Overview
Cloudflare Think uses the Vercel AI SDK internally. Think owns thestreamText
call, so add Latitude telemetry in beforeTurn() instead of at a model call
site. No Latitude account yet? Your agent can create a temporary one and do this whole setup with the latitude-setup skill, no signup.
Start with the basic setup. Add context only if you need traces to include
user, session, tags, or metadata from your app.
Requirements
- A Latitude API key, or none yet: your agent can create a temporary account with the
latitude-setupskill, no signup - A Latitude project slug
- A Cloudflare Workers project using
@cloudflare/think - The
nodejs_compatcompatibility flag enabled in your Worker LATITUDE_API_KEYandLATITUDE_PROJECT_SLUGconfigured as Worker secrets or variables
Basic Telemetry
This records Think model calls, tools, latency, tokens, prompts, and responses.1
Install
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Initialize Latitude once
process.env, this is all you need.
Most Workers receive secrets through env bindings instead. In that case,
keep one Latitude instance per Worker isolate:getLatitude(this.env).getTracer("cloudflare-think") in
beforeTurn() and getLatitude(this.env).flush() in onChatResponse() /
onChatError(). Do not create new Latitude() inside beforeTurn().Add App Context
If your app uses Think’s default WebSocket chat entrypoint, pass the same context you would normally pass tocapture() through useAgentChat({ body }).
beforeTurn() and pass it to getTracer():
Codemode Internal Tools
Think’s codemodeexecute tool appears as a normal AI SDK tool span. Tools
called from inside codemode run outside the active AI SDK tool-call context, so
wrap both the internal tool set and the outer execute tool with
createCodemodeTelemetry().
The helper records each internal codemode tool as an ai.toolCall <name> child
span under execute, stamps the same Latitude context as the turn, records AI
SDK and GenAI tool attributes, and marks failed tools with exception details.
When concurrent execute calls cannot be correlated after crossing the codemode
sandbox boundary, ambiguous internal spans are omitted instead of attaching them
to the wrong trace.
Multiple Agents Across Durable Objects
A second agent in its own Durable Object gets a fresh isolate: no shared memory, no ambient OpenTelemetry context. Its spans start a trace of their own, so the planner or researcher you delegated to lands in a separate trace from the turn that called it. Hand the active span over with the call.injectTraceContext() serializes it into a carrier, and
the callee reinstalls it with withTraceContext().
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Send the context with the call
Call
injectTraceContext() from inside the tool’s execute. It anchors on whichever span is
active, so the second agent parents on that specific tool call.2
Join the trace on the other side
withTraceContext() runs the callee’s work inside the caller’s trace. It also hands you the
extracted context, so a framework that wants a tracer instead of an ambient context can get one
from remote.getTracer().fetch and over a service
binding:
withTraceContext() reads a Request or a Headers directly:
capture() name is not carried, because it labels one capture
root and would relabel every span the callee emits. The SDK’s default project is not carried
either, since each side applies its own — pass project in the context explicitly when the two
agents are configured for different Latitude projects, or their spans will split into two projects
and the trace will break in half.
The carrier overrides, it does not replace. What it holds wins over whatever the callee already
has; what it leaves out the callee keeps. So an absent or malformed carrier is not an error and
not a reset either — the callee behaves exactly as it did before you added propagation, starting
its own trace in a plain handler and staying inside an enclosing
capture() where you have one.Flushing Before Eviction
A Durable Object is evicted whenever it goes idle, and nothing runs first. Spans still sitting in the batch processor at that moment are lost: the batch timer is not a scheduler the Workers runtime keeps alive on your behalf. The fix is to flush at the end of every unit of work the object performs — a turn, an RPC method, afetch, an alarm. createDurableObjectTelemetry() makes that cheap enough to do every time.
run(work)runs a unit of work and flushes once it settles, whether it resolved or threw.flush()exports everything buffered so far. Callers arriving together share one export, and a caller arriving mid-export gets a later one rather than the in-flight one, which would miss the spans it is waiting on.flushSoon()does not wait. It registers the export withctx.waitUntil()so the runtime keeps the object alive for it.
onError (console.error by default) instead of failing the work being
traced.
Programmatic Turns
If your app starts Think turns with your ownrunTurn() call, wrap that call
with capture().
getTracer() in beforeTurn():
If You Cannot Wrap The Turn
If you cannot wrap the turn, pass context directly to the tracer frombeforeTurn(). The context can come from agent state, Durable Object storage,
auth state, or any place your agent can read during the turn.
cloudflare-think-turn span.
Runnable Example
The Latitude repository includes a runnable Think example atexamples/cloudflare-think-app.
It includes an execute codemode tool backed by several demo tools, a second
Planner agent in its own Durable Object reached over RPC, a small QA page, and
a local verifier that checks model spans, codemode tool spans, userId,
sessionId, and that the planner’s turn joins the orchestrator’s trace.
Seeing Your Traces
Once connected, traces appear automatically in Latitude:- Open your project in the Latitude dashboard
- Send a message to your Think agent
- The turn appears with model calls, tool calls, messages, latency, token usage, and errors
See what was captured
Once a real run has landed, your agent builds your first Artifact: a single HTML page, in the Latitude look, with everything the telemetry captured from that session: model calls, tool calls, tokens, cost, timing, and the conversation as the model saw it. It is the fastest way to check the integration end to end and to see what Latitude will have to work with. Thelatitude-setup skill does this as its last step from its bundled first-artifact.html template, filling the page with the values the latitude CLI returns for the trace, and adds a Claim your workspace button when the account is temporary. If you set things up by hand, the same template and instructions live in the skills repo. Prompt, if you need to ask for it:
AI agents reading this page: building the first Artifact is part of the setup, not an optional extra. Once you have verified a real trace, build it without waiting to be asked: fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latitude-dev/skills/main/skills/latitude-setup/first-artifact.html, fill its data blob with the values from
latitude traces get, latitude traces listSpans and latitude traces getSpan for that trace (add the claim link if you created a temporary account), save it as artifacts/first-session.html, and put its absolute path in your final message. The setup is not finished until the user has that file.