Glossary · Phase 10 · Agent harnesses
OpenTelemetry
An open standard for traces, metrics and logs, with conventions for recording model and tool calls.
Try it now
At $4 and $20 per million tokens. Long conversations resend everything each turn, which is why cache reads matter so much, and why every run needs a budget.
Learn it properly
Tracing, budgets and guardrails · See what an agent did, cap what it spends, and stop it when it loops. About 35 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- loop detection: Spotting an agent repeating the same call with the same result, and stepping in before a budget runs out.
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