StudioWhen your agent can't read the result back: grading evidence for external actions
Original title: When your agent can't read the result back, what counts as proof?
The author argues that actions like sending emails, firing webhooks, or submitting payments leave no destination state the agent can read back, so an agent's success report shouldn't count as proof. He suggests grading evidence: an API 200 means accepted, not done; prove delivery out of band where possible, such as asserting on messages received in staging inboxes, comparing captured webhook payloads, or using mail logs and BCC copies in production. When the destination is truly unreadable, preserve the pre-action target state, the receipt, and a timestamp, and turn the item into a typed obligation recording missing evidence, ownership, retrigger conditions, and expiry instead of marking it done.
The author distinguishes accepted from done by grading evidence, and offers practical steps like out-of-band verification and typed obligations for checking agent actions.
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