The Improvement Loop

Overview

Improve the .claude/ pipeline after resolving the issue at hand — never during. When a skill, agent, hook, or script produces bad output, work through to the correct solution first, then update the pipeline with what you learned.

Core principle: Fix first, understand fully, improve last. Premature edits encode partial understanding.

When to Use

digraph when_to_use {
    "Issue resolved successfully?" [shape=diamond];
    "Root cause in pipeline file?" [shape=diamond];
    "Worth encoding permanently?" [shape=diamond];
    "Run improvement cycle" [shape=box style=filled fillcolor=lightgreen];
    "Keep working on the issue" [shape=box];
    "Skip - not a pipeline problem" [shape=box];
    "Skip - one-off or too specific" [shape=box];