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Black Box: a flight recorder for AI agents

When an agent refunds the wrong customer, deletes a table or leaks a prompt, the question is "what exactly did it do, and can you prove the log was not edited?" The Black Box records every step as a hash-chained OpenTelemetry gen_ai span, seals the run with an Ed25519-signed RFC 6962 Merkle root, lets you erase personal data later without breaking the proof, and hands an auditor a ZIP they check with no CAIN code.

#10 of the CAIN-42 Top 25 6 gaps found and fixed today 1.1.0 live since 2026-11-02 15:31Z (verified on both gateway instances)

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attacks held on today's blind set, before any change

23/23

after the fixes

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CAIN imports in the auditor's verifier

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step can be proven alone, without showing the rest

Try it

2. Tamper with a copy (your browser edits it, the live verifier judges it):

    Since 2026-11-02 15:31Z the live server answers NOT VALID to "rewrite the prompt, drop its salt", and erasures report erased_from_disk.

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