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Deliberate – log what your agent rejected, not just what it ran

Deliberate – log what your agent rejected, not just what it ran

by garysmith1234·May 31, 2026·4 points·1 comment
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AI Analysis

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Captures rejected agent decisions, not just executed actions—Langfuse doesn't do this.

Strengths
  • •Decision-focused auditing captures rejected forks, not just executed tool calls like standard tracing
  • •Policy gates and approval workflows address real compliance needs for production agent deployments
  • •Interactive replay with fork visualization makes incident investigation actually tractable
Weaknesses
  • •Early access design partner phase means limited real-world validation and unknown pricing
  • •Agent observability space getting crowded fast with Langfuse, Arize, Helicone already established
Target Audience

Teams running LangGraph or OpenAI Agents in production with compliance requirements

Similar To

Langfuse · Arize Phoenix · Helicone

Post Description

I'm building Deliberate in response to the PocketOS incident in April and the DataTalks.Club incident in February. Jer Crane could see the API call that deleted his prod volume. He couldn't see that the agent had other options and picked the worst one. Trace tools show you what ran. I wanted something that shows you what the agent was choosing between. Early access for teams running LangGraph or OpenAI Agents in prod.

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GhostTrace – See rejected decisions in AI agents

Recording what an agent considered — not just what it executed — is a tidy, concrete insight. GhostTrace already gives record/replay commands, a .ghost.json schema and a --show-phantoms terminal replay so you can inspect rejected actions and the agent's reasoning. The thing that will decide if this takes off is integrations (LangChain/OpenAI Agents/CrewAI) and the promised web/VS Code UIs; without those it's a very useful niche tool, not yet a platform.

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