Start
State what you want, see what the engine would do about it, then make it real.
State the intent
Write what you want the loop to achieve, in your own words. It is recorded verbatim and never interpreted by anything downstream of this screen.
What a good intent reads like
Three objectives this engine has actually been pointed at, shipped with it.
A small model that solves grade-school arithmetic word problems more reliably than the checkpoint it started from, without losing what it already knew.
A scaffolding harness that makes a fixed model write correct Python more often, changed only in how the model is prompted and how its output is checked, never in the model's weights.
A legal-reasoning assistant for Indian jurisprudence that answers a question of law with the statute or precedent it relied on, and that says it does not know rather than inventing a citation.