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Agent dry-run flaw causes production data bleed, forces rollback
A developer's AI agent passed 100 staging tests but caused a production data bleed on its first real run due to environment drift and mock response gaps. The fix propagates a dry-run flag across all writes in a run, but hook failures can still bypass it. The incident highlights that staging alone is insufficient for agent safety.
Meridian48 take
The real lesson isn't about better testing—it's that agent execution paths are non-deterministic, making traditional staging guarantees obsolete.
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My agent dry-ran fine in staging 100 times — then wrecked production on the first real run →
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