Message-Action Traces (MAT)

An agent execution trace recorded as an ordered sequence of messages and actions (Ciprian Paduraru, Petru-Liviu Bouruc, Alin Stefanescu, University of Bucharest). It serves as an artifact enabling replay of a run, testing, contract verification, and post-hoc assurance in agentic orchestration — a reproducible record of what an agent received and how it responded, decoupled from its logic. A niche term, based on a single preprint.