agentblackbox 0.2.0

A flight recorder for AI agents – record every decision, tool call, and failure

🔲 AgentBlackBox

A flight recorder for AI agents.
Record every decision, tool call, and failure. Replay them later.

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The problem

72% of AI agent projects never reach production.

Not because the agents are wrong — but because they're invisible.
You can't debug what you can't see. You can't trust what you can't audit.

AgentBlackBox is the flight recorder your AI agents need.

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Install

pip install agentblackbox                 # core only (zero dependencies)
pip install agentblackbox[dashboard]      # + web UI

Requires Python 3.10+.

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Quickstart

from agentblackbox import BlackBox

# Drop-in decorator — existing code unchanged
@BlackBox.record(agent_name="researcher")
def run_agent(task: str):
    # your existing agent code here
    ...

run_agent("Summarize today's AI news")

# See what happened
sessions = BlackBox.list_sessions()
BlackBox.replay(sessions[0].session_id)

That's it. Every LLM call, tool use, cost, and error is now recorded locally.

Remote / hosted mode

You can mirror recordings to a hosted AgentBlackBox dashboard while still keeping the local SQLite log:

from agentblackbox import BlackBox
from agentblackbox.remote import RemoteStorage

remote_store = RemoteStorage(
    api_key="abx_...",
    endpoint="https://your-agentblackbox.example.com",
)

with BlackBox.session("researcher", storage=remote_store) as bb:
    bb.record_tool_call("search", {"q": "ai evals"}, {"hits": 12}, 83.4)

To run the dashboard in authenticated cloud mode:

agentblackbox dashboard --cloud

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What gets recorded

Event	Details
🤖 LLM call	model, prompt, output, input/output tokens, cost, latency
🔧 Tool call	name, arguments, return value, execution time
❌ Error	type, message, full stack trace, timestamp

All data is stored in a local SQLite file (~/.agentblackbox/recordings.db).
Nothing is sent to any external server.

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Usage patterns

Decorator

@BlackBox.record(agent_name="coder")
def coding_agent(task):
    ...

Context manager

with BlackBox.session("planner") as bb:
    plan = agent.run(task)
    bb.record_tool_call("search", {"query": task}, result=plan)

Manual recording

with BlackBox.session("custom") as bb:
    bb.record_llm_call(
        model="gpt-4o",
        input_text="Summarize this",
        output_text="Here is a summary...",
        input_tokens=150,
        output_tokens=80,
        duration_ms=400.0,
    )

OpenAI Agents SDK (auto-instrument)

from agentblackbox.integrations import patch_openai_agents
patch_openai_agents()  # All agents recorded automatically

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Web Dashboard

agentblackbox dashboard
# → http://localhost:8765

• Sessions — all runs with status, cost, duration, auto-refreshes every 30s
• Timeline — step-by-step replay with expandable LLM inputs/outputs
• Analytics — daily cost trends, per-agent breakdown, model distribution

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CLI

agentblackbox sessions                    # list all sessions
agentblackbox replay <session_id>         # console replay
agentblackbox export <session_id>         # JSON export
agentblackbox dashboard --port 8765       # web UI

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Cost tracking

Supports 20+ models with automatic cost calculation:

Provider	Models
OpenAI	gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-3.5-turbo, o1, o3-mini
Anthropic	claude-3-5-sonnet, claude-3-opus, claude-3-haiku, claude-3-5-haiku

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License

MIT © 2026 Takumu Hata