Your AI Agent Said Done. How Do You Prove It Did the Work?
Your AI Agent Said Done. How Do You Prove It Did the Work? I built Zambo. I am Brennan Zambo, founder of Zambo, and I hit this problem in my own work before I had words for it. An agent runs for 20 minutes. It comes back with a summary: files changed, checks run, job complete. The summary reads well. None of that tells me what actually happened, because a summary is just more text from the same…
An AI agent execution receipt is a saved, public record of a reported AI agent tool call, which holds the exact result that was saved, when it was saved, and a SHA-256 digest of those exact bytes. This receipt allows a stranger to recompute the digest and check whether the saved result has changed, proving that the saved record has not been altered since it was saved.
However, it does not prove the answer in the record was right. The open format for AI agent execution receipts, called AER-1, was created by Brennan Zambo and defines the structure of the receipt record, as well as the method for checking it.
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