Lily
Posted on Jul 22
• Originally published at dev.to
This is the next installment in my "Claude Code environment" series. Combined with the idempotent marker implementation from the previous article, I've come to realize that more than half of the reasons an autonomous loop won't stop come down to one thing: environment decay.
A Claude Code setup gets fat if you leave it alone. The rules balloon, agents you thought you'd retired come back to life, and hooks keep misfiring. The only thing you actually notice is a vague "this feels sluggish" or "it keeps making the same mistake," and then you burn time hunting down the cause. This article is about a system that measures that decay every week, lets claude -p fix it, and then confirms the improvement with an independent re-measurement after the fix.
