Build-Verification Gates Pattern vs Visual-Verify with Playwright
Both in the audit & qa category. Side-by-side — pick the one that fits your stack tonight.
Three gates that catch broken code before your agent commits it. No gate, no commit.
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You're writing code by hand and reviewing every diff yourself. Manual review is still a better gate.
Every UI change ends with a screenshot. If it doesn't look right, it didn't ship right.
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You're shipping backend-only code or pure API work. Visual verify only matters when there's a UI to look at.
why it matters · Build-Verification Gates Pattern
When Claude writes code on its own, the real risk isn't bad code. It's bad code that gets committed without anyone noticing. Three cheap gates fix that: 1) typecheck passes, 2) build passes, 3) screenshot proves the page rendered. We use this on every autonomous loop. It caught ~6 silent breakages in our first week alone. If you let Claude ship code while you sleep, these three gates are the difference between shipping clean and waking up to a broken site.
why it matters · Visual-Verify with Playwright
TypeScript + build passing does NOT mean your UI looks right. A page can compile cleanly and still render broken — wrong layout, overlapping elements, missing assets. The only way to catch this before shipping is to actually LOOK at it. On every Escape 9 to 5 UI task: Playwright screenshots at 1280x900 desktop + 375 mobile, verify before marking done. Caught ~12 broken layouts in Escape 9 to 5's first two weeks that tsc (TypeScript compiler) + build happily greenlit. The gap between 'compiles' and 'works' is wider than most agents assume.