Your coding agent is following rules that are no longer true. Here is the fix.
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The most dangerous agent bug is not a model that invents an API. It is an instruction file that is still true enough to be trusted, and stale enough to be wrong. Your AGENTS.md says the tests run with npm test . Last month a teammate moved them behind a build step. The agent reads the rule, trusts…
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- 2026-10-09 00:36 · DEV Community — AI
Your coding agent is following rules that are no longer true. Here is the fix.