actlayer

Receipts

Preserve receipts after every agent action.

Receipts are the operational record for billing, governance, approvals, errors, and audit trails. Agent adapters should keep the full ActLayer response.

Receipt fields

receipt metadata
{
  "success": true,
  "capability": "web_search",
  "cost": 0.003,
  "currency": "USD",
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_...",
  "approval_id": null,
  "decision": "allow",
  "risk_score": 12,
  "reasons": ["capability_active", "agent_active"],
  "policy_version": "actlayer-srg-1",
  "execution_time_ms": 840
}

What to log

receipt_id

Stable lookup id for the action and wallet ledger relationship.

cost

The charged amount for successful paid actions. Failed actions normally return zero after refund.

decision

Governance outcome: allow, block, or needs_approval.

risk_score

SRG score used by the policy engine for the action.

approval_id

Present when a dashboard approval is required before execution.

policy_version

The SRG policy version that produced the decision.