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A local agent loop that graded its own homework
Community description: The first time my local agent loop "finished" a task, nothing had changed on disk. The drafter...
Dev.to | Oct 13, 2026 | Khaled Hammrouni
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A drafter model - a CLI coding agent with real file access - is dispatched into a task's working directory and told to produce a change. A separate critic model then judges that attempt against the task's acceptance criteria. A drafter/critic loop alternates roles constantly - drafter, critic, drafter, critic - inside a single run.
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