Problem

Spans exported to SGP always show status=SUCCESS, even when the operation they represent failed.

Root cause, in three parts:

• The SGP span (scale_gp_beta) defaults status="SUCCESS" and only flips to "ERROR" inside its own __exit__ context manager. The agentex processor builds SGP spans via create_span(...) and flushes them directly, so __exit__ never runs.
• The agentex Span type (generated from the OpenAPI spec) has no status/error field.
• Trace.span() / AsyncTrace.span() ended spans in a bare finally, so a body exception was never recorded before the span was flushed.

Net effect: a failing operation is indistinguishable from a successful one in SGP.

Fix (SDK-only, no schema/backend change)

Capture → carry → map:

1. Capture — both context managers now except Exception as exc: set_span_error(span, exc); raise.
2. Carry — span_error.py stores the failure under the reserved span.data["__error__"] key, following the existing __span_type__/__source__ convention. data is a real field, so it survives model_copy(deep=True) and round-trips to both the SGP and agentex-native stores. (A first-class status/error field would require the OpenAPI → Stainless → backend → migration chain; this achieves the same SGP outcome without it.)
3. Map — _build_sgp_span() sets sgp_span.status = "ERROR" + error/error.type/error.message metadata when an error is present, matching SGP's native __exit__ shape.

Exceptions still propagate unchanged. asyncio.CancelledError / KeyboardInterrupt are intentionally not flagged (control flow, not failures) — broaden the except to BaseException if that changes.

Tests

tests/lib/core/tracing/test_span_error.py:

• set_span_error/get_span_error helpers (incl. list-shaped data no-op).
• Sync + async context managers record the error and re-raise; success path stays clean.
• _build_sgp_span maps error → status=ERROR + metadata; no-error path stays SUCCESS.

ruff check clean; new + existing tracing tests pass (40 passed).

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Greptile Summary

This PR fixes a bug where all spans exported to SGP always showed status=SUCCESS, even when the operation they represented failed. The root cause was that the agentex processor builds SGP spans via create_span and flushes them directly, bypassing the __exit__ context manager that normally flips status to ERROR.

• New span_error.py module — introduces set_span_error/get_span_error helpers that store exception info under the reserved span.data["__error__"] key, following the existing __span_type__/__source__ convention. Handles None, dict, and list-shaped data correctly.
• trace.py — both Trace.span() and AsyncTrace.span() now catch Exception, record it on the span via set_span_error, then re-raise before the finally block flushes the span; asyncio.CancelledError/KeyboardInterrupt are intentionally excluded.
• sgp_tracing_processor.py — _build_sgp_span calls get_span_error after building the span and invokes sgp_span.set_error(error_type, error_message) to set status="ERROR" on the SGP side, matching SGP's native __exit__ shape.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge. The change only touches the tracing layer, exceptions always re-propagate unchanged, and the success path is unaffected.

The fix is well-scoped: error capture happens before the span is flushed, the error key survives model_copy(deep=True) and recursive_model_dump, and the SGP status mapping is exercised by both the new unit tests and the existing tracing test suite (40 pass). No mutation of span identity fields, no change to public API surfaces, and no risk to callers that don't catch exceptions themselves.

No files require special attention.

Important Files Changed

Sequence Diagram

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sequenceDiagram
    participant UC as User Code
    participant CM as Trace.span() / AsyncTrace.span()
    participant SE as span_error.py
    participant ES as end_span()
    participant SGP as _build_sgp_span()

    UC->>CM: enter context manager
    CM->>CM: start_span()
    CM-->>UC: yield span

    alt Exception raised in body
        UC-->>CM: raise Exception
        CM->>SE: set_span_error(span, exc)
        Note over SE: span.data["__error__"] = {type, message}
        CM->>CM: re-raise
        CM->>ES: finally: end_span(span)
        ES->>SGP: on_span_end(span)
        SGP->>SE: get_span_error(span)
        SE-->>SGP: "{type, message}"
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.set_error(error_type, error_message)
        Note over SGP: sgp_span.status = ERROR
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.flush()
    else Success
        UC-->>CM: normal return
        CM->>ES: finally: end_span(span)
        ES->>SGP: on_span_end(span)
        SGP->>SE: get_span_error(span) returns None
        Note over SGP: sgp_span.status stays SUCCESS
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.flush()
    end

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sequenceDiagram
    participant UC as User Code
    participant CM as Trace.span() / AsyncTrace.span()
    participant SE as span_error.py
    participant ES as end_span()
    participant SGP as _build_sgp_span()

    UC->>CM: enter context manager
    CM->>CM: start_span()
    CM-->>UC: yield span

    alt Exception raised in body
        UC-->>CM: raise Exception
        CM->>SE: set_span_error(span, exc)
        Note over SE: span.data["__error__"] = {type, message}
        CM->>CM: re-raise
        CM->>ES: finally: end_span(span)
        ES->>SGP: on_span_end(span)
        SGP->>SE: get_span_error(span)
        SE-->>SGP: "{type, message}"
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.set_error(error_type, error_message)
        Note over SGP: sgp_span.status = ERROR
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.flush()
    else Success
        UC-->>CM: normal return
        CM->>ES: finally: end_span(span)
        ES->>SGP: on_span_end(span)
        SGP->>SE: get_span_error(span) returns None
        Note over SGP: sgp_span.status stays SUCCESS
        SGP->>SGP: sgp_span.flush()
    end

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