Audit Record. A durable account of a consequential operation: what changed, when it changed, why it changed, which evidence or policy allowed it, who or what performed it, and what observed outcome followed.
Strong audit records make consequential work reconstructable after the fact. They record what changed, why it changed, which evidence allowed it, who or what acted, and what artifact or system state resulted. When artifacts are part of the operation, strong audit records carry artifact provenance.
For decisions that fire from a rule, an audit record should preserve the triggering evidence, not just the final verdict.
A decision registry is the authoritative collection and query surface for governed decision records; an audit record is one durable operation account inside or alongside that registry.
The lossy telemetry boundary decides whether an audit artifact is an authoritative record or merely operational observation.