Are you storing AI agent action logs in the same DB as your application? Because that's not an audit log.
Summary
Discusses the importance of proper audit logging for AI agents, emphasizing the need for append-only, hash-chained logs that prevent tampering, rather than storing logs in the same writable application database.
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