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The worker never writes its own test: how my agents are kept from grading their own homework

In my last post the rule was: no model says done, a command exits 0. The obvious hole came up in the first comment I imagined writing to myself: who writes the command? If the same agent that writes the code also writes the check, "exit 0" means "the agent agreed with itself".

By ForgeCoreAiDev.to AI
The worker never writes its own test: how my agents are kept from grading their own homework

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Originally published by Dev.to AI on Oct 13, 2026.

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