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Agent-Driven Refactors: Keep the PR Reviewable

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I used to ask the agent for “a clean refactor of this module” and get a 40-file PR that touched naming, folder layout, hooks, and tests in one swing. CI was green. I still couldn’t review it. Green doesn’t mean reviewable. An agent-driven refactor is useful only if a human can answer “what changed…

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