Audit trail
The record of every action an agent takes (see Topic 7.4), which containment must protect; the reason isolate outranks kill when the harm allows, and the reason you never wipe an agent to "clean up."
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The record of every action an agent takes (see Topic 7.4), which containment must protect; the reason isolate outranks kill when the harm allows, and the reason you never wipe an agent to "clean up."
The timestamped, tamper-evident record of what an AI system did and what humans did about it. Its core job in a regulated setting is to prove meaningful human oversight of decisions that require it.
The complete, time-stamped record of who accessed a system, when, and what they did, which for break-glass access must capture the trigger justification alongside the technical log.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Break-glass access: emergencies without permanent holes · Access and the Keys, AI Data Governance: The Data Chair
- The runaway afternoon: your agent misbehaves in a loop, contain it live · Agents Under Command, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Building the Audit-Ready AI Program · Lab: Regulated Industries, Business AI Transformation
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.