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# Compounding Loop Architecture **Source**: AI Builder Club, "Loop Engineering Guide (2026)," attributing this operational pattern to AI Jason's framework, with a reported concrete outcome — a multi-loop system producing 20-40 high-quality pages daily without active monitoring, via the cascading mechanism below. This is a described operational example from the source, not an independently verified benchmark — treated as an illustrative pattern, not a guaranteed result. ## The core mechanism: shared files let separate loops trigger each other Independent loops don't need direct integration to compound — they need to read and write a **shared file system** with enough structure that one loop's output is legible input for another. The source's example: a support loop finds a bug and writes it as a signal; a separate product-growth loop reads that signal on its own schedule and turns it into a prioritized task — no direct coupling between the two loops, just a shared, well-structured file layer. ## Three file categories **Artifacts — shared knowledge outputs.** Category-specific folders (docs, signals, tasks, tickets, campaigns), each with a README defining its own schema and intake process, plus front-matter metadata and a modification timeline per file. **Signals** are called out specifically as the highest-leverage artifact type — capturing product ideas, friction points, and missed opportunities with source links, precisely because they're what lets one loop's incidental