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Definition
Recording the full sequence of steps a request took through a system, prompts sent, tools called, results returned, so a failure can be reconstructed later.
Posts that use this term
- Observability: what a production AI system actually logs
Closing the AI Engineering series. Tracing prompts and tool calls, tracking spend and latency, and catching failures that don't throw an error.
- Multi-agent systems: orchestration and handoffs
Adding a second agent doesn't halve your problems, it multiplies them. Supervisor patterns, handoffs, and the real cost of splitting one agent into several.