[aaronvg]

Summary

This PR started as two changes that remove hand-written dispatch code from a BAML agent (sections 1 and 2). It now also holds the fixes that a migration of a production project to 0.20 needed (sections 3 and 4). Each fix is one commit.

1. A reflected tool decodes its arguments into the handler's parameter types

ai.tools.tool(f) advertises a JSON Schema for f's parameters, but Tool.call passed the model's arguments to reflect.call_any as they arrived. A model's arguments are JSON, so a class arrives as a map, an enum as a string, and a list as a list of json. reflect.call_any takes typed values and rejected all of them. A reflected tool worked only when every parameter was a string, a number, or an optional scalar.

enum GymType { COMMERCIAL  GARAGE @alias("garage-gym") }
class Gym { name: string @alias("label")  gym_type: GymType  tags: string[] }

function save_gym(gym: Gym) -> string { ... }

// before: InvalidArgument (a map is not a Gym)
// after:  save_gym receives a Gym
ai.tools.tool(save_gym).call({ "gym": { "label": "Home", "gym_type": "garage-gym", "tags": [] } })

Tool.call now decodes each argument into its parameter's type before the call (_typed_arguments). It decodes with schema-aligned parsing, because SAP reads the names that the tool's schema advertises (@alias included); baml.json.to reads declared names only.

Supporting changes:

• baml.sap.can_parse(t: reflect.Type) -> bool: whether SAP can model a type. parse and parse_type panic for unknown, uint8array, and function types, and a panic cannot be caught. Tool.call asks first and passes such an argument through as it arrived.
• reflect.call_any compares an argument at its most precise type (value_singleton_ty). Before, the string "auto" did not fit a parameter typed "auto" | "manual", because the value was reconstructed as string.

Behavior to know about: the decode is SAP, so it is lenient in the ways SAP is lenient. Checked on this branch:

Parameter	Argument	Handler receives
int	"3"	3
int	2.7	3
bool	"true"	true
int[]	[1, "two", 3]	nothing: InvalidArgument that names item 1 (section 4, the list fix)

An argument that does not fit its parameter at all is an InvalidArgument that names the tool and the parameter.

An argument that is already a value of its parameter's type passes through with no decode. This is what BAML code passes when it calls a tool itself (for example a dispatcher that holds a parsed action). A decode would write the value as JSON under its declared field names and then fail to read an @alias field back. If reviewers prefer a strict decode for tool arguments, the leniency is the part to change; the alias handling is why this PR uses SAP.

2. ai.clients.resolve finds a declared client by name

A host that selects a client with a feature flag sends a name. Until now the project needed a match with one arm per client to turn that name into the client:

// before: one arm for each `client X = ...` declaration
function ResolveAgentClient(name: string) -> ai.Client {
    match (name) {
        "Fast" => Fast,
        "Smart" => Smart,
        ...
    }
}

// after
ai.clients.resolve(name)

A selector string with a / is still the "provider/model" shorthand. A string without a / is now the name of a client Name = ... declaration of the calling package. The same holds for the value of an env ref, and for a dynamic client: field of an LLM function.

• The name is the client's path in the package: "Fast", or "billing.Fast" (or "root.billing.Fast") for a client declared in namespace billing. No namespace is searched for a bare name, so a new client in a different namespace cannot change what an existing name selects.
• A name the package does not declare is an ai.errors.InvalidRequest. Before, every string without a / was that error.
• A package compiled at run time resolves a name against its own declarations.

How it works: ai.clients.resolve(selector) is already compiler-assisted (the compiler appends the provider table at each call site). The compiler now also appends reflect.Package.current(). The new reflect.Package.get_let(name) returns the value of a top-level binding, and resolve narrows it to ai.Client.

3. Python SDK: a host callback type accepts an async def

The bridge already runs an async host callback (baml_bridge/_dispatch.py awaits the coroutine), but the generated type was typing.Callable[[In], Out]. mypy and pyright rejected an async def for a callback parameter and for a class field of function type, so a host with async handlers could not build a typed contract class:

class Host:
    async def create_gym(self, input: CreateGymInput) -> ToolOutcome: ...

HybrdTools(create_gym=Host().create_gym)   # before: incompatible type "Callable[[CreateGymInput], Coroutine[Any, Any, ToolOutcome]]"

A function type that the host supplies now returns typing.Union[Out, typing.Coroutine[typing.Any, typing.Any, Out]], in the Callable form and in the Protocol for a callback with optional parameters. A callable that BAML supplies (a returned function, an argument of a host callback) keeps its plain return type, so make_adder(1)(2) is still an int. The spelling uses typing.Union, not X | Y, so the annotation also evaluates on a Python version without that syntax.

No runtime change.

4. Fixes from a 0.20 migration of a production project

Each fix is one commit with its own tests.

Commit	Before	After
c2d0f62b6 compiler	Color.Red.to_string() did not compile (E0003, unresolved name Red). A let of the variant first did	A method that a value of the enum has is called on the variant. Color.Red.from_json(j) stays the static of the type
13164dee5 SAP	A list item that did not fit its element type was left out with no error: parse<int[]>("[1, \"two\", 3]") gave [1, 3], and an agent reply whose one action was not an allowed tool parsed as actions: []	The parse fails and names the item: Failed to parse list item 1 as int
1195d01a9 CLI, reflect	baml run -e 'ai.clients.resolve("Fast").id()' did not find the project's client Fast. A reflect.Session did not find its own bindings by name	Both resolve the name wherever an identifier of that name reaches the client
0fb6c1031 engine	A host could not pass a plain string for an enum parameter. The mismatch text was a Rust debug form (Enum(QualifiedTypeName { .. }))	A string that names a variant becomes that variant (alone, in a list, a map, a class field, and in a union when no member takes the string as it is). The mismatch text names types as a user writes them
62dfca3ec engine	A host value of another kind entered the function: from Python, Twice("7"), Twice(1.5), Twice(True) and Twice(None) ran with that value in an int parameter, where n is int was false	A plain host value must inhabit the declared type, or the call fails with a TypeMismatch before the function runs. The message names the function and the argument position
b8445f4e9 Python bridge	An unobserved error of a spawned task ended the host process (os._exit(1)), and a host could not change that	baml_bridge.set_unhandled_spawn_error_handler(handler). The default is unchanged
4934c2da2 stdlib	ai.Agent.run did not give on_event the events of a turn that ended the run with an error (ParseFailed, FinishReasonError, Refused)	The listener gets every event of the journal one time, on every exit
55f4d2997 compiler	A catch-all binding of a match had the whole scrutinee type: null => .., let hook => hook(n) was E0006 for an optional function	The binding has the type that the earlier arms left
d117cb981 stdlib	A custom ai.Client whose invoke calls baml.sys.sleep (or any Io operation) did not compile without a catch	baml.errors.Io is a member of ai.errors.InvokeError. The four members it had are ai.errors.NormalizedError
2161ec390 stdlib	assert.is_type<T>(x) returned x as a T, a second way to narrow	It checks and returns void. x is T is the one way to narrow
054ba29d4 compiler	x is A && x.a == 1, !(x is A) || x.a == 1 and s != null && s.length() > 0 were E0007	The right operand of && / || is typed with the facts of the left operand

Changes of behavior to know about

• Breaking, SAP: a list with a complete item that does not fit its element type is now a parse error. Four cases still leave an item out: an item that is still arriving (a partial parse), a list that the parser inferred from separate values in the text, null where a list is expected, and a list of media. Map values and optional lists (T[]?) keep the old leniency. Tool.call reports such a list argument as an InvalidArgument that names the item.
• Breaking, assert.is_type: a read of its result is a compile error (E0007 on assert.is_type<A>(x).a, E0001 on let y = assert.is_type<A>(x)). No code in this repository read it.
• InvokeError has a fifth member. An exhaustive match over its members needs an arm for baml.errors.Io. A function that declares throws ai.errors.InvokeError and throws only what ai.errors.normalize returns gets warning E0097; declare ai.errors.NormalizedError. Retry and Fallback classify a member's Io as a NetworkFailure before they judge the attempt, so it is tried again like every safe transport failure. The error set of an LLM function and of a stream does not change.
• Narrowing across && / ||: only a local binding (a let or a parameter) that no closure captures is narrowed, as before. A field path (h.v is A && h.v.a == 1), an index path and a captured local stay errors: tasks can interleave between statements, so another task or an alias can change them between the test and the read. A test that the left operand already decides is dead code and is reported as an unreachable arm is: value is Bound && match value { Bound => true, _ => false } now reports the _ arm.
• Breaking, host arguments: a plain host value (null, a number, a bool, a string, bytes, a list, a map) of another kind than its parameter is rejected, also as a list item, a map value or a class field. Before, it entered the function. The existing boundary conversions stay. Not converted: "7" and 2.0 for an int, 1 for a bool, None for a type without null. The check is in the coercion that every bridge shares, so it applies to each SDK. An instance, an enum member, a handle, a host callable and a media value keep their own rules, and a string for an enum that is built at run time is still left for the run-time lookup.
• Breaking, Python exceptions: except Exception and except BamlError now catch a panic and a cancelled sync call. Catch BamlPanic or BamlCancelledError first to treat them in another way. A rejected argument is a BamlTypeError; it is still a TypeError, with the same text. Not a BamlError, as before: the exception that a Python callback raised (it comes back as the same object) and the asyncio.CancelledError of a cancelled async call. TypeScript already has BamlPanic extends BamlError. Java keeps BamlPanic extends Error, which catch (Exception) does not catch.
• Typing, catch after a function value: code that relied on the wrong never can get a new diagnostic: E0096 where a throws clause leaves out the errors of the function value. The stdlib and the whole corpus compile with no change.
• Python, thrown values: with no generated class, BamlError.value and BamlPanic.value are a dict of the fields. With a generated SDK nothing changes.
• Python, spawn errors: the handler gets (error, cancelled), runs on a thread of the BAML runtime, and must not call BAML. If it raises, the bridge prints the error of the task, gives the handler's exception to sys.unraisablehook, and the process continues. None restores the default, which still prints and ends the process.
• Python, enums: a host callback's return value keeps its strict check; a string is still not an enum there. Inside BAML, let c: Color = "Red" is still E0001.

TYPE_SYSTEM.md

• New section Flow Narrowing: which tests narrow, where their facts hold (the branch of an if, after an early exit, the right operand of && / ||), what may be narrowed and why, and what to write for a field (match (h.v) { let a: A => .. }, if let a: A = h.v, or let v = h.v; first).

• Pattern Matching states the type of a catch-all binding (the scrutinee minus the earlier arms that consume their type) and that a match evaluates its scrutinee one time.

• It states that assert.is_type and assert.is_true(x is T) do not narrow.

• New subsection Values from a host: an argument is checked against the declared type at the boundary, and the boundary is the one place with conversions that are not written (int to float or bigint, a bigint that fits to int, a string to the enum variant it names, a map to the class whose shape it has).

Merge with canary

canary replaced the to_string / to_json / from_json sugar with implicit structural interfaces (#5105). With that, Color.Red.to_string() resolved as the type-qualified spelling of the method and asked for the receiver as an argument (E0005). The merge commit makes a method that a value of the enum exposes through self resolve on the variant before the type-qualified tier; a static of the variant's type (from_json) keeps that tier.

5. Python bridge: one exception base, errors without generated classes, and bridge tests that CI runs

Commit	Before	After
b21e64606 engine	A class field of another kind did not name the function: Value of type 'string' does not match the declared type \int``	The same frame as every other rejected argument: `Count` was called with a value that doesn't match its type: argument 2: …
129db7413 Python bridge	A call through baml_bridge with no generated SDK lost every thrown error. The caller got BamlError("Unknown class FQN 'baml.errors.InvalidArgument'")	A thrown value of a class with no Python class is the dict of its fields, at every depth. class_name names the BAML class. A returned value keeps the strict check
6aa5f5abf Python bridge	BamlPanic was a BaseException outside BamlError. A rejected argument was a bare TypeError	BamlError is the base of all: BamlPanic(BamlError), BamlCancelledError(BamlPanic), BamlTypeError(BamlError, TypeError)
0a07ba564 tests	sdks/python/tests (171 tests) ran nowhere: its harness run_pytest.rs was #[ignore] and outside every crate. 8 tests failed, and several passed only on a decode error	The tests are in sdk_tests/crates/python_pydantic2/function_calls/customizable/bridge_tests. The pytest run of the fixture covers them in CI
00b3aaf40 parity lint	A Python-only test with a skip annotation was in the denominator of every SDK's parity	A Python test ID counts when another SDK environment is required to declare it: 368 IDs (was 430)
a6cb7c345 engine	A BAML callable that the host holds (a returned closure, a function value, a bound method) rejected an argument with no callee and no position	The same frame as a call by name: `Twice` was called with a value that doesn't match its type: argument 1: …. A lambda and a host closure have no declared name and read "the callable"
6e983f348 compiler	At a catch after a call that takes a function VALUE (baml.future.with_timeout(limit, body), any F<T, E>(body: () -> T throws E)), the caught value had the type never, and a throws never around that catch was accepted. Since #5105, error.to_string() on the value ended with VM internal error: could not realize type template, which also ended a whole baml test run	The catch commits the open effect variable from its bounds, as a match scrutinee does. The facts are string | baml.errors.Timeout

In numbers: bridge_tests/ has 127 tests, each with a SDK_PARITY_LINT(skip) comment: 107 moved or rewritten and 20 new (calls by function name with and without generated classes, the decode of a thrown value, a program that does not compile). The fixture root has 15 more new tests: argument types through the generated SDK (6), the exception classes (6), bigint in the i64 range (2), and the unhandled-spawn default as a parity test (1; Go, Java, C++ and Swift have the same ID). Dropped: tests with a twin in the fixture suite (basic calls, callback round trips, enum strings). One process has one BAML runtime, so a test that compiled its own program now calls the program of the fixture or runs a child process. One case has no home: a raw [] for int[] | string[] selects the first list arm; the fixture has no function that shows the arm.

Tests

• ns_llm_tool_arguments (new, 10 tests): enum by name and by alias, literal, numbers, string passed as written, null, list, map, class with aliases and nested classes, list of classes, unknown passthrough, typed values passed as they are (class with aliases, list of classes, enum, and a typed value next to a written one), InvalidArgument messages, an agent run with a class-parameter tool, can_parse.
• ns_reflect_call_any_phase1/ns_call_any_accepts_a_value_of_a_literal_type (new).
• ns_env_ref_clients (7 new tests): name lookup, a name chosen at run time, an undeclared name, get_let, a run-time-compiled package, a client: field that takes a name.
• ns_llm_tool_order (new, 4 tests): every provider client (OpenAI Responses and Chat, Anthropic, Gemini, Vertex, Bedrock) lists the tools in declaration order; a toolbox built at run time keeps the order of its list; a tool schema lists the parameters in the handler's order; the same declaration renders the same body. No code change was needed: this pins the behavior, because a provider's prompt cache covers the tool definitions.
• Python SDK: sdk_test_python_pydantic2 (17 pass on regenerated fixture SDKs: ruff, pyright, pytest). New function_calls/customizable/host_callables_static.py: pyright accepts sync and async handlers for a Callable callback, a class argument, a void return and an optional-parameter Protocol; a wrong return type is still an error; a returned BAML callable still returns its value. With the old types put back, pyright and mypy report the 5 async lines. Generator unit tests: 115 pass, with new cases for a callback that takes or returns a callable. Also checked by hand: a class with two callback fields runs with async and sync handlers from the sync and the async entry point, and mypy --strict accepts it.
• Snapshots: the two corpus fixtures that show the lowered resolve call, and the builtin package listings (new stdlib functions).

Run locally: the corpus groups root.llm_*, root.reflect*, root.provider_stdlib*, root.env_ref_clients*, root.runtime_* and related (818 pass), the unit tests of baml_compiler2_ast, bex_vm and bex_sap, corpus::*, and prek.

For section 4 and the merge:

• New corpus groups: ns_enum_variant_method_paths (6), ns_sap_list_items (8), ns_llm_agent_error_events (8), ns_llm_client_io_errors (13), ns_assert_is_type, ns_short_circuit_narrowing (18), and new cases in ns_env_ref_clients and ns_llm_tool_arguments. Two diagnostics projects (assert_is_type_checks_only, short_circuit_narrowing) pin the errors that must stay: a field path, an index path and a captured local are not narrowed.
• bex_sap unit tests for the list rule; bex_engine unit tests for the enum strings, the type names in mismatch messages and the argument check; a type fixture short_circuit_narrows_right_operand.
• Python: function_calls/customizable/test_enum_strings.py, test_argument_types.py, test_errors.py, and bridge_tests/ (the spawn error handler is in bridge_tests/test_process_lifecycle.py).

Run locally on the merge with canary: the whole corpus (5,317 passed, 2 tolerated failures of 5,319), all bex_engine library tests with the host-boundary tests of baml_tests (185 passed), the engine tests of generic inference (66 passed), and the table, corpus snapshot and inference tests of baml_tests (77 passed). The full suites ran in CI. The first run on the merge found six failures, all fixed in 9cb641931 and 0c342c383: one clippy lint in a new test, the SDK parity lint (the six Python-only tests now carry a skip directive), one engine test plus two Python and two Java SDK tests that expect a rejected argument to name the function, and one compiler table test that expected the to_string sugar that canary removed.

For section 5, run locally: the pytest run of every Python fixture on the rebuilt extension (function_calls 696 passed and 1 expected failure, type_shapes 112, llm_functions 29, docstrings_etc 6), the engine tests of host arguments, generics and host callables (110 passed), the 19 tests of the parity lint, the parity lint against the refreshed baseline (unchanged), and the prek hooks without clippy (format, Markdown, whitespace, TOML). Clippy runs in CI.

For the two last fixes of section 5, run locally: the whole corpus (5,320 passed and the same 2 tolerated failures of 5,322), the library tests of baml_tests, baml_cli, baml_pack_host and bex_engine (1,378 passed; only the two new snapshots were created), and the engine tests of host arguments, generics and host callables (112 passed).

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Overview
This PR extends dynamic client selection so ai.clients.resolve accepts declared client Name = ... paths (not only "provider/model" strings), with the compiler injecting reflect.Package.current() and reflect.Package.get_let for lookup. It also decodes model tool JSON into handler parameter types (schema-aligned parsing, @alias-aware) before reflect.call_any, with baml.sap.can_parse to skip unmodelable types.

Client error channels split NormalizedError from raw baml.errors.Io on InvokeError: reliability wrappers, the agent, streams, and spec paths normalize Io to retry-safe NetworkFailure, while direct invoke can still surface Io. assert.is_type becomes check-only void (narrow with is only).

The type checker gains short-circuit narrowing on &&/||, catch-all match bindings typed as the residual after consuming arms, and enum variant method paths like Color.Red.to_string(). ai.Agent delivers on_event journal entries before errors propagate, including failed parses and tool steps.

baml run -e reloads project context when an expression reads its package (e.g. resolve("Fast")). Docs and keyword help expand flow narrowing, host-boundary conversions, and pattern/match rules. Large corpus and CLI e2e coverage pins the new behavior.

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• New Features

  • Client selectors can use declared client names or provider/model shorthand; CLI expressions can resolve package clients and declarations.
  • Tool arguments are converted to supported parameter types, and plain strings matching declared enum values can become enum variants when appropriate.
  • Added type parseability checks and package reflection for exported values.
  • Python host callbacks support synchronous and asynchronous returns, with configurable handling for unobserved task errors.
  • Agent listeners receive updates throughout runs, including failures.
  • Short-circuit conditions narrow eligible locals; catch-all match bindings use the remaining type.

• Bug Fixes

  • Client I/O errors are normalized consistently in higher-level calls, retries, fallbacks, and streams.
  • List parsing validates items more consistently; Python argument type errors identify mismatches more clearly.

• Documentation

  • Clarified type narrowing and that assert.is_type checks without returning or narrowing the value.

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This pull request changes client resolution, error normalization, tool argument parsing, type inference, inbound conversion, SAP list parsing, and Python SDK behavior. It adds compiler and runtime support, tests, and documentation.

Changes

Package Client Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Package lookup and client resolution baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/reflect/reflect.baml, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_reflect/reflect.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_clients/clients.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_internal/clients.baml	Package.get_let retrieves exported bindings. Client resolution uses the calling package for names without /; slash-containing strings retain provider/model lookup.
Compiler integration and client tests baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/src/*, baml_language/crates/baml_cli/src/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_env_ref_clients/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_session.rs	Compiler lowering supplies the current package. Tests cover qualified names, provider tables, Session bindings, dynamic selectors, and CLI project context.

Tool Arguments and Ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse capability and tool dispatch baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_sap/sap.baml, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/package_baml/sap.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_tools/tools.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_llm_tool_arguments/tool_arguments.baml	baml.sap.can_parse checks supported types and skipped-field defaults. Schema-derived tool calls parse supported values before reflection dispatch.
Literal and request ordering checks baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_reflect_call_any_phase1/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_llm_tool_order/tool_order.baml	Tests cover literal argument validation, tool and parameter ordering, and repeatable request output.

Client Errors and Agent Events

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error normalization baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_errors/errors.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_clients/clients.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_stream/stream.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/runner.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/spec.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_llm_client_io_errors/*	Error contracts distinguish raw I/O errors from normalized errors. Higher-level client, request, stream, retry, and fallback paths normalize raw I/O errors.
Agent event delivery baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/runner.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_llm_agent_error_events/*	Agent delivery tracks journal entries and delivers outstanding events after execution steps and before errors propagate.

Type-System and Path Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Narrowing and residual match types baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_short_circuit_narrowing/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_match_catch_all_residual/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/type_spec/fixtures/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/projects/diagnostic_errors/short_circuit_narrowing/*, baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/keyword_docs/baml_keywords.yaml, baml_language/TYPE_SYSTEM.md	Type inference applies short-circuit facts to right operands and records residual types for catch-all patterns. Fixtures and documentation describe supported cases and limits.
Assertion type contract baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/assert/assert.baml, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_assert_is_type/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/projects/diagnostic_errors/assert_is_type_checks_only/*	assert.is_type returns void and does not narrow its input. Tests cover runtime checks and diagnostic cases.
Enum-variant path resolution baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_mir/src/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_enum_variant_method_paths/*, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/compiler2_tir/inference.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/type_spec/tables.rs	Type inference and MIR lowering track path roots so enum variants can serve as method-call and member-access roots.

Inbound Argument Conversion and SAP List Parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Enum-aware coercion and validation baml_language/crates/bex_engine/src/conversion.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_engine/src/lib.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_engine/tests/host_argument_types.rs, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/python_pydantic2/function_calls/customizable/test_enum_strings.py	Inbound conversion uses declared enum variants to interpret matching strings and rejects incompatible host values. Type mismatch messages include function and argument context.
Inferred arrays and item errors baml_language/crates/bex_sap/src/deserializer/coercer/*, baml_language/crates/bex_sap/src/jsonish/parser/entry.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_sap/src/jsonish/value.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_sap/src/tests/test_lists.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_sap/src/tests/test_international.rs	The parser marks separately gathered values as inferred arrays. List coercion distinguishes incompatible complete items from incomplete or inferred items that can be omitted.
List parsing fixtures baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_sap_list_items/*	The fixture covers valid, empty, partial, nested, and invalid list inputs and reports parse errors.

Python SDK

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Python bridge errors and decoding baml_language/sdks/python/src/baml_bridge/*, baml_language/sdks/python/rust/bridge_python/src/host_value.rs, baml_language/sdks/python/README.md, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/python_pydantic2/function_calls/customizable/bridge_tests/*	The Python bridge updates exception types, type mismatch handling, unknown-class decoding, and host-value rehydration.
Python runtime tests and parity reporting baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/python_pydantic2/*, baml_language/sdk_tests/crates/parity_analysis.md, tools/sdk-parity-lint/*, baml_language/sdks/python/test.sh, baml_language/sdks/python/pyproject.toml	Python bridge tests move into the SDK test suite. Parity reporting counts shared Python test IDs.

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• inferred — Final journal flushing covers entries visible when error handling runs. Settlement of cancelled sibling tools before that flush is not established by the examined future.all contract. The base used the same concurrent execution and immediate-flush pattern, so this is an inherited lifecycle uncertainty rather than an introduced concern.

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• proposed — For custom clients that perform externally visible operations, define the replay guarantee explicitly: require idempotency or distinguish ambiguous post-effect I/O failures from failures safe to retry or fail over.

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🟡 Minor · Add context to callable argument errors. · lib.rs:4080-4081

baml_language/crates/bex_engine/src/lib.rs:4080-4081
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add context to callable argument errors.

call_callable_with_outcome_impl returns TypeMismatch errors from coercion and VM conversion without the callee label or 1-based argument position. Apply arg_coercion_mismatch to both paths. Use idx so bound methods count only caller-supplied arguments. Use a generic label for HostClosure, which has no function name.

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@@
         let throws_type = throws_type
             .as_ref()
             .map(|ty| crate::conversion::overlay_wire_ty_under_permit(ty, thread.proof()));
 
+        let function_name = func_ptr
+            .and_then(|ptr| match thread.vm.get_object(ptr) {
+                Object::Function(func) => Some(func.name.clone()),
+                _ => None,
+            })
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| "callable".to_string());
+
@@
                     BexCallArg::Provided(value) => self
                         .coerce_inbound_arg(*value, ty)
-                        .map(|value| BexCallArg::Provided(Box::new(value))),
+                        .map(|value| BexCallArg::Provided(Box::new(value)))
+                        .map_err(|error| arg_coercion_mismatch(&function_name, idx, error)),
@@
-                BexCallArg::Provided(arg) => self.convert_external_to_vm_value_with_ty(
-                    &mut thread,
-                    *arg,
-                    param_types.get(idx + self_offset),
-                )?,
+                BexCallArg::Provided(arg) => self
+                    .convert_external_to_vm_value_with_ty(
+                        &mut thread,
+                        *arg,
+                        param_types.get(idx + self_offset),
+                    )
+                    .map_err(|error| arg_coercion_mismatch(&function_name, idx, error))?,

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