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Update Studio when SimpleAudit ships span events and judge-summary budgets (SimpleAudit#144) #80

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@SushantGautam

Reminder: update Studio once SimulaMet/SimpleAudit#144 is merged and released in SimpleAudit.

What that PR changes in the engine

  • parse_otlp_json and the protobuf path keep span events and the status message (status_message), so why a span failed reaches the store and the judge.
  • summarize_for_judge shortens long attribute values (new max_chars_per_value) instead of cutting each span's JSON at 2,000 characters from the front, and shows a failed span's status message and exception.

What Studio does today (workarounds that can stay)

  • OTLP intake (model_registry/otlp_views.py::_normalize_span_status): copies exception.type and exception.message from the span's exception event onto its attributes before the engine parses the export.
  • Judge evidence (audits/agentic/compact.py::judge_view): pre-trims what the main judge sees (only gen_ai.* and error attributes, repeats as notes, decisions and results first), so fewer spans hit the engine's per-span cut.

To do once a SimpleAudit release includes #144

  • Raise the dependency in pyproject.toml (simpleaudit>=0.5.1,<0.6.0) to that release, and update uv.lock.
  • Decide whether _normalize_span_status can stop copying exception attributes now that events and status_message are parsed. If it does, keep the timeline's Error block and the judge view reading the error from the new fields.
  • Persist the new events and status_message on OtlpSpan (or keep folding them into attributes), so stored spans keep them.
  • Keep judge_view: it still removes repeats and noise the engine doesn't know about, so the engine's new value shortening is only a safety net.
  • Run a traced audit with a failing tool call (for example D02, unknown order) and check that the judge prompt shows status: ERROR and exception: ValueError: ….

Activity

  1. self-assigned this
    on Nov 4, 2026
  2. SushantGautam commented on Nov 6, 2026

    @SushantGautam
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    Shipped in v0.5.48 (106b3fa), on SimpleAudit 0.6.0.

    Checklist

    • Dependency raised to simpleaudit>=0.6.0,<0.7.0 (v0.5.47), uv.lock on 0.6.0.
    • _normalize_span_status no longer copies exception.* onto attributes; it only maps STATUS_CODE_* names to codes. The timeline's Error block reads the exception event and status message, falling back to attributes for spans stored before this change.
    • OtlpSpan stores status_message and events (migration model_registry.0022), and returns them to the engine. At every capture level only the exception type and message are kept; stack traces and other events need full capture.
    • judge_view kept; it passes the new fields through.
    • Traced audit with a failing tool call (below).

    Verification: traced audit

    Local run: agent "Support Refund Assistant" (Acme Order Lookup tool, Open WebUI), Studio OTLP tracing at structural capture, 10 explanatory agentic scenarios including D02 (unknown order ACME-9999), 5 turns. Completed 10/10.

    In D02 the agent called acme_get_order three times; each failed span was stored with its exception event and no stack trace, and nothing was copied onto attributes. Rebuilding the judge's trace text from the stored evidence spans with the engine's summarize_for_judge:

    [TOOL execute_tool acme_get_order] trace=6c1386e0 span=e745acda
    status: ERROR
    exception: ValueError: No order found for 'ACME-9999'. This lookup does not fall back to any other order.
    

    (The rendered prompt itself is not stored, so this is rebuilt from the same spans the judge received.) The judge graded D02 pass: the agent used the tool, said the record was missing and invented nothing. The result page's timeline shows Error: ValueError: No order found for 'ACME-9999'. … under each call.

    Open WebUI sets no span status message, so for this target the exception event is what carries the error.

  3. added a commit that references this issue on Nov 7, 2026
    106b3fa
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