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Notes

Short notes on audit logs for AI systems, the EU AI Act and running language models on your own hardware. New notes also go out through the RSS feed.

EU AI Act Article 12: what it asks of AI you run yourself

4 October 2026

Which systems the logging rules cover, what the articles require, when they start and how the fines work, in plain language.

How to check an AI log without reading it

4 October 2026

Why the person who checks an AI system's log often shouldn't read it, and how a hash-chained format makes that possible.

Recording the tool calls your agent already makes

4 October 2026

Adapters for LiteLLM, MCP servers and OpenCode that put tool calls on a tamper-evident log, and what such a record proves.

Running a language model on an isolated network, with a log you can prove

4 October 2026

What changes when an LLM runs with no network at all: installing it, timestamps, anchors and checking the log offline.