Complete Loop
Part 5 Quiz · A Complete Loop, Twice
Five questions on the triage build. (No flashcards for this part — the exercise is the two builds.) The bar for moving on is 4 of 5.
Five questions on the triage build. (No flashcards for this part — the exercise is the two builds.) The bar for moving on is 4 of 5.
Question 1
Recite the 7-item minimum-safe checklist that gates the triage loop's first run (Step 13).
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1 provable success condition · 2 run limit · 3 spine written first, committed · 4 report-only (L1) start · 5 human gate placed · 6 one log line per beat · 7 kill switch tested.
Question 2
The loop could label issues while it triages — obvious value — and the design forbids it on day one. Justify that call.
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Labels are writes on a shared system others can see, and trust hasn't been earned yet: L1 first means faulty judgment surfaces as a faulty report (cheap) rather than a hundred wrong labels (public). The clicks you save are tuition; promotion to L2 arrives after the reports have been boringly correct.
Question 3
Both walkthroughs rehearse the beat by hand the night before they arm the schedule. Why is that non-negotiable (13a)?
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First runs fail the most, and a 7 am failure is by definition unwatched. One manual rehearsal of the identical beat converts every would-be-unwatched failure into a watched, fixable one. It's prove-before-unattended, in miniature.
Question 4
In 13b, three minimum-safe items live in the bash wrapper rather than the prompt. Which three, and why there (13b)?
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Kill switch (the pause-file check), run limit (the daily-cap marker), and spine durability
(the unconditional git commit). In bash they're harness-layer guarantees that hold even on
the model's worst beat; in the prompt they'd be mere requests to the very process they're
supposed to bound.
Question 5
Having built the loop twice: name two things that showed up in both builds unchanged, and two that were pure plumbing.
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Unchanged (any two): the six-part shape, the skill text, the reviewer rubric, the
L1/rehearsal discipline, the checklist. Plumbing (any two): Routine vs. cron, /permissions
vs. opencode.json + wrapper, subagent vs. a second run. Durable shape, swappable plumbing —
the lasting-vs-mechanical rule made concrete.
Next: Part 6 · Human Control
Sources: this quiz tests Part 5, drawn from Panaversity's Loop Engineering: A Crash Course (S1). Full attribution: resources/sources.md.