Kōan: A tool for live-streaming AI agent reasoning, tool calls, and decisions
By
Ashish Sharda
Day-old at best. Try it dunked in something stronger.
Summary
Kōan is a tool that provides live streaming visibility into AI agent operations, showing reasoning, tool calls, decisions, and errors in real-time. It supports multiple LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Ollama), offers per-agent model selection, BYOK (bring your own key) with no key storage, and requires no signup. It's free to start — just add an API key.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledAI agents are powerful but invisible.
When they fail, you get an error — not a reason.
Kōan streams every agent event live — reasoning, tool calls, decisions, errors — tagged and timed.
No signup needed Free to start. Just add your API key and run.
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