whetstone_DSL/sprint70_plan.md

Sprint 70 Plan: Autonomous Improvement Loop (Guardrailed)

Context

With full telemetry, benchmarks, and governance in place, Sprint 70 introduces a guardrailed autonomous improvement loop for adapter quality.

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Goals

1. Propose adapter/policy improvements from observed failures
2. Validate proposals in sandboxed benchmark cycles
3. Require explicit promotion approval for production adoption
4. Track improvement ROI and rollback health

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Steps

Step 929: Improvement proposal generator from failure trends (12 tests)

Step 930: Sandbox trial runner for proposals (10 tests)

Step 931: Trial evaluation rubric (quality/risk/cost) (10 tests)

Step 932: Promotion gate for accepted proposals (10 tests)

Step 933: Auto-rollback trigger design for degraded proposals (10 tests)

Step 934: Improvement ROI tracker (8 tests)

Step 935: whetstone_propose_adapter_improvements MCP tool (8 tests)

Step 936: whetstone_run_improvement_trial MCP tool (8 tests)

Step 937: Continuous improvement program summary artifact (8 tests)

Step 938: Sprint 70 integration summary + regression (8 tests)

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Safety Rule

• Autonomous changes cannot bypass human approval into Stable-tier pathways.