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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational19 October 2026

Annotrace: A Workbench for Step-Level Annotation of Agent Traces

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arXiv:2610.23284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every study of why LLM agents fail begins by labelling traces by hand, and every such study builds its own throwaway tool. Observability platforms record agent traces but offer no structured labelling; annotation tools label text but have no notion of a step, a delegation or a tool call, leaving it unclear what the smallest unit of execution to label should be. Annotrace reads six trace formats, including OpenTelemetry GenAI, LangSmith and Langfuse, and turns each run into an ordered, nested list of steps. The annotator writes their own labelling
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