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Fixes veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#702. Follows up veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#695.

What was wrong

Agent spans put the thrown error's own message on status.message, on exception.message, and a full exception.stacktrace alongside it. Telemetry leaves the process to a vendor, so whatever a model provider or a tool interpolated into an error went with it, along with the filesystem paths a stack trace carries.

This is the defect #3895 fixed for workflow spans, in a subsystem that never got the fix. Agent spans predate workflow tracing (#3123), so #3888 did not cause this; it only put both span families in one trace, which is how the contrast became visible. Workflow spans are clean today. Agent spans were not.

Repo rule, AGENTS.md:156: "Redact sensitive values before writing logs, errors, or telemetry."

Why not just patch the call sites

Two reasons, both measured rather than assumed.

The default is unsafe for the whole repo, not just for agent code. Across src/ and extensions/, excluding tests:

$ git grep -nE 'withSpan(Sync)?\(' -- src/ extensions/ | grep -v '\.test\.ts' | wc -l
314

$ git grep -n 'errorStatus:' -- src/ extensions/ | grep -v '\.test\.ts'
src/workflow/executor/dag/index.ts:432:        errorStatus: () => new Error(`Node "${nodeId}" failed`),
src/workflow/executor/workflow-executor.ts:511:      errorStatus: (error) => new Error(retryTelemetryErrorType(ensureError(error))),

314 call sites, 2 of which pass a mapper. The other 312 span src/rendering, src/server, src/proxy, src/build, src/cache, src/data, src/security/sandbox, src/platform/adapters and more. The agent runtime is where this was found, not where it is confined. A local fix would have left every one of those subsystems to rediscover the same defect.

One escaped throw is reported by every span it unwinds through. A provider error reached six spans across three different modules:

agent.generate_text                status.message="upstream 401 for account <needle>"
agent.execution_loop               same
agent.middleware.chain.dispatch.1  same
agent.middleware.chain.execute     same
agent.generate                     same
agent.factory.generate             same

Fixing runtime/index.ts alone would have left middleware/chain.ts and factory.ts leaking identical text. The test asserts on every exported span, not just the one that threw, so a fix verified only on the innermost span cannot pass.

What changed, and which surface each change covers

There are four surfaces a span can carry text on. No single change reaches all four.

Change status.message exception.message exception.stacktrace span attributes
1. withSpan fails closed by default yes yes no no
2. Bounded setActiveSpanErrorStatus args yes yes no no
3. Dropped raw error.message attributes no no no yes
4. Classifications reported without a stack no no yes no

1. withSpan and withSpanSync now fail closed. With no errorStatus mapper the span reports a bounded classification instead of the message. Covers all 312 unmapped call sites and every future one. A caller that genuinely wants raw text opts in by returning the error from its own mapper, and that escape hatch has its own test so it cannot rot unnoticed. endServerSpan hands over the error the request handler caught, so it stays out of the blast radius.

Changes 1 and 2 replace the error that recordException receives, so they cover exception.message as well as status.message. They do not cover exception.stacktrace, which is what change 4 is for.

2. Two explicit writes the default cannot reach. setActiveSpanErrorStatus was being called with the raw tool error string, not an Error. sanitizeErrorForTelemetry routes a non-Error through primitiveErrorMessage, which returns String(value) unchanged. This fires on the ordinary failed-tool path with no throw involved, which is why it showed up on shape A where exception.stacktrace was clean.

3. The attribute surface. Six sites set "error.message" verbatim from stringifyToolError(...) or from error.message. The attribute sanitiser is key-name driven and error.message is not credential-shaped, so it passed through untouched:

isSensitiveKey("error.message")     false
isSensitiveKey("exception.message") false
isSensitiveKey("token")             true

All six are gone. error.type stays, since it is the bounded classification, and the one instance that read error.name (which a custom error class can set to anything) now goes through the classifier.

4. A classification is now reported without a stack. Changes 1 and 2 replace the error, but every replacement is built with new Error(...) at the reporting site, and recordException derives exception.stacktrace from whatever error it is handed. The application's stack went away; a fresh one naming otlp-setup.ts (or index.ts, on the manually reported tool failures) took its place, and every frame in it carries the absolute path of the machine that ran the code. sanitizeErrorForTelemetry takes a TelemetryErrorDetail argument and drops the stack when the error stands in for a failure rather than being it. The span layer decides which it is:

  • an errorStatus mapper that hands back the error it was given keeps the stack, since that is the error that actually unwound through the span, and returning it is already the documented opt-in to raw text;
  • everything else on the failed-span path, including the default classification and any error a mapper builds, is reported with no stack at all;
  • setActiveSpanErrorStatus always drops it. All six of its call sites in this repo construct a bounded error at the reporting site, so its stack never described the failure in the first place.

Two smaller holes on the same path closed with it: an errorStatus mapper that throws, or that returns undefined, used to fall back to the raw error. It now falls back to the bounded classification, which is what the surrounding documentation already claimed.

5. retryTelemetryErrorType moves to the observability layer as telemetryErrorType, so span statuses and workflow retry events cannot drift apart, and so agent code does not import from workflow/ to classify an error. retry-policy.ts re-exports it; its callers and tests are unchanged.

Evidence

Probed against a real BasicTracerProvider with an InMemorySpanExporter and a real AsyncLocalStorageContextManager, not a hand-rolled tracer double, reporting each of the four surfaces separately.

Before, on 3837403f8a:

shapeA tool returns a structured error  status.message=LEAK attributes=LEAK exception.message=LEAK exception.stacktrace=ok
shapeB tool throws                      status.message=LEAK attributes=LEAK exception.message=LEAK exception.stacktrace=LEAK
shapeC provider throws                  status.message=LEAK attributes=ok   exception.message=LEAK exception.stacktrace=LEAK

After:

shapeA tool returns a structured error  status.message=ok attributes=ok exception.message=ok exception.stacktrace=ok
shapeB tool throws                      status.message=ok attributes=ok exception.message=ok exception.stacktrace=ok
shapeC provider throws                  status.message=ok attributes=ok exception.message=ok exception.stacktrace=ok

Note shape A leaking attributes while exception.stacktrace was clean, and shape C the reverse. No single change covers both, which is why this PR has an attribute fix as well as a mapper default.

The stack surface, measured separately. The probe above tests for the leaked needle, and the replacement error does not contain it, so exception.stacktrace=ok on that reading meant only "the interpolated value is gone". A stack was still being exported. Dumping the field itself on 83b974617d, for an unmapped withSpan callback that throws:

exception.type       "Error"
exception.message    "Error"
exception.stacktrace "Error: Error
    at file:///<checkout>/src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts:326:17
    at runTelemetryOperation (file:///<checkout>/src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts:155:5)
    at boundedSpanError (file:///<checkout>/src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts:324:3)
    at spanErrorStatus (file:///<checkout>/src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts:310:37)
    at withSpan (file:///<checkout>/src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts:350:30)
    at async file:///…"

Same field, same probe, after change 4:

exception.type       "Error"
exception.message    "Error"
exception.stacktrace absent

<checkout> above stands in for a real absolute path, which is the part that should not leave the process.

Fail-first. Source reverted to the branch head, test file kept, 6 of 7 tests fail, each naming the surface it caught:

keeps a returned tool error's text off every agent span ... FAILED
keeps a thrown tool error's text off every agent span ... FAILED
keeps a thrown provider error's text off the whole enclosing span stack ... FAILED
classifies an unmapped span error instead of forwarding its message ... FAILED
keeps the reporting site's own stack off a span the mapper reclassified ... FAILED
falls back to the classification when a mapper returns nothing ... FAILED
lets a caller opt a span back into the raw error ... ok

error: AssertionError: agent.tool_execute exported an exception.stacktrace on its exception event
error: AssertionError: agent.generate_text exported an exception.stacktrace on its exception event
error: AssertionError: probe.unmapped exported an exception.stacktrace on its exception event
error: AssertionError: probe.reclassified exported an exception.stacktrace on its exception event
error: AssertionError: probe.mapper-declined leaked the error text into status.message

The seventh passes on base by design: it guards the opt-in escape hatch this change must preserve, so it is green both before and after. To show it is not vacuous, replacing statusError === error ? "withStack" : "withoutStack" with a flat "withoutStack", which is how you would "fix" this by deleting every stack, turns that test red on its own while the other six stay green.

Each test asserts on every exported span, and the stack assertion runs over status.message, every span attribute and every event attribute, so a stack is caught wherever it lands rather than only under the name exception.stacktrace.

The path the assertion looks for is matched in both spellings a runtime uses for a stack frame. Deno writes file:///... URLs, Bun and Node write bare paths, and the first version of this test checked only the URL form. bun tests/bun/run-tests.mjs caught that: under Bun the check would have passed on a span that was still exporting a stack. The opt-in test is the canary for it, because it is the only assertion that needs the path predicate to match rather than not match, so a third format fails loudly instead of silently blinding the other six.

The tests also assert the spans still report ERROR with a bounded message, so this is redaction rather than deleting the signal.

What you lose, and where it went

Span statuses no longer carry the failure text. The classification still separates a VeryfrontError:<status>, a transient network code such as ECONNRESET, and a safe error name. Full detail stays in the logs and the run record, which is the trade dag/index.ts already documents.

Failed spans also no longer carry exception.stacktrace, unless a caller opts in through an errorStatus mapper that returns the thrown error. Nothing is lost in practice: the stack these spans carried before change 4 was captured inside the telemetry layer, so it described otlp-setup.ts rather than the failure. The application's own stack still reaches the logs and the error reporter.

Also in this PR

Two statements in extensions/ext-observability-opentelemetry/README.md that no longer matched the code, both found while triaging veryfront/veryfront-issue-inbox#695:

  • A cancelled node span reports Node "<id>" failed, not the cancellation reason. The errorStatus mapper replaced it. Safe direction, and the reason was framework text anyway, so nothing user-supplied was ever exposed there.
  • Retried composite siblings are told apart by status only when an attempt eventually succeeds. When retries exhaust, the siblings are identical in name, status and attributes, and workflow.node.attempts reads 1 on every child because the counter lives on the parent composite while each child counts from one.

Gates

deno task typecheck   0
deno task lint:ci     0
deno fmt --check      0   (touched files)
deno test             0   src/observability/ src/agent/ src/workflow/executor/
                          src/server/runtime-handler/ src/errors/ src/chat/
                          1386 passed, 4294 steps
node tests/node/run-tests.mjs   4447 pass, 1 fail
bun  tests/bun/run-tests.mjs    1490 files pass, 58 fail

Both need deno task build:npm first. The node failure is a wall-clock budget in src/transforms/mdx/esm-module-loader/utils/source-spans.test.ts (Expected a 31 KB line-broken division scan to finish within 1500 ms, got 7482.5 ms) on a loaded machine; the same file passes in 628 ms on its own. The 58 Bun failures are e2e, integration and validation suites that need a built server and linked workspace packages, none of them in a module this PR touches, and the same 58 fail with and without this change.

deno task lint:ci includes docs:api-reference:check, so docs/api-reference/veryfront/observability.md is regenerated in this commit. The change there is source line numbers only.

src/provider/model-registry.test.ts and src/provider/veryfront-cloud/ fail here with 401/405, but they fail identically on clean origin/main at bb1747cb8b with the same 7 step names. They make live provider calls and need credentials this environment does not have. Not caused by this change.

Not covered

The same error.message attribute pattern exists in src/internal-agents/run-stream.ts, src/agent/hosted/trace-attributes.ts, and src/observability/auto-instrument/. They are outside the scope of this fix and some have tests pinning the current values. Worth a follow-up; say the word and I will file it.

Two places still export a real application stack, both deliberately and both unchanged here. endServerSpan records the error the request handler caught, which is the one case where the frames describe the failure; and src/observability/auto-instrument/ records exceptions on its own spans through sanitizeErrorForTelemetry with the default "withStack". Neither is an agent span. If you want stack traces off server spans as well, that is the same follow-up.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved telemetry error handling to prevent sensitive error messages, paths, and stack traces from being exposed by default.
    • Standardized span failure reporting with bounded error classifications.
    • Preserved safe retry and transient network-error detection across workflow runs.
    • Continued supporting explicit error mappings and opt-in raw error details.
  • Documentation

    • Updated observability and agent API source references.
    • Clarified tracing behavior for cancellations, retries, error statuses, and exception details.

Agent spans put the thrown error's own message on `status.message`, on
`exception.message`, and a full `exception.stacktrace` alongside it. Telemetry
leaves the process to a vendor, so whatever a model provider or a tool
interpolated into an error went with it, along with the filesystem paths the
stack trace carries.

This is the defect #3895 fixed for workflow spans, in a subsystem that never got
the fix. Agent spans predate workflow tracing (#3123), so #3888 did not cause
it; it only put both span families in one trace, which is how the contrast
became visible.

Measured against a real exporter, three shapes and every field:

  shapeA tool returns a structured error  status=LEAK attrs=LEAK exc.message=LEAK
  shapeB tool throws                      status=LEAK attrs=LEAK exc.message=LEAK exc.stacktrace=LEAK
  shapeC provider throws                  status=LEAK             exc.message=LEAK exc.stacktrace=LEAK

Shape C reached six spans: one escaped throw is reported by every span it
unwinds through, so a fix confined to one module leaves the rest of the stack
leaking. That rules out patching call sites.

Fix the default instead. `withSpan` and `withSpanSync` now fail closed: with no
`errorStatus` mapper the span reports a bounded classification rather than the
message. That covers all 33 agent call sites, the six in ext-redis, and every
call site that does not exist yet. A caller that wants raw text opts in by
returning the error from its own mapper, which is tested so the hatch cannot
rot.

Two vectors are explicit writes the default cannot reach, so fix them too:
`setActiveSpanErrorStatus` was called with the raw tool error string, and
`error.message` span attributes carried it verbatim. Both now identify the tool
instead, matching how `dag/index.ts` names the node rather than the failure. The
`error.type` attribute stays; it is the bounded classification, and one instance
of it read `error.name`, which a custom error class can set to anything.

`retryTelemetryErrorType` moves to the observability layer as
`telemetryErrorType` so span statuses and workflow retry events cannot drift
apart, and so agent code does not have to import from workflow to classify an
error. `retry-policy.ts` re-exports it and its existing callers are unchanged.

Detail is not lost, only relocated: it stays in the logs and the run record,
which is the trade `dag/index.ts` already documents.

Also corrects two statements in the extension README that no longer matched the
code: a cancelled node span reports `Node "<id>" failed` rather than the
cancellation reason, and retried composite siblings are told apart by status
only when an attempt eventually succeeds. When retries exhaust, the siblings are
identical in name, status and attributes, and `workflow.node.attempts` reads `1`
on every child because the counter lives on the parent composite.
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The change adds bounded telemetry error classification, updates OTLP span error reporting to redact raw messages and stacks by default, updates agent runtime telemetry, centralizes workflow retry classification, and adds integration coverage and documentation.

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Telemetry Error Redaction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared error classification and retry integration
src/observability/telemetry-error.ts, src/observability/telemetry-error.test.ts, src/workflow/executor/retry-policy.ts
Telemetry utilities classify safe error types and transient codes. Workflow retry logic delegates to the shared classifier. Tests cover unsafe accessors and replaced built-ins.
OTLP span error reporting
src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts, docs/api-reference/veryfront/observability.md, extensions/ext-observability-opentelemetry/README.md
OTLP reporting uses bounded classifications, guarded mappers, and explicit stack-preservation modes. Documentation reflects the updated span behavior and source locations.
Agent runtime redaction and validation
src/agent/runtime/index.ts, src/agent/runtime/agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts, docs/api-reference/veryfront/agent.md
Agent spans stop recording raw error messages and use generic status errors with bounded types. Integration tests cover tool, provider, mapper, accessor, and opt-in cases.

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The change is mergeable with owner awareness: a retried plain error containing ECONNRESET may still appear as a generic error in telemetry, producing misleading failure categorization; the new test also needs to use the repository’s import-map convention.

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  setSpanErrorStatus->>telemetryErrorType: classify error
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Comment thread src/observability/tracing/otlp-setup.ts Outdated
Replacing a thrown error with a bounded classification took the
application's stack off the span and put a fresh one in its place.
`recordException` derives `exception.stacktrace` from whatever error it is
handed, so every failed span exported the frames of `otlp-setup.ts` (or of
`agent/runtime/index.ts`, on the manually reported tool failures) with the
absolute path of the machine that ran them.

`sanitizeErrorForTelemetry` takes a `TelemetryErrorDetail` and reads no
stack when the error stands in for a failure rather than being it. The span
layer keeps a stack only when an `errorStatus` mapper hands back the error
that actually unwound through the span, which is already the documented
opt-in to raw text. `setActiveSpanErrorStatus` always drops it; all six of
its call sites build a bounded error at the reporting site. `endServerSpan`
keeps it, since the request handler hands over the error it caught.

An `errorStatus` mapper that throws or returns nothing now falls back to
the classification instead of to the raw error.
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The span redaction fix still trusted two hostile surfaces after mapping errors into bounded telemetry: constructing the fallback through the writable global Error and reading error code/status through ordinary property access. A poisoned app Error constructor could leave the original thrown value as the fallback, and accessor-backed error metadata could run caller code while building a supposedly bounded classification.

This keeps the merge-with-main branch shape, but makes the classifier fallback a stackless detached telemetry error from the captured native constructor path, and classifies native code plus Veryfront status only from safe own-data snapshots. Accessor-backed or malformed metadata now falls back to the generic Error classification instead of executing app code.

Constraint: Preserve the existing #3946 branch contents and merged main baseline while resolving current P1 review blockers

Rejected: Capture only global Error in tracing | telemetry-error already owns the detached native-error path and stackless detail policy

Rejected: Read code/status then catch | accessor execution itself is the leak and side-effect surface

Confidence: high

Scope-risk: narrow

Directive: Error classifications that leave the process must use descriptor/snapshot reads only; do not reintroduce direct reads of app-owned error metadata

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The classifier already snapshots native code and Veryfront status through own data descriptors. Pin that boundary at the agent-span integration seam so later telemetry changes cannot execute application getters or export their returned text.

Constraint: Span failure reporting must preserve the original thrown outcome while treating application-owned metadata as hostile.

Rejected: Rely only on telemetry helper unit tests | they do not prove the complete withSpan export path stays inert and stackless.

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Application code can replace writable globals and prototype methods after telemetry modules load. Span failure classification must therefore construct bounded errors and classify codes/names through captured intrinsics rather than dispatching through application-owned Error, RegExp, or Set hooks.

Constraint: Telemetry classifications are exported off-process and must not execute application accessors or prototype overrides.

Rejected: Trusting rewritten built-ins after startup | lets application code leak arbitrary classification text.

Confidence: high

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The span-classification hardening moved AgentRuntime's source line in src/agent/runtime/index.ts. CI checks generated API references as part of lint:ci, so the public reference must move with the code.

Constraint: docs:api-reference:check fails on generated source-line drift.

Rejected: Leave CI to ignore line-only generated drift | the repository intentionally treats generated references as committed artifacts.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. You're on a roll.

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Default span failure sanitization already redacted the exported message and stack, but the detached error kept the fallback name "Unknown". OpenTelemetry records that name as exception.type, so all default failures collapsed into one grouping even when the bounded classification was precise.

The fix keeps arbitrary caller-provided status values on the existing safe path and only promotes the internally derived bounded classification into the detached error name. The exporter-seam regression proves both surfaces now carry ECONNRESET without leaking raw text or stack frames.

Constraint: Default span telemetry must remain bounded unless a caller explicitly returns the original error from errorStatus.

Rejected: Promote every primitive status string to exception.type | caller-provided strings can be arbitrary status text, while boundedSpanError receives a sanitizer-derived classification.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Bravo.

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src/agent/runtime/agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts (1)

8-8: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Import the public agent factory through an import map specifier.

../index.ts resolves to src/agent/index.ts, which is outside this file's src/agent/runtime directory. The same-directory exception does not apply here. Use veryfront/agent for the public export, or #veryfront/agent/index.ts for the internal path, to match the rest of the repository.

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-import { agent } from "../index.ts";
+import { agent } from "`#veryfront/agent/index.ts`";

Based on learnings: "Use #veryfront/* aliases only when an import crosses a module boundary; do not flag same-directory sibling relative imports as violations." As per coding guidelines: "Respect public exports and import maps: use veryfront/* for public imports and #veryfront/* for internal source imports."

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In `@src/agent/runtime/agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts` at line 8, Update the
import in agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts to reference the public agent
factory through the repository’s import-map specifier veryfront/agent instead of
the relative ../index.ts path.

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src/workflow/executor/retry-policy.ts (1)

42-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Align retry telemetry with retry classification. A plain Error with ECONNRESET only in its message is retried, but retryTelemetryErrorType reports "Error". Apply the same safe message-token fallback.

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In `@src/workflow/executor/retry-policy.ts` around lines 42 - 44, Update
retryTelemetryErrorType to apply the same safe message-token fallback used by
retry classification, so plain errors whose message contains ECONNRESET produce
the matching telemetry error type instead of “Error”; preserve
telemetryErrorType behavior for other errors.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/agent/runtime/agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts`:
- Line 8: Update the import in agent-span-error-redaction.test.ts to reference
the public agent factory through the repository’s import-map specifier
veryfront/agent instead of the relative ../index.ts path.

In `@src/workflow/executor/retry-policy.ts`:
- Around line 42-44: Update retryTelemetryErrorType to apply the same safe
message-token fallback used by retry classification, so plain errors whose
message contains ECONNRESET produce the matching telemetry error type instead of
“Error”; preserve telemetryErrorType behavior for other errors.

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