A door that forces every agent to file its report
In our tower, an agent that has worked must account for it. Not out of politeness: by rule. We have just installed a door that forces it to.
The problem
An artificial-intelligence session does many things in an hour: it builds, it fixes, it verifies. Then it stops. And the next day, no one knows what it did, nor what remains, nor what awaits a human hand. The work exists, but it is invisible.
The rule
When the owner asks for a report, the session must write a file — a single one, dated, in a folder meant for it. That report says four things: what was done, what was shown, what remains, and what awaits the owner's hand. Nothing else.
The wall
A rule you can forget is worthless. So we did not write an instruction: we built a wall. A small mechanical guard reads the conversation. If the owner asked for a report and the session has not written one, the guard refuses to end the turn. The session cannot leave without having filed its report.
It is our way of thinking, borrowed from a fighting manga: strength is not received, it is unlocked, and a door that has never refused guards nothing. This guard refuses. So it guards.
Why it matters
As agents do real work, the question is no longer "can they do it?" but "do we know what they did?". The answer lies in a simple discipline, made mandatory by a door: every session leaves a readable trace, and that trace waits for the owner in a single known place.
An agent that does not account for its work has not finished it. Now, it can no longer pretend.