maida validate-trace

Validates an externally emitted native Maida trace without installing or modifying it.

maida validate-trace PATH [--json]

PATH is either a directory containing meta.json and spans.jsonl, or that directory’s meta.json. Text mode prints a concise success result to stdout or actionable diagnostics to stderr. --json keeps stdout machine-readable for both success and failure, with valid, trace metadata, span count, and sanitized diagnostics.

Exit codes: 0 valid; 1 invalid trace content; 2 missing, unreadable, or unsupported input path; 10 unexpected validator failure.

See Emit Maida traces without an SDK for the required fields, JSON Schemas, enrichment rules, and subthread topology.