Technology Radar
To make coding agents more effective and reduce the load on human reviewers, teams need feedback loops that agents can directly access. These feedback sensors for coding agents act as a form of feedback backpressure, increasing trust in generated results. Developers have long relied on deterministic quality gates such as compilers, linters, structural tests and test suites; here, they’re wired into agentic workflows so that failures trigger timely self-correction.
These checks reduce routine steering work for the human in the loop. Teams can implement them in different ways, such as introducing a reviewer agent responsible for running checks and triggering corrections, or by exposing the checks through a companion process that runs in parallel that agents can query efficiently. Coding agents also make it cheaper to build custom linters and structural tests, further strengthening these feedback loops. Whenever possible, these sensors should run during the coding session and report clean results before a commit is made, rather than relying on post-commit checks.
