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Dev Adds Self-Healing AI Loop to Open-Source Trust Language LOOM on Day 7

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A solo developer building LOOM, an open-source language designed as a trust layer for AI-written code, marked a significant milestone on Day 7 of the project. The automated system that grows the language now self-improves, expanding LOOM's verifiable checks from 308 to 333, all passing. A key update introduced 'metered attestation,' bundling what foreign code can do, how often, and a non-AI authority signature into a single capability unit. After the automated system proposed a change that inadvertently weakened a security guarantee, the developer rejected it and patched the pipeline so proposals must pass both a self-check and adversarial self-test before reaching human review. The project, built solo from Ukraine and published under the MIT license, has now frozen its trust layer and is shifting focus toward a WebAssembly backend and real-world users.

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