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Action Evidence Graphs and Evidence Policy Replay for High-Risk Agent Actions (EP-AEG)
draft-schrock-ep-action-evidence-graph-00

Document Type Replaced Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Iman Schrock
Last updated 2026-07-03
Replaced by draft-schrock-ep-authorization-evidence-chain
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Abstract

The standards landscape now produces many signed artifacts about an AI agent's action: workload identity credentials, delegation and grant tokens, call-chain transaction tokens, runtime attestation results, pre-execution policy permits, named-human authorization receipts, post-execution action records, and transparency-log inclusion receipts. No specification defines how a relying party decides whether a collection of such artifacts is SUFFICIENT to rely on for a given purpose: releasing a payment, honoring a trade, satisfying an auditor, or paying an insurance claim. This document defines three things that together fill that layer: the Action Evidence Graph (EP-AEG), a portable, content-addressed graph of references to signed artifacts about one action, whose identity is independent of how much of it is disclosed; Evidence Policy Replay, a deterministic, offline evaluation of a graph against a RELYING-PARTY- supplied evidence policy, yielding one of five closed verdicts (admissible, missing_evidence, stale, conflicted, unverifiable) with a replay digest that lets any third party recompute the decision; and the Reliance Result (EP-RELIANCE-RESULT), the verdict as a signed artifact, making the reliance decision itself auditable evidence. Six policy packs profile the mechanism for concrete irreversible action classes. A verdict is evidence of sufficiency under a stated policy; it is not adjudication, and the graph never carries its own sufficiency bar.

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Iman Schrock

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