What agentic drafting should show you
A drafting agent that hides what it relied on is just a faster way to make a dangerous mistake. Here's what "showing its work" really requires.
"Agentic" has become a marketing word, so it's worth being concrete. An agent, for drafting, means the system does the multi-step work a junior associate would (plan, research, draft) instead of returning one shot of text. The value isn't speed. It's being able to see what it relied on.
The steps have to be visible
A black box that emits a finished brief is not trustworthy no matter how good the brief is, because you can't see what it relied on. The whole point of an agentic flow is that each step (the plan, the authorities it intends to use, the draft) is inspectable. You can click a step and see what it did.
Unchecked citations have to be marked
A draft's citations still need a check against their sources before anything is filed. In Lagelia, a citation in a draft that has not been checked is stamped unverified when you export, so it cannot pass for a checked one. That marking separates a drafting tool a lawyer can use from one that just generates confident text faster.
You still hold the pen
Nothing is final without an explicit human accept. The agent does the drudgery and shows its work; the judgment (and the signature) stays with the attorney. That's the only division of labor that's safe.