Agent Approved a Weird Discount. We Could Prove It Happened, But Not Why.
FuzzyAd3936 · reddit · 2026-08-19
Shares an experience where an AI agent approved a large discount within policy, prompting legal to ask for the decision chain. The team realized they had action logs but couldn't trace back the specific policy version or rule that authorized the decision.
The Core Issue:
- Audit Gap: Can prove what happened, but not why it was allowed.
- Governance Challenge: How to build a complete evidence chain tying agent actions back to the specific policy versions that authorized them?
Questions:
- Where should this audit trail live for deployed agents?
- How far back should it be kept?
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