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Figure 22.1: The canonical loop and its paperwork

The canonical loop and its paperwork.
Figure 22.1 The canonical loop and its paperwork. Four phases hand off left to right, each depositing a checked-in artifact—spec.md, plan.md, todo.md—so the project's state survives every context window rather than living in a conversation; a standing project-instructions file feeds all four. The accent arrow is the compound step: before moving on, whatever a run taught you is written back into that file, so the next run starts smarter than this one did.