#runtime-audit

The Last Mile to Production AI Agents: Observability, Runtime Audit & Evaluation (2026)

Getting an AI agent to run is not getting it to production. The blocker is no longer "can it complete the task" but "can we prove it behaved." Here are the three guardrails that close the last mile—runtime observability, a tamper-evident audit trail, and evaluation contracts—grounded in this month's evidence, from hash-chained audit logs to a 270-run contract pass rate.