Agent Debugging and Forensics

When something goes wrong in production, which agent instance caused it? Cryptographic identity makes investigation possible.

In production systems with multiple agents, debugging is a nightmare. Agent A triggers a build, Agent B deploys it, Agent C runs tests, and something breaks. Which agent caused the failure?

Without per-agent identity, you're digging through shared logs and hoping for the best. With AIdent-registered agents, each agent's actions are cryptographically signed. You can definitively trace any action to a specific agent instance.

Combined with heartbeat data, you can also determine if an agent was healthy at the time of the incident, when it was last restarted, and how long it had been running. This turns post-incident investigation from guesswork into forensics.