# Label your agent steps

DevFeed: [Label your agent steps](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/label-your-agent-steps-35902.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/label-your-agent-steps>)

Author: Lanie Hei

Published: 2026-08-12T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>), [workflows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflows.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to use Temporal's Activity and Workflow summary fields to label agent steps, making complex executions easier to scan, debug, and understand in the Temporal UI. It demonstrates the approach with a coding-agent loop involving planning, editing, testing, evaluation, CI, and recovery.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to label Activities, Workflows, and Timers in Temporal to make agent execution easier to scan, debug, and understand in the Temporal UI.