Pencil became part of the build loop
The design file stopped being a picture of the idea and became the source for the next implementation decision.
- Loopy
- Pencil with agents
I reorganized Loopy's iteration flow in a Pencil file. The useful part was not the drawing itself. Agents could inspect the actual nodes, compare them with production, and turn the differences into an implementation contract.
The resulting stage kept the current work in the middle, the active role at the top, and the complete loop visible below. We built it, tested it, found places where the first implementation lost review behavior, and corrected them. Pencil gave me a design surface I could steer and a faster path into working software without pretending the first pass was right.