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Ouroboros: A Recursive Dev Loop Where AI Improves Code — Safely
Community description: A walkthrough of Ouroboros, an open-source harness that lets AI agents find work, do the work, check the work — and only then ask a human to merge. Including the honest field notes: the reviewer that approved a destructive change, and the guard that cannot be argued with.
Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Daniel Krydynski
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Nothing enters the loop git worktree on a throwaway branch. The implementer loop runs the test suite before and the __pycache__ directories the test run just created. On failure: ticket → blocked, cycle logged, Run the reviewer.
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