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Causal Understanding

December 23, 2025 · decisionmanagementcommunity

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Today Pieter van Schalkwyk posted “Decision Traces for Agentic Operations: Why Agents Need Operational Memory“. Here are just a few quotes:

True agency requires causal understanding: Not just knowing what happened, but why it happened and what could happen next. This is what separates genuine AI agents from workflows with chatbot interfaces.

Rules vs. Decision Traces: Rules tell an agent what should happen in general. Decision traces capture what happened in each specific case and why it happened. Link

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