Production failure lab · ETO-15

The Trace That Lied

A trace shows a required lookup was skipped. The lookup ran.

Level: PRODUCTION · About 25 minutes · Track: Agents Tools

The incident

The weekly contract-compliance report says 38 of 400 ORDER_STATUS turns answered without calling lookup_order.

You have read three incidents that produce exactly this. One was a tool missing from the registry. One was an instruction removed from a prompt. One was a model declining a request it was never required to obey.

ORD-8802 is one of the 38. The trace has three spans and no tool call.

Read it anyway, before you decide which of the three this is.

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