https://precomputing.com/tags/traces-demo/ Recent content in Traces Demo on precomputing.com Hugo en-us Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://precomputing.com/agent-traces-case-study-a-day-of-coding-agent-calls-kept-14-times-smaller-and-rebuilt-byte-for-byte/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://precomputing.com/agent-traces-case-study-a-day-of-coding-agent-calls-kept-14-times-smaller-and-rebuilt-byte-for-byte/ <p>A coding agent works by calling a model again and again, and every call sends the whole conversation so far: the system prompt, the tool list, the task, everything the agent has said and every tool output it has read. A run&rsquo;s 40th call repeats its first 39. A tracer that stores each call whole stores the start of every run many times over, and the questions teams ask of those traces are simple ones: what did this run cost, which repository spends the most, and which tool fills the context.</p>