[Zzz23hao]

Refs #4538

The OpenAI part of #4538 is handled in #4548. This PR covers the Anthropic follow-up: stop_sequences was sent to the API but never recorded on the span.

Change

aset_input_attributes now sets gen_ai.request.stop_sequences. The value is normalized the same way #4548 normalizes OpenAI's stop:

• a bare string is wrapped as one item ("END" → ["END"], not ["E", "N", "D"])
• from a list/tuple, only str items are kept
• nothing is set when the param is absent, NOT_GIVEN, or normalizes to empty

Span attributes for

messages.create(model="claude-3-opus-20240229", max_tokens=1024, stop_sequences=["END", "###"], messages=[...])

Before:
gen_ai.request.model: "claude-3-opus-20240229"
gen_ai.request.max_tokens: 1024
After:
gen_ai.request.model: "claude-3-opus-20240229"
gen_ai.request.max_tokens: 1024
gen_ai.request.stop_sequences: ["END", "###"]

Tests

• test_request_stop_sequences_attribute: stop_sequences=["END", "###"] → attribute equals ["END", "###"]

• test_request_stop_sequences_bare_string_is_one_item: stop_sequences="END" → attribute equals ["END"]

• test_request_stop_sequences_not_set_when_absent: no stop_sequences → attribute not set

• ruff check . passes; pytest in the anthropic package: 273 passed

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• Bug Fixes
  • Stop sequences are now recorded consistently in request attributes when provided as a string, list, or tuple. A string is treated as a single sequence, and non-string items are ignored. If the value is unsupported or contains no strings, the stop-sequences attribute is omitted. This keeps recorded request details aligned with the supplied stop-sequence values.

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The Anthropic instrumentation normalizes stop_sequences before recording the GenAI request attribute. Tests cover list, string, tuple, omitted, and all-non-string inputs.

Changes: Stop-sequence attribute

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize and record stop sequences packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/span_utils.py, packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/tests/test_semconv_span_attrs.py	The instrumentation converts strings to one-item lists and filters lists and tuples to string elements. It records the normalized value as the request attribute. Tests cover list, string, tuple, omitted, and all-non-string inputs.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: chrikrah

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 6c8e9

The instrumentation now records normalized stop-sequence values and omits absent or empty values. The supplied implementation and test summaries show no material merge risk.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 61032

The change adds a string-valued request field to existing telemetry, including when message-content tracing is disabled. No new application entrypoint or privilege expansion was identified. Privacy implications depend on what callers put in stop sequences and who can access the resulting traces.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The additional exposure is bounded to caller-provided stop-sequence strings on recording spans using the attribute branch. Existing span consumers may receive this field. The inspected evidence does not establish consumer identities, tenant boundaries, retention, or whether applications place sensitive values in stop sequences.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing instrumentation-suppression checks still bypass telemetry, non-recording spans skip the attribute helper, and the enabled event-logging branch does not invoke it. These controls are unchanged between base and head; normalization restricts value types but is not a confidentiality control.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Explicitly classify stop-sequence values in the telemetry privacy policy. If applications can populate them with sensitive text, consider content-tracing gating or redaction rather than relying on string-type normalization.

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104-143: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover tuple input and non-string filtering.

_normalize_stop_sequences has a tuple branch that filters non-string members, but the added tests cover only lists, strings, and an absent parameter. A regression in tuple handling or filtering can pass the test suite.

Suggested fix

     assert list(span.attributes[GenAIAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_STOP_SEQUENCES]) == ["END", "###"]
 
 
+def test_request_stop_sequences_tuple_filters_non_strings():
+    """Tuple stop_sequences must retain only string members."""
+    span = make_span()
+    kwargs = {
+        "model": "claude-3-opus-20240229",
+        "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
+        "max_tokens": 1024,
+        "stop_sequences": ("END", 123, None, "###"),
+    }
+    asyncio.run(aset_input_attributes(span, kwargs))
+
+    assert list(span.attributes[GenAIAttributes.GEN_AI_REQUEST_STOP_SEQUENCES]) == ["END", "###"]
+
+
 def test_request_stop_sequences_bare_string_is_one_item():

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Add a test around aset_input_attributes that passes tuple stop_sequences
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[Zzz23hao]

Added test_request_stop_sequences_tuple_filters_non_strings in 610322f.

[chrikrah]

@Zzz23hao the attribute lands in aset_input_attributes, which the sync and async input handlers share, so it is mergeable.

blocking: none.

non-blocking: no test covers a list with no string items, such as [1, None]. The or None in _normalize_stop_sequences and the caller's if stop_sequences: both stop that case from setting an empty attribute, so one of them can go, and a [1, None] case would pin the behaviour whichever stays.

Since #2884, _handle_input skips aset_input_attributes when use_attributes=False, so this lands on the default path only, the same as presence_penalty above it. Not this PR's to fix.

$ cd <export of 610322f>/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic && python -c 'import opentelemetry.instrumentation.anthropic as m; print(m.__file__)'
<export>/packages/opentelemetry-instrumentation-anthropic/opentelemetry/instrumentation/anthropic/__init__.py   # CPython 3.12, base 94d3f04

$ python -m pytest tests/test_semconv_span_attrs.py -q   # 610322f
74 passed
$ ruff check opentelemetry tests/test_semconv_span_attrs.py   # ruff 0.17.1
All checks passed!

# production change mutated, tests kept
`if stop_sequences:` replaced by `if False:`            3 failed, 71 passed
bare-string branch of _normalize_stop_sequences removed  1 failed, 73 passed

# not run: tests/ beyond test_semconv_span_attrs.py (test_completion.py fails to collect in this venv on an unrelated anthropic import), a wire-level request with stream=True

@Zzz23hao, does the [1, None] case go into this PR?

[Zzz23hao]

@chrikrah Yes, added in 6c8e976: a [1, None] case that asserts the attribute isn't set. I kept the or None in _normalize_stop_sequences, so it returns a list of strings or None as its docstring says, and dropped the caller's if, since set_span_attribute already skips None, same as the presence_penalty line above. Agreed the use_attributes=False path is out of scope here. Thanks for the thorough review!