--- title: "Answers — MING Labs Insights" description: "Buyer questions about agents in production, answered from MING Labs' operating evidence: the live agent fleet, measured outcomes, and the failures we wrote up." canonical: https://www.minglabs.com/insights/answers lang: en last-updated: 2026-07-17 --- # Questions, answered. [Home](/) [Insights](/insights) Answers FIG 04 Answers Buyer questions about agents in production, answered from operating evidence. A page exists only when the query passes the Hyperize SUCHE qualification gate. ## All answers 6 pages [ Hybrid Organisation ### Should AI agents hold their own credentials? MING Labs' agents hold no credentials at all. A gateway holds every secret, and a rogue agent can do nothing the gateway has not authorised. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/should-ai-agents-hold-their-own-credentials) [ Hybrid Organisation ### What belongs in an AI agent's audit trail? Regulators ask one question: show me exactly what the agent did. MING Labs traces ten fields per agent action to answer it inside 24 hours. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/what-belongs-in-an-ai-agents-audit-trail) [ Hybrid Organisation ### Who is accountable when an AI agent makes a mistake? MING Labs runs its agent fleet on one RACI rule: an agent can be Responsible for work, but Accountability never leaves a named human. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/who-is-accountable-when-an-ai-agent-makes-a-mistake) [ Hybrid Organisation ### How often do AI agents get shut down? Most agent programs count launches. MING Labs counts retirements: 15 to 20 percent of its agents are decommissioned in their first quarter. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/how-often-do-ai-agents-get-shut-down) [ Hybrid Organisation Acted-On Rate ### When should you shut down an AI agent? Week-one polish is noise. The Acted-On Rate, the share of agent output a human acts on, is the shutdown signal. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/when-to-shut-down-an-ai-agent) [ Hybrid Organisation ### How do you prove your team can still do the work your agents do? The law demands AI literacy and names no test. MING's test: reproduce the agent's work unaided, in 30 minutes, every quarter. · July 2026 · Proprietary ](/insights/answers/can-your-team-still-do-the-work-your-agents-do) Last updated: 2026-07-17 6 answers [JSON inventory](/insights/answers.json) [All insights](/insights) ## Available actions - **Copy briefing for my AI**: copies the [AI briefing](https://www.minglabs.com/briefing.md) to the clipboard in the browser. --- Canonical: https://www.minglabs.com/insights/answers Machine-readable index: https://www.minglabs.com/llms.txt