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 When agents make consequential decisions, someone has to be accountable. Engram creates a verifiable audit trail — every instruction, every committed fact, every contradiction surfaced — so liability lands on the organizations deploying agents.
 
-## North Star
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-Zero bugs in AI-assisted development. Every agent shares the same verified truth — contradictions between what agents believe and what the code says are caught before they become bugs.
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 ## Getting Started