> Create self-sufficient loops > > Set up Claude to verify its own work by running builds, tests, and lints automatically.

I’ve got much better at using Claude.md and plan files, etc., but it still goes off the rails so quickly when I try to get it to follow a normal TDD test/edit/build/commit workflow. It will report success, and then the unit tests will fail or the working copy is dirty or there are build errors, etc. An LLM may be great for figuring out what code to write and what weird tool incantation to run to debug something, but I am fed up enough I want to write my own agent, because all I want is a switch-statement state machine to manage workflow.