Equation 7 · Engineering Reliable Codex Workflows with Instructions, Tests, Sandboxes, and Human Gates
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A flaky test does not become ground truth because an agent can rerun it quickly. Let a test have latent pass probability under unchanged code. Repeating until one pass selects a favorable sample and inflates confidence. Repeating until one failure does the opposite. Record the full sequence and decide from a declared policy.
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- [5] Run coding tasks in parallel cloud environments ↗
- [10] Secure Software Development Framework Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities ↗
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