Section 7 — Patterns of Work
Automated review
An agent reviewing another agent's work, often with a different model or system prompt. Nondeterministic: it forms a judgement. Runs anywhere — premerge on a PR, posthoc on comm...
An agent reviewing another agent's work, often with a different model or system prompt. Non-deterministic: it forms a judgement. Runs anywhere — pre-merge on a PR, post-hoc on commit history, mid-session as a subagent. An LLM-as-judge in CI is automated review, not an automated check; what the assertion does decides the category, not where it runs.
Avoid: "AI review" / "agent review" — too vague to distinguish from the working agent itself.
Usage:
"We're getting too many bad PRs from the AFK runs."
"Add an automated review step before merge — different model, separate system prompt, scoped to security and contract changes."