Trust gap
Final answers hide the decisions, retries, rejected approvals, and tool behavior that actually create risk.
Built for 2026 enterprise-agent hackathons
Agent Payment Ledger case study
A payment-aware ledger for production-like agents: every tool call, approval gate, retry, error, x402 payment, and final outcome becomes inspectable run evidence.
The problem
Enterprise teams do not need another hidden transcript. They need durable operational evidence before agents can touch paid APIs, internal systems, or approval-gated workflows.
Ops gap
Security and platform teams need searchable event streams, not screenshots of a chat window after the fact.
Spend gap
Agents calling paid APIs need cost attribution tied to the exact run, endpoint, provider, and outcome.
What shipped
The build turns an agent workflow into a run ledger with dashboard inspection, exportable audit JSON, x402-style payment events, and Splunk HEC telemetry.
SDK
startRun, trackToolCall, trackApproval, trackPayment, and finishRun wrap existing agent code without locking it to a framework.
Ledger
Express and SQLite store append-only events, group them into runs, calculate risk flags, and preserve compatibility with the original x402 event model.
Console
The dashboard shows recent runs, selected timelines, approval/payment/error evidence, spend by endpoint, spend by agent, and audit export.
Telemetry
The Splunk HEC adapter exports a selected run as agentops:run_event records for search, alerting, and incident review.
Evidence
The credibility layer is intentionally boring: public code, repeatable demo data, tests, release assets, hosted page, and a sanitized Splunk proof packet.
Public implementation
SDK helpers, server APIs, dashboard, seed data, architecture docs, and release assets are in the public repository.
Splunk HEC proof
The blocked demo run exported through HEC and appeared in Splunk as five agentops-ledger events.
Honest status
NandaHack is submitted and the Devpost video host is live; Splunk Devpost and broader social launch are still pending account-gated steps.
Current next gate: submit Splunk Agentic Ops with the public hosted video, repository, architecture, Splunk proof, and investigation pack. The Splunk investigation pack adds SPL searches, a Splunk MCP tool map, and AI/MCP prompt templates for the indexed run events. The Splunk submission packet keeps the Devpost copy and proof boundary in one place.
Hackathon fit
Agent Payment Ledger is positioned as infrastructure, not a novelty demo. It gives a stock agent a practical trust, audit, and observability layer.
NandaHack
Fits enterprise-agent trust infrastructure across safety, integration, coordination, and production-like evaluation.
Splunk Agentic Ops
Turns every agent run into Splunk-ready operational telemetry for search, alerting, and investigation.
Follow-on tracks
Google Rapid Agent and UiPath remain adaptation targets after adding platform-specific runtime integration.
Judge links
One place to inspect the product, code, architecture, proof, and demo material.
Public launch page
Shareable evidence board with the hosted video, Splunk packet, MCP map, and open gates.
Proof graph
One root for status, proof links, screenshots, blockers, last verification date, and machine-readable JSON.
Repository
Source, SDK, server, dashboard, adapter, docs, and tests.
Architecture
Data flow from agent SDK through ledger, export API, Splunk HEC, and Splunk AI workflows.
Splunk HEC proof
Sanitized evidence from a local Splunk Enterprise index run.
Splunk investigation pack
Reusable SPL searches, Splunk AI Assistant / MCP prompts, and splunk_run_query tool mapping for agentops:run_event data.
Splunk submission packet
Devpost-ready copy, evidence links, MCP alignment, and honest pending-submission status.
Release
Captioned 46-second demo asset and packaged release notes.
Outcome tracker
Public checklist for submissions, launch links, feedback, and confirmed prize or no-prize results.
Feedback issue
Public review thread for missing event types, approval gates, spend evidence, and Splunk handoff ideas.
Video hosting package
Upload metadata, Devpost checklist, and the 1280x720 agentops-ledger-video-thumbnail.png asset.
Demo video
Public short product walkthrough for hackathon review.
Hosted demo
Public static demo with dashboard screenshot and submission assets.