Turn feedback into guidance
AGENT-TURN-FEEDBACK-INTO-GUIDANCE
Summary
Convert repeated review corrections into rules, templates, snippets, or checks. Durable guidance fixes the workflow problem instead of requiring the same steering again.
Rule
Turn repeated feedback into durable guidance.
Why
Repeated corrections such as "show why," "name the next thing," or "do not use abstract rule names" are process bugs. Turning them into rules, templates, snippets, or checks prevents future agents from needing the same steering.
Helps
- Converts review friction into durable improvement of the workflow.
Limits
Do not encode one-off taste or situational feedback as a global rule. Generalize the repeated failure mode before promotion.
Check whether the task read and applied the relevant guidance. Missing or unclear instructions need content changes; unreached instructions need a routing fix; ignored instructions may need a check. Do not infer effectiveness merely from the presence of a guide or a successful final response.
Agent instruction
Trace repeated feedback through the instruction, action, correction, and outcome. Distinguish missing, unclear, unreached, and ignored guidance; repair its owner or delivery mechanism instead of adding a duplicate rule. Keep private task evidence outside published guidance.Mechanisms
Supported by rule files, patterns, snippets, audit checks, templates, and review retrospectives that identify repeated corrections.