feat: add request tracing instrumentation

README.md

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 Express API for the TalentTrust decentralized freelancer escrow protocol. Handles contract metadata, reputation, and integration with Stellar/Soroban.
 
+## Request tracing
+
+The backend now emits lightweight tracing spans for:
+
+- incoming API requests
+- contract repository lookups
+- Stellar RPC health checks
+
+Every request receives `x-trace-id` and `x-request-id` headers. If a client sends those headers, the backend preserves them so traces can be correlated across services.
+
+Detailed tracing notes live in [docs/backend/request-tracing.md](docs/backend/request-tracing.md).
+
 ## Prerequisites
 
 - Node.js 18+

docs/backend/request-tracing.md

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+# Request Tracing
+
+## Overview
+
+TalentTrust Backend includes lightweight request tracing that covers:
+
+- API spans for each inbound Express request
+- DB spans for contract repository operations
+- RPC spans for Stellar RPC-facing operations
+
+The implementation is intentionally dependency-light and uses `AsyncLocalStorage` so trace context flows through nested async work.
+
+## Headers
+
+Each response includes:
+
+- `x-trace-id`
+- `x-request-id`
+
+If a caller provides either header, the middleware preserves it. Otherwise the backend generates one.
+
+## Current span names
+
+- `GET /health`
+- `GET /api/v1/contracts`
+- `contracts.repository.list`
+- `contracts.rpc.fetch_registry_health`
+
+## Security notes
+
+- Trace payloads avoid request-body logging to reduce accidental leakage of secrets and PII.
+- The middleware records only high-signal route and status metadata by default.
+- Error capture stores message-level diagnostics only.
+
+## Test coverage
+
+Tracing behavior is covered by:
+
+- `src/tracing/tracer.test.ts`
+- `src/contracts/contracts.service.test.ts`
+- `src/app.test.ts`

src/app.test.ts

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+import type { AddressInfo } from 'node:net';
+import { createApp } from './app';
+import { InMemorySpanLogger, Tracer } from './tracing/tracer';
+
+describe('app tracing', () => {
+  it('emits an api span for /health and returns trace headers', async () => {
+    const logger = new InMemorySpanLogger();
+    const tracer = new Tracer(logger);
+    const { app } = createApp({ tracer });
+    const server = app.listen(0);
+
+    try {
+      const address = server.address() as AddressInfo;
+      const response = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}/health`, {
+        headers: {
+          'x-trace-id': 'trace-health',
+          'x-request-id': 'request-health',
+        },
+      });
+
+      expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(response.headers.get('x-trace-id')).toBe('trace-health');
+      expect(response.headers.get('x-request-id')).toBe('request-health');
+
+      const body = await response.json();
+      expect(body).toEqual({ status: 'ok', service: 'talenttrust-backend' });
+
+      expect(logger.spans).toEqual(
+        expect.arrayContaining([
+          expect.objectContaining({
+            traceId: 'trace-health',
+            requestId: 'request-health',
+            kind: 'api',
+            name: 'GET /health',
+            status: 'ok',
+          }),
+        ]),
+      );
+    } finally {
+      await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+        server.close((error) => {
+          if (error) {
+            reject(error);
+            return;
+          }
+          resolve();
+        });
+      });
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('emits api, db, and rpc spans for /api/v1/contracts', async () => {
+    const logger = new InMemorySpanLogger();
+    const tracer = new Tracer(logger);
+    const { app } = createApp({ tracer });
+    const server = app.listen(0);
+
+    try {
+      const address = server.address() as AddressInfo;
+      const response = await fetch(`http://127.0.0.1:${address.port}/api/v1/contracts`);
+
+      expect(response.status).toBe(200);
+      expect(response.headers.get('x-rpc-network')).toBe('testnet');
+      expect(response.headers.get('x-rpc-healthy')).toBe('true');
+      expect(await response.json()).toEqual({ contracts: [] });
+
+      expect(logger.spans).toEqual(
+        expect.arrayContaining([
+          expect.objectContaining({ kind: 'api', name: 'GET /api/v1/contracts' }),
+          expect.objectContaining({ kind: 'db', name: 'contracts.repository.list' }),
+          expect.objectContaining({
+            kind: 'rpc',
+            name: 'contracts.rpc.fetch_registry_health',
+          }),
+        ]),
+      );
+    } finally {
+      await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+        server.close((error) => {
+          if (error) {
+            reject(error);
+            return;
+          }
+          resolve();
+        });
+      });
+    }
+  });
+});

src/app.ts

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+import express, { Request, Response } from 'express';
+import {
+  ContractsService,
+} from './contracts/contracts.service';
+import { InMemoryContractRepository } from './contracts/contracts.repository';
+import { StellarRpcClient } from './contracts/contracts.rpc';
+import { createRequestTracingMiddleware } from './tracing/request-tracing';
+import { Tracer } from './tracing/tracer';
+
+export interface AppDependencies {
+  tracer?: Tracer;
+  contractsService?: ContractsService;
+}
+
+export const createApp = (dependencies: AppDependencies = {}) => {
+  const tracer = dependencies.tracer ?? new Tracer();
+  const contractsService =
+    dependencies.contractsService ??
+    new ContractsService(
+      new InMemoryContractRepository(tracer),
+      new StellarRpcClient(tracer),
+    );
+
+  const app = express();
+  app.use(express.json());
+  app.use(createRequestTracingMiddleware(tracer));
+
+  app.get('/health', (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    res.json({ status: 'ok', service: 'talenttrust-backend' });
+  });
+
+  app.get('/api/v1/contracts', async (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
+    const payload = await contractsService.listContracts(res);
+    res.json(payload);
+  });
+
+  return { app, tracer, contractsService };
+};

src/contracts/contracts.repository.ts

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+import { Tracer } from '../tracing/tracer';
+
+export interface ContractRecord {
+  id: string;
+  status: 'active' | 'draft';
+}
+
+export interface ContractRepository {
+  listContracts(): Promise<ContractRecord[]>;
+}
+
+export class InMemoryContractRepository implements ContractRepository {
+  constructor(private readonly tracer: Tracer) {}
+
+  async listContracts(): Promise<ContractRecord[]> {
+    const span = this.tracer.startSpan('contracts.repository.list', 'db', {
+      'db.system': 'memory',
+      'db.operation': 'select',
+      'db.collection': 'contracts',
+    });
+
+    try {
+      return [];
+    } catch (error) {
+      span.recordError(error);
+      throw error;
+    } finally {
+      span.end();
+    }
+  }
+}

src/contracts/contracts.rpc.ts

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+import { Tracer } from '../tracing/tracer';
+
+export interface RpcStatus {
+  network: string;
+  healthy: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface ContractsRpcClient {
+  fetchRegistryHealth(): Promise<RpcStatus>;
+}
+
+export class StellarRpcClient implements ContractsRpcClient {
+  constructor(private readonly tracer: Tracer) {}
+
+  async fetchRegistryHealth(): Promise<RpcStatus> {
+    const span = this.tracer.startSpan('contracts.rpc.fetch_registry_health', 'rpc', {
+      'rpc.system': 'stellar',
+      'rpc.method': 'getHealth',
+    });
+
+    try {
+      return {
+        network: 'testnet',
+        healthy: true,
+      };
+    } catch (error) {
+      span.recordError(error);
+      throw error;
+    } finally {
+      span.end();
+    }
+  }
+}

src/contracts/contracts.service.test.ts

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+import type { Response } from 'express';
+import { ContractsService } from './contracts.service';
+import type { ContractRepository } from './contracts.repository';
+import type { ContractsRpcClient } from './contracts.rpc';
+
+describe('ContractsService', () => {
+  it('returns contracts and writes rpc health headers', async () => {
+    const repository: ContractRepository = {
+      listContracts: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue([{ id: 'c1', status: 'active' }]),
+    };
+    const rpcClient: ContractsRpcClient = {
+      fetchRegistryHealth: jest
+        .fn()
+        .mockResolvedValue({ network: 'testnet', healthy: true }),
+    };
+    const service = new ContractsService(repository, rpcClient);
+    const setHeader = jest.fn();
+    const response = {
+      setHeader,
+    } as unknown as Response;
+
+    const result = await service.listContracts(response);
+
+    expect(result).toEqual({ contracts: [{ id: 'c1', status: 'active' }] });
+    expect(setHeader).toHaveBeenCalledWith('x-rpc-network', 'testnet');
+    expect(setHeader).toHaveBeenCalledWith('x-rpc-healthy', 'true');
+  });
+});

src/contracts/contracts.service.ts

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+import type { Response } from 'express';
+import type { ContractRepository } from './contracts.repository';
+import type { ContractsRpcClient } from './contracts.rpc';
+
+export class ContractsService {
+  constructor(
+    private readonly repository: ContractRepository,
+    private readonly rpcClient: ContractsRpcClient,
+  ) {}
+
+  async listContracts(response?: Response): Promise<{ contracts: unknown[] }> {
+    const [contracts, rpcStatus] = await Promise.all([
+      this.repository.listContracts(),
+      this.rpcClient.fetchRegistryHealth(),
+    ]);
+
+    if (response) {
+      response.setHeader('x-rpc-network', rpcStatus.network);
+      response.setHeader('x-rpc-healthy', String(rpcStatus.healthy));
+    }
+
+    return { contracts };
+  }
+}

src/index.ts

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-import express, { Request, Response } from 'express';
+import { createApp } from './app';
 
-const app = express();
 const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3001;
 
-app.use(express.json());
+export const startServer = () => {
+  const { app } = createApp();
+  return app.listen(PORT, () => {
+    console.log(`TalentTrust API listening on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
+  });
+};
 
-app.get('/health', (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
-  res.json({ status: 'ok', service: 'talenttrust-backend' });
-});
-
-app.get('/api/v1/contracts', (_req: Request, res: Response) => {
-  res.json({ contracts: [] });
-});
-
-app.listen(PORT, () => {
-  console.log(`TalentTrust API listening on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
-});
+if (require.main === module) {
+  startServer();
+}