Orch Loop

Require: a frozen goal; the body — what each iteration dispatches, one named skill or a caller-owned composite of named skills, bound as plain text and never backticked, a binding rather than a call edge; a done-check naming its oracle and oracle_class per [contracts/verdict.md](../../../contracts/verdict.md) — the iteration count is a deterministic done-check; a bound; and the context packet the iterations carry — design it once via [references/context-packet.md](references/context-packet.md).

Create the worklog through orch-worklog. Each iteration: start fresh from the frozen goal plus the worklog — never a prior transcript; take one work item; dispatch the body with the packet as delegation inputs through orch-delegate; adjudicate the return at the join through orch-integrate; let the done-check decide, per the contract's class policy. Commit verified increments; record failed approaches; queue discovered scope.

Judged exits follow [rules/loops.md](../../../rules/loops.md)'s provisional-exit clause: an iteration-time judged PASS never closes the run on its own.

Exit on the first of: done-check PASS (complete); two consecutive no-progress iterations (stalled); bound spent (limited); an unresolvable dependency (blocked); an unrecoverable execution error (failed). Loops per [rules/loops.md](../../../rules/loops.md).

Never: hardcode a body; carry a step plan; widen the goal; count an iteration's own claim as the done-check; end a judged-class run on iteration-time green.

Return: status, iterations run, results by identity, final verification, queued scope, and bounds spent.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: DanMcInerney
• Source: DanMcInerney/orchflows
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.