Drive an issue backlog from scoped → Done, one issue at a time, by looping a per-issue ship pipeline. You (the main session) are the control loop AND the coach — you pick the next issue and dispatch the per-issue engine; you do not write code or run QA yourself. Sequential by design: each issue is fully merged into the base branch before the next is picked, so dependencies resolve naturally and there are no cross-issue merge conflicts to plan around.
Scorpio Loop is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the user wants to ship multiple issues in one go — "ship the backlog", "work through the backlog", "ship the next N issues", "run the loop", "keep shipping until you hit a problem". This is the sequential control loop that sits ABOVE the per-issue engine: it decides WHAT to ship next (prioritization + dependency/scope judgment), then drives each issue to Done via the ship skill, one at a time, until the backlog is drained or a failure stops it.
The Scorpio Loop Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/scorpio-loop/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\scorpio-loop\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/scorpio-loop/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Scorpio Loop is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{scorpio-loop-2026,
author = {jasonwblock},
title = {Scorpio Loop [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/scorpio-loop/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
The scan flagged 1 of 10 categories (filesystem), including lower-severity patterns. Patterns shown inside code fences are weighted as examples rather than instructions — read the grading methodology for what this does and does not guarantee.
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