New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents
Show HN: Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents 4 by brian_kuan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm Brian, I spent the last few years at Vanta (YC W18), helping startups and enterprises become compliant and I recently started exploring what that might look like in a post-agentic world. The problem Halo solves is: when a company buys an AI agent from a vendor and gives it access to their data, they have no way to check what the agent did with that data. Vendors may have built observability dashboards and audit logs, but those are editable and partisan. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit a company's controls, but controls are less predictive when the software is agentic. TLDR: give an agent the same prompt 50 times, and you get 50 slightly different actions/answers - so the only thing worth auditing in a post-agentic world is what happened at runtime. Halo is an open-source project that produces agent runtime evidence. It's a small recorder that recor...