The Legal Handbook / What changed
What changed in the Legal Handbook
Every change to the text of a handbook document since its publication on : a new document or section, a change of meaning, a correction, or a change of wording, by day and by document.
| Document | November 2026 | October 2026 | September 2026 |
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| Overview | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| The 6 parties | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Where the parties are | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Global AI law | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| The requirement register | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Does legal action happen? | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| What you must constrain | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| What you must be able to show | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Jurisdiction in logs | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Legal constraints at the gateway | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Open source and legal exposure | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Incident reporting clocks | 2 | 8 | 1 |
| Incident command | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| The public record | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Cheatsheet | 1 | 1 | 6 |
November 2026
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Overview, The 6 parties, Where the parties are, Global AI law, The requirement register, Does legal action happen?, What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Jurisdiction in logs, Legal constraints at the gateway, Open source and legal exposure, Incident reporting clocks, Incident command, The public record, Cheatsheet
The six groups of parties are named by what they do instead of by boxed nouns, the group that runs the software is no longer called the operator, and the parties document shows which group each declared role sits in.
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Section 4 had dated all of Colorado's conversational AI act from 2027; its age estimation started on , and its duties toward a known minor start on .
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Figures
Every document that reads the law library
Law library as of : 5,621 instruments across 286 jurisdictions, against 4,762 across 285 on .
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Six of the nine classes are now counted from the provisions in force rather than from words in the text, and the retention periods are read from each law's recorded period.
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Section 7 was renamed The limits of this reading, and its text was rewritten to match.
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The document now says that guidance which sets a clock of its own is shown on the clocks page beside the law it reads, labeled as guidance, and counted in no figure here.
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Editorial
Wording and spelling, with no change of meaning, on 3 documents.
The 1 edit
- , What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, The public record: The note that opens when you point at SAFE now gives the glossary's sentence for it, with no change to the words on the page.
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The parties document now points to the Roles page, which sets out one by one the roles a LexLint declaration asks for.
October 2026
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The summary under the title now says what a system built to the EU rule still has to read.
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The card for the document on what the law makes you constrain was shortened.
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The analysis block now offers the activity analysis under its own sentence, beside the logging analysis.
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Editorial
Wording and spelling, with no change of meaning, on 14 documents.
The 8 edits
- , Overview: The analysis block was arranged to offer each area under a sentence of its own, with no change to the words shown.
- , Global AI law: A law's name in the three tables keeps the dates in its title.
- , Does legal action happen?: Five section headings gained links so the video can point to each section, with no change of words.
- , Overview, The 6 parties, Where the parties are, Global AI law, What you must constrain, Jurisdiction in logs, Legal constraints at the gateway, Open source and legal exposure, Incident reporting clocks, Incident command, The public record: Jurisdiction, never place, now names the legal unit.
- , Overview, The 6 parties, Where the parties are, Global AI law, The requirement register, Does legal action happen?, What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Jurisdiction in logs, Legal constraints at the gateway, Open source and legal exposure, Incident reporting clocks, Incident command, The public record: Spelling is now US English throughout.
- , Overview: Four short names in the reading-order row and the question table now name their own documents.
- , Overview, The 6 parties, Does legal action happen?: Pointers to the notice, to a tag's definition and to the enforcement cases now say plainly where each one is.
- , Overview, Where the parties are, Does legal action happen?, What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Jurisdiction in logs, Open source and legal exposure, Incident reporting clocks, Incident command, The public record: The pages now call the body of law they read the LexLint law library throughout.
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Incident reporting clocks, Incident command
The assessment of whether to report is now a starting moment of its own, the seventh.
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The reading notes now cover deadlines in minutes, duties to request an authorization, windows with a floor and a ceiling, and the kinds of period that are not drawn.
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A sentence that points to another sentence's deadline is drawn at that deadline, and a final report on an incident still being handled counts from the end of handling.
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A sentence that sets two standards for two notices now shows both.
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The page cites SAFE version 1.0's own statement that confidentiality labels do not override public-records laws.
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A repeating report is drawn once, at its first due date, and a number the sentence sets aside or only refers back to is not drawn.
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A repeating report's step reads "every 15 days" where the deadline repeats, and it is placed at its first due date.
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Correction
What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Incident reporting clocks, The public record
SAFE is now quoted from version 1.0, a compact its participants commit to. These pages had quoted the August draft and called it a proposal.
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Open source and legal exposure
Question 3 names the ACTIVITIES.md file, links the activity registry, and says a project's own file overrides LexLint's central record.
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Legal constraints at the gateway
The software is called a gateway, the market's word for it, and section 1 says that no standard defines the word and what the standards call the parts it plays.
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The six parties around the agent now read in order, row by row: makes and distributes, runs and oversees, uses and talks to.
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Figure 1's center box says the agent is never legally responsible, where it said one product, one name.
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The card says one flag per clock, where it said one flag per law, since a law with several deadlines draws a flag at each.
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The count by region names the supranational act apart from the national ones.
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A box at the top says the law holds people and organizations legally responsible, not software, and links the glossary entries for both words.
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A card under the summary hands the reader to the clocks page, with a still of its drawing.
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The requirement register, Does legal action happen?, Legal constraints at the gateway
The requirement register files are licensed CC BY 4.0, and the license line on each page covers the text and the figures.
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Global AI law, Does legal action happen?
The TAKE IT DOWN Act is filed under content moderation, not privacy, and the federal row's note says so.
September 2026
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Overview, The 6 parties, Where the parties are, What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Legal constraints at the gateway, Open source and legal exposure, Cheatsheet
The pages cover subagents: an agent that starts other agents, what each one is passed, and how the delegation traces back to the principal.
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Overview, Jurisdiction in logs, Legal constraints at the gateway, Cheatsheet
The agent action record replaces the agent traceability record by name, and agentgateway is described as hosted by the Agentic AI Foundation.
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The subagent paragraph takes the Agentic AI Foundation's wording for delegation and its other name, child agent.
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Editorial
Wording and spelling, with no change of meaning, on 2 documents.
The 2 edits
- , Overview: The parties drawing on the overview no longer shows stray connector lines at phone width.
- , Cheatsheet: The masthead shows the LexLint wordmark alone and one date, the day the version was made.
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Where the parties are, Global AI law, The requirement register, Does legal action happen?, What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Legal constraints at the gateway, Open source and legal exposure, Incident command
Each law's status is shown as its in-force tag, with the day it starts or started.
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The clocks document joins Part 4: what a reporting clock is and how to read one, pointing to the clocks page, which now stands outside the handbook.
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The parties drawing's agent card links the parties document, and the question table no longer offers the whole register as a file.
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Each party tag now links its party's entry on the parties document.
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Global AI law, Open source and legal exposure
Several articles the documents name now link their entries in the law library.
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The opening now points to the enforcement section of the clocks page.
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The overview became a landing page: the parties drawing at the top, the cheatsheet under it, and the four parts in one row.
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Where the parties are, The requirement register, Legal constraints at the gateway, Incident command, The public record
Five documents join the handbook: where the parties are, the requirement register, legal constraints at the gateway, incident command, and the public record.
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The handbook is arranged in four parts with one running number, and the overview became its front door.
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The traces class links the logging analysis, and the human class names Article 14 of the AI Act.
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The step strip is one ribbon on both pages, the roles name no single law, and page 2 draws the parties around the agent.
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What you must constrain, What you must be able to show, Jurisdiction in logs
Three documents join the handbook: what the law makes you constrain, what it makes you able to show, and jurisdiction in logs.
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The terminology cheatsheet is published as a page and a two-page PDF.
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The overview gained the new documents' cards and their rows in the question table.
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Overview, The 6 parties, Global AI law, Does legal action happen?, Open source and legal exposure
The Legal Handbook is published, with its overview and four documents: the six parties, global AI law, whether legal action happens, and open source.
How this list is kept
The person who changes a document's text writes its entry on the same day, and the date at the top of the document moves with it. A correction says what the page had wrong. Edits that change wording or spelling and no meaning are listed under one line for the month.
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