Activity trace
A structured record emitted by each agent during a cognitive loop iteration. Captures the agent's role, inputs, outputs, confidence estimate, and timing. Stored in the agent activity index and used for meta-cognitive attribution and performance analysis.
Every agent in the multi-agent decomposition emits an activity trace for each invocation. The trace records what role the agent was playing, what inputs it received (memories, goals, policy vector), what proposal or prediction it produced, its stated confidence, and how long it took. These records accumulate in the agent activity index in OpenSearch, forming a diagnostic surface that operators and the meta-cognition engine can query to identify systemic patterns. A critic that consistently flags risks the planner then ignores, or a world-model agent that produces low-confidence predictions for a specific task class, are findings that only become visible when traces are compared across many sessions. Activity traces are the foundational precondition for all reflective and self-improvement capabilities in the architecture.