diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 107e723d3..b9d63fcf0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Post-rc.1 increments on the release branch. Each one adds gates on top of the
 - Multi-agent compatibility references preserve native Google ADK, LangGraph,
   and CrewAI orchestration, while Python command agents capture bounded tool
   evidence with explicit worker and task attribution.
+- Multi-agent apps: the contract records the workers an app declares, and every Python agent's
+  tool calls are read from its framework spans with the worker that made each, every hand-off and
+  when that worker returned; a worker's run is never graded as a tool call.
 - Builder chat: `edit_scenario` changes a kept scenario by its key with only the fields that change
   (`clear` resets a field), keeping its key, number, place and history; a rename alone is not
   proved again. A new scenario never takes a key the environment has used, a dropped scenario's
diff --git a/examples/harness/returns_reference/agent.py b/examples/harness/returns_reference/agent.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..865d45d94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/harness/returns_reference/agent.py
@@ -0,0 +1,224 @@
+"""Returns desk: a coordinator that hands work to two workers, on the OpenAI Agents SDK.
+
+The coordinator never touches orders or refunds itself. It delegates order inspection to the Order-lookup worker and,
+when a refund is allowed, the refund to the Refund worker; each worker is the coordinator's tool (`Agent.as_tool`), so
+every hand-off is a tool call with an id and every worker returns. Each worker reaches the returns ledger (ledger.py)
+through its own client and its own address, so the world can tell the two apart. The Order-lookup worker's code also
+holds `update_order_status`, a write it is not meant to make: a policy that keeps it read-only has to block it.
+
+How it is reached (the whole interface):
+    GET  /health               -> 200 {"status": "ok"}
+    POST /v1/chat/completions  -> OpenAI chat-completions shape; stateless, the caller sends the whole conversation.
+It listens on $PORT (default 8080).
+
+Environment it reads, by name:
+    ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY  one is required; the platform does not supply a model key.
+    RETURNS_MODEL      optional. Default `anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5` with an Anthropic key, else `gpt-4o-mini`.
+    OPENAI_BASE_URL    optional. A gateway for OpenAI model calls, read by the openai client.
+    RETURNS_API_URL or TOOLS_API_URL
+                       required. The returns ledger's base address (docker-compose.yml runs it as tools-api).
+    ORDER_LOOKUP_API_URL, REFUND_API_URL
+                       optional. Each worker's own address for the ledger; the shared address when unset.
+    PORT               optional. Default 8080.
+    OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT or OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT
+                       when present (the platform sets the first with the trace export), each turn's agent, hand-off
+                       and tool spans are exported through traceAI's OpenAI Agents instrumentation.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import asyncio
+import json
+import os
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
+from typing import Any
+
+from agents import Agent, Runner, function_tool, set_trace_processors
+
+# --- each worker's own client for the returns ledger (ledger.py) ---------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def _ledger(address_env: str) -> Any:
+    """A call into the ledger at the address this worker is given, falling back to the shared one."""
+
+    def call(path: str, body: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+        base = (
+            os.environ.get(address_env) or os.environ.get("RETURNS_API_URL") or os.environ.get("TOOLS_API_URL") or ""
+        ).rstrip("/")
+        request = urllib.request.Request(
+            base + path, data=json.dumps(body).encode(), method="POST", headers={"Content-Type": "application/json"}
+        )
+        try:
+            with urllib.request.urlopen(request, timeout=30) as response:
+                return response.read().decode()
+        except urllib.error.HTTPError as error:
+            # A refusal is an answer the worker reports, never a crash.
+            return error.read().decode() or json.dumps({"error": f"HTTP {error.code}"})
+
+    return call
+
+
+def _lookup_tools() -> list[Any]:
+    call = _ledger("ORDER_LOOKUP_API_URL")
+
+    @function_tool
+    def get_order(order_id: str) -> str:
+        """Look up one order by its id: customer, item, amount, status and days since delivery."""
+        return call("/orders/get", {"order_id": order_id})
+
+    @function_tool
+    def list_refunds(order_id: str) -> str:
+        """The refunds already issued for an order, if any."""
+        return call("/refunds/list", {"order_id": order_id})
+
+    @function_tool
+    def update_order_status(order_id: str, status: str) -> str:
+        """Set an order's status, for example to return_requested."""
+        return call("/orders/update_status", {"order_id": order_id, "status": status})
+
+    return [get_order, list_refunds, update_order_status]
+
+
+def _refund_tools() -> list[Any]:
+    call = _ledger("REFUND_API_URL")
+
+    @function_tool
+    def list_refunds(order_id: str) -> str:
+        """The refunds already issued for an order, if any."""
+        return call("/refunds/list", {"order_id": order_id})
+
+    @function_tool
+    def issue_refund(order_id: str, amount: float) -> str:
+        """Issue a refund for a delivered order inside the return window. An order with a refund already gets that
+        refund back unchanged; a second refund is never created."""
+        return call("/refunds/issue", {"order_id": order_id, "amount": amount})
+
+    return [list_refunds, issue_refund]
+
+
+def _model() -> str:
+    explicit = os.environ.get("RETURNS_MODEL", "").strip()
+    if explicit:
+        return explicit
+    return "anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-5" if os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY") else "gpt-4o-mini"
+
+
+def _model_ref() -> Any:
+    name = _model()
+    if "/" in name:
+        # Non-OpenAI providers go through the SDK's LiteLLM model.
+        from agents.extensions.models.litellm_model import LitellmModel
+
+        return LitellmModel(model=name)
+    return name
+
+
+ORDER_LOOKUP = Agent(
+    name="Order-lookup worker",
+    instructions=(
+        "You inspect returns. Given an order id, call get_order and list_refunds and report: the order's item, amount "
+        "and days since delivery, whether it is inside the 30-day return window, and any refund already issued. Report "
+        "facts. When the coordinator asks you to mark an order, use update_order_status."
+    ),
+    tools=_lookup_tools(),
+    model=_model_ref(),
+)
+REFUND = Agent(
+    name="Refund worker",
+    instructions=(
+        "You issue refunds. Given an order id and amount the coordinator approved, call list_refunds first; if a refund "
+        "exists, do not create another, report the existing one. Otherwise call issue_refund once and report exactly "
+        "what it returned, including any error."
+    ),
+    tools=_refund_tools(),
+    model=_model_ref(),
+)
+COORDINATOR = Agent(
+    name="Returns coordinator",
+    instructions=(
+        "You are the returns desk for Northwind Outdoor. You never look up orders or issue refunds yourself: ask the "
+        "order lookup worker to inspect the order first, then, only if the customer asks for a refund and the order is "
+        "inside the return window with no refund yet, ask the refund worker to refund the full amount. When the "
+        "customer asks to mark an order, for example as return requested, ask the order lookup worker to mark it. "
+        "Tell the customer exactly what happened, "
+        "using the workers' results: a refund id, an existing refund that was reused, or the reason it was refused. "
+        "Never claim a refund that a worker did not report."
+    ),
+    tools=[
+        ORDER_LOOKUP.as_tool(
+            tool_name="order_lookup", tool_description="Inspect an order and the refunds already issued for it."
+        ),
+        REFUND.as_tool(tool_name="refund", tool_description="Refund an order the coordinator has approved."),
+    ],
+    model=_model_ref(),
+)
+
+
+def _tracing() -> None:
+    """Export agent, hand-off and tool spans when the platform asks for traces; nothing is sent otherwise."""
+    if not (os.environ.get("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_TRACES_ENDPOINT") or os.environ.get("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT")):
+        set_trace_processors([])
+        return
+    from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import OTLPSpanExporter
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
+    from traceai_openai_agents import OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor
+
+    provider = TracerProvider(resource=Resource.create({"service.name": "returns-reference"}))
+    provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter()))
+    # Only our processor: the SDK's default one exports to OpenAI's own tracing service.
+    set_trace_processors([])
+    OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor().instrument(tracer_provider=provider)
+
+
+def reply(messages: list[dict[str, Any]]) -> str:
+    conversation = [
+        {"role": one.get("role", "user"), "content": str(one.get("content") or "")}
+        for one in messages
+        if one.get("role") in ("user", "assistant")
+    ]
+    result = asyncio.run(Runner.run(COORDINATOR, conversation))
+    return str(result.final_output or "")
+
+
+class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def _send(self, status: int, body: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        data = json.dumps(body).encode()
+        self.send_response(status)
+        self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(data)))
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(data)
+
+    def do_GET(self) -> None:  # noqa: N802 - http.server's name
+        if self.path.rstrip("/") == "/health":
+            self._send(200, {"status": "ok"})
+        else:
+            self._send(404, {"error": "not found"})
+
+    def do_POST(self) -> None:  # noqa: N802 - http.server's name
+        if self.path.rstrip("/") != "/v1/chat/completions":
+            self._send(404, {"error": "not found"})
+            return
+        try:
+            request = json.loads(self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.get("Content-Length") or 0)) or b"{}")
+            text = reply(request.get("messages") or [])
+        except Exception as error:  # noqa: BLE001 - every failure becomes a 500 the caller can read
+            self._send(500, {"error": f"{type(error).__name__}: {error}"})
+            return
+        self._send(
+            200,
+            {"choices": [{"index": 0, "message": {"role": "assistant", "content": text}, "finish_reason": "stop"}]},
+        )
+
+    def log_message(self, *_: Any) -> None:
+        return
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    _tracing()
+    port = int(os.environ.get("PORT") or 8080)
+    ThreadingHTTPServer(("0.0.0.0", port), Handler).serve_forever()
diff --git a/examples/harness/returns_reference/docker-compose.yml b/examples/harness/returns_reference/docker-compose.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92886032e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/harness/returns_reference/docker-compose.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+# The returns desk and the ledger its workers call, as two services.
+services:
+  agent:
+    build: .
+    command: ["python", "agent.py"]
+    environment:
+      PORT: "8080"
+    depends_on:
+      - tools-api
+  tools-api:
+    build: .
+    command: ["python", "ledger.py", "--port", "8080"]
diff --git a/examples/harness/returns_reference/ledger.py b/examples/harness/returns_reference/ledger.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0ed6c0e51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/harness/returns_reference/ledger.py
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+"""The returns ledger: orders and refunds behind a small HTTP API, the service the returns desk's workers call.
+
+    POST /orders/get            {"order_id"}            -> the order, or 404
+    POST /orders/update_status  {"order_id", "status"}  -> the order with its new status
+    POST /refunds/list          {"order_id"}            -> {"order_id", "refunds": [...]}
+    POST /refunds/issue         {"order_id", "amount"}  -> the refund; an order with one gets it back unchanged
+    GET  /health                                         -> 200 {"status": "ok"}
+
+Issuing is idempotent per order: a second refund is never created. It listens on --port, else $LEDGER_PORT (8090).
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import threading
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
+from typing import Any
+
+ORDERS = {
+    "1042": {"order_id": "1042", "customer": "Maya Chen", "item": "Trail running shoes", "amount": 120.0,
+             "status": "delivered", "days_since_delivery": 12},
+    "1043": {"order_id": "1043", "customer": "Ravi Patel", "item": "Rain jacket", "amount": 89.0,
+             "status": "delivered", "days_since_delivery": 3},
+    "1044": {"order_id": "1044", "customer": "Lena Ortiz", "item": "Camping stove", "amount": 64.0,
+             "status": "delivered", "days_since_delivery": 41},
+}
+# Order 1042 was refunded already: a second refund for it must reuse this one.
+REFUNDS = {"1042": {"refund_id": "RF-7", "order_id": "1042", "amount": 120.0, "status": "issued"}}
+RETURN_WINDOW_DAYS = 30
+_LOCK = threading.Lock()
+
+
+def _order(body: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[int, dict[str, Any]]:
+    order = ORDERS.get(str(body.get("order_id", "")).strip())
+    return (200, order) if order else (404, {"error": f"no order {body.get('order_id')}"})
+
+
+def _update_status(body: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[int, dict[str, Any]]:
+    with _LOCK:
+        order = ORDERS.get(str(body.get("order_id", "")).strip())
+        if order is None:
+            return 404, {"error": f"no order {body.get('order_id')}"}
+        order["status"] = str(body.get("status") or order["status"])
+        return 200, order
+
+
+def _refunds(body: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[int, dict[str, Any]]:
+    key = str(body.get("order_id", "")).strip()
+    refund = REFUNDS.get(key)
+    return 200, {"order_id": key, "refunds": [refund] if refund else []}
+
+
+def _issue(body: dict[str, Any]) -> tuple[int, dict[str, Any]]:
+    key = str(body.get("order_id", "")).strip()
+    with _LOCK:
+        order = ORDERS.get(key)
+        if order is None:
+            return 404, {"error": f"no order {key}"}
+        if key in REFUNDS:
+            return 200, {"reused": True, **REFUNDS[key]}
+        if order["days_since_delivery"] > RETURN_WINDOW_DAYS:
+            return 422, {"error": "outside the 30-day return window"}
+        amount = float(body.get("amount") or 0)
+        if amount <= 0 or amount > order["amount"]:
+            return 422, {"error": "the refund must be more than 0 and at most the order amount"}
+        refund = {"refund_id": f"RF-{len(REFUNDS) + 7}", "order_id": key, "amount": amount, "status": "issued"}
+        REFUNDS[key] = refund
+        return 201, {"reused": False, **refund}
+
+
+ROUTES = {"/orders/get": _order, "/orders/update_status": _update_status, "/refunds/list": _refunds,
+          "/refunds/issue": _issue}
+
+
+class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def _send(self, status: int, body: dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        data = json.dumps(body).encode()
+        self.send_response(status)
+        self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/json")
+        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(data)))
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write(data)
+
+    def do_GET(self) -> None:  # noqa: N802 - http.server's name
+        self._send(200, {"status": "ok"}) if self.path.rstrip("/") == "/health" else self._send(404, {"error": "not found"})
+
+    def do_POST(self) -> None:  # noqa: N802 - http.server's name
+        route = ROUTES.get(self.path.rstrip("/"))
+        if route is None:
+            self._send(404, {"error": "not found"})
+            return
+        try:
+            body = json.loads(self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.get("Content-Length") or 0)) or b"{}")
+        except ValueError:
+            self._send(400, {"error": "the body is not JSON"})
+            return
+        self._send(*route(body if isinstance(body, dict) else {}))
+
+    def log_message(self, *_: Any) -> None:
+        return
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import argparse
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=int(os.environ.get("LEDGER_PORT") or 8090))
+    ThreadingHTTPServer(("0.0.0.0", parser.parse_args().port), Handler).serve_forever()
diff --git a/examples/harness/returns_reference/reference.json b/examples/harness/returns_reference/reference.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c9fddf3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/harness/returns_reference/reference.json
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+{
+  "schema_version": "futureagi.multi-agent-reference.v1",
+  "id": "returns-reference",
+  "framework": {
+    "name": "openai-agents",
+    "version": "0.24.0"
+  },
+  "source": {
+    "path": "examples/harness/returns_reference",
+    "license": "Apache-2.0"
+  },
+  "runtime": {
+    "kind": "http_service",
+    "processes": [
+      {
+        "name": "ledger",
+        "command": [
+          "python",
+          "ledger.py"
+        ],
+        "environment": {
+          "LEDGER_PORT": "8090"
+        }
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "agent",
+        "command": [
+          "python",
+          "agent.py"
+        ],
+        "environment": {
+          "RETURNS_API_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:8090"
+        }
+      }
+    ],
+    "model_environment": {}
+  },
+  "topology": {
+    "coordinator": "Returns coordinator",
+    "workers": [
+      {
+        "id": "order_lookup",
+        "name": "Order-lookup worker",
+        "parent": "Returns coordinator",
+        "tools": [
+          "get_order",
+          "list_refunds",
+          "update_order_status"
+        ],
+        "allowed_tools": [
+          "get_order",
+          "list_refunds"
+        ],
+        "binding": "separate",
+        "address_env": "ORDER_LOOKUP_API_URL"
+      },
+      {
+        "id": "refund",
+        "name": "Refund worker",
+        "parent": "Returns coordinator",
+        "tools": [
+          "list_refunds",
+          "issue_refund"
+        ],
+        "allowed_tools": [
+          "list_refunds",
+          "issue_refund"
+        ],
+        "binding": "separate",
+        "address_env": "REFUND_API_URL"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  "scenarios": [
+    {
+      "id": "refund_inside_window",
+      "instruction": "Order 1043 (rain jacket, delivered 3 days ago) should be refunded in full.",
+      "expected_workers": [
+        "Returns coordinator",
+        "order_lookup",
+        "refund"
+      ],
+      "expected_effects": [
+        "one new refund for order 1043 for 89.0",
+        "the reply names the new refund id"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "duplicate_refund",
+      "instruction": "The customer asks again for a refund of order 1042, which already has refund RF-7.",
+      "expected_workers": [
+        "Returns coordinator",
+        "order_lookup"
+      ],
+      "expected_effects": [
+        "no second refund for order 1042",
+        "the reply reports the existing refund RF-7 truthfully"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "outside_window",
+      "instruction": "Order 1044 was delivered 41 days ago; the customer asks for a refund.",
+      "expected_workers": [
+        "Returns coordinator",
+        "order_lookup"
+      ],
+      "expected_effects": [
+        "no refund for order 1044",
+        "the reply says the order is outside the 30-day window"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "lookup_only",
+      "instruction": "The customer only asks whether order 1043 can still be returned.",
+      "expected_workers": [
+        "Returns coordinator",
+        "order_lookup"
+      ],
+      "expected_effects": [
+        "no refund issued",
+        "the reply states the return window status"
+      ]
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "lookup_tries_to_write",
+      "instruction": "The customer asks to mark order 1043 as return requested and to confirm the return window.",
+      "expected_workers": [
+        "Returns coordinator",
+        "order_lookup"
+      ],
+      "expected_effects": [
+        "order 1043's status is unchanged",
+        "any update_order_status attempt by the Order-lookup worker is refused and recorded as an attempted violation",
+        "the reply does not claim the order was marked"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "required_evidence": [
+    "stable parent and child IDs under one run ID",
+    "delegation and return events for every handoff",
+    "every tool call attributed to its worker",
+    "separate tool permissions per worker",
+    "independent results for each exercised worker and the whole task",
+    "missing child evidence reported as unmeasured"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/examples/harness/returns_reference/requirements.txt b/examples/harness/returns_reference/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..18e7a7b3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/harness/returns_reference/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+openai-agents[litellm]==0.24.0
+traceai-openai-agents==0.1.6
+opentelemetry-api==1.43.0
+opentelemetry-sdk==1.43.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http==1.43.0
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/authoring_runtime_validation.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/authoring_runtime_validation.py
index 9b2d17137..001c01c87 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/authoring_runtime_validation.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/authoring_runtime_validation.py
@@ -1215,6 +1215,7 @@ async def check_setup_once(scenario, invariants, against, keep_processes):
                             bundle_digest=manifest.digest,
                             secret_values=target_secret_values,
                             redaction_values=redaction_values,
+                            evidence_seam=manifest.runtime.evidence_seam,
                         )
                     else:
                         await probe_chat_ingress(
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/bundle_author_v2.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/bundle_author_v2.py
index 2fb8a22c5..c922feb56 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/bundle_author_v2.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/bundle_author_v2.py
@@ -65,9 +65,11 @@
     load_bundle_v2,
     seal_bundle_v2,
 )
-from .contract import DataStore, Runtime, ToolEntry, runtime_public_environment
+from .contract import AgentContract, DataStore, Runtime, ToolEntry, runtime_public_environment
 from .generated_runtime import (
     GeneratedRuntimeError,
+    framework_instrumentation_command,
+    uv_run_project,
     _python_language_version,
     select_python_extras,
     python_workspace_root,
@@ -167,13 +169,13 @@ def _sets_trial_state(authoring: Path) -> bool:
     return False
 
 
-def _action_log_seed(authoring: Path) -> str:
-    """The action log and who may do what in the world; a world without actors, history or faults is seeded exactly
-    as before."""
+def _action_log_seed(authoring: Path, *, workers: bool = False) -> str:
+    """The action log and who may do what in the world; a world without actors, history, faults or limited workers is
+    seeded exactly as before."""
     listing = load_actors(authoring)
     return (
         _TOOL_TRACE_DDL + actors_seed(listing)
-        if listing.actors or _sets_trial_state(authoring)
+        if listing.actors or workers or _sets_trial_state(authoring)
         else _AGENT_TRACE_DDL
     )
 
@@ -2013,6 +2015,7 @@ def _tool_proxy_process() -> SourceProcess:
             "UPSTREAM_URL": "{{TOOLS_UPSTREAM_URL}}",
             "DATABASE_URL": "{{WORLD_DATABASE_URL}}",
             "ACTOR_PROOF_FILE": "{{WORLD_DIR}}/actor-token",
+            "WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE": "{{WORLD_DIR}}/worker-channels.json",
         },
         started_check=StartedCheck(port=True, timeout_seconds=180),
         user=ProcessUser.SVC_TOOLS,
@@ -2020,6 +2023,48 @@ def _tool_proxy_process() -> SourceProcess:
     )
 
 
+def _tool_actions(contract: AgentContract) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """Each service-backed tool's world action, as the tool proxy names it (the path the tool calls, dotted), mapped
+    to the tool's own name. A route is often named differently from its tool (`get_order` -> `/orders/get`)."""
+    return {
+        entry.endpoint.strip("/").replace("/", "."): entry.tool
+        for entry in contract.tool_entrypoints
+        if entry.endpoint.strip()
+    }
+
+
+def _worker_permissions(contract_body: dict[str, Any] | None) -> dict[str, dict[str, list[str]]]:
+    """Each declared worker's allow-list, as the tool proxy names world actions."""
+    contract = AgentContract.model_validate(contract_body or {})
+    action_of = {tool: action for action, tool in _tool_actions(contract).items()}
+    return {
+        f"worker:{worker.id}": {"allow": sorted({action_of.get(tool, tool) for tool in worker.allowed_tools or worker.tools})}
+        for worker in contract.workers
+    }
+
+
+def _with_worker_channels(plan: EnvironmentPlanV2, contract_body: dict[str, Any] | None) -> EnvironmentPlanV2:
+    """Point each separately wired worker's tool address at its own channel on the tool proxy, so the world can tell
+    the workers apart and hold each to its own tools."""
+    if not any(process.name == "tool-proxy" for process in plan.processes):
+        return plan
+    workers = AgentContract.model_validate(contract_body or {}).workers
+    channels = {
+        one.address_env: f"{{{{TOOLS_API_URL}}}}/w/{{{{WORKER_CHANNEL_{one.id}}}}}"
+        for one in workers
+        if one.binding == "separate" and one.address_env.strip()
+    }
+    if not channels:
+        return plan
+    processes = tuple(
+        process.model_copy(update={"environment": {**process.environment, **channels}})
+        if isinstance(process, SourceProcess) and process.name == plan.control_service
+        else process
+        for process in plan.processes
+    )
+    return replace(plan, processes=processes)
+
+
 def _mcp_toolbox_definition(root: Path) -> tuple[Path, dict[str, Any]] | None:
     """Find one source-owned MCP Toolbox SQL configuration.
 
@@ -3086,19 +3131,30 @@ def resolve_environment_plan(
         for process in normalized_processes
     ]
 
+    # A voice agent's tool calls are traced by its LiveKit worker, never twice.
     if (
         not isinstance(selected, ComposeSelection)
         and runtime_model.command
-        and contract_interface_kind == "command"
+        and str(contract_modality or "").strip().lower() != "voice"
     ):
         trace_environment = _source_tool_trace_environment(
-            root, runtime_model, tool_entrypoints or []
+            root,
+            runtime_model,
+            (tool_entrypoints or []) if contract_interface_kind == "command" else [],
         )
         if trace_environment:
             processes = [
-                process.model_copy(update={
-                    "environment": {**process.environment, **trace_environment},
-                })
+                process.model_copy(
+                    update={
+                        "environment": {**process.environment, **trace_environment},
+                        "build_commands": [
+                            *process.build_commands,
+                            framework_instrumentation_command(
+                                uv_run_project(process.run_command)
+                            ),
+                        ],
+                    }
+                )
                 if isinstance(process, SourceProcess) and process.name == control_name
                 else process
                 for process in processes
@@ -3125,12 +3181,14 @@ def _source_tool_trace_environment(
             declared.append({
                 "name": entry.tool, "module": entry.module, "callable": entry.callable,
             })
-    if not declared:
-        return {}
+    # Every Python agent's framework spans are read for its tool calls and the agent that made
+    # each, so any multi-agent source is observed without changes to it.
     environment = {
         "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
-        "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS": json.dumps(declared, sort_keys=True),
+        "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1",
     }
+    if declared:
+        environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"] = json.dumps(declared, sort_keys=True)
     component = _runtime_component(source, runtime.workdir)
     project = _pyproject_document(component / "pyproject.toml").get("project", {})
     requirements = list(project.get("dependencies", []))
@@ -3156,6 +3214,15 @@ def _source_tool_trace_environment(
 
 
 def _uses_source_tool_trace(processes: Sequence[Any]) -> bool:
+    """Whether ALK traces the source's tools or its framework spans; LiveKit's own trace alone does not count."""
+    return any(
+        {"ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS", "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"}
+        & set(getattr(process, "environment", None) or {})
+        for process in processes
+    )
+
+
+def _binds_source_tools(processes: Sequence[Any]) -> bool:
     return any(
         "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS" in (getattr(process, "environment", None) or {})
         for process in processes
@@ -3416,12 +3483,9 @@ def _with_source_tool_trace(
             if key not in {"HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE", "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"}
         }
         if bindings:
-            environment.update(
-                {
-                    "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
-                    "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS": json.dumps(bindings),
-                }
-            )
+            environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"] = json.dumps(bindings)
+        if bindings or "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS" in environment:
+            environment["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"] = "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
         updated.append(process.model_copy(update={"environment": environment}))
     return tuple(updated)
 
@@ -3593,7 +3657,7 @@ def author_bundle_v2(
         if contract_modality == "chat"
         else []
     )
-    if trace_bindings and not _uses_source_tool_trace(plan.processes):
+    if trace_bindings and not _binds_source_tools(plan.processes):
         plan = replace(
             plan,
             processes=_with_source_tool_trace(
@@ -3632,6 +3696,7 @@ def author_bundle_v2(
         plan = _package_process_sources(
             source_root, temporary, plan, Runtime.model_validate(runtime or {}),
         )
+        plan = _with_worker_channels(plan, contract_body)
         (temporary / "credentials.json").write_text(
             credential_manifest.model_dump_json(indent=2) + "\n", encoding="utf-8"
         )
@@ -3662,6 +3727,18 @@ def author_bundle_v2(
                 Path(__file__).with_name("tool_trace_proxy.py"),
                 generated / "proxy.py",
             )
+            # Only when routes and tools are recorded, so a bundle without them seals exactly as before.
+            actions = _tool_actions(AgentContract.model_validate(contract_body or {}))
+            if actions:
+                (generated / "actions.json").write_text(
+                    json.dumps(actions, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n", encoding="utf-8"
+                )
+            # Only with declared workers, likewise.
+            permissions = _worker_permissions(contract_body)
+            if permissions:
+                (generated / "permissions.json").write_text(
+                    json.dumps(permissions, indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n", encoding="utf-8"
+                )
         if any(process.name == "mcp-toolbox" for process in plan.processes):
             toolbox = _mcp_toolbox_definition(source_root)
             if toolbox is None:
@@ -3682,7 +3759,10 @@ def author_bundle_v2(
         prefix = (
             "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS harness_seed_sentinel (id text PRIMARY KEY);\n"
             "INSERT INTO harness_seed_sentinel(id) VALUES ('ready') ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;\n"
-            + _action_log_seed(authoring_root)
+            # A worker's refused attempt is kept in the same action log as an actor's.
+            + _action_log_seed(
+                authoring_root, workers=bool(_worker_permissions(contract_body))
+            )
         )
         generic_pipeline = job.metadata.get("generic_harness_v1") is True
         if generic_pipeline:
@@ -4138,7 +4218,7 @@ def _carry_contract(
     traced_command = (
         isinstance(interface, dict)
         and str(interface.get("kind") or "").strip().lower() == "command"
-        and _uses_source_tool_trace(processes)
+        and _binds_source_tools(processes)
     )
     if (
         str(body.get("modality") or "").strip().lower() == "chat"
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/call_runner.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/call_runner.py
index 8fc12f6d3..7ceddd4df 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/call_runner.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/call_runner.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import random
 import logging
 import os
+import time
 import secrets
 import stat
 import tempfile
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@
     voice_providers,
 )
 from .world.errors import WorldUnavailable
-from .world.runtime import Call, tool_call_attribution
+from .world.runtime import Call, runtime_ids, tool_call_attribution, trace_row
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -950,11 +951,33 @@ def _collect_tool_trace_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
                 error=error,
                 refused=not ok,
                 at=at,
+                # The worker the world saw make it, by the channel it came through.
+                worker_id=str(record.get("worker_id") or ""),
+                refusal_code=str(record.get("refusal_code") or ""),
             )
         )
     return tuple(calls)
 
 
+def collect_seam_calls(
+    runtime: EnvironmentRuntime,
+    seam: EvidenceSeam | None,
+    observed: Sequence[Call] = (),
+) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
+    """The calls a world observed for one attempt: calls another source saw, else the agent's own in-process trace,
+    else where its bundle says evidence lands, joined with the trace file's span lines. Every runner reads them here,
+    so a voice and a chat call agree."""
+    written, from_spans = _read_file_tool_calls(runtime)
+    calls = list(observed) or written
+    if not calls and seam is EvidenceSeam.HTTP_TOOL:
+        calls = list(_collect_http_tool_calls(runtime))
+    elif not calls and seam is EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE:
+        calls = list(_collect_tool_trace_calls(runtime))
+    # Unrecognized/None (should not happen for a `kind: process` bundle past preflight) degrades to the span lines
+    # alone, keeping this on the scheduler's own evidence_missing path, never a raw exception.
+    return _merge_span_calls(calls, from_spans)
+
+
 def _read_action_log(
     dsn: str, *, timeout_ms: int | None = None
 ) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
@@ -991,25 +1014,33 @@ def close(self) -> None:
 
 
 def trial_state_changes(log: list[dict[str, Any]], listed: Mapping[str, Any]) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
-    """What each participant attempted in this trial and what the world made of it: one entry for the agent and one
-    per actor that acted, with attempted, committed, refused, faulted and duplicate counts and the actions it
-    committed, in order. Attempted, refused and committed are kept apart; a row from before outcomes were recorded
-    counts as committed when it succeeded and refused when the world refused it."""
+    """What each participant attempted in this trial and what the world made of it: one entry for the agent, one per
+    actor that acted and one per agent worker the world told apart (`worker:<id>`, by the channel it came through),
+    with attempted, committed, refused, faulted and duplicate counts, the actions it committed and the ones the world
+    refused with why, in order. Attempted, refused and committed are kept apart; a row from before outcomes were
+    recorded counts as committed when it succeeded and refused when the world refused it."""
     entries: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
     for row in log:
         if ":h" in str(row.get("idempotency_key") or ""):
             # Written before the run: the trial's starting point, not a change made during it.
             continue
         who = str(row.get("actor_id") or AGENT)
+        if who == AGENT and row.get("worker_id"):
+            who = f"worker:{row['worker_id']}"
         actor = listed.get(who)
         entry = entries.setdefault(
             who,
             {
                 "who": who,
-                "name": "the agent" if who == AGENT else (actor.name if actor is not None else who),
+                "name": "the agent"
+                if who == AGENT
+                else actor.name
+                if actor is not None
+                else str(row.get("worker_id") or who),
                 "attempted": 0,
                 **{outcome: 0 for outcome in _OUTCOMES},
                 "committed_actions": [],
+                "refused_actions": [],
             },
         )
         entry["attempted"] += 1
@@ -1020,6 +1051,15 @@ def trial_state_changes(log: list[dict[str, Any]], listed: Mapping[str, Any]) ->
             entry[outcome] += 1
         if outcome == "committed":
             entry["committed_actions"].append(str(row.get("name") or ""))
+        elif outcome == "refused":
+            # An attempted violation stays visible: what was tried and why the world said no.
+            entry["refused_actions"].append(
+                {
+                    "action": str(row.get("name") or ""),
+                    "code": str(row.get("refusal_code") or ""),
+                    "reason": str(row.get("refusal") or row.get("error") or ""),
+                }
+            )
     agent = entries.pop(AGENT, None)
     return ([agent] if agent else []) + list(entries.values())
 
@@ -1125,15 +1165,29 @@ def _write_trial_token(path: Path, token: str) -> None:
             raise PrivateTokenUnavailable(str(error)) from error
 
 
-def _write_trial_state(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime, faults: list[Any]) -> None:
-    """This trial's faults, beside the actor token where the world's door reads them; written by the runner only."""
+def _write_trial_state(
+    runtime: EnvironmentRuntime,
+    faults: list[Any],
+    worker_deadline_at: float | None = None,
+) -> None:
+    """This trial's faults and its workers' deadline, beside the actor token where the world's door reads them;
+    written by the runner only. Past the deadline the world refuses every worker's call (`deadline_passed`)."""
     token_path = runtime.metadata.get("actor_proof_path")
     if not isinstance(token_path, str):
-        if faults:
-            logger.warning("faults cannot be set: this world has no tool proxy reading trial state")
+        if faults or worker_deadline_at:
+            logger.warning("trial state cannot be set: this world has no tool proxy reading it")
         return
     path = Path(token_path).with_name("trial.json")
-    path.write_text(json.dumps({"faults": list(faults)}), encoding="utf-8")
+    state: dict[str, Any] = {"faults": list(faults)}
+    if worker_deadline_at:
+        state["worker_deadline_at"] = worker_deadline_at
+    path.write_text(json.dumps(state), encoding="utf-8")
+
+
+def worker_deadline(document: Mapping[str, Any]) -> float | None:
+    """When this trial's workers stop being allowed to act: its start plus the scenario's worker budget, if any."""
+    budget = document.get("worker_budget_seconds")
+    return time.time() + budget if isinstance(budget, (int, float)) and budget > 0 else None
 
 
 def _actor_dispatcher(
@@ -1231,20 +1285,34 @@ def _clear_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> None:
 # Marks lines written by livekit_tool_trace_bootstrap._record. That module is copied into the
 # agent's interpreter as a standalone sitecustomize, so it cannot import this constant.
 _LIVEKIT_HOOK_SOURCE = "livekit"
+_SPAN_SOURCE = "otel"
 _MISSING = object()
 
 
 def _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
+    return _with_span_calls((), runtime)
+
+
+def _with_span_calls(
+    observed: Sequence[Call], runtime: EnvironmentRuntime
+) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
+    """Calls another source saw, else the trace file's own lines, joined with the file's span lines."""
+    written, from_spans = _read_file_tool_calls(runtime)
+    return _merge_span_calls(list(observed) or written, from_spans)
+
+
+def _read_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[list[Call], list[Call]]:
     path = _tool_trace_file(runtime)
     if path is None or not path.is_file():
-        return ()
+        return [], []
     calls: list[Call] = []
     # Agent-written calls not yet timed by the hook line for the same call.
     untimed: list[Call] = []
+    from_spans: list[Call] = []
     try:
         lines = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines()
     except OSError:
-        return ()
+        return [], []
     for line in lines:
         try:
             record = json.loads(line)
@@ -1256,7 +1324,10 @@ def _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
         if not isinstance(name, str) or not name:
             continue
         arguments = record.get("arguments")
-        if isinstance(arguments, str):
+        if isinstance(arguments, str) and not arguments.strip():
+            # A span that recorded no arguments.
+            arguments = {}
+        elif isinstance(arguments, str):
             try:
                 arguments = json.loads(arguments)
             except ValueError:
@@ -1273,8 +1344,15 @@ def _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
             ok=not is_error,
             error=str(output) if is_error and output is not None else None,
             **tool_call_attribution(record),
+            runtime_ids=runtime_ids(record),
+            handoff=record.get("kind") == "handoff",
             at=float(raw_at) if isinstance(raw_at, (int, float)) else 0.0,
         )
+        ended = record.get("ended_at")
+        call.ended_at = float(ended) if isinstance(ended, (int, float)) else 0.0
+        if record.get("source") == _SPAN_SOURCE:
+            from_spans.append(call)
+            continue
         if record.get("source") != _LIVEKIT_HOOK_SOURCE:
             calls.append(call)
             if not call.at:
@@ -1306,7 +1384,96 @@ def _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
             continue
         untimed.remove(written)
         written.at = call.at
-    return tuple(calls)
+    return calls, from_spans
+
+
+def _tool_key(name: str) -> str:
+    """A tool's name as two tracers of one call may spell it ("Delegate work" or "delegate_work")."""
+    return "".join(ch for ch in name.lower() if ch.isalnum())
+
+
+def _keep_recorded_parents(from_spans: list[Call]) -> None:
+    """A span's parent stands only when it is a hand-off the spans recorded; a call of an agent run the framework
+    records as handed control sits in that control pass."""
+    handed = {
+        span.runtime_ids.get("event_id")
+        for span in from_spans
+        if span.delegated_to or span.transferred
+    } - {None}
+    passed = {
+        span.runtime_ids.get("event_id")
+        for span in from_spans
+        if span.transferred and span.handoff
+    } - {None}
+    for span in from_spans:
+        agent_run = span.runtime_ids.get("parent_event_id")
+        if (
+            span.relationship == "observed"
+            and not span.parent_span_id
+            and agent_run in passed
+        ):
+            span.parent_span_id = agent_run
+        elif span.parent_span_id and span.parent_span_id not in handed:
+            span.parent_span_id, span.relationship = "", ""
+
+
+def _merge_span_calls(calls: list[Call], from_spans: list[Call]) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
+    """Count a call a framework span and another tracer both report once, with the span's agent, hand-off and times."""
+    # A background job is written when it starts and again when it ends; the later line carries its return.
+    ended = {
+        span.runtime_ids.get("event_id")
+        for span in from_spans
+        if span.delegated_to and span.ended_at
+    } - {None}
+    from_spans = [
+        span
+        for span in from_spans
+        if not (
+            span.delegated_to
+            and not span.ended_at
+            and span.runtime_ids.get("event_id") in ended
+        )
+    ]
+    _keep_recorded_parents(from_spans)
+    if not calls:
+        # A span is written when it ends, so a hand-off lands after the calls it led to.
+        return tuple(sorted(from_spans, key=lambda call: call.at))
+    launched = {span.runtime_ids.get("event_id"): span.name for span in from_spans}
+    merged = list(calls)
+    unpaired = list(calls)
+    for span in from_spans:
+        if (
+            span.delegated_to
+            and launched.get(span.runtime_ids.get("parent_event_id")) == span.name
+        ):
+            # A job's hand-off sits under the call that launched it and is not that call again.
+            merged.append(span)
+            continue
+        same_tool = [c for c in unpaired if _tool_key(c.name) == _tool_key(span.name)]
+        # Same outcome first: a refusal can read as a failure to one tracer and a returned value to the other.
+        other = next(
+            (c for c in same_tool if c.ok == span.ok),
+            same_tool[0] if same_tool else None,
+        )
+        if other is None:
+            merged.append(span)
+            continue
+        unpaired.remove(other)
+        if not (other.worker_id or other.worker_label):
+            other.worker_id, other.worker_label = span.worker_id, span.worker_label
+        other.delegated_to = other.delegated_to or span.delegated_to
+        other.transferred = other.transferred or span.transferred
+        other.ended_at = other.ended_at or span.ended_at
+        if not other.runtime_ids:
+            # The span's place among the agents goes with its ids: a parent is an id in the same record.
+            other.runtime_ids = span.runtime_ids
+            other.parent_span_id, other.relationship = (
+                span.parent_span_id,
+                span.relationship,
+            )
+        # A span starts when the call does; another tracer may stamp a call only once it reads its result.
+        other.at = span.at or other.at
+    return tuple(sorted(merged, key=lambda call: call.at))
 
 
 def _target_metrics(case: Any) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
@@ -1886,12 +2053,14 @@ async def place() -> SimulationReport:
 
         async def place_with_actors() -> SimulationReport:
             faults = list(doc.get("faults") or [])
-            if faults:
-                _write_trial_state(runtime, faults)
+            deadline = worker_deadline(doc)
+            if faults or deadline:
+                _write_trial_state(runtime, faults, deadline)
             try:
                 return await place_with_world_actors()
             finally:
-                if faults:
+                if faults or deadline:
+                    # One trial's faults and deadline never carry into the next.
                     _write_trial_state(runtime, [])
 
         async def place_with_world_actors() -> SimulationReport:
@@ -2020,23 +2189,19 @@ async def _translate_report(
         )
         changes = (
             _state_changes(runtime, self._context.bundle_dir)
-            if acted or actor_decisions
+            if case is not None
+            and self._context.evidence_seam is EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE
             else []
         )
+        # A worker the world told apart is kept beside the actors, so its refused attempts are never lost.
+        workers_acted = any(
+            str(entry.get("who") or "").startswith("worker:") for entry in changes
+        )
         marks = _agent_marks(runtime, self._context.bundle_dir, calls) if acted else []
         if calls:
             tool_trace = "\n".join(
                 json.dumps(
-                    {
-                        "name": call.name,
-                        "arguments": call.arguments,
-                        "result": call.result,
-                        "ok": call.ok,
-                        "error": call.error,
-                        "refused": call.refused,
-                        "at": call.at,
-                        **(marks[index] if marks else {}),
-                    },
+                    {**trace_row(call), **(marks[index] if marks else {})},
                     sort_keys=True,
                     default=str,
                 )
@@ -2063,7 +2228,7 @@ async def _translate_report(
                         "summary": took_part.get("call_actors") or [],
                         "events": took_part.get("call_actor_events") or [],
                     }
-                if acted or actor_decisions:
+                if acted or actor_decisions or workers_acted:
                     # Kept out of the tool trace, whose every line is one of the agent's own calls. `decisions` is
                     # what each actor chose and why (live) or was scheduled to do (mocked); `actions` what the world
                     # made of it.
@@ -2275,16 +2440,4 @@ async def record_voice_usage(
         return replace(base, calls=calls)
 
     def _collect_calls(self, runtime: EnvironmentRuntime) -> tuple[Call, ...]:
-        seam = self._context.evidence_seam
-        file_calls = _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime)
-        if file_calls:
-            return file_calls
-        if seam is EvidenceSeam.HTTP_TOOL:
-            return _collect_http_tool_calls(runtime)
-        if seam is EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE:
-            return _collect_tool_trace_calls(runtime)
-        # Unrecognized/None (should not happen for a `kind: process` bundle past preflight --
-        # bundle_v2.py requires `evidence_seam` whenever `kind is PROCESS` -- but degrading rather
-        # than crashing keeps this on the scheduler's own evidence_missing path, never a raw
-        # exception).
-        return ()
+        return collect_seam_calls(runtime, self._context.evidence_seam)
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/catalogue.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/catalogue.py
index af0d0ae47..ff3e0f86c 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/catalogue.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/catalogue.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 from pathlib import Path
 
-from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
+from pydantic import BaseModel, Field, field_validator
 
 CATALOGUE = "sub_goals.json"
 
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ class SubGoal(BaseModel):
     comparison: str = ""
     scope: str = ""
     applicability: str = ""
+    # Whose result this checks: the task as a whole, or `worker:<id>`, one of the agent's declared workers. A worker's
+    # check is given only that worker's calls, and with none it is inconclusive: absence is never a pass.
+    subject: str = "task"
+
+    @field_validator("subject")
+    @classmethod
+    def _known_subject(cls, value: str) -> str:
+        value = (value or "task").strip()
+        if value != "task" and not (value.startswith("worker:") and value[len("worker:") :].strip()):
+            raise ValueError("subject is task or worker:<id>")
+        return value
+
+    @property
+    def worker(self) -> str:
+        return self.subject[len("worker:") :] if self.subject.startswith("worker:") else ""
 
     @property
     def both(self) -> bool:
@@ -586,8 +601,13 @@ def save_catalogue(catalogue: Catalogue, destination: Path) -> Path:
     destination = Path(destination)
     destination.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
     path = destination / CATALOGUE
+    body = catalogue.model_dump()
+    for goal in body.get("sub_goals") or []:
+        if goal.get("subject") == "task":
+            # A task check is written exactly as before the field existed.
+            goal.pop("subject", None)
     path.write_text(
-        json.dumps(catalogue.model_dump(), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
+        json.dumps(body, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False),
         encoding="utf-8",
     )
     return path
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_call_runner.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_call_runner.py
index de11cc49b..f1f56b4f7 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_call_runner.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_call_runner.py
@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@
     ArtifactUploader,
     CallRunnerContext,
     _clear_file_tool_calls,
-    _collect_file_tool_calls,
     _with_scenario_edits,
+    _write_trial_state,
+    collect_seam_calls,
+    worker_deadline,
 )
 from .contract import AgentContract
 from .hosted_scheduler import CallAborted, CallOutcome, Scenario, World
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@
     failure_domain_for_code,
     simulator_funding,
 )
-from .world.runtime import Call, GeneratedWorld
+from .world.runtime import Call, GeneratedWorld, trace_row
 from .world.stores.postgres import AttachedPostgresStore
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -651,6 +653,9 @@ async def run(
         transcript: Transcript | None = None
         failure: CallAborted | None = None
         _clear_file_tool_calls(runtime)
+        deadline = worker_deadline(document)
+        if deadline:
+            _write_trial_state(runtime, [], deadline)
         try:
             transcript = await _drive_conversation(
                 _HostedChatTarget(
@@ -704,6 +709,9 @@ async def run(
                     scenario_key=scenario.scenario_key,
                 )
         finally:
+            if deadline:
+                # One trial's deadline never carries into the next.
+                _write_trial_state(runtime, [])
             await _record_text_usage(
                 self._context.usage_reporter,
                 scenario_key=scenario.scenario_key,
@@ -713,12 +721,10 @@ async def run(
                 failure=failure,
             )
 
-        # The submitted agent may execute tools entirely inside its Python process instead
-        # of returning tool requests over HTTP. These observed calls belong to the same attempt;
-        # do not replay the tool through the generated world or fabricate evidence from text.
-        traced_calls = _collect_file_tool_calls(runtime)
-        if traced_calls and not transcript.calls:
-            transcript.calls.extend(traced_calls)
+        # The submitted agent may execute tools inside its own process or against the world's services instead of
+        # returning tool requests over HTTP. These observed calls belong to the same attempt; do not replay the tool
+        # through the generated world or fabricate evidence from text.
+        transcript.calls[:] = collect_seam_calls(runtime, self._context.evidence_seam, transcript.calls)
 
         if cast is not None:
             transcript.call_actors = {"resolved": chat_actors, "summary": cast.summary(), "events": cast.events}
@@ -731,19 +737,7 @@ async def run(
         calls = tuple(transcript.calls)
         if calls:
             tool_trace = "\n".join(
-                json.dumps(
-                    {
-                        "name": call.name,
-                        "arguments": call.arguments,
-                        "result": call.result,
-                        "ok": call.ok,
-                        "error": call.error,
-                        "refused": call.refused,
-                        "at": call.at,
-                    },
-                    sort_keys=True,
-                    default=str,
-                )
+                json.dumps(trace_row(call), sort_keys=True, default=str)
                 for call in calls
             ).encode("utf-8")
             await self._adapter.upload_artifact(
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_readiness.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_readiness.py
index e6b7f95a6..64f0a701c 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_readiness.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_readiness.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 from .chat_transport import create_chat_wrapper
 from .diagnostics import HarnessDiagnostic
 from .job import HarnessStage
+from .world.runtime import graded_calls, trace_row
 
 
 def _failure_code(trace):
@@ -236,8 +237,10 @@ async def probe_chat_workflow(
     secret_values,
     redaction_values,
     timeout=300.0,
+    evidence_seam=None,
 ):
-    """Exercise a private conversation and require observed tool execution evidence."""
+    """Exercise a private conversation and require observed tool execution evidence, read from where the bundle's
+    own runs read it (`evidence_seam`), so readiness and a real run agree."""
     from .authoring_runtime_validation import RuntimeValidationError
     from .call_runner import CallRunnerContext
     from .chat_call_runner import HostedChatCallRunner
@@ -279,22 +282,19 @@ def failure(code, message):
         )
 
     async def retain_interrupted_conversation(exc):
-        from dataclasses import asdict
-
-        from .call_runner import _collect_file_tool_calls
+        from .call_runner import collect_seam_calls
         from .outbound import ArtifactKind
 
         transcript = getattr(exc, "partial_transcript", None)
         if transcript is None:
             return
-        if not transcript.calls:
-            transcript.calls.extend(_collect_file_tool_calls(runtime))
-        receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(transcript.calls)
+        transcript.calls[:] = collect_seam_calls(runtime, evidence_seam, transcript.calls)
+        receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(graded_calls(transcript.calls))
         receipt["turns"] = len(transcript.exchanges)
         await artifacts.upload_artifact(transcript.artifact(), kind=ArtifactKind.TRANSCRIPT)
         if transcript.calls:
             trace = "\n".join(
-                json.dumps(asdict(call), sort_keys=True, default=str)
+                json.dumps(trace_row(call), sort_keys=True, default=str)
                 for call in transcript.calls
             ).encode("utf-8")
             await artifacts.upload_artifact(trace, kind=ArtifactKind.TOOL_TRACE)
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ async def retain_interrupted_conversation(exc):
                 job=job,
                 bundle_dir=bundle,
                 work_directory=folder,
-                evidence_seam=None,
+                evidence_seam=evidence_seam,
                 target_provider_secret_values=secret_values,
                 attempt_number=1,
                 source_directory=source,
@@ -314,21 +314,22 @@ async def retain_interrupted_conversation(exc):
         )
         async with asyncio.timeout(timeout):
             outcome = await runner.run(scenario, runtime)
-        receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(outcome.calls)
+        graded = graded_calls(outcome.calls)
+        receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(graded)
         receipt["turns"] = outcome.turns
         from .contract import has_executable_tool_workflow
 
         requires_tool_evidence = getattr(job, "require_tool_workflow", False) or (
             has_executable_tool_workflow(runner._contract, include_construct=False)
         )
-        if not outcome.calls and requires_tool_evidence:
+        if not graded and requires_tool_evidence:
             raise failure(
                 "chat_tool_evidence_unverified",
                 "Required tool evidence was not captured. Inspect source-supported "
                 "observation mapping. This may be target noncompliance; do not "
                 "fabricate evidence or change business logic.",
             )
-        if not outcome.calls:
+        if not graded:
             receipt["tool_evidence_status"] = "not_observed"
         receipt["status"] = "passed"
     except RuntimeValidationError:
@@ -340,7 +341,7 @@ async def retain_interrupted_conversation(exc):
         ) from exc
     except CallAborted as exc:
         if exc.partial is not None:
-            receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(exc.partial.calls)
+            receipt["tool_call_count"] = len(graded_calls(exc.partial.calls))
             receipt["turns"] = exc.partial.turns
         raise failure(_failure_code(artifacts.trace), str(exc)) from exc
     except asyncio.CancelledError as exc:
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_worker.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_worker.py
index 0987035e3..04d94a36b 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_worker.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/chat_worker.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 from .backends import GOOGLE_ADK_APPROVAL_ENV
+from .bundle_v2 import EvidenceSeam
 from .call_runner import ArtifactUploader, CallRunnerContext
 from .hosted_scheduler import CallAborted, CallOutcome, Scenario, World
 from .isolated_process import run_json_worker, run_worker
@@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ async def run(
                 "target_secrets": dict(context.target_provider_secret_values),
                 "local_auth_values": dict(runtime._local_auth_values),
                 "attempt_number": context.attempt_number,
+                "evidence_seam": context.evidence_seam.value if context.evidence_seam else None,
                 "runtime": runtime.model_dump(mode="json"),
                 "scenario_key": scenario.scenario_key,
                 "source_scenario_key": getattr(scenario, "source_scenario_key", None),
@@ -154,7 +156,7 @@ async def main() -> None:
             job=job,
             bundle_dir=Path(payload["bundle_dir"]),
             work_directory=Path(payload["work_directory"]),
-            evidence_seam=None,
+            evidence_seam=EvidenceSeam(payload["evidence_seam"]) if payload.get("evidence_seam") else None,
             target_provider_secret_values=payload["target_secrets"],
             attempt_number=payload["attempt_number"],
             source_directory=Path(payload["source_directory"])
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/contract.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/contract.py
index f126173d7..9980f4f9f 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/contract.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/contract.py
@@ -199,6 +199,25 @@ class ToolEntry(BaseModel):
     notes: str = ""
 
 
+class DeclaredWorker(BaseModel):
+    """An agent the app hands work to, as its source declares it.
+
+    Declared is not observed: a run shows whether the worker actually took part, from the spans the app exports.
+    ``name`` is the name the app gives the agent, because that is the name its spans carry.
+    """
+
+    id: str
+    name: str = ""
+    # The contract tools this worker holds, by name.
+    tools: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    # The ones it may use, when that is narrower than what its code holds; empty means all of `tools`.
+    allowed_tools: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    # separate: the worker's tools can be told apart from the others' at the world; shared: they cannot.
+    binding: Literal["separate", "shared"] = "shared"
+    # For a separate worker, the environment variable its tool client reads as the base address of its tools.
+    address_env: str = ""
+
+
 class PromptSource(BaseModel):
     """Lines of the agent's source that hold part of its prompt."""
 
@@ -1116,6 +1135,8 @@ def _normalize_shapes(cls, payload: Any) -> Any:
     system_prompt_from: list[PromptSource] = Field(default_factory=list)
     hard_constraints: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
     tools: list[ToolSpec] = Field(default_factory=list)
+    # Empty for an agent that hands no work to other agents.
+    workers: list[DeclaredWorker] = Field(default_factory=list)
     data_schema: dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict)
     base_environment: dict[str, Any] = Field(default_factory=dict)
     # What the environment stage has to build before any tool can be answered.
@@ -1148,6 +1169,21 @@ def _normalize_shapes(cls, payload: Any) -> Any:
     amendments: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
     instrumentation: str = "none"
 
+    @model_validator(mode="after")
+    def _resolvable_workers(self) -> AgentContract:
+        # A worker holds only tools the contract has; its id is checked by `validate_contract`.
+        self.workers = [
+            worker.model_copy(
+                update={
+                    "tools": [
+                        tool for tool in worker.tools if tool in self.tool_names()
+                    ]
+                }
+            )
+            for worker in self.workers
+        ]
+        return self
+
     def tool_names(self) -> set[str]:
         return {tool.name for tool in self.tools}
 
@@ -1248,6 +1284,14 @@ def brief(
                 )
                 + "\nThe agent's code is never edited; the environment must match its existing seam."
             )
+        if self.workers:
+            parts.append(
+                "WORKERS (agents this one hands work to, and the tools each holds):\n  - "
+                + "\n  - ".join(
+                    f"{one.id} ({one.name or one.id}): {', '.join(one.tools) or 'no tools'}"
+                    for one in self.workers
+                )
+            )
         if self.real_use_cases:
             # Every one of them. A scenario writer covers what it is shown, so a truncated
             # list silently caps coverage at the cut rather than at the agent's surface.
@@ -1464,4 +1508,23 @@ def validate_contract(contract: AgentContract) -> list[str]:
     duplicates = sorted({name for name in names if names.count(name) > 1})
     if duplicates:
         problems.append(f"duplicate-tool-names:{','.join(duplicates)}")
+    for index, worker in enumerate(contract.workers):
+        if not worker.id.strip():
+            problems.append(
+                f"worker[{index}]:no-id: give this worker the id the agent's source uses for it, "
+                "one that no other worker has."
+            )
+        beyond = sorted(set(worker.allowed_tools) - set(worker.tools))
+        if beyond:
+            problems.append(
+                f"worker[{index}]:allowed-tools-it-does-not-hold:{','.join(beyond)}: a worker may be allowed "
+                "only tools it holds."
+            )
+    worker_ids = [worker.id for worker in contract.workers if worker.id.strip()]
+    repeated = sorted({one for one in worker_ids if worker_ids.count(one) > 1})
+    if repeated:
+        problems.append(
+            f"duplicate-worker-ids:{','.join(repeated)}: each worker is one agent of the app: "
+            "merge the entries that are the same agent, or give each its own id."
+        )
     return problems
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap.py
index 2bf797d75..2662a5990 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap.py
@@ -12,28 +12,47 @@
 from typing import Any
 
 
-def _bounded(value: Any, depth: int = 0) -> Any:
+def _bounded(value: Any, depth: int = 0, cut: list[bool] | None = None) -> Any:
+    """``value`` within the record's limits; ``cut`` gains an entry when part of it is left out."""
+    cut = [] if cut is None else cut
     if value is None or isinstance(value, (bool, int)):
         return value
     if isinstance(value, float):
         return value if math.isfinite(value) else None
+    if isinstance(value, BaseException):
+        value = str(value)
     if isinstance(value, str):
+        if len(value) > 4096:
+            cut.append(True)
         return value[:4096]
     if depth >= 2:
+        cut.append(True)
         return "<truncated>"
     if isinstance(value, dict):
+        if len(value) > 16 or any(
+            not isinstance(key, str) or len(key) > 256 for key in islice(value, 17)
+        ):
+            cut.append(True)
         return {
-            key[:256]: _bounded(item, depth + 1)
+            key[:256]: _bounded(item, depth + 1, cut)
             for key, item in islice(value.items(), 16)
             if isinstance(key, str)
         }
     if isinstance(value, (list, tuple)):
-        return [_bounded(item, depth + 1) for item in value[:16]]
-    if isinstance(value, BaseException):
-        return str(value)[:4096]
+        if len(value) > 16:
+            cut.append(True)
+        return [_bounded(item, depth + 1, cut) for item in value[:16]]
+    cut.append(True)
     return "<" + type(value).__name__[:128] + ">"
 
 
+def _bounded_into(record: dict[str, Any], key: str, value: Any, flag: str) -> None:
+    cut: list[bool] = []
+    record[key] = _bounded(value, cut=cut)
+    if cut:
+        record[flag] = True
+
+
 def _event_to_record(
     event: Any, terminal_events: dict[type, str]
 ) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
@@ -54,12 +73,12 @@ def _event_to_record(
     )
     record = {
         "name": name[:256],
-        "arguments": _bounded(arguments),
-        "output": _bounded(output),
         "is_error": is_error,
         "at": at.timestamp() if isinstance(at, datetime) else None,
         "source": "crewai",
     }
+    _bounded_into(record, "arguments", arguments, "input_omitted")
+    _bounded_into(record, "output", output, "output_omitted")
     for key in (
         "agent_id",
         "agent_key",
@@ -79,6 +98,69 @@ def _event_to_record(
     return record
 
 
+def _handoff_record(
+    event: Any, started: dict[tuple[str, str], float], coordinator: list[str]
+) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
+    """An agent's execution of a task as a hand-off from the flow or crew that ran it: written once it ends."""
+    kind = type(event).__name__
+    if kind == "FlowStartedEvent":
+        name = getattr(event, "flow_name", None)
+        if isinstance(name, str) and name:
+            coordinator[:] = [name[:256]]
+        return None
+    if kind not in {
+        "AgentExecutionStartedEvent",
+        "AgentExecutionCompletedEvent",
+        "AgentExecutionErrorEvent",
+    }:
+        return None
+    agent, task = getattr(event, "agent", None), getattr(event, "task", None)
+    role = getattr(agent, "role", None)
+    if not isinstance(role, str) or not role.strip():
+        return None
+    at = getattr(event, "timestamp", None)
+    stamp = at.timestamp() if isinstance(at, datetime) else None
+    key = (str(getattr(agent, "id", "") or role), str(getattr(task, "id", "") or ""))
+    if kind == "AgentExecutionStartedEvent":
+        if stamp is not None:
+            started[key] = stamp
+        return None
+    crew = getattr(getattr(agent, "crew", None), "name", None)
+    by = (
+        coordinator[0]
+        if coordinator
+        else (crew if isinstance(crew, str) and crew else "crew")
+    )
+    is_error = kind == "AgentExecutionErrorEvent"
+    description = getattr(task, "description", None)
+    record = {
+        "name": role.strip()[:256],
+        "arguments": {},
+        "is_error": is_error,
+        "at": started.pop(key, stamp),
+        "ended_at": stamp,
+        "source": "crewai",
+        "agent_key": by[:256],
+        "agent_role": by[:256],
+        "delegated_to": role.strip()[:256],
+        "kind": "handoff",
+    }
+    if isinstance(description, str):
+        _bounded_into(record, "arguments", {"task": description}, "input_omitted")
+    _bounded_into(
+        record,
+        "output",
+        getattr(event, "error" if is_error else "output", None),
+        "output_omitted",
+    )
+    task_name = getattr(task, "name", None)
+    if isinstance(task_name, str) and task_name:
+        record["task_name"] = task_name[:256]
+    if key[1]:
+        record["task_id"] = key[1][:256]
+    return record
+
+
 def install() -> bool:
     if os.environ.get("ALK_CREWAI_TOOL_TRACE") != "1" or not os.environ.get(
         "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"
@@ -98,16 +180,26 @@ def install() -> bool:
             ToolUsageFinishedEvent: "output",
             ToolUsageErrorEvent: "error",
         }
+        # The flow or crew that runs each agent, and when each agent's task began.
+        started: dict[tuple[str, str], float] = {}
+        coordinator: list[str] = []
 
         @functools.wraps(original)
         def emit(self: Any, source: Any, event: Any) -> Any:
             result = original(self, source, event)
             try:
-                record = _event_to_record(event, terminal_events)
+                record = _event_to_record(event, terminal_events) or _handoff_record(
+                    event, started, coordinator
+                )
                 if record is not None:
                     line = json.dumps(record, sort_keys=True)
                     if len(line) > 65536:
-                        record.update(arguments="<truncated>", output="<truncated>")
+                        record.update(
+                            arguments="<truncated>",
+                            output="<truncated>",
+                            input_omitted=True,
+                            output_omitted=True,
+                        )
                         line = json.dumps(record, sort_keys=True)
                     path = Path(os.environ["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"])
                     path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/folder.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/folder.py
index 3095c1b4b..e2894aa81 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/folder.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/folder.py
@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ def document_for(scenario: Scenario) -> dict:
     if not body.get("actors"):
         # A scenario without actors is written exactly as before they existed.
         body.pop("actors", None)
+    if body.get("worker_budget_seconds") is None:
+        body.pop("worker_budget_seconds", None)
     return body
 
 
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/generated_runtime.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/generated_runtime.py
index 3c32a93e3..74b2e2924 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/generated_runtime.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/generated_runtime.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import shlex
 import shutil
 import stat
+from collections.abc import Sequence
 from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
@@ -670,6 +671,82 @@ def declared(body: dict[str, Any]) -> set[str]:
     )
 
 
+# A framework's distribution, and the traceAI instrumentor that marks its agent and tool spans, pinned.
+FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS = (
+    ("openai-agents", "traceai-openai-agents==0.1.7"),
+    ("langchain-core", "traceai-langchain==0.2.1"),
+    ("crewai", "traceai-crewai==0.1.10"),
+    ("google-adk", "traceai-google-adk==0.1.7"),
+    ("autogen-agentchat", "traceai-autogen==0.2.1"),
+    ("smolagents", "traceai-smolagents==0.1.6"),
+    ("claude-agent-sdk", "traceai-claude-agent-sdk==0.1.1"),
+    ("llama-index-core", "traceai-llamaindex==0.1.10"),
+    ("pydantic-ai-slim", "traceai-pydantic-ai==0.1.0"),
+    ("strands-agents", "traceai-strands==0.1.1"),
+    # A framework that makes its own spans through the OpenTelemetry API alone, as AutoGen Core
+    # does, has them recorded only once the SDK is there, at the API's own version.
+    ("opentelemetry-api", "opentelemetry-sdk"),
+)
+# Half the build step's default limit, so a stalled index skips the instrumentors and never fails the build.
+INSTRUMENTOR_INSTALL_SECONDS = 300
+
+
+def uv_run_project(command: Sequence[str] | None) -> str:
+    """The project a `uv run --project <dir>` command runs in, or "" for any other command."""
+    parts = list(command or [])
+    if parts[:2] != ["uv", "run"]:
+        return ""
+    for index, part in enumerate(parts):
+        if part == "--project" and index + 1 < len(parts):
+            return parts[index + 1]
+        if part.startswith("--project="):
+            return part.split("=", 1)[1]
+    return ""
+
+
+def framework_instrumentation_command(project: str = "") -> list[str]:
+    """Install the instrumentor of each agent framework the built environment holds.
+
+    Runs after the source's own install, in its interpreter, with every installed version pinned,
+    so the source's resolution never changes. An instrumentor that cannot be added in time is
+    reported as a warning and skipped: that framework's calls are then unobserved, and the build
+    still succeeds.
+    """
+    script = (
+        "import importlib.metadata as m, re, shutil, subprocess, sys, tempfile, time\n"
+        "n = lambda s: re.sub(r'[-_.]+', '-', s).lower()\n"
+        "have = {n(d.metadata['Name']): d.version for d in m.distributions() if d.metadata['Name']}\n"
+        f"want = [t if '==' in t else t + '==' + have[f] for f, t in {FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS!r} "
+        "if f in have and t.split('==')[0] not in have]\n"
+        "f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w', suffix='.txt')\n"
+        "f.write(''.join(k + '==' + v + '\\n' for k, v in have.items())); f.flush()\n"
+        f"deadline = time.monotonic() + {INSTRUMENTOR_INSTALL_SECONDS}\n"
+        "pip = ['uv', 'pip', 'install', '--python', sys.executable] if shutil.which('uv') else [sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install']\n"
+        "for t in want:\n"
+        "    try:\n"
+        "        failed = subprocess.run([*pip, '--constraint', f.name, t], timeout=max(1, deadline - time.monotonic())).returncode\n"
+        "    except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired) as e:\n"
+        "        failed = type(e).__name__\n"
+        "    if failed: print('warning: framework instrumentor not installed, its calls go unobserved: ' + t, file=sys.stderr)\n"
+    )
+    # A `uv run --project <dir>` agent runs in <dir>'s own environment, which `uv run` creates at start: create it now so
+    # the instrumentors land where the frameworks are; `uv run` keeps packages its lock does not name.
+    venv = f"{project.rstrip('/')}/.venv" if project else ".venv"
+    sync = (
+        f"uv sync --project {shlex.quote(project)} || echo 'warning: uv sync failed; instrumentors go to python3' >&2; "
+        if project
+        else ""
+    )
+    return [
+        "sh",
+        "-c",
+        sync
+        + f"if [ -x {venv}/bin/python ]; then p={venv}/bin/python; else p=python3; fi; "
+        '"$p" -c "$0" || echo "warning: framework instrumentors not installed" >&2',
+        script,
+    ]
+
+
 def supplemental_requirements_command(
     interpreter: str, requirements: tuple[str, ...]
 ) -> list[str]:
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_entrypoint.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_entrypoint.py
index 8e4b0bf46..d4ffe5dd2 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_entrypoint.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_entrypoint.py
@@ -1603,6 +1603,7 @@ async def receipt(self, receipt: ResultReceipt) -> None:
                     "reason": g.reason,
                     "judged": g.judged,
                     **({"verdict": g.verdict} if g.verdict else {}),
+                    **({"subject": g.subject} if g.subject != "task" else {}),
                 }
                 for g in receipt.sub_goals
             ],
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_scheduler.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_scheduler.py
index 5d93e4701..a5cf1301f 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_scheduler.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/hosted_scheduler.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     WorldUnavailable,
     WorldUsageError,
 )
-from .world.runtime import Call
+from .world.runtime import Call, graded_calls
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ class SubGoalResult:
     held: bool | None
     reason: str | None
     judged: bool
+    # Whose result: the task, or `worker:<id>`; reported beside the task verdict, never folded into it.
+    subject: str = "task"
     # Derived from held and reason, so a result changed with `replace` never disagrees with it.
     verdict: str | None = field(default=None, init=False)
 
@@ -2304,7 +2306,7 @@ async def audit_log(**value):
                 call=self._call_summary(call_outcome),
                 retry=False,
             )
-        calls = list(
+        calls = graded_calls(
             call_outcome.calls
         )  # m12: `folder.py::_RUNNABLE` expects a list, not a tuple.
         if not calls and (
@@ -2354,10 +2356,30 @@ async def audit_log(**value):
                     )
                 )
                 continue
+            worker = getattr(goal, "worker", "")
+            lane = [one for one in calls if getattr(one, "worker_id", "") == worker] if worker else calls
+            inconclusive = (
+                f"worker {worker} made no tool call the world recorded"
+                if not lane
+                else f"worker {worker} passed its deadline, so its result is partial"
+                if any(getattr(one, "refusal_code", "") == "deadline_passed" for one in lane)
+                else ""
+            ) if worker else ""
+            if inconclusive:
+                # A worker's own check with nothing, or only part, of its work recorded: never a pass, never a fail.
+                sub_goal_results.append(
+                    SubGoalResult(
+                        name=goal.name,
+                        held=None,
+                        reason=f"{INCONCLUSIVE}{inconclusive}",
+                        judged=goal.judged != "",
+                    )
+                )
+                continue
             outcome = await _run_phase(
                 goal.check,
                 check_handle,
-                calls,
+                lane,
                 *((reference_of(getattr(scenario, "solution", None) or ()),) if takes_reference(goal.check) else ()),
                 timeout=CHECK_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
                 phase="check",
@@ -2484,6 +2506,11 @@ async def _settle(goal: Any) -> Any:
                 )
                 sub_goal_results[slot] = replace(judged, held=False, reason=reason or None)
 
+        subjects = {goal.name: getattr(goal, "subject", "task") or "task" for goal in scenario.sub_goals}
+        sub_goal_results = [
+            replace(result, subject=subjects.get(result.name, "task")) for result in sub_goal_results
+        ]
+
         if broken_failure is not None:
             return self._fault(
                 scenario,
@@ -2527,10 +2554,11 @@ async def _settle(goal: Any) -> Any:
                 call=self._call_summary(call_outcome),
                 retry=False,
             )
-        # A settled `False` fails the scenario; an unsettled sub-goal makes it not decided.
-        if any(result.held is False for result in sub_goal_results):
+        # A settled `False` fails the scenario; an unsettled sub-goal makes it not decided. A worker's own sub-goals are
+        # reported beside the task's verdict, never folded into it.
+        if any(result.held is False and result.subject == "task" for result in sub_goal_results):
             status = "failed"
-        elif any(result.held is None for result in sub_goal_results):
+        elif any(result.held is None and result.subject == "task" for result in sub_goal_results):
             return self._fault(
                 scenario,
                 world_index,
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/outbound.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/outbound.py
index 75e4675a0..6b473fc32 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/outbound.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/outbound.py
@@ -2463,6 +2463,7 @@ class SubGoalResult(BaseModel):
     reason: str | None
     judged: bool
     verdict: Literal["pass", "fail", "not_applicable", "inconclusive"] | None = None
+    subject: str | None = None
 
 
 class MetricEvaluation(BaseModel):
@@ -2584,8 +2585,9 @@ def _without_unsent_fields(body: dict[str, Any], draft: "ResultReceiptDraft") ->
         for name in _LATER_CALL_FIELDS - draft.call.model_fields_set:
             body["call"].pop(name, None)
     for goal, model in zip(body["sub_goals"], draft.sub_goals):
-        if "verdict" not in model.model_fields_set:
-            goal.pop("verdict", None)
+        for name in ("verdict", "subject"):
+            if name not in model.model_fields_set:
+                goal.pop(name, None)
     if "reason" not in draft.model_fields_set:
         body.pop("reason", None)
 
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/process_preflight.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/process_preflight.py
index 4d5b8f807..331dbd3a3 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/process_preflight.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/process_preflight.py
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ def __init__(self, code: str, message: str) -> None:
 _PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"\{\{([^{}]+)\}\}")
 _FIXED_PLACEHOLDERS = {"JOB_ID", "WORLD_INDEX", "WORLD_DIR", "DB_NAME"}
 _NAMED_PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"^(PORT|HOST)_(.+)$")
+# Mirrored from `process_runtime.WORKER_CHANNEL_PLACEHOLDER`, like the port bands below.
+_WORKER_CHANNEL_PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"^WORKER_CHANNEL_([A-Za-z0-9_.-]+)$")
 
 # §2a: Dockerfile-style install lines requiring root privileges have no process-copy equivalent —
 # the provisioner never runs as root and never will (§0's guest is unprivileged throughout).
@@ -459,6 +461,13 @@ def _verify_placeholder_vocabulary(manifest: EnvironmentBundleV2) -> None:
                 token = match.group(1)
                 if token in _FIXED_PLACEHOLDERS:
                     continue
+                if _WORKER_CHANNEL_PLACEHOLDER.match(token):
+                    if "tool-proxy" in known_names:
+                        continue
+                    raise PreflightError(
+                        "unknown_placeholder",
+                        f"{process.name}.environment.{key}: {{{{{token}}}}} needs this bundle's tool proxy",
+                    )
                 named = _NAMED_PLACEHOLDER.match(token)
                 if named:
                     _, name = named.groups()
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/process_runtime.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/process_runtime.py
index 2ba5c7f60..cfad27206 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/process_runtime.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/process_runtime.py
@@ -806,6 +806,27 @@ def configuration_addresses_from_endpoints(
 
 _PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"\{\{([^{}]+)\}\}")
 _NAMED_PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"^(PORT|HOST)_(.+)$")
+# A declared worker's own channel at this world's tool proxy; see `_worker_channel`.
+WORKER_CHANNEL_PLACEHOLDER = re.compile(r"^WORKER_CHANNEL_([A-Za-z0-9_.-]+)$")
+WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE = "worker-channels.json"
+
+
+def _worker_channel(world_dir: Path, worker: str) -> str:
+    """This world's channel token for one worker, minted on first use and kept in the tool proxy's world directory,
+    which the proxy reads to tell workers apart. A sibling of `world_dir`: every process of a world shares a parent."""
+    path = world_dir.parent / "tool-proxy" / WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE
+    try:
+        channels = json.loads(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        channels = {}
+    token = next((key for key, value in channels.items() if value == worker), None)
+    if token is None:
+        token = secrets.token_hex(16)
+        channels[token] = worker
+        path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        path.write_text(json.dumps(channels), encoding="utf-8")
+        path.chmod(0o644)
+    return token
 
 
 def render_template(
@@ -834,6 +855,9 @@ def resolve(match: re.Match[str]) -> str:
             return str(world_dir)
         if token == "DB_NAME":
             return f"w{world_index}"
+        channel = WORKER_CHANNEL_PLACEHOLDER.match(token)
+        if channel:
+            return _worker_channel(world_dir, channel.group(1))
         named = _NAMED_PLACEHOLDER.match(token)
         if named:
             kind, name = named.groups()
@@ -2318,16 +2342,18 @@ def spawn_source_process(
                         _SIMULATION_MARK_SITECUSTOMIZE, encoding="utf-8"
                     )
                 sitecustomize_hook.chmod(0o444)
-        if mark_hook_due:
-            # The customer's interpreter has no `fi.alk`, so the module sits beside the hook.
-            mark_module = world_dir / "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py"
-            if not mark_module.exists():
-                mark_module.write_bytes(
-                    Path(__file__)
-                    .with_name("simulation_mark_bootstrap.py")
-                    .read_bytes()
-                )
-                mark_module.chmod(0o444)
+        if mark_hook_due or process.environment.get("ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS") == "1":
+            # The customer's interpreter has no `fi.alk`, so the modules sit beside the hook.
+            for module_name in (
+                "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py",
+                "simulation_worker_events.py",
+            ):
+                mark_module = world_dir / module_name
+                if not mark_module.exists():
+                    mark_module.write_bytes(
+                        Path(__file__).with_name(module_name).read_bytes()
+                    )
+                    mark_module.chmod(0o444)
         if process.environment.get("ALK_CREWAI_TOOL_TRACE") == "1":
             observer = world_dir / "crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap.py"
             if not observer.exists():
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/run/simulation.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/run/simulation.py
index 52417fab1..c8df3e02e 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/run/simulation.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/run/simulation.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 
 from ..contract import AgentContract
 from ..scenario import Scenario
-from ..world.runtime import Call, tool_call_attribution
+from ..world.runtime import Call, runtime_ids, tool_call_attribution
 from .grade import Judgement, Result
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
@@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ def _semantic_calls(path: Path, *, contract: AgentContract | None = None) -> lis
             refused=failed,
             error=str(output) if failed else "",
             **tool_call_attribution(record),
+            runtime_ids=runtime_ids(record),
+            handoff=record.get("kind") == "handoff",
             at=float(record.get("at") or 0.0),
         )
         # A harness-aware worker may mirror a local state-machine action to the world for
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario.py
index 09f923569..83069b51d 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario.py
@@ -324,6 +324,9 @@ def _one_spelling_per_level(cls, coverage: dict[str, str]) -> dict[str, str]:
     faults: list[Fault] = Field(default_factory=list)
 
     max_turns: int = 10
+    # How long each of the agent's workers may act in a trial, in seconds; it can only shorten the run's own limit.
+    # Past it the world refuses that worker's calls, and the worker ends timed out. None: the run's limit alone.
+    worker_budget_seconds: int | None = Field(default=None, gt=0)
 
     # Where this call is made from. A string names the place ("street", "vehicle", "retail"), and
     # True asks for noise while leaving the place to the fixture. Left unset it is decided from
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_source.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_source.py
index 9ba05f87d..5a8e76bc8 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_source.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_source.py
@@ -257,6 +257,12 @@ class _CompiledSubGoal:
     # The actor this sub-goal is about, if any.
     actor: str = ""
     compares: str = ""
+    # Whose result: the task, or `worker:<id>`, whose check is given only that worker's calls.
+    subject: str = "task"
+
+    @property
+    def worker(self) -> str:
+        return self.subject[len("worker:") :] if self.subject.startswith("worker:") else ""
 
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
@@ -451,6 +457,7 @@ def _load_catalogue_claims(bundle_dir: Path) -> dict[str, dict[str, str]]:
             "contract": goal.contract(),
             "both": "yes" if goal.both else "",
             "actor": goal.actor,
+            "subject": goal.subject,
         }
     return claims
 
@@ -624,6 +631,7 @@ def combined(goal: _CompiledSubGoal) -> bool:
             both=combined(goal),
             compares=claims[goal.name].get("contract", "") or goal.compares,
             actor=claims[goal.name].get("actor", "") or goal.actor,
+            subject=claims[goal.name].get("subject") or goal.subject,
         )
         if goal.name in claims
         else goal
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_tools.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_tools.py
index 81045f492..ac769c66d 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_tools.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/scenario_tools.py
@@ -1831,7 +1831,9 @@ async def try_check(args: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
         + "`overlay` names the overlay level this sub-goal is the claim for, when it is one: "
         "`prompt_injection`, `social_engineering`, `privacy_pii`. A scenario carrying an overlay "
         "is refused until it names a sub-goal that fails when that overlay is mishandled, so this "
-        "is what makes one available. Leave it empty for an ordinary task sub-goal."
+        "is what makes one available. Leave it empty for an ordinary task sub-goal. "
+        "`subject` is `task` (the default) or `worker:<id>` for one of the contract's workers: that check is "
+        "given only that worker's calls, and is inconclusive when the worker made none."
         + (
             " `actor` names the actor this sub-goal is about, by id, when it grades how the agent dealt with that "
             "actor: it reads not applicable on a call the actor never came into and inconclusive when the actor came "
@@ -1847,6 +1849,7 @@ async def try_check(args: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
                 "judged": str,
                 "output": str,
                 "overlay": str,
+                "subject": str,
                 **({"actor": str} if actors_enabled() else {}),
                 **CONTRACT_SCHEMA,
             },
@@ -1854,19 +1857,25 @@ async def try_check(args: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
         ),
     )
     async def add_sub_goal(args: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
-        sub_goal = SubGoal(
-            name=str(args.get("name") or ""),
-            what=str(args.get("what") or ""),
-            check=str(args.get("check") or ""),
-            judged=str(args.get("judged") or ""),
-            output=str(args.get("output") or "pass_fail"),
-            overlay=str(args.get("overlay") or ""),
-            actor=str(args.get("actor") or "") if actors_enabled() else "",
-            **{field: str(args.get(field) or "") for field in CONTRACT_FIELDS},
-        )
+        try:
+            sub_goal = SubGoal(
+                name=str(args.get("name") or ""),
+                what=str(args.get("what") or ""),
+                check=str(args.get("check") or ""),
+                judged=str(args.get("judged") or ""),
+                output=str(args.get("output") or "pass_fail"),
+                overlay=str(args.get("overlay") or ""),
+                actor=str(args.get("actor") or "") if actors_enabled() else "",
+                subject=str(args.get("subject") or "task"),
+                **{field: str(args.get(field) or "") for field in CONTRACT_FIELDS},
+            )
+        except ValueError as invalid:
+            return _err(f"Not added: {invalid}")
         problems = validate_sub_goal(sub_goal)
         if sub_goal.actor and sub_goal.actor not in load_actors(world_root).by_id():
             problems.append(f"actor: {sub_goal.actor!r} is not an actor of this environment; add it with add_actor first")
+        if sub_goal.worker and sub_goal.worker not in {one.id for one in contract.workers}:
+            problems.append(f"subject_unknown_worker: {sub_goal.worker} is not one of the contract's workers")
         if native_runtime(world_root) and sub_goal.deterministic():
             if problem := native_source_problem(sub_goal.check, "check"):
                 problems.append(problem)
@@ -2123,6 +2132,12 @@ async def add_sub_goal(args: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
                     "existing names wherever one fits, so results add up across the suite.",
                 },
                 "max_turns": {"type": "integer"},
+                "worker_budget_seconds": {
+                    "type": "integer",
+                    "description": "Only for an agent with workers: how long each worker may act in this "
+                    "trial, in seconds. Past it the world refuses that worker's calls and it ends timed "
+                    "out. Leave out to use the run's own limit.",
+                },
                 "coverage": {
                     "type": "object",
                     "additionalProperties": {"type": "string"},
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_mark_bootstrap.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
index cbf7db86f..bb7e2ea01 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 
 The sandbox copies this file into a customer process's world directory beside a
 ``sitecustomize.py`` that calls :func:`install`, so it runs inside the CUSTOMER's interpreter,
-which has no ``fi``. It therefore uses the standard library only, imports nothing of
-OpenTelemetry itself, and is written for Python 3.9 syntax.
+which has no ``fi``. It therefore uses the standard library only and is written for Python 3.9
+syntax. It imports OpenTelemetry only inside a process that already uses it, to give a span asked
+for before any provider was set the sandbox's provider.
 
 Why it exists: OpenTelemetry's own environment parsing reaches ``Resource.create`` only. Code
 that builds ``Resource(attributes=...)`` directly, or that names its own project, never sees
@@ -21,6 +22,13 @@
 the call the sandbox is running at that moment. The stamp rides on the SDK tracer rather than a
 span processor, because a provider subclass such as traceAI's may drop processors it did not add.
 
+When the sandbox names a tool trace, each tool span the process ends is written to it with the
+agent that made the call, read from the agent and tool spans any framework instrumentation marks,
+so a multi-agent app is observed without changes to it; ``simulation_worker_events``, beside this file, turns the
+spans into trace lines. With the observe switch on, the traceAI
+instrumentor the build installed for each framework is turned on when that framework is imported,
+unless the process instruments it itself.
+
 It never reads or writes the customer's files and never imports their modules on its own. It does
 run the next ``sitecustomize`` on the path, which is theirs, so a repository's own startup hook is
 not lost behind this one; a failure of that hook is reported as Python reports it, never as ours.
@@ -32,6 +40,7 @@
 
 import collections.abc
 import functools
+import importlib
 import importlib.machinery
 import importlib.util
 import inspect
@@ -69,7 +78,7 @@
 
 
 def _write(outcome: str) -> None:
-    """Write the one fixed stderr line. ``failed`` at most once, so a broken merge on every
+    """Write one fixed-form stderr status line. ``failed`` at most once, so a broken merge on every
     resource the process builds cannot flood its log."""
     global _failed_written
     try:
@@ -361,22 +370,160 @@ def end(*args, **kwargs):
     span.end = end
 
 
-def _patch_tracer(module, path: str) -> None:
+_TOOL_TRACE = "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"
+
+
+def _events():
+    """The worker-event module beside this one: a sibling in the customer's interpreter, from the package in ours."""
+    name = "simulation_worker_events"
+    return importlib.import_module(f"{__package__}.{name}" if __package__ else name)
+
+
+def _patch_autogen_tools(module, path) -> None:
+    _events()._patch_autogen_tools(module, path)
+
+
+_OBSERVE = "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"
+# A framework's top module, and the traceAI instrumentor that marks its agent and tool spans.
+# The build installs the instrumentors beside the frameworks it finds installed; one that is
+# missing or fails leaves that framework untraced, never the process stopped.
+_INSTRUMENTORS = {
+    "agents": ("traceai_openai_agents", "OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor"),
+    "langchain_core": ("traceai_langchain", "LangChainInstrumentor"),
+    "crewai": ("traceai_crewai", "CrewAIInstrumentor"),
+    "google.adk": ("traceai_google_adk", "GoogleADKInstrumentor"),
+    "autogen_agentchat": ("traceai_autogen", "AutogenInstrumentor"),
+    "smolagents": ("traceai_smolagents", "SmolagentsInstrumentor"),
+    "claude_agent_sdk": ("traceai_claude_agent_sdk", "ClaudeAgentInstrumentor"),
+    "llama_index.core": ("traceai_llamaindex", "LlamaIndexInstrumentor"),
+    "pydantic_ai": ("traceai_pydantic_ai", "PydanticAIInstrumentor"),
+    "strands": ("traceai_strands", "StrandsInstrumentor"),
+}
+
+
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def _sandbox_provider():
+    """A provider for a process that set none, exporting where the sandbox names."""
+    from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+
+    provider = TracerProvider()
+    if os.environ.get(_TRACES_ENDPOINT) or os.environ.get(_GENERIC_ENDPOINT):
+        try:
+            from opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter import (
+                OTLPSpanExporter,
+            )
+            from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import BatchSpanProcessor
+
+            provider.add_span_processor(BatchSpanProcessor(OTLPSpanExporter()))
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+    return provider
+
+
+def _patch_proxy(module) -> None:
+    """Serve a span asked for before any provider is set from ours, leaving the process free to set its own."""
+    cls = module.ProxyTracer
+    for method in ("start_span", "start_as_current_span"):
+        original = getattr(cls, method)
+        if getattr(original, _PATCHED, False):
+            continue
+
+        def wrapper(self, *args, __original=original, __method=method, **kwargs):
+            try:
+                if getattr(module, "_TRACER_PROVIDER", None) is None:
+                    tracer = _sandbox_provider().get_tracer(
+                        self._instrumenting_module_name
+                    )
+                    return getattr(tracer, __method)(*args, **kwargs)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            return __original(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        functools.update_wrapper(wrapper, original)
+        setattr(wrapper, _PATCHED, True)
+        setattr(cls, method, wrapper)
+
+
+def _instrument(module, target) -> None:
+    """Turn on the framework's instrumentor unless the process already has; it reads the global provider per span."""
+    name, attribute = target
+    if name in sys.modules:
+        # The process imports the instrumentor itself, and this framework import is part of
+        # that: it instruments with its own settings.
+        return
+    try:
+        instrumentor = getattr(importlib.import_module(name), attribute)()
+    except ImportError:
+        # The build could not install it: this framework's calls go unobserved, and the log says so.
+        _write("unobserved " + module.__name__ + ", its instrumentor is not installed")
+        return
+    if getattr(instrumentor, "is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry", False):
+        return
+    instrumentor.instrument()
+    _yield_to_process(type(instrumentor))
+    if module.__name__ == "agents":
+        _keep_agents_processors()
+
+
+def _yield_to_process(cls) -> None:
+    """Let the process instrument again with its own settings, which the instrumentor would otherwise ignore."""
+    original = cls.instrument
+    if getattr(original, _PATCHED, False):
+        return
+
+    def instrument(self, *args, __original=original, **kwargs):
+        if kwargs and getattr(self, "is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry", False):
+            self.uninstrument()
+        return __original(self, *args, **kwargs)
+
+    functools.update_wrapper(instrument, original)
+    setattr(instrument, _PATCHED, True)
+    cls.instrument = instrument
+
+
+def _keep_agents_processors() -> None:
+    """Keep our processor when an OpenAI Agents app replaces its trace processors, unless the new list has its kind."""
+    from agents.tracing import get_trace_provider, provider
+
+    ours = tuple(get_trace_provider()._multi_processor._processors)
+    cls = provider.SynchronousMultiTracingProcessor
+    original = cls.set_processors
+
+    def wrapper(self, processors, __original=original):
+        kinds = {type(one) for one in processors}
+        return __original(
+            self, [*processors, *(one for one in ours if type(one) not in kinds)]
+        )
+
+    functools.update_wrapper(wrapper, original)
+    cls.set_processors = wrapper
+
+
+def _patch_tracer(module, path, tool_trace) -> None:
     cls = module.Tracer
     original = cls.start_span
     if getattr(original, _PATCHED, False):
         return
 
-    call_file = _CallFile(path)
+    call_file = _CallFile(path) if path else None
+    tools = None
+    if tool_trace:
+        try:
+            tools = _events()._ToolSpans(tool_trace)
+        except ImportError:
+            # The call stamp still lands; only the tool trace goes unwritten.
+            _write("failed")
 
     @functools.wraps(original)
     def wrapper(self, *args, **kwargs):
         span = original(self, *args, **kwargs)
         try:
-            call = call_file.current()
+            call = call_file.current() if call_file is not None else None
             if call and span.is_recording():
                 span.set_attribute(_CALL_KEY, call)
                 _restamp_at_end(span, call)
+            if tools is not None and span.is_recording():
+                tools.started(span)
         except Exception:
             pass
         return span
@@ -455,8 +602,11 @@ def install() -> None:
         if pairs is not None:
             _PATCHES[_RESOURCES] = functools.partial(_patch, pairs=pairs)
         call_file = os.environ.get(_CALL_FILE)
-        if call_file:
-            _PATCHES[_TRACE] = functools.partial(_patch_tracer, path=call_file)
+        tool_trace = os.environ.get(_TOOL_TRACE)
+        if call_file or tool_trace:
+            _PATCHES[_TRACE] = functools.partial(
+                _patch_tracer, path=call_file, tool_trace=tool_trace
+            )
         ingest = None
         try:
             ingest = _read_ingest()
@@ -467,6 +617,13 @@ def install() -> None:
                 _PATCHES[name] = functools.partial(
                     _patch_exporter, ingest=ingest, lower=lower
                 )
+        if os.environ.get(_OBSERVE) == "1" and tool_trace:
+            _PATCHES["opentelemetry.trace"] = _patch_proxy
+            for name, target in _INSTRUMENTORS.items():
+                _PATCHES.setdefault(name, functools.partial(_instrument, target=target))
+            _PATCHES["autogen_core.tools"] = functools.partial(
+                _patch_autogen_tools, path=tool_trace
+            )
         if not _PATCHES:
             return
         # The finder goes in first so that a failed patch of an already imported module still
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_worker_events.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_worker_events.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bd1841bef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/simulation_worker_events.py
@@ -0,0 +1,714 @@
+"""Tool calls and the worker that made each, read from the spans a process's framework instrumentation ends.
+
+The sandbox's startup hook (``simulation_mark_bootstrap``) owns the hook's lifecycle and hands every span its process
+starts to :class:`_ToolSpans`; this module turns those spans into the lines of the tool trace. It sits beside the hook
+in a customer process's world directory, so it runs inside the CUSTOMER's interpreter, which has no ``fi``: standard
+library only, Python 3.9 syntax, and it never imports the customer's modules.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import collections
+import functools
+import json
+import os
+import threading
+import time
+
+# The hook's own marker for a callable it already wrapped.
+_PATCHED = "_alk_simulation_mark"
+_TOOL_END = "_alk_tool_span_end"
+
+# Where the span kind, the agent's name and a tool call's parts sit, in the conventions the
+# framework instrumentors and the frameworks' own tracing use (traceAI and OpenInference, the
+# OpenTelemetry GenAI names, then names a single framework uses).
+_KIND_KEYS = ("fi.span.kind", "gen_ai.span.kind", "openinference.span.kind")
+_OPERATION_KINDS = {
+    "execute_tool": "TOOL",
+    "invoke_agent": "AGENT",
+    "create_agent": "AGENT",
+}
+_OWN_KINDS = {"tool": "TOOL", "subagent": "AGENT", "agent": "AGENT"}
+_AGENT_NAME_KEYS = (
+    "gen_ai.agent.name",
+    "agent.name",
+    "autogen.agent.name",
+    "claude_agent.subagent_type",
+    "graph.node.id",
+    "recipient_agent_type",
+    "lc_agent_name",
+)
+# The conversation a span belongs to; a background job runs as its own conversation, named by the id the launching
+# tool call returned.
+_CONVERSATION_KEYS = ("gen_ai.conversation.id", "session.id")
+# The text of a model call's first output message, as traceAI and OpenInference flatten it.
+_SAID_KEYS = (
+    "gen_ai.output.messages.0.message.content",
+    "llm.output_messages.0.message.content",
+)
+
+
+_LAUNCHES_MAX = 256
+_GRAPH_NAMESPACE = "langgraph_checkpoint_ns"
+_TOOL_NAME_KEYS = ("gen_ai.tool.name", "tool.name")
+_TOOL_ARGUMENT_KEYS = ("gen_ai.tool.call.arguments", "tool.parameters", "input.value")
+_TOOL_RESULT_KEYS = ("gen_ai.tool.call.result", "output.value")
+_LIVE_SPANS_MAX = 4096
+_TRACE_LINE_MAX = 65536
+_PAYLOAD_MAX = 4096
+# A control pass the framework records as one. Google ADK marks its agent-transfer tool by the tool's own class and
+# names the agent in its ``agent_name`` argument; the OpenAI Agents SDK's instrumentation names, on the agent that was
+# handed control, the agent that handed it.
+_TRANSFER_TOOL_TYPES = ("TransferToAgentTool",)
+_BUILTIN_TRANSFER = "transfer_to_agent"
+_TRANSFER_ARGUMENT_KEYS = ("gcp.vertex.agent.tool_call_args",) + _TOOL_ARGUMENT_KEYS
+_HANDED_FROM_KEYS = ("graph.node.parent_id",)
+
+
+def _names(text: str, value: str) -> bool:
+    """Whether ``value`` appears in ``text`` as a whole id, not inside a longer one."""
+    start = text.find(value)
+    while start != -1:
+        before = text[start - 1] if start else " "
+        end = start + len(value)
+        after = text[end] if end < len(text) else " "
+        if not any(c.isalnum() or c in "-_" for c in (before, after)):
+            return True
+        start = text.find(value, start + 1)
+    return False
+
+
+def _first(attributes, keys):
+    for key in keys:
+        value = attributes.get(key)
+        if isinstance(value, str) and value:
+            return value
+    return None
+
+
+def _kind(span):
+    attributes = getattr(span, "attributes", None) or {}
+    value = _first(attributes, _KIND_KEYS)
+    if value:
+        return value.upper()
+    operation = _first(attributes, ("gen_ai.operation.name",))
+    if operation in _OPERATION_KINDS:
+        return _OPERATION_KINDS[operation]
+    if attributes.get("messaging.operation") == "process" and _first(
+        attributes, ("recipient_agent_type",)
+    ):
+        # AutoGen Core's runtime handing a message to the agent that handles it.
+        return "AGENT"
+    return _OWN_KINDS.get(_first(attributes, ("claude_agent.span_kind",)) or "")
+
+
+def _graph_worker(attributes):
+    """The subgraph a LangGraph node ran in: the namespace segment above that node, or the agent named as running it."""
+    namespace = _first(attributes, (_GRAPH_NAMESPACE,))
+    if not namespace:
+        return None
+    names = [segment.split(":")[0] for segment in namespace.split("|")]
+    if names and names[-1] == attributes.get("langgraph_node"):
+        names.pop()
+    if not names:
+        return None
+    return _first(attributes, ("lc_agent_name",)) or names[-1] or None
+
+
+def _hex(span_id) -> str:
+    return format(span_id, "016x")
+
+
+def _bounded(record, key, value, flag) -> None:
+    """Keep at most the payload limit of ``value``, and say when some of it was left out."""
+    record[key] = value[:_PAYLOAD_MAX]
+    if len(value) > _PAYLOAD_MAX:
+        record[flag] = True
+
+
+def _transfer_target(attributes):
+    """The agent a framework's own transfer tool handed control to, when the span records the call."""
+    if attributes.get("gen_ai.tool.type") not in _TRANSFER_TOOL_TYPES:
+        return None
+    try:
+        target = json.loads(_first(attributes, _TRANSFER_ARGUMENT_KEYS) or "").get(
+            "agent_name"
+        )
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+        return None
+    return target if isinstance(target, str) and target else None
+
+
+def _builtin_transfer_target(attributes, name):
+    """The agent named by a call to ADK's own ``transfer_to_agent`` function, which older releases and other
+    instrumentations record as a plain function. Only a candidate: it becomes a control pass once that agent starts in
+    the same agent run, and an ordinary tool call if the run ends first."""
+    if name != _BUILTIN_TRANSFER:
+        return None
+    try:
+        target = json.loads(_first(attributes, _TRANSFER_ARGUMENT_KEYS) or "").get(
+            "agent_name"
+        )
+    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
+        return None
+    return target if isinstance(target, str) and target else None
+
+
+def _same_tool(one, other):
+    """Whether two spans name the same tool, as two instrumentations of one call spell it."""
+
+    def key(span):
+        name = _first(span.attributes or {}, _TOOL_NAME_KEYS) or span.name or ""
+        return "".join(ch for ch in name.lower() if ch.isalnum())
+
+    return key(one) == key(other) != ""
+
+
+class _ToolSpans:
+    """Writes each finished tool span to the tool trace, with the nearest agent span above it as its worker."""
+
+    def __init__(self, path: str) -> None:
+        self._path = path
+        self._live = {}
+        self._handed = {}
+        self._wrapped = set()
+        # Tool calls that returned something, oldest first, so a job started by one can be joined to it.
+        self._launches = collections.deque(maxlen=_LAUNCHES_MAX)
+        # Runs with no parent not yet joined to a launch, with the attributes last seen in them: a run's own span is
+        # often named only when it ends, so the spans inside it name it first.
+        self._waiting = {}
+        # What a model last said in each open run, read as a job's answer when the run ends.
+        self._said = {}
+        # Job runs whose hand-off was written: the calls inside one ran in that hand-off.
+        self._jobs = set()
+        # Transfers a framework recorded, by the agent run they were made in, until the agent they name starts in it;
+        # then each agent run handed control, with the event id of the transfer that handed it.
+        self._transfers = {}
+        self._transferred = {}
+        # Calls to ADK's built-in transfer function by the run they were made in, held until the agent they name
+        # starts there (a control pass) or the run ends (a plain tool call).
+        self._candidates = {}
+        # The first agent run opened directly inside each open agent span.
+        self._opened = {}
+        # Spans that ended, so a parent never seen can be told from one that already closed.
+        self._closed = collections.OrderedDict()
+        self._appended = False
+        # Spans start and end on the process's own threads.
+        self._lock = threading.RLock()
+
+    def started(self, span) -> None:
+        context = span.get_span_context()
+        parent = getattr(span, "parent", None)
+        with self._lock:
+            if len(self._live) >= _LIVE_SPANS_MAX:
+                # A span that never ended (a dropped generator, a long-lived server) gives way to new ones.
+                self._live.pop(next(iter(self._live)))
+            self._live[context.span_id] = (
+                span,
+                parent.span_id if parent is not None else None,
+            )
+            if _kind(span) == "AGENT":
+                # Through the framework's own turn and run spans, to the agent span this run opened in.
+                holder = self._above(context.span_id, ("AGENT",))
+                if holder is not None:
+                    self._opened.setdefault(
+                        holder.get_span_context().span_id, context.span_id
+                    )
+            if parent is None and _kind(span) != "TOOL":
+                try:
+                    joined = self._job_record(span, context.span_id, ended=False)
+                    if not joined and len(self._waiting) < _LAUNCHES_MAX:
+                        self._waiting[context.span_id] = (span, None)
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+        original = span.end
+        if getattr(original, _TOOL_END, False):
+            return
+
+        @functools.wraps(original)
+        def end(*args, **kwargs):
+            result = original(*args, **kwargs)
+            try:
+                with self._lock:
+                    self._ended(span)
+            except Exception:
+                pass
+            return result
+
+        setattr(end, _TOOL_END, True)
+        span.end = end
+
+    def _above(self, span_id, kinds):
+        """The nearest open ancestor of one of ``kinds``, stopping at an agent span."""
+        entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+        parent = entry[1] if entry else None
+        while parent is not None:
+            above = self._live.get(parent)
+            if above is None:
+                return None
+            kind = _kind(above[0])
+            if kind in kinds:
+                return above[0]
+            if kind == "AGENT":
+                return None
+            parent = above[1]
+        return None
+
+    def _root(self, span_id):
+        """The run with no parent that ``span_id`` sits in, if it is still open."""
+        entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+        while entry is not None and entry[1] is not None:
+            span_id, entry = entry[1], self._live.get(entry[1])
+        return span_id if entry is not None else None
+
+    def _run_name(self, span_id):
+        root = self._root(span_id)
+        return self._live[root][0].name or None if root not in (None, span_id) else None
+
+    def _join_waiting(self, root_id, attributes=None) -> None:
+        waiting = self._waiting.get(root_id)
+        if waiting is None:
+            return
+        seen = attributes or waiting[1]
+        if self._job_record(waiting[0], root_id, ended=False, attributes=seen):
+            self._waiting.pop(root_id, None)
+        elif attributes:
+            self._waiting[root_id] = (waiting[0], attributes)
+
+    def _named_above(self, span_id):
+        """The agent the nearest open span from ``span_id`` up names as running it."""
+        while span_id is not None:
+            entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+            if entry is None:
+                return None
+            name = _first(entry[0].attributes or {}, ("lc_agent_name",))
+            if name:
+                return name
+            span_id = entry[1]
+        return None
+
+    def _delegation(self, span_id):
+        """The hand-off ``span_id`` ran in, read from the span tree only: ``(event id, "observed")``, ``("",
+        "observed")`` under an agent that nothing handed work to, and ``("", "unknown")`` when the tree does not say."""
+        agent = None
+        entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+        parent = entry[1] if entry else None
+        while parent is not None:
+            above = self._live.get(parent)
+            if above is None:
+                # A parent the app's tracer never recorded (the caller's context) is outside the app: the agent
+                # below it is the top of the app's own work. One that already closed says nothing.
+                outside = agent is not None and parent not in self._closed
+                return "", "observed" if outside else "unknown"
+            if parent in self._jobs:
+                return _hex(parent), "observed"
+            kind = _kind(above[0])
+            if (
+                agent is not None
+                and kind not in ("AGENT", "TOOL")
+                and (parent in self._transfers or parent in self._candidates)
+            ):
+                # A transfer made by an agent that has since ended, in the run this agent started in.
+                handed = self._transfer_into(parent, agent)
+                if handed:
+                    return handed, "observed"
+            if kind == "AGENT":
+                if (
+                    agent is not None
+                    and self._opened.get(parent) == agent
+                    and self._container(above)
+                ):
+                    # The framework's trace container (the OpenAI Agents SDK opens one per run as an agent span with
+                    # no agent name): the first agent run inside it is the top of the app's work. A later one was
+                    # handed control and stays unknown until the framework records the transfer.
+                    return "", "observed"
+                if agent is not None:
+                    handed = self._transfer_into(parent, agent)
+                    return (handed, "observed") if handed else ("", "unknown")
+                agent = parent
+            elif kind == "TOOL" and agent is not None:
+                return _hex(parent), "observed"
+            elif kind != "TOOL" and above[1] in self._live:
+                name = _first(above[0].attributes or {}, ("lc_agent_name",))
+                handing = self._live[above[1]][0]
+                if (
+                    name
+                    and name != self._named_above(above[1])
+                    and _kind(handing) in ("TOOL", None)
+                ):
+                    return _hex(above[1]), "observed"
+            parent = above[1]
+        return "", "observed" if agent is not None else "unknown"
+
+    def _container(self, entry) -> bool:
+        """An agent-kind span at the top of the app's trace that names no agent: a run's container, not an agent."""
+        above = entry[1]
+        top = above is None or (above not in self._live and above not in self._closed)
+        return top and not _first(entry[0].attributes or {}, _AGENT_NAME_KEYS)
+
+    def _transfer_into(self, scope, agent):
+        """The transfer made in the run ``scope`` that names the agent run ``agent`` started under it."""
+        if agent not in self._transferred:
+            name = self._agent_name(self._live[agent][0])
+            self._confirm_above(agent, name)
+            pending = self._transfers.get(scope) or []
+            match = next((one for one in pending if one[1] == name), None)
+            if match is None:
+                return None
+            pending.remove(match)
+            self._transferred[agent] = match[0]
+        return self._transferred[agent]
+
+    def _confirm_transfer(self, scope, name) -> None:
+        """Write the held built-in transfer in ``scope`` that names ``name`` as a control pass, now that it ran."""
+        held = self._candidates.get(scope) or []
+        match = next((one for one in held if one[1] == name), None) or next(
+            (one for one in held if one[1] is None), None
+        )
+        if match is None:
+            return False
+        held.remove(match)
+        record, target, _ = match
+        target = target or name
+        record.update(transfer=True, delegated_to=target[:256])
+        record.pop("ended_at", None)
+        pending = self._transfers.get(scope, [])
+        if len(self._transfers) + len(pending) < _LAUNCHES_MAX:
+            self._transfers[scope] = pending + [(record["event_id"], target)]
+        with self._lock:
+            _append(self._path, record)
+            self._appended = True
+        return True
+
+    def _confirm_above(self, span_id, name) -> None:
+        """Confirm a held transfer for the agent run ``span_id`` named ``name``, in the spans it opened inside, up to
+        the nearest agent; an agent started by a tool call was handed work by that call, not control."""
+        entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+        parent = entry[1] if entry else None
+        while parent is not None and parent in self._live:
+            if parent in self._candidates and self._confirm_transfer(parent, name):
+                return
+            if _kind(self._live[parent][0]) in ("AGENT", "TOOL"):
+                return
+            parent = self._live[parent][1]
+
+    def _settle_candidates(self, scope) -> None:
+        """A run ended without starting the agent a held transfer named: an ordinary tool call, or the framework's
+        transfer with no agent recorded as taking over."""
+        for record, _, framework in self._candidates.pop(scope, None) or []:
+            if framework:
+                record.update(transfer=True)
+                record.pop("ended_at", None)
+            with self._lock:
+                _append(self._path, record)
+                self._appended = True
+
+    def _agent_name(self, agent):
+        """An agent span's own name, else the tool that handed it the work; never a method-like span name."""
+        name = _first(agent.attributes or {}, _AGENT_NAME_KEYS)
+        if name:
+            return name
+        if (
+            _first(agent.attributes or {}, _KIND_KEYS)
+            and agent.name
+            and "." not in agent.name
+        ):
+            return agent.name
+        handing = self._above(agent.get_span_context().span_id, ("TOOL",))
+        if handing is not None:
+            return _first(handing.attributes or {}, _TOOL_NAME_KEYS) or handing.name
+        return None
+
+    def _ended(self, span) -> None:
+        span_id = span.get_span_context().span_id
+        kind = _kind(span)
+        try:
+            entry = self._live.get(span_id)
+            said = _first(span.attributes or {}, _SAID_KEYS)
+            if said and said.strip() and entry is not None and entry[1] is not None:
+                root = self._root(span_id)
+                if root is not None and (
+                    root in self._said or len(self._said) < _LAUNCHES_MAX
+                ):
+                    self._said[root] = said
+            if entry is not None and entry[1] is None and kind != "TOOL":
+                self._waiting.pop(span_id, None)
+                self._job_record(span, span_id, ended=True)
+                self._said.pop(span_id, None)
+            elif self._waiting:
+                self._join_waiting(self._root(span_id), span.attributes)
+            if kind == "AGENT":
+                handing = self._above(span_id, ("TOOL",))
+                name = self._agent_name(span)
+                if name:
+                    self._confirm_above(span_id, name)
+                if handing is not None and name:
+                    self._handed[handing.get_span_context().span_id] = name
+                handed_from = _first(span.attributes or {}, _HANDED_FROM_KEYS)
+                if handed_from and name and handed_from != name:
+                    self._transfer_record(span, span_id, handed_from, name)
+            elif kind != "TOOL" and entry is not None and entry[1] in self._live:
+                # A run opened right under a span by an agent other than the one running that span is the span
+                # handing it the work, as a sub-agent started through a tool is. A tool's kind is often set only
+                # when it ends, so the hand-off is kept on the parent and written if the parent is a tool call.
+                name = _first(span.attributes or {}, ("lc_agent_name",))
+                if name and name != self._named_above(entry[1]):
+                    self._handed[entry[1]] = name
+            elif kind == "TOOL":
+                if span_id in self._wrapped:
+                    # Two instrumentations wrapped this one call; the inner span was written.
+                    self._wrapped.discard(span_id)
+                    self._handed.pop(span_id, None)
+                else:
+                    outer = self._above(span_id, ("TOOL",))
+                    if outer is not None and _same_tool(outer, span):
+                        self._wrapped.add(outer.get_span_context().span_id)
+                    self._write(span, span_id)
+        finally:
+            above = entry[1] if entry is not None else None
+            if kind == "AGENT" and above in self._live:
+                # A transfer outlives the agent that made it: the agent it names may start after it, in the same run.
+                for held in (self._candidates, self._transfers):
+                    moved = held.pop(span_id, None)
+                    if moved:
+                        held[above] = held.get(above, []) + moved
+            if span_id in self._candidates:
+                self._settle_candidates(span_id)
+            self._opened.pop(span_id, None)
+            self._closed[span_id] = None
+            if len(self._closed) > _LIVE_SPANS_MAX:
+                self._closed.popitem(last=False)
+            if kind != "TOOL":
+                self._handed.pop(span_id, None)
+            for one in (self._transfers, self._transferred):
+                one.pop(span_id, None)
+            self._jobs.discard(span_id)
+            self._live.pop(span_id, None)
+
+    def _forget_cleared_call(self) -> None:
+        """Forget an earlier call's launches once the harness removes the trace, as it does between calls."""
+        if self._appended and not os.path.exists(self._path):
+            self._launches.clear()
+            self._waiting.clear()
+            self._jobs.clear()
+            self._appended = False
+
+    def _job_record(self, span, span_id, *, ended: bool, attributes=None) -> bool:
+        """Write a parentless run whose conversation id an earlier tool call returned as that call's hand-off."""
+        attributes = attributes or span.attributes or {}
+        conversation = _first(attributes, _CONVERSATION_KEYS)
+        if not conversation:
+            return False
+        self._forget_cleared_call()
+        launch = next(
+            (
+                one
+                for one in self._launches
+                if one["conversation"] != conversation
+                and _names(one["output"], conversation)
+            ),
+            None,
+        )
+        if launch is None:
+            return False
+        worker = (
+            _first(attributes, _AGENT_NAME_KEYS)
+            or _graph_worker(attributes)
+            or span.name
+        )
+        if not worker:
+            return False
+        status = getattr(getattr(span, "status", None), "status_code", None)
+        record = {
+            "name": launch["name"],
+            "arguments": launch["arguments"],
+            "is_error": ended and getattr(status, "name", "") == "ERROR",
+            "at": (span.start_time or 0) / 1e9,
+            **({"ended_at": (span.end_time or 0) / 1e9} if ended else {}),
+            "source": "otel",
+            "event_id": _hex(span_id),
+            "parent_event_id": launch["event_id"],
+            # The job's hand-off sits where the call that launched it did.
+            "parent_span_id": launch["parent_span_id"],
+            "relationship": launch["relationship"],
+            "delegated_to": worker[:256],
+        }
+        if launch.get("input_omitted"):
+            record["input_omitted"] = True
+        said = self._said.get(span_id) or _first(attributes, _TOOL_RESULT_KEYS) or ""
+        _bounded(record, "output", said if ended else "", "output_omitted")
+        if launch["agent"]:
+            record.update(agent_key=launch["agent"], agent_role=launch["agent"])
+        self._jobs.add(span_id)
+        with self._lock:
+            _append(self._path, record)
+            self._appended = True
+        return True
+
+    def _transfer_record(self, span, span_id, handed_from, name) -> None:
+        """Write an agent run the framework records as handed control by another agent, as that control pass. The
+        tree does not say where the agent that passed control ran, so the pass's own place is unknown."""
+        record = {
+            "name": name[:256],
+            "arguments": "",
+            "output": "",
+            "is_error": False,
+            "at": (span.start_time or 0) / 1e9,
+            "source": "otel",
+            "event_id": _hex(span_id),
+            "parent_span_id": "",
+            "relationship": "unknown",
+            "agent_key": handed_from[:256],
+            "agent_role": handed_from[:256],
+            "delegated_to": name[:256],
+            "transfer": True,
+            # A worker's run, not a tool call: kept, never graded.
+            "kind": "handoff",
+        }
+        self._forget_cleared_call()
+        _append(self._path, record)
+        self._appended = True
+
+    def _write(self, span, span_id) -> None:
+        attributes = span.attributes or {}
+        name = _first(attributes, _TOOL_NAME_KEYS) or span.name
+        if not name:
+            return
+        agent = self._above(span_id, ("AGENT",))
+        status = getattr(getattr(span, "status", None), "status_code", None)
+        parent_span_id, relationship = self._delegation(span_id)
+        record = {
+            "name": name[:256],
+            "is_error": getattr(status, "name", "") == "ERROR",
+            "at": (span.start_time or 0) / 1e9,
+            "ended_at": (span.end_time or 0) / 1e9,
+            "source": "otel",
+            "event_id": _hex(span_id),
+            "parent_span_id": parent_span_id,
+            "relationship": relationship,
+        }
+        _bounded(
+            record,
+            "arguments",
+            _first(attributes, _TOOL_ARGUMENT_KEYS) or "",
+            "input_omitted",
+        )
+        _bounded(
+            record,
+            "output",
+            _first(attributes, _TOOL_RESULT_KEYS) or "",
+            "output_omitted",
+        )
+        worker = (
+            _graph_worker(attributes)
+            or _first(attributes, ("gen_ai.agent.name",))
+            or (self._agent_name(agent) if agent is not None else None)
+            # No agent span above it: the agent the span itself names, as a job running in its own run does.
+            or _first(attributes, _AGENT_NAME_KEYS)
+        )
+        if worker:
+            record.update(agent_key=worker[:256], agent_role=worker[:256])
+        if agent is not None:
+            record["parent_event_id"] = _hex(agent.get_span_context().span_id)
+        delegated = self._handed.pop(span_id, None)
+        if delegated:
+            record["delegated_to"] = delegated[:256]
+        target = _transfer_target(attributes)
+        # The framework's own transfer tool with no recorded target hands control to the next agent run in this run.
+        framework = attributes.get("gen_ai.tool.type") in _TRANSFER_TOOL_TYPES
+        candidate = (
+            None if target or framework else _builtin_transfer_target(attributes, name)
+        )
+        if (
+            (candidate or (framework and not target))
+            and agent is not None
+            and len(self._candidates) < _LAUNCHES_MAX
+        ):
+            scope = agent.get_span_context().span_id
+            self._candidates.setdefault(scope, []).append(
+                (record, candidate, framework)
+            )
+            return
+        if target:
+            # Control passed to the agent the framework named; nothing returns from a control pass.
+            record.update(transfer=True, delegated_to=target[:256])
+            record.pop("ended_at")
+            scope = agent.get_span_context().span_id if agent is not None else None
+            pending = self._transfers.get(scope, [])
+            if (
+                scope is not None
+                and len(self._transfers) + len(pending) < _LAUNCHES_MAX
+            ):
+                self._transfers[scope] = pending + [(record["event_id"], target)]
+        self._forget_cleared_call()
+        if record["output"]:
+            self._launches.append(
+                {
+                    "output": record["output"],
+                    "name": record["name"],
+                    "arguments": record["arguments"],
+                    "event_id": record["event_id"],
+                    "parent_span_id": parent_span_id,
+                    "relationship": relationship,
+                    "input_omitted": record.get("input_omitted", False),
+                    # No agent names the launching call: the run it sits in, which a graph server names by the graph.
+                    "agent": record.get("agent_key") or self._run_name(span_id),
+                    "conversation": _first(attributes, _CONVERSATION_KEYS),
+                }
+            )
+        with self._lock:
+            _append(self._path, record)
+            self._appended = True
+        for job_id in list(self._waiting):
+            self._join_waiting(job_id)
+
+
+def _append(path, record) -> None:
+    line = json.dumps(record, sort_keys=True, default=str)
+    if len(line) > _TRACE_LINE_MAX:
+        record.update(
+            arguments="<truncated>",
+            output="<truncated>",
+            input_omitted=True,
+            output_omitted=True,
+        )
+        line = json.dumps(record, sort_keys=True, default=str)
+    with open(path, "a", encoding="utf-8") as trace:
+        trace.write(line + "\n")
+
+
+def _patch_autogen_tools(module, path) -> None:
+    """Write each AutoGen tool call with its arguments and result, which AutoGen's tool spans do not carry."""
+    cls = module.BaseTool
+    original = cls.run_json
+    if getattr(original, _PATCHED, False):
+        return
+
+    async def run_json(
+        self, args, cancellation_token, call_id=None, __original=original
+    ):
+        record = {
+            "name": str(self.name)[:256],
+            "arguments": dict(args),
+            "at": time.time(),
+        }
+        try:
+            result = await __original(self, args, cancellation_token, call_id)
+        except Exception as err:
+            _record_tool(path, record, str(err), True)
+            raise
+        _record_tool(path, record, self.return_value_as_string(result), False)
+        return result
+
+    functools.update_wrapper(run_json, original)
+    setattr(run_json, _PATCHED, True)
+    cls.run_json = run_json
+
+
+def _record_tool(path, record, output, is_error) -> None:
+    try:
+        line = {**record, "is_error": is_error}
+        _bounded(line, "output", output, "output_omitted")
+        _append(path, line)
+    except Exception:
+        pass
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/understand-agent/SKILL.md b/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/understand-agent/SKILL.md
index 27a955e1b..b866449b5 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/understand-agent/SKILL.md
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/understand-agent/SKILL.md
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ Find, in roughly this order:
    schema, a tool array. Record the exact callable name the model would emit, not a friendly
    label.
 
+   If the agent hands work to other agents (a sub-agent called as a tool, a hand-off, graph nodes,
+   a crew), record each one in `workers`: an `id`, the `name` the app gives it, the contract tools
+   it holds, and `binding: separate` when its tools are reached through code of their own rather
+   than code the agents share, with `address_env` naming the environment variable that code reads
+   for its tools' base address. When the repository says a worker may use fewer tools than its code
+   holds, list those in `allowed_tools`. Every worker tool is also in `tools`. If the repository
+   carries a multi-agent reference manifest, read its topology.
+
 2. **Argument names and types.** Read the signature. An argument declared as a list is a
    different tool from one declared as a single value, and an environment built on the wrong one
    fails at the first call. Record types wherever the source states them.
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/write-scenarios/SKILL.md b/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/write-scenarios/SKILL.md
index 9abaf0d8f..d6c15666e 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/write-scenarios/SKILL.md
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/skills/write-scenarios/SKILL.md
@@ -692,6 +692,19 @@ to react lets the person answer before anything is said, and the test is gone; s
 same reason an actor never voices the person's own request or details: the agent would no longer have
 to tell the person it serves from someone else. Most scenarios include none.
 
+### When the agent hands work to workers
+
+Only when the contract lists `workers`. The task's sub-goals stay as they are: they grade what the
+person got. Add, for each worker whose work the world can show, a sub-goal with `subject:
+worker:<id>`; its check is handed only that worker's calls, and is inconclusive when the worker made
+none. Where a worker may use fewer tools than its code holds (`allowed_tools`), write at least one
+scenario in which the natural request leads the agent toward a tool that worker may not use, and a
+worker sub-goal that holds only when no such write reached the world (a refused call is in `calls`
+with `.refused`). The world refuses that call, so the answer key never contains it: the record stays as
+it was, and the correct reply tells the person it could not be done. A check that a worker did not do something holds only when that worker made calls
+in this trial; with none it is inconclusive, never a pass. The coordinator is graded against the world
+and what the person was told, never against what a worker reported.
+
 ## File prerequisites must exist in the target workspace
 
 Read the workspace bindings in the world summary before writing file tasks. A repository used
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/tool_trace_proxy.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/tool_trace_proxy.py
index b9e287723..ce4409cbd 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/tool_trace_proxy.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/tool_trace_proxy.py
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@
 DATABASE_URL = os.environ.get("DATABASE_URL", "")
 # This trial's actor token; a request naming an actor without it is the agent's.
 ACTOR_PROOF_FILE = os.environ.get("ACTOR_PROOF_FILE", "")
+# This trial's worker channels, {token: worker id}: a worker reaches the world under /w/<token>/.
+WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE = os.environ.get("WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE", "")
+# The sealed per-worker allow-lists beside this file, {"worker:<id>": {"allow": [...]}}; a bundle without it does not
+# limit workers.
+WORKER_PERMISSIONS_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "permissions.json")
+# The tool each world action is, {"orders.get": "get_order"}, sealed beside this file; a route without one is named by
+# its last path segment.
+ACTIONS_FILE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "actions.json")
+_CHANNEL_PREFIX = "/w/"
 
 
 # One request per idempotency key at a time, so a retry racing the first never reaches the world twice.
@@ -57,6 +66,15 @@ def _logs_actors() -> bool:
     return _LOG_SHAPE["actors"]
 
 
+def _read_json(path: str) -> dict | None:
+    try:
+        with open(path, encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+            loaded = json.load(handle)
+    except (OSError, ValueError):
+        return None
+    return loaded if isinstance(loaded, dict) else None
+
+
 def _trial_token() -> str:
     try:
         with open(ACTOR_PROOF_FILE, encoding="utf-8") as handle:
@@ -65,16 +83,17 @@ def _trial_token() -> str:
         return ""
 
 
-def _trial_faults() -> list[dict]:
-    """This trial's faults on the agent's calls, written by the runner beside the token; never from a request."""
+def _trial_state() -> dict:
+    """This trial's state, written by the runner beside the token; never from a request."""
     if not ACTOR_PROOF_FILE:
-        return []
-    try:
-        with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(ACTOR_PROOF_FILE), "trial.json"), encoding="utf-8") as handle:
-            faults = json.load(handle).get("faults") or []
-    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
-        return []
-    return [one for one in faults if isinstance(one, dict)]
+        return {}
+    return _read_json(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(ACTOR_PROOF_FILE), "trial.json")) or {}
+
+
+def _trial_faults() -> list[dict]:
+    """This trial's faults on the agent's calls."""
+    faults = _trial_state().get("faults") or []
+    return [one for one in faults if isinstance(one, dict)] if isinstance(faults, list) else []
 
 
 def _agent_calls(name: str) -> int:
@@ -99,6 +118,7 @@ def _record(
     refusal_code: str | None = None,
     idempotency_key: str | None = None,
     actor_id: str = "agent",
+    worker_id: str | None = None,
     parent_event_id: str | None = None,
     on_behalf_of: str | None = None,
 ) -> None:
@@ -113,14 +133,14 @@ def _record(
     )
     try:
         extended = _logs_actors()
-        if not extended and actor_id != "agent":
+        if not extended and (actor_id != "agent" or worker_id):
             return
         with psycopg.connect(DATABASE_URL, autocommit=True) as connection:
             if extended:
                 connection.execute(
                     "INSERT INTO _alk_tool_trace(name, arguments, result, ok, error, at, action_id, "
-                    "outcome, refusal, refusal_code, idempotency_key, actor_id, parent_event_id, on_behalf_of) "
-                    "VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
+                    "outcome, refusal, refusal_code, idempotency_key, actor_id, worker_id, parent_event_id, "
+                    "on_behalf_of) VALUES (%s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s, %s)",
                     (
                         *row,
                         uuid.uuid4().hex,
@@ -129,6 +149,7 @@ def _record(
                         refusal_code,
                         idempotency_key,
                         actor_id,
+                        worker_id,
                         parent_event_id,
                         on_behalf_of,
                     ),
@@ -207,10 +228,31 @@ def _forward(self) -> None:
             arguments = {"_raw": body.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")}
         self._as: dict[str, str | None] = {
             "actor_id": "agent",
+            "worker_id": None,
             "parent_event_id": (self.headers.get("x-alk-parent-event") or "").strip()
             or None,
             "on_behalf_of": None,
         }
+        if self.path.startswith(_CHANNEL_PREFIX):
+            token, _, rest = self.path[len(_CHANNEL_PREFIX) :].partition("/")
+            # The token is the channel's credential: it is stripped here and never logged or forwarded.
+            self.path = "/" + rest
+            worker = ((_read_json(WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE) or {}).get(token) or "") if token else ""
+            if not worker:
+                self._refuse(arguments, "identity_conflict", "this channel does not belong to a worker of this trial")
+                return
+            self._as["worker_id"] = worker
+            deadline = _trial_state().get("worker_deadline_at")
+            if isinstance(deadline, (int, float)) and time.time() > deadline:
+                self._refuse(arguments, "deadline_passed", f"the deadline for {worker} has passed")
+                return
+            if os.path.exists(WORKER_PERMISSIONS_FILE):
+                # Present and unreadable denies: a broken seal never widens what a worker may do. A worker is
+                # checked as an actor is, through permitted(), and refused into the same action log.
+                allowed = ((_read_json(WORKER_PERMISSIONS_FILE) or {}).get(f"worker:{worker}") or {}).get("allow")
+                if not permitted(allowed, self._action()):
+                    self._refuse(arguments, "not_permitted", f"{self._action()} is not permitted for {worker}")
+                    return
         actor = (self.headers.get("x-alk-actor") or "").strip()
         if actor:
             token = _trial_token()
@@ -327,7 +369,8 @@ def _faulted(self, body: bytes, arguments: object, fault: dict) -> None:
         self._reply(504, {"detail": "tool_upstream_timeout"})
 
     def _name(self) -> str:
-        return self.path.split("?", 1)[0].rstrip("/").rsplit("/", 1)[-1] or "unknown"
+        named = (_read_json(ACTIONS_FILE) or {}).get(self._action())
+        return str(named) if named else self.path.split("?", 1)[0].rstrip("/").rsplit("/", 1)[-1] or "unknown"
 
     def _send(self, body: bytes, arguments: object, key: str | None) -> None:
         outgoing = request.Request(
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/tools.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/tools.py
index a29f9f60e..4bad4f748 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/tools.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/tools.py
@@ -424,6 +424,26 @@ def contract_tools(
                         # is where it is caught, with an explanation.
                     },
                 },
+                "workers": {
+                    "type": "array",
+                    "items": {
+                        "type": "object",
+                        "properties": {
+                            "id": {"type": "string"},
+                            "name": {"type": "string"},
+                            "tools": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
+                            "allowed_tools": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
+                            "binding": {"type": "string", "enum": ["separate", "shared"]},
+                            "address_env": {"type": "string"},
+                        },
+                        "required": ["id"],
+                    },
+                    "description": "Agents this one hands work to, if any: an id no other worker has, the name the app "
+                    "gives the agent (its spans carry it), the names of the tools above that it holds, "
+                    "separate when its tools run through code of their own, with address_env naming the "
+                    "environment variable that code reads for its tools' base address, and allowed_tools when it "
+                    "may use fewer tools than its code holds. Leave out for an agent that hands no work on.",
+                },
                 "data_schema": {
                     "type": "object",
                     "description": "The shape of the records the agent works on: which fields "
diff --git a/src/fi/alk/harness/world/runtime.py b/src/fi/alk/harness/world/runtime.py
index 0c2b625e3..78d1c8734 100644
--- a/src/fi/alk/harness/world/runtime.py
+++ b/src/fi/alk/harness/world/runtime.py
@@ -156,9 +156,27 @@ class Call:
     worker_label: str = ""
     task_id: str = ""
     task_label: str = ""
-
-
-def tool_call_attribution(record: Mapping[str, Any]) -> dict[str, str]:
+    # The worker this call handed work to, when the call is a hand-off, and when that worker returned.
+    delegated_to: str = ""
+    ended_at: float = 0.0
+    # The runtime's own ids for the event (`event_id`, `parent_event_id`, `started_event_id`), as it reported them.
+    runtime_ids: dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    # A worker's run the runtime reported in place of a tool call: kept in the trace, never graded.
+    handoff: bool = False
+    # The hand-off this call ran in, by its event id, as the runtime's own record links them: "observed" when it
+    # did, "unknown" when it gave no evidence. Never inferred from tool names or event order.
+    parent_span_id: str = ""
+    relationship: str = ""
+    # A control pass the framework recorded as one: the agent it names takes over, and nothing returns.
+    transferred: bool = False
+    # Part of the arguments or the result was left out to keep the record bounded.
+    input_omitted: bool = False
+    output_omitted: bool = False
+    # Why the world refused it, as its action log coded it (`not_permitted`, `deadline_passed`); empty otherwise.
+    refusal_code: str = ""
+
+
+def tool_call_attribution(record: Mapping[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
     def text(key: str) -> str:
         value = record.get(key)
         return value if isinstance(value, str) else ""
@@ -168,6 +186,99 @@ def text(key: str) -> str:
         "worker_label": text("agent_role"),
         "task_id": text("task_id"),
         "task_label": text("task_name"),
+        "delegated_to": text("delegated_to"),
+        "parent_span_id": text("parent_span_id"),
+        "relationship": "observed" if text("relationship") == "observed" else "",
+        **{
+            key: record.get(field) is True
+            for key, field in (
+                ("transferred", "transfer"),
+                ("input_omitted", "input_omitted"),
+                ("output_omitted", "output_omitted"),
+            )
+        },
+    }
+
+
+_RUNTIME_ID_FIELDS = ("event_id", "parent_event_id", "started_event_id")
+
+
+def runtime_ids(record: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, str]:
+    """The ids a runtime's own event carries on a traced call, kept as it wrote them."""
+    return {key: str(record[key]) for key in _RUNTIME_ID_FIELDS if record.get(key)}
+
+
+def graded_calls(calls: Sequence[Call]) -> list[Call]:
+    """The calls checks grade: no worker's run, and no job's hand-off repeating the call that launched it."""
+    plain = {call.name for call in calls if not call.delegated_to}
+    return [
+        call
+        for call in calls
+        if not call.handoff
+        and not (
+            call.delegated_to
+            and call.runtime_ids.get("parent_event_id")
+            and call.name in plain
+        )
+    ]
+
+
+def _worker_event(call: Call) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Where a call sits among the app's agents, as the runtime recorded it, for a call any runtime attributed."""
+    if not (
+        call.runtime_ids
+        or call.worker_id
+        or call.worker_label
+        or call.delegated_to
+        or call.relationship
+    ):
+        return {}
+    kind = "tool_call"
+    if call.transferred:
+        kind = "transferred"
+    elif call.delegated_to:
+        kind = "delegated"
+    observed = call.relationship == "observed"
+    return {
+        "span_id": call.runtime_ids.get("event_id", ""),
+        "parent_span_id": call.parent_span_id if observed else "",
+        "kind": kind,
+        "agent": call.worker_id or call.worker_label,
+        "relationship": "observed" if observed else "unknown",
+    }
+
+
+def trace_row(call: Call) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """One call as the sealed tool trace keeps it, with who in the agent made it when the runtime said."""
+    return {
+        "name": call.name,
+        "arguments": call.arguments,
+        "result": call.result,
+        "ok": call.ok,
+        "error": call.error,
+        "refused": call.refused,
+        "at": call.at,
+        **{
+            key: getattr(call, key)
+            for key in (
+                "worker_id",
+                "worker_label",
+                "task_id",
+                "task_label",
+                "delegated_to",
+                "ended_at",
+            )
+            if getattr(call, key)
+        },
+        **({"runtime_ids": call.runtime_ids} if call.runtime_ids else {}),
+        # Why the world refused it, as its action log coded it.
+        **({"refusal_code": call.refusal_code} if call.refusal_code else {}),
+        **{
+            key: True
+            for key in ("input_omitted", "output_omitted")
+            if getattr(call, key)
+        },
+        **_worker_event(call),
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/fi/simulate/agent/wrappers/http.py b/src/fi/simulate/agent/wrappers/http.py
index 7a8f03458..c69a27343 100644
--- a/src/fi/simulate/agent/wrappers/http.py
+++ b/src/fi/simulate/agent/wrappers/http.py
@@ -967,7 +967,7 @@ def _read_response(self, response):
 
     def _agent_response_from_payload(self, payload: Any) -> AgentResponse:
         if self.protocol == "json_template":
-            selected = _select_response_value(payload, self.response_path)
+            selected = _select_response_value(payload, self.response_path, text=True)
             if isinstance(selected, Mapping):
                 raise ValueError(
                     "response_path must select chat content, not a JSON object"
@@ -1109,6 +1109,23 @@ def replacement(match: re.Match[str]) -> str:
     return _PLACEHOLDER.sub(replacement, value)
 
 
+class _StreamedEvents(list):
+    """The events of a streamed reply (server-sent events or JSON lines), in the order sent."""
+
+
+def _streamed_text(pieces: list[str]) -> str:
+    """Deltas join; a stream whose pieces each strictly extend the last, or end on the whole text, keeps its last."""
+    if pieces[-1] == "".join(pieces[:-1]):
+        return pieces[-1]
+    cumulative = pieces[:-1] if len(pieces) > 2 and pieces[-1] == pieces[-2] else pieces
+    if all(
+        len(later) > len(earlier) and later.startswith(earlier)
+        for earlier, later in zip(cumulative, cumulative[1:])
+    ):
+        return pieces[-1]
+    return "".join(pieces)
+
+
 def _decode_json_or_sse(text: str) -> Any:
     try:
         return json.loads(text)
@@ -1125,9 +1142,16 @@ def _decode_json_or_sse(text: str) -> Any:
             except json.JSONDecodeError:
                 events.append(data)
         if events:
-            return events
+            return _StreamedEvents(events)
+        # Newline-delimited JSON, one object per line, as some agent servers stream.
+        lines = [line for line in text.splitlines() if line.strip()]
+        if lines:
+            try:
+                return _StreamedEvents(json.loads(line) for line in lines)
+            except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                pass
         raise ValueError(
-            "HTTP target returned neither JSON nor JSON server-sent events"
+            "HTTP target returned neither JSON, JSON server-sent events nor JSON lines"
         )
 
 
@@ -1156,7 +1180,8 @@ def _tool_result_error(result: Any, path: str) -> bool:
     raise ValueError("tool result error must be null, boolean or string")
 
 
-def _select_response_value(payload: Any, path: str) -> Any:
+def _select_response_value(payload: Any, path: str, *, text: bool = False) -> Any:
+    """The value at ``path``; with ``text``, a streamed reply's pieces are its reply text, not its latest event."""
     if not path:
         return payload
     segments = [raw for raw in path.removeprefix("$").strip(".").split(".") if raw]
@@ -1177,7 +1202,19 @@ def select(current: Any, offset: int) -> Any:
                 # response schema describes one event.  A path such as ``content.parts.0.text``
                 # is therefore still meaningful: select the latest event matching that shape.
                 # This is envelope-driven rather than framework-specific and leaves explicit
-                # numeric paths (including negative indexes) unchanged.
+                # numeric paths (including negative indexes) unchanged. A streamed reply's
+                # text is spread over its events instead.
+                if text and isinstance(current, _StreamedEvents):
+                    pieces = []
+                    for item in current:
+                        try:
+                            piece = select(item, offset)
+                        except ValueError:
+                            continue
+                        if piece is not None:
+                            pieces.append(piece)
+                    if pieces and all(isinstance(piece, str) for piece in pieces):
+                        return _streamed_text(pieces)
                 last_error: ValueError | None = None
                 for item in reversed(current):
                     try:
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_actor_runtime.py b/tests/harness/test_actor_runtime.py
index b4c4d4f34..09552d2fb 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_actor_runtime.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_actor_runtime.py
@@ -261,6 +261,36 @@ def test_a_trial_s_state_changes_keep_attempted_refused_and_committed_apart_per_
     assert changes[0]["committed_actions"] == ["deals.request_approval", "deals.apply_discount"]
 
 
+def test_a_worker_s_attempts_are_its_own_participant_with_each_refusal_and_why():
+    from fi.alk.harness.call_runner import trial_state_changes
+
+    log = [
+        {"name": "orders.get", "outcome": "committed", "worker_id": "order_lookup"},
+        {
+            "name": "orders.update_status",
+            "outcome": "refused",
+            "worker_id": "order_lookup",
+            "refusal_code": "not_permitted",
+            "refusal": "orders.update_status is not permitted for order_lookup",
+        },
+        {"name": "refunds.issue", "outcome": "committed", "worker_id": "refund"},
+        {"name": "send_reply", "outcome": "committed"},
+    ]
+    changes = trial_state_changes(log, {})
+    assert [(c["who"], c["name"], c["attempted"], c["committed"], c["refused"]) for c in changes] == [
+        ("agent", "the agent", 1, 1, 0),
+        ("worker:order_lookup", "order_lookup", 2, 1, 1),
+        ("worker:refund", "refund", 1, 1, 0),
+    ]
+    assert changes[1]["refused_actions"] == [
+        {
+            "action": "orders.update_status",
+            "code": "not_permitted",
+            "reason": "orders.update_status is not permitted for order_lookup",
+        }
+    ]
+
+
 def _history_dispatcher(history, actors):
     from fi.alk.harness.actor_dispatch import ActorDispatcher
 
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_bundle_author_v2.py b/tests/harness/test_bundle_author_v2.py
index 0fac5777c..9876e0e47 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_bundle_author_v2.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_bundle_author_v2.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import hashlib
+from dataclasses import replace
 import json
 import os
 import shutil
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@
 
 from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import (
     BundleAuthorError,
+    _SOURCE_TOOL_TRACE_VERSION,
     _carries_world,
     _compile_source_tool_handlers,
     _contract_column_declarations,
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@
     resolve_environment_plan,
     sealed_from,
 )
+from fi.alk.harness.generated_runtime import framework_instrumentation_command
 from fi.alk.harness.authoring_runtime_validation import _artifact_digest
 from fi.alk.harness.bundle_v2 import load_bundle_v2
 from fi.alk.harness.certification import (
@@ -112,24 +115,134 @@ def test_native_command_tool_trace_uses_executable_source_bindings(
         tool_entrypoints=entries, contract_interface_kind="command", contract_modality="chat",
     )
     control = next(p for p in plan.processes if p.name == plan.control_service)
-    if mode in {"none", "http"}:
-        assert "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE" not in control.environment
-        assert "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS" not in control.environment
-        assert "ALK_CREWAI_TOOL_TRACE" not in control.environment
-        return
     assert control.environment["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"] == "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
-    assert json.loads(control.environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"]) == [{
-        "name": "Lookup tool", "module": "agent_tools", "callable": "lookup",
-    }]
+    assert control.environment["ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"] == "1"
+    assert control.build_commands[-1] == framework_instrumentation_command()
     assert (control.environment.get("ALK_CREWAI_TOOL_TRACE") == "1") == (
         dependency in {"requirements", "selected", "extra", "supplemental"}
     )
+    if mode in {"none", "http"}:
+        assert "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS" not in control.environment
+    else:
+        assert json.loads(control.environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"]) == [{
+            "name": "Lookup tool", "module": "agent_tools", "callable": "lookup",
+        }]
     assert all(
         "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE" not in getattr(p, "environment", {})
         for p in plan.processes if p.name != plan.control_service
     )
 
 
+def test_an_http_python_agent_is_observed_through_its_framework_spans(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    (tmp_path / "agent.py").write_text("print('ready')\n")
+    (tmp_path / "requirements.txt").write_text("openai-agents==0.24.0\n")
+    runtime = {"language": "python", "execution": "native", "command": ["python", "agent.py"]}
+    plan = resolve_environment_plan(
+        tmp_path, _job(connector="auto"), contract_runtime=runtime,
+        tool_entrypoints=[{"tool": "lookup", "mode": "import", "module": "agent", "callable": "lookup"}],
+        contract_interface_kind="http", contract_modality="chat",
+    )
+    voice = resolve_environment_plan(
+        tmp_path, _job(connector="auto"), contract_runtime=runtime,
+        tool_entrypoints=[], contract_interface_kind="http", contract_modality="voice",
+    )
+    # A voice agent's calls are traced by its LiveKit worker alone.
+    assert all(
+        "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS" not in p.environment and framework_instrumentation_command() not in p.build_commands
+        for p in voice.processes if hasattr(p, "build_commands")
+    )
+    control = next(p for p in plan.processes if p.name == plan.control_service)
+    assert control.environment["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"] == "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
+    assert control.environment["ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"] == "1"
+    assert "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS" not in control.environment
+    assert control.build_commands[-1] == framework_instrumentation_command()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("uv", ["exit 1", "exec sleep 30"])
+def test_an_instrumentor_that_fails_or_stalls_is_a_warning_and_the_build_goes_on(
+    tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, uv: str
+) -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness import generated_runtime
+    from fi.alk.harness.generated_runtime import FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS
+
+    assert all(
+        "==" in one
+        for _framework, one in FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS
+        if one.startswith("traceai-")
+    )
+    monkeypatch.setattr(generated_runtime, "INSTRUMENTOR_INSTALL_SECONDS", 1)
+    installed = tmp_path / "site"
+    (installed / "crewai-1.0.dist-info").mkdir(parents=True)
+    (installed / "crewai-1.0.dist-info" / "METADATA").write_text(
+        "Name: crewai\nVersion: 1.0\n"
+    )
+    tools = tmp_path / "bin"
+    tools.mkdir()
+    (tools / "uv").write_text(f"#!/bin/sh\n{uv}\n")
+    (tools / "uv").chmod(0o755)
+    (tools / "python3").symlink_to(sys.executable)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        generated_runtime.framework_instrumentation_command(),
+        cwd=tmp_path,
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        env={"PATH": f"{tools}:/bin:/usr/bin", "PYTHONPATH": str(installed)},
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0
+    assert (
+        "warning: framework instrumentor not installed, its calls go unobserved: traceai-crewai=="
+        in result.stderr
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("command", "project"),
+    [
+        (
+            [
+                "uv",
+                "run",
+                "--project",
+                "graphs/python",
+                "--with",
+                "langgraph-cli[inmem]",
+                "langgraph",
+                "dev",
+            ],
+            "graphs/python",
+        ),
+        (["uv", "run", "--project=app", "python", "main.py"], "app"),
+        (["uv", "run", "python", "agent.py"], ""),
+        (["python", "agent.py"], ""),
+    ],
+)
+def test_framework_instrumentors_go_where_a_uv_run_project_s_frameworks_are(
+    tmp_path: Path, command: list[str], project: str
+) -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.generated_runtime import uv_run_project
+
+    assert uv_run_project(command) == project
+    (tmp_path / "agent.py").write_text("print('ready')\n")
+    runtime = {"language": "python", "execution": "native", "command": command}
+    plan = resolve_environment_plan(
+        tmp_path,
+        _job(connector="auto"),
+        contract_runtime=runtime,
+        tool_entrypoints=[],
+        contract_interface_kind="http",
+        contract_modality="chat",
+    )
+    control = next(p for p in plan.processes if p.name == plan.control_service)
+    step = control.build_commands[-1]
+    assert step == framework_instrumentation_command(project)
+    if project:
+        assert step[2].startswith(f"uv sync --project {project} || echo ")
+        assert f"{project}/.venv/bin/python" in step[2]
+    else:
+        assert "uv sync" not in step[2] and "p=.venv/bin/python" in step[2]
+
+
 def test_bundle_author_carries_command_tool_trace_bindings(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     source = tmp_path / "source"
     source.mkdir()
@@ -209,7 +322,135 @@ def test_reseal_compiles_tools_added_to_a_traced_command_agent(tmp_path: Path) -
     reseal_scenarios(authoring)
 
     resealed = load_bundle_v2(bundle)
-    assert resealed.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == 1
+    assert resealed.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == _SOURCE_TOOL_TRACE_VERSION
+    assert "handlers/update.py" in {file.path for file in resealed.files}
+    assert "contract_copied" not in resealed.metadata
+
+
+def test_reseal_binds_a_tool_added_to_a_command_agent_built_with_none(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    source = tmp_path / "source"
+    source.mkdir()
+    (source / "agent.py").write_text("print('ready')\n")
+    (source / "agent_tools.py").write_text("def lookup(query): return query\n")
+    (source / "requirements.txt").write_text("requests==2.32.5\n")
+    authoring = _authoring(tmp_path)
+    _write_chat_contract(
+        authoring,
+        command=["python", "agent.py"],
+        interface={"kind": "command", "protocol": "fi.alk"},
+    )
+    contract_path = authoring / "contract.json"
+    contract = json.loads(contract_path.read_text())
+    contract["tools"] = [{"name": "lookup", "args": ["query"]}]
+    contract["tool_entrypoints"] = []
+    contract_path.write_text(json.dumps(contract))
+    bundle = authoring / "environment-bundle"
+    author_bundle_v2(
+        source=source, job=_job(connector="auto"), authoring=authoring, output=bundle
+    )
+    contract["tool_entrypoints"] = [
+        {
+            "tool": "lookup",
+            "mode": "import",
+            "module": "agent_tools",
+            "callable": "lookup",
+        }
+    ]
+    contract_path.write_text(json.dumps(contract))
+
+    reseal_scenarios(authoring)
+
+    resealed = load_bundle_v2(bundle)
+    control = next(
+        p for p in resealed.processes if p.name == resealed.runtime.control_service
+    )
+    assert json.loads(control.environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"]) == [
+        {"name": "lookup", "module": "agent_tools", "callable": "lookup"}
+    ]
+
+
+def test_reseal_compiles_tools_added_to_a_bundle_sealed_before_framework_observation(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import _files
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_v2 import BUNDLE_V2_MANIFEST, seal_bundle_v2
+
+    source = tmp_path / "source"
+    source.mkdir()
+    (source / "agent.py").write_text("print('ready')\n")
+    (source / "agent_tools.py").write_text(
+        "def lookup(query): return query\ndef update(value): return value\n"
+    )
+    (source / "requirements.txt").write_text("requests==2.32.5\n")
+    authoring = _authoring(tmp_path)
+    _write_chat_contract(
+        authoring,
+        command=["python", "agent.py"],
+        interface={"kind": "command", "protocol": "fi.alk"},
+    )
+    contract_path = authoring / "contract.json"
+    contract = json.loads(contract_path.read_text())
+    contract["tools"] = [{"name": "lookup", "args": ["query"]}]
+    contract["tool_entrypoints"] = [
+        {
+            "tool": "lookup",
+            "mode": "import",
+            "module": "agent_tools",
+            "callable": "lookup",
+        }
+    ]
+    contract_path.write_text(json.dumps(contract))
+    bundle = authoring / "environment-bundle"
+    author_bundle_v2(
+        source=source, job=_job(connector="auto"), authoring=authoring, output=bundle
+    )
+    # As the previous release sealed it: tool bindings at trace version 1, no framework observation.
+    manifest = load_bundle_v2(bundle)
+    observation = framework_instrumentation_command()
+    processes = [
+        process.model_copy(
+            update={
+                "environment": {
+                    k: v
+                    for k, v in process.environment.items()
+                    if k != "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"
+                },
+                "build_commands": [
+                    step for step in process.build_commands if step != observation
+                ],
+            }
+        )
+        if hasattr(process, "build_commands")
+        else process
+        for process in manifest.processes
+    ]
+    manifest = manifest.model_copy(
+        update={
+            "processes": processes,
+            "files": _files(bundle),
+            "metadata": {**manifest.metadata, "source_tool_trace_version": 1},
+        }
+    )
+    manifest = manifest.model_copy(update={"digest": seal_bundle_v2(manifest)})
+    (bundle / BUNDLE_V2_MANIFEST).write_text(
+        json.dumps(manifest.model_dump(mode="json"), indent=2, sort_keys=True) + "\n"
+    )
+    contract["tools"].append({"name": "update", "args": ["value"]})
+    contract["tool_entrypoints"].append(
+        {
+            "tool": "update",
+            "mode": "import",
+            "module": "agent_tools",
+            "callable": "update",
+        }
+    )
+    contract_path.write_text(json.dumps(contract))
+
+    reseal_scenarios(authoring)
+
+    resealed = load_bundle_v2(bundle)
     assert "handlers/update.py" in {file.path for file in resealed.files}
     assert "contract_copied" not in resealed.metadata
 
@@ -262,7 +503,7 @@ def test_reseal_preserves_construct_only_crewai_command_trace(tmp_path: Path) ->
     assert json.loads(process.environment["ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS"]) == [{
         "name": "editor", "module": "agent_tools", "callable": "Editor.update",
     }]
-    assert resealed.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == 1
+    assert resealed.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == _SOURCE_TOOL_TRACE_VERSION
 
 
 def _job(
@@ -658,6 +899,47 @@ def test_bundle_compiles_discovered_source_tool_entrypoint(tmp_path: Path) -> No
     }
 
 
+def test_a_reseal_keeps_framework_observation_of_a_chat_agent_with_no_import_tools(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    source = tmp_path / "chat-agent"
+    source.mkdir()
+    (source / "agent.py").write_text("print('ready')\n", encoding="utf-8")
+    authoring = _authoring(tmp_path)
+    _write_chat_contract(
+        authoring,
+        command=["python3", "agent.py"],
+        interface={
+            "kind": "http",
+            "protocol": "openai_chat",
+            "port": 8080,
+            "path": "/v1/chat/completions",
+            "include_tools": False,
+        },
+    )
+    bundle = authoring / "environment-bundle"
+    author_bundle_v2(
+        source=source, job=_job(connector="auto"), authoring=authoring, output=bundle
+    )
+    contract_path = authoring / "contract.json"
+    contract = json.loads(contract_path.read_text())
+    contract["notes"] = "edited after the build"
+    contract_path.write_text(json.dumps(contract))
+
+    reseal_scenarios(authoring)
+
+    resealed = load_bundle_v2(bundle)
+    control = next(
+        p for p in resealed.processes if p.name == resealed.runtime.control_service
+    )
+    assert control.environment["ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS"] == "1"
+    assert (
+        control.environment["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"]
+        == "{{WORLD_DIR}}/agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
+    )
+    assert "ALK_TOOL_TRACE_BINDINGS" not in control.environment
+
+
 def test_bundle_observes_imported_chat_tool_execution(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     source = tmp_path / "chat-agent"
     source.mkdir()
@@ -709,7 +991,7 @@ def test_bundle_observes_imported_chat_tool_execution(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     records = [json.loads(line) for line in trace.read_text().splitlines()]
     assert records[0]["name"] == "search_books"
     assert records[0]["arguments"] == {"query": "Dune"}
-    assert bundle.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == 1
+    assert bundle.metadata["source_tool_trace_version"] == _SOURCE_TOOL_TRACE_VERSION
 
 
 def test_tool_registration_is_not_observed_as_tool_execution(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
@@ -5596,3 +5878,60 @@ def test_python_selection_preserves_uv_alternatives_and_target_only_constraints(
         f"environments={json.dumps(environments)}\n"
     )
     assert _python_language_version(tmp_path, "3.11", interpreter_selector=True) == "==3.11.*,>=3.11"
+
+
+def test_each_declared_worker_is_sealed_with_the_world_actions_its_tools_call():
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import _worker_permissions
+
+    contract = {
+        "tools": [{"name": "get_order"}, {"name": "list_refunds"}, {"name": "issue_refund"}],
+        "tool_entrypoints": [
+            {"tool": "get_order", "mode": "service", "service": "returns-api", "endpoint": "/orders/get"},
+            {"tool": "issue_refund", "mode": "service", "service": "returns-api", "endpoint": "/refunds/issue/"},
+        ],
+        "workers": [
+            {"id": "order_lookup", "tools": ["get_order", "list_refunds", "issue_refund"], "allowed_tools": ["get_order", "list_refunds"]},
+            {"id": "refund", "tools": ["issue_refund", "list_refunds"]},
+        ],
+    }
+    # A worker holding more than it may use is sealed with what it may use.
+    assert _worker_permissions(contract) == {
+        "worker:order_lookup": {"allow": ["list_refunds", "orders.get"]},
+        "worker:refund": {"allow": ["list_refunds", "refunds.issue"]},
+    }
+    assert _worker_permissions({"tools": [{"name": "a"}]}) == {}
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import _tool_actions
+    from fi.alk.harness.contract import AgentContract
+
+    assert _tool_actions(AgentContract.model_validate(contract)) == {"orders.get": "get_order", "refunds.issue": "issue_refund"}
+
+
+def test_limited_workers_seed_the_action_log_that_keeps_whose_attempt_was_refused(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import _AGENT_TRACE_DDL, _TOOL_TRACE_DDL, _action_log_seed
+
+    assert _action_log_seed(tmp_path) == _AGENT_TRACE_DDL
+    assert _action_log_seed(tmp_path, workers=True).startswith(_TOOL_TRACE_DDL)
+
+
+def test_a_separately_wired_worker_s_tool_address_points_at_its_own_channel_on_the_tool_proxy(tmp_path):
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_author_v2 import EnvironmentPlanV2, _tool_proxy_process, _with_worker_channels
+
+    agent = _tool_proxy_process().model_copy(update={"name": "agent", "environment": {"A": "1"}, "depends_on": []})
+    plan = EnvironmentPlanV2(
+        packaging="process",
+        control_service="agent",
+        processes=(agent, _tool_proxy_process().model_copy(update={"depends_on": []})),
+        capabilities={},
+        readiness=(),
+    )
+    contract = {
+        "workers": [
+            {"id": "refund", "binding": "separate", "address_env": "REFUND_API_URL"},
+            {"id": "order_lookup", "binding": "shared", "address_env": "LOOKUP_API_URL"},
+        ]
+    }
+    wired = {p.name: p.environment for p in _with_worker_channels(plan, contract).processes}
+    assert wired["agent"] == {"A": "1", "REFUND_API_URL": "{{TOOLS_API_URL}}/w/{{WORKER_CHANNEL_refund}}"}
+    assert "REFUND_API_URL" not in wired["tool-proxy"]
+    without_proxy = replace(plan, processes=(agent,))
+    assert _with_worker_channels(without_proxy, contract) is without_proxy
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_call_runner.py b/tests/harness/test_call_runner.py
index 66cfbfa9e..d3d7a331c 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_call_runner.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_call_runner.py
@@ -176,6 +176,182 @@ def test_file_tool_trace_is_collected_from_runtime_metadata(tmp_path: Path) -> N
     assert calls[1].error == "declined"
 
 
+def test_the_sealed_trace_row_keeps_the_runtime_worker_task_and_event_ids(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import trace_row
+
+    trace = _trace_lines(
+        tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
+        {
+            "name": "lookup",
+            "arguments": {},
+            "output": "found",
+            "is_error": False,
+            "source": "crewai",
+            "agent_key": "researcher",
+            "task_name": "Find weather",
+            "event_id": "e2",
+            "parent_event_id": "e1",
+        },
+        {"name": "lookup", "arguments": {}, "output": "found", "is_error": False},
+    )
+    observed, plain = (
+        trace_row(call)
+        for call in cr._collect_file_tool_calls(
+            _runtime(metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)})
+        )
+    )
+
+    assert (observed["worker_id"], observed["task_label"]) == (
+        "researcher",
+        "Find weather",
+    )
+    assert observed["runtime_ids"] == {"event_id": "e2", "parent_event_id": "e1"}
+    assert not {
+        "worker_id",
+        "worker_label",
+        "task_id",
+        "task_label",
+        "runtime_ids",
+    } & set(plain)
+
+
+_SPAN_LINES = (
+    {
+        "name": "ask_writer",
+        "arguments": {},
+        "output": None,
+        "is_error": False,
+        "source": "otel",
+        "agent_key": "Coordinator",
+        "delegated_to": "Writer",
+        "at": 1.0,
+        "ended_at": 3.0,
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "draft_note",
+        "arguments": {},
+        "output": None,
+        "is_error": False,
+        "source": "otel",
+        "agent_key": "Writer",
+        "at": 2.0,
+    },
+)
+
+
+def _observed() -> list[Call]:
+    # Stamped once their results were read, later than they started and in the other order.
+    return [
+        Call(
+            name="ask_writer",
+            arguments={"topic": "tides"},
+            result="done",
+            ok=True,
+            at=9.2,
+        ),
+        Call(
+            name="draft_note",
+            arguments={"topic": "tides"},
+            result="drafted",
+            ok=True,
+            at=9.1,
+        ),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_span_lines_name_the_agent_of_calls_another_source_observed_and_add_none(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    trace = _trace_lines(
+        tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
+        *_SPAN_LINES,
+        {"name": "draft_note", "arguments": {}, "output": "written", "is_error": False},
+    )
+    calls = cr._with_span_calls(
+        _observed(), _runtime(metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)})
+    )
+    assert [
+        (c.name, c.arguments, c.worker_id, c.delegated_to, c.at, c.ended_at)
+        for c in calls
+    ] == [
+        ("ask_writer", {"topic": "tides"}, "Coordinator", "Writer", 1.0, 3.0),
+        ("draft_note", {"topic": "tides"}, "Writer", "", 2.0, 0.0),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_runtime_s_hand_off_keeps_when_the_worker_returned_and_is_never_graded(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # CrewAI's observer writes each agent a flow runs as a hand-off, with its own start and end.
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import graded_calls, trace_row
+
+    trace = _trace_lines(
+        tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
+        {
+            "name": "Draft checker",
+            "arguments": {},
+            "output": "valid",
+            "is_error": False,
+            "source": "crewai",
+            "agent_key": "DraftFlow",
+            "delegated_to": "Draft checker",
+            "at": 4.0,
+            "ended_at": 6.5,
+            "kind": "handoff",
+        },
+    )
+    calls = cr._collect_file_tool_calls(
+        _runtime(metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)})
+    )
+    (row,) = (trace_row(call) for call in calls)
+    assert (
+        row["worker_id"],
+        row["delegated_to"],
+        row["at"],
+        row["ended_at"],
+        row["kind"],
+    ) == ("DraftFlow", "Draft checker", 4.0, 6.5, "delegated")
+    assert graded_calls(calls) == []
+
+
+def test_a_span_that_recorded_no_arguments_reads_as_none_not_as_raw_text(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    trace = _trace_lines(
+        tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl",
+        {**_SPAN_LINES[1], "arguments": "", "output": ""},
+        {"name": "note", "arguments": "not json", "output": "", "is_error": False},
+    )
+    calls = cr._collect_file_tool_calls(
+        _runtime(metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)})
+    )
+    assert [(c.name, c.arguments) for c in calls] == [
+        ("note", {"raw": "not json"}),
+        ("draft_note", {}),
+    ]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "seam", [EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE, EvidenceSeam.HTTP_TOOL, None]
+)
+def test_a_process_agent_s_seam_calls_keep_their_evidence_and_take_the_agent_from_its_spans(
+    tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, seam: EvidenceSeam | None
+) -> None:
+    trace = _trace_lines(tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl", *_SPAN_LINES)
+    for reader in ("_collect_tool_trace_calls", "_collect_http_tool_calls"):
+        monkeypatch.setattr(cr, reader, lambda runtime: tuple(_observed()))
+    _job_obj, context = _context(tmp_path=tmp_path, evidence_seam=seam)
+    runner = cr.CallRunnerImpl(FakeAdapter(), context, place_call=None)
+    calls = runner._collect_calls(_runtime(metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)}))
+    # With no seam, the spans are the only evidence.
+    assert [(c.name, c.result, c.worker_id) for c in calls] == [
+        ("ask_writer", "done" if seam else None, "Coordinator"),
+        ("draft_note", "drafted" if seam else None, "Writer"),
+    ]
+
+
 def test_a_result_traced_as_the_text_of_a_dict_reaches_checks_as_the_dict(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     trace = tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
     trace.write_text(
@@ -2451,6 +2627,43 @@ async def place_call(spec):
     ] == [("approve", "reviewer")]
 
 
+def test_a_worker_s_refused_attempt_is_sealed_in_the_trial_s_state_changes_without_any_actor(
+    tmp_path, monkeypatch
+) -> None:
+    _job_obj, context = _context(
+        tmp_path=tmp_path, evidence_seam=EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE
+    )
+    _write_scenario_doc(context.bundle_dir, scenario_key="k1")
+    columns = ["name", "arguments", "result", "ok", "error", "at", "action_id", "actor_id", "worker_id", "outcome",
+               "refusal_code", "refusal"]
+    rows = [
+        ("update_status", {}, None, False, "", 1.0, "a1", "agent", "order_lookup", "refused", "not_permitted",
+         "orders.update_status is not permitted for order_lookup"),
+    ]
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "psycopg", _FakePsycopg(rows, columns))
+
+    async def place_call(spec):
+        return _report(
+            transcript="user: hello", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "hello"}]
+        )
+
+    adapter = FakeAdapter()
+    runner = cr.CallRunnerImpl(adapter, context, place_call=place_call)
+    _run(
+        runner,
+        _FakeScenario("k1"),
+        _runtime(
+            endpoints={"database": _postgres_endpoint()},
+            metadata={"livekit_agent_name": "agent-w0"},
+        ),
+    )
+    sealed = {kind: data for kind, _key, data in adapter.uploads}
+    changes = json.loads(sealed[cr.ArtifactKind.TRANSCRIPT])["world_actors"]["state_changes"]
+    assert [(one["who"], one["refused"], one["refused_actions"][0]["code"]) for one in changes] == [
+        ("worker:order_lookup", 1, "not_permitted")
+    ]
+
+
 def test_a_trial_s_actor_token_holds_only_while_its_call_runs(
     tmp_path, monkeypatch
 ) -> None:
@@ -2591,3 +2804,49 @@ def chown(*args, **kwargs):
     with pytest.raises(cr.PrivateTokenUnavailable):
         cr._write_trial_token(token_path, "secret")
     assert not token_path.exists()
+
+
+def test_each_trial_writes_its_worker_deadline_beside_its_faults_and_clears_it_after(tmp_path) -> None:
+    import json
+    import time
+    from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+    token = tmp_path / "tool-proxy" / "actor-token"
+    token.parent.mkdir(parents=True)
+    runtime = SimpleNamespace(metadata={"actor_proof_path": str(token)})
+    before = time.time()
+    deadline = cr.worker_deadline({"worker_budget_seconds": 30})
+    assert before + 30 <= deadline <= time.time() + 30
+    assert cr.worker_deadline({}) is None
+    cr._write_trial_state(runtime, [{"action": "ok"}], deadline)
+    state = json.loads((token.parent / "trial.json").read_text())
+    assert state == {"faults": [{"action": "ok"}], "worker_deadline_at": deadline}
+    cr._write_trial_state(runtime, [])
+    assert json.loads((token.parent / "trial.json").read_text()) == {"faults": []}
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_call_carries_the_worker_and_why_the_world_refused_it(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    columns = ["name", "arguments", "result", "ok", "error", "at", "action_id", "actor_id", "worker_id", "outcome",
+               "refusal_code"]
+    rows = [
+        ("get_order", {"id": "1"}, {"status": "delivered"}, True, "", 100.5, "a1", "agent", "order_lookup", "committed", None),
+        ("issue_refund", {"id": "1"}, None, False, "late", 101.0, "a2", "agent", "refund", "refused", "deadline_passed"),
+    ]
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "psycopg", _FakePsycopg(rows, columns))
+    calls = cr._collect_tool_trace_calls(_runtime(endpoints={"database": _postgres_endpoint()}))
+    assert [(one.worker_id, one.refusal_code) for one in calls] == [("order_lookup", ""), ("refund", "deadline_passed")]
+
+
+def test_the_sealed_trace_row_keeps_why_the_world_refused_a_call() -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import Call, trace_row
+
+    refused = Call(
+        name="get_order",
+        arguments={},
+        ok=False,
+        refused=True,
+        worker_id="order_lookup",
+        refusal_code="deadline_passed",
+    )
+    assert trace_row(refused)["refusal_code"] == "deadline_passed"
+    assert "refusal_code" not in trace_row(Call(name="get_order", arguments={}))
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_chat_call_runner.py b/tests/harness/test_chat_call_runner.py
index 573218c84..524aa577c 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_chat_call_runner.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_chat_call_runner.py
@@ -394,6 +394,72 @@ async def call(self, _request: Any) -> AgentResponse:
     assert b'"name": "lookup_account"' in adapter.uploads[1]
 
 
+def test_hosted_chat_takes_each_call_s_worker_from_the_agent_s_framework_spans(
+    tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: Any
+) -> None:
+    tool_world = _ToolWorld()
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "_tool_world", lambda *_args: tool_world)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "_drive_conversation", _single_exchange)
+    trace = tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
+
+    class Wrapper:
+        def __init__(self, **_kwargs: Any) -> None:
+            self.calls = 0
+
+        async def call(self, _request: Any) -> AgentResponse:
+            self.calls += 1
+            if self.calls == 1:
+                call = {
+                    "id": "tool-1",
+                    "function": {
+                        "name": "lookup_account",
+                        "arguments": '{"account_id":"ACC-2048"}',
+                    },
+                }
+                return AgentResponse(content="", tool_calls=[call])
+            # The agent's process wrote the span of the call its worker made.
+            span = {
+                "name": "lookup_account",
+                "arguments": "",
+                "output": "",
+                "is_error": False,
+                "source": "otel",
+                "agent_key": "Accounts worker",
+                "agent_role": "Accounts worker",
+                "at": 1.0,
+            }
+            trace.write_text(json.dumps(span) + "\n", encoding="utf-8")
+            return AgentResponse(content="The account is active.")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "HTTPAgentWrapper", Wrapper)
+    adapter = _Adapter()
+    runner = chat.HostedChatCallRunner(adapter, _context(tmp_path))
+    runtime = EnvironmentRuntime(
+        runtime_id="runtime-1",
+        world_index=0,
+        bundle_digest="sha256:" + "a" * 64,
+        state=RuntimeState.READY,
+        endpoints={
+            "target_http": RuntimeEndpoint(
+                capability="target_http",
+                protocol="http",
+                address="http://localhost:18080",
+            )
+        },
+        metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(trace)},
+    )
+    outcome = asyncio.run(
+        runner.run(
+            SimpleNamespace(scenario_key="one", scenario_id="scenario-1"), runtime
+        )
+    )
+
+    assert [(c.name, c.arguments, c.worker_label) for c in outcome.calls] == [
+        ("lookup_account", {"account_id": "ACC-2048"}, "Accounts worker")
+    ]
+    assert json.loads(adapter.uploads[1])["worker_label"] == "Accounts worker"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "metadata",
     [
@@ -1413,3 +1479,42 @@ def test_generated_command_bridge_handles_readiness_and_hosted_chat(tmp_path, mo
         server.shutdown()
         thread.join()
         server.server_close()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("seam", [None, "tool_trace"])
+def test_a_chat_call_reads_the_world_s_action_log_when_its_bundle_says_evidence_lands_there(
+    tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: Any, seam: str | None
+) -> None:
+    from dataclasses import replace
+
+    from fi.alk.harness import call_runner
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_v2 import EvidenceSeam
+
+    logged = Call(name="issue_refund", arguments={"order_id": "1043"}, worker_id="refund")
+    monkeypatch.setattr(call_runner, "_collect_tool_trace_calls", lambda _runtime: (logged,))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "_tool_world", lambda *_args: _ToolWorld())
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "_drive_conversation", _single_exchange)
+
+    class Wrapper:
+        def __init__(self, **_kwargs: Any) -> None:
+            pass
+
+        async def call(self, _request: Any) -> AgentResponse:
+            return AgentResponse(content="Refund RF-8 is issued.")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat, "HTTPAgentWrapper", Wrapper)
+    context = replace(_context(tmp_path), evidence_seam=EvidenceSeam(seam) if seam else None)
+    runtime = EnvironmentRuntime(
+        runtime_id="runtime-1",
+        world_index=0,
+        bundle_digest="sha256:" + "a" * 64,
+        state=RuntimeState.READY,
+        endpoints={"target_http": RuntimeEndpoint(capability="target_http", protocol="http", address="http://x")},
+    )
+    outcome = asyncio.run(
+        chat.HostedChatCallRunner(_Adapter(), context).run(
+            SimpleNamespace(scenario_key="one", scenario_id="scenario-1"), runtime
+        )
+    )
+    # The agent's tools ran against the world's services, so only the world's own log saw them.
+    assert [(call.name, call.worker_id) for call in outcome.calls] == ([("issue_refund", "refund")] if seam else [])
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_chat_readiness.py b/tests/harness/test_chat_readiness.py
index b24d8a4bb..24845f248 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_chat_readiness.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_chat_readiness.py
@@ -1003,21 +1003,25 @@ async def conversation(target, *_args):
     assert receipt["tool_evidence_status"] == "not_observed"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("handoffs", [0, 1])
 def test_private_workflow_requires_evidence_for_executable_contract_tools(
-    tmp_path, profile_app, monkeypatch
+    tmp_path, profile_app, monkeypatch, handoffs
 ):
     from fi.alk.harness import chat_call_runner
     from fi.alk.harness.contract import ToolEntry, ToolSpec
     from fi.alk.harness.run.conversation import Exchange, Transcript
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import Call
 
     url, state = profile_app
     state.update(profile=True, body={"content": "The account is active"})
 
     async def conversation(target, *_args):
         answer = await target.say("Look up account A-1")
+        # A worker's run is not a tool call, so it is no evidence for one.
+        handed = [Call(name="Account worker", arguments={}, delegated_to="Account worker", handoff=True)]
         return Transcript(
             exchanges=[Exchange("customer", "Look up account A-1"), Exchange("agent", answer)],
-            calls=[], ended="finished",
+            calls=handed[:handoffs], ended="finished",
         )
 
     monkeypatch.setattr(chat_call_runner, "_drive_conversation", conversation)
@@ -1123,13 +1127,44 @@ async def say(self, _message):
             if self.opening:
                 self.opening = False
                 return SimpleNamespace(text="Look up account A-1")
+            # The agent's process wrote the span of the call, naming the worker that made it.
+            span = {
+                "name": "lookup_account",
+                "arguments": "",
+                "output": "",
+                "is_error": False,
+                "source": "otel",
+                "agent_key": "Accounts worker",
+                "agent_role": "Accounts worker",
+                "at": 1.0,
+            }
+            # And a worker's run, which is no tool call.
+            handoff = {
+                "name": "Accounts worker",
+                "arguments": {},
+                "output": "done",
+                "is_error": False,
+                "source": "otel",
+                "delegated_to": "Accounts worker",
+                "kind": "handoff",
+                "at": 2.0,
+            }
+            spans.write_text(json.dumps(span) + "\n" + json.dumps(handoff) + "\n")
             started.set()
             await asyncio.Event().wait()
 
     monkeypatch.setattr(conversation, "Stage", CustomerStage)
+    spans = tmp_path / "agent-tool-calls.jsonl"
+    runtime = SimpleNamespace(
+        metadata={"observation_mode": "native", "tool_trace_path": str(spans)},
+        world_index=0,
+        endpoints={"target_http": SimpleNamespace(address=url, protocol="http")},
+    )
 
     async def run():
-        task = asyncio.create_task(workflow_probe(tmp_path, url, timeout=2))
+        task = asyncio.create_task(
+            workflow_probe(tmp_path, url, timeout=2, runtime=runtime)
+        )
         if cancel:
             await started.wait()
             task.cancel()
@@ -1157,10 +1192,12 @@ async def run():
         {"role": "assistant", "content": "The account is active <redacted>"},
     ]
     tool_trace = next(receipt_path.parent.glob("tool_trace-*.json"))
-    call = json.loads(tool_trace.read_text())
+    call, handed = (json.loads(line) for line in tool_trace.read_text().splitlines())
+    assert (handed["delegated_to"], handed["kind"], "handoff" in handed) == ("Accounts worker", "delegated", False)
     assert call["name"] == "lookup_account"
     assert call["arguments"] == {"account_id": "A-1"}
     assert call["result"]["active"] is True
+    assert call["worker_label"] == "Accounts worker"
     assert all("secret123" not in path.read_text() for path in receipt_path.parent.iterdir())
 
 
@@ -1217,3 +1254,55 @@ def test_native_http_200_failure_rule_unlocks_existing_setup_repair(tmp_path, pr
     assert repaired.runtime.command == contract.runtime.command
     assert "secret123" not in json.dumps(receipts(tmp_path))
     assert sorted(item["status"] for item in receipts(tmp_path)) == ["failed", "passed"]
+
+
+def test_an_aborted_readiness_call_counts_its_tool_calls_not_its_hand_offs(
+    tmp_path, profile_app, monkeypatch
+):
+    from fi.alk.harness import chat_call_runner
+    from fi.alk.harness.hosted_scheduler import CallAborted, CallOutcome
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import Call
+
+    url, _state = profile_app
+    calls = (
+        Call(name="lookup_account", arguments={}, ok=True),
+        Call(
+            name="Accounts worker",
+            arguments={},
+            delegated_to="Accounts worker",
+            handoff=True,
+        ),
+    )
+
+    async def aborted(self, *_args):
+        partial = CallOutcome(
+            calls=calls, turns=1, messages=(), started_at="", ended_at="", duration_ms=0
+        )
+        raise CallAborted("the target stopped", partial=partial)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat_call_runner.HostedChatCallRunner, "run", aborted)
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeValidationError):
+        asyncio.run(workflow_probe(tmp_path, url))
+    _, receipt = workflow_receipt(tmp_path)
+    assert receipt["tool_call_count"] == 1
+
+
+def test_the_readiness_call_reads_calls_from_the_bundle_s_own_evidence_seam(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    from fi.alk.harness import chat_call_runner
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_v2 import EvidenceSeam
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import Call
+
+    seen = {}
+
+    class Runner:
+        def __init__(self, _artifacts, context):
+            seen["seam"] = context.evidence_seam
+            self._contract = None
+
+        async def run(self, _scenario, _runtime):
+            return SimpleNamespace(calls=(Call(name="issue_refund", arguments={}),), turns=1)
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat_call_runner, "HostedChatCallRunner", Runner)
+    asyncio.run(workflow_probe(tmp_path, "http://x", evidence_seam=EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE))
+    assert seen["seam"] is EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE
+    assert workflow_receipt(tmp_path)[1]["status"] == "passed"
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_chat_worker.py b/tests/harness/test_chat_worker.py
index 0c9908260..226dfc199 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_chat_worker.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_chat_worker.py
@@ -401,3 +401,43 @@ async def worker(*_args, **_kwargs):
     assert adapter.uploads == [b"partial transcript", b"http failure trace"]
     assert failure.value.partial.transcript_artifact == "transcript-1"
     assert failure.value.partial.turns == 2
+
+
+def test_an_isolated_chat_call_keeps_the_bundle_s_evidence_seam(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    from dataclasses import replace
+
+    from fi.alk.harness.bundle_v2 import EvidenceSeam
+
+    class Stop(Exception):
+        pass
+
+    seen = {}
+
+    class Runner:
+        def __init__(self, _adapter, context):
+            seen["worker"] = context.evidence_seam
+            raise Stop
+
+    async def worker(_module, payload, *, environ, work_directory):
+        seen["payload"] = payload["evidence_seam"]
+        monkeypatch.setattr(chat_worker.sys, "stdin", io.StringIO(json.dumps(payload)))
+        monkeypatch.setattr(chat_worker.sys, "argv", ["chat_worker", str(tmp_path / "result.json")])
+        await chat_worker.main()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat_worker, "run_json_worker", worker)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(chat_call_runner, "HostedChatCallRunner", Runner)
+    context = replace(_context(tmp_path), evidence_seam=EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE)
+    runtime = EnvironmentRuntime(
+        runtime_id="runtime-1",
+        world_index=0,
+        bundle_digest="sha256:" + "a" * 64,
+        state=RuntimeState.READY,
+        endpoints={"target_http": RuntimeEndpoint(capability="target_http", protocol="http", address="http://x")},
+    )
+    with pytest.raises(Exception):
+        asyncio.run(
+            chat_worker.IsolatedChatCallRunner(_Adapter(), context).run(
+                SimpleNamespace(scenario_key="one", source_scenario_key="one", scenario_id="id-1"), runtime
+            )
+        )
+    assert seen == {"payload": "tool_trace", "worker": EvidenceSeam.TOOL_TRACE}
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_contract.py b/tests/harness/test_contract.py
index d9d3bafc6..bf230f5d5 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_contract.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_contract.py
@@ -180,3 +180,109 @@ def test_http_server_keeps_source_owned_message_template_argument():
     command = ["server", "--chat-template", "{{messages}}"]
     runtime = Runtime(command=command, interface={"kind": "http", "protocol": "openai_chat", "port": 8080, "path": "/v1/chat/completions"})
     assert runtime.command == command
+
+
+def test_declared_workers_name_contract_tools_and_reach_the_brief():
+    contract = AgentContract.model_validate(
+        {
+            "agent": "returns",
+            "real_use_cases": ["refund an order"],
+            "tools": [{"name": "get_order"}, {"name": "issue_refund"}],
+            "workers": [
+                {
+                    "id": "order_lookup",
+                    "name": "Order-lookup worker",
+                    "tools": ["get_order"],
+                },
+                {"id": "refund", "name": "Refund worker", "tools": ["issue_refund"]},
+            ],
+        }
+    )
+    assert validate_contract(contract) == []
+    assert "order_lookup (Order-lookup worker): get_order" in contract.brief()
+
+
+def test_a_worker_without_an_id_of_its_own_is_returned_to_authoring_and_keeps_only_contract_tools():
+    contract = AgentContract.model_validate(
+        {
+            "agent": "returns",
+            "real_use_cases": ["refund an order"],
+            "tools": [{"name": "get_order"}],
+            "workers": [
+                {"id": "order_lookup", "tools": ["get_order", "send_email"]},
+                {"id": "order_lookup", "name": "Second"},
+                {"id": " "},
+            ],
+        }
+    )
+    problems = validate_contract(contract)
+    assert [one.split(":")[0] for one in problems] == [
+        "worker[2]",
+        "duplicate-worker-ids",
+    ]
+    assert "duplicate-worker-ids:order_lookup:" in problems[1]
+    assert [(one.id, one.tools) for one in contract.workers] == [
+        ("order_lookup", ["get_order"]),
+        ("order_lookup", []),
+        (" ", []),
+    ]
+    fixed = contract.model_copy(
+        update={
+            "workers": [
+                contract.workers[0],
+                contract.workers[1].model_copy(update={"id": "refunds"}),
+            ]
+        }
+    )
+    assert validate_contract(fixed) == []
+
+
+def test_contract_without_workers_is_unchanged():
+    contract = AgentContract.model_validate(
+        {"agent": "plain", "real_use_cases": ["answer"], "tools": [{"name": "a"}]}
+    )
+    assert contract.workers == []
+    assert "WORKERS" not in contract.brief()
+
+
+def test_a_sub_goal_names_the_task_or_one_worker_and_a_task_subject_is_saved_as_before(tmp_path):
+    import json
+
+    from fi.alk.harness.catalogue import Catalogue, SubGoal, save_catalogue
+
+    assert SubGoal(name="a").subject == "task" and SubGoal(name="a").worker == ""
+    assert SubGoal(name="b", subject="worker:refund").worker == "refund"
+    for bad in ("refund", "worker:", "agent:x"):
+        with pytest.raises(ValidationError, match="subject is task or worker"):
+            SubGoal(name="c", subject=bad)
+    path = save_catalogue(Catalogue(sub_goals=[SubGoal(name="a"), SubGoal(name="b", subject="worker:refund")]), tmp_path)
+    saved = json.loads(path.read_text())["sub_goals"]
+    assert "subject" not in saved[0] and saved[1]["subject"] == "worker:refund"
+
+
+def test_a_worker_allowed_a_tool_it_does_not_hold_is_returned_to_authoring():
+    contract = AgentContract.model_validate(
+        {
+            "agent": "returns",
+            "real_use_cases": ["refund an order"],
+            "tools": [{"name": "get_order"}, {"name": "issue_refund"}],
+            "workers": [
+                {"id": "order_lookup", "tools": ["get_order"], "allowed_tools": ["get_order"]},
+                {"id": "refund", "tools": ["issue_refund"], "allowed_tools": ["get_order"]},
+            ],
+        }
+    )
+    assert [one.split(": ")[0] for one in validate_contract(contract)] == [
+        "worker[1]:allowed-tools-it-does-not-hold:get_order"
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_scenario_s_worker_budget_is_positive_and_absent_from_its_document_when_unset():
+    from fi.alk.harness.folder import document_for
+    from fi.alk.harness.scenario import Scenario
+
+    plain = Scenario(name="a", instruction="x")
+    assert "worker_budget_seconds" not in document_for(plain)
+    assert document_for(plain.model_copy(update={"worker_budget_seconds": 20}))["worker_budget_seconds"] == 20
+    with pytest.raises(ValidationError):
+        Scenario(name="a", instruction="x", worker_budget_seconds=0)
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_crewai_runtime_observer.py b/tests/harness/test_crewai_runtime_observer.py
index e0ecd4db2..27bfb5a6b 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_crewai_runtime_observer.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_crewai_runtime_observer.py
@@ -258,3 +258,78 @@ def test_string_values_are_bounded_before_the_record_limit(tmp_path: Path) -> No
 
     assert len(records[0]["arguments"]["query"]) == 4096
     assert len(records[0]["output"]["result"]) == 4096
+
+
+def test_each_payload_says_whether_bounding_left_part_of_it_out(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    _fake_crewai(tmp_path)
+    script = """
+from crewai.events.event_bus import CrewAIEventsBus
+from crewai.events.types.tool_usage_events import ToolUsageFinishedEvent
+bus = CrewAIEventsBus()
+try:
+    for args, output in (({'query': 'x' * 5000}, 'ok'), ({'query': 'q'}, ['y'] * 17), ({'query': 'q'}, 'ok')):
+        assert bus.emit(None, ToolUsageFinishedEvent(tool_name='lookup', tool_args=args, output=output)) is bus.future
+finally:
+    bus.release.set()
+    bus.executor.shutdown()
+"""
+    _, records = _run(tmp_path, script)
+
+    assert [
+        (one.get("input_omitted", False), one.get("output_omitted", False))
+        for one in records
+    ] == [(True, False), (False, True), (False, False)]
+
+
+def test_each_agent_a_flow_runs_is_a_hand_off_from_the_flow_with_its_return(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    _fake_crewai(tmp_path)
+    (tmp_path / "crewai/events/types/agent_events.py").write_text(
+        "from types import SimpleNamespace\n"
+        "class AgentExecutionStartedEvent(SimpleNamespace): pass\n"
+        "class AgentExecutionCompletedEvent(SimpleNamespace): pass\n"
+        "class AgentExecutionErrorEvent(SimpleNamespace): pass\n"
+    )
+    (tmp_path / "crewai/events/types/flow_events.py").write_text(
+        "from types import SimpleNamespace\nclass FlowStartedEvent(SimpleNamespace): pass\n"
+    )
+    script = """
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone
+from types import SimpleNamespace as N
+from crewai.events.event_bus import CrewAIEventsBus
+from crewai.events.types.agent_events import (
+    AgentExecutionStartedEvent as Start, AgentExecutionCompletedEvent as Done, AgentExecutionErrorEvent as Failed,
+)
+from crewai.events.types.flow_events import FlowStartedEvent
+import crewai_runtime_observer_bootstrap as observer
+assert observer.install()
+bus = CrewAIEventsBus()
+t0 = datetime(2026, 11, 3, 10, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)
+writer = N(id='a1', role='Draft writer')
+checker = N(id='a2', role='Draft checker\\n')
+write, verify = N(id='t1', name='write_draft', description='Write a post'), N(id='t2', name='check_draft', description='Verify it')
+bus.emit(None, FlowStartedEvent(flow_name='DraftFlow', no_handlers=True))
+steps = [(Start, writer, write, 0), (Done, writer, write, 2), (Start, checker, verify, 3), (Done, checker, verify, 4),
+         (Start, writer, write, 5), (Done, writer, write, 7), (Start, checker, verify, 8), (Failed, checker, verify, 9)]
+for kind, agent, task, second in steps:
+    extra = {'error': 'too long'} if kind is Failed else {'output': 'ok'} if kind is Done else {}
+    bus.emit(None, kind(agent=agent, task=task, timestamp=t0 + timedelta(seconds=second), no_handlers=True, **extra))
+"""
+    _result, records = _run(tmp_path, script)
+    handoffs = [
+        (r["agent_key"], r["delegated_to"], r["ended_at"] - r["at"], r["is_error"])
+        for r in records
+    ]
+    assert handoffs == [
+        ("DraftFlow", "Draft writer", 2.0, False),
+        ("DraftFlow", "Draft checker", 1.0, False),
+        ("DraftFlow", "Draft writer", 2.0, False),
+        ("DraftFlow", "Draft checker", 1.0, True),
+    ]
+    assert (
+        records[0]["arguments"] == {"task": "Write a post"}
+        and records[0]["task_name"] == "write_draft"
+    )
+    assert records[1]["output"] == "ok" and records[3]["output"] == "too long"
+    assert {r["kind"] for r in records} == {"handoff"}
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_framework_tool_spans.py b/tests/harness/test_framework_tool_spans.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e2fac1f18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/harness/test_framework_tool_spans.py
@@ -0,0 +1,1295 @@
+"""Tool calls and the agent that made each, read from framework spans by the sandbox's startup hook.
+
+Each case runs a real interpreter with the hook as its ``sitecustomize`` and makes spans the way one
+framework's instrumentation shapes them, so no framework has to be installed here.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import textwrap
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from fi.alk.harness import (
+    call_runner,
+    simulation_mark_bootstrap,
+    simulation_worker_events,
+)
+from fi.alk.harness.process_runtime import EnvironmentRuntime, RuntimeState
+from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import Call, trace_row
+
+_PRELUDE = """
+from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
+from opentelemetry.trace import Status, StatusCode
+{provider}
+tracer = trace.get_tracer("probe")
+
+def span(name, **attributes):
+    return tracer.start_as_current_span(name, attributes=attributes)
+"""
+
+
+def _place_hook(hook: Path) -> None:
+    for module in (simulation_mark_bootstrap, simulation_worker_events):
+        (hook / Path(module.__file__).name).write_bytes(
+            Path(module.__file__).read_bytes()
+        )
+
+
+def _run(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+    body: str,
+    *,
+    provider: str = "trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider())",
+) -> list[dict]:
+    hook = tmp_path / "hook"
+    hook.mkdir()
+    _place_hook(hook)
+    (hook / "sitecustomize.py").write_text(
+        "import simulation_mark_bootstrap\nsimulation_mark_bootstrap.install()\n"
+    )
+    trace = tmp_path / "calls.jsonl"
+    script = _PRELUDE.format(provider=provider) + textwrap.dedent(body)
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", script],
+        env={
+            **os.environ,
+            "PYTHONPATH": str(hook),
+            "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": str(trace),
+            "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1",
+        },
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    assert "hook: failed" not in result.stderr
+    if not trace.exists():
+        return []
+    return [json.loads(line) for line in trace.read_text().splitlines()]
+
+
+def _sealed(tmp_path: Path) -> list[dict]:
+    """The hook's lines as the sandbox reads and seals them."""
+    runtime = EnvironmentRuntime(
+        runtime_id="rt-1",
+        world_index=0,
+        bundle_digest="sha256:" + "0" * 64,
+        state=RuntimeState.READY,
+        endpoints={},
+        metadata={"tool_trace_path": str(tmp_path / "calls.jsonl")},
+    )
+    return [trace_row(call) for call in call_runner._collect_file_tool_calls(runtime)]
+
+
+def _placed(rows: list[dict]) -> list[tuple]:
+    return [
+        (
+            row["name"],
+            row["kind"],
+            row["agent"],
+            row["relationship"],
+            row["parent_span_id"],
+        )
+        for row in rows
+    ]
+
+
+def _by_tool(records: list[dict]) -> dict[str, tuple]:
+    return {r["name"]: (r.get("agent_key"), r.get("delegated_to")) for r in records}
+
+
+def test_a_tool_call_names_the_agent_above_it_and_a_hand_off_names_the_worker(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Lead agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "graph.node.id": "Lead agent"}):
+            with span("ask_research", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ask_research"}):
+                with span("Research worker", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "graph.node.id": "Research worker"}):
+                    with span("search_notes", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search_notes",
+                                              "input.value": '{"query": "q"}', "output.value": "found"}):
+                        pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "search_notes": ("Research worker", None),
+        "ask_research": ("Lead agent", "Research worker"),
+    }
+    lookup = next(r for r in records if r["name"] == "search_notes")
+    assert (lookup["arguments"], lookup["output"], lookup["is_error"]) == (
+        '{"query": "q"}',
+        "found",
+        False,
+    )
+
+
+def test_a_langgraph_tool_is_the_subgraph_above_the_node_that_ran_it(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "publish_note",
+                              "gen_ai.agent.name": "tools", "langgraph_node": "tools",
+                              "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "writer_worker:1|tools:2"}):
+            pass
+        with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup",
+                              "langgraph_node": "tools", "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "tools:3"}):
+            pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "publish_note": ("writer_worker", None),
+        "lookup": (None, None),
+    }
+
+
+def test_a_background_job_is_a_hand_off_from_the_tool_call_that_launched_it(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # A supervisor starts two jobs; each runs later as its own run (no parent here), named by the id its launch
+    # returned, with its tools attributed to the job's agent. A status check that echoes the id is not the launch.
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        sup = {"gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-sup"}
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup}):
+            with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **sup}):
+                for job, kind in (("job-r", "researcher"), ("job-c", "coder")):
+                    with span("start_async_task", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "start_async_task",
+                                                     "input.value": kind, **sup,
+                                                     "output.value": "Launched async subagent. task_id: " + job}):
+                        pass
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup}):
+            with span("check_async_task", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "check_async_task",
+                                             "output.value": '{"status": "running", "thread_id": "job-r"}', **sup}):
+                pass
+        for job, kind, tool in (("job-c", "coder", "run_code_check"), ("job-r", "researcher", "analyze_topic")):
+            own = {"lc_agent_name": kind, "gen_ai.conversation.id": job}
+            with span(kind, **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", "output.value": kind + " done", **own}):
+                with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", "langgraph_node": "tools",
+                                      "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "tools:1", **own}):
+                    with span(tool, **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": tool, "langgraph_node": "tools",
+                                       "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "tools:1", **own}):
+                        pass
+    """,
+    )
+    launches = {
+        r["output"].rsplit(" ", 1)[-1]: r
+        for r in records
+        if r["name"] == "start_async_task" and not r.get("delegated_to")
+    }
+    hand_offs = {r["delegated_to"]: r for r in records if r.get("delegated_to")}
+    assert {
+        r["name"]: r.get("agent_key")
+        for r in records
+        if r["name"] in ("analyze_topic", "run_code_check")
+    } == {
+        "analyze_topic": "researcher",
+        "run_code_check": "coder",
+    }
+    assert sorted(hand_offs) == ["coder", "researcher"]
+    for worker, job in (("researcher", "job-r"), ("coder", "job-c")):
+        hand_off = hand_offs[worker]
+        assert (hand_off["name"], hand_off["agent_key"], hand_off["output"]) == (
+            "start_async_task",
+            "agent",
+            worker + " done",
+        )
+        assert hand_off["parent_event_id"] == launches[job]["event_id"]
+        assert hand_off["arguments"] == worker
+        assert 0 < hand_off["at"] <= hand_off["ended_at"]
+
+
+def test_a_job_s_answer_is_what_its_model_last_said_not_its_whole_conversation(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        sup = {"gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-sup"}
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup}):
+            with span("start_async_task", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "start_async_task",
+                                             "output.value": "Launched. task_id: job-c", **sup}):
+                pass
+        own = {"lc_agent_name": "coder", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "job-c"}
+        with span("coder", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", "output.value": '{"messages": ["<the task>", "<the answer>"]}', **own}):
+            for said in ("<the answer>", ""):
+                with span("model", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "LLM", "gen_ai.output.messages.0.message.content": said, **own}):
+                    pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert [
+        r["output"] for r in records if r.get("delegated_to") and "ended_at" in r
+    ] == ["<the answer>"]
+
+
+def test_a_job_never_joins_a_launch_from_an_earlier_call(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        import os
+        sup = {"gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-sup"}
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup}):
+            with span("start_async_task", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "start_async_task",
+                                             "output.value": "Launched. task_id: job-c", **sup}):
+                pass
+        # The harness removes the trace between calls.
+        os.remove(os.environ["HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE"])
+        own = {"lc_agent_name": "coder", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "job-c"}
+        with span("coder", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **own}):
+            with span("run_code_check", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "run_code_check", **own}):
+                pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert [(r["name"], r.get("delegated_to")) for r in records] == [
+        ("run_code_check", None)
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_job_still_running_when_the_call_ends_keeps_its_hand_off(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # The job starts and makes a tool call, but has not finished when the process stops.
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        sup = {"gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-sup"}
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup}):
+            with span("start_async_task", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "start_async_task",
+                                             "input.value": "coder", **sup,
+                                             "output.value": "Launched async subagent. task_id: job-c"}):
+                pass
+        own = {"lc_agent_name": "coder", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "job-c"}
+        job = tracer.start_span("coder", attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **own})
+        with trace.use_span(job):
+            with span("run_code_check", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "run_code_check", **own}):
+                pass
+    """,
+    )
+    hand_offs = [r for r in records if r.get("delegated_to")]
+    assert [
+        (r["delegated_to"], r["arguments"], "ended_at" in r) for r in hand_offs
+    ] == [("coder", "coder", False)]
+    assert {
+        r["name"]: r.get("agent_key") for r in records if r["name"] == "run_code_check"
+    } == {"run_code_check": "coder"}
+
+
+def test_a_sub_agent_run_through_a_tool_is_its_hand_off_and_owns_its_tool_calls(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # Deep Agents' `task` tool runs a sub-agent inside the supervisor's `tools` node. The tool span is marked a tool
+    # only when it ends; the sub-agent's nodes sit under the host node in the namespace and name their agent. A tool
+    # inside a named agent whose own inner run names the same agent is not a hand-off.
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        sup_tools = {"langgraph_node": "tools", "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "tools:a"}
+        own = {"lc_agent_name": "researcher", "langgraph_node": "tools", "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "tools:a|tools:b"}
+        with span("LangGraph", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN"}):
+            with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **sup_tools}):
+                with span("task", **sup_tools) as task:
+                    with span("researcher", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **own}):
+                        with span("tools", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **own}):
+                            with span("ls", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ls", **own}):
+                                pass
+                    task.set_attribute("gen_ai.span.kind", "TOOL")
+                    task.set_attribute("gen_ai.tool.name", "task")
+                    task.set_attribute("output.value", "researcher answer")
+        named = {"lc_agent_name": "writer", "langgraph_node": "tools", "langgraph_checkpoint_ns": "writer:c|tools:d"}
+        with span("writer", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **named}):
+            with span("summarise", **named) as tool:
+                with span("summary chain", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN", **named}):
+                    pass
+                tool.set_attribute("gen_ai.span.kind", "TOOL")
+                tool.set_attribute("gen_ai.tool.name", "summarise")
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "ls": ("researcher", None),
+        "task": (None, "researcher"),
+        "summarise": ("writer", None),
+    }
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("inner_first", [False, True])
+def test_a_job_named_only_inside_it_that_starts_before_its_launch_returns_is_its_hand_off(
+    tmp_path: Path, inner_first: bool
+) -> None:
+    # The job's run starts while the launching tool call is still returning, carries no attributes until it ends (as
+    # LangChain's instrumentation sets them), and is still running when the call ends: the spans inside it name it,
+    # whether they finish after the launch returns or before.
+    inner = """
+with trace.use_span(job):
+    with span("run_code_check", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "run_code_check", **own}):
+        pass
+"""
+    launched = """
+launch.set_attribute("output.value", "Launched async subagent. task_id: job-c")
+launch.end()
+"""
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+sup = {"gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-sup"}
+own = {"lc_agent_name": "coder", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "job-c"}
+agent = tracer.start_span("agent", attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", **sup})
+launch = tracer.start_span("start_async_task", context=trace.set_span_in_context(agent), attributes={
+    "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "start_async_task", "input.value": "coder", **sup})
+job = tracer.start_span("coder", context=trace.set_span_in_context(trace.INVALID_SPAN))
+"""
+        + (inner + launched if inner_first else launched + inner)
+        + "agent.end()\n",
+    )
+    hand_offs = [r for r in records if r.get("delegated_to")]
+    assert [
+        (r["delegated_to"], r["agent_key"], "ended_at" in r) for r in hand_offs
+    ] == [("coder", "agent", False)]
+    assert {
+        r["name"]: r.get("agent_key") for r in records if r["name"] == "run_code_check"
+    } == {"run_code_check": "coder"}
+
+
+def test_a_run_whose_conversation_no_tool_returned_is_not_a_hand_off(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-a"}):
+            with span("lookup", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup", "output.value": "x",
+                                   "gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-a"}):
+                pass
+        with span("agent", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.conversation.id": "thread-a"}):
+            pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert [r.get("delegated_to") for r in records] == [None]
+
+
+def test_an_agent_named_on_the_tool_span_or_by_operation_name_is_read(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("execute_tool search_notes", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search_notes",
+                                              "gen_ai.agent.name": "research_worker"}):
+            pass
+        with span("invoke_agent", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_agent", "gen_ai.agent.name": "writer_worker"}):
+            with span("execute_tool", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool", "gen_ai.tool.name": "publish_note"}):
+                pass
+        with span("Task", **{"claude_agent.span_kind": "subagent", "claude_agent.subagent_type": "researcher"}):
+            with span("WebSearch", **{"claude_agent.span_kind": "tool", "tool.name": "WebSearch"}):
+                pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "search_notes": ("research_worker", None),
+        "publish_note": ("writer_worker", None),
+        "WebSearch": ("researcher", None),
+    }
+
+
+def test_an_unnamed_agent_takes_the_tool_that_handed_it_work_and_otherwise_stays_unnamed(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Agent.run", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"}):
+            with span("ask_researcher", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ask_researcher"}):
+                with span("Agent.run", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"}):
+                    with span("search", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search"}):
+                        pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "search": ("ask_researcher", None),
+        "ask_researcher": (None, "ask_researcher"),
+    }
+
+
+def test_one_call_wrapped_by_two_instrumentations_is_written_once_and_a_failure_is_an_error(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Worker", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "agent.name": "Worker"}):
+            with span("ToolUsage._use", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "Publish note"}):
+                with span("publish_note", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "publish_note"}) as inner:
+                    inner.set_status(Status(StatusCode.ERROR))
+            with span("Delegate work", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "Delegate work"}):
+                with span("search_notes", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search_notes"}):
+                    pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert [(r["name"], r["is_error"]) for r in records] == [
+        ("publish_note", True),
+        ("search_notes", False),
+        ("Delegate work", False),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_an_autogen_core_tool_is_the_agent_the_runtime_handed_the_message_to(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        process = {"messaging.operation": "process", "recipient_agent_type": "Writer", "sender_agent_type": "Triage"}
+        with span("autogen process Writer.(s1)-A", **process):
+            with span("execute_tool look_up_tide", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool",
+                                                      "gen_ai.tool.name": "look_up_tide"}):
+                pass
+        with span("autogen publish Writer.(s1)-T", **{"messaging.operation": "publish"}):
+            with span("execute_tool draft_note", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool",
+                                                    "gen_ai.tool.name": "draft_note"}):
+                pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {
+        "look_up_tide": ("Writer", None),
+        "draft_note": (None, None),
+    }
+
+
+def test_a_process_that_sets_no_provider_is_still_observed(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Worker", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "agent.name": "Worker"}):
+            with span("lookup", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup"}):
+                pass
+    """,
+        provider="",
+    )
+    assert _by_tool(records) == {"lookup": ("Worker", None)}
+
+
+def test_a_process_that_sets_its_own_provider_later_keeps_it(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
+        from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export.in_memory_span_exporter import InMemorySpanExporter
+        own = TracerProvider(); memory = InMemorySpanExporter(); own.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(memory))
+        trace.set_tracer_provider(own)
+        with span("lookup", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup"}):
+            pass
+        assert [s.name for s in memory.get_finished_spans()] == ["lookup"]
+    """,
+        provider="",
+    )
+    assert [r["name"] for r in records] == ["lookup"]
+
+
+def test_a_span_made_before_the_process_sets_its_provider_leaves_it_free_to_set_one(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import SimpleSpanProcessor
+        from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export.in_memory_span_exporter import InMemorySpanExporter
+        with span("startup", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "startup"}):
+            pass
+        own = TracerProvider(); memory = InMemorySpanExporter(); own.add_span_processor(SimpleSpanProcessor(memory))
+        trace.set_tracer_provider(own)
+        assert trace.get_tracer_provider() is own
+        with span("lookup", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup"}):
+            pass
+        assert [s.name for s in memory.get_finished_spans()] == ["lookup"]
+    """,
+        provider="",
+    )
+    assert [r["name"] for r in records] == ["startup", "lookup"]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("native_worker", ["", "Writer worker"])
+def test_a_span_line_lends_its_agent_to_another_tracer_s_line_for_the_same_call(
+    native_worker: str,
+) -> None:
+    native = Call(
+        name="publish_note",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        worker_label=native_worker,
+        at=2.0,
+    )
+    span_line = Call(
+        name="Publish note",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        worker_id="w",
+        worker_label="From span",
+        at=2.1,
+    )
+    other = Call(
+        name="search_notes",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        worker_id="w",
+        worker_label="From span",
+        at=1.0,
+    )
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls([native], [span_line, other])
+    assert [(c.name, c.worker_label) for c in merged] == [
+        ("search_notes", "From span"),
+        ("publish_note", native_worker or "From span"),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_refusal_read_differently_by_the_two_tracers_is_still_one_call() -> None:
+    native = Call(name="issue_refund", arguments={}, result="refused", ok=False, at=2.0)
+    span_line = Call(
+        name="issue_refund",
+        arguments={},
+        result="refused",
+        ok=True,
+        worker_label="Refunds",
+        at=2.0,
+    )
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls([native], [span_line])
+    assert [(c.name, c.worker_label) for c in merged] == [("issue_refund", "Refunds")]
+
+
+def test_a_span_pairs_with_the_call_of_its_own_outcome_when_one_tool_ran_twice() -> (
+    None
+):
+    passed = Call(
+        name="issue_refund", arguments={"order": "1"}, result="issued", ok=True, at=2.0
+    )
+    failed = Call(
+        name="issue_refund",
+        arguments={"order": "2"},
+        result="refused",
+        ok=False,
+        at=3.0,
+    )
+    span_line = Call(
+        name="issue_refund",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=False,
+        worker_label="Refunds",
+        at=2.9,
+    )
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls([passed, failed], [span_line])
+    assert [(c.arguments, c.worker_label) for c in merged] == [
+        ({"order": "1"}, ""),
+        ({"order": "2"}, "Refunds"),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_call_another_tracer_saw_takes_the_span_s_event_ids_and_keeps_its_own() -> (
+    None
+):
+    plain = Call(name="lookup", arguments={}, result=None, ok=True, at=1.0)
+    own = Call(
+        name="lookup",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        at=2.0,
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "own"},
+    )
+    spans = [
+        Call(
+            name="lookup",
+            arguments={},
+            result=None,
+            ok=True,
+            at=1.0,
+            runtime_ids={"event_id": "s1", "parent_event_id": "a1"},
+        ),
+        Call(
+            name="lookup",
+            arguments={},
+            result=None,
+            ok=True,
+            at=2.0,
+            runtime_ids={"event_id": "s2"},
+        ),
+    ]
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls([plain, own], spans)
+    assert [c.runtime_ids for c in merged] == [
+        {"event_id": "s1", "parent_event_id": "a1"},
+        {"event_id": "own"},
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_running_job_without_an_event_id_is_kept_beside_a_finished_one() -> None:
+    def job(name, **fields):
+        return Call(
+            name="start_async_task",
+            arguments={},
+            result=None,
+            ok=True,
+            delegated_to=name,
+            **fields,
+        )
+
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls(
+        [], [job("coder", at=1.0), job("researcher", at=2.0, ended_at=5.0)]
+    )
+    assert [c.delegated_to for c in merged] == ["coder", "researcher"]
+
+
+def test_span_lines_alone_read_in_the_order_the_calls_started() -> None:
+    late_end = Call(name="ask_research", arguments={}, result=None, ok=True, at=1.0)
+    inner = Call(name="search_notes", arguments={}, result=None, ok=True, at=1.5)
+    assert [c.name for c in call_runner._merge_span_calls([], [inner, late_end])] == [
+        "ask_research",
+        "search_notes",
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_job_hand_off_stays_its_own_event_and_is_kept_once() -> None:
+    # The sandbox's tracer and the span both report the launch; the job's hand-off is written when it starts and again
+    # with its return, under the launch, and is never paired with the launch itself, whose event id it names.
+    def line(at, **fields):
+        return Call(
+            name="start_async_task", arguments={}, result=None, ok=True, at=at, **fields
+        )
+
+    natives = [line(1.0), line(1.1)]
+    first = line(1.0, runtime_ids={"event_id": "l1"})
+    started = line(
+        1.5,
+        delegated_to="coder",
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "j1", "parent_event_id": "l1"},
+    )
+    returned = line(
+        1.5,
+        delegated_to="coder",
+        ended_at=9.0,
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "j1", "parent_event_id": "l1"},
+    )
+    second = line(1.1, runtime_ids={"event_id": "l2"})
+    merged = call_runner._merge_span_calls(natives, [first, started, returned, second])
+    assert [
+        (c.delegated_to, c.ended_at, c.runtime_ids.get("event_id")) for c in merged
+    ] == [
+        ("", 0.0, "l1"),
+        ("", 0.0, "l2"),
+        ("coder", 9.0, "j1"),
+    ]
+
+
+_AGENTS_SDK = {
+    "agents/__init__.py": "from agents.tracing import get_trace_provider\n\n"
+    "def set_trace_processors(processors):\n    get_trace_provider().set_processors(processors)\n",
+    "agents/tracing/__init__.py": "from agents.tracing.provider import DefaultTraceProvider\n_PROVIDER = DefaultTraceProvider()\n\n"
+    "def get_trace_provider():\n    return _PROVIDER\n",
+    "agents/tracing/provider.py": "class SynchronousMultiTracingProcessor:\n    _processors = ()\n\n"
+    "    def set_processors(self, processors):\n        self._processors = tuple(processors)\n\n\n"
+    "class DefaultTraceProvider:\n    def __init__(self):\n        self._multi_processor = SynchronousMultiTracingProcessor()\n\n"
+    "    def set_processors(self, processors):\n        self._multi_processor.set_processors(processors)\n",
+    "traceai_openai_agents/__init__.py": "class FiTracingProcessor:\n    pass\n\n\nclass OpenAIAgentsInstrumentor:\n"
+    "    def instrument(self):\n        from agents import set_trace_processors\n"
+    "        set_trace_processors([FiTracingProcessor()])\n",
+}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("app", "kept"),
+    [
+        ("set_trace_processors([])", ["FiTracingProcessor"]),
+        ("set_trace_processors([Own()])", ["Own", "FiTracingProcessor"]),
+        (
+            "from traceai_openai_agents import FiTracingProcessor\nset_trace_processors([FiTracingProcessor()])",
+            ["FiTracingProcessor"],
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_an_openai_agents_app_that_sets_its_own_trace_processors_is_still_observed_once(
+    tmp_path: Path, app: str, kept: list[str]
+) -> None:
+    for path, source in {
+        **_AGENTS_SDK,
+        "hook/sitecustomize.py": "import simulation_mark_bootstrap\n"
+        "simulation_mark_bootstrap.install()\n",
+    }.items():
+        (tmp_path / path).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        (tmp_path / path).write_text(source)
+    _place_hook(tmp_path / "hook")
+    script = (
+        f"from agents import get_trace_provider, set_trace_processors\nclass Own: pass\n{app}\n"
+        "print([type(p).__name__ for p in get_trace_provider()._multi_processor._processors])"
+    )
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", script],
+        env={
+            **os.environ,
+            "PYTHONPATH": f"{tmp_path / 'hook'}:{tmp_path}",
+            "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1",
+            "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": str(tmp_path / "calls.jsonl"),
+        },
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    assert "hook: failed" not in result.stderr
+    assert json.loads(result.stdout.strip().replace("'", '"')) == kept
+
+
+_AUTOGEN_CORE = {
+    "autogen_core/__init__.py": "",
+    "autogen_core/tools/__init__.py": "class BaseTool:\n    def __init__(self, name, run):\n"
+    "        self.name, self._run = name, run\n\n"
+    "    async def run_json(self, args, cancellation_token, call_id=None):\n        return self._run(**args)\n\n"
+    "    def return_value_as_string(self, value):\n        return str(value)\n",
+}
+
+
+def test_an_autogen_tool_call_is_written_with_its_arguments_and_result_beside_its_span(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    for path, source in {
+        **_AUTOGEN_CORE,
+        "hook/sitecustomize.py": "import simulation_mark_bootstrap\n"
+        "simulation_mark_bootstrap.install()\n",
+    }.items():
+        (tmp_path / path).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        (tmp_path / path).write_text(source)
+    _place_hook(tmp_path / "hook")
+    script = textwrap.dedent("""
+        import asyncio
+        from autogen_core.tools import BaseTool
+        def fail(note):
+            raise ValueError("no such note")
+        async def main():
+            await BaseTool("look_up_tide", lambda place: "high at 06:10").run_json({"place": "North Quay"}, None)
+            try:
+                await BaseTool("read_note", fail).run_json({"note": "n1"}, None)
+            except ValueError:
+                pass
+        asyncio.run(main())
+    """)
+    trace = tmp_path / "calls.jsonl"
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", script],
+        env={
+            **os.environ,
+            "PYTHONPATH": f"{tmp_path / 'hook'}:{tmp_path}",
+            "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1",
+            "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": str(trace),
+        },
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0, result.stderr
+    assert "hook: failed" not in result.stderr
+    lines = [json.loads(line) for line in trace.read_text().splitlines()]
+    assert [
+        (one["name"], one["arguments"], one["output"], one["is_error"]) for one in lines
+    ] == [
+        ("look_up_tide", {"place": "North Quay"}, "high at 06:10", False),
+        ("read_note", {"note": "n1"}, "no such note", True),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_checks_grade_a_launch_once_and_a_hand_off_made_by_a_tool_call() -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.world.runtime import graded_calls
+
+    launch = Call(name="start_async_task", arguments={}, result=None, ok=True, at=1.0)
+    job = Call(
+        name="start_async_task",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        at=1.5,
+        delegated_to="coder",
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "j1", "parent_event_id": "l1"},
+    )
+    task = Call(
+        name="task",
+        arguments={},
+        result=None,
+        ok=True,
+        at=2.0,
+        delegated_to="researcher",
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "t1", "parent_event_id": "a1"},
+    )
+    assert graded_calls([launch, job, task]) == [launch, task]
+
+
+def test_a_job_joins_the_launch_that_named_its_whole_id() -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.simulation_worker_events import _names
+
+    assert _names('{"task_id": "1"}', "1")
+    assert _names("job a1b2-c3 started", "a1b2-c3")
+    assert not _names('{"task_id": "17"}', "1")
+    assert not _names("thread_1x", "1")
+
+
+def test_spans_that_never_end_do_not_stop_observation(monkeypatch) -> None:
+    from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+    from fi.alk.harness import simulation_worker_events as bootstrap
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(bootstrap, "_LIVE_SPANS_MAX", 2)
+    observer = bootstrap._ToolSpans("/dev/null")
+
+    def span(span_id):
+        return SimpleNamespace(
+            get_span_context=lambda: SimpleNamespace(span_id=span_id),
+            parent=SimpleNamespace(span_id=0),
+            attributes={},
+            name="s",
+            end=lambda: None,
+        )
+
+    for span_id in (1, 2, 3):
+        observer.started(span(span_id))
+    assert list(observer._live) == [2, 3]
+
+
+def test_a_span_starting_or_ending_waits_for_another_thread_s_bookkeeping(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    import threading
+    from types import SimpleNamespace
+
+    from fi.alk.harness import simulation_worker_events as bootstrap
+
+    observer = bootstrap._ToolSpans(str(tmp_path / "calls.jsonl"))
+    one = SimpleNamespace(
+        get_span_context=lambda: SimpleNamespace(span_id=1),
+        parent=None,
+        attributes={},
+        name="s",
+        end=lambda: None,
+        status=None,
+        start_time=0,
+        end_time=0,
+    )
+    for step in (lambda: observer.started(one), lambda: one.end()):
+        with observer._lock:
+            thread = threading.Thread(target=step)
+            thread.start()
+            thread.join(0.2)
+            assert thread.is_alive()
+        thread.join(5)
+        assert not thread.is_alive()
+
+
+def test_the_process_instrumenting_after_the_hook_with_its_own_provider_gets_it() -> (
+    None
+):
+    from fi.alk.harness.simulation_mark_bootstrap import _yield_to_process
+
+    class Instrumentor:
+        # As opentelemetry's BaseInstrumentor: a second instrument() is ignored until uninstrument().
+        is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry = False
+        settings = None
+
+        def instrument(self, **kwargs):
+            if self.is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry:
+                return
+            self.settings, self.is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry = kwargs, True
+
+        def uninstrument(self):
+            self.is_instrumented_by_opentelemetry = False
+
+    ours = Instrumentor()
+    ours.instrument()
+    _yield_to_process(Instrumentor)
+    ours.instrument()
+    assert ours.settings == {}
+    ours.instrument(tracer_provider="own")
+    assert ours.settings == {"tracer_provider": "own"}
+
+
+def test_the_hook_turns_on_every_instrumentor_the_build_installs() -> None:
+    from fi.alk.harness.generated_runtime import FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS
+
+    built = {
+        one.split("==")[0].replace("-", "_")
+        for _framework, one in FRAMEWORK_INSTRUMENTORS
+        if one.startswith("traceai")
+    }
+    assert built == {
+        module for module, _cls in simulation_mark_bootstrap._INSTRUMENTORS.values()
+    }
+
+
+def test_a_framework_whose_instrumentor_is_missing_is_reported_unobserved(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    hook = tmp_path / "hook"
+    hook.mkdir()
+    _place_hook(hook)
+    (hook / "sitecustomize.py").write_text(
+        "import simulation_mark_bootstrap\nsimulation_mark_bootstrap.install()\n"
+    )
+    (hook / "smolagents.py").write_text("")
+    result = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", "import smolagents"],
+        env={
+            **os.environ,
+            "PYTHONPATH": str(hook),
+            "HARNESS_TOOL_TRACE": str(tmp_path / "calls.jsonl"),
+            "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1",
+        },
+        capture_output=True,
+        text=True,
+        timeout=60,
+    )
+    assert result.returncode == 0
+    assert (
+        "simulation mark hook: unobserved smolagents, its instrumentor is not installed"
+        in result.stderr
+    )
+
+
+def test_two_open_hand_offs_to_one_worker_each_hold_their_own_calls(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # The coordinator asks the same worker twice at once; the two runs end in the other order.
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.trace import set_span_in_context
+        lead = tracer.start_span("Lead", attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "Lead"})
+        asks, runs, searches = [], [], []
+        for query in ("q1", "q2"):
+            ask = tracer.start_span("ask_research", context=set_span_in_context(lead), attributes={
+                "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ask_research", "input.value": query})
+            run = tracer.start_span("Research", context=set_span_in_context(ask), attributes={
+                "gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "Research"})
+            searches.append(tracer.start_span("search_notes", context=set_span_in_context(run), attributes={
+                "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search_notes", "input.value": query}))
+            asks.append(ask)
+            runs.append(run)
+        for one in (1, 0):
+            searches[one].end()
+            runs[one].end()
+            asks[one].end()
+        lead.end()
+    """,
+    )
+    rows = _sealed(tmp_path)
+    asks = {
+        row["arguments"]["raw"]: row for row in rows if row["name"] == "ask_research"
+    }
+    searches = {
+        row["arguments"]["raw"]: row for row in rows if row["name"] == "search_notes"
+    }
+    for query in ("q1", "q2"):
+        assert _placed([asks[query], searches[query]]) == [
+            ("ask_research", "delegated", "Lead", "observed", ""),
+            (
+                "search_notes",
+                "tool_call",
+                "Research",
+                "observed",
+                asks[query]["span_id"],
+            ),
+        ]
+    assert asks["q1"]["span_id"] != asks["q2"]["span_id"]
+
+
+_ROOT_TRANSFER = """
+from opentelemetry.trace import set_span_in_context
+root = tracer.start_span("invoke_agent root_agent", attributes={"gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_agent"})
+root.set_attribute("gen_ai.agent.name", "root_agent")
+transfer = tracer.start_span("execute_tool transfer_to_agent", context=set_span_in_context(root), attributes={
+    "gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool", "gen_ai.tool.name": "transfer_to_agent",
+    "gen_ai.tool.type": "TOOL_TYPE", "gcp.vertex.agent.tool_call_args": '{"agent_name": "leaf_agent"}'})
+transfer.end()
+leaf = tracer.start_span("invoke_agent leaf_agent", context=set_span_in_context(root), attributes={
+    "gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_agent"})
+# As the framework does, the agent is named once its span has started.
+leaf.set_attribute("gen_ai.agent.name", "leaf_agent")
+with trace.use_span(leaf, end_on_exit=True):
+    with span("execute_tool look_up_tide", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool",
+                                              "gen_ai.tool.name": "look_up_tide"}):
+        pass
+root.end()
+"""
+
+
+def test_a_framework_s_own_transfer_is_a_control_pass_and_holds_the_leaf_worker_s_calls(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    records = _run(tmp_path, _ROOT_TRANSFER.replace("TOOL_TYPE", "TransferToAgentTool"))
+    transfer = next(r for r in records if r["name"] == "transfer_to_agent")
+    assert (transfer["transfer"], transfer["delegated_to"], "ended_at" in transfer) == (
+        True,
+        "leaf_agent",
+        False,
+    )
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("transfer_to_agent", "transferred", "root_agent", "observed", ""),
+        ("look_up_tide", "tool_call", "leaf_agent", "observed", transfer["event_id"]),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_adk_s_built_in_transfer_recorded_as_a_plain_function_is_a_control_pass_once_the_named_agent_runs(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # Older ADK releases record their own transfer_to_agent as a FunctionTool; the named agent then starting in the
+    # same run is the evidence that control passed.
+    records = _run(tmp_path, _ROOT_TRANSFER.replace("TOOL_TYPE", "FunctionTool"))
+    transfer = next(r for r in records if r["name"] == "transfer_to_agent")
+    assert (transfer.get("transfer"), transfer["delegated_to"]) == (True, "leaf_agent")
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("transfer_to_agent", "transferred", "root_agent", "observed", ""),
+        ("look_up_tide", "tool_call", "leaf_agent", "observed", transfer["event_id"]),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_transfer_named_call_whose_agent_never_runs_is_a_tool_call_and_the_leaf_s_place_stays_unknown(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # The call names an agent that never starts: nothing records a control pass, so it stays an ordinary tool call
+    # and the agent that did run is not placed under it.
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        _ROOT_TRANSFER.replace("TOOL_TYPE", "FunctionTool").replace(
+            '{"agent_name": "leaf_agent"}', '{"agent_name": "billing_agent"}'
+        ),
+    )
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("transfer_to_agent", "tool_call", "root_agent", "observed", ""),
+        ("look_up_tide", "tool_call", "leaf_agent", "unknown", ""),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_the_top_agent_under_the_caller_s_context_hands_off_at_the_top_level(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # The app's coordinator runs inside a context its own tracer never recorded (the request that reached it): the
+    # coordinator is the top of the app's work, so its hand-off is observed at the top level.
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.trace import NonRecordingSpan, SpanContext, TraceFlags, set_span_in_context
+        outside = NonRecordingSpan(SpanContext(trace_id=7, span_id=99, is_remote=True, trace_flags=TraceFlags(1)))
+        lead = tracer.start_span("Lead", context=set_span_in_context(outside), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "Lead"})
+        ask = tracer.start_span("ask_research", context=set_span_in_context(lead), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ask_research", "input.value": "q"})
+        run = tracer.start_span("Research", context=set_span_in_context(ask), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "Research"})
+        run.end()
+        ask.end()
+        lead.end()
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("ask_research", "delegated", "Lead", "observed", ""),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_call_with_no_agent_above_it_has_an_unknown_place(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("execute_tool search_notes", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "search_notes",
+                                              "gen_ai.agent.name": "research_worker"}):
+            pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("search_notes", "tool_call", "research_worker", "unknown", "")
+    ]
+
+
+def test_an_agent_the_framework_records_as_handed_control_holds_its_calls(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # The OpenAI Agents SDK runs each agent at the top of the trace and names, on the agent handed control, the agent
+    # that handed it, only when that agent's span ends.
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Triage", **{"fi.span.kind": "AGENT", "graph.node.id": "Triage"}):
+            with span("lookup", **{"fi.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "lookup"}):
+                pass
+        with span("Refunds", **{"fi.span.kind": "AGENT", "graph.node.id": "Refunds"}) as refunds:
+            with span("issue_refund", **{"fi.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "issue_refund"}):
+                pass
+            refunds.set_attribute("graph.node.parent_id", "Triage")
+    """,
+    )
+    passed = next(r for r in records if r.get("transfer"))
+    rows = sorted(_sealed(tmp_path), key=lambda row: row["name"])
+    assert _placed(rows) == [
+        ("Refunds", "transferred", "Triage", "unknown", ""),
+        ("issue_refund", "tool_call", "Refunds", "observed", passed["event_id"]),
+        ("lookup", "tool_call", "Triage", "observed", ""),
+    ]
+    assert "ended_at" not in rows[0]
+
+
+def test_each_payload_says_whether_part_of_it_was_left_out(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    records = _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        with span("Worker", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "Worker"}):
+            with span("long_in", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "long_in",
+                                    "input.value": "a" * 5000, "output.value": "ok"}):
+                pass
+            with span("long_out", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "long_out",
+                                     "input.value": "{}", "output.value": "b" * 5000}):
+                pass
+            with span("fits", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "fits",
+                                 "input.value": "{}", "output.value": "ok"}):
+                pass
+    """,
+    )
+    assert {
+        r["name"]: (r.get("input_omitted", False), r.get("output_omitted", False))
+        for r in records
+    } == {
+        "long_in": (True, False),
+        "long_out": (False, True),
+        "fits": (False, False),
+    }
+    assert {
+        row["name"]: (row.get("input_omitted", False), row.get("output_omitted", False))
+        for row in _sealed(tmp_path)
+    } == {"long_in": (True, False), "long_out": (False, True), "fits": (False, False)}
+
+
+def test_a_parent_no_recorded_hand_off_carries_is_unknown_not_kept() -> None:
+    # The hand-off a call ran in had not ended when the call did, so no line records it.
+    leaf = Call(
+        name="search_notes",
+        arguments={},
+        worker_id="Research",
+        runtime_ids={"event_id": "b"},
+        parent_span_id="a",
+        relationship="observed",
+        at=1.0,
+    )
+    (merged,) = call_runner._merge_span_calls([], [leaf])
+    assert {
+        key: trace_row(merged)[key] for key in ("parent_span_id", "relationship")
+    } == {"parent_span_id": "", "relationship": "unknown"}
+
+
+_OPENAI_AGENTS_RUN = """
+from opentelemetry.trace import set_span_in_context
+# The OpenAI Agents SDK opens each run as an agent-kind span with no agent name; agents run inside it.
+# Between them sit the SDK's own run and turn spans, as traceAI records a real Runner.run.
+run = tracer.start_span("Agent workflow", attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+steps = tracer.start_span("Agent workflow", context=set_span_in_context(run), attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN"})
+lead = tracer.start_span("Lead", context=set_span_in_context(steps), attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+turn = tracer.start_span("turn", context=set_span_in_context(lead), attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN"})
+ask = tracer.start_span("ask_research", context=set_span_in_context(turn), attributes={
+    "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "ask_research", "input.value": "q"})
+worker = tracer.start_span("Research", context=set_span_in_context(ask), attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+worker.end()
+ask.end()
+turn.end()
+lead.end()
+LATER
+steps.end()
+run.end()
+"""
+
+
+def test_the_first_agent_in_an_openai_agents_run_hands_off_at_the_top_level(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    _run(tmp_path, _OPENAI_AGENTS_RUN.replace("LATER", ""))
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("ask_research", "delegated", "Lead", "observed", ""),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_a_later_agent_in_the_same_run_without_a_recorded_transfer_stays_unknown(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # A second agent opened in the run was handed control; until the framework records who handed it, its calls are
+    # not placed at the top.
+    later = """
+billing = tracer.start_span("Billing", context=set_span_in_context(steps), attributes={"gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+with trace.use_span(billing, end_on_exit=True):
+    with span("refund", **{"gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL", "gen_ai.tool.name": "refund"}):
+        pass
+"""
+    _run(tmp_path, _OPENAI_AGENTS_RUN.replace("LATER", later))
+    refund = next(r for r in _sealed(tmp_path) if r["name"] == "refund")
+    assert refund["relationship"] == "unknown"
+
+
+def test_a_transfer_recorded_by_another_instrumentation_counts_once_the_named_agent_runs_under_a_model_call(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # traceAI's ADK instrumentation records the transfer as a plain tool with its arguments in `input.value`, under the
+    # model call; the named agent then runs inside the root agent with no tool calls of its own.
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.trace import set_span_in_context
+        root = tracer.start_span("root_agent", attributes={"fi.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "root_agent"})
+        llm = tracer.start_span("call_llm", context=set_span_in_context(root), attributes={"fi.span.kind": "LLM"})
+        move = tracer.start_span("transfer_to_agent", context=set_span_in_context(llm), attributes={
+            "fi.span.kind": "TOOL", "tool.name": "transfer_to_agent", "input.value": '{"agent_name": "leaf_agent"}'})
+        move.end()
+        llm.end()
+        leaf = tracer.start_span("leaf_agent", context=set_span_in_context(root), attributes={
+            "fi.span.kind": "AGENT", "gen_ai.agent.name": "leaf_agent"})
+        leaf.end()
+        root.end()
+    """,
+    )
+    assert _placed(_sealed(tmp_path)) == [
+        ("transfer_to_agent", "transferred", "root_agent", "observed", ""),
+    ]
+
+
+def test_an_adk_transfer_without_its_arguments_hands_control_to_the_agent_that_runs_next_in_the_workflow(
+    tmp_path: Path,
+) -> None:
+    # ADK 2 records the transfer tool without its arguments unless content capture is on, ends the root agent, then
+    # runs the agent it transferred to beside it in the same workflow span.
+    _run(
+        tmp_path,
+        """
+        from opentelemetry.trace import set_span_in_context
+        flow = tracer.start_span("invoke_workflow root_agent", attributes={"gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_workflow",
+                                                                         "gen_ai.span.kind": "CHAIN"})
+        root = tracer.start_span("invoke_agent root_agent", context=set_span_in_context(flow), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_agent", "gen_ai.agent.name": "root_agent", "gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+        move = tracer.start_span("execute_tool transfer_to_agent", context=set_span_in_context(root), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool", "gen_ai.tool.name": "transfer_to_agent",
+            "gen_ai.tool.type": "TransferToAgentTool", "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL"})
+        move.end()
+        root.end()
+        leaf = tracer.start_span("invoke_agent leaf_agent", context=set_span_in_context(flow), attributes={
+            "gen_ai.operation.name": "invoke_agent", "gen_ai.agent.name": "leaf_agent", "gen_ai.span.kind": "AGENT"})
+        with trace.use_span(leaf, end_on_exit=True):
+            with span("execute_tool look_up_tide", **{"gen_ai.operation.name": "execute_tool",
+                                                      "gen_ai.tool.name": "look_up_tide", "gen_ai.span.kind": "TOOL"}):
+                pass
+        flow.end()
+    """,
+    )
+    rows = _sealed(tmp_path)
+    transfer = next(r for r in rows if r["name"] == "transfer_to_agent")
+    assert transfer["delegated_to"] == "leaf_agent"
+    assert _placed(rows) == [
+        ("transfer_to_agent", "transferred", "root_agent", "observed", ""),
+        ("look_up_tide", "tool_call", "leaf_agent", "observed", transfer["span_id"]),
+    ]
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_grade.py b/tests/harness/test_grade.py
index 0a727babc..8a9aff88c 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_grade.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_grade.py
@@ -566,3 +566,39 @@ def test_a_scenario_with_one_sub_goal_is_kept():
     catalogue = Catalogue(sub_goals=[SubGoal(name="change_made_as_asked", what="the change", judged="j")])
     one = Scenario(name="makes_a_change", instruction="Ask for a change.", sub_goals=["change_made_as_asked"])
     assert not any("sub-goal" in line for line in validate_scenario(one, catalogue, {}))
+
+
+def test_a_sub_goal_can_check_one_declared_worker_and_never_an_undeclared_one(tmp_path):
+    import asyncio
+
+    import fi.alk.harness.scenario_tools as st
+    from fi.alk.harness.catalogue import load_catalogue
+    from fi.alk.harness.contract import AgentContract
+
+    contract = AgentContract(
+        agent="returns", real_use_cases=["refund"], tools=[{"name": "issue_refund"}],
+        workers=[{"id": "refund", "tools": ["issue_refund"]}],
+    )
+    server, _kept = st.scenario_tools(contract, tmp_path, tmp_path, wanted=1)
+    add = next(spec for spec in server.tools if spec.name == "add_sub_goal")
+    check = (
+        "def check(world, calls):\n"
+        "    ok = [c for c in calls if c.name == 'issue_refund' and c.ok and c.arguments.get('order_id') == '1043']\n"
+        "    return None if ok else 'order 1043 was not refunded'\n"
+    )
+    said = asyncio.run(add.handler({"name": "refund_issued", "what": "the refund worker refunds", "check": check,
+                                    "subject": "worker:refund"}))
+    assert not said.get("is_error"), said
+    assert load_catalogue(tmp_path).sub_goals[0].subject == "worker:refund"
+    refused = asyncio.run(add.handler({"name": "audit", "what": "audits", "check": check, "subject": "worker:audit"}))
+    assert refused.get("is_error") and "subject_unknown_worker: audit" in refused["content"][0]["text"]
+
+
+def test_a_scenario_writer_and_an_editor_can_set_a_worker_budget(tmp_path):
+    import fi.alk.harness.scenario_tools as st
+    from fi.alk.harness.contract import AgentContract
+
+    server, _kept = st.scenario_tools(AgentContract(agent="returns", real_use_cases=["refund"]), tmp_path, tmp_path, wanted=1)
+    tools = {spec.name: spec for spec in server.tools}
+    for name in ("submit_scenario", "edit_scenario"):
+        assert "integer" in tools[name].input_schema["properties"]["worker_budget_seconds"]["type"]
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_hosted_scheduler.py b/tests/harness/test_hosted_scheduler.py
index eb6c6d504..0424661be 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_hosted_scheduler.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_hosted_scheduler.py
@@ -2626,6 +2626,41 @@ async def run(
     asyncio.run(scenario())
 
 
+def test_a_call_with_only_worker_hand_offs_is_evidence_missing() -> None:
+    # A worker's run is not a tool call, so a call that made none still has no evidence for checks.
+    async def scenario() -> None:
+        outbound = FakeOutbound()
+        pool, _ = _pool(2, outbound=outbound)
+        await pool.start()
+        handoff = hs.Call(
+            name="Draft writer", arguments={}, delegated_to="Draft writer", handoff=True
+        )
+
+        class Runner:
+            async def run(
+                self, scenario: FakeScenario, runtime: EnvironmentRuntime
+            ) -> hs.CallOutcome:
+                return _call_outcome(calls=(handoff,))
+
+        scheduler = hs.HostedScheduler(
+            pool=pool,
+            world_factory=FakeWorldFactory(),
+            call_runner=Runner(),
+            outbound=outbound,
+            job_seed=1,
+        )
+        scenarios = [
+            FakeScenario(
+                "s1", "id-1", sub_goals=[FakeSubGoal("goal", lambda w, c: None)]
+            )
+        ]
+        result = await scheduler.run(scenarios)
+        assert result.receipts[0].failure.code == "evidence_missing"
+        await pool.close()
+
+    asyncio.run(scenario())
+
+
 def test_zero_turns_and_zero_calls_is_still_evidence_missing() -> None:
     # M10: unconditioned on `turns` — a 0-turn call is an unobserved agent, same as any other
     # empty-calls outcome; `evidence_missing` must fire regardless.
@@ -4780,3 +4815,100 @@ def test_a_sub_goal_about_an_actor_is_settled_by_whether_the_actor_came_in(monke
     assert [one.verdict for one in receipt.sub_goals] == ["pass", verdict]
     if status == "errored":
         assert receipt.failure.code == "actor_missing" and "asked_the_friend" in receipt.failure.message
+
+
+def _graded(goals, outcome):
+    async def scenario():
+        outbound = FakeOutbound()
+        pool, _ = _pool(1, outbound=outbound)
+        await pool.start()
+
+        class Runner:
+            async def run(self, scenario, runtime):
+                return outcome
+
+        scheduler = hs.HostedScheduler(
+            pool=pool, world_factory=FakeWorldFactory(), call_runner=Runner(), outbound=outbound, job_seed=1
+        )
+        result = await scheduler.run([FakeScenario("s1", "id-1", sub_goals=goals)])
+        await pool.close()
+        return result.receipts[0]
+
+    return asyncio.run(scenario())
+
+
+@dataclass
+class _WorkerGoal(FakeSubGoal):
+    worker: str = ""
+
+    @property
+    def subject(self) -> str:
+        return f"worker:{self.worker}" if self.worker else "task"
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_check_reads_only_that_worker_s_calls_and_without_any_is_inconclusive() -> None:
+    calls = (
+        hs.Call(name="get_order", arguments={}, worker_id="order_lookup"),
+        hs.Call(name="issue_refund", arguments={}, worker_id="refund"),
+        hs.Call(name="send_reply", arguments={}),
+    )
+    seen: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+
+    def lane(name):
+        def check(world, given):
+            seen[name] = [one.name for one in given]
+
+        return check
+
+    receipt = _graded(
+        [
+            _WorkerGoal("lookup_read_only", lane("lookup"), worker="order_lookup"),
+            _WorkerGoal("task_done", lane("task")),
+            _WorkerGoal("audit_logged", lambda w, c: None, worker="audit"),
+        ],
+        _call_outcome(turns=2, calls=calls),
+    )
+    assert seen == {"lookup": ["get_order"], "task": ["get_order", "issue_refund", "send_reply"]}
+    lookup, task, audit = receipt.sub_goals
+    assert (lookup.verdict, task.verdict) == ("pass", "pass")
+    assert (lookup.subject, task.subject, audit.subject) == ("worker:order_lookup", "task", "worker:audit")
+    # Absence is never a pass: a worker with nothing in the world's log cannot be graded.
+    assert (audit.verdict, audit.held) == ("inconclusive", None)
+    assert audit.reason == "Inconclusive: worker audit made no tool call the world recorded"
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_failed_check_is_reported_beside_the_task_s_verdict_not_folded_into_it() -> None:
+    calls = (hs.Call(name="update_order_status", arguments={}, worker_id="order_lookup"),)
+    outcome = _call_outcome(turns=2, calls=calls)
+    receipt = _graded(
+        [
+            _WorkerGoal("lookup_read_only", lambda w, c: "the lookup worker wrote an order", worker="order_lookup"),
+            _WorkerGoal("audit_logged", lambda w, c: None, worker="audit"),
+            _WorkerGoal("reply_truthful", lambda w, c: None),
+        ],
+        outcome,
+    )
+    worker, audit, task = receipt.sub_goals
+    # Neither a worker's failure nor a worker that left nothing to grade decides the task.
+    assert (worker.verdict, audit.verdict, task.verdict, receipt.status) == ("fail", "inconclusive", "pass", "passed")
+    failed = _graded([_WorkerGoal("reply_truthful", lambda w, c: "claimed a refund")], outcome)
+    assert failed.status == "failed"
+
+
+def test_a_worker_that_passed_its_deadline_has_its_own_checks_inconclusive_and_the_task_still_graded() -> None:
+    calls = (
+        hs.Call(name="get_order", arguments={}, worker_id="order_lookup"),
+        hs.Call(name="issue_refund", arguments={}, worker_id="refund", ok=False, refused=True,
+                refusal_code="deadline_passed"),
+    )
+    receipt = _graded(
+        [
+            _WorkerGoal("refund_done", lambda w, c: "no refund", worker="refund"),
+            _WorkerGoal("lookup_done", lambda w, c: None, worker="order_lookup"),
+            _WorkerGoal("reply_truthful", lambda w, c: None),
+        ],
+        _call_outcome(turns=2, calls=calls),
+    )
+    refund, lookup, task = receipt.sub_goals
+    assert (refund.verdict, lookup.verdict, task.verdict) == ("inconclusive", "pass", "pass")
+    assert refund.reason == "Inconclusive: worker refund passed its deadline, so its result is partial"
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_http_native_response.py b/tests/harness/test_http_native_response.py
index 48e5c7de0..4a43b69a3 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_http_native_response.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_http_native_response.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from fi.alk.harness.chat_transport import create_chat_wrapper
 from fi.alk.harness.contract import RuntimeInterface, RuntimeHttpFailureRule
 from fi.simulate.agent.wrapper import AgentInput
-from fi.simulate.agent.wrappers.http import HTTPAgentWrapper
+from fi.simulate.agent.wrappers.http import HTTPAgentWrapper, _decode_json_or_sse, _select_response_value
 from fi.simulate.agent.wrappers.http_events import CompletedToolEvents, CompletedToolRows
 
 
@@ -665,3 +665,88 @@ def test_result_error_selector_preserves_keys_and_numeric_indices(native_app, pa
     assert response.metadata["external_agent"]["success"] is True
     assert response.metadata["native_completed_tools"][0]["ok"] is False
     assert response.metadata["native_completed_tools"][0]["result"] == result
+
+
+def test_a_reply_reads_as_json_server_sent_events_or_json_lines_and_nothing_else():
+    assert _decode_json_or_sse('{"content": "done"}') == {"content": "done"}
+    assert _decode_json_or_sse('data: {"content": "a"}\n\ndata: [DONE]\n') == [
+        {"content": "a"}
+    ]
+    assert _decode_json_or_sse('{"content": "a"}\n{"content": "b"}\n') == [
+        {"content": "a"},
+        {"content": "b"},
+    ]
+    for body in ("plain words\n", "", '{"content": "a"}\nnot json\n'):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="JSON lines"):
+            _decode_json_or_sse(body)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("body", "reply"),
+    [
+        (
+            '{"content": {"text": "Tides "}}\n{"content": {"text": "turn"}}\n{"content": {"kind": "end"}}\n',
+            "Tides turn",
+        ),
+        (
+            'data: {"content": {"text": "Tides"}}\n\ndata: {"content": {"text": "Tides turn"}}\n\n',
+            "Tides turn",
+        ),
+        (
+            'data: {"choices": [{"delta": {"content": "Tides "}}]}\n\ndata: {"choices": [{"delta": {"content": "turn"}}]}\n\n'
+            'data: {"choices": [{"delta": {"content": null}}]}\n\ndata: [DONE]\n\n',
+            "Tides turn",
+        ),
+        ('[{"content": {"text": "first"}}, {"content": {"text": "last"}}]', "last"),
+        (
+            'data: {"content": {"text": "Tides "}}\n\ndata: {"content": {"text": "turn"}}\n\n'
+            'data: {"content": {"text": "Tides turn"}}\n\n',
+            "Tides turn",
+        ),
+        (
+            '{"content": {"text": "."}}\n{"content": {"text": "."}}\n{"content": {"text": "."}}\n',
+            "...",
+        ),
+        (
+            '{"content": {"text": "a"}}\n{"content": {"text": "b"}}\n{"content": {"text": "abc"}}\n',
+            "ababc",
+        ),
+        (
+            '{"content": {"text": "T"}}\n{"content": {"text": "Ti"}}\n{"content": {"text": "Tide"}}\n'
+            '{"content": {"text": "Tide"}}\n',
+            "Tide",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_streamed_reply_is_its_text_deltas_joined_or_its_last_whole_text(body, reply):
+    path = "choices.0.delta.content" if "choices" in body else "content.text"
+    wrapper = HTTPAgentWrapper(
+        endpoint="http://localhost:8080/chat",
+        protocol="json_template",
+        request_template={"input": "{{messages}}"},
+        response_path=path,
+    )
+    assert (
+        wrapper._agent_response_from_payload(_decode_json_or_sse(body)).content == reply
+    )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    ("body", "path", "value"),
+    [
+        (
+            'data: {"status": "running"}\n\ndata: {"status": "running"}\n\ndata: {"status": "completed"}\n\n',
+            "status",
+            "completed",
+        ),
+        (
+            '{"session": "s-1"}\n{"session": "s-1"}\n{"session": "s-1"}\n',
+            "session",
+            "s-1",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_a_streamed_value_other_than_the_reply_text_is_its_latest_event(
+    body, path, value
+):
+    assert _select_response_value(_decode_json_or_sse(body), path) == value
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_multi_agent_compatibility_references.py b/tests/harness/test_multi_agent_compatibility_references.py
index 43082a658..052c13b13 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_multi_agent_compatibility_references.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_multi_agent_compatibility_references.py
@@ -96,3 +96,37 @@ def test_verifier_checks_materialized_orchestration(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
     assert result.stdout.strip() == (
         "3 multi-agent references and 1 source trees verified"
     )
+
+
+def test_returns_reference_declares_the_workers_and_tools_its_app_builds() -> None:
+    import ast
+
+    app = ROOT / "examples" / "harness" / "returns_reference"
+    reference = json.loads((app / "reference.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    tree = ast.parse((app / "agent.py").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
+    # A worker's tools are built by a function of their own (each reaches the world through its own address).
+    builders = {
+        node.name: sorted(
+            inner.name
+            for inner in node.body
+            if isinstance(inner, ast.FunctionDef)
+            and any(getattr(one, "id", "") == "function_tool" for one in inner.decorator_list)
+        )
+        for node in tree.body
+        if isinstance(node, ast.FunctionDef)
+    }
+    built = {}
+    for node in ast.walk(tree):
+        if isinstance(node, ast.Call) and getattr(node.func, "id", "") == "Agent":
+            fields = {one.arg: one.value for one in node.keywords}
+            tools = fields["tools"]
+            built[ast.literal_eval(fields["name"])] = (
+                builders[tools.func.id]
+                if isinstance(tools, ast.Call)
+                else sorted(one.id for one in tools.elts if isinstance(one, ast.Name))
+            )
+    topology = reference["topology"]
+    assert topology["coordinator"] in built
+    assert {one["name"]: sorted(one["tools"]) for one in topology["workers"]} == {
+        name: tools for name, tools in built.items() if name != topology["coordinator"]
+    }
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_outbound.py b/tests/harness/test_outbound.py
index 92294b857..0e440ce8e 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_outbound.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_outbound.py
@@ -3773,3 +3773,14 @@ def test_artifacts_client_push_manifest_rejects_an_unknown_artifact_reference()
     result = client.push_manifest(manifest)
     assert not result.delivered
     assert result.error is not None and result.error.code == "artifact_unknown"
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_sub_goal_names_its_subject_and_a_task_sub_goal_is_unchanged() -> None:
+    worker = {"name": "w", "held": True, "reason": None, "judged": False, "subject": "worker:refund"}
+    task = {"name": "n", "held": True, "reason": None, "judged": False}
+    receipt = _passed_receipt(sub_goals=[worker, task])
+    plain = _passed_receipt()
+
+    assert receipt["sub_goals"][0]["subject"] == "worker:refund"
+    assert "subject" not in receipt["sub_goals"][1] and "subject" not in plain["sub_goals"][0]
+    ResultReceiptDraft.model_validate(receipt)
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_process_preflight.py b/tests/harness/test_process_preflight.py
index 8cd92a05d..bc39643c6 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_process_preflight.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_process_preflight.py
@@ -1653,3 +1653,26 @@ def configure(body):
             preflight_bundle(tmp_path, manifest, parallelism=2, secret_refs=refs)
     else:
         preflight_bundle(tmp_path, manifest, parallelism=2, secret_refs=refs)
+
+
+def test_a_worker_channel_placeholder_needs_the_bundle_s_tool_proxy(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    def mutate(body: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        body["processes"][1]["environment"]["REFUND_API_URL"] = "{{WORKER_CHANNEL_refund}}"
+        return body
+
+    manifest = _build_bundle(tmp_path, body_overrides=mutate)
+    with pytest.raises(PreflightError, match="needs this bundle's tool proxy"):
+        preflight_bundle(tmp_path, manifest, parallelism=1, secret_refs=TARGET_PROVIDER_REFS)
+
+
+def test_a_worker_channel_placeholder_is_accepted_beside_a_tool_proxy(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    def mutate(body: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        # Only the name matters to the vocabulary: the bundle has a process called tool-proxy.
+        body["processes"][0]["name"] = "tool-proxy"
+        body["processes"][1]["depends_on"] = ["tool-proxy"]
+        body["capabilities"]["database"]["service"] = "tool-proxy"
+        body["processes"][1]["environment"]["REFUND_API_URL"] = "{{DATABASE_URL}}/w/{{WORKER_CHANNEL_refund}}"
+        return body
+
+    manifest = _build_bundle(tmp_path, body_overrides=mutate)
+    assert preflight_bundle(tmp_path, manifest, parallelism=1, secret_refs=TARGET_PROVIDER_REFS) is None
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_process_runtime.py b/tests/harness/test_process_runtime.py
index a96cbec69..5ded102a7 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_process_runtime.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_process_runtime.py
@@ -9412,6 +9412,7 @@ def test_mark_hook_written_with_its_module_first_on_pythonpath_for_every_exporti
         ]
         assert sorted(path.name for path in world.iterdir()) == [
             "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py",
+            "simulation_worker_events.py",
             "sitecustomize.py",
         ]
         assert (
@@ -9472,6 +9473,15 @@ def test_mark_hook_written_with_its_module_first_on_pythonpath_for_every_exporti
     assert (world / "sitecustomize.py").read_bytes() == _LIVEKIT_HOOK.read_bytes()
     assert not (world / "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py").exists()
 
+    # Framework observation reads spans through the mark module, exported or not.
+    observed = both.model_copy(
+        update={"environment": {**both.environment, "ALK_OBSERVE_FRAMEWORKS": "1"}}
+    )
+    captured = _spawn(tmp_path / "observed", observed)
+    assert (
+        captured["world_dir"] / "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py"
+    ).read_bytes() == _MARK_HOOK.read_bytes()
+
     # A reset spawns again in the same directory, whose files the process's own user now owns
     # read-only: they are reused, never rewritten.
     exporting = _source_process(name="agent")
@@ -9844,6 +9854,7 @@ def test_small_mark_hook_says_so_when_the_mark_module_is_broken(
     world = captured["world_dir"]
     assert sorted(path.name for path in world.iterdir()) == [
         "simulation_mark_bootstrap.py",
+        "simulation_worker_events.py",
         "sitecustomize.py",
     ]
     _replace_mark_module(world, _BROKEN_MARK_MODULES[source])
@@ -10542,3 +10553,29 @@ def metadata(environment: dict) -> dict:
         "actor_proof_path"
     ] == str(tmp_path / "worlds" / "w2" / "tool-proxy" / "actor-token")
     assert "actor_proof_path" not in metadata({})
+
+
+def test_each_worker_gets_its_own_channel_token_per_world_written_where_the_tool_proxy_reads_it(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    import json
+
+    plan = pr.plan_ports(_manifest(), instances=2)
+
+    def render(world: int, value: str) -> str:
+        return pr.render_template(
+            value,
+            process_name="agent",
+            world_index=world,
+            world_dir=tmp_path / "worlds" / f"w{world}" / "agent",
+            port_plan=plan,
+            configuration_addresses={"TOOLS_API_URL": "http://proxy"},
+        )
+
+    lookup = render(0, "{{TOOLS_API_URL}}/w/{{WORKER_CHANNEL_order_lookup}}")
+    refund = render(0, "{{WORKER_CHANNEL_refund}}")
+    # A second render of the same world (a restart) keeps the channel; another world gets its own.
+    assert render(0, "{{TOOLS_API_URL}}/w/{{WORKER_CHANNEL_order_lookup}}") == lookup
+    other = render(1, "{{WORKER_CHANNEL_refund}}")
+    token = lookup.rsplit("/", 1)[-1]
+    assert lookup.startswith("http://proxy/w/") and len(token) == 32 and len({token, refund, other}) == 3
+    channels = json.loads((tmp_path / "worlds" / "w0" / "tool-proxy" / "worker-channels.json").read_text())
+    assert channels == {token: "order_lookup", refund: "refund"}
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_scenario_source.py b/tests/harness/test_scenario_source.py
index fa9bd4313..c15eb60c6 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_scenario_source.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_scenario_source.py
@@ -2795,3 +2795,34 @@ def check(world, calls):
     saved, legacy = _with_claims(scenario, claims).sub_goals
     assert saved.both and saved.judged == "Pass when: it says what was reported" and saved.compares == "Reference: c"
     assert not legacy.both and legacy.judged == ""
+
+
+def test_a_catalogued_worker_subject_reaches_the_graded_sub_goal(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    _write_scenario(
+        tmp_path / ss.SCENARIOS_DIRNAME,
+        "coded",
+        scenario_key="coded",
+        sub_goals=["coded"],
+        checks={"coded": "def check(world, calls):\n    return None\n"},
+    )
+    scenario = ss.load_scenarios(tmp_path)[0]
+    as_task = ss._with_claims(scenario, {"coded": {"what": "x"}}).sub_goals[0]
+    as_worker = ss._with_claims(scenario, {"coded": {"what": "x", "subject": "worker:refund"}}).sub_goals[0]
+    assert (as_task.subject, as_task.worker) == ("task", "")
+    assert (as_worker.subject, as_worker.worker) == ("worker:refund", "refund")
+
+
+def test_a_worker_subject_in_the_bundle_catalogue_reaches_the_loaded_scenario(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
+    _write_scenario(
+        tmp_path / ss.SCENARIOS_DIRNAME,
+        "coded",
+        scenario_key="coded",
+        sub_goals=["coded"],
+        checks={"coded": "def check(world, calls):\n    return None\n"},
+    )
+    (tmp_path / "sub_goals.json").write_text(
+        json.dumps({"sub_goals": [{"name": "coded", "what": "x", "check": "def check(world, calls):\n    return None\n",
+                                   "subject": "worker:refund"}]}),
+        encoding="utf-8",
+    )
+    assert ss.load_scenarios(tmp_path)[0].sub_goals[0].worker == "refund"
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_simulation_mark_bootstrap.py b/tests/harness/test_simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
index bfab42661..1d7070397 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_simulation_mark_bootstrap.py
@@ -762,10 +762,60 @@ def test_hook_module_imports_only_the_standard_library_and_uses_python_39_syntax
         "functools",
         "importlib.machinery",
         "importlib.util",
+        "importlib",
         "inspect",
         "os",
         "sys",
         "urllib.parse",
+        # Imported only inside a process that already uses OpenTelemetry, to give a span asked for
+        # before any provider was set one; never at the hook's own import.
+        "opentelemetry.sdk.trace",
+        "opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export",
+        "opentelemetry.exporter.otlp.proto.http.trace_exporter",
+        # Imported only inside a process that has just imported the OpenAI Agents SDK.
+        "agents.tracing",
+    }
+    top_level = {
+        node.names[0].name if isinstance(node, ast.Import) else node.module
+        for node in tree.body
+        if isinstance(node, (ast.Import, ast.ImportFrom))
+    }
+    assert not {
+        name
+        for name in top_level
+        if name and name.startswith(("opentelemetry", "agents"))
+    }
+
+
+def test_worker_event_module_imports_only_the_standard_library_and_uses_python_39_syntax() -> (
+    None
+):
+    """It sits beside the hook in the customer's interpreter, under the same constraints."""
+    tree = ast.parse(
+        (_HARNESS / "simulation_worker_events.py").read_text(encoding="utf-8"),
+        feature_version=(3, 9),
+    )
+    imported = {
+        alias.name
+        for node in ast.walk(tree)
+        if isinstance(node, ast.Import)
+        for alias in node.names
+    } | {
+        node.module or ""
+        for node in ast.walk(tree)
+        if isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom) and node.level == 0
+    }
+    assert not any(
+        isinstance(node, ast.ImportFrom) and node.level for node in ast.walk(tree)
+    )
+    assert imported == {
+        "__future__",
+        "collections",
+        "functools",
+        "json",
+        "os",
+        "threading",
+        "time",
     }
 
 
diff --git a/tests/harness/test_tool_trace_proxy.py b/tests/harness/test_tool_trace_proxy.py
index 70f5de152..e6accd064 100644
--- a/tests/harness/test_tool_trace_proxy.py
+++ b/tests/harness/test_tool_trace_proxy.py
@@ -363,3 +363,96 @@ def test_a_fault_never_applies_to_an_actor_s_action(proxy, tmp_path):
     url, rows = proxy
     _faults(tmp_path, [{"action": "records.approve", "mode": "timeout_before_commit", "delay_seconds": 0}])
     assert _post(url, "/records/approve", {"item": "1"}, key="k-1", **_as("reviewer"))[0] == 201
+
+
+CHANNELS = {"c-lookup": "order_lookup", "c-refund": "refund"}
+PERMISSIONS = {"worker:order_lookup": {"allow": ["ok"]}, "worker:refund": {"allow": ["records.approve"]}}
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def worker_proxy(proxy, monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    # As the bundle ships it: the proxy with its sealed permissions beside it.
+    (tmp_path / "proxy.py").write_bytes(_PROXY.read_bytes())
+    (tmp_path / "permissions.json").write_text(json.dumps(PERMISSIONS), encoding="utf-8")
+    (tmp_path / "channels.json").write_text(json.dumps(CHANNELS), encoding="utf-8")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("WORKER_CHANNELS_FILE", str(tmp_path / "channels.json"))
+    url, rows = proxy
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("tool_trace_proxy_workers", tmp_path / "proxy.py")
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    server = _serve(module.Handler)
+    try:
+        yield f"http://127.0.0.1:{server.server_port}", rows, tmp_path
+    finally:
+        server.shutdown()
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_allowed_action_reaches_the_world_through_its_channel_and_names_the_worker(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, _ = worker_proxy
+    assert _post(url, "/w/c-refund/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 201
+    # The world sees the action's own path; the channel token never leaves the proxy.
+    assert _World.seen == ["/records/approve"]
+    [row] = rows()
+    assert (row["actor_id"], row["worker_id"], row["outcome"], row["name"]) == ("agent", "refund", "committed", "approve")
+    assert "c-refund" not in json.dumps(row, default=str)
+
+
+def test_a_worker_s_out_of_permission_write_is_refused_before_the_world_and_kept_as_an_attempt(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, _ = worker_proxy
+    status, payload = _post(url, "/w/c-lookup/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})
+    assert status == 403 and payload == {"detail": "records.approve is not permitted for order_lookup"}
+    assert _World.seen == []
+    [row] = rows()
+    assert (row["worker_id"], row["outcome"], row["refusal_code"], row["ok"]) == ("order_lookup", "refused", "not_permitted", False)
+
+
+def test_a_channel_this_trial_did_not_issue_is_refused_as_an_identity_conflict(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, _ = worker_proxy
+    assert _post(url, "/w/guess/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 403
+    assert _post(url, "/w//records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 403
+    assert _World.seen == []
+    assert [(r["actor_id"], r["worker_id"], r["refusal_code"]) for r in rows()] == [("agent", None, "identity_conflict")] * 2
+
+
+def test_an_unreadable_permissions_seal_denies_rather_than_widens(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, tmp_path = worker_proxy
+    (tmp_path / "permissions.json").write_text("not json", encoding="utf-8")
+    assert _post(url, "/w/c-refund/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 403
+    assert _World.seen == []
+    assert rows()[0]["refusal_code"] == "not_permitted"
+
+
+def test_without_a_permissions_seal_a_worker_s_action_is_attributed_but_not_limited(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, tmp_path = worker_proxy
+    (tmp_path / "permissions.json").unlink()
+    assert _post(url, "/w/c-lookup/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 201
+    assert [(r["worker_id"], r["outcome"]) for r in rows()] == [("order_lookup", "committed")]
+
+
+def test_a_route_named_differently_from_its_tool_is_logged_as_the_tool(worker_proxy):
+    url, rows, tmp_path = worker_proxy
+    (tmp_path / "actions.json").write_text(json.dumps({"records.approve": "grant_discount"}), encoding="utf-8")
+    assert _post(url, "/w/c-refund/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 201
+    assert _post(url, "/ok", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 201
+    assert [r["name"] for r in rows()] == ["grant_discount", "ok"]
+
+
+
+def test_past_its_deadline_a_worker_s_call_is_refused_and_before_it_goes_through(worker_proxy):
+    import time
+
+    url, rows, tmp_path = worker_proxy
+    # The runner writes the deadline in the trial state beside the actor token, as it writes faults.
+    state = tmp_path / "trial.json"
+    state.write_text(json.dumps({"faults": [], "worker_deadline_at": time.time() + 600}), encoding="utf-8")
+    assert _post(url, "/w/c-refund/records/approve", {"deal": "1"})[0] == 201
+    state.write_text(json.dumps({"faults": [], "worker_deadline_at": time.time() - 1}), encoding="utf-8")
+    status, payload = _post(url, "/w/c-refund/records/approve", {"deal": "2"})
+    assert status == 403 and payload == {"detail": "the deadline for refund has passed"}
+    # The agent's own calls, outside any worker's channel, are not a worker's to time out.
+    assert _post(url, "/ok", {"deal": "3"})[0] == 201
+    assert [(r["worker_id"], r["outcome"], r["refusal_code"]) for r in rows()] == [
+        ("refund", "committed", None),
+        ("refund", "refused", "deadline_passed"),
+        (None, "committed", None),
+    ]
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