
Control flow is the oldest primitive in computing and the reason a program is more than a list of steps. Branching and looping are what separate a plan that reacts from a plan that merely fires, and every serious automation ever written, onchain or off, is built out of exactly these moves.
A plug takes one path when a condition holds and another when it does not. It repeats a body of work while something remains true, cuts the repetition short the moment it stops making sense, skips past a round that should not run, and closes each block cleanly so the structure of the plan is never ambiguous. The conditions are evaluated against live state at execution, not against what was true when the plan was written.
A ladder that keeps filling until the budget is spent or the price runs away. A strategy with a main path and a contingency that only exists when the main path fails its check. A loop that walks a position down in measured steps instead of one violent exit. The shape of the plan is the strategy, and the plans that perform are the ones with real structure, not a single hopeful transaction.





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