docs: position against the OTel GenAI process-line gap - #7
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The 2026 telemetry standard covers what an agent spent (session spans, token counters, cost rollups) and stops at the process line: wedged, crash-looping, and leaking processes appear in no GenAI span, and the agent CLIs don't export even their own pid. Add that bullet to the why-not section and retitle it to include OTel. Existing htop/Grafana bullets unchanged; no code touched.
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One README section, +7/-1, no code.
The competitive framing now names the ground the OTel GenAI semantic conventions leave open: they standardized the semantic half of agent telemetry — what the agent spent — and the vendor dashboards consume it natively, but they stop at the process line. Whether the host process is wedged at 97% CPU, crash-looping, or leaking RSS is modeled by no
gen_aispan, and the agent CLIs don't export even their own pid. That half needs its own tool; this is it.Pre-existing, not from this PR: HLD.md:81 cites README.md:377-392 for the systemd unit, but that section already starts at line 393 on main (now 400). Flagging for whoever next touches the HLD.