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Why WizardFlow?

One agent run shouldn’t require an observability platform.

WizardFlow turns an agent run into a portable JSONL file you can replay locally or drop into the browser.

When one run needs a closer look

You want to show a teammate why one run went wrong. Traditional observability products are designed around persistent infrastructure: servers, accounts, instrumentation pipelines, and dashboards.

Those capabilities are valuable in production—but often excessive when the task is simply: “Look at this run.”

The trace is the artifact

A WizardFlow trace is an ordinary file. You can:

  • attach it to a bug report;
  • send it to a teammate;
  • commit or archive it;
  • inspect or diff it with ordinary tools;
  • preserve representative runs as benchmarking artifacts;
  • replay it without connecting to a trace backend.

Two ways to replay

On your machine

wizardflow ui run.jsonl

opens the complete viewer locally.

In the browser

Non-developers can drop the same file into getwizardflow.com. The hosted viewer parses it in the browser; the trace is not uploaded.

What you avoid

  • No account
  • No trace server or database
  • No runtime dependencies
  • No framework requirement
  • No permanent platform commitment

A focused tool, not a smaller platform

CapabilityWizardFlowObservability platforms
Primary artifactPortable JSONL fileStored platform trace
Local replayIncludedUsually platform-oriented
Production monitoringNot the focusCore capability
Team dashboards and evaluationsNot the focusCore capability

Where platforms win

If you need centralized production monitoring, shared dashboards, hosted evaluations, alerting, or long-term team analytics, a full observability platform may be the better tool.

WizardFlow is designed for recording, replaying, and sharing individual runs as files.