Sandcastle's default maxIterations: 1 cut every agent off after its
first response, so files written inside the sandbox never made it
into a captured commit. The decomposer wrote 9 epic + story files,
hit the limit, and sandcastle returned 0 commits — the host saw
nothing.
decompose.mjs: maxIterations 10 (small authoring task — read
context, write files, commit). Override via env
SANDCASTLE_DECOMPOSE_ITERATIONS.
dispatch.mjs:
- Implementer: maxIterations 30 (full TDD slice — read context,
red test, green impl, run all five gates, commit). Override via
SANDCASTLE_IMPLEMENTER_ITERATIONS.
- Reviewer: maxIterations 10 (read diff + task spec, decide).
Override via SANDCASTLE_REVIEWER_ITERATIONS.
Each call site documents WHY the value was picked + names the env
override inline so tuning is discoverable from the code.
Danijel Martinek
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