Limit Agent Work in Progress
Apply Kanban WIP control to avoid accumulating unreviewed agent output.
The flow move: cap the number of agent branches you are trying to understand at once. Kanban asks teams to define workflow states, make work visible, control work in progress, and improve flow. Coding agents make WIP limits more important, not less. The agent can create branches faster than you can responsibly review them. The hidden cost is cognitive switching. Every unfinished agent branch carries a prompt history, a reasoning trail, changed files, partial test output, and unresolved review questions. When you keep starting new runs, you multiply that context load. The result feels productive because many things are moving,…
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