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Thanks, Kartik, and "shorter and a lot more honest" matches what I've seen too. Honest answer: no, the three-attempts cap on its own doesn't stop it. It only keeps the agent from looping forever, and an agent can still delete or skip a test on its first try. What actually catches it is the combination of the done rule (tests pass and none were deleted or skipped) plus a reviewer subagent that checks the diff for removed test files and new skip markers, so I definitely still lean on the reviewer for that.