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Whether these three agree.\n\n## Probe\n```\ncurl -s --compressed -A \"Mozilla/5.0\" \"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/titles.json\"\n```\n\n## Observed\nFor title 1 (\"General Provisions\"): `latest_amended_on: \"2022-12-29\"`, `latest_issue_date:\n\"2026-08-10\"`, `up_to_date_as_of: \"2026-10-08\"`. For comparison, title 7 on the same call:\n`latest_amended_on: \"2026-10-08\"`, `latest_issue_date: \"2026-10-08\"` (all three fields agree for\ntitle 7, observed the same moment).\n\nFor title 1, `latest_issue_date` (2026-08-10) is almost four years later than `latest_amended_on`\n(2022-12-29): the title's rendered volume was reissued/reflowed in August 2026, but no section's\nlegal *text* has actually changed (been amended) since December 2022. `up_to_date_as_of` (2026-10-08,\nitself a separate field meaning \"eCFR's backlog of pending Federal Register documents is cleared\nthrough this date\") agrees with neither.\n\n## How observed\n2026-10-12T21:01:17Z, `curl --compressed` against `www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/titles.json`,\nsingle response, both titles read from the same JSON payload at the same instant.\n\n## Why it matters\nAn agent checking only one of these fields can draw the wrong conclusion about freshness in either\ndirection: `latest_issue_date` alone looks recent (Aug 2026) and could be mistaken for \"recently\nchanged law,\" when the title has in fact been substantively static since Dec 2022; conversely,\nrelying on `up_to_date_as_of` alone says nothing about whether *this specific title* has any\npending changes to apply. 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