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Why

During the hosted gateway's D1 overload incident (Oct 22–25), PostHog could not answer basic questions:

• which workspace or caller a failing request belonged to
• which engine operation was running
• how long the expensive operations (inbox read, delivery listing, workspace delete, invocation sweep, mention backfill) took

Engine errors carried only path, method and request_id, and nothing timed engine operations.

What

• EngineDeps.diagnostics?: EngineDiagnostics (new ports/diagnostics.ts, exported from @relaycast/engine/ports):
  • operation(sample) reports { label, workspaceId?, durationMs, outcome, errorName? } for inbox.get, deliveries.list, workspace.delete, invocations.sweep and backfill.mention_fts. errorName is error.name only, never the message.
  • progress(sample) reports { operation, workspaceId?, phase, table?, rows?, remaining?, durationMs? }. The mention backfill reports a batch per page and completed; the bounded workspace delete PR will use it for its cascade.
  • Callbacks are isolated (a throwing sink never affects a request) and absent by default.
• Operation scope: labelled operations run inside an AsyncLocalStorage scope.
  • currentEngineOperation() lets a host's database wrapper attribute each statement's real cost (D1 rows_read/rows_written) to the operation in flight. The engine can't see that through drizzle.
  • configureEngineDiagnostics() covers maintenance callers that never build the app; createEngine configures it from deps.diagnostics when supplied.
• Error scope: an error thrown inside an operation carries a non-enumerable label. app.onError adds workspace_id, agent_id, engine_operation and the matched route template (never a raw path) to its error log and captureException context.
• How the operations are wrapped: each instrumented function is now a thin labelled wrapper around its unchanged body.

The interface was agreed with the session instrumenting the hosted worker (relaycast-cloud): the engine reports operation-level timing, and the worker reports statement-level D1 cost keyed by currentEngineOperation().

Tests

• Unit: duration and outcome, scope propagation across awaits and timers, innermost-wins nesting, error labelling without leaking the message, a throwing sink being harmless, and the no-sink no-op.
• Conformance through the real app:
  • inbox and ?status= delivery reads are labelled with their workspace
  • a failing inbox read reports workspace_id, agent_id, engine_operation: 'inbox.get' and route: '/v1/inbox' to captureException
  • the backfill reports progress through to completed
• npm run typecheck, npm run lint, the engine suite (1,526 tests) and npm run build all pass.

Additive (Minor). REST and WebSocket contracts are unchanged.

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The engine adds optional diagnostics sinks for operation timing and cleanup progress. It scopes diagnostics to requests, instruments selected engine operations, and adds available workspace, agent, operation, and route context to unhandled server-error logs and 5xx exception telemetry.

Changes: Engine Diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diagnostics contracts and runtime packages/engine/src/ports/diagnostics.ts, packages/engine/src/ports/index.ts, packages/engine/src/index.ts, packages/engine/src/lib/engineDiagnostics.ts, packages/engine/src/lib/httpError.ts, packages/engine/src/lib/__tests__/engineDiagnostics.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md, packages/engine/CHANGELOG.md	Adds diagnostic contracts, an optional diagnostics provider, and exported diagnostics APIs. Runtime support selects scoped or fallback sinks, tracks operation context, reports timing and progress, and contains callback failures. Wrapped errors retain operation labels.
Operation timing and backfill progress packages/engine/src/engine/action.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/delivery.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/inbox.ts, packages/engine/src/engine/workspace.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/engineDiagnostics.test.ts	Labels invocation sweeps, delivery listing, inbox reads, backfills, and workspace deletion. Backfills report progress. Conformance tests cover operation samples, completion, and sink isolation.
Request scope and error telemetry packages/engine/src/engine.ts, packages/engine/src/__tests__/conformance/engineDiagnostics.test.ts	Runs requests in the app’s diagnostics scope. Adds available request and operation context to unhandled-error logs and 5xx exception telemetry. Tests cover error context, including non-Error rejections.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant createEngine
  participant getInbox
  participant withEngineOperation
  participant EngineDiagnostics
  Host->>createEngine: Provide optional diagnostics sink
  createEngine->>getInbox: Run request in app diagnostics scope
  getInbox->>withEngineOperation: Start inbox.get
  withEngineOperation->>EngineDiagnostics: Report duration and outcome

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Possibly related PRs

• AgentWorkforce/relaycast#554: Both changes affect uncoded-error handling and telemetry.
• AgentWorkforce/relaycast#551: This PR passes request and operation context through the telemetry contract changed by PR #551.
• AgentWorkforce/relaycast#569: This PR labels and reports progress for the exported mention-FTS backfill operation.

Suggested reviewers: khaliqgant

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 9eff4

Some failed requests may lack operation attribution in diagnostics, but request handling remains intact and the issue has limited impact.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely identifies the main changes: engine operation diagnostics and host error scope.
Description check		The description directly explains the motivation, diagnostics API, operation scope, error context, tests, and compatibility impact of the changeset.
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is inconclusive: files from earlier reviews still need to be rechecked within the check's analysis limits. Not blocking.
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Summary

Adds optional operation timing, cleanup progress, and error context for hosts.

• Engine operations now send hosts timed success and failure reports.
• Server errors now name the workspace, caller, operation, and route.
• The mention backfill reports each page and when it finishes.

No new actionable issues were found. Tests were inspected, not run.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Host
  participant Engine
  participant Operation
  participant Sink as Diagnostics callback
  Host->>Engine: Request with app diagnostics
  Engine->>Operation: Run inside operation scope
  Operation-->>Engine: Result or labelled failure
  Engine-->>Sink: Duration and outcome
  Note over Engine,Sink: Callback failures are caught
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Minor · Preserve the operation label for primitive and array rejections. · engineDiagnostics.ts:91-104

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the operation label for primitive and array rejections.

The /v1/inbox path reaches withEngineOperation('inbox.get', ...) and awaits the host-injected EngineDb. If that adapter rejects with an array or primitive, asCodedError creates a new Error without the operation label. engine.ts then omits engine_operation from the 5xx log and telemetry context.

Normalize these rejection values at the operation boundary and label the normalized error.

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   } catch (error) {
-    if (typeof error === 'object' && error !== null && !operationLabels.has(error)) {
-      operationLabels.set(error, label);
+    const thrown = typeof error === 'object' && error !== null && !Array.isArray(error)
+      ? error
+      : new Error(typeof error === 'string' ? error : 'Unknown error');
+    if (!operationLabels.has(thrown)) {
+      operationLabels.set(thrown, label);
     }
     if (sink?.operation) {
-      const errorName = error instanceof Error ? error.name : undefined;
+      const errorName = thrown instanceof Error ? thrown.name : undefined;
       isolate(() => sink.operation!({
         ...context,
         durationMs: performance.now() - start,
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       }));
     }
-    throw error;
+    throw thrown;

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