On my compiled language projects I have a stop hook that compiles after every iteration. The agent literally cannot stop working until compilation succeeds.
In the case I described no code changes have been made yet. It's still just planning what to do.
It's true that I could accept the plan and hope that it will realize that it can't commit a change that doesn't compile on its own, later. I might even have some reason to think that's true, such as your stop hook, or a "memory" it wrote down before after I told it to never ever commit a change that doesn't compile, in all caps. But that doesn't change the badness of the plan.
Which is especially notable because I already told it the correct plan! It just tried to change the plan out of "laziness", I guess? Or maybe if you're enough of an LLM booster you can just say I didn't use exactly the right natural language specification of my original plan.
