Open Source Otoscope: Pinpoints Which Layer Broke in Voice Agents

rachittshah · x · 2026-08-24

Voice agents can pass transcript evals but still fail in user experience (e.g., talking over the caller). Otoscope is an open-source tool that uses counterfactual blame attribution to identify the broken layer. By swapping one piece of the call trace with a perfect version and checking if the failure disappears, it pinpoints the cause. It covers 60 addressable failure modes and includes a harness with an agent that has 7 planted bugs for testing.

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