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AgentBlackBox – a policy gate and tamper-evident audit log for AI agents

AgentBlackBox launched as a policy gate and tamper-evident audit log that sits between AI agents and the systems they touch, recording each agent's observations, decisions, requests, changes, blocks and executions plus human approvals into a SHA-256 hash chain linked from a GENESIS root, so any edit, insert or delete breaks the chain and is detectable. The tool returns ALLOW, REQUIRE_APPROVAL or BLOCK for proposed actions with matched rules and a recommendation, gates high-risk actions on human sign-off, and generates a one-click audit report per work unit with executive summary, full event log, Print/Save as PDF and JSON export. External agents POST events to /api/events with an API key, while OAuth integrations, billing and banking are intentionally mocked in the MVP until credentials are configured.

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AgentBlackBox – a policy gate and tamper-evident audit log for AI agents
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AgentBlackBox records what an AI agent saw, decided, requested, changed, blocked, and executed — and who approved it — into a tamper-evident, cryptographically chained audit trail you can prove to a customer, auditor, or regulator.

AgentBlackBox sits between your AI agents and the systems they touch and records a complete, ordered, tamper-evident log of their behavior and the human approvals around it. Each work unit (a task an agent is handling) gets a timeline of events, a policy gate, optional human sign-off, and a one-click audit report.

Autonomous agents now read inboxes, move money, change records, and message customers. When something goes wrong — or a customer, auditor, or regulator asks “what exactly did the AI do, and who approved it?” — you need a provable answer. A tamper-evident hash chain makes the record trustworthy: nothing can be quietly edited after the fact without detection.

Every event is SHA-256 hashed and linked to the previous one (prevHash → eventHash) from a GENESIS root. Any edit, insert, or delete breaks the chain and is instantly detectable.

Records what an agent observed, decided, requested, executed, blocked, or errored on — in order, with payloads.

High-risk actions gate on a human decision. Approvals and denials are themselves recorded as chained events.

Simulate any proposed action and get ALLOW, REQUIRE_APPROVAL, or BLOCK with the matched rules and a recommendation.

One-click, investor-ready audit report per work unit with executive summary, full event log, Print / Save as PDF, and JSON export.

External AI agents POST events to /api/events with an API key. Mock connectors (Gmail, Slack, Drive, Browser) show the future surface.

Walk the full loop in a couple of minutes:

Start a new tamper-evident timeline for a task an agent is handling.

Run a proposed action through the policy engine to see ALLOW / REQUIRE_APPROVAL / BLOCK.

Add an observation, decision, or tool call — it chains onto the timeline.

Decide on a pending high-risk request; the decision is recorded as an event.

See the executive summary, full event log, and hash-chain status.

External OAuth integrations, billing, and banking are intentionally mocked in this MVP until credentials are configured.

Download the signed-style JSON record or save a clean PDF for an investor or auditor.

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