Connecting to the bigger picture

This chapter applies the whole harness to a real job: the loop (Chapter 2), a focused prompt (Chapter 3), tools to read diffs (Chapter 6), memory via BUGBOT.md and learned rules (Chapter 9), and the verifier idea (Chapter 11) hardened into an independent deterministic tier (Chapter 10). The reliability principle here, agents cannot mark their own homework, is the bridge to Chapter 16's verification principle and governance. Chapter 14 turns from reviewing code to autonomously writing it.