Loop Engineering Canvas Makes Deletion Reversible

The sharp idea is that “dead” describes confidence, not truth; safe deletion requires feedback systems that can disprove the hypothesis.

• –Independent checks prevent the deleting agent from grading its own work
• –Failure memory preserves evidence about code that looked unused but still mattered
• –Circuit-breakers cap risky iterations and halt when tests, runtime signals, or confidence deteriorate
• –A revert button makes experimentation cheap enough to run cleanup continuously
• –This maps closely to emerging agent-loop patterns built around verification, stopping rules, and persistent state