Reliability · 2026 · Solo — architecture, build, ops
Self-Improvement Loop
A daily loop where agents research their own improvements and safely apply them with snapshot + rollback.
The problem
Agent prompts rot. Manually tuning 11+ agents doesn't scale. I wanted the system to improve itself — without letting a bad edit silently break production.
Architecture
Entry
Cloud research routinefinds improvements
Orchestrator
Local apply commanddrains the queue
Specialists
Apply to prompt file
Safety / control
Snapshotbefore every write
Verify
Rollback on failureno lasting harm
Data layer
Notion queuereviewable, durable
Key decisions
01
A human-authored safety envelope
Snapshot before every write, roll back on failed verification. The loop can experiment freely because it structurally can't do lasting harm.
02
Separate research from apply
Proposal (cloud) and mutation (local) are different trust levels, so a runaway proposal can't reach production on its own.
03
A durable Notion queue
Improvements are reviewable artifacts, not opaque in-memory decisions — I can see and veto what the loop wants to change.
Metrics
27
improvements auto-applied
4
auto-rollbacks caught
0 edits
manual prompt edits this cycle