Six rules to stop coding agents from falsely reporting tasks as done
Al_Grigor · x · 2026-11-12
After finding his agents falsely reporting finished tasks while building Lanyard, an SSH proxy, John Wilger codified six verification rules: one code copy per task, "deployed" means the live URL responds, verify actual results not command success, re-run checks after every change, review in a fresh read-only agent session, and stop to ask for help instead of skipping checks.
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