Operations
Living Story
Maintain an evidence-backed story of what matters and what is unfinished.
Use when
Work spans repos, notes, goals, and people.
Cadence
Weekly or per project window
Verification
Every prior thread is carried forward, closed with evidence, or flagged stale/needs-review.
Structured loop spec
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Living Story |
| Category | Operations |
| Trigger | Weekly or per project window |
| Objective | Maintain an evidence-backed story of what matters and what is unfinished. |
| Allowed inputs | Relevant files, source notes, logs, tests, screenshots, metrics, or task state for this loop |
| Allowed actions | Define the exact scope, source of truth, and approval boundary.; Inspect current state and rank the highest-risk gap.; Make one small, reversible improvement.; Run the stated verification and record evidence.; Stop on success, budget, no progress, or approval required. |
| Verification | Every prior thread is carried forward, closed with evidence, or flagged stale/needs-review. |
| Stop condition | Stop when the verifier passes, the budget is exhausted, no progress is made, a blocker appears, or approval is required. |
| Budget | Set a time, turn, token, retry, file, or dollar cap before running the loop. |
| Approval boundary | Human approval required before publishing, sending, deleting, spending, changing accounts, touching production, or making reputational/legal/financial commitments. |
| Safe output | Draft, report, checklist, table, or approval-gated recommendation |
| Works with | Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, any tool-using AI assistant |
Steps
- Define the exact scope, source of truth, and approval boundary.
- Inspect current state and rank the highest-risk gap.
- Make one small, reversible improvement.
- Run the stated verification and record evidence.
- Stop on success, budget, no progress, or approval required.
Prompt
Run the Living Story loop. Use it when Work spans repos, notes, goals, and people. Work in bounded iterations: inspect current state, choose the highest-risk gap, make one reversible improvement, verify it, and record evidence. Stop when Every prior thread is carried forward, closed with evidence, or flagged stale/needs-review. or when blocked, budget exhausted, or approval is required.Run in Claude Code
Paste this into Claude Code (or any tool-using agent) to run the loop bounded: one change per round, the same verification every round, durable state files, and explicit stop conditions.
Run the "Living Story" loop from AI Loop Library (https://ailooplibrary.com/loops/living-story/) as a bounded loop.
Goal: Maintain an evidence-backed story of what matters and what is unfinished.
Rules: one change per round; run the same verification every round (Every prior thread is carried forward, closed with evidence, or flagged stale/needs-review.); append each round to docs/loops/living-story/progress.md and update docs/loops/living-story/state.json; stop on verifier pass, 8 rounds, 3 consecutive failed verifications, no progress, a blocker, or anything needing human approval (money, production, outbound, deletion). Finish with a proof report: rounds used, changes made, verification output, remaining risk, and the next human decision.