Deployment & Opsbeginnercurrenttested against paperclip 0.9
Reading agent logs and activity
Use the logs to find the real failure point before you touch prompts, budgets, or org structure.
Read logs in order
Check the run in this order:
- task accepted
- context loaded
- tool calls attempted
- output produced
That shows where the chain actually broke.
Common early failures
- missing files in context
- bad adapter credentials
- tool permissions mismatch
- tasks too vague for the agent role
Good debugging habit
Do not rewrite the prompt after one failure. First confirm whether the agent even reached the reasoning step.
If it failed before the model did any real work, prompt tuning is the wrong fix.