# The Autonomous Loop: A Practical Roadmap for Self-Sustaining Agentic Cycles

> A step-by-step engineering roadmap for building resilient autonomous loops: deterministic oracles, stateless architectures, Docker isolation, the STATUS.md protocol, reward hacking mitigation, and JSONL telemetry.

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