Gator verdict: approved

This is a hard-won technical writeup from a genuine builder describing how a swamp-native agent workflow (issue-lifecycle) evolved through real use — state machines, harvest/prior-art loops, autonomous development — with specific scar tissue and lessons named throughout.

The loop that built itself

by magistr13d agomagistr.me

https://magistr.me/blog/the-loop-that-built-itself/ ↗

How issue-lifecycle grew from a borrowed state machine into swamp-go-brr: the harvest/prior-art loop, the changes along the way, and the turn from human-in-the-loop to autonomous.