Surfaced during the 2026-05-02 deploy + reality wave: the persistent
Go stack runs without LANGFUSE_URL/PUBLIC_KEY/SECRET_KEY env, so
shared.langfuseMiddleware operates as a passthrough — never minting
a trace id, never stashing it on the request context. Result:
session_id was empty on every JSONL row, breaking correlation across
the longitudinal log + replay_runs.jsonl + future Langfuse traces.
The fix: validatord falls back to a locally-generated time-ordered
hex id when both the X-Lakehouse-Trace-Id header AND the middleware
context are empty. Same shape Langfuse accepts, so a future deploy
that turns Langfuse on doesn't break correlation — already-emitted
session_ids stay valid as Langfuse trace ids.
Verified post-deploy by driving 9 /v1/iterate sessions through the
persistent stack at :4110:
- 6 accepted on iter 0 (qwen2.5:latest first-shot 75%)
- 2 max_iter_exhausted (no_json on prose-y prompts)
- 1 infra_error (chatd cold-start probe timed out at 5s)
Latest row's session_id: "18abbabdc2306a83-c2306aa9" (was: "")
Probe re-runs (validator_parity, session_log_parity) included as
post-deploy artifacts; both 6/6 + 4/4 with the freshly-restarted
persistent gateway+validatord binaries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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