feat(o11y): shared GlitchTip shipper - classify, fingerprint, drain failure-record JSONL to GlitchTip (DSN from SSM) #250

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opened 2026-06-18 07:22:17 +00:00 by coilysiren · 2 comments
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Problem

Issues A (Goose) and B (Claude) populate a local failure-record buffer at ~/.cache/agentic-os/tool-failures/<repo-slug>.jsonl. This issue ships that buffer to GlitchTip so the tool-use error rate becomes a visible, grouped, counted feed - the original o11y goal.

Scope

  1. Shipper - read the per-repo failure-record JSONL, track a drained-watermark, and for each genuine failure emit a Sentry-protocol envelope to GlitchTip (GlitchTip is Sentry-wire-compatible). Out-of-band from the producers: a ward verb on a timer and/or a SessionEnd ward hook. Never on any hot path.
  2. Fingerprint grouping - set the Sentry fingerprint to the failure-record fingerprint so a flood of identical failures collapses to one GlitchTip issue with a count. Tag by harness, failure_class, repo. This count-per-fingerprint view is the actual signal ("which failure mode dominates").
  3. Classifier gate - emit only genuine failures (expected-non-zero already dropped upstream, but the shipper is the final gate).
  4. DSN from SSM - per the Sentry-DSN-in-SSM rule, read the GlitchTip DSN from an SSM parameter (cache on first read), fail-soft (buffer keeps accumulating) if the DSN is absent. Record the SSM path in SSM.md.

Open decision

GlitchTip project + DSN: does a project already exist, or does this issue create one? If creating, that is the one externally-visible step and should be confirmed by Kai. The code is built DSN-pluggable so the buffer-and-classify half lands and is testable before the project exists.

Done condition

  • Shipper drains the buffer to a GlitchTip project, watermark-respecting and idempotent.
  • Identical failures group to one fingerprinted GlitchTip issue with an accurate count.
  • DSN resolved from SSM, path recorded in SSM.md, fail-soft when absent.

Depends on

  • Issue A (schema + buffer), issue B (Claude producer) - though C can land against A alone and pick up B's records once they exist.
## Problem Issues A (Goose) and B (Claude) populate a local failure-record buffer at `~/.cache/agentic-os/tool-failures/<repo-slug>.jsonl`. This issue ships that buffer to GlitchTip so the tool-use error rate becomes a visible, grouped, counted feed - the original o11y goal. ## Scope 1. **Shipper** - read the per-repo failure-record JSONL, track a drained-watermark, and for each genuine failure emit a Sentry-protocol envelope to GlitchTip (GlitchTip is Sentry-wire-compatible). Out-of-band from the producers: a `ward` verb on a timer and/or a `SessionEnd` ward hook. Never on any hot path. 2. **Fingerprint grouping** - set the Sentry `fingerprint` to the failure-record `fingerprint` so a flood of identical failures collapses to one GlitchTip issue with a count. Tag by `harness`, `failure_class`, `repo`. This count-per-fingerprint view is the actual signal ("which failure mode dominates"). 3. **Classifier gate** - emit only genuine failures (expected-non-zero already dropped upstream, but the shipper is the final gate). 4. **DSN from SSM** - per the Sentry-DSN-in-SSM rule, read the GlitchTip DSN from an SSM parameter (cache on first read), fail-soft (buffer keeps accumulating) if the DSN is absent. Record the SSM path in `SSM.md`. ## Open decision GlitchTip project + DSN: does a project already exist, or does this issue create one? If creating, that is the one externally-visible step and should be confirmed by Kai. The code is built DSN-pluggable so the buffer-and-classify half lands and is testable before the project exists. ## Done condition - Shipper drains the buffer to a GlitchTip project, watermark-respecting and idempotent. - Identical failures group to one fingerprinted GlitchTip issue with an accurate count. - DSN resolved from SSM, path recorded in `SSM.md`, fail-soft when absent. ## Depends on - Issue A (schema + buffer), issue B (Claude producer) - though C can land against A alone and pick up B's records once they exist.
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🔒 Reserved by ward agent --driver claude — container engineer-claude-agentic-os-250 on host KAI-DESKTOP-TOWER is carrying this issue (reserved 2026-07-04T09:02:08Z). Concurrent ward agent runs are blocked until it finishes or the reservation goes stale (2h0m0s TTL); --force overrides.

Do not comment on or edit this issue to steer the run while it is reserved. The engineer seeded the body once at launch and never re-reads it, so a comment or edit reaches only human readers, never the running engineer. A correction goes to a new issue, dispatched fresh — that is the only channel that reaches a run in flight. Where the forge supports it, ward locks this conversation to make that a road-block rather than a convention (ward#494).

— Claude (she/her), via ward agent

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WARD-OUTCOME: done - shipper landed on main (agentic_os/tool_failures/): drains the failure-record buffer to GlitchTip, fingerprint-grouped, watermark-idempotent, DSN-from-SSM fail-soft.

The code half went smoothly. The surprise was upstream: this shipper was designed to drain the buffer that #248 (Goose) and #249 (Claude) populate, but both producers were deleted from aos back in June by the 03d1525 "aos execed agent commands are last era" commit. So I'm shipping a drainer for a buffer nothing in-tree currently writes. The good news is #250's own design made that a non-blocker - the shipper is explicitly producer-agnostic and DSN-pluggable ("C can land against A alone"), so it lands and is fully tested regardless. I recovered the exact schema-v1 contract from the deleted producer docs so the shipper reads records in the precise shape any future producer would emit.

Confident in the buffer/classify/fingerprint/watermark half: 22 tests, and I exercised dry-run and fail-soft live. Where I can't be confident is the actual GlitchTip wire path end-to-end - the project and DSN don't exist yet, and creating them is the one externally-visible step that's yours. Until the /sentry-dsn/tool-failures param exists the shipper fail-softs and the buffer just accumulates, which is the intended behavior.

Rough edges / follow-ups, filed as #326: (1) create the GlitchTip project + populate the SSM DSN, and (2) the bigger question the build surfaced - with both producers retired, the whole failure-record chain needs a call: re-home the producers (into ward's fleet?) or retire the chain, which would make this shipper vestigial. One cosmetic nit I left: the fail-soft summary line prints "0 buffer files" because it returns before counting - harmless, the note explains it.

One decision I made unilaterally: the SSM path /sentry-dsn/tool-failures, following the observability skill's /sentry-dsn/<project> convention rather than the newer 4-segment scheme (which the existing DSN family also predates). It's overridable via env, so it's cheap to change when you wire the project.

  • Claude (she/her), via ward agent
WARD-OUTCOME: done - shipper landed on main (agentic_os/tool_failures/): drains the failure-record buffer to GlitchTip, fingerprint-grouped, watermark-idempotent, DSN-from-SSM fail-soft. The code half went smoothly. The surprise was upstream: this shipper was designed to drain the buffer that #248 (Goose) and #249 (Claude) populate, but both producers were **deleted** from aos back in June by the `03d1525` "aos execed agent commands are last era" commit. So I'm shipping a drainer for a buffer nothing in-tree currently writes. The good news is #250's own design made that a non-blocker - the shipper is explicitly producer-agnostic and DSN-pluggable ("C can land against A alone"), so it lands and is fully tested regardless. I recovered the exact schema-v1 contract from the deleted producer docs so the shipper reads records in the precise shape any future producer would emit. Confident in the buffer/classify/fingerprint/watermark half: 22 tests, and I exercised dry-run and fail-soft live. Where I can't be confident is the actual GlitchTip wire path end-to-end - the project and DSN don't exist yet, and creating them is the one externally-visible step that's yours. Until the `/sentry-dsn/tool-failures` param exists the shipper fail-softs and the buffer just accumulates, which is the intended behavior. Rough edges / follow-ups, filed as #326: (1) create the GlitchTip project + populate the SSM DSN, and (2) the bigger question the build surfaced - with both producers retired, the whole failure-record chain needs a call: re-home the producers (into ward's fleet?) or retire the chain, which would make this shipper vestigial. One cosmetic nit I left: the fail-soft summary line prints "0 buffer files" because it returns before counting - harmless, the note explains it. One decision I made unilaterally: the SSM path `/sentry-dsn/tool-failures`, following the observability skill's `/sentry-dsn/<project>` convention rather than the newer 4-segment scheme (which the existing DSN family also predates). It's overridable via env, so it's cheap to change when you wire the project. - Claude (she/her), via ward agent
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