{
  "$comment": "RFC-0028. The only loop whose failures are irreversible and live. Its feedback edge is real and already documented in the repo: postmortem-generator emits runbook deltas phrased as edits for runbook-generator.",
  "name": "operate",
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "description": "Take a shipped service through detection, response, and learning — instrument it, write the runbook, communicate the incident, then feed the postmortem's deltas back into the runbook. Use when the user is preparing to run a service, is in an incident, or is writing a postmortem.",
  "entrypoint": "LOOP.md",
  "kind": "loop",
  "cap": 3,
  "stages": [
    {
      "id": "instrument",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Decide what is measured and what pages a human. You cannot respond to what you never detected.",
      "skills": ["observability-plan"]
    },
    {
      "id": "document",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Write the procedure the on-call follows at 3am, per alert the previous stage defined.",
      "skills": ["runbook-generator"]
    },
    {
      "id": "respond",
      "type": "generate",
      "intent": "Communicate during the incident, to the audience that needs it, at the stage the incident is actually in.",
      "skills": ["incident-comms"]
    },
    {
      "id": "learn",
      "type": "verify",
      "intent": "Analyse blamelessly and emit runbook deltas. An incident that changes no procedure has not been learned from.",
      "skills": ["postmortem-generator"],
      "gate": {
        "id": "G3",
        "kind": "human",
        "verdicts": ["PROCEED", "PROCEED WITH CONDITIONS", "REVISE", "BLOCKED"],
        "revise_to": "document"
      }
    }
  ]
}