Add in LLM Observability Prompt Tracking API

[sabrenner]

What Does This Do

Adds a manual prompt track API for the LLM Observability SDK. This works by exposing a prompt object builder to pass in to a new annotatePrompt method. This method only applies the prompt annotation on LLM spans.

Motivation

Further support parity with Node.js and Python SDKs.

Additional Notes

We'll need to follow up with allowing these to be annotated on auto-instrumented LLM spans (ie OpenAI)

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Jira ticket: MLOB-7901

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🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

Suite	Status
Startup	🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	14.04 s	13.97 s	[-0.3%; +1.4%] (no difference)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	12.93 s	12.97 s	[-1.1%; +0.5%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	16.87 s	16.70 s	[+0.0%; +2.1%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	16.42 s	16.98 s	[-7.5%; +0.9%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	16.71 s	16.22 s	[-1.5%; +7.5%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	16.35 s	16.66 s	[-6.3%; +2.5%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.07 s	16.26 s	[-2.4%; +0.0%] (no difference)

Commit: f916f872 · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

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Load and DaCapo benchmarks can be triggered manually in the GitLab pipeline. Results will appear in the Benchmarking Platform UI after completion.

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A later prompt annotation that only adds version or tags silently resets custom RAG context and query variable keys to defaults, corrupting tracking classification for applications that enrich a prompt across multiple calls.

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/merge

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2026-08-12 18:46:16 UTC ℹ️ Start processing command /merge

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2026-08-12 18:46:21 UTC ℹ️ MergeQueue: pull request added to the queue

The expected merge time in master is approximately 2h (p90).

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2026-08-12 19:35:18 UTC ℹ️ MergeQueue: This merge request was merged