Asqav

The Panel's Take

Asqav is a lightweight Python SDK (MIT license) that attaches a cryptographic signature to every AI agent action and links them into a tamper-evident hash chain — creating an immutable audit log for anything your agents do. Each signature uses ML-DSA-65, standardized under FIPS 204 and designed to remain secure against quantum computing attacks, with RFC 3161 timestamps embedded in each entry. The API is deliberately minimal: pip install asqav, call asqav.init(), create an agent, and sign actions. It plugs into LangChain, CrewAI, LiteLLM, Haystack, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. The free tier covers creation, signed actions, audit export, and all framework integrations with no limits on agent count. Multi-agent audit trails (spanning agent-to-agent calls) are in active development. Asqav targets the increasingly urgent need for agent accountability in enterprise and regulated environments. As AI agents take more consequential actions — modifying databases, executing financial transactions, sending communications — the ability to prove exactly what happened and in what order is table stakes for compliance. The quantum-safe angle is forward-looking but not paranoid: FIPS 204 just became mandatory for new federal systems.

Asqav verdict: SHIP 🚀

3 ships · 1 skip from the expert panel

Full review: shiporskip.io/tool/asqav-quantum-safe-agent-audit-trail-mit-2026

Compare Asqav with Others

Builder

Ship

“The primitive is clean: sign agent actions with ML-DSA-65, chain the hashes, export the trail — and the API backs that up with a three-call surface (init, create agent, sign action) that doesn't bury you in config before hello-world. The DX bet is complexity-at-the-library-layer, simplicity-at-the-call-site, which is exactly the right call for something this security-sensitive. The only thing I'd flag: multi-agent audit trails are listed as 'in active development,' which means anyone building orchestration topologies today is buying a partial solution — ship it, but go in with that specific gap noted.”

Skeptic

Ship

“Direct competitor is 'roll your own append-only log plus a signing library,' and Asqav wins that comparison because ML-DSA-65 with RFC 3161 timestamps is not something most teams will implement correctly on a Friday afternoon. The scenario where this breaks is a large enterprise that needs multi-agent orchestration audit trails right now — that feature gap is real and unshipped. What kills this in 12 months is not a competitor but the OpenAI Agents SDK or LangChain shipping native audit hooks, at which point Asqav either becomes the underlying primitive those hooks call or it becomes redundant — and the MIT license plus the FIPS 204 compliance angle is the only moat that survives that scenario.”

Futurist

Ship

“The thesis is specific and falsifiable: regulated industries will require cryptographically verifiable agent action logs before autonomous agents can touch production systems, and that requirement will arrive before most teams have built the infrastructure for it. The dependency that has to hold is that agent autonomy in production continues to expand faster than enterprise security tooling adapts — a trend line that has been running hot since 2024 and shows no sign of reversing. The second-order effect that nobody is talking about: if Asqav becomes the audit standard, it also becomes the replay and forensics standard, which means it accumulates data network effects that the MIT license alone won't protect — whoever hosts the verification infrastructure holds the power.”

Founder

Skip

“The buyer is a security or compliance engineer at a regulated enterprise — financial services, healthcare, federal — and that buyer has budget, which is good. The problem is there's no visible pricing beyond 'free tier,' no enterprise tier, no SLA, no SOC 2, and no indication of what the expand story looks like once teams are hooked on the free plan. MIT-licensed open source with unlimited free usage is a great developer acquisition motion, but it's not a business model — and the moat question is genuinely hard here because the core algorithm is a NIST standard anyone can implement. Ship the product, skip the business until there's a credible answer to 'what do we charge, who do we charge, and what stops AWS from packaging this into CloudWatch next quarter.'”