When an AI agent says “done” how do you know it actually happened? [P]

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i’m testing an early concept called agentuptime. there’s no product or sdk yet. the idea came from something that keeps bothering me with agents: an agent saying “done” doesn’t necessarily mean the thing actually happened. a tool can return success, the trace can look fine, and the external system can still end up in the wrong state. so i’m experimenting with a small “receipt” concept where the agent’s claim is separate from an independently checked outcome. something like: database write → can