{
  "id": 18283587,
  "title": "Your AI Agent Said Done. How Do You Prove It Did the Work?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/05/your-ai-agent-said-done-how-do-you-prove-it-did-the-work",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-11-05T09:36:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/rambozambo/your-ai-agent-said-done-how-do-you-prove-it-did-the-work-4a6o"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}