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+import { screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { ApiError } from "@/lib/http/client";
+
+import { renderWithProviders, testQueryClient } from "../../../../tests/test-utils";
+import traceList from "./__fixtures__/trace_list.json";
+import { AgentTracesSection } from "./AgentTracesSection";
+import type { TracePage } from "./traceTypes";
+
+vi.mock("../../networking", () => ({
+  agentTraceListCall: vi.fn(),
+  agentTraceCall: vi.fn(),
+  agentTraceSpanCall: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+import { agentTraceListCall } from "../../networking";
+
+const renderSection = (view: "all" | "traces" | "llm") =>
+  renderWithProviders(
+    <AgentTracesSection
+      view={view}
+      accessToken="sk-test"
+      isActive
+      startTime="2026-09-29T00:00"
+      endTime="2026-09-30T00:00"
+      isCustomDate={false}
+      isLiveTail={false}
+      onOpenRequestLog={vi.fn()}
+    />,
+  );
+
+describe("AgentTracesSection", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    testQueryClient.clear();
+    vi.mocked(agentTraceListCall).mockReset();
+  });
+
+  it("renders the setup snippet when the proxy answers 501", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(agentTraceListCall).mockRejectedValue(
+      new ApiError("Agent tracing is not enabled", 501, { detail: "Agent tracing is not enabled" }),
+    );
+    renderSection("traces");
+
+    const card = await screen.findByTestId("tracing-setup-card");
+    expect(card).toHaveTextContent("Agent tracing is not enabled");
+    expect(card).toHaveTextContent("store: clickhouse");
+    expect(card).toHaveTextContent("LANGSMITH_TRACING_MODE=otel");
+    expect(card).toHaveTextContent('OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="Authorization=Bearer <litellm key>"');
+    expect(agentTraceListCall).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("renders nothing in All when tracing is off, so request logs stay front and centre", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(agentTraceListCall).mockRejectedValue(new ApiError("off", 501, { detail: "off" }));
+    renderSection("all");
+    await vi.waitFor(() => expect(agentTraceListCall).toHaveBeenCalled());
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("tracing-setup-card")).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("table", { name: "Agent traces" })).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("lists traces with the agent badge, red status for runs with errors and cost", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(agentTraceListCall).mockResolvedValue(traceList as TracePage);
+    renderSection("traces");
+
+    const rows = await screen.findAllByTestId("agent-trace-row");
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength((traceList as TracePage).data.length);
+    const lead = rows.find((row) => row.textContent?.includes("research_lead"));
+    expect(lead).toHaveTextContent("◆ 6 agents · 21 LLM · 25 tool");
+    expect(lead).toHaveTextContent("Success");
+    expect(lead).toHaveTextContent("$0.1283");
+    expect(lead).toHaveTextContent("Should we store OTEL agent spans in ClickHouse or Postgres at 50k spans/sec?");
+    const failed = rows.find((row) => row.textContent?.includes("acme-404"));
+    expect(failed).toHaveTextContent("Failure");
+    expect(failed).toHaveTextContent("2 err");
+  });
+
+  it("does not query traces in the LLM requests view", () => {
+    renderSection("llm");
+    expect(agentTraceListCall).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});