# Loop engineering

Band: emerging — Real practice, thin evidence. Mostly vendor-stated or reported rather than measured.
Group: Unsurveyed water

Designing the system that prompts the agent instead of prompting it yourself. Named by Addy Osmani on 7 June 2026; attribution is genuinely muddled, with other accounts crediting different coinages. The practice is real and the load-bearing part is the caveats, which the marketing versions drop: a loop running unattended is a loop making mistakes unattended, and “done” is a claim rather than proof.

## See also

- [Graph engineering](https://clickai.dev/legend/graph-engineering)
- [Verification gate](https://clickai.dev/legend/verification-gate)
- [Oracle](https://clickai.dev/legend/oracle)

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