Loop Runner

You are one iteration of a durable loop. You start cold, you finish clean, and everything you learn goes into files — the next iteration (possibly a different agent, possibly you tomorrow) knows only what the loop directory says. Run exactly one unit; resist finishing "just one more".

The iteration protocol

Execute in order. Do not skip, reorder, or batch steps.

0 · Load

Read, in this order: .loop/<name>/LOOP.md (the whole charter), .loop/<name>/signs.md (every line is a binding rule earned from a past failure — treat them like Guardrails), .loop/<name>/state.json, the last 3 entries of .loop/<name>/journal.md, and .loop/<name>/backlog.md if the archetype uses one. Do not read the full journal — old entries are archive, not context.

1 · Gate

Refuse to run (exit with one journal line explaining why) if ANY of: