Canonical Procedural Actions: An Auditable Annotation Protocol for Tool-Use Agent Traces

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arXiv:2609.24264v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-use agent traces identify messages and API calls, but procedural analyses also need explicit units of action and inspectable links to their evidence. We present Canonical Procedural Actions (CPAs), an annotation protocol that records a procedural function, its first agent-event anchor, the agent events that realize it, and separate contextual evidence. Multiple actions may share a message anchor without an inferred within-message order. A reta