infinite-agents-public/infinite_variants/VARIANT_5_INDEX.md

# Infinite Loop Variant 5: Configuration-Driven Orchestration

**Status**: ✓ Complete  
**Generated**: 2025-10-10  
**Location**: `/home/ygg/Workspace/sandbox/infinite-agents/infinite_variants/infinite_variant_5/`

## Overview

This variant implements a **configuration-driven orchestration system** with **chain prompting** patterns for multi-stage workflow execution. All orchestration parameters are externalized to JSON configuration files, enabling flexible, reproducible, and production-ready infinite loop execution.

## Key Innovation

**Configuration-Driven Architecture**: Complete elimination of hardcoded values through hierarchical JSON configuration system with multi-stage validation and runtime overrides.

**Chain Prompting**: 7-stage workflow decomposition with XML state passing, self-correction loops, and single-task focus per stage.

## Web Learning Applied

**Source**: https://docs.claude.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/chain-prompts

**Techniques**:
1. Workflow decomposition into sequential subtasks (7 stages)
2. State passing via XML tags between stages
3. Self-correction loops for quality improvement
4. Single-task focus for maximum attention per stage

## Statistics

- **Total Files**: 14
- **Total Lines**: 4,723
- **Documentation**: 2,526 lines (53% coverage)
- **Configurable Parameters**: 40+
- **Configuration Profiles**: 3 (development, production, research)
- **Commands**: 3 (/project:infinite-config, /project:validate-config, /project:configure)
- **Validation Stages**: 3 (schema, semantic, cross-field)
- **Chain Prompting Stages**: 7 (standard, expandable to 11+)

## Files Generated

### Commands (3 files, 1,541 lines)
- `.claude/commands/infinite-config.md` (511 lines) - Main orchestration with chain prompting
- `.claude/commands/validate-config.md` (457 lines) - Multi-stage configuration validation
- `.claude/commands/configure.md` (573 lines) - Interactive configuration management

### Configuration System (5 files, 655 lines)
- `.claude/config/defaults.json` (77 lines) - Base configuration
- `.claude/config/schema.json` (261 lines) - JSON schema for validation
- `.claude/config/profiles/development.json` (78 lines) - Development profile
- `.claude/config/profiles/production.json` (77 lines) - Production profile
- `.claude/config/profiles/research.json` (81 lines) - Research profile

### Documentation (4 files, 2,526 lines)
- `README.md` (407 lines) - Overview and quick start
- `CLAUDE.md` (555 lines) - Project instructions for Claude Code
- `docs/configuration_guide.md` (1,371 lines) - Complete configuration reference
- `specs/example_spec.md` (193 lines) - Example specification

### Examples & Settings (2 files, 82 lines)
- `examples/custom_config.json` (78 lines) - Example custom configuration
- `.claude/settings.json` (4 lines) - Tool permissions

## Key Features

### 1. Configuration-Driven Architecture
- Zero hardcoded values - all parameters externalized
- Hierarchical merging: defaults → profile → custom → runtime
- JSON Schema validation (schema + semantic + cross-field)
- Multiple profiles (development, production, research)
- Runtime overrides via inline JSON

### 2. Chain Prompting Implementation
- 7-stage workflow: Load → Validate → Merge → Analyze → Plan → Execute → Validate
- XML state passing for traceability
- Single-task focus per stage
- Self-correction loops
- Expandable to 11+ stages for research

### 3. Configuration Profiles

**Development**:
- Small batches (3), 2 agents, verbose logging
- Review stage enabled, lower uniqueness (0.7)
- Use: Testing, debugging, learning

**Production**:
- Large batches (10), 5 agents, minimal logging
- Review disabled, high uniqueness (0.9)
- Use: Scale, efficiency, throughput

**Research**:
- Medium batches (5), 3 agents, maximum logging
- Review enabled, very high uniqueness (0.95)
- 11 stages, extensive web priming (8 URLs)
- Use: Quality, exploration, experimentation

### 4. Interactive Configuration Tools
- **Create**: Guided configuration creation
- **Edit**: Modify existing configurations
- **Compare**: Side-by-side comparison
- **Optimize**: Auto-optimize for use case (speed, quality, scale)
- **Merge**: Combine multiple configurations

### 5. Validation System
- **Schema Validation**: Types, constraints, enums, patterns
- **Semantic Validation**: Logical consistency, value reasonableness
- **Cross-Field Validation**: Relationships, compatibility, performance

## Usage Examples

```bash
# Use default configuration
/project:infinite-config specs/example_spec.md output 5

# Use development profile
/project:infinite-config specs/example_spec.md output_dev 3 development

# Use production profile
/project:infinite-config specs/example_spec.md output_prod 20 production

# Use custom configuration
/project:infinite-config specs/example_spec.md output 10 custom examples/custom_config.json

# Inline overrides
/project:infinite-config specs/example_spec.md output 5 development '{"orchestration":{"max_parallel_agents":8}}'

# Validate configuration
/project:validate-config examples/custom_config.json

# Create custom configuration
/project:configure create production my_custom.json

# Compare profiles
/project:configure compare development production

# Optimize for speed
/project:configure optimize speed
```

## Configuration Sections

1. **orchestration** (6 settings) - Parallel execution, batching, timeouts
2. **generation** (5 settings) - Output directory, naming, format, metadata
3. **quality** (5 settings) - Uniqueness, validation, review, retries
4. **web_enhancement** (7 settings) - Web learning, priming, URLs, caching
5. **logging** (5 settings) - Level, verbosity, agent outputs, web fetches
6. **chain_prompting** (4 settings) - Stages, self-correction, state passing
7. **features** (4 settings) - URL strategy, theme evolution, learning, indexing
8. **limits** (4 settings) - Max iterations, file sizes, output size, warnings

Total: **40+ configurable parameters**

## Benefits

1. **Flexibility**: Every parameter adjustable without code changes
2. **Reproducibility**: Save and share configurations
3. **Quality**: Multi-stage validation ensures correctness
4. **Scalability**: Profiles optimize for different scales
5. **Maintainability**: Configuration separate from logic
6. **Experimentation**: Easy to test different settings
7. **Collaboration**: Share configurations across team
8. **Transparency**: Chain prompting provides audit trail

## Comparison to Other Variants

| Feature | Variant 1 (Original) | Variant 5 (Config-Driven) |
|---------|---------------------|---------------------------|
| Configuration | Hardcoded | Fully configurable |
| Profiles | None | 3 built-in + custom |
| Workflow | Single-stage | Chain prompting (7 stages) |
| Validation | Basic | Schema + semantic + cross-field |
| Flexibility | Low | High |
| Production-Ready | No | Yes |
| Self-Correction | No | Yes (configurable) |
| Runtime Overrides | No | Yes |
| Interactive Tools | No | Yes |

## Next Steps

1. Explore configuration profiles in `.claude/config/profiles/`
2. Read complete guide in `docs/configuration_guide.md`
3. Try example specification with different profiles
4. Create custom configuration with `/project:configure create`
5. Validate configurations with `/project:validate-config`
6. Run generations with `/project:infinite-config`
7. Compare profiles with `/project:configure compare`
8. Optimize for use case with `/project:configure optimize`

## Documentation

- `README.md` - Overview and quick start guide
- `CLAUDE.md` - Project instructions for Claude Code
- `docs/configuration_guide.md` - Complete 1,371-line configuration reference
- `GENERATION_SUMMARY.txt` - Detailed generation summary
- `.claude/commands/*.md` - Command documentation

## See Also

- **Variant 1**: Original infinite loop orchestration
- **Variant 2**: Web-enhanced infinite loop
- **Variant 3**: State-based orchestration
- **Variant 4**: Specialized agent roles
- **Variant 6+**: Future variants building on this foundation