feat: global variables (top-level `const`) by rossirpaulo · Pull Request #5325 · BoundaryML/baml

rossirpaulo · 2026-10-20T12:12:08Z

Summary

BAML now has global variables: a file-scope const declares one.

/// How many times to retry.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;
const NAMES: string[] = ["ada", "grace"];
const GREETING = `hello, ${NAMES[0]}`;     // reads other globals
const DOUBLED = double(MAX_RETRIES);        // calls functions; forward references are fine

function retries_left(used: int) -> int {
    MAX_RETRIES - used                     // visible from every body in the namespace
}

A global is evaluated once, at startup, by the package's $init, in dependency order. It is reachable bare from its own namespace and, like any item, as root.ns.NAME or dep.ns.NAME from anywhere else, including from a Session mounting the package (app.NAME).

A top-level let is an error (E0010, pointing at the keyword): let declares a reassignable binding, which only a body has, while a global cannot be reassigned. The binding still lowers as the global it names, so its readers resolve and the error is reported once, with no cascade. Inside a body, const is unchanged: an alias for let with its existing warning.

The $init pipeline already existed for client X = …, but every layer assumed only clients and sessions produced top-level bindings, and several of those assumptions break once users write their own.

Semantics


Shape	One name, optionally annotated: `const NAME = value;` / `const NAME: Type = value;`. Destructuring, `_`, alias chains and `const … else` are refused at file scope. A top-level `let` is an error.
Type	The annotation, which the initializer is checked against; otherwise the initializer's type, widened as at any binding site (`const N = 5` is `int`). One definition, `globals::global_value_type`, serves both in-package reads and the package interface.
Scope / shadowing	Value namespace of the file's namespace (E0011 on duplicates). Locals, parameters and lambda parameters shadow globals. A type's statics and enum variants win over a global root, so `float.nan` stays the static even beside a global named `float`. A global named like a package is an item of its namespace, so it shadows that package there, as any item does (#4543). `root` is reserved (E0176), as for every name.
Mutability	The binding is immutable (`X = v`, `X += v` → E0179). What it holds is an ordinary heap value shared by every call (`X.field = v`, `X.push(…)`), like a JS `const`. Concurrent mutation is memory-safe through the existing container locks and atomic field slots.
Initialization order	Go's rule. A global depends on another when its initializer refers to it lexically (lambda bodies included), or refers to a same-package function, method or parameter default whose body does, transitively. References come from inference's resolution tables, not from spellings. Independent globals run in source order (file path, then position), independent of file load order. Cycles are E0181, reported once with the chain (`A → helper → B → A`).
Initializer rules	No io (E0163, existing), no `spawn`/`await` (E0182), no top-level `return` (E0180). A throw nothing catches is a warning (E0183), because it would stop the program from starting.

Pre-existing bugs that globals would have exposed

Each of these was reproduced on canary before being fixed:

Assigning to a top-level binding crashed the compiler. C = … on a client passed the checker, then emit failed with an internal error ("TIR should have rejected this program"). C.field = v silently stored into a null temp. Both are fixed: E0179 for the binding, and MIR now loads the global before storing a field.
The $init order matched names. topological_sort_lets treated any single-segment path ending in .name as an edge. Shadowing locals created false cycles (reported as an internal compiler error), and dependencies through function calls were missed, so an initializer could read another global's null placeholder. It is replaced by the semantic analysis in baml_compiler2_hir_ty::globals.
Qualified references to a top-level binding didn't resolve (other.MyClient.model gave E0003). TIR now records the binding in InferenceResult::global_roots, and MIR lowers the path as the bare global.
$init aborted on an early yield. Allocation pressure (32 MiB), or wasm's periodic poll, made engine creation fail, so any moderately heavy initializer broke the playground. $init now resumes; there is nothing to park for, since no collector exists yet. A test confirms the failure without the fix.
$init failures were opaque: uncaught throw: Object(HeapPtr(0x…)), or a full VM-state Debug dump for spawn. They now name the global, render the thrown value, and include the BAML traceback.
Method calls on a global typed as bound-method values, so generic methods with turbofish failed (PKG.get_function<F>(…)). They now type like local receivers.

Reflection and sessions

Package interfaces export globals with their types (PackageInterface::values, ExternLetLoc). A served or mounted package's global is read as an import of the slot its own $init filled.
Tested in the corpus: a Session reads app.global_variables.X; Package.compile of source with globals initializes them in order; a throwing initializer in a compiled package reaches the caller as a catchable error; Package.current() and reflect.Type values held in globals work.
Reflection over globals (reflect.Package.globals(), get_global<T>, find_global<T>, clients included) is in the stacked PR feat(reflect): list and look up a package's globals #5361, to keep this PR's public API surface unchanged.

Runtime safety net

The static order cannot see a global read through a virtual interface call or a function value. During $init only, the VM tracks which global slots are still pending (BexVm::pending_globals), and a LoadGlobal of one fails with "global user.X was read before its initializer ran", naming the global being initialized. Post-$init VMs pay one None check.

Tooling

IDE: hover shows const NAME: Type with /// docs (locals still show let). Goto-definition and find-references follow root.ns.X and dep.X and skip shadowing locals (references are now confirmed through symbol_at, which also fixes a local let named like an item being counted as a reference to it). Hover, goto, references and member completion work inside initializers, because the IDE paths are keyed on body owners rather than functions. Unannotated globals get inlay type hints, globals are readonly semantic tokens, and baml describe finds globals and clients and renders a global's shape as const NAME: Type. Top-level completion offers a const ${1:name} = $0; snippet in place of let.
Formatter: top-level bindings are formatted (they were printed verbatim). Adjacent globals stay grouped; author blank lines are kept, collapsed to one. The keyword is kept as written: the formatter does not rewrite a top-level let to const.
Docs: ARCHITECTURE.md, keyword docs (let covers locals; const declares a global at file scope and behaves like let in a body), the baml-core agent skill, the bex_heap README safety invariant, and a website lesson whose example made an LLM call in a global initializer (now E0163).

Testing

Runtime corpus, baml_src/ns_global_variables: 22 tests covering annotations, dependency order (including through helpers and parameter defaults), shadowing (including a global named like a package), shared mutation, qualified access across namespaces (including a qualified global inside a tagged template), sessions, compiled packages, reflection values, spawn and generic methods. The full corpus passes: 5679 passed, 2 tolerated failures that are pre-existing.
Compile-error projects: global_variable_declarations, global_variable_initializers and global_variable_assignment replace top_level_let. global_variable_declarations includes a rejected top-level let that a function still reads, showing the single error without a cascade.
Engine-level tests (tests/global_variables.rs): startup failure messages, the uninitialized-read check, allocation pressure during $init (verified to fail without the fix), source-order init independent of file load order, dependency-package globals, and a namespaced global's failure named in full.
IDE (13 tests, plus the top-level completion test, which now checks the const snippet and the absence of let) and formatter (6 tests, including one that a top-level let keeps its keyword).
Suites run locally on the branch merged with canary (5e9826d29):
- baml_tests: 1142/1142, with --unreferenced=reject clean.
- Runtime corpus through baml_cli (baml_corpus): 2/2. Run directly with baml-cli test, that is 5679 passed and 2 tolerated failures. The 2 are intentional test_runners fixtures.
- baml_compiler2_ast + baml_fmt: 250/250.
- baml_ide: 330/330.
- baml_compiler2_hir_ty + baml_lsp + baml_lsp_server: 323/323.
- baml_compiler2_hir + baml_compiler2_mir + baml_compiler2_emit: 83/83.
- baml_db: 63/63. baml_builtins2: 6/6 (parses the keyword docs).
- bex_engine + bex_vm + bex_heap + bex_vm_types: 934/934.
- baml_cli run_command tests: 41/41. The rest of baml_cli wasn't re-run. feedback_auth_e2e needs Apple Keychain access, which the sandbox doesn't have.
- Workspace clippy, run as in CI, is clean except sdk_test_codegen, which has a pre-existing println! lint unrelated to this change. cargo fmt --check is clean.

Review notes

Diagnostics changed in existing projects: init_io_reachable is unchanged (io takes priority over suspension when one call reaches both). top_level_let is removed; its case, a rejected top-level let, is now in global_variable_declarations.
The keyword is read from the CST. lower_top_level_let finds the statement's first let/const token. The parser nests it inside the pattern node for most shapes, so the body-level const warning is told to skip that one token. Nested introducers, such as an alias chain's, still get the warning. Session.eval bindings and client declarations are unchanged.
Merged with canary (merge commit c5c611edc), adapting the branch to canary's changes:
- FunctionIdentity::InitLet carries the global's ItemPath instead of an ordinal. It renders as $init_let.<pkg>.<ns>.<name>, so $init failures still name the global. This changes the shape of a serialized function identity.
- Global paths are read through canary's PathHead, the same way functions are. A child namespace's global is root.ns.X from its parent; the relative ns.X form no longer resolves.
- The test-registry shadowing fix is canary's own (" __registry"), so this PR no longer renames that parameter.
- A top-level let type keeps its own error, renamed TopLevelLetType, with a message about let type rather than top-level let.
- Canary made void an alias for null and stopped reserving baml, so global_variable_declarations now tests a global named root and has no void case.
Review of the merge (commit 234cbf889): an independent review of the merge found no dropped intent but some cleanup, all addressed here:
- A qualified global inside a tagged template (root.ns.name) was lowered as the template's same-named body parameter; MIR now skips name lookups for paths the checker resolved to a global. The new corpus test failed before the fix.
- ResolvedValue::ExternalLet: both resolve_value implementations answer a served package's exported global, so global_root is a prefix walk over resolve_value rather than a second lookup.
- One record of how many path segments name a global (GlobalRoot.segments), read through InferenceResult::path_segment_at_written; ResolvedPath.root_len is gone.
- The $init_let naming scheme is defined once in bex_vm_types (init_let_helper_name / init_let_helper_global), used by the function identity, emit's operand metadata and the engine.
- MIR's name-based global fallback was never reached across the corpus and every affected suite (checked with a temporary panic), so it is removed.
- A telemetry file the merge committed by accident is removed, and docs and comments follow canary's naming rules.
Unrelated test fix (commit b15eed4a2): bex_engine's telemetry failure_tests passed an empty folder to its fake recording writer, so telemetry's blob store wrote into crates/bex_engine/cas/, inside the source tree, on every run since shutdown GC pauses started being recorded (feat(telemetry): record GC pauses as baml.gc root spans #5167). That is how a blob got into this branch's merge. The tests now use a temp folder; what they check is unchanged.
Kind labels are unchanged. DefinitionKind::Let still prints as let in E0011 ("defined 2 times as: let, function") and in baml describe listings and JSON kind fields. Only the surface syntax changes here.
E0183 is a warning on purpose. Stdlib client constructors validate their arguments (ai.RoundRobin throws InvalidRequest, Vertex throws ParseError), so an error would have rejected valid clients. Clients and session bindings are exempt.
Unannotated globals in a type cycle no longer get the order-dependent "type inference failed; write the type explicitly" error. Every such cycle is also an initialization cycle, which is reported deterministically as E0181. Clients and session bindings keep the old behavior.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added file-scope const globals with optional type annotations, namespace support, shared mutable contents, and cross-package access.
- Globals initialize once at startup in dependency order, with support for forward references and clear cycle or read-before-initialization errors.
- Added editor support for global hover information, navigation, references, completions, readonly highlighting, and inferred type hints.
Bug Fixes
- Improved diagnostics for invalid declarations, reassignment, unsupported initializer effects, uncaught errors, and returns.
Documentation
- Updated language, skills, and website documentation with global-variable behavior and restrictions.

A file-scope `let` declares a global variable: `let NAME = value;` or `let NAME: Type = value;`. Globals are evaluated once, by the package's `$init`, in dependency order, and are visible from every body in their namespace (`ns.NAME` / `root.ns.NAME` / `dep.NAME` elsewhere). Language - One named binding, optionally annotated; destructuring, `_`, alias chains and `let … else` are refused at file scope. The annotation is the binding's type (initializer checked against it); otherwise the initializer's widened type. `const` is accepted and means `let`. - Locals, parameters and lambda parameters shadow globals. Package, static and enum-variant paths win over a global root; `baml` is reserved (E0176). - The binding is immutable (E0179, also fixes an internal compiler error when assigning to a client); its contents are shared and mutable. - Initializers cannot perform io (E0163), `spawn`/`await` (E0182), or `return` (E0180); an uncaught throw is a warning (E0183). - Initialization order follows Go's rule: lexical references, transitively through same-package functions, methods and parameter defaults, from inference's resolution tables. Ties run in source order (file path, then position). Cycles are E0181. Replaces the name-matching sort, which got shadowing, namespaces and calls wrong. Compiler - Qualified global paths resolve in TIR (recorded as `global_roots`) and lower in MIR as the bare global; method calls on globals type through the call so turbofish and generic methods work; `G.f = v` loads the global instead of storing into a null temp. - Package interfaces export globals with their types, so mounted packages and Sessions read `app.NAME`. - The synthetic test collector parameter is `$registry`, so a function or global named `registry` is reachable from tests. Runtime - `$init` resumes past an early yield (allocation pressure, wasm polling) instead of failing engine creation. - `$init` failures name the global, render the thrown value, and include the traceback; a read of a global whose initializer has not run yet (through a call the static order cannot see) is reported by name. Tooling - Hover shows `let NAME: Type` with docs; goto/references/rename follow qualified spellings and skip shadowing locals; hover, goto, references and completion work inside initializers; inlay hints for unannotated globals; globals are `readonly` semantic tokens; `baml describe` finds globals. - The formatter formats top-level lets and keeps adjacent globals grouped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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This change adds file-scope const globals with annotations, dependency-ordered initialization, package exports, runtime checks for reads before initialization, compiler diagnostics, IDE support, formatting, documentation, and tests.

Changes: Global variable implementation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Declaration and type handling `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_ast/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/lower.rs`	Top-level bindings retain annotations and docstrings. Shared lowering reports invalid top-level `let` forms and supports global `const` declarations.
Global inference and initialization analysis `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/{globals,infer,init_io,diagnostics}.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_db/src/check.rs`	Inference resolves global roots and types. Initialization analysis plans dependencies and reports cycles, disallowed effects, uncaught throws, assignments, and returns.
Package exports and code generation `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/package_interface.rs`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_emit/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_mir/`	Package interfaces include exported global values. Compiler lowering resolves local and external globals. Initializer helpers use binding paths instead of ordinals.
Runtime initialization `baml_language/crates/bex_engine/`, `baml_language/crates/bex_vm/`, `baml_language/crates/bex_vm_types/*`	The engine and VM track pending global slots during `$init`. Reads from pending slots produce `GlobalReadBeforeInit`. Initialization errors include global and traceback context.
IDE, formatting, documentation, and tests `baml_language/crates/baml_ide/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_fmt/`, `baml_language/crates/baml_tests/*`, `baml_language/ARCHITECTURE.md`	IDE queries, formatting, documentation, fixtures, and integration tests cover global declarations, resolution, initialization, package access, and diagnostics.

Priority: ⚪ Pending latest changes

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GlobalAnalysis
  participant PackageEmitter
  participant BexEngine
  participant BexVm
  GlobalAnalysis->>PackageEmitter: Initialization plan and dependency order
  PackageEmitter->>BexEngine: Package $init functions
  BexEngine->>BexVm: Pending global slots
  BexVm->>BexEngine: GlobalReadBeforeInit or initializer result

Suggested reviewers: 2kai2kai2, sxlijin

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b15ee

Globals now persist across calls and cross package boundaries. Normal startup has ordering and readiness protections, but runtime-compiled packages do not receive equivalent protection against reading an uninitialized global. No privilege escalation or cross-tenant compromise was verified.

Retained concerns

Medium · reliability · inferred: Runtime-compiled packages bypass the new read-before-initialization protection. Their global cells start as null, but LoadGlobal checks pending readiness only for non-runtime packages. Because virtual and indirect reads are intentionally outside the static dependency analysis, an initializer can read a later global without triggering the intended failure. The existing virtual-dispatch example can therefore propagate a placeholder into a typed global on this path, undermining initialization failure containment. Package completion marks the package initialized without checking individual value readiness. This outcome is inferred from source, not execution; the loader behavior predates the PR, but ordinary typed source globals were previously rejected.

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Security Blast Radius

observed — A global's mutable contents are shared by every call in its engine, and exported values are reachable by dependent packages and mounted Sessions. This is engine/package-owned state, not request-local state; the available evidence does not establish tenant partitioning or deployment-wide exposure.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Dependency global resolution remains interface-mediated. Runtime Package compilation consumes its artifact once, validates pinned dependencies, creates a package-owned image, and returns its wrapper only after the initializer continuation succeeds. These controls preserve ordinary ownership and successful-return ordering, but do not supply per-global readiness checks.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

observed — Session evaluation has a distinct prefix-commit lifecycle: declarations are published before initializer actions, successful actions commit individually, and continuation cleanup releases the evaluation lease. These runtime paths are unchanged by the full PR comparison; their unresolved failure reachability is not treated as a newly introduced vulnerability.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Use package-owned, per-global readiness tracking for runtime compilation as well as ordinary startup, with explicit failure and cancellation transitions. Preserve the separate, intentional Session commit model rather than assuming that a package-level initialized flag protects individual reads.

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A file-scope `const NAME = value;` (or `const NAME: Type = value;`) now declares a global, with the semantics top-level `let` had. A top-level `let` is an error that points at the keyword; the binding still lowers as the global it names, so its readers resolve instead of cascading. `lower_top_level_let` reads the introducer token from the LET_STMT and the body-level `const` warning skips that token, replacing the `TopLevelConstIntroducer` remap. Session bindings, `client` declarations and body-level `const` are unchanged. Hover and `baml describe` render a global as `const NAME: T`, top-level completion offers a `const` snippet, and the formatter still keeps the keyword as written. Docs, corpus, diagnostic projects and tests use `const`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

Resolves conflicts with 75 canary commits: - Test registry: canary's `" __registry"` (#5254) fixes the same shadowing bug, so the branch's `$registry` constant is dropped. - Init helpers: `FunctionIdentity::InitLet` now carries the global's `ItemPath` instead of an ordinal and renders `$init_let.<pkg>.<ns>.<name>`, so `$init` failures still name the global. - `global_link_name` becomes `global_display_name`, following canary's link-name to display-name rename. - `global_root` reads canary's `PathHead`: a plain path names a global of the current namespace, a package head `root.ns.x` / `dep.x`. Corpus and IDE tests spell child-namespace globals `root.global_variables.settings.X` / `root.settings.X`, as canary requires for every item. - MIR uses `InferenceTables::of(InferenceRoot)`; `with_bare_global_paths` rebuilds `baml_base::Path` keeping its origin. - `ReturnInGlobalInitializer` takes canary's `return` location. - The VM's pending-globals check uses canary's hoisted `runtime_package`. - `TopLevelLetNotSupported` is restored for top-level `let type`. - The void-annotation check and reserved-`baml` binding check are gone on canary; `global_variable_declarations` now tests a global named `root` (E0176) and drops its `void` case. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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🟡 Minor · Wrap the annotation example in a function body. · everything.md:35-36

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Wrap the annotation example in a function body.

The updated Variables section says that a top-level let is an error. The "Annotating Variable Types" example on Line 35 and Line 36 still shows bare let statements with no enclosing function. A reader who copies this snippet into a file gets the new TopLevelLetIntroducer error. Put the example inside a function, or show the global form with const.
📝 Proposed fix
 ```baml
-let name: string = "Bammy";
-let r: int | string = someComplicatedFunction();
+// A global variable with a type annotation
+const name: string = "Bammy";
+
+function Example() {
+    // A local variable with a type annotation
+    let r: int | string = someComplicatedFunction();
+}
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Fixes: - Remove a telemetry CAS blob the merge committed by accident. - MIR: a qualified global inside a tagged template (`root.ns.name`) no longer lowers as the template's same-named body parameter. - `TopLevelLetNotSupported` is now `TopLevelLetType`, with a message about `let type` rather than top-level `let`. - Docs and comments follow canary's naming rules: globals elsewhere are `root.ns.NAME`, a global named like a package shadows it in its namespace (#4543), `root` (not `baml`) is reserved, and `$init_let` names include the namespace. - Delete an unreachable hover branch, a redundant block, and the `reject` calls that passed `""`. Follow-ups: - `ResolvedValue::ExternalLet`: both `resolve_value`s answer a served package's exported global, so `global_root` is a prefix walk over it. - One record of a global root's length: `GlobalRoot.segments`, read through `InferenceResult::path_segment_at_written`. - The `$init_let` naming scheme lives in `bex_vm_types` (`init_let_helper_name` / `init_let_helper_global`), and globals render through `LocalName::render_under`. - MIR's name-based global fallback was never reached across the corpus, baml_tests, and the runtime, LSP, IDE, MIR and emit suites; removed. - Tests: a global named like a package, a qualified global in a tagged template, and a namespaced global failing during `$init`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…ce tree `engine_with_writer` passed an empty path to `LocalDelivery::with_test_writer`. Its injected writer only covers recording files: telemetry's blob store (CAS) still writes real files under `<directory>/cas`, which an empty path makes the relative `cas/`, inside `crates/bex_engine` (where cargo runs the crate's tests). Since shutdown GC pauses are recorded (#5167), every run left a blob there, which is how one got committed in this branch's merge. The helper now takes the folder, and both tests pass a temp dir declared before the engine, so it outlives shutdown. What the tests check is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

Brings in #5320 (sdkgen_rust union variant naming). No conflicts and no files in common with this branch. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

The "Annotating Variable Types" example showed two bare top-level `let` lines right after the Variables section teaches `const` at file scope and `let` inside a function. Copied as written, it is now the "global variables are declared with `const`" error. Show the annotation on a `const` global and on a `let` local inside a function. Follow-up to #5325, from CodeRabbit's review of it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

## Summary Stacked on BoundaryML#5325 (global variables). Adds reflection over a package's globals to `reflect.Package`: ```baml let package = reflect.Package.current(); // Every global variable and `client` declaration, with its current value. for (let name in package.globals().keys()) { if (package.globals()[name] is ai.Client) { // discovered a client } } let retries = package.get_global<int>("config.MAX_RETRIES"); // throws NotFound / TypeMismatch let model = package.find_global<ai.Client>("Model"); // null for a missing name ``` | | | |---|---| | `globals()` | `map<string, unknown>`: the package's global variables **and `client` declarations**, keyed by package-local name (`root.ns.NAME`, as `functions()` and `classes()` key theirs), with their current values. | | `get_global<T>(name)` | The value as `T`. Throws `reflect.errors.NotFound` for a missing name, `reflect.errors.TypeMismatch` when the value is not a `T` (checked as `reflect.Class.get<T>` checks a field). The name may be written with or without `root.`. | | `find_global<T>(name)` | As `get_global`, but `null` for a missing name. | Scope is the package the method is called on (and, for a `with_types` view, the packages it re-exports, as `functions()` does), never the whole program. Each value is the global itself, shared with every reader, as reading the global directly is. ## Semantics worth reviewing - **Clients are globals here.** A `client X = …` declaration is the same top-level binding as a `const` global, so `globals()` lists both, and finding a package's clients is `globals()` plus an `is ai.Client` check. - **Reads during `$init`.** A lookup reads a global as `LoadGlobal` does. While `$init` runs, a global whose initializer has not run yet is the existing `GlobalReadBeforeInit` error from `get_global`/`find_global`, and `globals()` leaves it out instead of listing the placeholder. The check is one helper, `BexVm::global_is_pending`, which `LoadGlobal` now uses too. A lookup by name is no edge the static init order can follow, so this runtime check is what catches it. - **Values, not types.** `globals()` returns values rather than declared types: a package's runtime tables carry no per-global type, and values are what discovery needs. ## Testing - **Corpus** (`baml_src/ns_global_variables/ns_reflection`, 8 tests): listing globals and clients, client discovery by value, `get_global`/`find_global` (with and without `root.`, nullable `T`, interface `T`), a missing name, a type mismatch, a value read through reflection being the global itself, and a `Package.compile` package's own globals. - **Engine** (`tests/global_variables.rs`, 2 tests): `get_global` of a global whose initializer has not run is reported by name; `globals()` during `$init` leaves it out. - **Suites run locally:** full corpus 5687 passed + 2 intentional tolerated failures; `baml_tests` 1144/1144 with `--unreferenced=reject` clean; `bex_vm` + `bex_vm_types` + `bex_heap` 431/431; `bex_engine` 503/503; IDE + LSP 486/486; `baml_builtins2` + `baml_db` 69/69; type checker + MIR + emit 240/240; `baml_cli` lib 421/421 and corpus runner 2/2. Workspace clippy as CI runs it is clean except the pre-existing `sdk_test_codegen` lint; `cargo fmt --check` is clean. - `baml describe reflect.Package`'s snapshot only shifts three line numbers (the stdlib file grew). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)   ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added reflection APIs to list package globals and clients. - Added typed lookup for individual globals, with clear handling for missing names and type mismatches. - Reflection now supports shared values, nullable globals, and globals from compiled packages. - Uninitialized globals are excluded from listings and report initialization errors when accessed. - **Documentation** - Documented global reflection capabilities and usage.  Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

…ndaryML#5364) ## Summary Follow-up to BoundaryML#5325, addressing CodeRabbit's review of it (an "outside diff range" note on `typescript2/app-website/lessons/everything.md`). The lesson's Variables section now teaches `const` for a global at file scope and `let` for a local inside a function. The "Annotating Variable Types" example right after it still showed two bare top-level `let` lines, which contradicts that and, copied as written, gives the new "global variables are declared with `const`" error. It now shows the annotation on a `const` global and on a `let` local inside a function: ```baml // A global variable with a type annotation const name: string = "Bammy"; function Example() { // A local variable with a type annotation let r: int | string = someComplicatedFunction(); } ``` Only this example changes. The lesson's other bare `let` snippets are fragments illustrating arrays, maps and loops rather than declarations, so they're left as they are. ## Notes - Docs only; nothing compiles the lesson's code blocks. - BoundaryML#5325 and BoundaryML#5361 have merged; this PR is based on `canary`. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

Canary's global variables (#5325) removed the session top-level-`let` value tier this branch refactored, and routes a method called on a global (which a session root binding now is) through `member_callee` itself, so its call plan records the owner prefix. That supersedes this branch's session-let checker change; the merge keeps canary's `infer.rs` plus only the impl-method call-plan hunk, and adds a test for a method on an alias-typed global. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

A session submission persists its root bindings as globals; a method on one (`k.join(".")` where `k` holds a `Key`) must run with the frame of the type the alias names. Canary's global variables (#5325) route such a call through `member_callee`, so its call plan records the owner prefix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

Canary's top-level `const` globals (#5325) are path roots that are not locals. `SETTINGS.retries = 2` is a real store, and `LIMIT = 4` already reports `AssignmentToGlobal`, so the not-a-variable check now skips any path recorded in `global_roots`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

Make code blocks like this work: ```baml type Key = string[] function j(k: Key) -> string { k.join(".") } ``` This fails on `canary` today because `k`'s type is, syntactically`, `Key`, and although alias simplification reduces this to `string[]` at runtime, the bytecode did not know that the alias' underlying generic was bound to `string`. We now fix the MIR to bytecode lowering to request this information from the TIR call plans, instead of re-implementing it in MIR lowering. Fixes [B-1872](https://linear.app/boundaryml2/issue/B-1872/join-on-an-alias-typed-array-is-a-vm-internal-error). ## Bug ```baml type Key = string[] function j(k: Key) -> string { k.join(".") } ``` `j(["a", "b"])` fails at runtime inside `baml.Array.join`: ``` VM internal error: could not realize type template: template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args ``` It isn't specific to `join` or to arrays. It hits any BAML-bodied method on a generic owner reached through a receiver whose static type isn't literally a class, list or map: | Receiver | Before | After | |---|---|---| | `k: Key` (`type Key = string[]`), `k.join(".")` | VM internal error | `a.b` | | alias of an alias (`type KeyAlias = Key`) | VM internal error | ok | | optional alias (`k?.join(".")` on `Key \| null`) | VM internal error | ok | | alias-typed field (`h.key.join(".")`) | VM internal error | ok | | user class alias (`type IntBox = Box<int>`, `b.kind()`) | VM internal error | `int` | | ...plus the method's own generics (`b.tagged("x")`) | VM internal error (slot 1 of 1) | `int+string` | | method taken as a value, `let f = xs.join; f(".")`, plain `string[]` too | VM internal error | `a.b` | | alias-typed `reflect.Session` let, `k.join(".")` | VM internal error | `a.b` | Native methods (`map`, `includes`, …) never read their frame, which is why only `join` showed it in the ticket. ## Root cause A method called through a value is lowered as a direct call. The owner's class arguments (`T` of `Array<T>`) go in front of the method's own type args to seed `frame.type_args`. `callee_owner_prefix` in MIR lowering *re-derived* those class arguments from the receiver's static type by matching its head: `Ty::Class`, `Ty::List` (for `baml.Array` methods) or `Ty::Map`. The receiver type keeps aliases as `Ty::TypeAlias`, so `Key`, `IntBox`, `Key | null` (even after `strip_null`) and `Future<V, E>` (already flagged by a `BUG:` comment there) all matched nothing and seeded an empty frame. The checker already solves the owner frame against the receiver, seeing through aliases, and records it on the call's plan (`plan.type_args`, with the first `own_offset` entries being the owner prefix). `callee_owner_prefix` was already `#[deprecated]` (since BoundaryML#4966) for exactly this: "partial sources of one fact. Superseded once the call plan carries the whole frame of every statically resolved callee and call lowering reads it." ## Fix: read the owner frame from the call plan - **`baml_compiler2_mir`**: `callee_owner_prefix` is replaced by `call_plan_owner_prefix`, which reads the plan's owner prefix for every direct call: methods through a value, statics through a qualifier, and impl methods. The `has_value_receiver` / `carried_owner_frame` bookkeeping in call lowering is gone. Virtual calls still take no prefix, since their dispatcher supplies the frame. Lowering also checks that the plan instantiates exactly the callee's declared frame (`callable_generic_frame(..).params.len()`) and reports a mismatch as an internal lowering error at compile time, not a VM crash inside the callee. - **`baml_compiler2_hir_ty`**: a matched impl method with no generics of its own had its frame only on the member resolution (`Concrete { frame_type_args }`). It's now also written as the plan's owner prefix, so the plan is the single source for impl methods too. - A second gap, methods on a `reflect.Session` top-level `let` root (`v.join("-")` in a later submission), resolved their callee through the value road, which never writes the call's instantiation. An earlier commit here fixed it; canary's global variables (BoundaryML#5325) since rewrote that code and routes a method on a global through `member_callee` itself. The merge keeps canary's version, and the session test here still covers it. - **`bex_vm`**: the runtime analogue for method *values*. `MakeBoundMethod` curried class args only from a class instance, so an array or map receiver bound with an empty frame. It now curries an array's `[T]` / a map's `[K, V]` from the container's `element_ty` / `key_ty`/`value_ty`, exact for the same reason as instances: `MakeBoundMethod`'s only callees are class-inherent methods. ### Is the plan a safe single source? Before switching, I instrumented the old function to log, for every direct call, any difference between what it emitted and the plan's owner prefix, plus any plan whose length differs from the callee's declared frame. I ran the full `baml_tests` corpus (42,450 calls, including session tests against the precompiled stdlib): - The carried impl frame never reached this path: impl-method calls on a value are routed to interface dispatch earlier. The checker change makes the plan correct for them anyway. - Statics with nothing pinned record the whole frame as the call's own arguments (`own_offset = 0`). Prefix plus suffix is still the full frame, so emission is unchanged. - The only frame-width mismatches were 4 virtual (`to_string`, `hash`) calls, whose frame the dispatcher supplies; they're excluded. The width check catches the session-`let` gap on its own. Built with this PR's `lower.rs` and canary's checker, the session case fails at compile time with ``the call plan of `join` instantiates 0 frame slot(s), but its frame has 1``. ## Tests New `baml_tests/baml_src/ns_alias_receivers/alias_receivers.baml`: one test per row of the table above, plus an alias-typed session `let`, an alias-typed global (`const GLOBAL_KEY: Key`), and impl methods (with and without their own generics) reached through `type IntBox = Box<int>`. The 8 table tests fail with a VM internal error when built from canary's `lower.rs`/`vm.rs`. The full runtime corpus passes locally (`baml-cli test --from crates/baml_tests/baml_src`: 5698 passed after merging canary, 2 deliberate tolerated failures). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)   ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Bug Fixes** - Improved method calls through type aliases, including arrays, optional values, and generic classes. - Preserved receiver type information for methods on arrays, maps, and generic class instances. - Improved support for methods used as values, interface implementations, and methods with generic parameters. - Bound methods now retain the correct element, key, value, and class type arguments. - Improved method calls on global and session-local values, including aliased receivers.  --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>

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feat(reflect): list and look up a package's globals #5361

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docs(lessons): annotate a global with const and a local with let #5364

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fix: correctly resolve instance methods on aliases #5358

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Cleanup & groundwork for heap hardening #5423

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feat: global variables (top-level `const`) - #5325

feat: global variables (top-level `const`)#5325
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Pre-existing bugs that globals would have exposed

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