How do I tell whether conditional approvals are a meaningful test for my agent?

Use this list to decide whether conditional approvals are a meaningful test of your agent, and the more items that apply, the stronger the case.

- Your agent triggers actions in a system that already holds an approval status, such as a loan, claim, order or engagement. - The approval and the follow-up work are handled by different teams or sit in different systems with separate owners. - Evidence for conditions arrives through uploads, email or free-text notes rather than a single structured form. - Conditions can be varied, waived or added after the original decision was recorded, so the terms move over time. - Approvals have an expiry or a review date that the agent must check before it takes the next step. - A wrong early step is costly to reverse, such as releasing funds, dispatching stock or starting billable work. - You need to show a reviewer why the agent held back, not only that it did, so reasons must be recorded. - Your current test cases cover happy paths far more thoroughly than blocked or partially cleared ones.