What teams need to get right
- Capture action intent, policy checks, risk score, and final decision.
- Link parent tasks to downstream tool calls for complete lineage.
- Store immutable timestamps and reviewer identities for assurance evidence.
An AI agent audit trail should reconstruct what happened, why it happened, and who approved each critical decision without manual investigation.
As agent deployments move from prototypes to customer and operational workflows, governance needs to be embedded in execution paths. Teams that rely only on after-the-fact monitoring often discover risk too late.