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Did the Patch Cause the Flake, or Find It? A Base/Head Attribution Gate for Agent Patches

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Short version: when an agent patch surfaces a flaky test, run that test on the base tree and the patch tree with matched seeds before you touch anything. Only a base-tree failure buys a freeze. If the base tree is clean run after run, the flake is the patch's fingerprint — and freezing the test del…

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  1. 2026-10-27 22:08 · DEV Community — AI
    Did the Patch Cause the Flake, or Find It? A Base/Head Attribution Gate for Agent Patches

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