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Audit-grade receipts are cryptographic records of every AI policy decision (ALLOW, ALLOW_LOG, CONSTRAIN, BLOCK), structured to stand up to assessor review. Each receipt includes the policy that fired, the action attempted, the agent identity, the timestamp, and a SHA-256 hash that links to the previous receipt in the chain. The chain is append-only and tamper-evident. Vaikora is one of the few AI runtime control products that ships this capability in 2026.
Auditors reviewing AI-assisted workflows ask two questions: was the right thing done, and can you prove it. Plain logs answer the first question but not the second; a log can be edited or selectively produced. A cryptographic chain answers both because any tampering invalidates the chain.
The technique is not novel; certificate transparency logs, blockchain, and append-only ledgers use the same primitives. The application to AI agent decisions is the new part. As compliance regimes (SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001) increasingly require evidence of AI agent control effectiveness, audit-grade receipts become the form that evidence takes.
Receipts are the evidence layer produced by AI runtime control. They satisfy the audit requirements of SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST AI RMF, and ISO/IEC 42001.
A SOC 2 auditor asks the vendor to produce evidence that AI agents did not access customer data outside policy during the audit period. The vendor exports the audit chain for the period, the auditor verifies the chain integrity independently, and the evidence is accepted in a single review cycle. A second example: an incident investigator reconstructs what an AI agent did in the days before a breach by replaying the audit chain in order, with cryptographic confidence that no entries were modified after the fact.
A log entry can be edited, deleted, or selectively produced. An audit-grade receipt is part of a cryptographic chain where any modification invalidates downstream entries. Auditors can verify the chain without trusting the vendor.
The action that was attempted, the policy that fired, the verdict, the agent identity, the timestamp, and the SHA-256 hash that links to the prior receipt. Receipts are JSON-structured and signed.
Yes. Vaikora ships the chain in a portable format with the verification logic open-sourced. The customer or an auditor can replay the chain end to end without vendor cooperation.
Aligns with the underlying compliance regime. SOC 2 typically requires 7 years; HIPAA 6 years; NIST AI RMF varies by control. Vaikora’s retention policies are configurable per preset.
Last updated: 2026-05-20.
