A product manager receives an agent-generated migration plan with code edits and a summary, and must decide if it is safe to merge. The plan touches payments logic. Which practice best guides review of agentic workflow outputs?
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Short Explanation
You wouldn't sign a receipt without checking it when money's involved, so you'll want to peek at the diffs and logs yourself. Validate those claims against your source files and test the payment bits separately before you've merged.
Full Explanation
Agentic workflow outputs require independent verification because models can produce plausible summaries, omit edge cases, and introduce subtle errors in high-stakes code, so the safe practice is to inspect the actual diff and execution logs rather than trusting the summary, cross-check every material claim against the authoritative source files to detect hallucination or stale context, and isolate high-risk payments logic for separate targeted testing and rollback planning. Relying on the standard migration suite for payments after thorough diff review and source validation fails by risk-proportionality because payments demand isolated, higher-bar verification beyond generic regression coverage, and a passing general suite can mask financial correctness or compliance defects. Accepting the agent summary as verified documentation while inspecting the diff and running isolated payment tests fails by grounding because summaries are secondary interpretations that must be reconciled to code and logs, leaving hallucinated files, scopes, or safeguards undetected. Trusting automated logs to confirm the diff while validating claims and testing payments separately fails by direct inspection because only reading the changed lines reveals unintended edits, scope creep, or insecure patterns that logs summarize away. An exam caveat is to choose the answer that combines all three controls and treats payments as special, not the answer that does two controls well. A practical check is to open the diff, sample one summary claim back to its file and line, and confirm payments have a separate test, reviewer, and revert plan before merge.