What a workflow_close receipt records
A workflow_close receipt is one AER-1 record (receipt schema version 0.4, hosted profile zambo-hosted-receipt/1) for one call. Read from a real workflow_close 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
workflow_close, version4.0.0, scopepublic. - 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 count, the child receipt ids under children, a steps_digest, a merkle_root over the steps, deliverables, and the verification_status of the close itself.
- Output digest: output_hash, the SHA-256 digest of those canonical bytes, with the canonical byte length recorded too (945 bytes on the first example below).
- Caller and provenance: a caller type (
sessionon the first example) and a provenance class ofEXECUTED BY ZAMBO, which states how the record was produced. - Declared side effects: the record declares its side effects,
noneon 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 workflow_close receipt examples
Each example below is a real workflow_close receipt. Open one and you see the saved result, when it was saved, and its digest, the same fields described above.
zambo.dev/run/4d8b4f0d-60a9-4758-bf85-5fa9032f2ba1
Saved: 2026-10-24T18:21:46.635Z
Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:714a0496d7079da117b68aae201e1401208927d2bee3fc0965dea2d8ac71ef50
Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.
zambo.dev/run/3e0a0fda-5c20-46ec-863e-eb2c1938b7de
Saved: 2026-10-24T18:08:43.661Z
Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:9b1646748c2d270d90d1f4a7cbc8ac8c9df2a0e2360a2df1ad4ef65c72ba3410
Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.
zambo.dev/run/860ad7df-2756-4246-98c9-e67492bc4c77
Saved: 2026-10-24T17:09:32.841Z
Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:66ffadeb014d91e55c7ceeb9fec4a36402da31dec852ac0fb870fa2fb07d3608
Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.
How to verify a workflow_close receipt
- 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.
- Or call the API directly:
GET https://zambo.dev/api/v2/receipt/{receipt-id}/verifyreturns the record as JSON, including its output_hash and verification_status. - 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.