09-for-sure

Agent Building

Run an iterative agent loop that retries until a runnable success condition passes. Use when the user says "for sure", "keep trying until", or wants guaranteed completion against a success command. Not for one-shot tasks or uncheckable goals.

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Skill: for-sure

Run an autonomous loop until a success condition is verified. An interactive pre-flight (human present) sets it up, then autonomous execution (human gone) retries until success, acting as the user and never stopping early.

Actions

#	Action	Phase	Role
01	`init-tracking`	interactive pre-flight	validate the goal, build the journey map, create the tracking file, spawn the loop
02	`auto-accept`	autonomous	decide and act as the user, stopping only on money or destructive actions
03	`autonomous-loop`	autonomous	spawn one worker per step, verify, retry, evaluate the success condition

Run 01 interactively; it spawns 03, which runs unattended under the 02 auto-accept rules until the success condition passes. Before running an action, read its file in actions/, not only the table or assets.

Transversal rules

Single source of truth: all task state lives in aidd_docs/tasks/<task-name>.md and nowhere else.
No repeated failures: never retry a failed approach without a meaningful change.
Honesty over escape: never set status: implemented until the success condition genuinely passes.
Auto-accept: when a decision or approval is needed, act as the user (create accounts, generate keys, approve prompts, install tools), never asking. Stop only on a payment or a destructive action.
The loop spawns one worker agent per step and never does the work itself.

Assets

assets/plan-template.md: the tracking file format (frontmatter, phases, acceptance criteria, Log).
assets/autonomous-loop-worker-prompt.md: the prompt the loop spawns each per-step worker with.

References

references/autonomous-loop-log-format.md: the Log entry format the loop appends per attempt.