Your Terraform Repair Loop Broke Passing Checks. Stop at 3.
A study of 4,440 LLM repair iterations on Terraform found 3.3% of scenarios hit at least one security control that had been passing and then failed. The pass rate peaks at iteration three and declines after, so the fix is an iteration budget plus a diff of the full control set.
August 16, 2026 · 14 min read