[bot] Google GenAI Multimodal Live API sessions not instrumented

Start with braintrust-sdk/instrumentation/genai_1_18_0/src/main/java/com/google/genai/BraintrustApiClient.java and BraintrustInstrumentation.java, then inspect the Google GenAI client.aio.live.connect() and AsyncSession entry points. Compare the existing request instrumentation with the WebSocket-based Live API, and use BraintrustGenAITest.java as the test starting point. Done means Live API sessions and their relevant interactions produce instrumentation coverage without breaking existing generateContent tests.

Summary

The Google GenAI Java SDK has a stable Multimodal Live API (client.aio.live.connect() → AsyncSession) that enables real-time, bidirectional text and audio generation over WebSocket. This API surface is completely invisible to the current Braintrust instrumentation because BraintrustApiClient only wraps HTTP-based ApiClient.request() and asyncRequest() methods — WebSocket connections use an entirely separate transport that is never intercepted.

Braintrust already documents Live API tracing for Python (client.aio.live.connect() sessions and "tool calls made during Live API sessions"), but there is no equivalent Java instrumentation.

What is missing

BraintrustApiClient (the core instrumentation class, placed in the com.google.genai package to access package-private ApiClient) overrides exactly four methods:

ApiResponse request(String, String, String, Optional<HttpOptions>)      // line 186
ApiResponse request(String, String, byte[], Optional<HttpOptions>)      // line 210
CompletableFuture<ApiResponse> asyncRequest(String, String, String, ...) // line 239
CompletableFuture<ApiResponse> asyncRequest(String, String, byte[], ...) // line 277

The Live API is not HTTP — it uses WebSocket (WSS) via org.java_websocket.client.WebSocketClient internally. The entry point is:

client.aio.live.connect(model, LiveConnectConfig)    // → CompletableFuture<AsyncSession>

AsyncSession then provides:

• sendClientContent(LiveSendClientContentParameters) — sends text/content turns
• sendRealtimeInput(LiveSendRealtimeInputParameters) — streams real-time audio/video input
• sendToolResponse(LiveSendToolResponseParameters) — responds to model tool calls
• receive(Consumer<LiveServerMessage>) — registers callback for server messages

None of these are reachable via ApiClient.request(), so no spans are created for Live API sessions.

Why this is a distinct gap from #61

Issue #61 covers generateContentStream() not being instrumented (missing streaming HTTP method overrides). The Live API is fundamentally different:

• Uses WebSocket (WSS), not HTTP SSE
• Accessed via client.aio.live, not client.models
• Supports multi-turn real-time sessions, not single request/response
• Even if #61 is fixed, Live API sessions would remain completely uninstrumented

Braintrust docs status

Braintrust docs at https://www.braintrust.dev/docs/integrations/ai-providers/gemini document Live API tracing for Python:

• client.aio.live.connect() — supported (Python)
• "async Live API round-trips" — supported (Python)
• "tool calls made during Live API sessions" — supported (Python)
• Java Live API: not_found — no mention in Java SDK documentation

Upstream sources

• Google GenAI Java SDK Live API: introduced in v0.3.0 (2025-03-28), stable and progressively enhanced through v1.18.0 (the version this module targets) — https://github.com/googleapis/java-genai
• Google GenAI Java SDK changelog: v0.3.0 "add types for Live API" and "Support Live API", v1.0.0 "add async support for Live API"
• Gemini Live API docs: https://ai.google.dev/api/multimodal-live — real-time, bidirectional generative execution surface for text and audio

Local files inspected

• braintrust-sdk/instrumentation/genai_1_18_0/src/main/java/com/google/genai/BraintrustApiClient.java — lines 186–312: only request() and asyncRequest() are overridden; no WebSocket or Live API interception
• braintrust-sdk/instrumentation/genai_1_18_0/src/main/java/com/google/genai/BraintrustInstrumentation.java — wraps ApiClient into Client; no live client wrapping
• braintrust-sdk/instrumentation/genai_1_18_0/src/test/java/dev/braintrust/instrumentation/genai/v1_18_0/BraintrustGenAITest.java — tests only sync/async generateContent; no Live API tests