How to recognize seki (pre-seki, really)

Some situations are going to be seki if neither player makes a mistake. How do you recognize those?

By reading it out

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Within big semeai, the abundance of shared liberties and ability to form a single eye is a sign to a final seki. Note that if one has an eye and not the other, that can’t lead to seki. But anyway I agree that reading is just the key.