practice-loop

name	practice-loop
description	Run practice tasks when idle to improve skill confidence. Use when no primary work items are available, waiting for human input, in rate limit cooldown, skills blocking P0/P1 goals have low confidence, skills have maturity=Declared, or skills unused >30 days.

Practice Loop

Run practice tasks when idle to improve skill confidence.

When to Practice

• No work items available (all Complete or Blocked)
• Waiting for human input
• Rate limited / in cooldown

Priority Order

1. Skills blocking P0/P1 goals
2. Skills with confidence < 50%
3. Skills with maturity = Declared (never tested)
4. Skills with high failure rate
5. Skills unused > 30 days

Workflow

1. Identify target - Scan goal bundles for required skills, find lowest confidence skill needed by highest priority goal

2. Create practice task - Use safe location ~/dev/ai-sandbox/practice/

3. Execute - Run the practice task in isolation

4. Validate - Run applicable verifiers

5. Update - Adjust confidence: +10 PASS, -15 FAIL

6. Log - Record to capability-ledger.jsonl:

   {"event": "PRACTICE_TASK_COMPLETE", "skill_id": "...", "result": "PASS"}
   

Practice Task Examples

Skill	Task
git.branch_commit	Create branch, make 3 commits in test repo
nextjs.build.basic	Scaffold app, modify component, verify build
reason.debugging	Create broken code, debug systematically

Anti-Patterns

• Practice when real work is available
• Practice in production directories
• Skip validation after practice
• Practice skills already at 90%+