Developers can now debug and evaluate AI agents locally with Raindrop's open source tool Workshop

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Observability startup Raindrop AI’s new open source, MIT Licensed "Workshop" tool, launched today, gives developers something that they've likely wanted, perhaps subconsciously, since the agentic AI era kicked off in earnest last year: a local debugger and evaluation tool specifically designed for AI agents, allowing devs to see all the traces of what their agent has been doing in a single, lightweight Structured Query Language (SQL) database file (.db)

It functions as a local daemon and UI that streams every token, tool call, and decision to a local dashboard—typically hosted at localhost:5899—the moment it occurs. By visiting their localhost, developers can then see everything their agent was up to — including mistakes or errors — and identify what went wrong, when, and ideally, discern why. It's all stored in a single .db file, which takes up relatively little memory, according to a X direct message VentureBeat received...

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