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  "id": "podcastu-agent-data-boundaries",
  "title": "Agent data access is a product boundary",
  "lastReviewed": "2026-06-14",
  "source": {
    "type": "podcast-u-transcript-backed-research-batch",
    "sourcePolicy": "Public episode URLs are listed. Raw audio transcripts and unreviewed notes stay in private research lanes.",
    "privateBatches": [
      "private transcript batch 20260613-batch-001",
      "private transcript batch 20260614-batch-002"
    ],
    "publicSources": [
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        "lane": "a16z",
        "title": "Building Search for AI Agents with Exa CEO Will Bryk",
        "url": "https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/building-search-for-ai-agents-with-exa-ceo-will-bryk-O7xRJK9R",
        "reviewedFrom": "private audio transcript plus public metadata"
      },
      {
        "lane": "a16z",
        "title": "AI Agents and the Fight for Customer Data",
        "url": "https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-agents-and-the-fight-for-customer-data-oTfoFpTX",
        "reviewedFrom": "private audio transcript plus public metadata"
      },
      {
        "lane": "a16z",
        "title": "Ben Horowitz on AI Infrastructure, Economics and The New Laws of Software",
        "url": "https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/ben-horowitz-on-ai-infrastructure-economics-and-the-new-laws-of-software-_Hn2wUAY",
        "reviewedFrom": "private audio transcript plus public metadata"
      },
      {
        "lane": "a16z",
        "title": "AI Infrastructure, Distribution, and the Next Wave of Software",
        "url": "https://ai-a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-infrastructure-distribution-and-the-next-wave-of-software-4cCBe_Mt",
        "reviewedFrom": "private audio transcript plus public metadata"
      }
    ],
    "publicSourcePolicy": "Do not publish transcript text, long quotes, or endorsement claims. Use only paraphrased operating lessons and source pointers."
  },
  "humanVersion": "/podcastu",
  "trigger": "Use before building an agent, search, retrieval, data-sync, analytics, CRM, EHR, knowledge-base, or workflow feature that depends on source-system access.",
  "agentRule": "Before building an agent feature, name the data source, owner, access route, freshness promise, denial mode, privacy gate, and receipt.",
  "operatorHomework": [
    "List the source systems the agent needs before designing UI or prompts.",
    "For each source, decide whether the agent may read, write, summarize, cache, or only link out.",
    "Write the denial mode: what should the agent do when access is missing, stale, blocked, or legally sensitive?",
    "Expose a compact machine-readable route map so future agents do not rediscover the same boundary."
  ],
  "requiredState": [
    "source system name",
    "data owner or approving operator",
    "read/write scope",
    "freshness requirement",
    "privacy class",
    "fallback route when access fails",
    "receipt path proving what was read or changed"
  ],
  "gates": [
    "Do not call metadata access a real integration.",
    "Do not treat private transcript text as public content.",
    "Do not imply a source, host, guest, show, or firm endorses AIIdiots.",
    "Do not let an agent write into a source of truth until owner, rollback, and audit receipt are explicit.",
    "Do not cache sensitive source data in public artifacts."
  ],
  "minimumReceipt": [
    "public source URLs reviewed",
    "private transcript manifest path",
    "candidate lesson packet path",
    "promoted lesson object path",
    "privacy boundary checked",
    "tests/build status before publication"
  ],
  "failureModes": [
    "agent demo works only because a human pasted the data",
    "search/retrieval promise hides missing source-system access",
    "freshness is assumed instead of stated",
    "write access is bolted on without rollback or audit",
    "private transcript or business context leaks into a public lesson"
  ],
  "relatedRoutes": [
    "/podcastu",
    "/for-agents",
    "/podcast-research-latest.json",
    "/podcast-research-loop.json",
    "/lessons/superbox-agent-loop.json"
  ]
}