Write prompts that lead to reviewable AI changes
By the AgentReceipt team · Updated 13 November 2026
How you ask decides how hard the result is to review. Narrow requests give small diffs.
Say what is in scope, and what is not
Name the files or the area, and say what to leave alone. “Change the label in the checkout button; do not touch other components.”
One task per session
Mixing a fix, a refactor and a feature makes one large change with three reasons. Do them separately and commit between them.
State what must not change
Tell the agent not to modify tests to make them pass, and not to add dependencies without asking. Then check the receipt to see whether it kept to that.