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The Patch Didn't Break the Test. It Added a Clock: An Ambient-Input Ledger for Agent Patches

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Most "flaky" agent patches are not flaky tests. They are tests that quietly started reading the clock, the RNG, the network, or an environment variable the base branch never touched — and then the rerun button erased the evidence. The fix is not more reruns. It is a per-test diff of ambient inputs…

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  1. 2026-10-20 07:39 · DEV Community — AI
    The Patch Didn't Break the Test. It Added a Clock: An Ambient-Input Ledger for Agent Patches

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