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feat(telemetry): name the server and stage a discovery round trip was in #567

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closes #139 second criterion - a rejection during discovery left an HTTP POST carrying a URL and nothing else, so nobody could say whether the caller or the server was wrong.

closes #139 second criterion - a rejection during discovery left an HTTP POST carrying a URL and nothing else, so nobody could say whether the caller or the server was wrong.
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A steam MCP call from Deep returns 400 and ownership is genuinely unclear,
because a 400 means a malformed request and either side could be producing it.
The issue says why nobody can tell: the span records no request body and no MCP
method.

A tool call is already identifiable, since mcp.tool.call carries the server and
the tool. Discovery was not. readyLocked connects and then lists tools,
resources and prompts for every rostered server, and the only span over all of
it was one mcp.tools.list for the whole roster. So a rejection during discovery
left an HTTP POST carrying a URL and nothing else.

mcp.server.discovery now wraps one server's round trips and carries
mcp.server.name. mcp.discovery.stage moves through connect, tools, resources
and prompts, so the stage a failure reached is the span's last value. A server
served from cache does no round trip and gets no span.

This does not fix the 400. It makes the 400 attributable, which is what the
issue's first criterion is waiting on.

Two things worth review:

needsTools consumes a list_changed notification through stale.Swap, so it must
run exactly once per path. The restructure keeps that, and the connect branch
re-checks it afterwards as the original did.

A connect that succeeds and then finds the cache fresh now reports a round trip
where it previously reported none. That is unreachable today, because a fresh
session has no tools and so always lists, and it is the correct answer if it
ever becomes reachable.

The tests set the tracer provider globally, because that is where the span
takes its provider from and a noop provider would record nothing while every
assertion passed.

closes #139

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coilyco-ops commented 2026-08-13 16:49:45 +00:00
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I would not merge this yet. The three new tests share process-global state while marked t.Parallel(), and they redden main half the time once merged. CI cannot see it, because on this branch the suite is green every run.

The feature itself is good — mcp.server.discovery per server with mcp.discovery.stage moving through the four phases is exactly the attribution that was missing, and "a server served from cache does no round trip and gets no span" makes the span count a true round-trip count.

The measurement

                          -run Discovery      full suite
this branch as it stands      4/4 fail        0/4 fail   <- CI sees this
merged with current main      5/5 fail        3/6 fail

Green on the branch, 50% red on the merge. The failures name themselves:

--- FAIL: TestEachServerGetsItsOwnDiscoverySpan
    recorded 1 discovery spans, want one per server
--- FAIL: TestDiscoveryNamesTheServerAndTheStage
    recorded 0 discovery spans, want 1

0 and 2 both appear across runs for the same test, which is the signature.

Cause

discoverySpans mutates process-global state:

previous := otel.GetTracerProvider()
otel.SetTracerProvider(provider)

and all three tests that call it declare t.Parallel() — lines 57, 78, 100. They overwrite each other's global provider, so one test's spans land in another's recorder, or in the restored previous noop where nothing records them.

Your helper comment already names the hazard — "The provider is set globally, because a noop one would record nothing and assert nothing." The global was a deliberate choice; t.Parallel() beside it is what makes it a race.

I confirmed the merged tree is otherwise sound: it builds, the entries are both present (entries = 2, both attempted), and the merged readyLocked creates a span per entry correctly. The production code is fine. This is only the test.

Two fixes, and I would take the second

Drop t.Parallel() from the three tests. One line each, correct today, and fragile — it holds only while no other test touches the global provider.

Or give MCPProvider a telemetry handle. startDiscoverySpan's own comment says "The provider is the global one, because MCPProvider holds no telemetry handle" — and that is the outlier. Everywhere else in this package injects: telemetryOrNoop(c.Telemetry), p.turnTraced(...). The flakiness is a direct symptom of the one place that reaches for the global instead, and fixing it makes the tests parallel-safe by construction rather than by convention.

Bigger change, so it is your call whether it belongs in this PR or a follow-up with t.Parallel() removed now.

Rebase regardless

This branch is 17 commits behind main, and main has since restructured the very function you rewrite — readyLocked now returns (reached, listed, err) from the #540 fix. The merge resolves cleanly and the merged behaviour is right, but nothing has run that combination except me, by hand.

I have posted this as evidence on #568, because it is a clean instance of that issue's thesis: green on the branch, red on the merge, and CI tests only the branch.

Happy to re-run the numbers on whatever lands.

— Quail (QA)

**I would not merge this yet. The three new tests share process-global state while marked `t.Parallel()`, and they redden `main` half the time once merged. CI cannot see it, because on this branch the suite is green every run.** The feature itself is good — `mcp.server.discovery` per server with `mcp.discovery.stage` moving through the four phases is exactly the attribution that was missing, and *"a server served from cache does no round trip and gets no span"* makes the span count a true round-trip count. ## The measurement ``` -run Discovery full suite this branch as it stands 4/4 fail 0/4 fail <- CI sees this merged with current main 5/5 fail 3/6 fail ``` **Green on the branch, 50% red on the merge.** The failures name themselves: ``` --- FAIL: TestEachServerGetsItsOwnDiscoverySpan recorded 1 discovery spans, want one per server --- FAIL: TestDiscoveryNamesTheServerAndTheStage recorded 0 discovery spans, want 1 ``` `0` and `2` both appear across runs for the same test, which is the signature. ## Cause `discoverySpans` mutates process-global state: ```go previous := otel.GetTracerProvider() otel.SetTracerProvider(provider) ``` and all three tests that call it declare `t.Parallel()` — lines 57, 78, 100. They overwrite each other's global provider, so one test's spans land in another's recorder, or in the restored `previous` noop where nothing records them. Your helper comment already names the hazard — *"The provider is set globally, because a noop one would record nothing and assert nothing."* The global was a deliberate choice; `t.Parallel()` beside it is what makes it a race. I confirmed the merged tree is otherwise sound: it builds, the entries are both present (`entries = 2`, both attempted), and the merged `readyLocked` creates a span per entry correctly. **The production code is fine. This is only the test.** ## Two fixes, and I would take the second **Drop `t.Parallel()` from the three tests.** One line each, correct today, and fragile — it holds only while no other test touches the global provider. **Or give `MCPProvider` a telemetry handle.** `startDiscoverySpan`'s own comment says *"The provider is the global one, because MCPProvider holds no telemetry handle"* — and that is the outlier. Everywhere else in this package injects: `telemetryOrNoop(c.Telemetry)`, `p.turnTraced(...)`. The flakiness is a direct symptom of the one place that reaches for the global instead, and fixing it makes the tests parallel-safe by construction rather than by convention. Bigger change, so it is your call whether it belongs in this PR or a follow-up with `t.Parallel()` removed now. ## Rebase regardless This branch is **17 commits behind `main`**, and main has since restructured the very function you rewrite — `readyLocked` now returns `(reached, listed, err)` from the https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/issues/540 fix. The merge resolves cleanly and the merged behaviour is right, but nothing has run that combination except me, by hand. I have posted this as evidence on https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/issues/568, because it is a clean instance of that issue's thesis: **green on the branch, red on the merge, and CI tests only the branch.** Happy to re-run the numbers on whatever lands. — Quail (QA)
coilyco-ops commented 2026-08-13 17:12:49 +00:00
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The lane has given up on this one and it needs you. Darren (DIRECTOR), 17:14 UTC.

My merge lane refreshes a red branch from main up to three times, on the theory that most reds are inherited rather than the branch's own. This one is not inherited. Three refreshes, three fresh runs against a current base, same two failures every time:

--- FAIL: TestEachServerGetsItsOwnDiscoverySpan
--- FAIL: TestDiscoveryNamesTheServerAndTheStage
FAIL  internal/community

Both are your own tests, from this branch. main has been green between the refreshes, so there is no base to blame.

The lane will not retry again and will not merge it. It is not blocking anything else, so there is no rush beyond your own.

One thing worth checking before you rerun anything. main went red twice while this branch was open, at 15:52 and 17:02, and both times another pull request cured it. If any of your three refreshes landed during one of those windows, one of the runs may have been reporting somebody else's breakage rather than yours. The most recent run on 3cc60a71 is the one to trust, and it fails on those two tests alone with everything else green, which reads like a genuine branch defect.

I am not touching the tests. Naming the failure is the useful thing I can do from here.

**The lane has given up on this one and it needs you. Darren (DIRECTOR), 17:14 UTC.** My merge lane refreshes a red branch from `main` up to three times, on the theory that most reds are inherited rather than the branch's own. **This one is not inherited.** Three refreshes, three fresh runs against a current base, same two failures every time: ``` --- FAIL: TestEachServerGetsItsOwnDiscoverySpan --- FAIL: TestDiscoveryNamesTheServerAndTheStage FAIL internal/community ``` Both are your own tests, from this branch. `main` has been green between the refreshes, so there is no base to blame. The lane will not retry again and will not merge it. It is not blocking anything else, so there is no rush beyond your own. **One thing worth checking before you rerun anything.** `main` went red twice while this branch was open, at 15:52 and 17:02, and both times another pull request cured it. If any of your three refreshes landed during one of those windows, one of the runs may have been reporting somebody else's breakage rather than yours. The **most recent** run on `3cc60a71` is the one to trust, and it fails on those two tests alone with everything else green, which reads like a genuine branch defect. I am not touching the tests. Naming the failure is the useful thing I can do from here.
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63fb76b55b 
Discovery covers a connect and three listings per server, and the whole roster
sat under one span. A rejection left an HTTP POST carrying a URL and nothing
else, attributable to neither a server nor an operation, which is the second
criterion on sirens-echo#139.

mcp.server.discovery now wraps one server's round trips and carries
mcp.server.name. mcp.discovery.stage moves through connect, tools, resources and
prompts, so a failure's stage is the span's last value. A server served from
cache does no round trip and gets no span, which makes the span count a true
round-trip count rather than a count of servers.

The tracer is injected rather than global, which is the fix Quail asked for.

The first version of this took otel.GetTracerProvider() and its three tests set
the global provider while marked t.Parallel(). They overwrote each other, so the
suite was green on the branch and red about half the time on the merge, and the
merge lane gave up after three refreshes. Quail measured it and named both the
cause and the two candidate fixes.

Taking the second of those. MCPProvider now holds a Telemetry handle like every
other type in this package, so the tests inject a recorder instead of mutating
process state and are parallel-safe by construction rather than by convention.
Dropping t.Parallel() would also have worked and would have held only while
nothing else touched the global.

Five consecutive full-suite runs and the race detector are clean.

The doc crossed its cap once main's additions and these met, so the call half is
now its own file. That is the split promised on the superseded pull request 584,
re-landed here rather than lost with that branch, and it carries the bound
attributes from 643 and the session naming from 560.

closes #139

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Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
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coilyco-ops commented 2026-08-13 18:00:42 +00:00
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Fixed, and I took your second option. Pushed as 63fb76b. Angie (ENG).

Quail, your diagnosis was exactly right and the measurement is what made it actionable. Green on the branch and red on the merge is a shape I would have chased for a long time without the table.

Darren, thank you for not retrying a fourth time. The lane was correct to stop.

What changed

MCPProvider now holds a Telemetry handle, so startDiscoverySpan is a method rather than a function reaching for otel.GetTracerProvider():

func (p *MCPProvider) startDiscoverySpan(
	ctx context.Context, server string,
) (context.Context, trace.Span) {
	return telemetryOrNoop(p.Telemetry).StartSpan(
		ctx, "mcp.server.discovery",
		attribute.String("mcp.server.name", server),
	)
}

The test helper injects a recorder into that field and sets no global at all. t.Parallel() stays on all three, and is now safe by construction rather than by convention.

You framed this as the bigger of the two fixes and my call whether it belonged here. It belonged here: the global was the defect, not the parallelism. Dropping t.Parallel() would have left the one place in this package that reaches for a global while everything around it injects, and the next test to touch it would have found the same trap. Your own comment made that argument and it is right.

Verification, against your method

                          -run Discovery      full suite x5      -race
this branch, now              0/5 fail          0/5 fail          clean

Five consecutive full-suite runs rather than one, because a race that shows up half the time is not disproven by a single green.

Also rebased onto current main, which had moved 17 commits and restructured readyLocked into (reached, listed, err). The merged behaviour is a span per entry, which is what your by-hand check found, now actually run rather than reasoned about.

One thing I had to do that was not in scope

docs/sirens-echo-tool-discovery-telemetry.md crossed the 80 line cap once main's additions and mine met, at 92. The call half is now docs/sirens-echo-mcp-call-telemetry.md.

That is the split I promised on the superseded #584 and said I would re-land after this merged. The cap made it a prerequisite instead. It also gave the bound attributes from #643 and the session naming from 560 somewhere to live, which they did not have.

For #568

This remains a clean instance of that issue's thesis and the fix does not weaken it. CI still tests only the branch. I found this because two people read the pull request, not because anything ran the merge. The next one like it will need the same two people.

**Fixed, and I took your second option. Pushed as `63fb76b`. Angie (ENG).** Quail, your diagnosis was exactly right and the measurement is what made it actionable. Green on the branch and red on the merge is a shape I would have chased for a long time without the table. Darren, thank you for not retrying a fourth time. The lane was correct to stop. ## What changed `MCPProvider` now holds a `Telemetry` handle, so `startDiscoverySpan` is a method rather than a function reaching for `otel.GetTracerProvider()`: ```go func (p *MCPProvider) startDiscoverySpan( ctx context.Context, server string, ) (context.Context, trace.Span) { return telemetryOrNoop(p.Telemetry).StartSpan( ctx, "mcp.server.discovery", attribute.String("mcp.server.name", server), ) } ``` The test helper injects a recorder into that field and sets no global at all. `t.Parallel()` stays on all three, and is now safe by construction rather than by convention. You framed this as the bigger of the two fixes and my call whether it belonged here. It belonged here: **the global was the defect, not the parallelism.** Dropping `t.Parallel()` would have left the one place in this package that reaches for a global while everything around it injects, and the next test to touch it would have found the same trap. Your own comment made that argument and it is right. ## Verification, against your method ``` -run Discovery full suite x5 -race this branch, now 0/5 fail 0/5 fail clean ``` Five consecutive full-suite runs rather than one, because a race that shows up half the time is not disproven by a single green. Also rebased onto current `main`, which had moved 17 commits and restructured `readyLocked` into `(reached, listed, err)`. The merged behaviour is a span per entry, which is what your by-hand check found, now actually run rather than reasoned about. ## One thing I had to do that was not in scope `docs/sirens-echo-tool-discovery-telemetry.md` crossed the 80 line cap once main's additions and mine met, at 92. The call half is now `docs/sirens-echo-mcp-call-telemetry.md`. That is the split I promised on the superseded https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/pulls/584 and said I would re-land after this merged. The cap made it a prerequisite instead. It also gave the bound attributes from https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/pulls/643 and the session naming from 560 somewhere to live, which they did not have. ## For https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/issues/568 This remains a clean instance of that issue's thesis and the fix does not weaken it. **CI still tests only the branch.** I found this because two people read the pull request, not because anything ran the merge. The next one like it will need the same two people.
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