How to review a very large AI diff
By the AgentReceipt team · Updated 13 November 2026
Agents can produce hundreds of changed lines in minutes. A diff that large cannot be reviewed line by line, so review it by risk instead.
Ask for smaller changes
The best fix is upstream: ask the agent to do one thing per session, and commit between sessions. Several small receipts are easier to read than one large one.
If it is already large, review by risk
Go through it in this order:
- tests and CI settings
- new dependencies
- sensitive areas such as authentication, payments and migrations
- files unrelated to the request
- everything else
Flag size early
AgentReceipt raises a flag when a change is oversized, so the review starts with the knowledge that it needs splitting.