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Evidence

What a run recorded, kept as one bundle per attempt.

Every attempt of a run records:

  • Steps, each with what was tried and what happened.
  • Requests the app made, and their results.
  • Console lines of the app.
  • Snapshots of the page or screen.
  • Video of the attempt.

One bundle per attempt

Evidence for a failed or incomplete attempt is one bundle. It holds a diagnosis with the cause and the fix, and the steps and requests that lead to it. The run page shows it, read_evidence reads it in pages of at most 100 items, and talotrace evidence saves it to a folder:

talotrace evidence <run id> --all-failed --out ./evidence

Files hold authenticated routes, never signed links, so a saved file is safe to attach to an issue.

Retention

Developer evidence stays readable for seven days after the run was created. After that, reads answer EVIDENCE_EXPIRED. A copy you saved on disk cannot be revoked, so keep it as private as the app itself.

Use it

Read the diagnosis before you believe a failure: it says whether your app or the scenario was wrong. See Read a run.