The Human Half of the Gate: My 10-Minute Review-Queue SOP for n8n LLM Outputs

Description and use

<p><em>My last post ended with a one-command gate — <code>./prepublish.sh</code> — that verifies the mechanical contract of an n8n LLM workflow: grounded, deduplicated, cost-bounded, loud on failure. One thing deliberately didn't make it into the script: the review-queue spot check. Output quality is subjective; no assertion belongs there. But "just eyeball it" is how you end up reading fifty outputs at 11 PM and calling it reviewed. So here is exactly what the eyeballing looks like — a ten-minute SOP.</em></p> <h2> Why sampling is enough </h2> <p>The script bounds every mechanical failure mod

Problem

<p><em>My last post ended with a one-command gate — <code>./prepublish.sh</code> — that verifies the mechanical contract of an n8n LLM workflow: grounded, deduplicated, cost-bounded, loud on failure. One thing deliberately didn't make it into the script: the review-queue spot check. Output quality is subjective; no assertion belongs there. But "just eyeball it" is how you end up reading fifty outputs at 11 PM and calling it reviewed. So here is exactly what the eyeballing looks like — a ten-minute SOP.</em></p> <h2> Why sampling is enough </h2> <p>The script bounds every mechanical failure mod

Outcome

<p><em>My last post ended with a one-command gate — <code>./prepublish.sh</code> — that verifies the mechanical contract of an n8n LLM workflow: grounded, deduplicated, cost-bounded, loud on failure. One thing deliberately didn't make it into the script: the review-queue spot check. Output quality is subjective; no assertion belongs there. But "just eyeball it" is how you end up reading fifty outputs at 11 PM and calling it reviewed. So here is exactly what the eyeballing looks like — a ten-minute SOP.</em></p> <h2> Why sampling is enough </h2> <p>The script bounds every mechanical failure mod

Evidence

The Human Half of the Gate: My 10-Minute Review-Queue SOP for n8n LLM Outputs

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