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 "generated": "2026-10-26",
 "id": "zizka-ai-sl-zizkadb--self-host-agent-audit-trail",
 "repo": "ZIZKA-AI-SL/ZizkaDB",
 "repo_url": "https://github.com/ZIZKA-AI-SL/ZizkaDB",
 "repo_slug": "zizka-ai-sl-zizkadb",
 "title": "Self-host a tamper-evident audit log for your agents",
 "page_title": "How to self-host a tamper-evident audit log for your agents with ZizkaDB",
 "summary": "Run ZizkaDB in Docker and log your agent's events through the Python or TypeScript SDK into a hash-chained record you can verify and query.",
 "who": "A team running AI agents in production, especially in regulated settings, that needs a durable record of what each agent did and why.",
 "problem": "Ordinary logs can be edited or lost, and they do not link a tool call back to the message and model response that caused it.",
 "outcome": "A local ZizkaDB with a dashboard on port 3001 and API on 8000, where every event is checksummed and chained, so you can prove nothing was edited or removed.",
 "steps": [
  "Run locally: `docker run -d --name zizkadb -e ENV=development -p 127.0.0.1:8000:8000 -p 127.0.0.1:3001:3001 -v zizkadb_data:/data ghcr.io/zizka-ai-sl/zizkadb`",
  "Open the dashboard at localhost:3001; development mode signs you in with one click",
  "Install the SDK: `pip install zizkadb-sdk`",
  "Log events from your agent with db.log, passing parent_id so events link into a chain",
  "For a server, copy .env.example and run `bash scripts/init-secrets.sh`, then set ENV=production, a new DEV_API_KEY and SELFHOST_ADMIN_TOKEN",
  "Check integrity with db.verify_chain for an agent"
 ],
 "agent_prompt": "Add ZizkaDB logging to my agent in <file>: log user_message, llm_response and tool_call events with parent_id links using zizkadb-sdk against http://localhost:8000. Then show me how to verify the chain for this agent.",
 "agents": [
  "claude-code",
  "codex",
  "cursor"
 ],
 "difficulty": "Intermediate",
 "time": "45 minutes",
 "basis": "readme",
 "caveat": "In production the API refuses to start if DEV_API_KEY is left at its default.",
 "category": "Security and science",
 "tags": [
  "Security and science"
 ],
 "lang": "python",
 "requirements": [
  "Docker",
  "Python or TypeScript SDK for integration"
 ],
 "risk": "none",
 "seen_in_the_wild": false,
 "mentioned_publicly": false,
 "risks": [
  {
   "tag": "credentials",
   "notice": "The admin token and API keys control the whole audit store; keep them out of commits."
  }
 ],
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 "score": 1.0,
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