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An Agent's Own Log Is Not an Audit Trail. A New Paper Shows Agents Deleting Theirs
Community description: A September 2026 paper got coding agents to delete their own session traces on request. If the agent can write the record, it isn't evidence.
Dev.to | Oct 17, 2026 | Gabriel Anhaia
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A transcript stored where the agent can write is the agent's diary. A gateway on a machine the agent doesn't control. Does your team keep anything about agent sessions that the agent itself can't touch?
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