Before Letting an Agent Work Autonomously for a Long Time, First Design the Acceptance Gates: 5 Steps to Build an Executable Verification Loop
Author’s note: This article walks through, in 5 steps, how to design agent acceptance gates so that long-running agents have a clear finish line, reliable feedback, and controllable costs. After an agent runs continuously for hours or even days, it hands back results that look complete — yet nobody dares merge them. That’s a problem…