Iteration in Practice
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Iteration in Practice
In Cerebro, iteration is built into the system at multiple levels:
- SOUL.md changelog tracks every significant correction to the system’s behaviour. When the system fabricates a URL, guesses a number it should have verified, or claims a repo as yours when it’s a fork --- the failure gets encoded as a rule. The changelog has 17 entries since December, each one preventing a class of mistake from recurring.
- ecosystem-health runs periodic diagnostics across the entire system. It flags skills referencing renamed agents, broken configurations, documentation that no longer matches reality. The system detects its own drift --- you decide what to fix.
- oracle reads books, extracts actionable patterns, and proposes improvements to the system’s configuration. It doesn’t change anything unilaterally. You review every proposal. Some become skills, some strengthen agents, some wait.
- weekly-review is a structured pass through every domain: inbox processing, project health, daily notes curation, opportunity scanning. It’s the human rhythm that keeps the system aligned with what actually matters rather than what’s technically interesting.
- creation-guard prevents the system from sprawling by checking for overlap before building anything new. It’s governance that runs in thirty seconds --- and it’s also iteration, because every time it catches a near-duplicate, it’s evidence the system is learning what it already has.