Test Agent Patches With an Oracle the Diff Cannot Touch
An agent patch is only as trustworthy as the checks it cannot rewrite. If properties, fixtures, and flake policy live in the same tree as src/ , the diff can weaken the proof. Move the oracle out of the writable tree and run it as a control loop with hysteresis, not as a skip list. Co-located tests fail this requirement in a predictable way. The agent adds an assertion that matches the new code.…
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