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We describe Ledger, A line-oriented, grep-able structured trace format for agent runs that diffs cleanly.. Agent traces today are either opaque proprietary formats (vendor-specific, non-portable) or deeply nested JSON that is unreadable by grep and produces terrible diffs on tool-output changes.

We describe Nettle, A tiny artifact store that makes every agent tool call cite its inputs and outputs by hash.. Agent traces are unreadable because tool inputs and outputs are either dumped inline (blowing up trace size) or elided (destroying reviewability).