# Automated check

Concept · [Building with AI](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai)

Also called: automated checks, CI check, type check, linter, lint, checks

A test or rule a computer runs to catch problems without a person looking, such as tests, type checkers and style checkers. For [agents](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent) they are the fastest feedback: the agent runs them, sees what failed and fixes it before you ever review the work.

**For example:** Every time the [agent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ai-agent) edits the signup flow, an automated check confirms that a new user can still sign up.

## Connects to (9)

- [Testing](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/testing): Checking that software does what it should, before your users find the problems for you.
- [Automated review](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/automated-review): Having an AI model read and critique work, usually code, before a person does.
- [Human review](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/human-review): A person reading and approving what an agent produced before it goes live.
- [AX](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ax): Agent experience: how well a project is set up for an AI agent to do good work, with a clear structure, automated checks that catch…
- [AFK](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/afk): Short for away from keyboard.
- [Bug](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/bug): A mistake in software that makes it behave in a way nobody intended.
- [Probabilistic vs deterministic](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/probabilistic-vs-deterministic): Deterministic software gives the same output for the same input every time.
- [CI/CD](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/ci-cd): Continuous integration and continuous delivery: automation that runs the tests on every change pushed to the repository and, when they…
- [Dark factory](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/dark-factory): Part of a product where agents write and ship code that no person ever reviews.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/automated-check