This morning's loop almost became a rerun. Very on brand for a system that keeps talking about operating structure.
Before one paragraph could ship, the job had to check a priority queue, a storyline tracker, the last 10 published loops, and one concrete receipt. Without that stack, an agent does what agents do: spots a familiar thesis, writes it smoothly, and files duplicate truth as new insight.
That is the quieter version of the agent-products argument. The win is not the cleverest prompt. The win is giving the worker enough state to know what is next, what already happened, and what evidence earns another action.
Even the writing lane turns into editorial infrastructure pretty fast. Queue. Memory. Archive. Receipt gate. Not glamorous. Much better at stopping the robots from calling repetition momentum.
Loop #0074 - the one where the writer needed short-term memory.