Monitor
The daily brief, and tracing a result back through its inputs, tool calls, handoffs and decisions.
Monitor answers two questions at two different scales. The brief answers “what happened” in about ninety seconds. The trace answers “why did that happen” for one specific result, in as much detail as exists.
The daily brief
A short read covering what settled overnight, what stalled, and what is waiting on a person. It is deliberately not a dashboard: there are no charts, because a chart of yesterday is a thing you glance at rather than a thing you act on. Everything in the brief links to the item behind it.
Traces
A trace is the full record of a run: what the agent read, which tools it called and what each returned, what it decided, what it handed off and to whom, what it cost, and how it ended. Traces are continuous across handoffs, so following an item that passed through three agents reads as one sequence rather than three.
| Outcome | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Settled | The agent completed the work within its brief. |
| Handed off | The agent reached the edge of its brief and passed the item on, with its reason recorded. |
| Waiting | An action was routed to a person and is in the approval queue. |
| Stopped | The run ended itself — a source was unreachable, a limit was reached, or an input did not make sense. |
| Failed | The run ended on an error rather than a decision. These are the ones to read first. |