-healing docs workflow.
  Also in: 5 Weekend AI Engineering Projects: Cost Routing, Caching, Evals & Observability (Bashiri Smith on Facebook · notes)

Try this

• Use /loop in Claude Code to check failing CI jobs on an interval and fix them automatically