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build-until-pass

Use when a build, typecheck, lint, or test command is failing and you want the agent to drive it to green on its own — run the check, read the errors, apply the smallest fix, re-run, repeat until exit code 0. Stops the human from being the while-loop (run → read error → fix one line → run again) and stops the agent from bulldozing huge speculative rewrites between checks.

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# Build Until Pass

A bounded self-correcting loop: run the project's check command, capture its
errors, apply the **smallest** diff that addresses the first failure, re-run,
and repeat until it exits 0 — or until a hard attempt cap is hit.

The core principle: **the check command is the judge, not you.** You do not
declare the build "basically fixed." Green is `exit code 0`. Anything else is
red, and red means another round.

This is the engineering-discipline counterpart to "run it and hope." The cap
exists so the agent backs off instead of burning tokens thrashing on an error
it cannot fix without human input.