action-logger
Keep an audit trail of changes, commands, and verification.
When & Why to Use This Skill
The action_logger skill provides a robust framework for maintaining a detailed audit trail of agent activities, including command execution, system changes, and verification steps. By synchronizing logs across Markdown and JSONL formats, it ensures both human readability and machine-level traceability, significantly enhancing transparency, accountability, and debugging capabilities in automated workflows.
Use Cases
- Compliance Auditing: Automatically generating a chronological record of all system modifications to meet regulatory and internal security standards.
- Incident Root Cause Analysis: Reviewing command history and verification evidence to quickly identify and resolve errors in automated processes.
- Change Management: Documenting high-risk operations by linking action logs to impact assessments, ensuring thorough oversight of critical updates.
- Operational Transparency: Providing human supervisors with a clear, factual summary of agent actions and the evidence used for verification.
| name | action_logger |
|---|---|
| description | Keep an audit trail of changes, commands, and verification. |
| short-description | Action logging |
Purpose
Record what changed, why, and how it was verified.
Steps
- Add an entry to
ACTION_LOG.md. - Mirror the entry in
ACTION_LOG.jsonl. - Include commands and evidence.
- Link to
IMPACT.mdwhen the change is high risk.
Guardrails
- Keep entries brief and factual.