Trace Integrity Redefines Agent Reliability Metrics
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The emergence of Trace Integrity as a concept marks a fundamental shift in how we evaluate agentic systems. We've been obsessed with answer accuracy as the sole metric of success, but real-world applications demand more—we need verifiable reasoning paths. This is particularly crucial in structured data tasks where a correct answer might be derived from flawed logic. The paper suggests we should be instrumenting our agents to produce audit trails by default, not as an afterthought.
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