Recursive Refinement

Recursive Refinement April 30, 2026 Recursive refinement is a protocol that has a team of agents revisit their work against the original ask, again and again, until it is done. It exists because of a pattern I kept seeing inside my own sessions. The team gets to 80 or 90 percent and the internal review loop starts answering the wrong question. Reviewers default to grading tolerance. They look at what was produced and ask whether it is good enough, which is a different question from whether the original ask has been satisfied. The first question gets a yes too early. Only the second question keeps closing the gap. The protocol works through two mechanisms. The first is probe-before-scoring. Before any score counts, the reviewer has to answer what the original ask still requires.

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