I-D Action: draft-msebenzi-evidence-action-00.txt

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   Title:   The evidence.* Family: Post-Hoc, Independently Recomputable Evidence Records for AI Agent Actions
   Author:  Michael Msebenzi
   Name:    draft-msebenzi-evidence-action-00.txt
   Pages:   40
   Dates:   2026-07-28

Abstract:

   Autonomous agents act through tool invocations whose consequences
   outlive the sessions that produce them.  Pre-action constraint
   families gate whether an agent may act: environment.* attests boolean
   world-state, and verification.* attests calibrated confidence over
   factual claims.  No sibling family records, under equivalent
   verification discipline, what the agent then did.  This document
   defines the evidence.* family: append-only, hash-chained, signature-
   bound evidence records of agent actions, designed so that a third
   party can recompute every verdict from signed primitives and a
   published key, without trusting the operator's runtime.  It defines
   the family's membership criterion (independent recomputability with
   fail-closed verification), the family-wide record vocabulary and
   canonicalization discipline, a tri-state verification protocol
   (VALID, INVALID, UNVERIFIABLE), composition with the pre-action
   sibling families, and the conformance-vector discipline under which
   independent implementations demonstrate byte-level agreement.  One
   reference record type, evidence.action, is specified together with
   its frozen conformance corpus.  This document deliberately states
   what an evidence record does not prove.

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