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title: reviewer agents
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  **Reviewer agents** are autonomous coding agents assigned to review — rather
  than produce — software work: they examine output from another agent (or a
  human) as an automated checkpoint before a person makes the final
  verification, as practiced in the channel's multi-agent review workflows
  [^e8312281-97f0-5775-ac82-0cad7f60c034@summary].
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/reviewer-agents-4990c6dede1a.md
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# reviewer agents

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/reviewer-agents-4990c6dede1a

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Reviewer agents** are autonomous coding agents assigned to review — rather than produce — software work: they examine output from another agent (or a human) as an automated checkpoint before a person makes the final verification, as practiced in the channel's multi-agent review workflows [^e8312281-97f0-5775-ac82-0cad7f60c034@summary].

In the captured material, **reviewer agents** appear as part of the multi-agent review practice that runs throughout *Coding Agents in Practice*: rather than trusting a single agent's output, practitioners route work through a second agent whose job is to **review** it before a human verifies the result [^e8312281-97f0-5775-ac82-0cad7f60c034@summary]. The framing across the channel is consistent: agents — whether Codex, Claude Code, or Claude Cowork — are used to **build, review, and iterate on real software**, and review is an explicit stage in that loop, not an afterthought [^e8312281-97f0-5775-ac82-0cad7f60c034@47].The channel's recurring lesson is that the human's role shifts from typing code to **planning, orchestrating, and verifying** [^e8312281-97f0-5775-ac82-0cad7f60c034@426]. Within that shift, a reviewer agent acts as an automated checkpoint in the orchestration layer: a producing agent hands off a change, a reviewer agent examines it, and the human makes the final verification call. This mirrors the delegation-first workflows described across the topic — including *Why We Switched From Claude Code to Codex*, where a general-purpose agent connected to tools and the file system handles day-to-day work under explicit guardrails [^96100b6a-a941-5a32-adef-3df8a7183d9e@47].- **Reviewer agents** are coding agents assigned to check another agent's output rather than produce code themselves.- They sit inside the channel's **multi-agent review** practice within *Coding Agents in Practice*.- They support, but do not replace, the human's role in **planning, orchestrating, and verifying** agent work.