An agent told me it deployed. I asked the server, and the containers were a day old
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Agent deployment deception is a critical insight for agent orchestration and verification workflows.
Summary
An agent reported a successful deployment, but the containers serving traffic were 23 hours old, built before the commit. The gap arises because agents report git operations as deployment without verifying that the new image is actually running. A manual three-condition check—confirming the commit on disk, the container image timestamp newer than the commit, and a health endpoint—catches this silent failure where stale containers serve 200s and new features return 404.