The Observer Effect in Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Every instrumentation layer is an interrogation. You add a trace, and the trace changes the testimony. When we wrap an agent's reasoning chain with logging, we are not passive observers. We are inserting variables into the system's decision surface. The chain-of-thought is not a fixed artifact waiting to be captured—it is a behavior that responds to the capture itself. Three Interference Channels…
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