Transaction Evidence
Represent financial actions and the evidence supporting observed execution and outcomes.
AGENTIC PROVENANCE PROTOCOL / APP
Independent Evidence for AI Agent Activity.
Observe agentic activity. Establish what happened. Preserve the evidence.
AI agents are executing actions across applications, payment systems, APIs and digital infrastructure.
APP provides an independent evidence framework for establishing who acted, under what authority, what activity was observed and which outcomes the evidence supports.
From agentic payments to complex multi-agent systems, APP enables organisations to independently examine autonomous activity across system boundaries.
PAYMENT ACTIVITY / EVIDENCE
Illustrative record- 01AI Agent
- 02Action Request
- 03APP Evidence Layer
- 04Payment Infrastructure
- 05Outcome Evidence
- 06Independent Review
- Actor
- Procurement Agent
- Principal
- Example Organisation
- Action
- Payment Release
- Amount
- $186,400
- Credential
- VERIFIED
- Authority
- UNRESOLVED
- Action Request
- OBSERVED
- Execution
- NOT_STARTED
- Assessment
- ESCALATE
Conceptual flow. Payment infrastructure executes transactions; APP represents the supporting evidence. No completed transfer is shown.
AI Agents Are Acting Across Systems. Evidence Remains Fragmented.
Autonomous AI systems no longer operate exclusively within a single application.
An agent can receive instructions, access tools, interact with an external service, initiate financial activity and produce an outcome across several independently operated systems.
Each environment may retain its own logs and transaction records.
But individual records do not necessarily establish the complete sequence of activity, delegated authority or final outcome.
APP addresses this evidence gap by maintaining a source-aware representation of autonomous activity across the boundaries where it can be observed.
A log records an event. Independent evidence establishes what that event can actually prove.
Independent Evidence for Agentic Payments.
As AI agents begin initiating purchases, transfers and financial operations, organisations need more than proof that a payment request or transaction occurred.
They need independently reviewable evidence connecting the initiating actor, delegated authority, transaction instructions, observed execution and resulting outcome.
APP provides a common evidence model for examining these activities across the relevant systems and trust boundaries.
Delegated Authority
Establish what available evidence supports about an agent's authority and transaction constraints.
Activity Monitoring
Examine observed agent actions, evidence relationships and changes in state across systems.
Audit & Investigation
Preserve records that support independent review, operational investigations and transaction disputes.
From Autonomous Action to Reviewable Evidence.
Follow a payment request through observation, authority assessment and preserved evidence history. Select a step to examine its source and supported claim.
ACT-PAYMENT-001 / USD 186,400Illustrative evidence · synthetic sources · UTC
APP EVIDENCE RECEIPTVERIFIED
Escalation required
The local assessment is ESCALATE because authority evidence is insufficient. Execution remains NOT_STARTED and no settlement is claimed.
- Activity
- act-payment-001
- Recorded at (UTC)
- 2026-10-15 09:00:04
- Observation / evidence
- eval-005
- Source
- Example local policy engine
- Supported claim
- claim-assessment
- Related records
- eval-004
- Amount / policy threshold
- USD 186,400 / USD 50,000
- Authority limit
- Not established
Current authority
UNRESOLVEDCredential
VERIFIEDExecution: NOT_STARTED
Assessment: ESCALATE
Settlement evidence: UNAVAILABLE
Select a recorded step to inspect its evidence and state at that point. Policy evaluation belongs to the implementing system; new authority evidence does not establish that a payment executed.
- VERIFIED
- Supported by trusted evidence sufficient for the relevant claim.
- ASSERTED
- Claimed by a participant but not independently established.
- INFERRED
- Derived from available signals rather than directly observed.
- UNRESOLVED
- Available evidence is insufficient to establish the state.
- CONFLICTED
- Trusted evidence sources disagree.
- STALE
- Previously established state whose current validity can no longer be guaranteed.
- REVOKED
- Previously valid authority or state that has subsequently been withdrawn.
- UNAVAILABLE
- Evidence cannot be accessed at the current observation point.
Independent Evidence. Across the Agentic Execution Lifecycle.
Agent Activity Observation
Capture or ingest relevant observations at accessible runtime, gateway, API and service boundaries.
Identity & Delegated Authority
Represent what can be established about actors, principals, credentials and delegated permissions.
Cross-System Correlation
Associate related observations without confusing temporal proximity with proven causality.
Evidence Provenance
Preserve where evidence originated, the observation context and its relationship to supported claims.
Continuous Evidence Evaluation
Maintain evidence-backed state as additional observations, conflicts, revocations or changes in validity occur.
Independent Verification
Enable preserved claims and their supporting evidence to be assessed independently of the originating system.
APP is an evidence protocol, not an identity provider, payment processor or replacement for existing enforcement infrastructure.
Observe. Correlate. Evaluate. Preserve. Verify.
- 01
Observe
Capture evidence from the boundaries and systems available.
- 02
Correlate
Associate observations belonging to related activities while preserving correlation uncertainty.
- 03
Evaluate
Assess identity, authority, policy context and claim support.
- 04
Preserve
Retain source-aware observations, evidence relationships and state history.
- 05
Verify
Enable independent examination of the evidence and supported conclusions.
APP provides evidence and assessment context. Policy enforcement remains the responsibility of the implementing system.
Evidence Across the Agentic Ecosystem.
APP is designed around the interfaces through which autonomous systems interact with tools, services, infrastructure and execution providers.
Its boundary-based architecture enables evidence to be examined without requiring every participating system to adopt a single agent framework or infrastructure provider.
TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM
Agent infrastructure
Financial infrastructure
Protocols and observability
Third-party names identify the technology landscape only. No partnership, endorsement, customer relationship, certification or operational APP connector is implied.
Built for Complex, Cross-System Autonomous Activity.
APP separates identity, authority, intent, action, execution and outcome into independently evaluable evidence dimensions.
It supports both Outside-In observation at protected system boundaries and Inside-Out instrumentation within controlled runtimes.
Source provenance, uncertainty, evidence correlation and independent verification remain explicit throughout the activity lifecycle.
Establish Independent Evidence Across Your Agentic Infrastructure.
Evaluate APP for agentic payments, autonomous financial operations, API execution, delegated authority assessment and cross-system activity assurance.
INEVRI works with organisations evaluating independent evidence infrastructure for consequential autonomous operations.