critic-loop

critic-loop

This stage turns N rendered draws into one refined piece. Two protocols govern it; both are the authoritative wording and are used verbatim (⟨…⟩ = slots the orchestrator fills, the rest unchanged). Do NOT paraphrase them — Read the files and use their exact text.

1 · Blind select — pick the most promising base

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/critic-loop/BLIND-SELECT-PROTOCOL.md. Spawn the blind-selector agent (fresh, one-shot) with the brief + the N candidate dirs (each has 6 still-*.png + strip/). It selects for potential (the base whose ceiling after the loop is highest), not fewest current flaws — fixable execution nits must not count against a strong base. It returns { winner, reason }. The orchestrator does NOT judge; it hands over candidates and takes back the winner.

2 · Critic loop (甲乙环) — refine the winner until it converges

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/critic-loop/CRITIC-PROTOCOL.md (条带规格 harness contract + the verbatim 甲 prompt + the per-round ferry message + 乙环纪律).

• 甲 (critic) = the aesthetic-critic agent. Spawn ONE instance for the piece and continue the SAME instance across rounds (it is persistent — retained memory across rounds is the point — but design-blind: it sees only the frame strip + the brief, never DESIGN.md or code). It reports phenomena + severity and never prescribes a fix; its last line is CONVERGED: YES|NO.
• 乙 (builder) = the SAME continuous-context builder instance that designed and built the winning draw (do NOT spawn a fresh agent to read-back context — that is the degraded rescue form). It receives 甲's verdict and adjudicates each item per §5 环纪律.
• The orchestrator ferries verbatim, both ways, and never judges aesthetics:
  • 甲's verdict text → the builder's conversation, and archive it to ⟨RUN_DIR⟩/CRITIC-VERDICTS.md.
  • The builder's pixel-grounded rebuttal → 甲 (甲's INTEGRITY forbids it from reading any file other than the frames + its own crops, so it cannot fetch the rebuttal itself).
• The builder re-renders each round to out/r⟨N⟩ (render-arm then render-strip), confirms non-white, appends fixes to ⟨RUN_DIR⟩/FIXES.md.
• Loop until CONVERGED: YES — no round cap. 甲's retained cross-round memory is what drives fast convergence (typically a few rounds); never stop it while high-/med-severity items remain. The result is the latest out/rN.