stories: quant loop failure stories from @50thycal

[cobusgreyling]

Summary

Cherry-pick stories-only from #136 (closed for scope). Credits @50thycal.

Changes

• Story — quant-loop-the-verifier-problem.md
• Story — quant-loop-out-of-time.md
• stories/README.md index rows

Notes

• Starter links point to the contributor's fork reference implementation until a trimmed in-repo starter lands (PR B from triage).
• No pattern, workflow, or engine code in this PR.

Checklist

• Real failure/surprise + lesson per story
• No secrets or internal URLs
• Links work from stories/README.md

Thanks @50thycal — great corpus addition.

[github-actions]

Thanks @cobusgreyling for contributing a production story — visible, reviewable PRs like this grow the reference for everyone.

What happens next

• Maintainer aims for same-day review on story, adopter, and scoped docs/example PRs (CONTRIBUTING.md).
• good first issue PRs: comment on the linked issue so we can assign and close on merge.

More ways to help

• Contributor quickstart + open issues
• Good first issue backlog

— loop-engineering maintainers

[github-actions]

Loop Readiness Audit

Score: 100/100 (L3)

Strong loop readiness — good candidate for L3 with explicit gates.

Top suggestions

• Create loop-constraints.md with denylist paths, push/merge rules, and human gates (see templates/loop-constraints.md)

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