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Ran the SELF-IMPROVEMENT.md protocol. Three candidates passed the full eval gate (authority, freshness, non-regression, link integrity, on-purpose); arXiv titles verified against abstracts. - docs/01: fold in "Stop Hand-Holding Your Coding Agent" (arXiv:2607.00038) -- the loop specification (trigger, goal, verification, stopping rule, memory), the prompt -> context -> harness -> loop progression, the five-level verification ladder, named terminal states, and the 50-loop corpus finding. Raises last cycle's newsletter-sourced framing to a citable arXiv source. - docs/02: "Harnessing Agent Skills" (arXiv:2606.20631) -- the skill-in-use reference architecture (Supply Chain -> Mediation -> Execution Control -> Evidence & Feedback). - index.html: two new UML cards (Agent loop, Tool design); count 32 -> 34. - references.md: two papers + a first-party Microsoft Agent Framework (Agent Harness, BUILD 2026) entry. - SELF-IMPROVEMENT.md: last_updated -> 2026-07-03. Verified: 0 broken links/anchors; 35/35 mermaid diagrams render, 0 errors. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PChasP7sN14akYoz73LXkc
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Third run of the
SELF-IMPROVEMENT.mdprotocol. Scanned Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft, and arXivcs.AI/cs.SE. Three candidates passed all five evals (authority, freshness, non-regression, link integrity, on-purpose); every arXiv title was verified against its abstract before citing.Ranked change set
1. Loop engineering, formalized —
docs/01,index.html,references.md(Priority 1: freshest, and upgrades existing content's authority)Stop Hand-Holding Your Coding Agent: Engineering the Loops that Replace Step-by-Step Prompting (arXiv:2607.00038, July 2026). This is the arXiv formalization of the outer-loop concept added last cycle from a practitioner newsletter — so it raises that section's authority to a citable source. Folded into
docs/01: the loop specification (trigger · goal · verification · stopping rule · memory), the prompt → context → harness → loop progression, the five-level verification ladder, named terminal states, and the 50-loop corpus finding (70% verify autonomously, 74% name terminal states; automated triggering + durable memory are the weak links).2. Skill harnessing —
docs/02,index.html,references.md(Priority 3: reference architecture, on-purpose)Harnessing Agent Skills: A Reference Architecture for Skill-Mediated LLM Agents (arXiv:2606.20631). The
skill-in-usetransition governed by four responsibility layers: Supply Chain → Mediation → Execution Control → Evidence & Feedback.3. First-party corroboration —
references.md(no card — not a research paper)Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness — the harness as a first-class SDK layer with built-in mid-loop context compaction and human-in-the-loop gating. Added under §Foundations.
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Both papers are research papers → each got a UML card with a real mechanism diagram (Agent loop, Tool design). Hero paper count 32 → 34. Nine categories unchanged.
Website eval gate: PASS — rendered headlessly (Chromium + vendored mermaid, since the CDN is egress-blocked): all 35
.mermaidblocks produced an<svg>, 0 syntax errors.Bookkeeping
references.md— entries under §Agent Loop, §Harness, §Foundations.CHANGELOG.md— dated cycle docs: add Claude Fable 5 prompting guide (docs/09) #3 entry.SELF-IMPROVEMENT.md—last_updated→ 2026-07-03.Verified: 0 broken internal links/anchors.
Note: this is a fresh PR on the restarted branch — the previous two PRs (#4, #5) on this branch are already merged, so this begins from current
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