Task Accountability
Every task has a verifiable record of who did what, when, and whether it actually completed.
Task Accountability is provenance for execution. In a multi-agent or human-agent team, knowing that a task is "done" isn't enough — you need to know who did it (which agent, which human), when it was completed, what evidence supports the completion, and whether it was verified. Without Task Accountability, debugging failures becomes a forensic exercise, blame is unassignable, and the same mistakes repeat because nobody can trace them to their source.
More in Execution Quality
Execution Fidelity
How closely a system follows and completes its intended plan.
Plan Rot
Decay of truth in planning artifacts — task state in markdown files goes stale.
Plan Drift
Deviation from the original plan over time.
Execution Hallucination
Claiming work is done when it is not.
Execution Integrity
Consistent, verifiable completion of planned tasks with evidence.
Plan Resilience
A plan's ability to remain accurate and actionable over time despite changing conditions. The opposite of Plan Rot.
Agentic Scope Creep
An agent silently expanding beyond what was delegated, usually from lack of a clear plan or direction. Adds breadth the user didn't ask for.
Depth Fixation
The agent keeps drilling deeper into implementation detail, generating new sub-tasks and refinements rather than recognizing the work is done and returning control to the user. Expands depth rather than breadth.