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Adds an experimental tracer: "native" mode to @maple-dev/effect-sdk/cloudflare. Every sampled Effect span is mirrored onto tracing.startActiveSpan from cloudflare:workers, so it joins the same trace as Cloudflare's auto-instrumented fetch/KV/R2/D1 spans and is exported by the customer's ObservabilityDestination. No in-isolate buffer, no ctx.waitUntil(flush), no ingest key in the Worker. The default OTLP mode and the api/alerting workers are unchanged.

Why

The OTLP buffer flush is unreliable from Durable Object and Workflow isolates and requires an ingest key in the Worker. Cloudflare's own tracing (compatibility date >= 2026-07-28) can carry the spans out instead.

How

  • cloudflare/native-tracer.ts: an Effect Tracer.make over startActiveSpan. Each mirrored span captures AsyncLocalStorage.snapshot() inside its callback, children open inside the parent's snapshot, and the context hook runs every fiber step inside the current span's snapshot. Cloudflare's isTraced cascades into Effect's sampled, so an untraced invocation opens no Cloudflare spans at all.
  • Failures become attributes (exception.type, exception.message, exception.stacktrace, error.type) since Cloudflare spans have no events. A parallel change teaches the error MV to read those attributes.
  • Scalar attributes are forwarded on set; objects, arrays, bigints, events and links stay Effect-local.
  • shared/span-exit.ts: the success / interrupted / ignored / anticipated / failed classification is shared between the OTLP buffer tracer and the native tracer so they cannot disagree. The OTLP tracer's behaviour is unchanged.
  • cloudflare:workers and node:async_hooks are imported dynamically by a variable specifier and narrowed by type guards (the installed workers-types only know enterSpan). A missing API fails with NativeTracingUnavailable, which the layer turns into one Effect.logInfo notice plus Effect-local spans.
  • Logs are left to Workers Logs in native mode: OTLP log records would carry Effect trace ids that never match the Cloudflare trace ids on the exported spans, and would need exactly the flush and key this mode removes. Metrics are likewise not exported. Documented in the README.

Reviewer notes

  • Known limitation, documented in the README: the layer is module-scoped, so it cannot capture a per-invocation snapshot. Root spans use the ambient async context at open time, and within one continuation the ambient context can still be the span that just ended. This should be validated on a real Worker before the mode leaves "experimental", along with the attribute size limit for the mirrored stack trace.
  • The Config.tracer option and the README section are the only public surface changes.

Testing

  • native-tracer.test.ts: a fake tracing backed by a real AsyncLocalStorage asserts parentage across a scheduler hop into a foreign async context, interleaved fibers, attribute forwarding, all five exit classes, the isTraced cascade, dropped names, host resolution failures, and the fallback path.
  • index.test.ts: native mode off Workers builds the layer, makes no fetch calls, resolves flush, and logs one notice.
  • effect-sdk vitest suite: 17 files, 143 tests pass. tsc --noEmit, oxlint and oxfmt clean on the package. tsdown build confirmed the dynamic imports survive unbundled.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added experimental native tracing for Cloudflare Workers, exporting spans through Cloudflare’s tracing system.
    • Added a configuration option to choose native or OTLP tracing.
    • Native tracing mirrors span attributes, errors, interruptions, and asynchronous context.
    • Added documentation covering setup requirements, behavior, and limitations.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved consistency in span outcome classification across tracing modes.
    • Added a graceful local-tracing fallback when native tracing is unavailable.
    • Prevented ignored or incomplete spans from being exported.

Add `tracer: "native"` to `MapleCloudflareSDK.make`. Every sampled Effect
span is mirrored onto `tracing.startActiveSpan` from `cloudflare:workers`,
so it lands in the same trace as Cloudflare's own fetch/KV/R2/D1 spans and
is exported by the Worker's ObservabilityDestination: no in-isolate buffer,
no `ctx.waitUntil` flush, no ingest key in the Worker. That also makes it
usable from Durable Object and Workflow isolates, where the flush is
unreliable.

Each mirrored span captures `AsyncLocalStorage.snapshot()` inside its
callback, children open inside the parent's snapshot, and the tracer's
`context` hook runs every fiber step inside the current span's snapshot,
so spans opened after a yield still nest correctly and runtime spans
attach under the right Effect span. Cloudflare's `isTraced` cascades into
Effect's `sampled`.

Cloudflare spans carry only scalar attributes, so a failed exit is
recorded as `exception.type` / `exception.message` /
`exception.stacktrace` / `error.type` instead of an `exception` event;
non-scalar attributes, events and links stay Effect-local. The exit
classification shared with the OTLP buffer tracer moves to
`shared/span-exit.ts` so both paths agree on what is an error.

Logs stay with Workers Logs in this mode (no OTLP logger): their Effect
trace ids would never match the Cloudflare trace ids on the exported spans.

`cloudflare:workers` and `node:async_hooks` are imported dynamically by a
variable specifier and narrowed by type guards; when either API is absent
the layer logs one notice and keeps spans Effect-local. The default mode
and the api/alerting workers are unchanged.
Main taught the OTLP buffer tracer to treat a SERVER span that answered
5xx as an error (OTEL HTTP semconv). This branch had moved the exit
classification into `shared/span-exit.ts`, so the rule lands there as a
`ServerError` outcome, the OTLP path emits the same `HttpServerErrorResponse`
exception event as main, and the native Cloudflare tracer mirrors it as
`exception.type` / `exception.message` / `error.type` attributes.
Three findings main's own CI reports at c0a48f3, none introduced here:

- `@maple-dev/effect-sdk` is no longer imported by apps/electric-sync since
  the Worker telemetry moved to packages/infra; drop the dependency.
- `resetAuditDenialCoalescing` was a test-only hook with no caller.
- `LanguageLogo.astro` annotated `LOGOS` with an open `Record`, which the
  no-known-value-widening rule rejects; `satisfies` keeps the exhaustive
  check over `LanguageId` without widening the binding.
Main added `Telemetry.requestLayer` (a flush when the per-event scope
closes). In native mode there is nothing to flush, so `requestLayer` is the
native tracer layer itself; the README keeps main's alchemy Workers section
ahead of the native-tracing one.
The earlier knip fix dropped `@maple-dev/effect-sdk` from electric-sync
while it was unused; main's Worker-bridge test (#771) imports it again,
so the merged tree needs the dependency back.
Main stopped relabelling a handler-recorded `exception` event on a 5xx
server span with the generic `HttpServerErrorResponse`. The OTLP path keeps
that guard inside the shared-outcome structure, and the native Cloudflare
tracer applies the same preference: a recorded exception's type and
message win over the generic ones.
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The Cloudflare SDK adds experimental native tracing through cloudflare:workers, shared span-exit classification, Effect-local fallback, configuration wiring, comprehensive tests, and documentation.

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Cloudflare tracing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared span-exit classification
packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/span-exit.ts, packages/effect-sdk/src/shared/flushable-tracer.ts
Ended spans now use shared outcomes for server errors, interruptions, ignored failures, anticipated failures, and failures. OTLP export consumes these outcomes.
Native tracer implementation
packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/native-tracer.ts
The native tracer mirrors sampled spans through startActiveSpan, preserves async context, forwards scalar attributes, records span exits, resolves runtime APIs, and falls back to Effect-local spans.
Cloudflare preset integration
packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/index.ts, packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/index.test.ts, packages/effect-sdk/README.md
The preset adds the tracer option, selects native mode, skips OTLP buffering, provides a no-op flush, and documents runtime requirements and behavior.
Native tracer validation
packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/native-tracer.test.ts
Tests cover nesting, scheduler hops, attributes, failures, interruptions, HTTP 5xx responses, sampling, host resolution, fallback, and layer installation.

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This adds an opt-in native Cloudflare tracing mode while retaining the existing default tracing path. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied change context.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EffectTracer
  participant NativeTracer
  participant CloudflareTracing
  participant AsyncLocalStorage
  EffectTracer->>NativeTracer: Start Effect span
  NativeTracer->>AsyncLocalStorage: Restore parent snapshot
  NativeTracer->>CloudflareTracing: startActiveSpan(name)
  CloudflareTracing-->>NativeTracer: Return native span handle
  EffectTracer->>NativeTracer: End span with exit
  NativeTracer->>CloudflareTracing: Set attributes and end handle
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In `@packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/native-tracer.ts`:
- Around line 268-278: Memoize the native tracer host resolution used by
requestLayer so resolveNativeTracerHost and its dynamic imports execute only
once per isolate, and the unavailable-host notice is emitted only once. Apply
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Comment thread packages/effect-sdk/src/cloudflare/native-tracer.ts Outdated
`makeNativeTracerLayer` ran the host resolution (two dynamic imports and,
when absent, the fallback notice) on every layer build. Runtimes that build
`requestLayer` per event would repeat that per request. Memoize the
resolved tracer with `Effect.cached` at layer construction, so every build
shares one resolution and the notice is logged once.
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