Anatomy of a Real Agent: One Run, Every Part Named

Read one complete support-agent run end to end — setup, six turns, one tool error, one recovery, a clean stop — and learn to name every part: the trace, the logs, the evals, and where the risks lived.

Lessons

  1. Before turn one: system prompt, tools, budget
  2. Turns 1–2: routing and the first tool call
  3. Turn 3: the error is just more text
  4. Turns 4–6: recovery, resolution, stop
  5. The retrospective: trace, logs, evals, risks