---
title: "Evidence record"
description: "The signed, structured record a control writes each time it decides: which control, about which system version, what it decided, against which metric, threshold and obligation, on which input, when…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/evidence-record
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# Evidence record

The signed, structured record a control writes each time it decides: which control, about which system version, what it decided, against which metric, threshold and obligation, on which input, when and by whom. One shape for every control lets an audit run as a query over one store [1].

- Developed in: [ch. 05, Pattern: Continuous Assurance Telemetry](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns#pattern-continuous-assurance-telemetry); [Templates and schemas](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/resources/templates)
- Chapters: [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-evidence-record

## Sources

[1] Evidence-record schema v1 (evidence-record.v1.json) (AI Governance Engineer templates and schemas library). aigovernanceengineer.com. 2026-09-24. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/schemas/evidence-record.v1.json (verified: primary)