engineering-loop

Installation
SKILL.md

Engineering Loop (single change, one PR)

The standard loop for one ordinary change: spec to merged PR with review and verification. Lightweight counterpart to the epic-dev workflow.

Scale check (before starting)

Signal Route
One reviewable unit: one subsystem, roughly a day or less This skill.
2+ independently reviewable/testable units, or multiple subsystems epic-dev (phased epic with worktrees).
You have not worked in this code before codebase-onboarding first, then return here.
Behavior is wrong and cause unknown debugging skill first; the fix then follows this loop.
No issue exists yet Create one (except trivial fixes); it is the durable spec.

The loop

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Jul 10, 2026
engineering-loop — neuromechanist/research-skills