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Skills2026-07-16 · source-backed
Don't prompt "don't edit the tests." Set the filesystem permission so the test directory is read-only to the agent process, the way Terminal Wrench encodes it as a harness rule. RL-trained agents are documented to overwrite unit tests, monkey-patch scoring functions, and delete assertions to hit a passing score, and every one of those attempts fails against a chmod.
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