The Re-verification List
Volatile facts carry an as-of date of August 2026. This list is reviewed quarterly, and every item names what to check and where the claim is used. Staleness is the main threat to a reference guide in this category.
Completed for the August 2026 release
- Item
- Joint agentic-AI cyber guidance date
- Result
- Verified as May 1, 2026 on the CISA release bulletin and Australian Cyber Security Centre publication page
- Item
- FINRA AI recordkeeping language
- Result
- RN 24-09 preserves existing technology-neutral obligations and creates no new interpretation. RN 25-07, published April 14, 2025, asks for comment on AI-generated communications and recordkeeping; it is not a final interpretation
Due Q4 2026
- Item
- OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions
- What to check
- Whether the conventions have reached a stable release. Not stable as of mid-2026
- Where it is used
- R12 findings; the observability category profile. The single most important item on this list
- Item
- Dynatrace and Arize
- What to check
- Whether the transaction announced 13 August 2026 closed, and what happened to the open-source project
- Where it is used
- R12 vendors; evaluation and observability profile
- Item
- MCP registry and server trust
- What to check
- Registry status and whether signed and pinned server distribution has matured
- Where it is used
- R03 findings; gateways and identity profile
- Item
- EU AI Act enforcement
- What to check
- Article 50 enforcement in practice since 2 August 2026, and any movement on classification guidelines
- Where it is used
- R11 findings; sovereignty matrix; HR and public sector blueprints
- Item
- Kubernetes Agent Sandbox
- What to check
- Production readiness
- Where it is used
- R01 findings
- Item
- Generative and encoder price table in the economics experiment
- What to check
- Whether the per-token prices as of 2026-08-19 still hold; the cost ratio is recomputed from the editable price table in the benchmark artifact. The constant-factor claim, not the prices, is the position
- Where it is used
- Research pages: the cheap gate and the bill; the recommended approach
- Item
- Framework consolidation
- What to check
- Whether the agent framework field has consolidated further, and support states
- Where it is used
- R07 findings and vendors
Due H1 2027
- Item
- SOC behavioural baselining for agents
- What to check
- Whether any vendor has a credible answer. Unsolved as of August 2026; re-check after RSAC 2027
- Where it is used
- R10 findings; concerns matrix open gaps
- Item
- Provenance-carrying grounding as audit evidence
- What to check
- Whether Big Four methodologies or JTC 21 standards give it formal recognition
- Where it is used
- R11 findings; economics of the evidence floor
- Item
- Agent lifecycle patterns
- What to check
- Whether registry-governed lifecycle has moved from proof of concept to observed operation
- Where it is used
- R07 findings
- Item
- Memory-service benchmarks
- What to check
- Whether any independent benchmark exists. All current claims are vendor-authored and disputed between vendors
- Where it is used
- R14 vendors; memory-pipeline architecture
- Item
- Multi-agent incident reporting
- What to check
- Whether any regulator or standards body has published a frame. None exists as of August 2026
- Where it is used
- R11 findings; concerns matrix open gaps
Standing items, checked every quarter
- Item
- All vendor pricing and packaging
- Why
- Product facts in this market change quarterly. Outcome pricing, per-action metering and governance-plane pricing are all list prices as of mid-2026
- Item
- The vendor coverage matrix
- Why
- Consolidation is active in security, identity and observability. A coverage matrix is a dated artifact
- Item
- GA states and product names in every
vendors.md - Why
- Names and availability move faster than capability
- Item
- Vendor question-bank answers collected from suppliers
- Why
- An answer more than two quarters old is a hypothesis, not a fact
Items deliberately not on this list
Claims sourced to peer-reviewed research, standards texts, regulation, and primary human-factors literature. These age slowly and are cited with dates. The 1983 residual-work finding underpinning the founding metaphor has been stable for four decades and is not a re-verification candidate.
Source: RE-VERIFICATION.md in the evidence repository behind this site.