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Three fixes to what a recording and a stack trace say about a call.
Callback tasks start when they run. A callback a sys-op runs for its caller, such as a server's request handler, recorded its start at its completion, so its span lasted 0 ns. new_entry_thread now marks the thread running when it starts. Test: a_request_task_starts_running_before_its_handler_calls.
Stack traces keep functions called through function values. A function held as a typed function value dropped out of the stack trace with the line that threw. reflect.call_any calls functions this way, so every agent tool was affected. Frames now see through a generic-function value. Test: unknown_error_reflect_names_callee.
Failed spans record their error by default. A failed span said it failed but not with what, unless the call asked for error capture. A span that ends with a thrown error or a panic now records it. error has two states: false (as trace.empty_span passes) declines it, and null and true both record it. Fallback attempt spans stop declining their error.
A cancelled span records only that it was cancelled, even on request. A cancellation is not a failure of the span's own code, and baml.sys.exit unwinds every frame with the same value.
http_bodies = false in baml.toml records no error value on any span, since an error can quote a response body. It overrides the program's trace options and function policies; a failed span still records that it failed.
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Touches core telemetry completion and error-withholding paths plus stack-trace resolution for reflective calls; behavior changes are user-visible in recordings and error contexts.
Overview
Three observability fixes: when task spans start, what failed spans record, and who shows up in stack traces.
Callback / handler tasks now mark telemetry as running when the spawned entry thread begins execution (mark_telemetry_running in new_entry_thread), so HTTP handler work is not recorded as a zero-duration span that only “started” at completion. A new engine test exercises server serve(handle) timing order.
Span error capture changes default semantics: spans record the error they end with unless the call explicitly passes error = false (trace.empty_span / ERROR_DECLINED). Retry and fallback attempt traces drop error = false so failed attempts are explainable. Cancelled spans record outcome only, not the unwind value. When http_bodies = false, no error payload is stored on any span (including manual spans), since errors may embed response bodies—still records failure outcome. VM telemetry, manual spans, and trace matrix tests are updated accordingly; BAML/stdlib docs describe the behavior.
Stack traces resolve through generic function values (callable_function) so reflect.call_any and agent tools retain the authored callee name and source line in StackFrames. New BAML test unknown_error_reflect_names_callee locks this in.
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New Features
Traces now capture errors and panics when spans end exceptionally, unless error capture is explicitly declined. Cancelled spans do not capture error values.
Stack traces can show the authored function name when a function is called through a generic function value.
Telemetry records when execution starts and completes more accurately.
Privacy
When HTTP body recording is disabled, error values are withheld from telemetry because they may contain response bodies.
Documentation
Updated telemetry guidance to explain error capture, cancellation, and value-recording behavior.
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Walkthrough
Span error capture now defaults on for errored and panicked spans, with opt-outs for explicit declines and withheld HTTP bodies. Cancellation does not capture an error value. The change also updates root-thread telemetry timing and generic-function stack-frame resolution.
The span error-capture default and its exceptions are documented. Retry-attempt tracing no longer opts out of default error capture.
Error capture implementation and validation baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry/manual.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_engine/tests/telemetry_recording/trace_matrix.rs
Errored and panicked spans capture error values by default unless declined. Timing invocations do not receive this default. Cancellation and disabled HTTP-body recording prevent error-value capture. Tests cover these rules, including owned operations and policy changes.
Entry-thread creation marks telemetry as running after acquiring the heap permit. An integration test checks handler-task start and completion timestamps against directly entered function calls.
Callable stack-frame resolution
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Summary
Resolve authored function frames baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/vm.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_unknown_error/unknown_error.baml
Function-name, stack-trace, and event source-location lookup resolve generic function wrappers to authored functions. A test checks the function name and positive source line after reflective invocation.
BoundaryML/baml#5621: It applies the error-capture semantics defined here to wrapper dispatch, invocation parsing, and self-update spans.
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Merge Risk: Moderate · up to ba6cd
Failed spans now record their errors by default. The documented opt-outs do not fully hold: named manual spans can still record error text when HTTP bodies are withheld, and LLM calls ignore error = false. One unit test also fails. These should be fixed before merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to ba6cd
Failed spans can now record application error data that previously required a capture request. Explicit decline, declared redaction, and the HTTP-body privacy setting limit this expansion. The reviewed execution paths preserve those controls, but the blanket privacy guarantee is not established for every host-side recording path.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Default error capture expands the data retained by entry-selected spans, including retry/fallback failures that may later recover. With recording enabled and HTTP bodies permitted, an unannotated thrown value or panic can now enter telemetry without an error-capture request, even when input/output capture is disabled. Sensitive text embedded in such values therefore requires an explicit decline or applicable redaction. This is an inferred confidentiality risk from the changed capture contract, not a verified disclosure to an unauthorized reader.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The changed confidentiality exposure covers error values on eligible spans within an engine's configured recording, including individual retry/fallback attempts. It does not itself grant execution privileges. The inspected evidence does not establish unauthorized readership, cross-tenant access, or exposure beyond existing recording destinations.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — If application or externally influenced failure text contains sensitive data, the new default can carry it through an error value into a span snapshot without a capture request. This path requires an eligible span, enabled recording, permitted HTTP bodies, and data not otherwise withheld or redacted. A concrete unauthorized disclosure was not demonstrated.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The reviewed VM controls suppress errors before context construction and again at completion when HTTP bodies are disabled. Added source tests cover suppression despite explicit and policy requests, default decline, cancellation, and timing-only behavior.
observed — The host-invocation capture path is unchanged from the PR base. Its inspected stages select explicitly requested non-success values and pass them to host snapshot capture without consulting http_bodies. This is inherited counterevidence to a universal privacy guarantee, not an established PR-introduced expansion; downstream suppression was not fully verified.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Consider one shared error-capture eligibility rule across VM, owned-operation, and host producers, with end-to-end coverage of the HTTP-body privacy setting. Make the migration guidance explicit that disabling input/output capture does not suppress the new error default.
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@baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml:
- Around line 11-12: Update the trace documentation around the span
error-capture comment to state that `error = false` does not suppress error
capture for LLM functions under the current policy. Apply the same clarification
to the `btel_bcs` README, leaving the implementation unchanged.
Review comments at @baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry/manual.rs:
- Around line 338-339: Update the assertion in
owned_timing_span_promotes_after_its_creating_state_is_gone so
InvocationOutcome::Cancelled expects None, while retaining the existing Some(42)
expectation for other non-None outcomes and preserving the cancellation behavior
in the manual telemetry branch.
- Line 47: Update the named-span construction path in `manual.rs` so
`trace.start_span("name")` resolves and applies the engine’s error-withholding
policy instead of retaining `errors_withheld: false` from
`OperationOptions::default()`. Ensure the resulting `ManualSpan` carries that
policy before `ManualSpan::finish` records any failure, while preserving the
existing behavior for other span options.
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The error = false exception does not apply to LLM functions.
For an LLM function, AI_CAPTURE_ERROR sets POLICY_CAPTURE_ERROR (baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry.rs, lines 854-855). That check does not test ERROR_DECLINED, so a call that passes error = false still gets the flag. The completion path then records an Errored or Panicked outcome when POLICY_CAPTURE_ERROR is set and error capture is not withheld (lines 1037-1042). Error capture is withheld only when HTTP bodies are disabled (line 286). With HTTP bodies enabled, a thrown LLM error is recorded even when the caller declines it. The new sentence in trace.baml lines 11-12 says error = false prevents this, so the sentence is wrong for LLM calls.
The default policy comment in baml_language/crates/btel_settings/src/policy.rs (lines 43-44) says explicit call-site options override the AI default. The code does not follow that rule for error capture. Choose one fix:
Make error = false decline the AI default. Apply the decline to the AI error flag (line 854), to the error option in operation_options (line 284), and to the completion checks (lines 973-976 and 1037-1042). A function-level capture_error policy should still apply.
Keep the current behavior. Then state the LLM exception in the trace.baml doc comment and in the btel_bcs README.
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Review comment at @baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml around lines 11 - 12:
Update the trace documentation around the span error-capture comment to state that `error = false` does not suppress error capture for LLM functions under the current policy. Apply the same clarification to the `btel_bcs` README, leaving the implementation unchanged.
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Kept the current behavior: an LLM function's default policy requests its error, and trace_contract_end_to_end pins that false is not a veto of an applicable policy request. trace.baml and the btel_bcs README now state that exception.
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#!/bin/bashset -u
printf'%s\n''--- trace documentation ---'
cat -n baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml | sed -n '1,22p'printf'%s\n''--- telemetry README error capture ---'
rg -n -C 5 'error = false|error.*false|LLM|http_bodies' baml_language/crates/btel_bcs/README.md
printf'%s\n''--- policy outline and relevant declarations ---'
ast-grep outline baml_language/crates/btel_settings/src/policy.rs --items all
rg -n -C 5 'AI_CAPTURE_ERROR|SPAN_CAPTURE_ERROR|call.site|override' baml_language/crates/btel_settings/src/policy.rs
printf'%s\n''--- telemetry source outline and error flag use ---'
ast-grep outline baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry.rs --items all --match 'operation_options|records_errors|finish|capture'
rg -n -C 5 'AI_CAPTURE_ERROR|POLICY_CAPTURE_ERROR|ERROR_DECLINED|errors_withheld' baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry.rs
printf'%s\n''--- contract test location and relevant assertions ---'
rg -n -C 5 'trace_contract_end_to_end|false.*veto|policy.*false|false.*policy' baml_language/crates/bex_engine/tests baml_language/crates/baml_tests
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@aaronvg The two documentation updates describe the LLM exception.
One conflict remains: baml_language/crates/btel_settings/src/policy.rs Line 44 says call-site options override the AI error-capture default. The implementation still applies that default when error = false. Please update that comment to match the behavior. I’m not marking the finding as addressed yet.
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Repo: BoundaryML/baml PR: 5605
File: baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml:0-0
Timestamp: 2026-11-13T01:00:59.253Z
Learning: Within repository "BoundaryML/baml", only for files matching one of ["baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml"]: In baml_language/crates/baml_builtins2/baml_std/trace/trace.baml, Capture flags are per-invocation requests, not privacy vetoes. An LLM function's default policy requests error capture, so error = false does not suppress that policy request. When http_bodies = false in baml.toml, no error value is recorded; cancelled spans record only cancellation. Check these conditions when reviewing trace capture documentation or claims about error suppression.
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Three fixes to what a recording and a stack trace say about a call:
- A callback a sys-op runs for its caller, such as a server's request
handler, recorded its start at its completion, so its span had a
duration of 0, as if cancelled before it started. Its thread is now
marked running when it starts.
- A function held as a typed function value, which is what
`reflect.call_any` calls and so every tool an agent calls, dropped out
of stack traces, taking the line that threw with it. A frame now sees
through a generic-function value to the function it runs.
- A failed span recorded that it failed but not what it failed with,
unless the call asked for error capture. A span that ends with a thrown
error or a panic now records the error by default. `error = false`, as
`trace.empty_span` passes, declines it, and so does an engine that keeps
HTTP bodies out of its recordings, since an error can quote a body.
A cancellation is still recorded only on request. Fallback attempt
spans no longer decline their error.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Three fixes to what a recording and a stack trace say about a call.
new_entry_threadnow marks the thread running when it starts. Test:a_request_task_starts_running_before_its_handler_calls.reflect.call_anycalls functions this way, so every agent tool was affected. Frames now see through a generic-function value. Test:unknown_error_reflect_names_callee.errorhas two states:false(astrace.empty_spanpasses) declines it, andnullandtrueboth record it. Fallback attempt spans stop declining their error.baml.sys.exitunwinds every frame with the same value.http_bodies = falseinbaml.tomlrecords no error value on any span, since an error can quote a response body. It overrides the program's trace options and function policies; a failed span still records that it failed.Part of a stack; review the PRs in order.
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Medium Risk
Touches core telemetry completion and error-withholding paths plus stack-trace resolution for reflective calls; behavior changes are user-visible in recordings and error contexts.
Overview
Three observability fixes: when task spans start, what failed spans record, and who shows up in stack traces.
Callback / handler tasks now mark telemetry as running when the spawned entry thread begins execution (
mark_telemetry_runninginnew_entry_thread), so HTTP handler work is not recorded as a zero-duration span that only “started” at completion. A new engine test exercises serverserve(handle)timing order.Span error capture changes default semantics: spans record the error they end with unless the call explicitly passes
error = false(trace.empty_span/ERROR_DECLINED). Retry and fallback attempt traces droperror = falseso failed attempts are explainable. Cancelled spans record outcome only, not the unwind value. Whenhttp_bodies = false, no error payload is stored on any span (including manual spans), since errors may embed response bodies—still records failure outcome. VM telemetry, manual spans, and trace matrix tests are updated accordingly; BAML/stdlib docs describe the behavior.Stack traces resolve through generic function values (
callable_function) soreflect.call_anyand agent tools retain the authored callee name and source line inStackFrames. New BAML testunknown_error_reflect_names_calleelocks this in.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit ef5939c. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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New Features
Privacy
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