Understanding Loops CHAPTER 05 · THE TOOL
How To Use

Paste. Pick a mode. Copy.

Everything in this series can be done by hand — the chapters show you how. Prompt Optimizer does the writing for you: paste your rough request, pick a mode, copy back the finished artifact. Here's the whole flow, animated.

STEP 1
Paste
your request, exactly as you'd say it out loud
STEP 2
Pick a mode
Optimize for a spec · Loops for a loop file
STEP 3
Copy & run
into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — any chat AI

Type it the lazy way — that's the point

make my candle instagram better
⚡ OPTIMIZE
⟲ LOOPS
The input — rough is fine; rough is expected

You don't prepare anything. Type the wish exactly as it exists in your head — vague, unpunctuated, half-formed. The entire premise of the tool is that turning wishes into specs is a skill (Chapter 01), and the tool has it so you don't have to warm it up. Then pick your mode: Optimize when you want one strong attempt, Loops when the work deserves passes and checks (Chapter 03 is the ten-second test).

Optimize mode — wish in, spec out

✗ "make my candle instagram better"── becomes ──────────────────────────ROLE: marketing strategist for handmade brandsDELIVERABLE: 30-day Instagram plan, candle businessCONSTRAINTS: gift shoppers 24–45 · 5 hrs/weekFORMAT: week-by-week table
The four decisions, made for you — copy and run anywhere

Optimize reads your wish, makes the four decisions — role, deliverable, constraints, format — and hands back a complete spec. Anything it couldn't infer it makes a sensible call on, visibly, so you can correct it in a word rather than write it from scratch. Copy the result into whatever AI you already use; the spec is plain text and works everywhere.

Loops mode — wish in, running loop out

YOUR MISSION    30-day plan · every week has 3 posts + 1 goalEACH PASS       draft — or fix only what failed — then re-gradeCHECK YOURSELF  4 yes/no checks · quote the proofLOOP LOG        passes · failures · lessonsSTOP WHEN       all pass  OR  4 passes → honest reportRULES           stuck twice → ask me
✗ every week has 3 posts week 2 has 2✓ every week has 3 posts "W2: reel · photo · story" ✗ each week names a goal week 4 missing✓ each week names a goal "W4: 50 profile visits" ✗ under 400 words count: 463✓ under 400 words count: 388
The six-label file, filled in — then the loop runs: fails become passes

Loops mode writes the entire six-label file from Chapter 02 — mission with a number, binary checks, the log, both exits — tuned to your task. Paste it into your AI and watch the run: draft, self-grade with quoted proof, targeted fixes, honest stop. The animation above is the shape of every run — red checks becoming green ones, without you in the middle.

What it costs to start

Nothing. The free tier gives you optimized prompts every day, no card required — enough to feel the difference on real work this week. If you're running it constantly, paid tiers raise the ceiling and add the stronger model. That's the entire pitch; the chapters you just read are the longer one.