> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ironbee.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Other Activity

> Tool calls and agentic interactions outside of verification and fix cycles.

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](/console/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:

| Field    | Description                                                       |
| -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Duration | Total elapsed time for this interval                              |
| Events   | Number of tool call events recorded                               |
| Activity | Which parent activity this interval belongs to (e.g., Activity 1) |
| Started  | Absolute 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:

| Color  | Domain                              |
| ------ | ----------------------------------- |
| Blue   | File operations (read, write, edit) |
| Purple | Search                              |
| Orange | Shell / exec (Bash, terminal)       |
| Green  | Web (fetch, browser)                |
| Pink   | UI interactions                     |
| Gray   | Diagnostic / 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](/console/session-analytics#session-shape) card in Analytics.