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  <title id="title">Loop Engineering lifecycle</title>
  <desc id="desc">One recurring pass moves through Intake, Delegate, Act, Verify, Persist, and Decide. Decide retries with evidence, escalates to a human, or exits when the goal is met.</desc>
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  <text x="64" y="52" fill="#155eef" font-size="13" font-weight="800">LIFECYCLE / ONE RECURRING PASS</text>
  <text x="64" y="91" fill="#121722" font-size="34" font-weight="800">Evidence moves the loop forward</text>
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  <text x="64" y="411" fill="#121722" font-size="15" font-weight="800">THE CONTRACT TRAVELS WITH EVERY PASS</text>
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  <text x="64" y="545" fill="#5c6678" font-size="13">Verification is deterministic. State persists outside the model. Every loop is budgeted and can hand off to a human.</text>
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