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Project coverage is 98.14%. Comparing base (e1deffc) to head (834eda1).
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can this be a symptom of a real bug?

The test flakes were failing on Pauli string validation which rejects identity-only strings, for example, https://github.com/quantumlib/Cirq/actions/runs/14068636480/job/39397251223#step:7:402

The original test code intended to avoid such strings, but could in fact produce them with

operators = {q: random.choice(pauli_ops) for q in qubits}

This PR ensures that there is at least one non-identity Pauli in the operators dictionary, which prevents the flake.

Thanks for fixing it! I recall adding the Pauli-I validation to the verification stage, but I overlooked the need to prevent the generation of all Pauli-I test strings in the test file. Thanks for catching the error and fix it quickly!