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Not everything an agent does falls inside a verification or fix cycle. Other intervals capture the tool calls and agentic interactions that happen between named cycles: setup work, general exploration, file reads, web searches, shell commands, sub-agent spawns, and anything else the agent does before or after verifying. These intervals appear in the Session Timeline as Other bars nested inside activity rows. Click one to open the Other detail panel.

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Stats

Four metrics shown at the top of the panel:
FieldDescription
DurationTotal elapsed time for this interval
EventsNumber of tool call events recorded
ActivityWhich parent activity this interval belongs to (e.g., Activity 1)
StartedAbsolute timestamp when the interval began

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Event timeline

A chronological list of every tool call and agentic event in the interval. Each row shows:
  • Tool name: the tool invoked, with any prefix stripped for readability
  • MCP server: if the tool belongs to an MCP server, the server name is shown as a chip
  • Tool type: mcp, skill, or sub_agent where applicable
  • Time offset: relative to the start of the interval (e.g., +4s 210ms)
  • Absolute timestamp
  • Duration: how long the tool call took
  • Input size: bytes of input passed to the tool
  • Response size: bytes returned by the tool
  • Error: error message if the call failed
  • View input: button opens the full tool input as JSON
Tool icons are color-coded by domain:
ColorDomain
BlueFile operations (read, write, edit)
PurpleSearch
OrangeShell / exec (Bash, terminal)
GreenWeb (fetch, browser)
PinkUI interactions
GrayDiagnostic / flow control

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What you’ll typically see here

Other intervals contain the bulk of an agent’s day-to-day work, the parts that aren’t about proving a change is correct:
  • Reading and exploring: file reads, directory listings, grep searches
  • Planning and reasoning: turns where the agent thinks without calling tools, or uses TodoWrite / task tracking
  • Web activity: WebFetch, WebSearch, or MCP-based HTTP calls made during research
  • Shell commands: Bash invocations for building, running tests, installing dependencies
  • Sub-agent interactions: spawning and waiting on background agents
  • MCP tool calls: any tool from a connected MCP server not tied to a verification cycle
Long Other intervals between verifications can indicate the agent spent significant time exploring or debugging before it felt confident enough to verify a useful signal alongside the Session Shape card in Analytics.