loop-implement-test-fix

Loop: Implement, Test, Fix

Drive a small implementation to green through a bounded number of iterations. Each iteration makes one focused change, runs the relevant checks, and reacts to the result.

Loop Steps

1. Implement the smallest change that moves the task toward its acceptance criteria.
2. Prove the change with a focused test first; run tdd-change for the red/green discipline.
3. Run the narrowest relevant test or check command and read the result.
4. If it fails, apply one focused fix and continue to the next iteration.

Max Iterations

The loop runs at most 3 iterations. When it reaches 3 iterations without meeting a stop condition, it stops unconditionally and reports the unfinished state and the outstanding work; it never raises the bound to keep going.

Stop Conditions

Stop the loop as soon as any of these holds:

• The relevant tests and checks are green.
• An iteration produces no diff.
• The same failure repeats identically across two consecutive iterations.

Approval Gate

• Get explicit human approval before any write, commit, or destructive step in each iteration.
• The loop never self-approves, never continues past the iteration bound, and never runs destructive commands on its own authority.
• Pause and surface the state whenever approval is missing.

Safety

• Do not upload source code.
• Do not read or print secrets.
• APC does not run this loop; a human or agent follows these instructions and remains in control.