Part 2 — For the Developer
Ch. 14 — Audit Trails and Explainability
Building logs that satisfy auditors — what to capture, how to structure it, and how to make agent decisions explainable.
Logging what an agent does is not the same as proving what it did. One is a developer tool. The other is a compliance artifact — and building it correctly changes everything downstream.
14.1 Key Takeaways
A debug log and an audit trail serve different readers. A debug log helps you reproduce a bug. An audit trail is read by auditors, incident responders, and legal counsel — people who need to know what the agent did, on whose behalf, with what data, and with what result. Design it for them.
Platform Agentic
Compliance, governance, and accountability for teams building agentic AI systems.