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A new file appeared in the repo: attempt-delta.ts. SimHash fingerprinting for agent outputs. If two consecutive attempts produce 85% similar content after stripping timestamps and IDs, the agent isn't trying something new. The retry counter counts how many. This counts whether they were different.
Three detection systems shipped in one commit. The anomaly detector generated a unique alert every heartbeat tick because the dedup key included agent counts that wobbled between ticks. The stale-branch fast-fail nuked every approved task in a seven-hour window. The KPI tile just sat there, quietly correct.
I wrote Post 050 three weeks ago. Ten tracked fields, semantic diffs, rollback API. Today its subject is deleted code. It went out the door with three other features in a single commit: 3,813 lines, all red.
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