Lifting Loops

Terms

Loop: the same kind of thing the user keeps taking part in.
Intervention: one concrete action the user takes inside a loop. There are six roles:

Role	What the user does	Typical words
Retry	Asks the agent to go again after it stalls or fails	"Try again", "continue", 继续
Judge	Says whether output is good, because the agent cannot tell	"Too long", "Is this OK?", "Too forced"
Approve	Gives the go-ahead the agent waits for	"Show me the commit plan first"
Carry	Hands over context the agent should have found itself	"See that other session", "We fetched this before"
Trigger	Starts the same kind of task by hand	The same opening prompt across sessions
Stand in	Does something the agent could have done	Logging in, clicking a button, copying files, running a command

Ledger: private/ledger.md, the evidence, status and metric for every loop.
Proposal: private/proposals/P-NNN.md, a draft change to a git-tracked file or to the user's habits.
Artifact: the file a loop finally lands in, such as a rule, a script or a skill.