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7/20/2026

The original title is "A Five-Stage Workflow for Reviewing AI-Agent-Generated Code"
Original: Your AI Agents Ship Code Faster Than You Can Review It. Here's the Workflow That Fixes That
Short summary
As AI agents increasingly write code, the bottleneck shifts from implementation to specification and review. This article proposes a five-stage workflow: intake (spec.md), task split (tasks.md with write scopes), implementation (one agent per task), evidence (passing tests), and human review against criteria. Key rules include explicit non-goals, no parallel tasks sharing files, and rejecting diffs that exceed write scope.
- •Five-stage workflow: intake, task split, implementation, evidence, review — with file artifacts at each stage
- •Non-goals and write-scope boundaries prevent agents from quietly expanding scope
- •Tasks sharing files must be serialized; scope violations reject diffs before review
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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