The question that kills most automation pilots isn't “does it work?” It's “what did it do last Tuesday?”
Pilots rarely die because the automation was wrong. They die at the review, when someone asks what it did last Tuesday and the honest answer is a shrug and a diff.
An agent that acts on real records is only as deployable as its trail. Not a summary — the actual sequence: which page, which record, what was read, what changed, who approved it, and when.
Attribution, not activity
A log that says “12 records updated” is activity. A log that says “this record, on this page, at this time, by this person's agent, changing this field from this to that” is attribution — and only the second kind survives contact with a security review or a finance close.
That is the level Rowbot logs at, because anything coarser turns every question about a run into an investigation.
Write it down before you need it
The teams that roll this out fastest treat the log as part of the setup, not a feature they will look at later. They decide up front who reads it, how long it is kept, and where it gets exported.
It is the least glamorous part of putting an agent to work, and it is the part that decides whether the pilot becomes a rollout.
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