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The Third Leg of the Parity Test

Months ago, a commenter on this series proposed a test: if the same backend really stands behind both doors, then auth, error behavior, and idempotency must be preserved across them.

  • The third parity test leg focuses on preserving auth, error behavior, and idempotency across doors.
  • Agents trigger retries based on timeouts, ambiguous errors, truncated responses, and failed calls.
  • The MCP protocol allows second-order retries, serving as a control case to demonstrate failure mode.

969 commits in 2.4 days, one git repo, no lock server

Between September 30 and the morning of October 2, one git repository took 969 commits. The busiest hour had 107. Every one of them landed in the same working tree on the same Windows machine, written…

  • 969 commits made in 2.4 days in a single git repository
  • 20 automated agent sessions, each focusing on specific tasks
  • No central lock server, sessions followed rules to manage locks

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