governed-autonomy-loop

Verbal incantation ("be autonomous", "merge when green") is open-loop control. A governed autonomy loop is the closed-loop version — a controller whose verification signals are causally independent of the agent (h ⟂ U), so "autonomous" becomes a machine-checkable behavior instead of a hope.

This skill packages a demonstrated controller, not a described one: the reference loop ran in production, hit two real runtime failures, degraded gracefully without paging a human, and self-healed to close its arc — all observable in loop-log.jsonl (broomva BRO-1740 + BRO-1833, first fully-autonomous merge 2026-07-10). It generalizes that instance into a recipe.

The latent-vs-deterministic split (the load-bearing idea)