Worked Examples
Loop Engineering by Fabio Correa — the Applied AI foundation volume on working with AI through framing, feedback, verification, memory, and human judgment.
Explore full dialog transcripts, multi-step agent action logs, and complete diagnostic walks. Each example traces the decisions, checks, and handoffs that make the underlying loop inspectable.
Examples by region
Working Memory
A full NOTES.md trace for a multi-iteration refactor that survives a context-cliff event mid-task. Shows the externalized-memory primitive carrying state across a compaction.
Dialog Interface
A complete intent-clarification dialog where the user's literal request and underlying need diverge. Annotations call out the AI-side disciplines as they fire.
Open the transcript →Motor / Sensory
A real multi-step agent task - file edits, shell commands, git operations, API calls - with side-effect class annotations and the confirmation-gate sequence that punctuates the side-effects.
Open the action log →Failure Diagnosis
A real partnership-failure incident walked through the per-region diagnostic process. Shows why walking the regions in order beats guessing at a fix.
Open the diagnosis →Each example carries its publication date. Report corrections through errata.