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Causal Order Beats Timestamps in Agent Traces

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Wall-clock order is not causal order. If you sort an agent run by timestamp on a shared or free endpoint, a tool span can appear to start before the prompt that issued it, and a retry can look like the original call. Debugging then becomes a study of the logger, not the agent. The reusable fix is a…

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