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Record a failed future's error and a log event's line - #5607
ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id: the error that escaped a failed future's outermost frame. Local baml query serves it as the future span's error_value (index schema 23 adds thread.error_cas).
LogEvent.line: the line of the log.* call, so a reader does not need the function's line table.
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Changes cross the VM unwind path, protobuf encoding, and SQLite index schema (v23), so older tooling must tolerate new minors and rebuilt indexes; error capture is gated by existing HTTP-body policies.
Overview
Introduces recording format minor 14 with two new capture fields: ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id (the baml.errors.Context that escaped a failed future’s outermost frame) and LogEvent.line (the one-based source line of a log.* call, resolved from the emitter’s line table).
Runtime and recording: unhandled throws at the last stack frame call record_thread_error, which emits ThreadSpanError and attaches the CAS id on thread completion (respecting HTTP-body redaction and “last error wins” semantics). Log encoding bumps to LOG_LINE_FORMAT_MINOR only when a line is present.
baml query: index schema 23 adds thread.error_cas; failed future rows in spans now surface error_value from that field (ingest keeps the first completion’s error on conflicts). Catalog/docs and tests cover querying failed futures by error fields.
Docs: keyword pages for $trace / tracing, expanded query / BCS telemetry notes, and a new Tracing section in the BAML skill guide.
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New Features
Failed futures now retain their escaped error details, including user errors and panic information, for inspection in recorded spans. Errors from cancelled futures are not reported as failures.
Recorded logs can include their source line when available, making it easier to locate them in code.
Documentation
Updated tracing guidance to describe trace selection, captured values, error recording, and redaction options.
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BTEL recordings now support log source lines and captured errors from failed or panicked threads. The query index stores thread error snapshots and exposes them as spans.error_value for failed futures. The tracing documentation describes the related options and recorded values.
Changes: BTEL telemetry recording
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Recording format and log source lines baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/proto/recording.proto, baml_language/crates/btel_settings/src/encoding.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/functions.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/encoding.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/lib.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/recording/tests.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_engine/tests/log_recording.rs
The recording format adds optional log source lines and thread error IDs. The recorder resolves log lines from function source maps and selects the matching format minor. Tests cover mapped and unmapped program counters.
Capture errors at thread completion baml_language/crates/btel_records/src/lib.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/telemetry.rs, baml_language/crates/bex_vm/src/vm.rs
The VM records an error that escapes the outermost frame. Thread telemetry emits the captured error before completion for errored or panicked threads when a snapshot is available.
Attach errors to recording completions baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/lib.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/encoding.rs, baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/recording/tests.rs
The recorder retains a captured error CAS ID until the matching thread completion and adds it to that event. Encoding uses the thread-error format minor when the ID is present.
Store and query thread errors baml_language/crates/baml_query_btel/src/schema.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_query_btel/src/ingest.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_query_btel/src/ingest/bulk.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_query_btel/src/catalog.rs, baml_language/crates/baml_query_btel/tests/*
The query index stores each thread’s first completion error ID and exposes it as error_value for failed future spans. Tests cover error retention, failed and cancelled outcomes, and queried error details.
sequenceDiagram
participant VM
participant ThreadTelemetry
participant Recorder
participant QueryIndex
VM->>ThreadTelemetry: Record error escaping the outermost frame
ThreadTelemetry->>Recorder: Emit ThreadSpanError before ThreadSpanCompletion
Recorder->>Recorder: Attach error CAS ID to ThreadCompletion
Recorder->>QueryIndex: Ingest completion error_cas_id
QueryIndex->>QueryIndex: Expose error_cas as spans.error_value
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Possibly related issues
BoundaryML/baml#5445 — The changes expose escaped thread errors through error_value, but the issue’s reported storage and display problems remain unaddressed.
Suggested reviewers:codeshaunted, hellovai
Merge Risk: Low · previous review 43e12
Recordings that hold a failed thread with model usage can declare an older format version than the fields they contain, and some readers may then skip the failed future's error. The tracing guidance also overstates what is recorded and redacted. Fix the one-line version check and tighten the docs before or soon after merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 43e12
Failed-future error recording can preserve URL query values that request traces otherwise hide. The existing body-recording opt-out still applies, and native transport errors redact recognized credentials, limiting—but not eliminating—the privacy concern.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: The new escaped-thread error path does not inherit network-span URL sanitization. A failed request can produce an error containing non-credential-named query values: native transport scrubbing preserves those values, while network telemetry normally hashes them. With http_bodies enabled, an error escaping a future is now captured without URL rewrites and exposed through spans.error_value, including when no function frame previously captured it. This broadens exposure to recording readers in those configurations. Recognized URL credentials remain redacted by the native transport, and function spans could already expose the same strings when their error capture was enabled.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The supported exposure is confidentiality of error content in application recordings and future-span query results. It requires an escaping failed request, body-enabled error recording, sensitive query content that native credential-name scrubbing preserves, and access to the resulting recording or query output. No cross-tenant or privilege-escalation path was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A request URL can enter a transport error message with non-credential query values intact. Network-span capture rewrites that URL to its hashed telemetry form without changing the program-visible exception. If the exception escapes the future, the new thread capture snapshots it again without those rewrites. This creates the privacy path described in ARCH-THREAD-ERROR-URL-PRIVACY; the source review establishes the mechanism, not an executed exploit.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The strongest countercontrols remain effective in the inspected code: http_bodies=false prevents a thread-error snapshot, and native transport error formatting redacts recognized credential parameters, URL userinfo and fragments before the exception reaches VM capture. Neither control provides the network telemetry rule that hashes all non-allowlisted query values.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Error association state belongs to a recording builder, survives file rotation, and is consumed on completion. Terminal-failure cleanup replaces the conversion buffer and releases pending capture owners. The VM tests explicitly cover replacement of an earlier error, successful recovery, cancellation, redaction, and repeated completion; they were inspected but not run. Interruption between the two record publications was not fully resolved.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Preserve request-origin sanitization across error propagation so thread-level and network-level captures apply the same URL privacy rules without altering the program-visible exception.
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The title names two changes that appear in the changeset: recording a failed future's error (ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id, thread error recording in bex_vm telemetry, spans.error_value for futures) and recording a log event's source line (LogEvent.line, log_recording test, encoding for LOG_LINE_FORMAT_MINOR). Both are central to the PR objectives. The title is specific and concise. It does not mention the tracing keyword documentation or the schema version 23 change, but those are supporting details.
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A rabbit checks the source map line, Then saves a thread error in time. The recorder holds the CAS, The query shows what came to pass. Logs and spans leave clues behind, While carrots wait for review time.
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Review comments at @baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/encoding.rs:
- Around line 120-121: Update the nonempty-usage Event::ThreadCompletion arm to
also require THREAD_ERROR_FORMAT_MINOR when error_cas_id is present, while
preserving its MODEL_USAGE_FORMAT_MINOR requirement. Add a test covering a
completion with both usage and error_cas_id and assert that the declared minor
is 14.
Review comments at @skills/baml-core/SKILL.md:
- Line 158: Qualify the error-recording guarantee in the tracing guidance and
the failed-future claim in baml_keywords.yaml: clarify that trace.empty_span(),
error = false, and the http_bodies = false policy can omit span errors, so
queries may not show every failed call. Preserve the existing guidance for cases
where errors are recorded.
- Line 97: Update the redaction guidance near `@trace.redact` and
`@@trace.redact` to clarify that redaction does not follow copied values: a
value copied from a redacted field into a plain string or another field is
recorded as that copy. Preserve the existing description of where recordings use
a marker.
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Require minor 14 for thread errors on completions that also carry usage.
A failed thread with nonempty usage matches the earlier Event::ThreadCompletion(m) if !m.usage.is_empty() arm. That arm requires only MODEL_USAGE_FORMAT_MINOR (13). The THREAD_ERROR_FORMAT_MINOR (14) check sits in the later scalar arm, so it never runs for these completions. The file can then declare minor 13 while it carries error_cas_id, a field introduced in minor 14. Readers that rely on the declared minor may then miss the failed future's error.
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Event::ThreadCompletion(m) if !m.usage.is_empty() => {
self.require(btel_settings::encoding::MODEL_USAGE_FORMAT_MINOR);
+ if m.error_cas_id.is_some() {+ self.require(btel_settings::encoding::THREAD_ERROR_FORMAT_MINOR);+ }
self.variable(2, &m);
}
Add a test for a thread completion that sets both usage and error_cas_id, and assert the declared minor is 14.
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Review comment at @baml_language/crates/btel_recorder/src/encoding.rs around lines 120 - 121:
Update the nonempty-usage Event::ThreadCompletion arm to also require THREAD_ERROR_FORMAT_MINOR when error_cas_id is present, while preserving its MODEL_USAGE_FORMAT_MINOR requirement. Add a test covering a completion with both usage and error_cas_id and assert that the declared minor is 14.
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- **Make a function a span** with a directive above its declaration: `/// baml:$trace=trace.span`. `trace.empty_span` (a span without values), `trace.timing` and `trace.hidden` are the other choices.
- **Or choose per call.** Every function takes a hidden `$trace` parameter, passed by name: `fee(paid, $trace = trace.span())`. `trace.context(distinct_id = …, metadata = {…})` labels the call and everything it runs; `spans` serves the labels as `context_distinct_id` and `context_metadata['phase']`. Builders chain: `trace.context(…).span()`.
- **What a span captures.** `trace.span()` captures the call's inputs, output and error (`input_args`, `output_value`, `error_value`). `inputs = false`, `output = false` or `error = false` leaves one out, and `trace.empty_span()` leaves out all three. Any other span records the error it ends with when it throws or panics, whether or not it captures anything else. A failed future, a failed root call included, carries the error that escaped it. A timing call captures nothing.
- **Keep a value out** with `@trace.redact` on a class field or `@@trace.redact` on a class. A recording holds a marker in its place wherever the value would be captured.
Document that redaction does not follow copies of a value.
The line says a recording holds a marker wherever the value would be captured. It does not say that a copy made from the value is recorded as the copy. baml_keywords.yaml states that a value copied out of a redacted field into a plain string or another field is recorded as that copy. Readers who rely on this line could expect a copied secret to stay redacted.
Clarify copy behavior in SKILL.md
--- "a/skills/baml-core/SKILL.md"+++ "b/skills/baml-core/SKILL.md"@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
- **Make a function a span** with a directive above its declaration: `/// baml:$trace=trace.span`. `trace.empty_span` (a span without values), `trace.timing` and `trace.hidden` are the other choices.
- **Or choose per call.** Every function takes a hidden `$trace` parameter, passed by name: `fee(paid, $trace = trace.span())`. `trace.context(distinct_id = …, metadata = {…})` labels the call and everything it runs; `spans` serves the labels as `context_distinct_id` and `context_metadata['phase']`. Builders chain: `trace.context(…).span()`.
- **What a span captures.** `trace.span()` captures the call's inputs, output and error (`input_args`, `output_value`, `error_value`). `inputs = false`, `output = false` or `error = false` leaves one out, and `trace.empty_span()` leaves out all three. Any other span records the error it ends with when it throws or panics, whether or not it captures anything else. A failed future, a failed root call included, carries the error that escaped it. A timing call captures nothing.
-- **Keep a value out** with `@trace.redact` on a class field or `@@trace.redact` on a class. A recording holds a marker in its place wherever the value would be captured.+- **Keep a value out** with `@trace.redact` on a class field or `@@trace.redact` on a class. A recording holds a marker in its place wherever the value would be captured. The marker does not follow a copy: a value copied out of a redacted field into a plain string or another field is recorded as that copy.
```baml
class Account {
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- **Keep a value out** with `@trace.redact` on a class field or `@@trace.redact` on a class. A recording holds a marker in its place wherever the value would be captured.
- **Keep a value out** with `@trace.redact` on a class field or `@@trace.redact` on a class. A recording holds a marker in its place wherever the value would be captured. The marker does not follow a copy: a value copied out of a redacted field into a plain string or another field is recorded as that copy.
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Review comment at @skills/baml-core/SKILL.md at line 97:
Update the redaction guidance near `@trace.redact` and `@@trace.redact` to clarify that redaction does not follow copied values: a value copied from a redacted field into a plain string or another field is recorded as that copy. Preserve the existing description of where recordings use a marker.
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Runs record their calls, and AI functions record their inputs, output, error and type arguments by default. `baml query` answers SQL over them (`baml query --schema` lists the tables). To turn a failing call into a test:
Runs record their calls. AI functions record their inputs, output, error and type arguments by default, and every failed span and future records its error (see [Tracing](#tracing)). `baml query` answers SQL over them (`baml query --schema` lists the tables). To turn a failing call into a test:
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Qualify the error-recording guarantee.
trace.empty_span() and error = false omit span errors. The http_bodies = false policy also prevents error recording. In those cases, the query below can miss a failed call. Qualify this statement and the failed-future claim in baml_keywords.yaml Line 230.
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Qualify the error-recording guarantee in the tracing guidance and the failed-future claim in baml_keywords.yaml: clarify that trace.empty_span(), error = false, and the http_bodies = false policy can omit span errors, so queries may not show every failed call. Preserve the existing guidance for cases where errors are recorded.
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Recording format minor 14 adds two fields:
- `ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id`: the `baml.errors.Context` of the error
that escaped a thread's outermost frame. A failed future, a failed root
call among them, said that it failed but not what with; it now carries
the error as a failed function span does. A thread a host resumed after
the throw, or cancelled, carries none, and so does an engine that keeps
HTTP bodies out of its recordings, since the error can quote a body.
Local `baml query` serves it as the future's `spans.error_value`.
- `LogEvent.line`: the line of the log call in the emitting function's
own file. A runtime publishes a function's definition once per
recording, so a reader of a later file alone could not place the
event's PC; the line now travels with the event.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Recording format minor 14 adds two fields:
ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id: the error that escaped a failed future's outermost frame. Localbaml queryserves it as the future span'serror_value(index schema 23 addsthread.error_cas).LogEvent.line: the line of thelog.*call, so a reader does not need the function's line table.BCS reads both after its
BAML_REVmoves (BoundaryML/bcs#261).Part of a stack; review the PRs in order.
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Changes cross the VM unwind path, protobuf encoding, and SQLite index schema (v23), so older tooling must tolerate new minors and rebuilt indexes; error capture is gated by existing HTTP-body policies.
Overview
Introduces recording format minor 14 with two new capture fields:
ThreadCompletion.error_cas_id(thebaml.errors.Contextthat escaped a failed future’s outermost frame) andLogEvent.line(the one-based source line of alog.*call, resolved from the emitter’s line table).Runtime and recording: unhandled throws at the last stack frame call
record_thread_error, which emitsThreadSpanErrorand attaches the CAS id on thread completion (respecting HTTP-body redaction and “last error wins” semantics). Log encoding bumps toLOG_LINE_FORMAT_MINORonly when a line is present.baml query: index schema 23 addsthread.error_cas; failed future rows inspansnow surfaceerror_valuefrom that field (ingest keeps the first completion’s error on conflicts). Catalog/docs and tests cover querying failed futures by error fields.Docs: keyword pages for
$trace/tracing, expandedquery/ BCS telemetry notes, and a new Tracing section in the BAML skill guide.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 4d71dca. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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