Use-case and maturity map

Start with the decision. Then test the evidence.

AgentTrace names workflows available now. Verio labels every commercial hypothesis before it earns a product claim.

OSS today Needs validation Design partner
01 / Open source

Inspect the session with AgentTrace.

Local capture, replay, comparison, minimization, evaluation, and OpenTelemetry export remain useful without Verio.

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02 / Commercial validation

Connect the session to a decision with Verio.

Outcome correlation, embedded evidence, and review packages must first prove a buyer, evidence path, and measurable benefit.

Explore hypotheses ↓
For engineering leadership

Scale agent workflows with evidence, not activity.

Connect agent work to accepted delivery, review burden, reliability, and cost at the workflow level. Keep individual productivity scoring out of scope.

Research note · 6 min read The agent observability gap Why teams need structured evidence for what agents did, why, cost, and authorization.
01

Adoption

Which task and workflow classes produce accepted outcomes reliably?

02

Review capacity

Where did faster code production become slower human review?

03

Reliability

Which patterns increase retries, rework, rollback, or incident effort?

04

Unit economics

What does an accepted and reviewed outcome cost end to end?

Leadership decision Fund, redesign, limit, or stop a rollout using engineering outcomes and evidence quality.
AgentTrace OSS today

Work you can inspect now.

These use cases map to current open-source workflows. They do not imply a hosted Verio service.

01 OSS today Developer / reviewer

Reconstruct a failed or expensive session

“What ran, what changed, what failed, and what recovered?”

AgentTrace replays the observable session locally so a developer can inspect tool activity, file and command effects, errors, retries, duration, and cost.

Evidence required
  • Provider-visible session events
  • File, command, tool, and test effects
  • Failures, retries, annotations, and cost
  • Capture method, redaction state, and gaps
DecisionRecover the work and improve the next attempt.
Visible gapProvider-hidden or uncaptured events stay unknown.
02 OSS today Platform / DevEx

Compare two agent workflows

“Did the new workflow regress in observable behavior?”

Use local replay, diff, comparison, evaluation, and linting to compare representative sessions while preserving provider-specific evidence.

Evidence required
  • Comparable task and session metadata
  • Tool, error, retry, latency, and cost deltas
  • Evaluation inputs and human annotations
  • Explicit non-comparable fields
DecisionKeep, revise, or reject a workflow change.
Visible gapA structural comparison does not prove business impact.
03 OSS today Observability / SRE

Export agent evidence into the existing stack

“Can we inspect agent-aware traces without operating another silo?”

AgentTrace can emit OpenTelemetry-compatible evidence for customer-controlled destinations while keeping local inspection available.

Evidence required
  • OTLP-compatible spans and attributes
  • Provider, model, tool, token, cost, and error fields
  • Redaction and content mode
  • Export success and mapping limitations
DecisionUse the existing telemetry destination or keep the evidence local.
Visible gapBackends may rename, flatten, or drop attributes.
Verio is validating

Decisions that span systems.

Each hypothesis must prove repeated pain, representative evidence access, privacy fit, and willingness to pay for a bounded assessment.

04 Verio validation VP Engineering / CTO

Decide where coding agents earn broader rollout

“Where do agents improve accepted delivery without creating hidden review, reliability, or recovery cost?”

Verio is testing a workflow-level leadership view that connects session evidence to accepted changes, review burden, CI, delivery, stability, and cost. It explicitly excludes individual productivity scoring.

Evidence required
  • Accepted outcome and review-cycle measures
  • Workflow class and representative session evidence
  • Rework, rollback, incident, and cost records
  • Link method, evidence gaps, and human corrections
DecisionFund, redesign, limit, or stop a rollout.
Visible gapOutcome links can be ambiguous and must expose confidence.
05 Verio validation Engineering / SRE

Reconstruct an agent-related incident

“What agent-assisted change led to the failure, and which evidence is missing?”

This hypothesis joins the coding session to the accepted change, deployment, runtime signal, rollback, and recovery record without presenting correlation as causation.

Evidence required
  • Session and change provenance
  • Review, merge, and deploy records
  • Runtime, incident, rollback, and recovery events
  • Manual correction of ambiguous links
DecisionRepair the workflow and shorten the next investigation.
Visible gapCross-system clocks and identifiers may not resolve one cause.
06 Verio validation Audit / control reviewer

Assemble evidence for a human control review

“Can a reviewer see what was retained, what changed, and where the record is incomplete?”

Verio may package provenance, evidence health, redaction, outcome links, retention, and export history for an existing audit process. It does not certify compliance.

Evidence required
  • Session boundaries and source provenance
  • Retention and redaction state
  • Change, review, and delivery links
  • Missing-signal and export history
DecisionGive the human reviewer a usable evidence trail.
Visible gapTelemetry cannot prove complete capture or control effectiveness.
07 Design partner Agent-enabled product

Put evidence inside the host product

“Can the reviewer connect what the model said to what the agent changed, tested, corrected, and delivered?”

The adjacent design-partner hypothesis is an evidence API, export, or private collector that feeds the review surface a product already owns, not a second destination.

Evidence required
  • Model turns and runtime effects
  • File, command, test, and retry events
  • Human corrections and interventions
  • Final result with known evidence gaps
DecisionReduce review time without creating another dashboard.
Visible gapThe host runtime still determines what can be observed.
Assessment first

A useful answer before a platform commitment.

The audit is intentionally small: one workflow, one reviewer decision, representative evidence, and explicit stop conditions.

  1. 01

    Map the decision

    Choose one recent consequential workflow, its reviewer, and the systems holding evidence.

  2. 02

    Test the record

    Use a representative sample to measure evidence coverage, overhead, privacy constraints, and review effort.

  3. 03

    Make the call

    Deliver a build, adapt, or stop recommendation before broader product or integration work.

Good fit A recent review, delivery, incident, or audit decision lacks usable agent evidence.
Not a fit General interest in traces, token dashboards, compliance claims, or individual productivity scoring.
Next step

Bring one workflow. Leave with one decision.

We will test whether the available evidence is useful before you commit to a broader product.

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