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Importing Scenario during LangWatch startup loaded the full LangWatch client/CLI and the Node telemetry SDK before any scenario ran. This continues the lazy-loading work in #933 and #945 while keeping the existing text, voice, red-team, evaluator, and tracing APIs.

What changed

  • Import the tracing helper from langwatch/observability instead of the full SDK entry point.
  • Load Node observability only when tracing is initialized. Keep setupScenarioTracing() synchronous and preserve automatic setup before a run, existing-provider attachment, options, and once-only initialization.
  • Load the browser launcher only when a tab actually needs opening, preserving headless policy and injected openers.
  • Upgrade the existing CI smoke:dist check to exercise both published formats in fresh processes, and add a reproducible import benchmark.

Test plan

  • Full JavaScript suite: 1,760 passed, 83 skipped, 139 files passed and 3 skipped.
  • Tracing, browser-handoff and runner regression tests: 70 passed; final tracing rerun: 16 passed.
  • pnpm build, pnpm typecheck, scoped ESLint and git diff --check.
  • pnpm smoke:dist: both CJS and ESM pass. Checks no eager Node SDK/client/browser/ElevenLabs imports, factory availability, synchronous real span recording, and no duplicate processor registration.
  • The startup regression fixture fails against main because it eagerly loads the Node SDK.
  • Repeated the real tracing checks against the packed tarball in both formats.
  • Root declaration files are byte-identical to main; all 104 root export names are retained. Checked the narrower export exists in minimum supported [email protected].

How I can prove I was successful

Run pnpm build && pnpm smoke:dist && pnpm benchmark:startup in javascript/. See the startup report for comparison instructions and the previous optimization PRs.

Seven fresh-process samples per version on Node 24.21.0:

Median Main (ad220e6a) This change
CJS import 1,286 ms 683 ms
Added RSS 89.7 MiB 62.4 MiB
Loaded CJS modules 1,172 743

Anything surprising?

These measurements cover package import, not total LangWatch application boot, and timings depend on filesystem caches and shared-machine load. Telemetry initialization work moves to its existing setup/run boundary. Dependencies stay installed so voice and automatic tracing continue to work; this does not claim a smaller installation or published bundle.

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Walkthrough

The JavaScript package defers selected Node telemetry and browser-launch imports. It adds startup checks and benchmarks for CommonJS and ES module builds. It also adds opt-in granular message events, streamed agent progress, snapshot repair, event-based chat-log reconstruction, and examples-suite diagnostics.

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JavaScript startup behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Defer Node and browser loading
javascript/src/tracing/node-observability.ts, javascript/src/tracing/setup.ts, javascript/src/browser/tab-handoff.ts, javascript/src/tracing/__tests__/setup.test.ts
Tracing setup now uses a local synchronous loader for Node observability. The browser launcher loads dynamically when needed.
Check published startup behavior
javascript/scripts/startup-fixture.mjs, javascript/scripts/startup.test.mjs, specs/javascript-package-startup.feature, javascript/package.json, javascript/STARTUP.md
The fixture and tests check module loading, API availability, and synchronous tracing behavior in both published formats.
Measure startup costs
javascript/scripts/startup.mjs, javascript/package.json, javascript/STARTUP.md
The benchmark measures import duration, RSS change, and loaded-module counts in fresh processes. The documentation describes the command and reports measurements.

Granular message events

Layer / File(s) Summary
Event contracts and opt-in configuration
javascript/src/events/schema.ts, javascript/src/config/env.ts, javascript/src/runner/run.ts, javascript/src/domain/agents/*, javascript/src/agents/connected-agent.ts, javascript/src/utils/convert-core-messages-to-agui-messages.ts, specs/granular-message-events.feature
The event schema adds text-message and tool-call events. Run options and SCENARIO_SEND_GRANULAR_EVENTS control reporting. Agent inputs and connected-agent calls can carry a stream writer.
Stream progress and reconcile execution state
javascript/src/execution/granular/*, javascript/src/execution/scenario-execution-state.ts, javascript/src/execution/scenario-execution.ts, javascript/src/events/event-bus.ts
Execution streams agent progress, publishes message lifecycle events, and assigns stream IDs to returned messages. It emits repair snapshots when state changes cannot be represented by granular events. Broadcast-only event failures receive one delivery attempt.
Rebuild chat logs and validate event flows
javascript/src/integrations/vitest/*, javascript/src/execution/granular/__tests__/*, specs/granular-message-events.feature
The Vitest reporter rebuilds messages from snapshots and granular events. Tests cover configuration, streamed text and tool calls, errors, retries, repairs, and reconstruction.

Examples test and CI diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Report evaluator and suite results
javascript/examples/vitest/tests/evaluators-on-scenarios.test.ts, scripts/ci/examples-suite-gate.sh
The evaluator test specifies a model and includes evaluation details in assertions. The CI gate prints bounded JUnit failure and error details when the examples suite fails.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Run
  participant ScenarioExecution
  participant Agent
  participant MessageEventPublisher
  participant EventBus
  Run->>ScenarioExecution: resolve granular-event option
  ScenarioExecution->>MessageEventPublisher: create publisher for run
  ScenarioExecution->>Agent: call with stream writer
  Agent->>MessageEventPublisher: write text and tool progress
  MessageEventPublisher->>EventBus: emit granular events
  ScenarioExecution->>MessageEventPublisher: reconcile returned messages and close stream
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Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e44a4

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One problem for bundling consumers before this lands.

src/tracing/node-observability.ts loads the Node SDK through createRequire(...)("langwatch/observability/node"). Bundlers cannot see that specifier, so anyone who bundles Scenario (LangWatch's apps/scenario-child inlines Scenario and the langwatch SDK into one file with esbuild) gets:

  • a runtime resolve from node_modules that the bundle no longer covers, so the SDK's dist must be present beside the bundle and no "declared externals" check can see it;
  • a second copy of the SDK, separate from the bundled one, with its own once-only guards (spans still reach the single global OTel provider, but setup state is split);
  • a disk walk per process start, which is the cost bundling was there to remove.

It only fires on the full-setup path (no global provider registered yet), but that is the default path.

Suggested fix: keep setupObservability as a static import from langwatch/observability/node and take the startup win from the other changes here (the langwatch/observability tracer import and the lazy open import), or make that load an await import() if an async setup is acceptable. Either way bundlers see the dependency. A bundled-consumer case in smoke:dist (esbuild the dist into one file and run a traced scenario) would catch this.

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9-9: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Detect ESM imports in the startup check.

loaded() only reads require.cache. Node’s ESM loader does not populate that cache. Because open is a package dependency, tsup externalizes it from the ESM build. An eager open import in index.mjs can therefore pass the current assertion.

Add ESM loader instrumentation that records modules loaded during await import(entry), and assert that open was not loaded. Keep the existing CommonJS assertion.

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Stacks #1015 on #1014. The one conflict was the import block in
scenario-execution.ts: keep #1014's lighter langwatch/observability
import and #1015's message event publisher.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
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…gress (#1015)

feat(javascript): add opt-in granular message events

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require.cache only records CommonJS loads, so an eager import in
index.mjs slipped through. Record files opened by the module loader
as well.

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The JUnit reporter keeps assertion text in the report only, so a red gate
named the failing test but never said why (#1010).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
…der key

llm_boolean runs on the LangWatch project's own model provider key. When
that key is rejected it reports an error that says nothing about the SDK;
the example now warns in that case and fails on any other error, with the
evaluator's details in the message (#1010).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
…ax_tokens

The example failed on every run because the evaluator's default model
refuses max_tokens ("use max_completion_tokens instead"). Drop the
provider-error allowance from the previous commit; the cause is now known
and the check is strict again, with the evaluator's details in the
message (#1010).

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…ks is missing

Node 20 has no synchronous loader hooks, so the ESM check would pass having
watched nothing.

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Caution

This changes what the scenario package loads at import time, for every user of the npm package.

Importing scenario used to pull in the whole LangWatch client and the Node telemetry SDK before anything ran. Now tracing setup and the browser launcher load only when used. Median CJS import time drops from 1,286 ms to 683 ms.

The risk with lazy loading is order: something that ran at import now runs later. The author kept setupScenarioTracing() synchronous and checks both CJS and ESM in fresh processes, which is exactly the thing to verify.

Mode Targeted Review. Lazy-loading changes to a published package's import graph.
Issue Linked to scenario#1010, the examples-suite failure. Loosely: the PR's purpose is startup cost, which #1010 does not describe. Worth checking the link is the intended one.
State CI green on the latest run of every check. 0 unresolved threads. MERGEABLE, merge state BLOCKED. Reviewer: drewdrewthis.
Evidence 1,760 tests; smoke:dist in both module formats; seven-sample benchmark; declaration files byte-identical to main.
Where to look Where tracing initialisation moved; smoke:dist.
🗺️ Never opened this module? Start here · ~2 min

scenario is published to npm in both CommonJS and ES module form. Its tracing integrates with the LangWatch SDK and OpenTelemetry, which are heavy to load.

❓ Worth asking the author · ~1 min
  1. Is javascript-ci: evaluators-on-scenarios example fails on every run, and the examples gate hides why #1010 the right issue to close?
✅ Why the evidence is good, and what each file is · ~1 min

1,760 tests; smoke:dist in both module formats; seven-sample benchmark; declaration files byte-identical to main.

File + / - What it is
javascript/package.json 2 / 1 Substance
javascript/scripts/startup-fixture.mjs 55 / 0 Substance
javascript/scripts/startup.mjs 39 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/agents/connected-agent.ts 1 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/browser/tab-handoff.ts 4 / 2 Substance
javascript/src/config/env.ts 38 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/domain/agents/connected-agent.types.ts 3 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/domain/agents/index.ts 8 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/domain/agents/types/agent-stream.types.ts 49 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/events/event-bus.ts 16 / 2 Substance
javascript/src/events/schema.ts 106 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/execution/granular/agent-call-stream.ts 264 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/execution/granular/message-event-publisher.ts 198 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/execution/granular/message-row-events.ts 94 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/execution/granular/run-event-clock.ts 29 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/execution/scenario-execution-state.ts 37 / 7 Substance
javascript/src/execution/scenario-execution.ts 168 / 137 Substance
javascript/src/integrations/vitest/rebuild-chat-log.ts 61 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/integrations/vitest/reporter.ts 55 / 60 Substance
javascript/src/runner/run.ts 15 / 2 Substance
javascript/src/tracing/node-observability.ts 16 / 0 Substance
javascript/src/tracing/setup.ts 2 / 2 Substance
javascript/src/utils/convert-core-messages-to-agui-messages.ts 13 / 0 Substance
scripts/ci/examples-suite-gate.sh 14 / 0 Substance
javascript/STARTUP.md 45 / 0 Docs
specs/granular-message-events.feature 112 / 0 Spec, parity-gated
specs/javascript-package-startup.feature 16 / 0 Spec, parity-gated
javascript/examples/vitest/tests/evaluators-on-scenarios.test.ts 9 / 4 Tests
javascript/scripts/startup.test.mjs 21 / 0 Tests
javascript/src/execution/granular/__tests__/ai-sdk-stream-failures.integration.test.ts 162 / 0 Tests
javascript/src/execution/granular/__tests__/granular-message-events.integration.test.ts 387 / 0 Tests
javascript/src/execution/granular/__tests__/granular-units.test.ts 247 / 0 Tests
javascript/src/execution/granular/__tests__/harness.ts 147 / 0 Tests
javascript/src/tracing/__tests__/setup.test.ts 3 / 3 Tests

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Tracing must be set up before the first scenario span, however late it loads.

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