--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Teach Your Agent to Prove It''s Done — Nick Nisi & Zack Proser, WorkOS' description: >- Your agent says it's done. Is it? Nick Nisi and Zack Proser from WorkOS show how to build verification loops that let coding agents check their own work. They cover clear goals, CLI health checks, browser snapshots, LLM judges and evals, so a failure drives the next fix instead of landing on your desk. Includes the live "Midnight Snack Club" demo app and the repo to follow along. Chapters: - 00:00 Why "done" isn't done - 03:17 What it takes to trust agent output - 09:34 Give agents goals they can check - 17:31 Closing the feedback loop - 28:41 Making everything feedback-loopable - 36:29 The moment the agent knows it's not done - 39:33 LLM judges and eval baselines - 53:32 Q&A Nick Nisi — https://workos.com Zack Proser — https://workos.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. 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Is it? Nick Nisi and Zack Proser from WorkOS show how to build verification loops that let coding agents check their own work. They cover clear goals, CLI health checks, browser snapshots, LLM judges and evals, so a failure drives the next fix instead of landing on your desk. Includes the live "Midnight Snack Club" demo app and the repo to follow along. Chapters: - 00:00 Why "done" isn't done - 03:17 What it takes to trust agent output - 09:34 Give agents goals they can check - 17:31 Closing the feedback loop - 28:41 Making everything feedback-loopable - 36:29 The moment the agent knows it's not done - 39:33 LLM judges and eval baselines - 53:32 Q\&A Nick Nisi — https://workos.com Zack Proser — https://workos.com Join us in SF for the second annual AIE CODE summit: https://aie.codes our last flagship summit of 2026. Applications live now! 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