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martin-loop

Active·★ 398·Apache-2.0·Updated 2026-10-22

MartinLoop is a governance layer for AI coding loops that enforces budget caps, verifier gates, rollback evidence, and audit trails. It prevents unbounded retries by stopping unsafe or uneconomical work before execution, providing visibility and accountability for autonomous coding agents.

martin-loop sits in the Security & Safety category, so it is usually better judged by workflow fit, deployment style, and team needs than by isolated features alone. Based on the available metadata, it leans most clearly toward Budget governance with hard caps on USD, iterations, and tokens. A representative use case is Bounding AI agent retry loops with budget and safety constraints. The listed license is Apache-2.0. GitHub stars are currently 412. Relevant tags include agent-runtime, ai-agent-runtime.

This write-up is based on the project's README and public repository data. We have not hand-tested the tool.

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$ Install
$ npm install -g martin-loop
↗ Visit site★ GitHub
01

Features

01Budget governance with hard caps on USD, iterations, and tokens
02Verifier gate that blocks execution unless verification passes
03Failure taxonomy classifying 11 failure classes
04Safety leash evaluating commands, file scope, and secrets before execution
05Rollback evidence capturing state before and after each attempt
02

Why choose it

+Budget governance with hard caps on USD, iterations, and tokens
+Verifier gate that blocks execution unless verification passes
+Bounding AI agent retry loops with budget and safety constraints
+Supports 3 platforms or runtime environments.
03

Trade-offs

!The final decision should still be made through side-by-side comparison with similar tools.
04

Compatibility

Node.js
Node >=20
Verified via docs
TypeScript
TypeScript strict
Verified via docs
npm
npm package
Verified via docs
05

Quick start

1
$ npm install -g martin-loop
06

Use cases

↳Bounding AI agent retry loops with budget and safety constraints
↳Auditing AI coding runs with structured JSONL records
↳Enforcing policy-as-code for autonomous coding agents
07

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398Apache-2.0
Last commit1d ago
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CategorySecurity & Safety
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