Lexicon · governance

Trust Artifact

The durable receipt you can show leadership, security, customers, or a regulator. Proof that survives after the agent acts.

A trust artifact is the portable, durable proof of an agent action: a receipt that says what happened, under what authority, and that it was inside the rules. It outlives the run that produced it.

Why it matters

Internally, you might trust your own dashboards. But the moment an agent touches money, customers, or regulated data, someone outside your team asks you to prove it behaved. A screenshot of a log is not proof. A trust artifact is the thing you hand to security, a customer, or an auditor and walk away.

In practice

Each consequential action produces a signed, queryable record: principal, scope, inputs, outcome, policy result. It can be shown on its own, without access to your internal systems, and it holds up.

Where it shows up in my work

Receipts and buyer-grade proof are the output of governable-ai.com. This is what makes delegated machine action sellable into high-trust environments instead of just demoable.