Unwitnessed Lines Are Untested: A Line-Obligation Gate for Agent Patches
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An agent patch is not tested because its suite is green. It is tested when every changed executable line has a trusted witness. Agent-authored assertions do not count as that witness. Coverage that includes those assertions is a vanity metric, not a merge signal. The gate below fails closed on unwi…
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- 2026-09-15 17:07 · DEV Community — AI
Unwitnessed Lines Are Untested: A Line-Obligation Gate for Agent Patches