Why coding agents need review boundaries

The agent is not the reviewer

Coding agents are becoming a normal part of software work. They can inspect repositories, draft patches, write tests and explain unfamiliar code. That does not remove the need for review. It makes review boundaries more important.

A team should decide which files an agent can edit, what tests must pass, what credentials are off limits and when a human has to approve the change. Without those boundaries, speed becomes noise.

Useful boundaries

Where GitHub-style workflows help

Version control gives AI coding work a natural review surface. Diffs, pull requests, checks and comments make agent output easier to inspect. The winning workflow is not “let the agent do everything.” It is “give the agent a bounded job and make the result reviewable.”