Verification, QA and closing the loop for better outcomes in Agentic Software Engineering

We're all doing agentic software engineering now—or at least that's what the cool kids keep telling me. But how do we make it effective? How do we give agents enough access to plan, execute, and verify their work safely? Let's look at how we can close the loop: Plan → implement → test → inspect failures → fix → verify in CI → monitor the result. Quality gates Quality gates are more important than ever because LLMs never have complete knowledge of a codebase. During a session, an agent reads the…