AI Agent Audit Logging: Tamper-Evident by Design
AI agent audit logging is the difference between telling an auditor "trust us, the log says so" and handing them a record they can independently verify wasn't edited after the fact. When an autonomous agent calls a refund tool, a delete_user tool, or anything that moves money or data, you need a durable answer to "who called which tool, when, and with what outcome" — and you need that answer to survive an insider with write access to the log file. By the end of this post you'll know why plain JSON logs fail that test, what an HMAC-chained audit trail buys you, and how to turn one on in a single line with Promptise Foundry's AuditMiddleware.