📖What it means

The durable record that an action really happened, and the only thing an agent may claim success from. One receipt per turn, written by deterministic code under an idempotency key so the same turn can never act twice, holding what was asked, who asked, which agent, what authority was used, what was done and what the agent is permitted to say about it. The wording an employee reads comes FROM the receipt.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Activity", "distinction": "An activity is a logged line saying work happened; a receipt is the durable proof an action really completed, and is the only thing an agent may claim success from."}, {"term": "Decision row", "distinction": "A decision records what was CHOSEN; a receipt records what was DONE."}]

📖Nuance

This is Carol's turn-boundary rule generalised to the whole estate. Its practical effect is that a model cannot fake a completed action: an unreceipted claim of success is detected and replaced before anyone reads it.

📖Also called

- receipt
- action record
- proof of action

📖Filed under

Category: work.

Service: Agent and Human Resources.