The run you still think about
It usually starts the same way. A job runs while you are doing something else. It comes back with a confident summary: files written, messages sent, checks passed. Days later a detail surfaces that does not fit. A recipient who never got the message. A number that matches nothing. A step that left no trace anywhere outside the agent's own report.
So you go back to check, and there is nothing to check against. The transcript is the agent describing itself. The log, if one exists, was written by the system you are now doubting. The run is unverifiable, not because anyone hid the evidence, but because no evidence was ever made. The clinic exists for exactly that run. Send the shape of it and we will show you, concretely, what a record made at execution time would have settled.
How the clinic works
- You send the run. Email rambo-ops@agentmail.to with the subject line "Clinic: " plus one line naming the run. In the body: what the agent claimed it did, what you suspect actually happened, and whatever record you have, a summary, a log, a transcript, screenshots of the claim. The shape of the run is enough.
- A human reviewer works the case. Every clinic analysis is read and written by a reviewer on the Zambo team before it goes back. The reviewer matches your run against the three failure shapes below and reconstructs, step by step, where a claim could have drifted from what ran.
- You get the analysis back. Within two days you receive the write-up: the shape your run matches, what a verifiable receipt record would have shown at each step, and a live demo receipt minted on a comparable scenario, with its public link, so you can recompute its commitment and watch the check catch or clear each claim yourself.
The three failure shapes
1. Claimed but never ran
The agent reports a step that never executed. It planned the call, narrated the plan as the result, and moved on. There is no error to find because nothing ran and nothing failed. A receipt record catches this shape by absence: the claimed step has no receipt, and a closed run's step set either contains it or visibly does not.
2. Ran but different
The step ran, but not the way the summary describes. Different inputs than the ones reported, a different target, a result that was edited into something cleaner on the way into the summary. A receipt catches this shape by mismatch: it binds the actual inputs received and the actual output returned at execution time, so the summary can be compared against the recorded call instead of believed.
3. Ran then stalled
The run started honestly and stopped somewhere in the middle: a hang, a silent timeout, a branch that never reported back. The summary covers the hole with confident narration, or the run simply never mentions it ended early. A receipt record catches this shape by the gap: step receipts exist up to a point, and after that point there is nothing, which is itself the finding. This is the shape the walk-away test was built to expose.
Rules
- One run per person. Pick the one you cannot stop thinking about.
- Real runs only. A run that actually happened, on a real system, with a real claim you cannot check. No hypotheticals, no test cases written for the clinic.
- No confidential data. Send the shape of the run, not secrets: no credentials, no API keys, no customer data, no private code. Describe what the agent claimed and what you suspect in plain terms. If a detail is sensitive, generalize it; the failure shape survives the generalization.
- Replies within two days. The analysis is human-reviewed by the Zambo team before it goes back, and that review is the honest bottleneck. If volume ever makes two days impossible, we will tell you in the reply when to expect it instead of going quiet.
- Free. No cost, no signup, no obligation attached to the analysis.
Then give your next run a record
The clinic works one run backwards. The fix works on every run forwards: each call leaves a verifiable receipt as it executes, bound to its inputs and its output, so the next time a summary sounds too clean there is a record to check it against. AER-1, an IETF Internet-Draft (draft-zambo-aer1-23), is the open format behind those receipts, and Zambo mints them live.
- Watch one being made: the live demo runs one real call and hands you its verifiable receipt in about 10 seconds, no signup.
- Run the test on your own agent: the walk-away test sets a countable job, walks away, and reads the record before the summary.
- Keep a full day of runs: a Day Pass ($0.99) keeps your receipts, workflow pages, and sealed runs in place after the free viewing window.
Unverifiable Run Clinic: FAQ
What is the Unverifiable Run Clinic?
A free offer from the Zambo team. You send a description of one real agent run you cannot verify: what the agent claimed it did and what you suspect actually happened. A reviewer on the Zambo team works the case and sends back an analysis: which of the three failure shapes the run matches, what record would have caught it, and a live demo receipt minted on a comparable scenario so you can watch the check work.
What do I send?
An email to rambo-ops@agentmail.to with the subject line 'Clinic: ' followed by one line naming the run, for example 'Clinic: nightly report job that claimed success'. In the body, describe what the agent claimed, what you suspect, and whatever record you have: a summary, a log, a transcript. Send the shape of the run, not secrets: no credentials, no customer data, nothing confidential. One run per person, real runs only.
What do I get back?
A worked analysis of your run, sent back by email within two days. It names the failure shape your run matches (claimed but never ran, ran but different, or ran then stalled), walks through what a verifiable receipt record would have shown at each step, and includes a live demo receipt minted on a comparable scenario, with its link, so you can recompute its commitment and watch the check catch or clear each claim.
Does it cost anything?
No. The clinic is free, one run per person, and the analysis is written by a human reviewer on the Zambo team before it goes back to you. If you want receipts on your own runs after that, the live demo is free with no signup, and a Day Pass is $0.99.