cxc-loop — Scoped completion

Intent before activation

Bare operative cxc-loop means scoped HOTL; explicit HITL keeps human P/A/B pauses. Loading, explanation and review activate nothing. Explicit limits win. HOTL adds persistence, never permissions; report missing authority.

A leaf follows its packet, owns no goal/FSM and needs a grant to spawn. Dispatched tasks own their goal/FSM within their packet's grant. Before dispatch, read Dispatch surfaces (DISPATCH-SURFACE-01).

Use cxc-dev for safety, proof, complete selected reads, peer contact, async questions and installed-skill discovery. Select owners by task/class/risk/phase; preserve explicit-only and leaf-safe restrictions and resolve missing mandatory references before work.

Read before the action

Action	Owner
PABCD work or planning	cxc-pabcd
HOTL entry, resumption or completion diagnosis	Runtime lifecycle
Goalplan schema, CLI or amendment	Durable goalplan
Multi-cycle roadmap	Implementation units
Repeated failure, reviewer FAIL or archetype selection	Loop engineering
Score optimization, plateau or mechanism comparison	Optimization + loop engineering above
Candidate divergence	Divergence tiers
Task dispatch or lane observation	Lane dispatch
Authorized subagent dispatch	Delegation
Waiting on work or external processes	Waiting
Composition, response projection or in-context computation	Native execution

Execution invariants

• ORCH-MANDATE-01 (STRICT): read persisted state before claiming loop entry/re-entry; binding and edges follow Phase control (SESSION-IDENTITY-01).
• HOTL needs an ACTIVE host goal and in-flight cycle; HITL needs no goal. Missing capability/binding is a preflight failure, never armed continuation.
• Follow cxc-pabcd's one-work-phase/one-cycle invariant; hooks neither choose nor advance phases.
• LOOP-CONTINUE-01 (DEFAULT): after D or context loss, read the bound goalplan and ledger; preserve criteria and re-enter P while in-scope work remains under the active goal.
• LOOP-UNIT-CHAIN-01 (DEFAULT): add genuinely new in-scope units through a P amendment to the same goal.
• LOOP-CONTINUITY-01 (DEFAULT): next P quotes the previous D conclusion and direction, explains any change, and resumes from durable evidence.
• LOOP-GIT-01 (DEFAULT): before checkpoints or publication, apply cxc-dev's git rules; declared stacks also read Stacked PRs.

Docs-first multi-cycle entry

LOOP-DOCS-FIRST-01 (DEFAULT): this entry is STRICT for HOTL. Two or more work-phases start with a goalplan skeleton and docs-only roadmap cycle. D locks the roadmap; implementation starts next cycle. Later P consumes/revalidates one prewritten decade doc. Scope discovered later pays this debt at next P. No production patches, deploys or implementation-complete claims in the roadmap cycle. Single-cycle work skips it; cxc-dev owns C0/C1 exceptions.

LOOP-READS-PABCD-01 (STRICT): before multi-cycle execution read implementation units above for roadmap contents/numbering; skeletons or empty decade docs do not satisfy it.

Completion and recovery

Report DONE, NOOP, BLOCKED, UNSAFE, NEEDS_HUMAN or BUDGET_EXHAUSTED as outcomes, not FSM phases or host goal statuses. DONE requires cxc-dev's fresh proof and the runtime-lifecycle completion gate (GOAL-COMPLETE-GATE-01); never weaken criteria. Exhaustion requires an actual stated bound. Compaction, wait timeout and Stop release prove neither success nor exhaustion; preserve evidence and recover through the applicable owner.