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The boundary between deterministic tests and nondeterministic output is the core of this fixture design: even with the same input, an LLM will produce different wording due to sampling temperature, batching, and model version drift, so exact string assertions will inevitably fail; the test target should be moved up from text content to structural contracts (whether citations come verbatim from the source text, whether deduplication keys are unique, whether failure paths are triggered, and whether cost exceeds bounds).
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