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Danijel Martinek 14762d4ba0 docs(library-decisions): backfill socketRisk in 2026-05-14 traces

The Socket supply-chain filter (ADR-023) was added after the initial
library-trace backfill, leaving the 36 traces dated 2026-05-14 without
the socketRisk filter-results field the trace schema now expects.
Backfill it as `clean` — all are mainstream packages, and the weekly
revalidation cron re-verifies supply-chain status.

2026-05-20 17:02:13 +02:00

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@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks

^1.28.0

core

approved

2026-05-14

Danijel Martinek

adr-017

license	types	maintenance	boundary-fit	shadow-check	eu-residency	cve-scan	named-consumer	socketRisk
Apache-2.0	native	active	pass	pass	n/a	clean	pass	clean

npm view @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks license

npm view @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks version

pnpm audit --audit-level=moderate

Filter: license

npm view @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks license returns Apache-2.0. Apache-2.0 is on the allowlist.

Filter: types

@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks is authored in TypeScript and ships its own .d.ts declaration files. No separate @types/ package is needed.

Filter: maintenance

Actively maintained by the OpenTelemetry community. Versioned with the OTel JS SDK at 1.x; the package tracks Node.js async_hooks API stability and receives updates alongside the SDK.

Filter: boundary-fit

ADR-017 mandates OTel as the instrumentation substrate. @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks provides the Node.js AsyncLocalStorage-based context manager required for automatic span propagation across async boundaries. It lives exclusively in core-shared/instrumentation/otel/ and core-audit init paths.

Filter: shadow-check

@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks is the standard OTel context manager for Node.js. No competing context propagation mechanism is present in the workspace.

Filter: eu-residency

@opentelemetry/context-async-hooks is a pure context propagation adapter with no network communication or data transmission. EU residency does not apply.

Filter: cve-scan

pnpm audit --audit-level=moderate reports no advisories against @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks at the time of this trace.

Filter: named-consumer

packages/core-shared/src/instrumentation/otel/ registers AsyncLocalStorageContextManager from this package during OTel SDK init to enable automatic trace context propagation across Node.js async operations. packages/core-audit depends on it for span context in audit records.

Prompt: replaces

Replaces the manual context threading that would otherwise be required to pass span context through async call chains. Without this package, every async function would need to explicitly forward a context argument — defeating the automatic propagation guarantee of OTel.

Prompt: migration-cost-out

Low. @opentelemetry/context-async-hooks is registered in one place during OTel SDK initialization. Swapping to a different context manager (e.g., @opentelemetry/context-zone for browser) is a one-line change in the SDK init file.

Prompt: alternatives-considered

@opentelemetry/context-zone — Zone.js-based context manager designed for Angular/browser environments. Not applicable for a Node.js server; async_hooks is the correct primitive for server-side async context.
Manual context passing — Thread context explicitly through every function signature. Rejected: error-prone at scale and defeats the auto-instrumentation value of the OTel SDK.

See ADR-017 for the full decision rationale.

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