Add comprehensive tracing and evaluation system with reproducible runs and golden task harness

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This PR introduces a complete observability and evaluation framework that makes every agent run traceable, reproducible, and measurable. The implementation addresses the need for debugging LangGraph behavior, catching regressions, and comparing model/provider performance.

Key Features

🔍 Tracing System

• JSONL trace capture with node-level inputs/outputs, tool I/O, timings, and state transitions
• Configurable data redaction for API keys, tokens, and sensitive information
• Local-first storage in data/traces/{chat_id}/{run_id}.jsonl format
• Minimal overhead (~10-20ms per node transition) with opt-in configuration

🔄 Reproducible Runs

• Replay engine that mocks tool calls using recorded trace responses
• Seedable randomness for deterministic execution across runs
• Trace comparison tools to validate reproducibility
• CLI replay commands for debugging with --execute flag

✅ Golden Task Evaluation

• 5 comprehensive golden tasks covering conversation, calculation, knowledge search, planning, and error handling
• 8 assertion types including content validation, tool usage verification, structure detection, and fabrication prevention
• Automated scoring with pass/fail heuristics and detailed scorecards
• Pytest integration for continuous evaluation in CI/CD pipelines

Usage Examples

# Enable tracing for a conversation
python -m agentic_ai.cli chat "Calculate 15 + 27 * 3" --trace --seed reproducible_run

# List and examine traces
python -m agentic_ai.cli list-traces
python -m agentic_ai.cli replay data/traces/chat123/run456.jsonl --show-events

# Execute replay with mock tools for debugging
python -m agentic_ai.cli replay data/traces/chat123/run456.jsonl --execute

# Run evaluation suite
python -m pytest tests/test_evals.py -v
python -m evals.runner

Implementation Details

The system is built with four core components:

1. Core Tracing (src/agentic_ai/infra/trace.py): Context manager with JSONL writer, hooks into LangGraph nodes
2. Replay Engine (src/agentic_ai/infra/replay.py): Mock tool execution from recorded responses
3. Evaluation Harness (evals/): YAML task definitions, runner, scorer with comprehensive assertions
4. CLI Interface (src/agentic_ai/cli.py): Commands for chat, tracing, replay, and comparison

Example trace output:

{"event_type": "node_start", "timestamp": 1694123456.790, "node_name": "planner", "data": {"input": {"user_message": "Hello"}}}
{"event_type": "tool_request", "timestamp": 1694123456.850, "node_name": "tools", "data": {"tool_name": "calculator", "args": {"expression": "2+2"}, "args_hash": "abc12345"}}
{"event_type": "tool_response", "timestamp": 1694123456.920, "node_name": "tools", "data": {"tool_name": "calculator", "result": "4"}, "duration_ms": 70}

Security & Privacy

• Automatic redaction of sensitive patterns (API keys, tokens, passwords)
• Content length limits to prevent large trace files
• Local storage only by default (no external transmission)
• Configurable via environment variables (ENABLE_TRACING=false by default)

The system provides complete observability for debugging agent behavior, reproducible evaluation for catching regressions, and measurable quality metrics through golden tasks - enabling faster development and more reliable AI agents.

Fixes #10.

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  • Triggering command: python -m agentic_ai.cli chat Hello, tell me about AI --trace (dns block)
  • Triggering command: python -m agentic_ai.cli list-traces (dns block)
  • Triggering command: python test_eval_system.py (dns block)

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