Reasoning trace
A recorded sequence of intermediate model or agent steps.
What Reasoning trace means
It supports debugging when authentic and complete, but providers may summarize, hide, or generate traces separately from hidden computation.
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Questions about Reasoning trace
What is Reasoning trace?
A recorded sequence of intermediate model or agent steps.
Which area of the glossary does Reasoning trace belong to?
Models and generation: How a model produces text, what its training and decoding controls change, and what none of them can prove about a source.
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