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    "body_text": "On the same 252 initial failures, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B recovers 85.3 percent within five template-guided retries, versus 68.3 percent for capped resampling. Yet feedback borrowed from other episodes and fixed task guidance produce similar point estimates, with no detected advantage from matching the coarse failure label. A rim-grasp task even worsens when the template prescribes an incompatible center grasp. The simulation study argues that self-repair evaluations need resampling, mismatched feedback and concise static guidance as baselines.",
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