Audit artifacts

The method ends in inspectable artifacts, not a trust score.

These public structures show what the primary audit is designed to produce. They are templates and worked examples, not customer evidence or certification.

A1
Decision-grade artifact

Authority Ledger

Define exactly what consequential actions exist and what must constrain them.

Minimum structure
  • Critical action
  • Target object / object binding
  • Authority owner
  • Approval path
  • Allowed transitions
  • Prohibited transitions
  • Retry / replay rights
  • Recovery owner
OWNER QUESTION

What authority exists now, and which part should expand, contract or remain conditional?

A2
Decision-grade artifact

Evidence Contract

Turn “the agent should know enough” into explicit evidence requirements at decision time.

Minimum structure
  • Required input
  • Provenance
  • Freshness requirement
  • Object binding
  • Approval evidence
  • Version / configuration context
  • External confirmation
  • Behavior when evidence is missing
OWNER QUESTION

What must be true before the workflow is allowed to spend its Authority Budget?

A3
Decision-grade artifact

Finding Record

Preserve a reproducible failure without inflating a hypothesis into a conclusion.

Minimum structure
  • Trigger
  • Authority involved
  • Evidence observed
  • External effect
  • Recovery behavior
  • Reproduction steps
  • Consequence
  • Evidence quality / uncertainty
OWNER QUESTION

Is the failure decision-relevant enough to constrain, repair or retest?

A4
Decision-grade artifact

Decision Memo

Translate evidence into one bounded owner action instead of a generic risk score.

Minimum structure
  • Owner question
  • Decision
  • Evidence supporting it
  • Residual uncertainty
  • Required control change
  • Authority after decision
  • Retest criterion
  • Named owner
OWNER QUESTION

EXPAND / CONSTRAIN / REPAIR / RETEST.

Proof matrix

Same artifacts across three different external effects.

The artifact names stay stable while the authority object, evidence gates, confirmation semantics and recovery criteria change with the action class.

One chain in detail

CRM write, expressed as a decision chain.

SAMPLE-001 remains the deepest public walkthrough and shows how BitEvo separates permission, evidence, effect and recovery without implying a real customer finding.

Follow complete SAMPLE-001 →
Intent

Update one CRM lead record after qualification.

Authority Budget

May update status + qualification fields on the matched lead only. May not create contacts, send messages or modify unrelated records.

Evidence Before Effect

Lead identity matched; qualification source is fresh; approval state is valid; expected CRM object/version context is present.

External confirmation

Read-back confirms the intended fields changed on the same lead object.

False Green trigger

Internal tool call reports success, but read-back is absent, stale or points to a different object.

Recovery

Do not retry blindly. Constrain the write path, preserve the trace and reconcile before another mutation.

Owner decision

Keep authority constrained until object binding and external confirmation are explicit gates.

Evidence provenance

The samples keep uncertainty visible.

Every proof pack distinguishes synthetic facts, assumptions, expected gates and NOT TESTED states. A worked example never becomes customer evidence by presentation.

SAMPLES3 synthetic packs
MACHINE READABLEJSON for each pack
CUSTOMER CLAIMFALSE
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Evidence discipline

A polished report is not the product.

The useful unit is a chain another owner or engineer can challenge: what action was possible, what evidence justified it, what actually happened, how uncertainty was handled, and what decision follows.

If the evidence cannot support the decision, the artifact should preserve that uncertainty instead of hiding it behind a severity label.

Scope one workflow

Seed the artifacts before testing starts.

Map the consequential action, preserve before/after checkpoints when controls change, then add owner and Rules-of-Engagement context before testing.