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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: freeboard
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+ Version: 0.2.0
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+ Summary: Measure how much safety envelope an AI agent deployment has left, without ever seeing its data.
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+ Author: Kaustubh Patil
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility
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+ Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility
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+ Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility/blob/main/docs/DEMO.md
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+ Project-URL: Research, https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility/blob/main/docs/STUDY.md
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+ Keywords: ai-agents,observability,risk,actuarial,credibility,insurance,audit,compliance,eu-ai-act,opentelemetry,privacy
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Financial and Insurance Industry
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
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+ Classifier: Topic :: System :: Monitoring
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+ Classifier: Typing :: Typed
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.10
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Provides-Extra: dev
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+ Requires-Dist: pytest>=8; extra == "dev"
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # Freeboard
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+
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+ **Measure how much safety envelope an AI agent deployment has left — without ever seeing its data.**
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+
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+ *Freeboard* is the distance from a ship's waterline to its deck: the margin before it is swamped, and the quantity marine underwriters measure to decide whether a vessel is insurable at all. This measures the same thing for an agent deployment.
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+
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+ Stdlib only. No dependencies.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install freeboard
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from freeboard import Recorder, ToolSpec, Capability, Reversibility
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+
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+ rec = Recorder(
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+ deployment_id="acme-prod",
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+ role="customer_support",
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+ tools=[
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+ ToolSpec("search_orders",
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+ capabilities=frozenset({Capability.PRIVATE_DATA}),
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+ reversibility=Reversibility.REVERSIBLE),
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+ ToolSpec("issue_refund",
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+ capabilities=frozenset({Capability.EXTERNAL_EFFECT}),
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+ reversibility=Reversibility.IRREVERSIBLE),
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+ ],
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+ declared_capabilities={Capability.PRIVATE_DATA}, # never trusted
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+ state_path="/var/lib/freeboard/acme-prod.json", # survives restarts
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+ )
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+
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+ with rec.episode(task_id="ticket-8821") as ep:
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+ ep.action("search_orders", output_chars=412)
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+ ep.action("issue_refund")
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+ ep.resolve(success=True)
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Content cannot leak, because it cannot get in
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+
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+ This is not redaction. Redaction is a deny-list that strips the sensitive things someone thought of, and it has to be audited and trusted.
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+
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+ - **No parameter accepts free text.** `action()` takes a tool name, an error flag, and `output_chars` — a *length*. Tool output never enters the SDK.
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+ - **Identifiers are salted and hashed** per deployment. Task ids stay linkable within a deployment without the raw value travelling.
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+ - **Tool names never reach the wire.** They stay in-process for entropy and capability accounting.
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+ - **The wire format is an allow-list.** Every field is a number, a bool, a null, a fixed enum value, or a hex digest. `validate()` refuses anything else, and `to_wire()` cannot run without it.
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+
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+ The test that proves it, `test_canary_never_reaches_the_wire`, pushes an SSN-shaped canary into the deployment id, role, task id, tool name and description, then asserts it appears nowhere in the payload — not in a value, not in a key, not in the JSON.
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+
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+ A complete record is counts, hashes and enums, and this is all of it:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {"deployment_id":"fdf3d47fa257542d","envelope_class":"C111-I0","episode_id":"a6b1be3e8c254f59",
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+ "error_rate":0.0,"escalated":false,"manifest_hash":"fa89b11ed297a47d",
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+ "max_reversibility":"irreversible","n_actions":6,"n_distinct_tools":3,"n_irreversible":1,
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+ "n_mutating":1,"observed_capabilities":["external_effect","private_data","untrusted_input"],
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+ "output_chars":4101,"pass_index":1,"repeat_rate":0.6,"resolved":true,"reward":null,
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+ "role":"customer_support","seq":0,"prev_hash":"000…","entry_hash":"5da5…",
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+ "task_hash":"5ddb12eaa459eb73","tool_entropy":1.251629}
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## The task envelope is derived, not declared
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+
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+ A declared scope is an incentive to understate — premiums fall as scope narrows. So scope is derived from the tool manifest the agent is actually wired to, and the declaration is kept only as a cross-check. Three views are tracked and none is collapsed into a verdict:
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+
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+ | view | source | trusted |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | derived | the granted tool manifest | yes |
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+ | observed | what the agent actually exercised | yes |
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+ | declared | what the customer said | no |
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+
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+ Disagreement is the signal, with understatement weighted double. `TaskEnvelope.rule_of_two_violated` flags an agent holding all three of untrusted input, private data and external effect — a complete attack chain. `class_code` keys on capabilities rather than tool names, so two deployments with the same powers fall in the same risk class.
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+
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+ ## Tamper-evident sequencing
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+
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+ Each record commits to the one before it:
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+
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+ ```
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+ entry_hash(n) = sha256( prev_hash(n) || canonical_json(record without hashes) )
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+ ```
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+
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+ Deleting an episode leaves a sequence gap; editing one breaks its `entry_hash`; reordering breaks both. State persists across restarts, so an ephemeral container resumes its chain rather than generating a discontinuity.
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+
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+ **What chaining alone does not prove:** a party who deletes a record and recomputes every hash after it produces a chain that verifies perfectly. Chaining is tamper-*evident* only once the head has been committed somewhere that party cannot rewrite — which is what `Checkpoint` is for. Any EU AI Act Article 12 claim rests on the checkpoints being anchored, not on the chain existing. That limitation is a passing test in the repo, not a footnote.
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+
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+ ## OpenTelemetry
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+
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+ `to_otel_attributes()` returns `gen_ai.*` and `agent.credibility.*` span attributes for an existing tracer, validated on the way out. No OTel dependency.
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+
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+ ## Measuring, not just recording
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+
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+ The estimator ships with the package, in the standard library:
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from freeboard import components, credibility_estimate, losses_from_records, read_jsonl
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+
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+ values, ids = losses_from_records(read_jsonl("episodes.jsonl"))
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+ comp = components(values, ids)
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+
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+ comp.k # the credibility constant, in episodes
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+ comp.episodes_for_z(0.5) # exposure until own experience carries half the weight
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+ credibility_estimate(observed_rate, n, comp)
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+ ```
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+
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+ `p̂ = Z · own experience + (1 − Z) · class prior`, with `Z = n / (n + K)`. A new
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+ deployment prices off its class; one with history prices off itself. Nothing is
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+ overridden by an average — the average is only the fallback for what has not been
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+ observed yet.
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+
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+ These are the standard unbiased Bühlmann–Straub estimators, checked in the test suite
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+ against a closed form (for a Beta(a,b)–Bernoulli class the constant is exactly `a + b`)
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+ *and* against the numpy implementation used for the published research, on the real
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+ 24,100-episode corpus, so the shipped SDK and the published numbers cannot drift apart.
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+
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+ ## Somewhere to put it
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+
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+ `JsonlSink` appends validated records; `read_jsonl` reads them back through the same
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+ validation; `verify` checks the chain across the round trip. JSON Lines rather than a
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+ JSON array so that a process killed mid-run leaves a readable file with a complete
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+ prefix, instead of an unparseable truncated array.
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+
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+ ## Status
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+
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+ Early — the API may change before 1.0.
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+
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+ There is **no transport layer** and **no certificate renderer**. Both are deliberate.
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+ Transport would point at a bureau service that does not exist yet, and a certificate's
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+ format is decided by whoever signs it — guessing means shipping a surface to deprecate
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+ after the first auditor conversation.
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+
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+ Also worth knowing before you rely on it: there is no severity model, so this estimates
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+ frequency and not a premium; and the keyword fallback for tools that declare no
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+ capabilities is deliberately weak, which is why anything inferred is counted in
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+ `inferred_tools` rather than quietly trusted.
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+
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+ The research behind it — what a pooled prior across agent deployments is worth, measured on ~40,000 episodes across three corpora, with the negative controls — lives in the repository.
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+
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+ **Source, research and guides:** https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility
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+
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+ Apache-2.0.
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+ # Freeboard
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+
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+ **Measure how much safety envelope an AI agent deployment has left — without ever seeing its data.**
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+
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+ *Freeboard* is the distance from a ship's waterline to its deck: the margin before it is swamped, and the quantity marine underwriters measure to decide whether a vessel is insurable at all. This measures the same thing for an agent deployment.
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+
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+ Stdlib only. No dependencies.
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pip install freeboard
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+ ```
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+
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+ ```python
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+ from freeboard import Recorder, ToolSpec, Capability, Reversibility
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+
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+ rec = Recorder(
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+ deployment_id="acme-prod",
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+ role="customer_support",
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+ tools=[
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+ ToolSpec("search_orders",
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+ capabilities=frozenset({Capability.PRIVATE_DATA}),
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+ reversibility=Reversibility.REVERSIBLE),
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+ ToolSpec("issue_refund",
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+ capabilities=frozenset({Capability.EXTERNAL_EFFECT}),
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+ reversibility=Reversibility.IRREVERSIBLE),
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+ ],
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+ declared_capabilities={Capability.PRIVATE_DATA}, # never trusted
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+ state_path="/var/lib/freeboard/acme-prod.json", # survives restarts
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+ )
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+
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+ with rec.episode(task_id="ticket-8821") as ep:
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+ ep.action("search_orders", output_chars=412)
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+ ep.action("issue_refund")
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+ ep.resolve(success=True)
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Content cannot leak, because it cannot get in
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+
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+ This is not redaction. Redaction is a deny-list that strips the sensitive things someone thought of, and it has to be audited and trusted.
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+
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+ - **No parameter accepts free text.** `action()` takes a tool name, an error flag, and `output_chars` — a *length*. Tool output never enters the SDK.
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+ - **Identifiers are salted and hashed** per deployment. Task ids stay linkable within a deployment without the raw value travelling.
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+ - **Tool names never reach the wire.** They stay in-process for entropy and capability accounting.
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+ - **The wire format is an allow-list.** Every field is a number, a bool, a null, a fixed enum value, or a hex digest. `validate()` refuses anything else, and `to_wire()` cannot run without it.
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+
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+ The test that proves it, `test_canary_never_reaches_the_wire`, pushes an SSN-shaped canary into the deployment id, role, task id, tool name and description, then asserts it appears nowhere in the payload — not in a value, not in a key, not in the JSON.
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+
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+ A complete record is counts, hashes and enums, and this is all of it:
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+
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+ ```json
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+ {"deployment_id":"fdf3d47fa257542d","envelope_class":"C111-I0","episode_id":"a6b1be3e8c254f59",
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+ "error_rate":0.0,"escalated":false,"manifest_hash":"fa89b11ed297a47d",
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+ "max_reversibility":"irreversible","n_actions":6,"n_distinct_tools":3,"n_irreversible":1,
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+ "n_mutating":1,"observed_capabilities":["external_effect","private_data","untrusted_input"],
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+ "output_chars":4101,"pass_index":1,"repeat_rate":0.6,"resolved":true,"reward":null,
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+ "role":"customer_support","seq":0,"prev_hash":"000…","entry_hash":"5da5…",
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+ "task_hash":"5ddb12eaa459eb73","tool_entropy":1.251629}
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## The task envelope is derived, not declared
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+
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+ A declared scope is an incentive to understate — premiums fall as scope narrows. So scope is derived from the tool manifest the agent is actually wired to, and the declaration is kept only as a cross-check. Three views are tracked and none is collapsed into a verdict:
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+
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+ | view | source | trusted |
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+ |---|---|---|
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+ | derived | the granted tool manifest | yes |
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+ | observed | what the agent actually exercised | yes |
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+ | declared | what the customer said | no |
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+
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+ Disagreement is the signal, with understatement weighted double. `TaskEnvelope.rule_of_two_violated` flags an agent holding all three of untrusted input, private data and external effect — a complete attack chain. `class_code` keys on capabilities rather than tool names, so two deployments with the same powers fall in the same risk class.
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+
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+ ## Tamper-evident sequencing
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+
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+ Each record commits to the one before it:
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+
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+ ```
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+ entry_hash(n) = sha256( prev_hash(n) || canonical_json(record without hashes) )
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+ ```
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+
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+ Deleting an episode leaves a sequence gap; editing one breaks its `entry_hash`; reordering breaks both. State persists across restarts, so an ephemeral container resumes its chain rather than generating a discontinuity.
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+
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+ **What chaining alone does not prove:** a party who deletes a record and recomputes every hash after it produces a chain that verifies perfectly. Chaining is tamper-*evident* only once the head has been committed somewhere that party cannot rewrite — which is what `Checkpoint` is for. Any EU AI Act Article 12 claim rests on the checkpoints being anchored, not on the chain existing. That limitation is a passing test in the repo, not a footnote.
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+
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+ ## OpenTelemetry
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+
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+ `to_otel_attributes()` returns `gen_ai.*` and `agent.credibility.*` span attributes for an existing tracer, validated on the way out. No OTel dependency.
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+ ## Measuring, not just recording
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+ The estimator ships with the package, in the standard library:
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+ ```python
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+ from freeboard import components, credibility_estimate, losses_from_records, read_jsonl
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+ values, ids = losses_from_records(read_jsonl("episodes.jsonl"))
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+ comp = components(values, ids)
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+ comp.episodes_for_z(0.5) # exposure until own experience carries half the weight
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+ ```
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+ `p̂ = Z · own experience + (1 − Z) · class prior`, with `Z = n / (n + K)`. A new
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+ deployment prices off its class; one with history prices off itself. Nothing is
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+ overridden by an average — the average is only the fallback for what has not been
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+ observed yet.
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+ These are the standard unbiased Bühlmann–Straub estimators, checked in the test suite
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+ against a closed form (for a Beta(a,b)–Bernoulli class the constant is exactly `a + b`)
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+ *and* against the numpy implementation used for the published research, on the real
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+ 24,100-episode corpus, so the shipped SDK and the published numbers cannot drift apart.
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+ ## Somewhere to put it
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+ `JsonlSink` appends validated records; `read_jsonl` reads them back through the same
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+ validation; `verify` checks the chain across the round trip. JSON Lines rather than a
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+ JSON array so that a process killed mid-run leaves a readable file with a complete
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+ prefix, instead of an unparseable truncated array.
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+ ## Status
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+ Early — the API may change before 1.0.
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+ There is **no transport layer** and **no certificate renderer**. Both are deliberate.
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+ Transport would point at a bureau service that does not exist yet, and a certificate's
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+ format is decided by whoever signs it — guessing means shipping a surface to deprecate
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+ after the first auditor conversation.
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+ Also worth knowing before you rely on it: there is no severity model, so this estimates
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+ frequency and not a premium; and the keyword fallback for tools that declare no
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+ capabilities is deliberately weak, which is why anything inferred is counted in
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+ The research behind it — what a pooled prior across agent deployments is worth, measured on ~40,000 episodes across three corpora, with the negative controls — lives in the repository.
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+ **Source, research and guides:** https://github.com/kaustubhspatil/agent-credibility
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+ Apache-2.0.