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Developers can now debug and evaluate AI agents locally with Raindrop's open source tool Workshop

calendar_today May 14, 2026 person carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) domain venturebeat

Observability startup Raindrop AI ’s new open source, MIT Licensed “ Workshop “ tool, launched today, gives developers something that they’ve likely wanted, perhaps subconsciously, since the agentic AI era kicked off in earnest last year: a local debugger and evaluation tool specifically designed for AI agents, allowing devs to see all the traces of what their agent has been doing in a single, lightweight Structured Query Language (SQL) database file (.db) It functions as a local daemon and UI that streams every token, tool call, and decision to a local dashboard—typically hosted at…

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