Why every agent needs a review queue

The first agents we built were fast, and for about a week that felt like magic. Then one of them sent a reply we would not have written, and the magic turned into a question: what else did it do?

Speed is not trust

Agents can do the work of an hour in a minute. That only helps if checking the work takes less than doing it. If you have to re-read everything, you have not saved anything.

One place to decide

So we gave every result the same destination. A result is never sent, posted or merged. It is placed in a queue with the reason it exists, the steps behind it, and three choices: approve, send back with a note, or discard.

Because the queue is the only way out, there is exactly one habit to build. Open it twice a day, clear it, and you are done.

What changed

Approvals take seconds because the context is already attached. Notes sent back become part of the agent’s memory, so the same correction is rarely needed twice. And since every decision is recorded, the activity stream doubles as an audit trail.