How the week runs
A repeatable review rhythm for a small team using AI agents: inspect completed work, resolve one important uncertainty, and leave the next task ready to run.
Begin with the queue, not a fresh prompt
Review work already in progress before starting more. For each item, ask whether it has a clear owner, a current branch, a failing check or a concrete next action. Close a task only after its acceptance condition is met. If an agent has produced a draft, label it as a draft; if a change is merged but not live, keep deployment verification open. This keeps a productive-looking queue from concealing unfinished delivery.
Choose one uncertainty to remove
Use the focused part of the day for the question that could change the implementation. Reproduce a reported bug, inspect the product's current behavior, or confirm where a page is deployed. Write the observation before asking the agent to fix it. For example, ‘the saved value disappears after reload’ is more useful than ‘settings are unreliable.’ Once the cause is clear, give the agent a bounded change and a way to demonstrate that the original failure is gone.
Review output in the form users receive
Read copy in its page, not only in a diff. Try a form with ordinary input and inspect the saved result. Check a phone layout when the task affects mobile visitors. For generated content, review a representative page from each changed template and any unusual variants. A compact review packet should contain the changed behavior, the evidence and the open questions. That lets the next decision be about the product rather than about decoding an agent's activity log.
Set up the next work period
Leave a short instruction containing the desired result, relevant files, checks and boundaries. State whether the next step is investigation, implementation or release verification. If the task depends on a decision, record the decision needed and complete independent work first. Avoid starting several agents on the same unfinished component. An overnight task is easier to review when it produces one bounded artifact, such as a patch and test result, rather than a collection of unrelated changes.
End the week with a delivery ledger
Review outcomes rather than counting prompts or lines of code. Which visitor problems were fixed? Which changes are visible in production? Which failures recurred? Pick one recurring source of friction and improve the process around it, such as a missing check or unclear project instruction. Keep unresolved items specific enough to resume without a new investigation. The result should be a smaller, clearer queue and a reliable record of what users can now do.