feat(observability): name the command on subprocess spans by t3dotgg · Pull Request #13701 · pingdotgg/t3code

t3dotgg · 2026-09-25T21:24:57Z

A slowdown report counted about 295 processRunner.runProcessCore spans per minute. The span had no attribute for the command, so the report could not say which commands they were.

Fix

The processRunner.runProcessCore span now records process.command: the executable name without its directory, for example git, claude, or npx.cmd. No arguments or paths go on the span.

We do not parse git arguments. The parent span already names each git call (git.operation on GitVcsDriver spans, or the RepositoryIdentityResolver spans).

t3 trace summary in #13698 lists "top commands by spawn count" as not possible without this attribute.

Verification

vp test run apps/server/src/processRunner.test.ts (POSIX and Windows paths lose their directory)
vp lint and vp fmt on the changed files, vp run --filter t3 typecheck

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New Features
- Process tracing now records executable names without their directory paths, making it easier to identify commands in trace details. This applies to POSIX- and Windows-style paths; commands without a directory are recorded unchanged. The command that runs and its arguments are not changed.

macroscopeapp · 2026-09-25T21:27:25Z

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This small observability change annotates every subprocess span with an executable basename without changing process execution. Unresolved comments identify that custom basenames can enter telemetry, so the value should be bounded or reviewed before merge.

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github-actions · 2026-09-25T21:27:50Z

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Codex	Live turn messages	10	9	−1 (−10.0%)	21	✅
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Baseline: 2a9832b · PR result: 00251af · Source CI: success

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10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

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Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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The process runner adds an exported commandName function. It records the command's final path component as the process.command attribute on the current span. Tests cover POSIX and Windows paths and bare commands.

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Process command span attribute

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Derive and record command name `apps/server/src/processRunner.ts`, `apps/server/src/processRunner.test.ts`	`commandName` extracts the final path component from a command. `runProcessCore` records that name as `process.command` on the current span. Tests cover POSIX paths, Windows paths, and commands without a directory.

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Variable executable names may increase telemetry cardinality and reduce observability quality, but the impact is bounded.

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In `@apps/server/src/processRunner.ts`:
- Around line 299-300: Update gitSubcommand to stop parsing and return undefined
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The processRunner.runProcessCore span now records process.command (the executable name without its directory) and, for git, process.subcommand (the first plain word after global options like -C and -c). No other arguments or paths are recorded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

process.subcommand now comes from a fixed allowlist of git subcommands, so an unknown word, path, or option value is never recorded. Also skip the values of --namespace, --config-env, --shallow-file, and --attr-source when looking for the subcommand. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Drop process.subcommand and its git option parser and subcommand allowlist. The parent span already names each git call (git.operation, RepositoryIdentityResolver spans), so process.command is enough to group spawns. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

macroscopeapp · 2026-09-26T01:14:02Z

  spawner: ChildProcessSpawner.ChildProcessSpawner["Service"],
  input: ProcessRunInput,
 ): Effect.fn.Return<ProcessRunOutput, ProcessRunError, Scope.Scope> {
+  yield* Effect.annotateCurrentSpan("process.command", commandName(input.command));


process.command can contain an arbitrary caller-supplied basename (including a renamed process.execPath), so stripping directories does not make this span annotation safe or bounded. Consider mapping only known executable names to fixed values and using a fixed fallback for unknown names; add a focused test for a custom basename.

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Not changing this. Spans in this repo already carry full paths (git.cwd at apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts:979, terminal.cwd at apps/server/src/terminal/Manager.ts:2211), and ProcessRunError already records the full command path (apps/server/src/processRunner.ts:52). A basename is not a command argument, and the set of real values is the small set of binaries T3 spawns, so a fixed fallback would only hide what the span is for.

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Add an assertion for the emitted process.command span attribute.

The tests cover commandName directly, but they do not execute runProcessCore inside an actual span or assert the process.command attribute. A regression in the annotation wiring or in the value passed to Effect.annotateCurrentSpan would therefore remain undetected.

Add one focused runProcessCore test that runs a command with a directory prefix and asserts that the recorded span contains process.command: "command".
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## What's Changed * feat(desktop): honor the standard OTLP variables in the main process and WSL backends by @yordis in pingdotgg/t3code#13641 * fix(web): restore compact provider instance badges by @t3-code[bot] in pingdotgg/t3code#13700 * perf(mobile): lighter Home rows away from the viewport by @AKolenda in pingdotgg/t3code#13702 * fix(usage): price Cursor cache savings by base model by @Yash-Singh1 in pingdotgg/t3code#13731 * perf(mobile): render Home rows further ahead while scrolling by @AKolenda in pingdotgg/t3code#13705 * refactor(observability): name each service after its application by @yordis in pingdotgg/t3code#13699 * perf(server): stop remapping every thread on each thread event by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13720 * Remove unused items tracking from Claude adapter state by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13718 * feat(observability): name the command on subprocess spans by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13701 * fix(cli): t3 triage points agents at log files that exist by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13685 * fix(server): the SQLite WAL file shrinks back after large writes by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13684 * feat(cli): summarize the server trace file from the command line by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13698 * perf(server): pull request sync reads only threads with linked pull requests by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#13704 ## New Contributors * @AKolenda made their first contribution in pingdotgg/t3code#13702 **Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.43-nightly.20260925.2269...v0.0.43-nightly.20260926.2282 Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.43-nightly.20260926.2282

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