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# Iterate — refine to Done, don't stop at the first attempt <!-- routing-eval reads this line; it lives in the BODY so the always-on skill LISTING stays inside Claude Code's budget (1% of the context window) — an overflowing listing gets descriptions truncated or dropped, which strips the very keywords a match depends on. --> Trigger phrases: "iterate", "loop until done", "keep going until" ## When A task has an objective acceptance criterion (tests, a review gate, a spec) and the first attempt may not meet it. This is a single-session refinement loop — NOT the harness `/loop`, which schedules a prompt on an interval. Open-ended exploration with no checkable target does not belong here. ## The loop 1. **Name the exit test first** — the concrete, checkable condition that means "done": tests green, `review-agent-csk` clean, the spec's acceptance criterion met, zero SonarQube findings. No exit test → go to spec-planning first; a loop without a target never terminates. **Prefer an external, machine-grounded verifier** — a test exit code, a schema match, a lint/quality gate — over an LLM's self-assessment. A model grading its own output inflates; an "it looks done" or even a single "review clean" with no objective check is a weak verifier. When the only available check is a judgment call, ground it (a second agent with a distinct lens, an explicit rubric) rather than trusting the loop's own say-so. For a generative task with no exit code, the `eva...