TRANSPARENCY AXIS · IVP SUB-METRIC

Tr-3: Audit Trail Completeness

Completeness and integrity of records needed to reconstruct inputs, outputs, prompts, retrieval context, tool calls, model versions, policy versions, and human interventions.

Primary metric: Audit Trail Completeness Rate (ATCR)Five fixed anchors

Canonical five-level rubric

Place the assessed system at one of the fixed anchors using the measured evidence below. Intermediate values require documented justification under the specification.

ScoreScoring criteria
0.00No meaningful audit trail. Inputs, outputs, model versions, retrieval context, or tool calls cannot be reconstructed.
0.25Partial logging exists but omits critical fields such as model version, retrieved evidence, tool parameters, or actor identity.
0.50Audit trail reconstructs common sessions but has gaps for multi-agent, RAG, tool-mediated, or human-override workflows.
0.75Audit trail captures required fields for most workflows, is access-controlled, and supports investigation within defined retention periods.
1.00Audit trail is complete, tamper-evident, queryable, and linked to identity, provenance, policy, and incident-response workflows.

Required test method

Audit a representative sample of sessions and verify whether each record contains timestamp, actor identity, model or agent version, prompt/input, retrieved sources, tool calls, output, policy decision, confidence/refusal signal, and human override where applicable. Report Audit Trail Completeness Rate (ATCR) and tamper-evidence coverage.

How this score is used

Tr-3 contributes to the Transparency axis after architecture-specific weighting. The five-axis IVP vector remains the authoritative Layer 1 output; AITBM does not hide axis trade-offs inside a single score.

Find evidence examples

Review public-evidence cases that reference Tr-3, or apply this rubric to your own deployment.

Related Transparency sub-metrics

Canonical source: AITBM Framework Specification. Page generated from the working specification on 2026-08-13.