feat: instrument telemetry

AGENTS.md

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 | `ComponentParseError` | Add examples to docstring |
 | `uv.lock` out of sync | Run `uv sync` |
 | Ollama refused | Run `ollama serve` |
+| Telemetry import errors | Run `uv sync` to install OpenTelemetry deps |
 
 ## 8. Self-Review (before notifying user)
 1. `uv run pytest -m "not qualitative"` passes?

docs/dev/telemetry.md

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+## OpenTelemetry Instrumentation in Mellea
+
+Mellea provides built-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation with two independent trace scopes that can be enabled separately:
+
+1. **Application Trace** (`mellea.application`) - Tracks user-facing operations
+2. **Backend Trace** (`mellea.backend`) - Tracks LLM backend interactions
+
+### Configuration
+
+Telemetry is configured via environment variables:
+
+| Variable | Description | Default |
+|----------|-------------|---------|
+| `MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION` | Enable application-level tracing | `false` |
+| `MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND` | Enable backend-level tracing | `false` |
+| `OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT` | OTLP endpoint for trace export | None |
+| `OTEL_SERVICE_NAME` | Service name for traces | `mellea` |
+| `MELLEA_TRACE_CONSOLE` | Print traces to console (debugging) | `false` |
+
+### Application Trace Scope
+
+The application tracer (`mellea.application`) instruments:
+
+- **Session lifecycle**: `start_session()`, session context manager entry/exit
+- **@generative functions**: Execution of functions decorated with `@generative`
+- **mfuncs.aact()**: Action execution with requirements and sampling strategies
+- **Sampling strategies**: Rejection sampling, budget forcing, etc.
+- **Requirement validation**: Validation of requirements and constraints
+
+**Span attributes include:**
+- `backend`: Backend class name
+- `model_id`: Model identifier
+- `context_type`: Context class name
+- `action_type`: Component type being executed
+- `has_requirements`: Whether requirements are specified
+- `has_strategy`: Whether a sampling strategy is used
+- `strategy_type`: Sampling strategy class name
+- `num_generate_logs`: Number of generation attempts
+- `sampling_success`: Whether sampling succeeded
+- `response`: Model response (truncated to 500 chars)
+- `response_length`: Full length of model response
+
+### Backend Trace Scope
+
+The backend tracer (`mellea.backend`) instruments:
+
+- **Backend.generate_from_context()**: Context-based generation
+- **Backend.generate_from_raw()**: Raw generation without context
+- **Backend-specific implementations**: Ollama, OpenAI, HuggingFace, Watsonx, LiteLLM
+
+**Span attributes include:**
+- `backend`: Backend class name (e.g., `OllamaModelBackend`)
+- `model_id`: Model identifier string
+- `action_type`: Component type
+- `context_size`: Number of items in context
+- `has_format`: Whether structured output format is specified
+- `format_type`: Response format class name
+- `tool_calls`: Whether tool calling is enabled
+- `num_actions`: Number of actions in batch (for `generate_from_raw`)
+
+### Usage Examples
+
+#### Enable Application Tracing Only
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=false
+python docs/examples/instruct_validate_repair/101_email.py
+```
+
+This traces user-facing operations like `@generative` function calls, session lifecycle, and sampling strategies, but not the underlying LLM API calls.
+
+#### Enable Backend Tracing Only
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=false
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+python docs/examples/instruct_validate_repair/101_email.py
+```
+
+This traces only the LLM backend interactions, showing model calls, token usage, and API latency.
+
+#### Enable Both Traces
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+python docs/examples/instruct_validate_repair/101_email.py
+```
+
+This provides complete observability across both application logic and backend interactions.
+
+#### Export to Jaeger
+
+```bash
+# Start Jaeger (example using Docker)
+docker run -d --name jaeger \
+  -p 4317:4317 \
+  -p 16686:16686 \
+  jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest
+
+# Configure Mellea to export traces
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317
+export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=my-mellea-app
+
+python docs/examples/instruct_validate_repair/101_email.py
+
+# View traces at http://localhost:16686
+```
+
+#### Console Output for Debugging
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_CONSOLE=true
+python docs/examples/instruct_validate_repair/101_email.py
+```
+
+This prints trace spans to the console, useful for local debugging without setting up a trace backend.
+
+### Programmatic Access
+
+You can check if tracing is enabled in your code:
+
+```python
+from mellea.telemetry import (
+    is_application_tracing_enabled,
+    is_backend_tracing_enabled,
+)
+
+if is_application_tracing_enabled():
+    print("Application tracing is enabled")
+
+if is_backend_tracing_enabled():
+    print("Backend tracing is enabled")
+```
+
+### Performance Considerations
+
+- **Zero overhead when disabled**: When tracing is disabled (default), there is minimal performance impact
+- **Async-friendly**: Tracing works seamlessly with async operations
+- **Batched export**: Traces are exported in batches to minimize network overhead
+- **Separate scopes**: Enable only the tracing you need to reduce overhead
+
+### Integration with Observability Tools
+
+Mellea's OpenTelemetry instrumentation works with any OTLP-compatible backend:
+
+- **Jaeger**: Distributed tracing
+- **Zipkin**: Distributed tracing
+- **Grafana Tempo**: Distributed tracing
+- **Honeycomb**: Observability platform
+- **Datadog**: APM and observability
+- **New Relic**: APM and observability
+- **AWS X-Ray**: Distributed tracing (via OTLP)
+- **Google Cloud Trace**: Distributed tracing (via OTLP)
+
+### Example Trace Hierarchy
+
+When both traces are enabled, you'll see a hierarchy like:
+
+```
+session_context (application)
+├── aact (application)
+│   ├── generate_from_context (backend)
+│   │   └── ollama.chat (backend)
+│   └── requirement_validation (application)
+├── aact (application)
+│   └── generate_from_context (backend)
+│       └── ollama.chat (backend)
+```
+
+### Troubleshooting
+
+**Traces not appearing:**
+1. Verify environment variables are set correctly
+2. Check that OTLP endpoint is reachable
+3. Enable console output to verify traces are being created
+4. Check firewall/network settings
+
+**High overhead:**
+1. Disable application tracing if you only need backend metrics
+2. Reduce sampling rate (future feature)
+3. Use a local OTLP collector to batch exports
+
+**Missing spans:**
+1. Ensure you're using `with start_session()` context manager
+2. Check that async operations are properly awaited
+3. Verify backend implementation has instrumentation
+
+### Future Enhancements
+
+Planned improvements to telemetry:
+
+- Sampling rate configuration
+- Custom span attributes via decorators
+- Metrics export (token counts, latency percentiles)
+- Trace context propagation for distributed systems
+- Integration with LangSmith and other LLM observability tools

docs/examples/telemetry/README.md

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+# OpenTelemetry Tracing Examples
+
+This directory contains examples demonstrating OpenTelemetry instrumentation in Mellea.
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### 1. Install Dependencies
+
+```bash
+uv sync --all-extras
+```
+
+### 2. Start Ollama (Required)
+
+```bash
+ollama serve
+```
+
+### 3. Run Examples
+
+#### Basic Example (No Tracing)
+
+```bash
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+#### With Application Tracing Only
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=false
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+#### With Backend Tracing Only
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=false
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+#### With Both Traces
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+#### With Console Output (Debugging)
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_CONSOLE=true
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+## Using Jaeger for Visualization
+
+### 1. Start Jaeger
+
+```bash
+docker run -d --name jaeger \
+  -p 4317:4317 \
+  -p 16686:16686 \
+  jaegertracing/all-in-one:latest
+```
+
+### 2. Configure Mellea
+
+```bash
+export MELLEA_TRACE_APPLICATION=true
+export MELLEA_TRACE_BACKEND=true
+export OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317
+export OTEL_SERVICE_NAME=mellea-example
+```
+
+### 3. Run Example
+
+```bash
+python telemetry_example.py
+```
+
+### 4. View Traces
+
+Open http://localhost:16686 in your browser and select "mellea-example" service.
+
+## What Gets Traced
+
+### Application Trace (`mellea.application`)
+
+- Session lifecycle (start, enter, exit)
+- @generative function calls
+- Action execution (aact)
+- Sampling strategies
+- Requirement validation
+
+### Backend Trace (`mellea.backend`)
+
+- Model generation calls
+- Context-based generation
+- Raw generation
+- Backend-specific operations (Ollama, OpenAI, etc.)
+
+## Trace Attributes
+
+Each span includes rich metadata:
+
+- **model_id**: Model identifier
+- **backend**: Backend class name
+- **action_type**: Component type
+- **context_size**: Number of context items
+- **has_requirements**: Whether requirements are specified
+- **strategy_type**: Sampling strategy used
+- **tool_calls**: Whether tool calling is enabled
+- **format_type**: Response format class
+
+## Performance Impact
+
+- **Disabled (default)**: Near-zero overhead
+- **Application only**: Minimal overhead (~1-2%)
+- **Backend only**: Minimal overhead (~1-2%)
+- **Both enabled**: Low overhead (~2-5%)
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+**Traces not appearing in Jaeger:**
+1. Check Jaeger is running: `docker ps | grep jaeger`
+2. Verify endpoint: `curl http://localhost:4317`
+3. Check environment variables are set
+4. Enable console output to verify traces are created
+
+**Import errors:**
+```bash
+uv sync  # Reinstall dependencies
+```
+
+**Ollama connection errors:**
+```bash
+ollama serve  # Start Ollama server
+```
+
+## Learn More
+
+See [docs/dev/telemetry.md](../../dev/telemetry.md) for complete documentation.