Research
Agent Trajectories as Visual Artifacts
The first research lane: turn agent steps, evidence, tool calls, memory, claims, and risks into deterministic inspection maps.
The first ZeroModel research lane is agent trajectory inspection.
Recent trajectory and provenance work points in the same direction: final-answer accuracy is too small an object. Agents produce process. The process contains evidence, tool calls, memory reads, intermediate claims, retries, failures, hidden assumptions, and possible long-horizon risk.
The problem
final answer score = too compressed
raw trace = too large
ordinary dashboard = too shallow
The missing object is a deterministic artifact between the trace and the score.
ZeroModel mapping
| Agent object | VPM row |
|---|---|
| User goal | task row |
| Retrieved document | evidence row |
| Intermediate claim | claim row |
| Tool call | action row |
| Memory read/write | memory row |
| Observation | environment row |
| Final answer section | output row |
| Metric | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Evidence support | Is this step grounded? |
| Tool justification | Was the tool call necessary? |
| Policy fit | Is the step allowed? |
| Temporal dependency | Does this depend on distant earlier state? |
| Uncertainty | Is the system unsure? |
| Reversibility | Can this action be undone? |
| Cost | Did this consume unnecessary work? |
| Inspection priority | Should a reviewer inspect it first? |
Triage, inspect, judge
ZeroModel is a natural surface for a triage-inspect-judge loop:
agent trace
→ score every step and relation
→ concentrate high-risk/high-importance cells
→ inspect the top-left region
→ judge the trajectory with evidence in view
This is the core product idea for Visual AI Computing:
AI systems should not merely emit answers. They should emit inspectable visual artifacts that preserve how those answers came to exist.
Claim boundary
ZeroModel does not prove the agent is safe. It does not detect malicious intent by itself. It does not replace the evaluator.
It makes the evaluator’s signals inspectable, deterministic, and source-mapped.