Answered from AI Interview Questions #4 - Evals in AI · Gaurav Sen · 2026-08-12
Tanishq describes agent traces in Gaurav Sen's AI interview series as the agent-era version of logs. A trace stores changes to the system prompt, which tools were called and how many times for a query, each tool's response, and the decision the model made from that response. The point of storing them is to evaluate the agent later, since evals cannot run without this record.
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