@techreport{msebenzi-evidence-action-00,
    number =    {draft-msebenzi-evidence-action-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-msebenzi-evidence-action/00/},
    author =    {Michael Msebenzi},
    title =     {{The evidence.* Family: Post-Hoc, Independently Recomputable Evidence Records for AI Agent Actions}},
    pagetotal = 40,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       28,
    abstract =  {Autonomous agents act through tool invocations whose consequences outlive the sessions that produce them. Pre-action constraint families gate whether an agent may act: environment.* attests boolean world-state, and verification.* attests calibrated confidence over factual claims. No sibling family records, under equivalent verification discipline, what the agent then did. This document defines the evidence.* family: append-only, hash-chained, signature- bound evidence records of agent actions, designed so that a third party can recompute every verdict from signed primitives and a published key, without trusting the operator's runtime. It defines the family's membership criterion (independent recomputability with fail-closed verification), the family-wide record vocabulary and canonicalization discipline, a tri-state verification protocol (VALID, INVALID, UNVERIFIABLE), composition with the pre-action sibling families, and the conformance-vector discipline under which independent implementations demonstrate byte-level agreement. One reference record type, evidence.action, is specified together with its frozen conformance corpus. This document deliberately states what an evidence record does not prove.},
}