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  "title": "Long-Running Loops Need Goals, Not Keep-Going Prompts",
  "description": "Long-running agent work is useful only with a testable goal, checkpoints, a terminal condition, and recovery policy; otherwise the loop becomes expensive blind continuation.",
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