feat(observability): preserve cross-client trace continuity

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• Distributed traces need to remain continuous across persisted events so operators can follow producer-to-consumer work.
• Client releases need direct evidence that Rust and C# agree on the supported server behavior.

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Walkthrough

The client now propagates OpenTelemetry context through event metadata, records receive spans for subscription delivery, defines related semantic conventions, and adds an ignored cross-client compatibility harness with OTLP telemetry.

Changes

EventStore tracing and compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Tracing conventions and generated constants otel/semconv/registry/trogon/eventstore/client-spans.yaml, otel/semconv/templates/registry/rust/*, trogon-eventstore/src/observability/generated.rs	Defines the EventStore event-type attribute and receive span. Adds messaging attribute names and the receive span-kind constant.
Event context injection and receive spans trogon-eventstore/src/observability.rs	Injects and extracts trace context in JSON event metadata. Emits receive spans with messaging, event-type, and optional consumer-group attributes. Adds propagation and span tests.
Append and subscription integration trogon-eventstore/src/batch.rs, trogon-eventstore/src/commands.rs	Captures contexts for single and batch appends. Traces regular and persistent subscription events. Stores the persistent subscription group name.
Cross-client compatibility execution trogon-eventstore/Cargo.toml, trogon-eventstore/tests/compatibility.rs	Adds an ignored harness for writes, reads, subscriptions, persistent subscriptions, readiness signaling, environment configuration, and OTLP export.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 810aa

The PR persists trace context with events and links it to consumer receive telemetry, but some metadata shapes can still lose propagation and receive telemetry may omit or misdescribe certain deliveries; callers can also influence telemetry lineage when no ambient context exists. These are bounded observability and telemetry-integrity risks, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EventStoreClient
  participant inject_event_context
  participant EventMetadataCarrier
  participant SubscriptionReceive
  EventStoreClient->>inject_event_context: append event with active Context
  inject_event_context->>EventMetadataCarrier: inject trace fields into custom metadata
  EventMetadataCarrier-->>EventStoreClient: return serialized metadata
  EventStoreClient->>SubscriptionReceive: deliver ResolvedEvent
  SubscriptionReceive->>EventMetadataCarrier: extract persisted trace context
  SubscriptionReceive-->>EventStoreClient: record and end receive span

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I’m a rabbit with traces tucked tight,
Events hop through metadata light.
Receive spans bloom as they run,
Batch and single paths share the sun.
OTLP carrots queue in a row,
Ready files say when to go.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 21.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 60 functions across 5 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main observability change: preserving trace continuity across persisted events.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly addresses trace continuity and cross-client compatibility, which match the pull request objectives and changes.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@trogon-eventstore/src/commands.rs`:
- Line 48: Update inject_event_context and the append paths using it so opaque,
non-object EventData::metadata still preserves trace context instead of being
persisted unchanged; alternatively, explicitly reject those appends. Ensure
extract_event_context can recover the propagated context while retaining valid
custom metadata.

In `@trogon-eventstore/src/observability.rs`:
- Line 148: Update the context injection around propagator.inject_context so
persistence writes only traceparent and tracestate into
propagation_fields/custom_metadata; avoid propagating baggage unless an explicit
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• otel/semconv/registry/trogon/eventstore/client-spans.yaml
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• trogon-eventstore/Cargo.toml
• trogon-eventstore/src/batch.rs
• trogon-eventstore/src/commands.rs
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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Changes append/subscription hot paths and event metadata (trace fields only), which could affect observability volume and metadata shape; behavior is guarded when context or JSON metadata is invalid.

Overview
Adds distributed trace continuity across append and consume paths by injecting W3C traceparent / tracestate into event custom metadata on stream and batch appends (using the active span context, and the span captured on batch requests for async batch writes). On volatile and persistent subscriptions, each delivered event now records a receive {stream} client span (new semconv span.trogon.eventstore.client.receive) with messaging attributes, optional consumer group for persistent subs, and trogon.eventstore.event.type; producer context is attached via span links when metadata carries a valid trace.

Semconv templates and generated constants are extended for the receive span and messaging fields; opentelemetry-otlp is added as a dev dependency for an ignored cross_client_compatibility harness that exercises write/read/subscribe/persistent flows against a live server and OTLP endpoint for multi-language client checks.

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In `@trogon-eventstore/src/observability.rs`:
- Line 223: Update SubscriptionReceive::complete to select one canonical event
record for all receive telemetry: do not return solely because
resolved_event.event is absent when resolved_event.link is present, and use that
same selected record for receive attributes, context extraction, and the span
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