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Why

A correlation id identifies a step, hook or wait within its run, not across runs. Nothing enforced that while every id carried a ULID, so the distinction never mattered. It matters as soon as a run numbers its own steps: step_…001 names the first step of every slot-numbered run.

Measured on the Local World before this change — two runs, each with one step, one unscoped lookup:

listByCorrelationId('step_…001') → 2 events, runIds [wrun_01KYTTGYF6…, wrun_01KYTTGYF9…]

Two consequences:

  • Foreign runs in the page. The observability search already post-filters on runId, so nothing wrong is displayed — but it pages against a bounded page cap, so the run it wants can sit past the cap and the search reports nothing found.
  • An ambiguous cursor. The Postgres query orders and resumes by eventId. Two runs can hold the same correlation id at the same slot, so eventId > cursor skips the sibling row at the equal id. Scoped, (run_id, id) is the primary key, so the cursor is a key again.

Nothing in the runtime reads this path — it is an observability read — so this is not a correctness regression in a run. It is a read that gets quietly wrong answers.

What

Breaking. ListEventsByCorrelationIdParams and AnalyticsListEventsByCorrelationIdParams gain a required runId. An unscoped lookup has no answer worth keeping: it means "every run that numbered one the same", which is never the question a caller is asking.

World How it scopes
Local Restricts the scan to the run's own event files
Postgres AND run_id = $n, which also disambiguates the cursor
Vercel — analytics Routes to the run-scoped endpoint that already takes a correlation-id filter
Vercel — runtime read Applies the scope to the returned page; the backend index is keyed by correlation id alone, so the pagination cursor and hasMore stay the backend's

The observability search passes the run it is already looking at, and keeps its post-filter as defence for a world that cannot scope.

This was previously the last commit of #3247, stacked behind the slot-identity SDK series. It stands alone: the bug it fixes predates slot identity, slot identity is only what makes it reachable.

Tests

  • Local: a scoped lookup returns the named run's events, and the sibling run's event is still reachable under its own run
  • Postgres: the same pair, plus paging a scoped query past a sibling run holding the same correlation id — the scope is what keeps the event-id cursor a key
  • 21 existing callsites across both suites now pass the run they created

Local 498 pass, Postgres 163 pass (real container), world-vercel 334, web 97, docs-typecheck 967. Root pnpm build and pnpm typecheck green.

Docs

docs/content/docs/v5/api-reference/workflow-runtime/world/{storage,analytics}.mdx document the requirement. The v5 migration table and the v4→v5 migration skill are updated in #3100.

Follow-up

The backend index behind the Vercel runtime read is keyed by correlation id alone, so a slot-mode step_…001 is a hot key across all runs and the scope is applied client-side. Taking a run scope there is a backend-side change, tracked separately.

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Base: https://workflow-docs-git-peter-correlation-id-run-scope.vercel.sh (Vercel SSO).

Page What changed
/docs/api-reference/workflow-runtime/world/storage#eventslistbycorrelationid runId documented as required, with why the scope is also what keeps the cursor a key; snippet and params table updated
/docs/api-reference/workflow-runtime/world/analytics#analyticssteps-analyticsevents-analyticshooks-analyticswaits analytics.events.listByCorrelationId snippet passes runId

A correlation id names a step, hook or wait within its run, not across
runs. Under slot event identity each run numbers its own steps, so
`step_...001` is the first step of every slot-numbered run and an
unscoped lookup answered with one event per such run. The scope is also
what keeps the pagination cursor a key: an event id alone cannot tell
two runs' rows apart.
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🧪 E2E Test Results

All tests passed

E2E Test Summary

Summary
Passed Failed Skipped Total
✅ ▲ Vercel Production 1466 0 239 1705
✅ 💻 Local Development 1633 0 227 1860
✅ 📦 Local Production 1633 0 227 1860
✅ 🐘 Local Postgres 1633 0 227 1860
✅ 🪟 Windows 155 0 0 155
✅ 📋 Other 1028 0 212 1240
✅ vercel-multi-region 27 0 0 27
Total 7575 0 1132 8707
Details by Category

✅ ▲ Vercel Production

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro 127 0 28
✅ example 127 0 28
✅ express 127 0 28
✅ fastify 127 0 28
✅ hono 127 0 28
✅ nextjs-turbopack 152 0 3
✅ nextjs-webpack 152 0 3
✅ nitro 127 0 28
✅ nuxt 127 0 28
✅ sveltekit 146 0 9
✅ vite 127 0 28

✅ 💻 Local Development

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 129 0 26
✅ express-stable 129 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 129 0 26
✅ hono-stable 129 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 155 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-webpack-stable 155 0 0
✅ nitro-stable 129 0 26
✅ nuxt-stable 129 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 148 0 7
✅ vite-stable 129 0 26

✅ 📦 Local Production

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 129 0 26
✅ express-stable 129 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 129 0 26
✅ hono-stable 129 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 155 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-webpack-stable 155 0 0
✅ nitro-stable 129 0 26
✅ nuxt-stable 129 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 148 0 7
✅ vite-stable 129 0 26

✅ 🐘 Local Postgres

App Passed Failed Skipped
✅ astro-stable 129 0 26
✅ express-stable 129 0 26
✅ fastify-stable 129 0 26
✅ hono-stable 129 0 26
✅ nextjs-turbopack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-turbopack-stable 155 0 0
✅ nextjs-webpack-canary 136 0 19
✅ nextjs-webpack-stable 155 0 0
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✅ nuxt-stable 129 0 26
✅ sveltekit-stable 148 0 7
✅ vite-stable 129 0 26

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✅ nextjs-turbopack 155 0 0

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✅ e2e-local-postgres-nest-stable 129 0 26
✅ e2e-local-postgres-tanstack-start- 129 0 26
✅ e2e-local-prod-nest-stable 129 0 26
✅ e2e-local-prod-tanstack-start- 129 0 26
✅ e2e-vercel-prod-nest 127 0 28
✅ e2e-vercel-prod-tanstack-start 127 0 28

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📊 Workflow Benchmarks

commit 7c7792d · Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:35:54 GMT · run logs

Backend: vercel · app: nextjs-turbopack

Metric Scenario Best (ms) P75 (ms) P90 (ms) P99 (ms) Samples
TTFS step 274 (-65%) 💚 1397 🔴 (+28%) 🔻 1433 🔴 (+25%) 🔻 1680 🔴 (+10%) 30
TTFS stream 253 (+6.3%) 1344 🔴 (+24%) 🔻 1377 🔴 (+24%) 🔻 1459 🔴 (+25%) 🔻 30
TTFS hook + stream 512 (-59%) 💚 1597 🔴 (+16%) 🔻 1644 🔴 (+14%) 1672 🔴 (-9.1%) 30
STSO 1020 steps (inline) 179 (+3.5%) 485 (-6.4%) 550 (-6.0%) 761 (-13%) 1016
STSO 1020 steps (queue-hop) 1677 (-15%) 💚 3122 (-5.6%) 3122 (-5.6%) 3122 (-5.6%) 3
WO 1020 steps 428735 (-4.1%) 428735 (-4.1%) 428735 (-4.1%) 428735 (-4.1%) 1
SL stream latency 105 (+14%) 171 🔴 (-5.0%) 201 🔴 (-17%) 💚 277 🔴 (-36%) 💚 30
SO stream overhead (text) 122 (-10%) 212 (-2.8%) 298 (+9.6%) 420 (+12%) 30
SO stream overhead (structured) 108 (-8.5%) 209 (-13%) 307 (-3.8%) 507 (+13%) 30
📈 STSO distribution vs main (inline / queue-hop histograms)

1020 steps (inline)

Cumulative STSO time: main 437759ms → this run 419570ms (Δ -18189ms, -4%)

  150-200 ms  ┃                         main  10  this   7    -3
  200-250 ms  ██████████┃██             main  86  this  72   -14
  250-300 ms  ████████████████┃         main 104  this 116   +12
  300-350 ms  ███████████████░░░░░┃     main  98  this 140   +42
  350-400 ms  ████████████████████░░┃   main 136  this 151   +15
  400-450 ms  ████████████████████░░░┃  main 132  this 161   +29
  450-500 ms  █████████████████████░┃   main 140  this 151   +11
  500-550 ms  ████████████████┃███      main 135  this 116   -19
  550-600 ms  ███████┃██████            main  93  this  52   -41
  600-650 ms  ██┃███                    main  38  this  22   -16
  650-700 ms  ┃██                       main  18  this   5   -13
  700-750 ms  ┃                         main   8  this  10    +2
  750-800 ms  ┃                         main   3  this   6    +3
  800-850 ms  ┃                         main   2  this   2    +0
  850-900 ms  ┃                         main   3  this   0    -3
  900-950 ms  ┃                         main   5  this   0    -5
1050-1100 ms  ┃                         main   1  this   0    -1
1100-1150 ms  ┃                         main   0  this   2    +2
1200-1250 ms  ┃                         main   2  this   0    -2
1250-1300 ms  ┃                         main   1  this   1    +0
1300-1350 ms  ┃                         main   1  this   0    -1
1750-1800 ms  ┃                         main   0  this   1    +1
1850-1900 ms  ┃                         main   0  this   1    +1

1020 steps (queue-hop)

Cumulative STSO time: main 8262ms → this run 7676ms (Δ -586ms, -7%)

1500-2000 ms  ███████████████████████┃  main 1  this 1  +0
2500-3000 ms  ███████████████████████┃  main 1  this 1  +0
3000-3500 ms  ███████████████████████┃  main 1  this 1  +0
ℹ️ Metric definitions & methodology

The collapsed STSO distribution section above buckets every step gap of the sequential-steps run (not a sampled window), split by whether the step ending the gap ran inline — in the same warm process as the step before it, so the gap is pure framework overhead — or after a queue-hop — the first step of a fresh process, which pays queue dispatch, client reinit and event-log replay. Bars overlay the two runs: is main, marks where this run lands, bridges the gap when this run has more samples in a bucket.

Best/P75/P90/P99 deltas compare against the most recent benchmark run on main at the time of this run. 🔻 flags a delta worse than +15%, 💚 one better than −15%.

Metrics — TTFS: time to first step body (in-deployment start() → first step body, deployment clocks) · STSO: step-to-step overhead (gap between consecutive step bodies) · WO: workflow overhead (whole-run time outside step bodies, in-deployment anchored) · SL: stream latency (in-deployment write → read propagation, readAt - writtenAt) · SO: stream overhead (end-to-end write+consume time beyond the modelled generation window)

Scenarios — step: one trivial no-op step, no stream; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · stream: one streaming step; no hooks, so the run stays in turbo mode (in-process fast path) · hook + stream: registers a hook before one step, which exits turbo mode (dispatch path) · 1020 steps: 1020 trivial sequential steps; STSO is measured between consecutive steps in the given step ranges, and WO is the whole-run overhead outside step bodies · stream latency: parallel reader/writer steps on a dedicated stream; SL is the in-deployment write->read propagation (readAt - writtenAt) · stream overhead (text): writer streams 300 variable-length text token deltas paced at 100/s for 3s (a haiku-size LLM's token throughput) while a parallel reader drains the whole stream; SO is the end-to-end write+consume time beyond the 3s generation window (overhead/backpressure) · stream overhead (structured): same workload as stream overhead (text), but each delta is an AI-SDK-style structured object ({ type: 'text-delta', id, text }) instead of a raw string, so the SO gap vs the text scenario is the added serialization cost

🔴 marks a percentile over its target (within target is left unmarked). Targets (p75/p90/p99, ms) — TTFS 200/300/600 · SL 50/60/125 · SO 250/500/1000

All metrics are measured from deployment-side timestamps only. Runs are triggered by an in-deployment route that stamps the anchor (clientStart) right before start(), so the CI runner’s request and its path through api.vercel.com sit outside every measured window. TTFS = in-deployment start() → first step body (turbo uses the in-process fast path, non-turbo the dispatch path), and includes the VQS dispatch hop plus any /flow cold start. STSO/WO are measured between step bodies on the deployment. SL is measured inside the workflow (parallel reader/writer steps), so it no longer includes the api.vercel.com read path.

Cold starts are kept in the numbers on purpose — they are part of real bursty-workload latency. The workbench deployment cold-starts the /flow invocation for a large fraction of runs, inflating P75+; the Best column shows the fastest (warm-start) sample for comparison.

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