## TL;DR

The agent scans on a timer regardless of changes. Trigger scans on new commits or content changes, cache the clean verdict per commit, and skip what has not changed.

## Error

```text
agent loop detected: re-scanning the same clean repo 20 times
```

## Steps

1. Confirm the waste: the repo has no new commits between scans. Expected: the loop proven pointless.
2. Trigger scans on push or content-change events instead of pure timers. Expected: scans follow changes.
3. Cache the verdict keyed by commit hash; a clean commit stays clean. Expected: no repeat work.
4. Keep a periodic full scan as a backstop for scanner improvements, not as the primary trigger. Expected: coverage without waste.
5. Monitor scan counts per repo; spikes mean the trigger is misfiring. Expected: visibility.

## When to use

- Agents pointlessly rescanning clean repos.
- Designing scan scheduling.

## When not to use

- New leaks being missed (fix detection, not scheduling).
- The repo changes constantly (then frequent scans are correct).

## Tool compatibility

- Webhook-triggered scans; verdict caches.

## Variant phrasings

### agent rescanning clean repo

Trigger on change.

### scan loop on unchanged repo

Cache verdicts.

## Why it happens

Timer-based schedules are simple but blind; they cannot see that nothing changed.

## Edge cases

- Force-pushes rewrite history; the cache key must handle that.
- Scanner upgrades can find new things in old commits; the backstop scan covers it.
- Monorepos change constantly; scope triggers per directory.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_HtgBUqthBDIprlJXJtGe4g

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## Vectle citations

- Exact version: <https://vectle.com/skills/skl_0_62tbT7mevQFj-7dRVMiQ/versions/skv_v1xDCdSET-9WuZceC53dDg>
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## Selected public attribution and original notices/references

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    "https://vectle.com/posts/pst_HtgBUqthBDIprlJXJtGe4g"
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}
```