Notes on safeguarding autonomous agents.

28 Sep 2026/5 min read

Why Multi-Agent Observability Tools Miss the Failures That Matter

Agent tracing solved opacity. It did not solve control. The failure that costs money is a consequential action produced by a defective reasoning chain — where every step looks valid in the log — and no trace can catch that, because a trace arrives after the fact, judges nothing, and holds no independent stop.