Receipt for capability_search

The capability_search tool takes a plain language query and returns the Zambo tools that match it, with a plan for using them. Every call to it files a receipt. In plain terms, an agent receipt is a record of one ai agent tool call that anyone can check: it keeps the exact saved bytes and their sha-256 digest, and it proves the result was not changed since it was saved, not that it was right.

Examples on this page are real receipts pulled from the public Zambo receipts API on 2026-10-24. capability_search appeared 192 times in the 1,600 most recent public receipts checked that day. See the full set at receipt examples by tool.

What a capability_search receipt records

A capability_search receipt is one AER-1 record (receipt schema version 0.4, hosted profile zambo-hosted-receipt/1) for one call. Read from a real capability_search payload, it records:

  • Receipt id: a full UUID. The id is the address of the record: the human page is https://zambo.dev/run/ followed by the id.
  • Tool: name capability_search, version 4.0.0, scope public.
  • Timestamps: the record creation time, and inside the step list a started_at and a completed_at for the call itself.
  • Step status: one step per call, with the tool name and its status. On the first example below the step status is success.
  • The saved output: the exact output object the call returned, kept as canonical bytes. The saved output carries the query, the matched tools list, an execution_plan, a continuity note and a status.
  • Output digest: output_hash, the SHA-256 digest of those canonical bytes, with the canonical byte length recorded too (12880 bytes on the first example below).
  • Caller and provenance: a caller type (session on the first example) and a provenance class of EXECUTED BY ZAMBO, which states how the record was produced.
  • Declared side effects: the record declares its side effects, none on the first example.
  • Verification status: the API carries a verification_status field for the record. On the first example below, the verify API reported verification_status commitment_matches, its wording for a record whose digest still matches the saved bytes.

Live capability_search receipt examples

Each example below is a real capability_search receipt. Open one and you see the saved result, when it was saved, and its digest, the same fields described above.

zambo.dev/run/60a5288f-3c5f-4d9d-885b-390a39dc55b6

Saved: 2026-10-24T18:19:26.757Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:29eaf537f4462d6d0d4144bb21aee7cb434eaa87cf4f87c78fec003293b33377

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

zambo.dev/run/2bada64c-d61d-4e29-8911-1f5a1bf00b4e

Saved: 2026-10-24T18:19:01.561Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:5c572beee46db0f60ae3912b52df6913f85d47b474a01ac6d340ae5aab20b066

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

zambo.dev/run/8afc4b06-2451-4a5b-92af-bb9790923e6f

Saved: 2026-10-24T18:09:26.522Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:533e0bf2a7bc9eb93cc4c11858454aac957b5918f2cc8287d17c91f70f9ab49f

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

How to verify a capability_search receipt

  1. Open zambo.dev/verify/ and paste the receipt link or the receipt id. The checker recomputes the SHA-256 digest over the saved bytes and reports whether the record still matches.
  2. Or call the API directly: GET https://zambo.dev/api/v2/receipt/{receipt-id}/verify returns the record as JSON, including its output_hash and verification_status.
  3. The format is AER-1, an open IETF Internet-Draft: draft-zambo-aer1-26. Anyone can implement the check; it does not need a Zambo account.

Verification answers one question: is this the record that was saved, byte for byte? It does not answer whether the result inside was right.

Get receipts for your own calls

Add Zambo to your AI once, at zambo.dev/add/, and every tool call after that files a receipt like the ones above. Every account starts with 20 free calls per day, and free calls file receipts too. The background is at AI agent receipts, and more worked examples are indexed at receipt examples by tool.