Records and the Chain

These are the words you will see in the Quick Start, in the API responses, and across the rest of the documentation. Read this once and everything else reads faster.

Record

A record is the unit AGLedger writes to disk: a structured, signed statement of what an agent is about to do, or what it did. It is the noun — the thing on the chain.

Notarize

Notarize is the verb. An agent notarizes twice around a piece of work: once for what it is about to do, and once for what was done. That is two records. Between the two signatures the agent can reset its context, hand off to another agent, or be replaced — the chain holds both records byte-for-byte, so the work survives the gap. The chain is durable memory across context resets.

Chain

The records form a chain: each one is Ed25519-signed and references the hash of the record before it. Because every record points back to the one prior, the sequence is append-only and tamper-evident, and anyone holding the public keys can verify it offline, without calling AGLedger. For why that property holds and what a passing verification proves, see Verification.

Delegation

When work passes from one agent or service to another, the new party's record links back to the parent record by signature. That linked parent-child sequence is a delegation chain: it ties the original work to the final outcome, no matter how many hands it passed through.

Next

Create your first record in the Quick Start. To run the Server these records live on, see Install.