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ACTION RECEIPTS

Every AI action, receipted.

Memory decides what your agents can see. HiveBase governs what they do.

An action receipt records what acted, why, what changed — before and after — the sources it stood on, and how to undo it. Produced automatically, for every AI-initiated change across your tools.

This is the trust grammar behind every Squad, Task, and FYI brief: approval boundaries, receipts, verification verdicts, and autonomy that's earned — never assumed.

APPROVAL BOUNDARIES

Every action moves through the same boundary.

Every action category moves through the same three stages — but what needs a person scales with the action's blast radius. A password reset and an outbound payment don't share the same gate: reversible work can graduate to auto-apply; irreversible work never does.

01
Starts supervised
asks first

Every new action category proposes before it acts. Nothing runs silently on day one.

02
Earns autonomy
reversible categories

As accuracy compounds, reversible categories graduate to auto-apply — always with a receipt.

03
One-way doors stay yours
always asks

Money, contracts, customer-facing sends, and anything irreversible always wait for you — permanently, not just at launch.

ANATOMY OF A RECEIPT

A receipt for every change, filled the moment it happens.

Every field below is filled in automatically, the moment the action runs — not reconstructed later from logs.

ACTION RECEIPT
ACTOR
Engineering Squad · task-code
WHAT CHANGED · BEFORE → AFTER

Linear priority Backlog P0 · this cycle

WHY
Blocking a renewal flagged at-risk in CRM
SOURCE
Slack #sales-eng · 1h ago
OUTCOME
Synced to Linear
VERIFICATION VERDICTS

Completed is a claim. Delivered is a verdict.

Every mission ends in one honest state — never a bare “done” checkbox.

Verified

Passing checks or HiveBase-owned command output prove the reviewed head.

Reviewed

HiveBase reviewed the diff and risks, but executed proof is missing.

Unverified

Evidence is too thin; the verdict names the exact gaps instead of over-claiming.

Stale

A new push invalidates the prior head until verification runs again.

EARNED AUTONOMY

Autonomy is earned per category — and can be revoked.

One ladder per category. Accuracy compounds rung by rung — and slips send it back down.

3
Stale-task archivingsilent

97% accuracy over 60 days — handles silently

2
Cross-source deduplicationauto-safe

91% accuracy — auto-applies safe merges, notifies you

1
Deprecation cascadeasks

Still earning trust — always asks

Accuracy figures illustrative — trust threshold configurable per category

IT COMPOUNDS

The record compounds into a ledger you own.

Every receipt stays — approved, corrected, or reversed, none of it disappears or gets overwritten.

Your receipts add up to an action ledger — append-only, durable, yours. Anyone can bolt an audit log onto an agent after the fact. What compounds is the record of judgment behind it: the calls your team actually made, in order, with the evidence they were made on.

Compliance-grade, if you need that word for it — but built for the founder who wants to see what happened, not a compliance team that has to be convinced nothing did.

That compounding record is what lets you stop watching — trustworthy autonomy isn't a promise, it's what a durable action ledger earns, receipt by receipt.

Frequently asked questions

What is an action receipt?

An action receipt is the record HiveBase attaches to every AI-initiated change: what acted, why, what changed (the before/after), the sources it stood on, and how to undo it. It's produced automatically for every action — not an audit log you have to go looking for.

Can I undo an AI agent's action?

Yes, for every reversible action. Each receipt carries a working undo — one click reverses the change and the receipt stays, marked reversed, so the record is never lost. Irreversible categories (money, contracts, customer-facing sends) require your approval before they run at all, precisely because they can't be undone.

How do AI agents act safely across Slack, Linear, GitHub, and my other tools?

Every category starts supervised — the agent proposes, you approve. Categories earn autonomy separately as accuracy compounds, and reversible ones can graduate to auto-apply-with-receipt. One-way doors (irreversible, high-stakes, or customer-facing) always wait for a human, no matter how long the system has been running.

How does AI earn autonomy?

Per category, not all at once. HiveBase tracks accuracy for each action type — deduplication, stale-task archiving, priority updates — and only lets a category graduate from asking to auto-applying once it's proven itself. If accuracy slips, the category is handed back to asking. Nothing is ever granted blanket autonomy up front.

How do I audit what my AI agents did?

Every action's receipt names the actor, the change, the sources, and the outcome — reviewable at any time, not reconstructed after the fact from logs. Receipts accumulate into an append-only action ledger: a durable record of everything approved, corrected, and reversed.

What does trustworthy autonomy mean?

Trustworthy autonomy is autonomy you can actually stop watching — not because nothing could go wrong, but because what's allowed to run unsupervised is scaled to what's actually at stake. A password reset and an outbound payment don't share the same gate: the axis is reversibility and consequence, not one approval switch for everything. Reversible, low-stakes categories earn the right to run silently — receipted, undoable, reviewable any time. Anything that can't be undone always waits for you.

See it act. See the receipt.

Connect your first tool. Every Squad and Task runs inside these same boundaries, from the first action.