Pattern and error handling bugfixes by 2kai2kai2 · Pull Request #5178 · BoundaryML/baml

2kai2kai2 · 2026-10-06T22:31:42Z

Based on the compiler bugfixes from #5130 and cherrypicks some of its commits. Will be followed up by two other PRs taking sections of the same PR.

This PR takes three of the compiler fixes. Each one is the commit from #5130 followed by a commit that reworks how it was done.

Catch-all `match` bindings take the type the earlier arms left

Previously a bare binding in a catch-all arm had the full scrutinee type, even though the scrutinee itself was already narrowed in that arm.

function describe(item: A | B | null) -> string {
    match (item) {
        null => "none",
        let a: A => "a",
        let rest => rest.b, // previously E0007: `rest` was `A | B | null`
    }
}

This also covers scrutinees that are not a local (match (self.hook) { null => ..., let hook => hook(n) } was E0006). Guarded arms and arms with field constraints subtract nothing, as before.

#5130 did this with a second walk that overwrote the recorded type. Here the wildcard and bare-binding cases of lower_pattern take what reaches the arm directly, so there is one place that decides it. As a result the alternatives of an or-pattern get it too: (let rest: B) | (let rest) after arms for null and A used to be a binding type conflict.

The right operand of `&&` / `||` is typed with the left operand's facts

x is A && x.a == 1
!(x is A) || x.a == 1
s != null && s.length() > 0   // all previously E0007

Only a local that no closure captures is narrowed, same as everywhere else. A field path or index path is still not narrowed since it is read a second time.

#5130 computed the facts in a second pass over the condition, which re-lowered every is pattern and replayed narrowing but not assignments. The walk that types a tested expression now returns its facts (infer_test), and if, while, match guards, &&/|| and ! all use that. This fixes a false error that the second pass had:

if (x is A && ({ x = other; true } && x is B)) { ... } // was "expected `A`, found `B`"

It also closes two holes that were already on canary, where a fact from the left operand survived a reassignment in the right operand:

if (x is A && { x = other; true }) { x.a } // was accepted

A test that the left operand already decides is now dead code. x is A && match (x) { A => true, _ => false } reports the unreachable arm, and if (x is A && x is B) is an error.

`catch` sees the errors of a function value

Previously a catch after a call that takes a function value (not a lambda written at the call) saw never for the callee's effect parameter.

function relay<T, E>(body: () -> T throws E) -> T throws E { body() }

function f(body: () -> int throws string) -> int throws never {
    relay(body) catch (e) { baml.errors.Timeout => 0 } // previously accepted
}

Reading the caught value in that state ended in VM internal error: could not realize type template.

The commit from #5130 resolves the effect variable from its own bounds at the catch. That did not cover a value that arrives through another generic call (relay(ident(body))), where the evidence sits on the other call's type variable instead. The catch now runs one round of the finish fixpoint for the classes that name the effect's variables.

Known gap: run2(a, b) where two function values with unrelated throws share one type parameter still erases with no diagnostic, with or without a catch.

Not included

The Color.Red.to_string() fix from #5130. That should be done as part of path head resolution rather than as extra callee tiers.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- match catch-all bindings now reflect the types left over after earlier unguarded arms.
- Type narrowing now applies across short-circuit conditions, including the right side of && and ||, for eligible local variables and parameters.
Bug Fixes
- Sleep failures during retries and test polling now propagate instead of being ignored.
- Sleep delays of zero or less do not wait; positive delays are handled consistently across supported runtimes.
Documentation
- Expanded guidance on pattern matching, type narrowing, and short-circuit behavior.

…r arms left In a match, the scrutinee's own binding already read as the residual in a catch-all arm (B-774), but the arm's own binding was lowered against the whole scrutinee type. So 'null => .., let hook => hook(n)' was E0006 for an optional function type, and 'let rest => rest.b' was E0007 after arms for null and A. The defect was general: parameter, local, field path, string, class and function type. infer_match now records the residual as the type of an arm pattern that writes no type of its own: '_', a bare binding, and a chain of bare bindings. The matrix row of the arm does not change, a guarded arm subtracts nothing, and a pattern that writes a type keeps it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 55f4d29)

…operand's facts x is A && x.a == 1, !(x is A) || x.a == 1 and the null guard s != null && s.length() > 0 did not compile (E0007): the type checker typed both operands of && and || in the same flow environment, and only the body of an if or while got the facts of the test. The operators short-circuit, so the right operand is now typed with the left operand's facts (true facts for &&, false facts for ||), and the overlay from before the operand comes back after it. A binding that the right operand assigns keeps no fact from the left one. The facts of the whole expression still come from condition_facts, which derives the right operand's facts under the left operand's facts too. Only a bare local binding that no closure captures is narrowed, as before. BAML tasks can interleave between statements, so a captured local, a field path and an index path are never narrowed: another task or an alias can change them between the test and the read. TYPE_SYSTEM.md gets a Flow Narrowing section that states the rule and the reason. A test that the left operand already decides is dead code, as an unreachable match arm is: value is Bound && match value { Bound => true, _ => false } now reports the unreachable arm. One MIR test changes the order of its operands for that reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 054ba29)

The previous commit cherrypicked from #5130 used a second pass to re-derive and re-lower stuff in order to make the short-circuit `||`/`&&` narrow. That was bad so has been replaced with a more general system that works across different narrowing structures instead of just `||`/`&&`

…the errors of the value For `F<T, E>(body: () -> T throws E)` called with a function VALUE (a parameter, not a lambda written at the call), the throws of the value sit under `E` as a bound, and only the finish fixpoint turns the bound into the solution. A `catch` looked at the effect of the call before that, found an open variable, and dropped the whole effect to `never`: also the facts beside the variable, such as the `baml.errors.Timeout` of `baml.future.with_timeout(limit, body)`. So the caught value had the type `never`, a `throws never` around such a catch was accepted, and since the implicit ToString interface (#5105) `error.to_string()` on that value ended at run time with "VM internal error: could not realize type template". That error also ended a whole `baml test` run. A catch is a demand for the facts of the effect, so it now commits the open effect variables from their bounds, as a match scrutinee does (force_occurring_vars). A variable with no evidence is still `never`, but it drops out alone and the known facts of the union stay. Found in a production project: a generic wrapper of with_timeout that turns every error of its body into a value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> (cherry picked from commit 6e983f3)

The previous commit cherrypicked from #5130 only resolved an effect from its own bounds, so `run(ident(thrower)) catch ...` still saw `never` (the evidence sits on `ident`'s type variable instead). We now run one round of the finish fixpoint at the catch for the classes that name the effect's variables. `run2(a, b)` with two unrelated throws on one type parameter is still broken and has a `// BUG:` note.

Previously `sleep` declared `throws baml.errors.Io`, but its only error sites were checks that its argument was a well-formed `Duration`, which the type system already guarantees. That meant anything that slept had to catch or declare an `Io` that could never happen, including a custom `ai.Client` (which was the actual complaint behind I43 in #5130). `sleep` is now a plain function that unwraps the duration and calls an internal `_sleep(delay_nanos)` op, the same way the net and http timeouts already work, so the providers no longer decode a `Duration` by hand and the checks are gone. Zero or negative still does not wait. This is breaking for code that annotated a sleeping spawn as `Future<T, baml.errors.Io>`: the error type is now `never`. Fixed the corpus and the concurrency listing in the book, and removed the `catch`es around `sleep` in the stdlib which were catching nothing.

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The changes update compiler typing for match catch-all bindings, flow narrowing, and caught effects. They also change the sleep system operation to accept nanoseconds and revise how sleep errors propagate through callers and tests.

Changes

Match Residual Bindings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Residual types for catch-all bindings `baml_language/TYPE_SYSTEM.md`, `baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/keyword_docs/baml_keywords.yaml`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/pat.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_match_catch_all_residual/*`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/type_spec/fixtures/match_catch_all_binding_takes_residual.baml`	Pattern lowering gives bare catch-all bindings the type remaining after earlier unguarded arms. Documentation and fixtures cover nullable values, unions, guarded arms, or-patterns, and binding chains.

Short-Circuit Flow Narrowing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Flow facts during expression inference `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/flow.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/pat.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/truthy.rs`	Condition inference returns flow facts as expressions are typed. The right operand of `&&` and `
Narrowing rules and validation `baml_language/TYPE_SYSTEM.md`, `baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/keyword_docs/baml_keywords.yaml`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/README.md`, `skills/baml-core/SKILL.md`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_short_circuit_narrowing/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/projects/diagnostic_errors/short_circuit_narrowing/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/type_spec/fixtures/short_circuit_narrows_right_operand.baml`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/src/compiler2_mir/mod.rs`	Documentation describes supported narrowing contexts and excludes captured locals, fields, and indexes. Fixtures cover operators, guards, early exits, loops, assignments, and cases that remain diagnostics.

Caught Effects for Function Values

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Caught-effect resolution and cases `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/projects/diagnostic_errors/catch_function_value_effects/*`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_with_timeout/with_timeout.baml`	Caught-effect finalization now resolves relevant bounded variables in repeated passes. Diagnostic and timeout fixtures cover function values, declared and unknown errors, and generic pass-through calls.

Sleep System Operation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Nanosecond sleep interface and backends `baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/baml/ns_sys/sys.baml`, `baml_language/crates/sys_ops/src/lib.rs`, `baml_language/crates/sys_native/src/io_impls.rs`, `baml_language/crates/bridge_wasm/src/wasm_sys.rs`, `baml_language/crates/bex_engine/src/completion_tests.rs`	The public `sleep` wrapper converts a duration to nanoseconds and calls `_sleep`. Sys-op wiring and native and WebAssembly implementations use the new nanosecond argument.
Sleep error propagation and callers `baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/ai/ns_clients/clients.baml`, `baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/testing/registry.baml`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_`, `typescript2/app-developer-docs/content/code/projects/listing-12-01/baml_src/`	Retry and test helpers no longer suppress sleep errors. Related tests and examples remove I/O error catches or update future error types.

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Change: Bug fix

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The documentation listing's test file will fail to compile because two array annotations still use the old sleep error type. Update both to Future<int, never>[] before merging.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The evidenced exposure is language-program compilation and timer behavior inherited by sleep callers, including client retries. The inspected timer dispatch retains its existing host owner; the evidence does not establish expanded credential, network, or tenant authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Narrowing remains restricted to semantic identities for uncaptured bare locals. Captured locals, field paths, and index paths are excluded, preserving the control against assuming repeated mutable reads have the same value.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Caught-effect finalization now forces and replays bounds before collecting error facts. A documented limitation remains: an unresolved effect with unrelated concrete lower bounds can become never. The base already discarded unresolved effects more broadly, so this limitation is not established as a new PR security regression; its authoritative union-versus-diagnostic behavior remains unresolved.

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proposed — For the pre-existing unresolved-effect limitation, distinguish genuinely empty effects from effects carrying concrete lower-bound evidence. An explicit union or diagnostic rule would preserve the error-handling guarantee without silently treating uncertainty as never.

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Update both future array error types.

baml.sys.sleep now declares throws never. The tasks pushed into attached and detached therefore produce Future<int, never>, but these arrays still require Future<int, baml.errors.Io>. Future's error parameter is invariant, so this documentation test cannot type-check. Change both annotations to Future<int, never>[]. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Second of three PRs taking sections of BoundaryML#5130, after BoundaryML#5178. This one takes the standard library fixes. Two of the commits are cherrypicked from it, and the rest are written fresh. ### Reflected tools can take structured arguments Previously `Tool.call` passed the model's arguments to `reflect.call_any` as they arrived. Those are parsed JSON, so a class was a map, an enum was a string and a list was a `json[]`, and `call_any` rejected all of them. A reflected tool only worked when every parameter was a scalar. ```baml class Zone { low: int, high: int } enum Kind { Garage, Commercial } function book(zone: Zone, kind: Kind, tags: string[]) -> string { ... } // the model sends {"zone": {"low": 1, "high": 2}, "kind": "Garage", "tags": ["a"]} ``` `Tool.call` now reads the parameters that were sent JSON as the fields of one runtime class and aligns the JSON to it, the same way any other model output is aligned. `@alias` and `@skip` therefore follow the names the tool schema shows. An argument that is already a value of its parameter type is passed through untouched, which is what BAML code calling a tool does. This adds `baml.sap.coerce<T>(value: json)`: schema-aligned parsing without its text stage, for a value that is already parsed. Unlike `parse<T>` it throws for a type the parser cannot model instead of panicking, since the type is often data here: ```baml type Declared = unreflect(param.type); let value = baml.sap.coerce<Declared>(sent); ``` BoundaryML#5130 wrote each argument out to JSON text and parsed it again with `baml.sap.parse_type`, behind a new `baml.sap.can_parse`. The arguments are already parsed, so nothing is written out here, and `unreflect` plus a `coerce` that throws replaces both functions. It also ran every argument through the text round trip, including one that was already typed (an `int` in a `float` slot became text and back). Tool arguments are as lenient as any other model output (`2.7` for an `int` is `3`). The tool schema is still built per parameter as in BoundaryML#5129. ### `call_any` uses the same membership check as `is` Previously `reflect.call_any` compared an argument at its base type, so `"manual"` did not fit a parameter typed `"auto" | "manual"` and `Kind.GARAGE` did not fit a parameter typed `Kind.GARAGE`, even though `value is ...` was true for both. `call_any` and `is` now ask one function. A variant value also reports its own variant type as its most precise type, the same way an int reports its literal. The literal case and its test are from BoundaryML#5130. The variant case is new. ### `Agent.run` gives `on_event` the events of a run that ends with an error This is the commit from BoundaryML#5130, unchanged. A turn is appended to the journal before it is judged, so when the judgment threw (`ParseFailed`, `FinishReasonError`, `Refused`), the listener never got that turn's events. `run` now delivers what the listener has not read before it rethrows. Known gap: a panic (cancellation included) does not pass through the error channel, so the listener still misses the tail of a run that ends that way. ### Tool order is pinned A provider's prompt cache covers the tool definitions, so the same declaration must render the same bytes. The test from BoundaryML#5130 asserts that every provider client lists tools in declaration order and that a tool schema lists parameters in the handler's order. That test sorted names by where they first appear in the request, with a missing name sorting first. Every expectation puts the first declared tool first, so a request that dropped it still passed. A missing name is now reported instead of ordered. I also pinned the orders the fixture set up but never asserted: class fields, enum variants and the `required` list.  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added a way to coerce existing JSON values into declared types, with clear errors when values cannot be aligned or types cannot be supported. * Reflected tools can align JSON arguments with handler parameter types before dispatch; raw tools continue to receive arguments directly. * **Bug Fixes** * Agent event listeners now receive journal entries recorded before a run fails. * Reflected calls now validate literal and enum-variant arguments against the declared parameter type.  --------- Co-authored-by: Aaron Villalpando <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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Catch-all match bindings take the type the earlier arms left

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