# Cycle

> Run exactly ONE improvement cycle for recurve — triage the highest-value RED gap, sculpt, gate, promote, snapshot, stop

- Skill: `bordumb/cycle` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add bordumb/cycle`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/bordumb/cycle/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: bordumb (https://skillmd.com/u/bordumb)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/bordumb/cycle

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# Single cycle

You were invoked to run one sculpting cycle by hand (no orchestrator).

Read `.recurve/RUN.md` and follow it exactly — it is your entrypoint and your stop
condition. The short form: `recurve validate && recurve matrix` (clean
baseline), `recurve next` (triage), sculpt the smallest honest change,
rebuild, `recurve matrix --gate` (the arbiter), promote open→closed +
rewrite the prose, snapshot, commit per policy, append your run record
(`recurve record append`), STOP. One cycle = one agent — do not start a
second cycle because the first went well.