governed-autonomy-loop SKILL.md skillA
governed-autonomy-loop from broomva/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add broomva/skills/governed-autonomy-loop@git:20260711.1a456e1Pins git:20260711.1a456e1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- broomva/skills
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- git:20260711.1a456e1, committed Jul 11, 2026
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- 5
- License
- MIT
Turn any work-queue + any enforcement pipeline into a self-driving, self-healing, human-minimal autonomy loop with a control-systems safety envelope. A prose-defined governor closes a feedback loop over the queue, drives isolated worktree arcs to Done, is metacognitive (defers when the runtime can't support the act, escalates only when genuinely blocked, self-heals when the block clears), and NEVER performs the irreversible act itself — it delegates every merge/deploy/publish to an isolated…
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What the file says
# governed-autonomy-loop
> Verbal incantation ("be autonomous", "merge when green") is **open-loop** control.
> A governed autonomy loop is the **closed-loop** version — a controller whose
> verification signals are causally independent of the agent (`h ⟂ U`), so
> "autonomous" becomes a machine-checkable behavior instead of a hope.
This skill packages a *demonstrated controller*, not a described one: the reference
loop ran in production, hit two real runtime failures, degraded gracefully without
paging a human, and self-healed to close its arc — all observable in
`loop-log.jsonl` (broomva BRO-1740 + BRO-1833, first fully-autonomous merge
2026-07-10). It generalizes that instance into a recipe.
## The latent-vs-deterministic split (the load-bearing idea)
| Deterministic → tested code (`scripts/`) | Latent → prose (`templates/runner-prompt.template.md`) |
|---|---|
| `tick.sh` — durable scheduler: fire-timing, flock, run-counter, quiet hours, mode decision, watchdog, child-guard | reconcile classification (merged? dead? stale?) |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add broomva/skills/governed-autonomy-loop@sha256:18cef9f304875c4eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260711.1a456e1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Source
broomva/skills · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wc4cqd7jwnzec35a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=broomva/skills/governed-autonomy-loop GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18cef9f304875c4e0e4ada4b5f2a657b6fc64a987f07f87abd6e4e5c1dd4b02f
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