# What I check in the last 15 minutes before merging an agent-generated PR

> Source: <https://dev.to/skinahan/what-i-check-in-the-last-15-minutes-before-merging-an-agent-generated-pr-191k>
> Published: 2026-07-07 21:44:08+00:00

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.

I 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.