loop-driven-engineering SKILL.md skillA
loop-driven-engineering from corvinlabs/corvinos is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add corvinlabs/corvinos/loop-driven-engineering@git:20260915.459047ePins git:20260915.459047e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- corvinlabs/corvinos
- Path
corvin_operator/bundle/skills/ldd/loop-driven-engineering/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260915.459047e, committed Sep 15, 2026
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- 13,458 bytes
- Repository stars
- 24
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use at the start of any non-trivial engineering task (feature, bugfix touching more than one file, refactor with observable behavior change, incident response). Orchestrates the three LDD loops — inner (code), refinement (deliverable), outer (method) — with hard iteration budgets, dispatches the specialist skills at the right moments, and forbids declaring "done" without a synced doc-level mental model.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Loop-Driven-Engineering ## Overview Engineering is **three loops**, not one. You plan, you try, you measure, you diagnose, you try again — on the **code axis** (inner loop), the **deliverable axis** (refinement), and the **method axis** (outer loop). The thing that separates good engineering from flailing is choosing the right loop for the current loss, respecting each loop's budget, and not smuggling one loop's edits into another's. **Core principle:** the loop closes when applicable gates are green **and** the doc-level mental model is current. Not when one test passes. Not when "it looks right." Not when the LLM sounds confident. This skill is a **flexible pattern**, not a rigid procedure. Use judgment; adapt the structure to the task. But the budget, the escalation rule, and the loop-separation rule are hard. See [`../../docs/ldd/convergence.md`](../../docs/ldd/convergence.md) for the three-loop model in full, and [`../../diagrams/three-loops.svg`](../../diagrams/three-loops.svg) for the picture. ## When to Use Invoke at the **start** of any non-trivial engineering task: - Feature touching ≥2 files or ≥1 public surface - Bugfix where the cause is not yet identified …
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How to install
mdr add corvinlabs/corvinos/loop-driven-engineering@sha256:f56281039ec1fdceThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260915.459047e, 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
corvinlabs/corvinos · 24 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yi6u35tvlwic3dyr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=corvinlabs/corvinos/loop-driven-engineering GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f56281039ec1fdce3793861d04794207362603db4e92e7322c91c3effba7787e
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