Pressing “continue” every 90 seconds used to be your actual job when running multi-step AI tasks.
A developer got fed up and shipped Ghost in the Loop, a free Tampermonkey userscript that automates the relay work between AI steps.
No API keys. No account. No glowing-orb landing page.
The twist: it’s not just a button spammer. It’s actually smart.
- Halt-first priority
- Confidence scoring
- Watchdog timer
- Crash recovery
- A 20-round default cap so it doesn’t burn your tokens like it just discovered free will
Works on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Copilot, and Grok.
How to set it up:
- 🔧 Install Tampermonkey in your browser
- 📋 Add the Ghost in the Loop script from GitHub (AGPL-3.0, free)
- 🎯 Choose Loop Mode (fixed steps) or Think First Mode (AI plans its own batches)
- ▶️ Start your task, walk away, come back to finished work
Pro tip: Think First Mode is the one for messy, open-ended work. The AI creates its own execution plan, decides how many steps it needs, then runs them automatically. You describe the chaos. It figures out the structure.
Best for: long-form writing, research, code refactors, documentation, multi-part analysis.
👉 Grab it here: github.com/MShneur/ghost-in-the-loop
I automated the “please continue” button because apparently that was my full-time job now
by u/Mstep85 in ChatGPTPromptGenius