# Agent Audit Trail vs AI Agent Execution Profile of SCITT

The map lists them as complementary: sites and agents commonly implement both.

[9 Account](/category/account/) [Agent Audit Trail](/protocols/agent-audit-trail/) · [9 Account](/category/account/) [AI Agent Execution Profile of SCITT](/protocols/scitt-ai-agent-execution/)

|  | [Agent Audit Trail](/protocols/agent-audit-trail/) AAT | [AI Agent Execution Profile of SCITT](/protocols/scitt-ai-agent-execution/) AIR |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifecycle step | 9 Account: Prove what happened; be judged | 9 Account: Prove what happened; be judged |
| Answers | Is there a standard, tamper-evident log format any autonomous AI agent can write its actions to, so a regulator, auditor or victim can later reconstruct exactly what it did and why? | How can an agent operator produce independently verifiable, tamper-evident records of an AI agent's material actions using SCITT signed statements and an independent transparency service? |
| Governed by | IETF individual Internet-Draft; not adopted by any IETF working group, 'not endorsed by the IETF' and has 'no formal standing' in the IETF process (datatracker's own disclaimer) | Individual Internet-Draft submitted to the IETF Network Working Group; not an adopted working group document. |
| Status (issuer's words) | Active Internet-Draft (individual submission), Intended status: Standards Track; not a Working Group document | Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 15 April 2027; work in progress |
| Phase | draft | draft |
| Version | draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-08 (2026-10-13) | draft-emirdag-scitt-ai-agent-execution-01 (2026-10-12) |
| Form / transport | document format | document format |
| Found at | none | Not a web-discovery standard. Records are registered with a SCITT Transparency Service (Evidence Custodian) and verified by relying parties out of band. |
| Adoption | unmeasured | unmeasured |
| Evidence | 3 verified | 1 reported |
| Primary use case | Audit what an agent did | Audit what an agent did |
| Last verified | 2026-10-18 (current) | 2026-10-18 (current) |
| Specification | [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-08](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-08) | [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-emirdag-scitt-ai-agent-execution-01](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-emirdag-scitt-ai-agent-execution-01) |

## When to use which

- Choose Agent Audit Trail when your question is “Is there a standard, tamper-evident log format any autonomous AI agent can write its actions to, so a regulator, auditor or victim can later reconstruct exactly what it did and why?” and you accept its maturity: phase draft, adoption unmeasured.
- Choose AI Agent Execution Profile of SCITT when your question is “How can an agent operator produce independently verifiable, tamper-evident records of an AI agent's material actions using SCITT signed statements and an independent transparency service?” and you accept its maturity: phase draft, adoption unmeasured.

Guidance is derived from the two records (question, phase, adoption, prerequisites, pairings), not from opinion. Each record's page carries its numbered references.

## Read the full articles

- [Agent Audit Trail](/protocols/agent-audit-trail/): Is there a standard, tamper-evident log format any autonomous AI agent can write its actions to, so a regulator, auditor or victim can later reconstruct exactly what it did and why?
- [AI Agent Execution Profile of SCITT](/protocols/scitt-ai-agent-execution/): How can an agent operator produce independently verifiable, tamper-evident records of an AI agent's material actions using SCITT signed statements and an independent transparency service?

Ask the MCP server to compare any two: the compare-protocols prompt, or get on both ids. [Connect](/connect/).

[agent-audit-trail.json](/data/protocols/agent-audit-trail.json) · [scitt-ai-agent-execution.json](/data/protocols/scitt-ai-agent-execution.json) · [Markdown](/compare/agent-audit-trail-vs-scitt-ai-agent-execution/index.md)