{"slug": "what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr", "title": "What I check in the last 15 minutes before merging an agent-generated PR", "summary": "A developer shared a 15-minute review checklist for agent-generated pull requests to prevent technical debt and scope drift, including checks for edge cases like empty input and hidden refactors. The process catches issues such as tests that pass without meaningful coverage.", "body_md": "The number one way that teams new to Agentic Engineering workflows accumulate long-term technical debt and scope drift is by merging agent PRs that look fine in the diff but break on edge cases: empty input, scope drift buried in a \"refactor,\" and tests that passed without testing anything.\n\nI wrote up the 15-minute pass I use before merge, including a worked example of what it catches on a synthetic agent PR. I just want to share in case others find it useful.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/skinahan/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr-191k", "published_at": "2026-07-07 21:44:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-07 22:28:39.990151+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "machine-learning"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr.jsonld"}}