Task File For A Loop Question Explained
This worked Loop Engineering practice question tests Loop Basics. Try the answer first, then review why B is the best choice.
Short answer
The correct answer is B. Add an unchecked task describing the typo to tasks.md and save the file.
The loop prompt reads the file fresh on every run, so the file is the queue. Saving a new unchecked line is enough; a later run picks it up. This is why loops work from a file instead of from the prompt text: you can add work without touching the running schedule. The correct answer is B. Add an unchecked task describing the typo to tasks.md and save the file
The Question
A loop is running with the prompt "Read tasks.md and complete the first unchecked task." You want it to also fix a typo on the page. What do you do?
Why B is correct
The loop prompt reads the file fresh on every run, so the file is the queue. Saving a new unchecked line is enough; a later run picks it up. This is why loops work from a file instead of from the prompt text: you can add work without touching the running schedule. The correct answer is B. Add an unchecked task describing the typo to tasks.md and save the file
Why the other options are wrong
Two sessions editing the same page can overwrite each other. The running loop already has a way to accept work.
Pasting the command again creates a second scheduled task next to the first. Both read the same file and both try the same work.
Cancelling and restarting works, but it stops the schedule for a change the loop can make itself. One new line in tasks.md gives the loop the work and keeps the schedule running.
Key idea: Loop Basics
Loop engineering is a practice skill. Open Claude Code in a throwaway folder, write one small task in a file, and run it with /loop or /goal while you watch. If you doubt an answer, test it against a real run in that folder.
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