A detailed post on `micro loop` — the autonomous loop that builds Go Micro,
now shippable as a command. Covers the mechanism/policy split (Actions as the
runtime, prompt files as editable policy), the five roles, the quickstart and
the two things the CLI can't do (token + branch protection), the load-bearing
decisions and the gotchas we hit (fresh-issue-per-run, bot-comment gating, the
persist-credentials 403), and the dogfood: Go Micro now runs on it. Sequel to
/blog/31 "How Go Micro Builds Itself".
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(loop): go-micro now runs on `micro loop` (dogfood its own tool)
Replace go-micro's five hand-written loop workflows with ones generated by
`micro loop init --roles all`, making "go-micro builds itself with micro loop"
literally true rather than aspirational.
- Generate loop-planner/builder/triage/coherence/release.yml via the CLI with
go-micro's cadence and wiring (planner :59, builder :29, coherence 07:00,
release 23:00; CI gate "Harness (E2E)"; token CODEX_TRIGGER_TOKEN; base master;
tag prefix v). The old loop-architect.yml and loop-devrel.yml become
loop-planner.yml and loop-coherence.yml.
- Move the queue to .github/loop/PRIORITIES.md and add .github/loop/NORTH_STAR.md
(a concise steer pointing to internal/docs/THESIS.md), adopting the loop's
convention.
- Preserve go-micro's rich instructions as editable policy in
.github/loop/prompts/{planner,builder,triage,coherence}.md — the architect
founder-lens + adoption steer, the increment builder, harness-failure triage,
and the DevRel changelog/blog pass — faithfully ported from the old inline
prompts. Behavior is preserved; only the mechanism is now generated.
- CLI refinement the migration surfaced: prompts (and NORTH_STAR/PRIORITIES) are
now write-once — `micro loop init --force` refreshes workflow MECHANICS but
never clobbers customized POLICY. Added renderKeep + a test.
- Update internal/docs/CONTINUOUS_IMPROVEMENT.md (renamed workflows, moved queue,
the prompt-file model, and a note that these files are generated by micro loop).
Verified: build, go test ./cmd/micro/loop/..., golangci-lint (0 issues), gofmt;
`micro loop verify` passes; all generated workflows are valid YAML; re-running
init --force is idempotent and preserves policy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
* loop: strip prompt editorial comments before posting to the agent
Verification of the migration surfaced that a dispatch workflow posted the
prompt file's leading <!-- editorial --> header to the agent, and __ISSUE__
inside it got substituted too (e.g. "Keep 4242 literal"). Harmless (invisible
in rendered markdown) but unclean and mildly confusing. The dispatch and triage
body construction now strips <!-- --> blocks with `sed '/<!--/,/-->/d'` before
substituting runtime tokens. Regenerated go-micro's workflows; added a test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
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Follow-up cleanup after merging the Ollama provider (#3636):
- Add the `ollama` row to the AI provider capability matrix in the provider
guide, and blank-import `ai/ollama` in provider_capabilities_test.go so the
matrix stays enforced against the registry (the provider registers a stream
but wasn't imported in that test, so its row went unchecked).
- README: bump "7 LLM providers" → 8 and list Ollama (local + cloud); add its
default model (`llama3.2`) to the model table.
- Fix a fictional model name shipped in the example and package doc:
`gemma4:31b-cloud` → `gpt-oss:120b`. gemma4 doesn't exist, and the `-cloud`
suffix is for cloud models proxied through a local Ollama, not the direct
ollama.com/v1 endpoint the example uses.
- Record the provider and the new agent.BaseURL/micro.AgentBaseURL option in
the CHANGELOG [Unreleased] section.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The DevRel pass now keeps the changelog living instead of letting it drift:
each daily run reconciles a Keep-a-Changelog `[Unreleased]` section against the
PRs that actually merged (user-facing entries only; internal loop/CI churn
skipped) and rolls it into a dated version heading whenever loop-release cuts a
new v6.MINOR.PATCH tag. When enough user-facing work has accumulated (roughly a
week's worth, not a near-empty post every day) it also drafts a "what's new"
changelog blog post narrating what shipped.
Autonomy boundary preserved: CHANGELOG.md upkeep is a safe factual change and
rides the auto-merged DevRel PR; the changelog blog post is opened as its own
PR but left for the human to review/merge, since blog voice stays with the human.
Also fix the CHANGELOG preamble: it claimed calendar versions (YYYY.MM) while
tags are semver (v6.MINOR.PATCH). Correct it, add an `[Unreleased]` section
seeded from real recent work, and note the historical 2026.0x headings.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CmdEY7pYmV5zzwCjNJ4ykL
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
There was no working, prominent Discord link. Update the stale invite code
(WeMU5AGxD → G8Gk5j3uXr) everywhere it appeared (README, docs, blog, landing,
SECURITY, issue templates, contrib), and add the link prominently: the site
nav and footer includes (so it shows on every landing/docs/blog page), a
Discord badge + a Community line in the README, and a "Join Discord" button on
the landing.
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The framework's depth is strong but the on-ramp is the adoption gap, and the
architect queue had filled entirely with internal hardening. Steer the
architect to weight the developer on-ramp/DX (first-agent tutorial,
discoverable examples, docs wayfinding, install friction, debugging) at least
as highly as internal work — a developer succeeding on their first agent
matters more than another conformance/observability increment. Adoption issues
filed: #3561-#3565.
Also add loop-release.yml: a daily patch release that tags v6.MINOR.PATCH+1
when master has new commits (pushed with the PAT so goreleaser fires), so the
installable framework tracks the loop's daily improvements instead of lapsing.
Minor/major bumps stay with the human.
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Rename the autonomous-loop workflows so the Actions list maps to the
long-running-agent harness pattern (planner → generator → evaluator):
architecture-review.yml -> loop-architect.yml "Loop: Architect (Planner)"
continuous-improvement.yml -> loop-builder.yml "Loop: Builder (Generator)"
devrel-review.yml -> loop-devrel.yml "Loop: DevRel"
harness-triage.yml -> loop-triage.yml "Loop: Triage (Evaluator feedback)"
harness.yml stays the shared Evaluator/CI gate (triage still matches it by the
"Harness (E2E)" name). Document the pipeline + role mapping in
CONTINUOUS_IMPROVEMENT.md, and point to it from CONTRIBUTING so the development
process is discoverable. No behavior change — schedules, gates, and required
checks are unaffected.
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Close the loop's feedback path: when the live provider-conformance harness
fails, harness-triage.yml dispatches Codex to triage the failing run — read
logs, root-cause, dedupe against open issues, and file scoped codex/enhancement
issues that the hourly increment loop then fixes and the next harness run
verifies. Transient flakes are ignored; breaking/architectural fixes are
escalated as needs-human rather than auto-built. No human in the middle short
of a genuine judgment call. Documented in CONTINUOUS_IMPROVEMENT.md.
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Asim Aslam