[ShunjunGu]

Problem and user impact

Connect an API SERVER span to replay-safe Temporal workflow/request segments, child workflows and activity attempts. Closes #61.

Implementation

• Reuse the existing bounded OTLP/HTTP JSON exporter; serialize validated span links and fix the idle empty-flush race.
• Register deterministic workflow interceptors and replay-disabled sinks in all three workers only when OTLP export is configured.
• Propagate the actual API SERVER context through turn, Room Agent, Dot Goal and memory starters. Keep successive supervisor requests in separate segments.
• Parent activity attempts under workflow spans and link continue-as-new/background continuations.
• Export only allowlisted identifiers/status fields. Worker OTLP attributes consistently use snake_case; existing workflow inputs and logs retain their names.
• Update configuration, observability documentation and changelog. No production tracing dependency or database migration.

Maintainer review revision (2026-10-28)

• Pin @temporalio/testing to exactly 1.24.0 in worker devDependencies and package-lock.json.
• Both real Temporal integrations now run in ordinary npm test -w @space/worker, with static imports and no environment gate or manual package unpacking.
• Remove the unrelated undici assertion change and link-inspector stub. Those files now match the PR base.
• Remove the screenshot from the final repository tree; preserve the original capture below using an immutable commit URL.
• Add an activity attribute allowlist unit test for success, returned failure and thrown failure, with private text injected into inputs, outputs and errors.

Upstream synchronization (2026-10-30)

Reapplied the existing contribution onto upstream d9059c1, retaining its 1.1.9 changelog and CLI-session trace documentation. No new production scope was added. The original commits were replaced on this contributor-owned PR branch to keep the prepared commit limited to the same 34 contribution files.

Current automated validation on Ubuntu/WSL, Node 22.23.4:

• Standard ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1 npm ci passed.
• npm run check, build and lint passed; lint: 0 errors, 2607 warnings.
• Worker: 33 files, 250 tests passed, including both real Temporal integrations.
• API: OTLP exporter 8 tests and trace-correlation 11 tests passed (19 total).
• gitleaks, trufflehog, manual documentation review and repository hygiene passed; fork secret scanning and push protection remain enabled.
• Initial validation exposed Windows core.autocrlf converting a Git archive to CRLF. The final check used a verified LF archive produced with git -c core.autocrlf=false archive; no unrelated source normalization was committed.

Full top-level tests, deployed history replay and Windows/macOS application execution were not run. Account-owner personal review/testing and mainland-China payout eligibility remain unconfirmed. This update claims no bounty reservation, acceptance or payment.

Earlier verification (2026-10-28)

Executed by OpenAI Codex on Ubuntu/WSL x86-64, Node 22.23.4:

• Standard ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1 npm ci succeeded.
• Default worker suite: 33 files, 250 tests passed, zero skipped. A fresh-install repeat encountered a 5000ms timeout in the unchanged memory-consolidation-lifecycle test (249 passed); both Temporal integrations passed in that run. A subsequent unchanged default-suite rerun passed all 250 tests with zero skipped; no timeout thresholds or skips were added. Both real Temporal integrations ran, including collector trace relationships, retries, child spans, continue-as-new links, zero replay exports and successive production-supervisor requests.
• npm run check and npm run build passed.
• npm run lint: 0 errors, 2585 warnings.
• API OTLP and trace-correlation regression: 18 tests passed.
• No complete top-level npm test success is claimed. After reverting the out-of-scope fix, the unchanged public-distribution test has 13 passing cases and 1 failing case: it expects undici 6.28.1 while the existing Dockerfile pins 6.29.1. The earlier external link-inspector dependency is also restored as requested; the full API/web suite was not rerun for this revision.
• gitleaks, trufflehog, staged-document review and repository hygiene passed. Fork secret scanning and push protection are enabled. Commits include DCO sign-off.

Windows/macOS application execution, provider-backed live turns and deployed production histories were not tested. Operators should apply their usual history replay gate before deployment.

Jaeger evidence

Original browser capture of synthetic test traffic from the initial revision. The first activity attempt fails deliberately; no customer data is used. The topology remains covered by the default integrations; attribute naming was normalized in the review revision. The screenshot is absent from the final proposed repository tree.

Resource and rollback effects

Tracing remains opt-in, bounded and best effort. No production tracing dependency or database migration. Disable the OTLP setting or revert the change to remove worker tracing.

Assistance and acceptance status

Prepared with OpenAI Codex assistance, including automated code review and executed tests. Account-owner personal review/testing remains pending and is not claimed. This submission does not assert maintainer acceptance, bounty reservation or payment. PayPal/Wise/bank transfer fit the contributor's preference; payment details can be agreed privately if this is the accepted solution.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added optional OTLP tracing across API requests, workflows, child workflows, and activities, with trace context and causal links preserved across continuations. Tracing is off by default.
  • Added safeguards that limit exported trace details and prevent tracing errors from interrupting workflow processing.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an exporter issue where an empty flush could prevent later spans from being sent.

• Documentation

  • Expanded observability and configuration guidance, including tracing setup, coverage, replay behavior, and limitations.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds optional OTLP trace export across API requests, Temporal workflows, and activity attempts. It propagates trace context, records workflow spans with replay suppression, links continuations, and updates exporter behavior, tests, and observability documentation.

Changes: End-to-end OTLP tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Trace contracts and API workflow starters packages/contracts/src/schemas.ts, packages/contracts/tests/observability.test.ts, apps/api/src/dot-goals.ts, apps/api/src/memory-*-coordinator.ts, apps/api/src/room-agent.ts, apps/api/src/trace-context.ts, apps/api/tests/*	Workflow input schemas accept optional trace context. API workflow starters pass available trace context and correlation metadata to Temporal. The trace-context lookup now returns the registered traceparent unchanged.
Worker span recording and export apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing-context.ts, apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing.ts, apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing-sink.ts, apps/worker/src/activity-observability.ts, apps/worker/src/*worker.ts, apps/worker/src/room-background-continuation.ts, packages/runtime/src/otlp-span-exporter.ts, apps/worker/tests/workflow-tracing.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/activity-observability.test.ts, apps/worker/tests/room-background-continuation.test.ts, packages/runtime/tests/otlp-span-exporter.test.ts	Workers configure workflow trace sinks and interceptors alongside activity observability. The tracing code propagates context across workflows, activities, and continuations, and exports allowlisted span attributes. The shared exporter serializes valid causal links and defers queue draining until its in-flight promise is set.
Temporal validation and observability documentation apps/worker/tests/fixtures/*, apps/worker/tests/otlp-*-integration.test.ts, apps/worker/package.json, docs/configuration-reference.md, docs/quality/observability.md, CHANGELOG.md	Temporal integration tests check span relationships, retry attempts, replay suppression, supervisor segments, and continuation links. Documentation describes configuration, coverage, and tracing behavior.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant APIRequest
  participant TemporalWorker
  participant WorkflowTracing
  participant ActivityObservability
  participant OTLPExporter
  APIRequest->>TemporalWorker: Start workflow with trace context and correlation memo
  TemporalWorker->>WorkflowTracing: Execute workflow with trace context
  WorkflowTracing->>OTLPExporter: Export workflow span
  WorkflowTracing->>ActivityObservability: Propagate parent trace header
  ActivityObservability->>OTLPExporter: Export activity attempt span

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Possibly related issues

• oll4com/spaceapp#60: The PR adds Temporal integration tests and replay-safe workflow tracing, which supports the issue’s replay-determinism objectives.

Possibly related PRs

• oll4com/spaceapp#243: Shares API-to-Temporal trace propagation, worker spans, replay suppression, continuation links, and exporter changes.
• oll4com/spaceapp#70: Shares coordinator memos, worker interceptors, activity attempts, continuation links, and exporter behavior.
• oll4com/spaceapp#221: Shares API propagation, supervisor mission spans, replay suppression, continuation links, and exporter changes.

Suggested reviewers: oll4com

Merge Risk: Low · up to 249a5

A long-lived supervisor can produce duplicate telemetry for a mission after eviction; this is a bounded observability issue suitable for prompt follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: connecting API requests to replay-safe Temporal workflow and activity traces.
Linked Issues check		Issue #61 is open and directly linked. Its coding requirements are assessed from the whole-PR summary (merge base d9059c1 to head 249a521). The summary shows the following implementation: - Worker wi…
Out of Scope Changes check		Every changed area in the whole-PR summary maps to issue #61 or to its test and documentation requirements: - Shared exporter in packages/runtime and its tests: required for the shared-exporter crite…

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Explanation

Issue #61 is open and directly linked. Its coding requirements are assessed from the whole-PR summary (merge base d9059c1 to head 249a521). The summary shows the following implementation:

• Worker wiring: all three workers (worker.ts, memory-maintenance-worker.ts, memory-mutation-worker.ts) register activity observability, workflow trace sinks, and the workflow tracing module only when the span exporter exists. An interceptor registration test covers all three workers.
• Shared exporter: the bounded OTLP/HTTP JSON exporter lives in packages/runtime. It adds causal links with validation and fixes the empty-flush race. Tests cover both changes. The API exporter test file is not listed as changed.
• Span tree: workflow spans take their parent from the propagated traceparent (workflow-tracing.ts, workflow-tracing-context.ts). Activity spans are children of workflow spans and carry attempt, outcome, reason code, and failure category. Child workflows nest under their parents. The integration tests check parent-child structure.
• API propagation: turn, Room Agent, Dot Goal, and memory starters pass the API SERVER traceparent. traceparentForTraceId returns the registered request traceparent.
• Determinism: workflow code performs no tracing I/O. Spans leave the sandbox through sinks that use callDuringReplay false. The Temporal integration test asserts that replay emits no additional spans.
• Continuations: continue-as-new runs link to the prior root. Background continuations carry a traceLink, with a unit test for the trace ID and link.
• Attributes: the sink and activity observability paths use allowlisted identifiers and status fields. Tests check exact attributes and confirm that private input, output, and error text is excluded.
• Tests: a local HTTP OTLP collector plus a Temporal test environment (@temporalio/testing) run real workflows with stub activities. The tests check trace continuity, retries, parent-child links, and supervisor request segments. The PR description states that both Temporal integrations run in the ordinary worker test command with no environment gate.
• Dependencies: the only addition is @temporalio/testing 1.24.0 as a worker devDependency, which the issue names through #60. No production tracing dependency is added.
• Documentation: observability.md and configuration-reference.md describe the new coverage and remove the API-only bullet.

Limits: package-lock.json is an ignored file and was not inspected. Its resolved entry for @temporalio/testing is therefore unverified. The package.json change is reviewable and matches the issue requirement. Full top-level npm test is not claimed. The one failing case (undici pin) is outside the issue's stated test commands and is not part of this PR's diff according to the PR description.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

Every changed area in the whole-PR summary maps to issue #61 or to its test and documentation requirements:

• Shared exporter in packages/runtime and its tests: required for the shared-exporter criterion.
• Worker tracing modules, sinks, fixtures, and integration tests: required for worker spans, replay safety, and the integration test.
• API starter changes (dot-goals, memory coordinators, room-agent, trace-context): required for propagating the API SERVER span into workflows.
• Contracts schema changes (traceLink on dummyTurnInput, optional traceparent on memory inputs) and their tests: required to carry continuation links and parent context.
• room-background-continuation traceLink and its test: required for the background continuation link criterion.
• activity-observability changes: required for activity attempt spans and the attribute allowlist.
• Documentation and CHANGELOG: required by the issue's documentation criteria.
• @temporalio/testing 1.24.0 devDependency: required by the integration test named in the issue.

The PR description reports that the unrelated undici assertion change and the link-inspector stub were removed. The summary contains no entries for them, so they are not in the whole-PR diff. The screenshot is absent from the final tree, per the PR description. No unrelated product or test changes are identified.

Limit: package-lock.json is excluded from review and was not inspected. Its content is not needed to judge scope, because the package.json change is reviewable.

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Thanks for the detailed work. The workflow side looks right for replay safety: span ids come from a hash of the run id instead of the workflow's random stream, workflow spans leave the sandbox only through the spaceTracing sink with callDuringReplay: false, and returning the request's own traceparent from traceparentForTraceId closes the gap between the API SERVER span and the workflow span. The empty-flush fix in packages/runtime/src/otlp-span-exporter.ts and its test are a good catch.
The main blocker is that CI never runs the two integration tests (otlp-temporal.integration.test.ts, otlp-supervisor.integration.test.ts): they need SPACE_TEMPORAL_INTEGRATION=1 and a hand-unpacked @temporalio/testing, and the replay-emits-no-spans and trace-structure criteria are proved only there. The issue allows @temporalio/testing (see #60). Please add it to apps/worker as a devDependency pinned to exactly 1.24.0, with its lockfile entry. Then drop the env gate so both tests run in npm test -w @space/worker, and remove the npm pack/tar steps from docs/quality/observability.md.
Please also take out the changes that are outside #61: the undici pin in scripts/tests/public-docker-distribution.test.mjs, the link-inspector stub in apps/api/tests/api.test.ts, and docs/images/otlp-temporal-test-trace.png (the screenshot belongs in the PR description, which already has it).
Smaller points: add a unit assertion that activity spans carry only the allowlisted keys (the sink test covers workflow spans only), and pick one naming style (space.workflowId next to space.workflow_type).
The Actions runs wait for a maintainer to approve them after code review; that is not a failure on your side.

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Follow-up Comments

Protect exported mission spans from eviction.

55-63: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Protect exported mission spans from eviction.

Each enqueue signal calls parentFor, so a long-lived supervisor can exceed 256 mission keys before the carry limit forces a new run. The legacy supervisor can export a mission at markRoomAgentMissionContinued while the mission remains active. If the original signal is retried before it is marked signaled, the same item can be accepted again after it leaves pending.

After 256 other keys evict the original record, the same key creates a new span. workflowSpanId produces the same spanId, while makeSpan assigns a new startedAtMs. The later finish therefore exports a second record with the same spanId.

Evict only open mission spans. If all 256 entries are closed, fall back to the workflow root instead of creating another mission span.

Suggested fix

       if (missions.size >= 256) {
-        const oldest = missions.keys().next().value!;
-        const discarded = missions.get(oldest)!;
-        closed.delete(discarded);
+        const evictable = [...missions.entries()].find(([, candidate]) => !closed.has(candidate));
+        if (!evictable) return root;
+        const [oldest, discarded] = evictable;
         operations.delete(discarded);
         childCompleted.delete(discarded);
         missions.delete(oldest);

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Review comment at @apps/worker/src/workflow-tracing.ts around lines 55 - 63:
Update the mission-cap eviction logic to evict only entries whose spans are
still open, preserving closed mission records. If no open mission can be
evicted, fall back to the workflow root instead of creating another mission
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Thank you for the time and care you put into this pull request.
We have decided to end the SpaceApp bounty programme, so pull requests made for the bounty issues will not be reviewed, merged or paid, and we are closing this one.
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