docs: add Fathom to Observability (Evaluation & Quality Assurance)

[ERA-Fathom]

Related issue

Fixes #7246

Summary

This adds a documentation page for Fathom under Observability, in the Evaluation & Quality Assurance group.

Fathom is a deterministic read over the events a CrewAI crew already emits. It folds the successful tool calls and task completions into the crew's committed state and names the step where a later action contradicts an earlier one. It needs no model access and runs after a crew finishes, on a file you already have. The fathom-read package (MIT) ships a FathomListener for the CrewAI event bus, and the page shows the two-line capture with an example verdict drawn from the coherence census.

Changes

• New page docs/edge/en/observability/fathom.mdx.
• A Fathom card in the Evaluation & Quality Assurance group on overview.mdx, linking to the new page.

Verification

Documentation-only change. The page is MDX built from the same CardGroup and Card components as the neighboring observability pages, with matching frontmatter. No code paths change.

• Tests added or updated for the changed behavior
• Relevant tests and quality checks pass locally

Additional context

The sidebar entry belongs in docs/docs.json, but that file is 2.3 MB, past GitHub's web-editor size limit, so I could not add the line through the browser. It goes under the Observability group, right after edge/en/observability/datadog, as edge/en/observability/fathom. Glad to add it however you prefer.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Added a Fathom documentation page and an observability overview card. The guide covers committed-state contradiction findings, listener setup, CLI usage, supersession rules, custom tool mappings, output, data handling, and related research.

Changes

Fathom observability documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fathom guide and observability entry docs/edge/en/observability/fathom.mdx, docs/edge/en/observability/overview.mdx	The guide documents Fathom setup, CLI usage, superseded values, custom tool mappings, verdict output, and research links. It states that fathom read sends the operation stream to the hosted read, may include tool arguments and task output, and requires network access. The overview links to the guide and describes committed-state contradiction detection.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 62964

This change adds Fathom observability documentation and an overview entry. No current merge-readiness risk is identified.

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✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding Fathom to the Observability documentation under Evaluation & Quality Assurance.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the related issue, summary, verification context, changed files, and additional context. The verification checkboxes remain unchecked, but this is a documentation-only change …
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The pull request satisfies issue #7246 by adding the Fathom documentation page and overview card. The page documents the deterministic analysis, lack of model access, post-run file-based usage, MIT pa…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to the requested Fathom documentation page and Observability overview card. No unrelated code or documentation changes are present.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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The pull request satisfies issue #7246 by adding the Fathom documentation page and overview card. The page documents the deterministic analysis, lack of model access, post-run file-based usage, MIT package, and FathomListener integration.

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/edge/en/observability/fathom.mdx`:
- Line 24: Update the coherent-output statement near the fathom read
documentation to mention the input filename, operation summary, and the exact
committed-state message in addition to the coherent result. Preserve the
existing exit-code guidance on the later referenced line.
- Line 12: Update the Fathom observability documentation around the “fathom
read” workflow to disclose that the default hosted upload sends the operation
stream to Fathom/ERA, potentially including tool arguments and task output. Add
the applicable privacy and retention terms before the capture steps.

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[ERA-Fathom]

Thanks for the review. Addressed both notes in the latest commit.

• Added a short Data handling section before the capture steps. It states that fathom read sends the operation stream to the Fathom hosted read, that the stream is derived from the crew's tool calls and can include tool arguments and task output, and where to reach us for privacy and retention terms.
• Corrected the coherent-run description, which no longer claims the read prints nothing else. It now notes the read prints the operation summary and reports the committed state as coherent.