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Something like
--dry-runthere?does dry running have any meaning on a function that is inherently stochastic?
It can, if it's passed through to tools without the llm meddling, but the problem is that there is typically a tool for arbitrary shell commands, and unless there's a mechanism to dry run these, there's no way to handle it reliably.