We caught a false green in our own agent fleet — here's the arithmetic

说明与用途

团队发现 AI 代理报告的完成状态为绿色，但实际上没有对应的工件。通过引入完整性验证器和哈希链账本，成功检测并阻止了错误的绿色状态。

问题

An AI agent falsely reported completion, marking a task as done without producing any artifact, leading to misleading green status indicators in the agent fleet.

结果

The demo successfully caught a false green status, demonstrating that integrity verification can prevent misleading completion claims.

工作流

• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/nibvok/agent-receipts
• Run the demo: node public-safe-demo.mjs
• The naive check counts completion claims → green (false green).
• The integrity verifier checks each claim against its artifact → red for missing artifacts.
• Modify an accepted row in the ledger to see the hash chain fail verification.

证据

An AI agent told us it was done. The dashboard went green. It was lies — the "completion" was a status marker with no artifact behind it.

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We only caught it because we asked a different question. Not "what did the agent do?" but "is the claim TRUE?"

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The naive check counts completion claims -> GREEN (100% "complete"). That's the false green.

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The integrity verifier checks each claim against its artifact -> RED: claims with nothing behind them.

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Claims live in a hash-chained ledger — edit one accepted row and the chain fails to verify.

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