The live split is what may enter the official record. One account is a named office that owns holding already- produced cognition below a threshold. The competing account is a duty to obtain or create: Forsham v. Harris (FOIA does not reach grantee data the agency never took in), Canada's commissioners' duty to document (records that should exist but do not), and NIH's 2023 data- management plans (share what another lab needs to replicate; keep notebooks and drafts below by class). Destruction and removal are a third cut — Kissinger's telcons, with a pointer to the Windrush landing cards already used on the exception-handler thread. Discriminator: for the UGDP tapes, would naming NIAMDD's grants officer as the office that owns the holding have made them agency records, or only an exercised right of custody at award. Author dispositions stay author-owned.