u/LeatherHot940

I've been obsessing over this for a while now.

Google traffic has dropped on a few sites I work on, nothing crazy but definitely noticeable but weirdly I'm starting to see visits coming from Perplexity and ChatGPT in my analytics.

The thing is I have no idea if my brand is actually being mentioned or recommended by these tools or if I'm just getting lucky. There's nothing in Search Console that tells you this.

Anyone actually tracking this properly? Feel like I'm flying blind and GEO is just becoming too important to ignore now.

Once I’ve got a few wired into Claude Desktop / Cursor, I lose all visibility and I’m not sure which tool got called, what came back, why something silently failed. The agent does something and I’m guessing.

Is this a real problem for anyone else, or is there an obvious tool I’m missing? How are you all handling it, by actually watching the calls, or just digging through logs when something breaks?

I’ve been building agents with MCP and ran into the auth problem where there is no easy way to scope which tools an agent can call, no audit trail of what actually ran and no protection if a tool returns something malicious.

Curious how others are solving this. Are you rolling your own proxy? Just accepting the risk for now? Or is this not a problem yet because you’re still in prototyping?

Genuinely trying to understand if this is a “everyone’s hitting this” problem or a “just me” problem.

Genuinely lost count of how many hours I've spent staring at logs trying to figure out why an agent did something completely wrong.

The problem is that by the time you notice something went wrong, the context is gone. You know the output was bad but you have no idea what the agents were actually doing — which handoff failed, which decision was wrong, whether it was a prompt issue or a tool issue or just the agents going in circles.

I got fed up and built something to fix it. It's called Rifft. It traces every agent decision, handoff and tool call in real time. When something breaks you can step through exactly what happened, replay the failed run, try a fix, and compare it to a run that worked.

It's free to try — rifft.dev

Would love to hear if anyone else has hit this. Curious what debugging looks like for other people building multi-agent stuff.