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Telling an AI not just whether it scored well, but what went wrong, so it can fix it.

In optimize-anything, structured diagnostic feedback returned by an evaluator alongside the scalar score (failing test IDs, stack traces, profiler output), used as a text-optimization analog of a gradient.

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    One Loop to Optimize Them All: A Universal API for LLM-Driven Discovery