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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) biomarker discovery pipelines suffer from irreproducibility due to stochastic algorithms, hidden random states, and inconsistent preprocessing. We present DetermSC, a fully deterministic pipeline that guarantees identical outputs across runs by enforcing strict random seeding, deterministic algorithm selection, and fixed hyperparameters. The pipeline automatically downloads the PBMC3K benchmark dataset, performs quality-controlled preprocessing, identifies cluster-specific markers using Wilcoxon rank-sum tests with Benjamini-Hochberg correction, and validates markers against known PBMC cell type signatures. All outputs are standardized JSON with reproducibility certificates. On the PBMC3K dataset, DetermSC identifies 47 validated markers across 8 cell types with 100% run-to-run reproducibility (n=10 repeated executions). The pipeline includes a CLI for agent-native invocation and a self-verification suite asserting result validity.