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The observation did not start with a term. It started with work.

I was building something with multiple Agents—or what I was calling Agents at the time—and a problem kept surfacing: one overall goal did not map cleanly onto one loop of action and feedback. Different units of work needed different local objectives. They needed different signals to know whether they were converging. They needed different stopping conditions and different answers to the question: who is allowed to change the goal here?

The loops were not independent. Some depended on what another produced. Some could block another from proceeding. One unit's partial result could make a previous unit's objective obsolete. What I was actually working with was a graph—I just had not made it explicit. When I later came across the terms Loop Engineering and Graph Engineering in developer discussion and on X, they named a structure I had already been trying to manage.

That is the order I want to keep: observation first, terminology second.