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Audit Trail

Reviewed 9 April 2026 Canonical definition

An audit trail is a chronological, tamper-evident record of actions taken within a system. For AI agents, it should capture which agent acted, on whose behalf, what tools or data were accessed, what policy decisions were triggered, and what happened next.

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