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A binary failure doesn't tell you if your agent is stupid or if the website just lagged. Terminal evaluation marks a task as a 0 even if the agent got 9 of 10 steps right.
Most analysts only track the final result. If a CRM agent fails to update a lead, the report just says it failed. You don't know if the agent got lost in the menu or failed to parse the input form.
Semantic state tracking fixes this by recording milestones instead of raw clicks. It turns a log of keystrokes into a trajectory of meaning. Instead of seeing a click on an HTML element, you see the state: User is on the checkout screen.
This shifts the debugging process from guesswork to precision:
- Define semantic milestones for the workflow.
- Capture the agent's trajectory.
- Run a verifier against each milestone.
- Isolate the first false state to find the exact reasoning break.
I condensed this approach into a 12-page visual field guide to help you move from terminal metrics to process-level observability.
For those deploying web agents, how are you currently distinguishing between a model reasoning error and a UI change that broke the workflow?
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