Published September 10, 2026
Published September 10, 2026.
Approval expiry rules identify the conditions that make a prior editorial decision unsafe to reuse.
Define the control
Record the approved wording or policy with its scope, owner, evidence date, and affected pages. Add event-based expiry triggers such as a price change, revised regulation, new offer, or source withdrawal.
The routine should fit inside the existing daily publishing flow. Name the artifact, its accountable owner, and the point at which it becomes release evidence. That keeps process language tied to an observable decision instead of turning it into another unchecked checklist.
Apply it to one article
Time alone does not invalidate every decision, and a recent approval is not automatically current. Review when the underlying fact or business judgment changes, using scheduled dates only as a backstop.
Use the current page and current evidence. Record uncertainty directly, keep unrelated edits outside the task, and prefer a reversible change when the available signal is incomplete. The goal is a better supported reader experience, not activity for its own sake.
Preserve the handoff
When a trigger fires, pause only the affected use, assemble a short delta packet, and route it to the named owner. Preserve the superseded record for audit context.
A useful handoff lets another editor identify the page, understand the decision, inspect the supporting evidence, and know the next safe action without reconstructing the day from chat history.
Close the daily loop
Confirm the rendered page, its publication metadata, canonical identity, family index, sitemap entry, and image. If any required surface disagrees, return the route to correction and verify the full row again after deployment. This supports DelegationAssistant’s mission of reliable daily article creation and SEO improvement with evidence that remains reviewable.