The Shift From Augmentation → Agency
From 2021–2024, AI tools acted mostly as intelligent autocomplete or code assistants. Useful, but fundamentally passive. In 2025, teams are adopting a new paradigm: Agentic workflows.
These workflows remove human glue work and allow AI agents to run operational loops independently:
- Observe: fetch context via MCP
- Orient: evaluate constraints and acceptance criteria
- Decide: propose or execute next steps
- Act: generate code, tests, documentation, or alerts
Agentic workflows don't eliminate humans — they eliminate the busywork between humans.
Workflow 1 — Automated PRD Consistency Checks (AI PRD Linting)
Most product delays originate from unclear, inconsistent, or contradictory requirements. In the Agentic era, PRDs must be clear enough for AI agents — not just humans.
❌ Before
- PM writes a PRD in Google Docs.
- Reviewer comments: “What does ‘fast’ mean?”
- Engineering spends 1–2 days clarifying edge cases.
✅ After — Automated AI PRD Linting
Using structured PRDs (like Agentic PRDs) + MCP, linting becomes automated:
{
"id": "lint-001",
"rule": "Ambiguous term",
"match": ["fast","easy","intuitive"],
"action": "flag_for_revision"
}
The Agent performs:
- Ambiguity detection (“fast”, “simple”, “easily”)
- Missing example checks
- Missing error-state checks
- Predicate completeness (no logic gaps)
- Cross-story conflict detection
Impact
- PRDs become machine-consumable
- Clarification cycles reduced by 40–60%
- Developers get “compilable requirements”
Workflow 2 — Automatic Test Generation from Acceptance Criteria
This is the most popular Agentic workflow — and the easiest to implement using ProdMoh + MCP.
❌ Before
- Engineer reads ACs.
- Engineer interprets them and writes tests manually.
- Half the edge cases are forgotten.
✅ After — Agentic Test Scaffolding
Acceptance criteria written in canonical predicate form can be directly translated into runnable tests.
{
"predicate": "response.json.items[0].badges includes 'paid'",
"template": "test('<title>', async () => { const res = await <call>; expect(res.json.items[0].badges).toContain('paid'); });"
}
Agents perform:
- Parsing acceptance criteria
- Generating Jest, PyTest, or JUnit tests
- Producing mocks from examples
- Creating coverage matrices
This turns your PRD into an executable specification (see: Executable Specifications — Deep Dive).
Impact
- Zero hallucinated test logic
- Spec → Test → Code alignment becomes deterministic
- CI auto-rejects PRs missing derived tests
Workflow 3 — Automated PR-Based Requirements Verification
In Agentic workflows, PR review becomes structured and semi-automated.
❌ Before
- Engineer submits a PR.
- Reviewer checks if code matches intent.
- Reviewer checks if tests reflect ACs.
- Cycle repeats.
✅ After — Autonomous PR Validation
The Agent performs a deterministic check:
{
"check": "prd_version_matches",
"action": "block_merge"
},
{
"check": "all_acceptance_predicates_have_tests",
"action": "block_merge"
},
{
"check": "changed_files_map_to_story_ids",
"action": "warn"
}
The PR reviewer only focuses on:
- architecture decisions
- edge-case reasoning
- security
Everything mechanical is handed off to the Agent.
Impact
- PR review cycles shrink by 25–45%
- Zero missing-spec bugs
- Automated enforcement of product alignment
Workflow 4 — Automated Documentation and Release Note Generation
This is one of the biggest quality-of-life improvements for product teams.
❌ Before
- PM reads merged PRs
- PM reconstructs what was built
- PM summarizes release notes manually
✅ After — Agentic Documentation Pipeline
Given structured PRD + PR metadata + test behavior:
- The Agent writes developer docs
- The Agent writes API docs
- The Agent writes user-facing release notes
Example Output
### Feature: Paid Badge (S-100)
- Added `paid` badge when `price > 0`
- Added validations for invalid inputs (price < 0 → 400 error)
- Updated search integration to include badge metadata
Impact
- Docs remain consistent with implementation
- Documentation drift eliminated
- PM + Dev time reclaimed: 5–8 hours per sprint
Workflow 5 — Continuous AI-Powered Product QA (“Agentic QA Loop”)
This is the most advanced workflow — but also the most impactful.
❌ Before
- QA writes test cases manually.
- QA validates behavior with a mixture of tools and intuition.
✅ After — Agentic QA Loop
The Agent continuously:
- Reads the structured PRD
- Confirms test coverage for each predicate
- Runs tests and checks failures against acceptance criteria
- Creates “clarification requests” when PRD is incomplete
- Runs exploratory tests based on example variations
How It Works
{
"predicate": "product.price > 0 implies badges includes 'paid'",
"variants": [
{"price":1},
{"price":999},
{"price":0.01}
]
}
The Agent auto-generates edge-case test variants and runs them in CI.
Impact
- Eliminates 80% of repetitive QA work
- Scales QA workload without scaling headcount
- Closes gaps between PRD intent and real behavior
Bonus: Workflow 6 — Intelligent Roadmap Expansion & Scope Calculators
Teams increasingly ask: “What else should be added to this feature?”
Powered by the structured PRD, the Agent:
- Suggests missing NFRs
- Detects contradictory future work
- Generates “implicit” requirements usually caught in reviews
- Predicts impact radius across microservices
Impact
- PMs receive AI-powered design partners
- Engineering gets clearer, more complete specs
Conclusion: 2025 Is the Agentic Inflection Point
The workflows above are not hypothetical — teams are already implementing them using:
- ProdMoh for structured PRDs
- MCP to deliver product intent into the IDE
- Agentic IDE plugins to generate tests, validate PRDs, and automate verification
Together, these workflows eliminate the silent sources of rework that delay software delivery by weeks.
The future belongs to teams that encode product intent as data, not prose — and let AI handle the rest.