bounded-growth-loop

Bounded Growth Loop

Turn a proven recurring review into a safe, useful loop. The default output is a report or draft, never an unreviewed external action.

Use When

• a content freshness, SEO, funnel, partner, activation, or market-positioning review repeats on a cadence;
• a team wants a weekly or monthly operating rhythm without a full marketing runtime;
• a recurring agent task needs state, deduplication, evidence checks, and a clear human gate.

Loop Contract

Specify all of these before scheduling:

• cadence and trigger;
• action condition, distinct from the check itself;
• one intended outcome and bounded scope;
• source and product context inputs;
• self-check and evidence threshold;
• durable state, dedupe key, cooldown, and run log;
• proposal output location;
• stop, error, and escalation rules;
• approval boundary and rollback/discard path.

Workflow

1. Read docs/product-context.md or the repo's equivalent.
2. Select one narrow loop; begin report-only or proposal-first.
3. Match cadence to signal speed and sample size; do not create daily noise for slow signals.
4. Define the condition that authorizes a recommendation or draft.
5. Retain the report, evidence, and state outside ephemeral chat.
6. Run a verifier before proposing action; distinguish tracking defects, seasonality, and real changes.
7. Send external copy, publishing, scheduling, spend, pricing, outreach, or product mutations through explicit approval.
8. Review whether the loop is still useful; pause it when it creates noise or no one acts on its output.

Default Levels

• L1 report-only: reads and summarizes with no external mutation.
• L2 proposal-first: creates reviewable drafts or PRs behind a human gate.
• L3 governed: only after durable state, verifier evidence, budget limits, run log, rollback, and controlled settlement exist.

Guardrails

• Do not auto-publish, auto-send, shift ad spend, alter pricing, or contact people.
• Do not act on sparse, stale, personally identifiable, or unverified data.
• Do not treat a dashboard movement as causation; record alternative explanations.
• Keep the loop product-specific and delete it when it no longer earns its operating cost.