The AI "Doom Loop": Why Your Autonomous Coding Agent Is Making Things Worse, And How To Fix It
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AI coding agents like Claude Code get stuck in "doom loops" — confidently introducing new bugs while fixing old ones, because they guess instead of verify. Agent Rigor is an open-source markdown-based framework that enforces a strict 6-phase workflow on AI agents, including mandatory planning, empirical test verification, and anti-rationalization guardrails to prevent blind fix-forward spirals.
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