evals: project actualToolCalls onto the persisted shape at the wire

[ZeHuari]

Follow-up hardening for Sentry CONVEX-1QF (51 events, 6 users, prod).

What happened

updateTestIteration.actualToolCalls is validated by a strict Convex v.object. An unrecognized field there is a hard ArgumentValidationError — not a silent drop — so it fails the entire iteration finalize:

ArgumentValidationError: Object contains extra field `toolCallId` that is not in the validator.
Path: .actualToolCalls[0]
Validator: v.object({arguments: v.any(), toolName: v.string()})

#4308 taught the runner to attach toolCallId to each extracted tool call (so policy-blocked calls could be filtered by id) without widening the backend validator. From 2026-08-24 14:47 UTC every eval iteration that called a tool stopped persisting, until mcpjam-backend #1134 widened the validator (deployed 03:05 UTC; last event 03:19 UTC).

Why this PR

The bug itself is already fixed on both sides (backend #1134, inspector #4351) and deployed. What's still missing is a guard against the class.

The wire payload's shape was only ever a property of each producer happening to build its objects field-by-field. extractToolCallsFromConversation reads tool calls out of any-typed AI SDK step objects, and sanitizeForConvexTransport forwards every key it's given — it escapes reserved $ prefixes, it doesn't constrain shape. So the next field added upstream reaches the strict validator exactly the same way, and the failure mode is a silent 12-hour prod outage on eval persistence.

What changed

• toPersistedToolCalls() in server/services/evals/convex-sanitize.ts projects each entry onto exactly {toolName, arguments, toolCallId?} — mirroring the backend's evalIterationToolCallValidator.
• Applied at the single wire boundary (finalize-iteration.ts, the updateTestIteration call).
• Tests pin the contract, including the exact CONVEX-1QF payload and the toolCallId: undefined case (v.optional accepts a missing key; an explicit undefined is what serialization rejects).

appendEvalTurnTrace needs no equivalent — its prompts arg is v.array(v.any()).

No behavior change on today's payload — every current producer already emits only these three fields. This makes that guaranteed at the boundary instead of remembered at each producer.

Testing

• npx vitest run server/services/evals/__tests__/convex-sanitize.test.ts — 6 passed
• finalize-iteration / build-iteration-finish-params / persist-eval-trace — 66 passed
• npm run typecheck — clean for these files (7 pre-existing commandsGroup errors in cli/ on main, untouched here)

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Summary by cubic

Projects eval actualToolCalls onto the backend’s strict shape at the wire so extra fields can’t fail iteration finalize. Previously we forwarded all keys; now we send only {toolName, arguments, toolCallId?} and drop others, omitting undefined ids; current behavior is unchanged.

Bug Fixes

• Persist actualToolCalls: [] for no‑tool iterations to satisfy the strict validator.
• Omit toolCallId when absent rather than sending undefined.
• Add tests that pin the projection at the finalize payload and the mapper, including the CONVEX-1QF case.

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Walkthrough

The change adds PersistedToolCall and toPersistedToolCalls to enforce the Convex tool-call shape. The mapper retains toolName and arguments, and conditionally retains string toolCallId values. Tests cover empty input, field projection, and omission of absent identifiers. Evaluation finalization now applies the mapper before sanitizing and updating actualToolCalls.

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The change safely projects tool-call data to the persisted shape and includes an outbound payload regression test. Edge cases such as null or empty inputs and error handling remain untested, so merge is reasonable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/evals/__tests__/convex-sanitize.test.ts`:
- Around line 52-109: The toPersistedToolCalls test matrix is missing
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arrays, null inputs or values, invalid toolName/arguments, and the expected
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/evals/finalize-iteration.ts`:
- Around line 970-972: Add a regression test for finalizeEvalIteration that
captures the updateTestIteration action payload when toolsCalled contains an
unsupported field, and assert actualToolCalls excludes that field after
projection and sanitization. Keep the test focused on the finalization payload
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