/loop-doctor

name: loop-doctor
description: Checks that the loop is actually installed and working in this project - files present, role profiles valid, connections alive, effort level real. Use after setup, after an upgrade, or when something behaves as if the method is not loaded.

Doctor

Verify the installation the same way the method verifies everything else: by observing, not by assuming it took.

1 · The files

`ls -la .loop/ .loop/roles/ .claude/agents/ 2>&1` and confirm: `STATE.md`, `VERIFY.md`, `DECISIONS.md`, `GOTCHAS.md`, the four role profiles, the `loop` wrapper (and that it is executable), and the role agents in the project's `.claude/agents/`.

Report anything missing, and whether `.loop/ACCESS.local.md` is gitignored — if it is tracked, stop and say so loudly: it is the file most likely to hold a credential.

2 · The contract is still true

`.loop/VERIFY.md` rots faster than anything else. **Run each declared command** and report which ones still work. A verification contract with a stale build command is worse than none, because it produces confident green nonsense.

3 · The connections

Re-run the connection table from session 0: build, browser, database, payments test mode, git remote. PASS / FAIL / ABSENT. Every ABSENT should already be a declared GAP in `.loop/VERIFY.md`; if it is not, add it.

4 · The effort this session is really running at

This session's effort level: **${CLAUDE_EFFORT}**

If that shows a level, that is the real one — including any silent downgrade. If it printed the placeholder literally, this version does not interpolate it; run `echo "$CLAUDE_EFFORT"` in a shell instead. There is deliberately no equivalent for the model: **no session can read which model it is running on**, so do not print a guess. If the role matters, relaunch with `./loop <role>` and trust the profile.

5 · Verdict

One table: what is healthy, what is broken with the exact command to fix it, and what is absent by design. If anything in section 1 or 2 is broken, say plainly that the method is **not** in force in this project yet.