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fix(trace): record streamed agent turns (start(stream=True)) - #6087
Bug:agent.start(prompt, stream=True) recorded only session_start / session_end. Unlike chat() / achat(), the streaming path emitted no agent_start / agent_end. So a live replay of a streamed answer could not show the agent working: its box never lit up while the words streamed. Reproduced on praisonai 4.7.20.
Fix (_start_stream, about 15 lines): record agent_start when the stream begins, and agent_end with completed, failed or cancelled when it ends. cancelled covers the caller closing the generator early, for example a page that stops reading. Nothing is recorded when tracing is off.
Model-call events are deliberately not invented here. A streamed turn can make several model calls (tool use), and the stream emitter already reports each one (request_start / stream_end).
Tests (4 new, in tests/unit/trace/test_unnamed_agent_trace.py): start and end with completed, early close gives cancelled, an error gives failed, and nothing is recorded when tracing is off. Three of the four fail on main; the fourth guards the tracing-off case. The trace, workflow, agent, llm and streaming suites: 2168 passed.
End to end with real gpt-4o-mini: a page streaming the answer word by word now shows the agent box as running while the text grows (0 → 370 characters), then done.
Streamed agent interactions now include tracing events that show when a turn starts and whether it completes, is cancelled, or fails. Guardrail-blocked turns are recorded as failed.
When tracing is disabled, streamed responses continue without recording these events.
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Stream errors that trigger a non-streaming fallback now record a single completed turn, without duplicate trace events. Subsequent regular chat interactions continue to be traced independently.
A streamed turn recorded only session_start/session_end: _start_stream
emitted no agent_start/agent_end, unlike chat()/achat(). A live replay could
not show the agent running while its words streamed.
_start_stream now records agent_start when the stream begins and agent_end
with completed / failed / cancelled (the caller stopping early) when it ends.
Nothing is recorded when tracing is off.
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Streamed agent turns now emit lifecycle trace events when tracing is enabled. End events report completion, cancellation, or failure. The stream fallback suppresses duplicate lifecycle events from its chat() call.
_start_stream records lifecycle events and reports a terminal status for completion, cancellation, failures, and blocking guardrails or hooks. Tests cover these statuses and tracing-disabled streaming.
The fallback marks its chat() call as already traced and resets that marker afterward. Tests verify that fallback records one turn and a later ordinary chat() call records a separate turn.
Streaming remains usable, but interleaved turns and failed fallbacks can produce inaccurate traces. These bounded observability risks can be accepted with owner awareness or fixed before merging.
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Review comments at @src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/chat_mixin.py:
- Line 5438: Update the outcome handling between _start_stream_turn and
_start_stream so input-guardrail refusals and BEFORE_AGENT blocks are not
recorded as completed agent turns; propagate a blocked or failed status to the
trace, or start the trace only after those checks pass.
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- Around line 184-189: Add a real-agentic test alongside the deterministic tests
in `test_streamed_turn_records_agent_start_and_end`’s test group that calls the
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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift
Add the required real streamed-agent test.
These tests replace _start_stream_turn and call _start_stream directly. They cannot verify that Agent.start(..., stream=True) emits the events during an actual LLM stream. Add a real-agentic test for that public path alongside these deterministic tests. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
As per coding guidelines, “Both smoke AND real agentic tests are required”; the agent must call agent.start() with a real prompt and produce an LLM response.
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184 - 189:
Add a real-agentic test alongside the deterministic tests in
`test_streamed_turn_records_agent_start_and_end`’s test group that calls the
public `Agent.start(..., stream=True)` path with a real prompt and verifies it
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- _start_stream_turn returns "failed" when an input guardrail or BEFORE_AGENT
hook blocks the turn, so agent_end no longer reports success (parity with chat()).
- The non-streaming chat() fallback no longer emits a second agent_start/agent_end
pair for the same streamed turn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
✅ Uses the existing ContextTraceEmitter the same way chat()/achat() do. No new module.
Backward compatible
✅ No API change. Nothing new is recorded when tracing is off. Stream output is unchanged.
Performance (hot path)
✅ One ContextVar lookup per turn, plus the already-lazy emitter check.
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✅ Fixes a real gap: streamed turns had no agent_start/agent_end, so live replay could not show the agent running. Brings the stream path in line with chat().
No Agent param bloat
✅ No new params, exports or knobs.
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✅ This is a core trace-parity fix in chat_mixin.py, so it belongs in praisonaiagents and not in Plugins.
Both Greptile P2 findings were valid and are now fixed.
Blocked turns showed as successful._start_stream_turn now returns "failed" when the input guardrail or a BEFORE_AGENT hook blocks the turn. _start_stream reads that value through yield from, so agent_end records failed. This matches chat(), where a blocked turn returns None and is recorded as failed.
The fallback recorded the turn twice._stream_fallback_chat sets a _stream_traced_agent ContextVar around the fallback chat() call. While it is set, chat() skips its own agent_start/agent_end for that agent. Model-call events still go through. Other agents (sub-agents) and later normal chat() calls are not affected.
src/praisonai-agents/tests/unit/trace/test_unnamed_agent_trace.py: 2 new tests, one for a guardrail-blocked stream (failed) and one for the fallback (a single agent pair; a normal chat() afterwards still records its own pair). Both fail on the previous head and pass now.
Tests: all 15 tests in test_unnamed_agent_trace.py pass. I ran the trace, agent, streaming, llm and workflows unit suites before and after the change and compared them. The change adds no new failures. The failures that remain also fail on the old code: this CI environment is missing optional dependencies such as litellm.
Skipped (on purpose, to keep scope small)
When the fallback chat() returns None (for example, its own guardrail refuses the answer), the stream wrapper still records completed. This is a rare case, and handling it would mean passing the result back through the generator chain.
No synthetic model-call events are added for streams, as the PR body explains: the stream emitter already reports request_start/stream_end.
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Every Phase 1 row is ✅ and both reviewer findings are fixed. Approve for merge once CI is green.
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Review turns disappear
When streaming falls back to chat() with inline self_improve enabled, _stream_traced_agent stays set throughout the fallback. The separate skill-review turn calls self.chat() on the same agent, so this guard hides its agent_start and agent_end too. Replay and exports lose that extra turn.
Consume the suppression marker when entering the fallback chat(), so nested calls record their own events.
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Propagate failure from the fallback.
If streaming fails and fallback chat() returns None after catching an LLM error, _start_stream_impl ends without yielding a response. _start_stream_turn then returns no status, so this records completed instead of failed. Propagate the fallback outcome through both generators.
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line 5450:
Update _start_stream_impl and _start_stream_turn to propagate the fallback
chat() outcome when streaming fails; when chat() returns None after catching an
LLM error, ensure the caller receives a failed status instead of recording the
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Scope: the PR changes 2 files (+119/−5). The SDK change is praisonaiagents/agent/chat_mixin.py (+33/−5), and agent.py is untouched. It adds no new Agent params, exports, modules or dependencies, so the Agent class does not grow.
SDK value: it fixes a real gap in trace parity. Streamed start(stream=True) turns now record agent_start/agent_end (completed/cancelled/failed), the same events chat()/achat() record, using the existing ContextTraceEmitter. When tracing is off, nothing is recorded. The fallback chat() call does not record the turn a second time.
Routing: this is a core trace fix. It is not a tool, plugin or sandbox backend, and it adds no new *_tools.py.
Tests: 6 new unit tests in tests/unit/trace/test_unnamed_agent_trace.py cover a completed turn, an early close (cancelled), an error (failed), tracing off, a guardrail-blocked turn (failed), and the fallback recording the turn only once.
Reviews: the FINAL architecture review has run and includes the Phase 1 table. Every row is ✅, including SDK value. No review on HEAD 88b9d8c requests changes. The open bot notes are P2 and non-blocking: Greptile's nested review-turn edge case during fallback, and a fallback chat() returning None still showing as completed.
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Bug:
agent.start(prompt, stream=True)recorded onlysession_start/session_end. Unlikechat()/achat(), the streaming path emitted noagent_start/agent_end. So a live replay of a streamed answer could not show the agent working: its box never lit up while the words streamed. Reproduced on praisonai 4.7.20.Fix (
_start_stream, about 15 lines): recordagent_startwhen the stream begins, andagent_endwithcompleted,failedorcancelledwhen it ends.cancelledcovers the caller closing the generator early, for example a page that stops reading. Nothing is recorded when tracing is off.Model-call events are deliberately not invented here. A streamed turn can make several model calls (tool use), and the stream emitter already reports each one (
request_start/stream_end).Tests (4 new, in
tests/unit/trace/test_unnamed_agent_trace.py): start and end withcompleted, early close givescancelled, an error givesfailed, and nothing is recorded when tracing is off. Three of the four fail onmain; the fourth guards the tracing-off case. The trace, workflow, agent, llm and streaming suites: 2168 passed.End to end with real gpt-4o-mini: a page streaming the answer word by word now shows the agent box as running while the text grows (0 → 370 characters), then done.
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