diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ac03e3d..8f41982 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@
       "@lavamoat/preinstall-always-fail": false,
       "@langfuse/otel>@opentelemetry/exporter-trace-otlp-http>@opentelemetry/otlp-transformer>protobufjs": false,
       "@opentelemetry/sdk-node>@opentelemetry/exporter-logs-otlp-grpc>@grpc/grpc-js>@grpc/proto-loader>protobufjs": false,
-      "eslint-plugin-import-x>unrs-resolver": false
+      "eslint-plugin-import-x>unrs-resolver": false,
+      "@langfuse/otel>@opentelemetry/otlp-exporter-base>@opentelemetry/otlp-transformer>protobufjs": false
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/telemetry/message-handler.test.ts b/src/telemetry/message-handler.test.ts
index 47004ca..fb37ce7 100644
--- a/src/telemetry/message-handler.test.ts
+++ b/src/telemetry/message-handler.test.ts
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ describe('createMessageHandler', () => {
     });
 
     expect(tracingMocks.traceSpan).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      expect.objectContaining({ sessionId: 'session-1', userId: 'user-1' }),
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        sessionId: 'session-1',
+        userId: 'user-1',
+        traceName: 'agent-runner',
+      }),
       expect.any(Function),
     );
     expect(tracingMocks.createSessionSpan).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
@@ -661,7 +665,7 @@ describe('createMessageHandler', () => {
     expect(tracingMocks.createSessionSpan).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
-  it('propagates custom traceName to createSessionSpan', () => {
+  it('propagates custom traceName to the root observation and trace context', () => {
     const handler = createHandler({ traceName: 'my-eval-trace' });
     handler.handleMessage({ type: 'init', sessionId: 'session-1' });
 
@@ -671,6 +675,10 @@ describe('createMessageHandler', () => {
       expect.any(Object),
       false,
     );
+    expect(tracingMocks.traceSpan).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      expect.objectContaining({ traceName: 'my-eval-trace' }),
+      expect.any(Function),
+    );
   });
 
   it('propagates metadata, tags, and version to traceSpan', () => {
@@ -738,6 +746,7 @@ describe('createMessageHandler', () => {
 
   it('propagates trace attributes on generation spans', () => {
     const handler = createHandler({
+      traceName: 'my-eval-trace',
       traceTags: ['eval'],
       traceVersion: '2.0.0',
     });
@@ -747,6 +756,7 @@ describe('createMessageHandler', () => {
     const generationTraceCall = tracingMocks.traceSpan.mock.calls[1];
     expect(generationTraceCall?.[0]).toStrictEqual(
       expect.objectContaining({
+        traceName: 'my-eval-trace',
         tags: ['eval'],
         version: '2.0.0',
       }),
diff --git a/src/telemetry/message-handler.ts b/src/telemetry/message-handler.ts
index 61eca3b..30175d3 100644
--- a/src/telemetry/message-handler.ts
+++ b/src/telemetry/message-handler.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export type MessageHandlerConfig = {
    */
   initialSessionId: string | undefined;
   /**
-   * Name for the root Langfuse trace observation.
+   * Name for the Langfuse trace and its root observation.
    */
   traceName?: string | undefined;
   /**
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ export function createMessageHandler(
   config: MessageHandlerConfig,
 ): MessageHandler {
   const scrubCredential = createCredentialScrubber();
+  const traceName = config.traceName ?? 'agent-runner';
   /**
    * Applies credential redaction followed by the caller's redactor.
    *
@@ -244,13 +245,14 @@ export function createMessageHandler(
       {
         sessionId: state.langfuseSessionId,
         userId: config.userId,
+        traceName,
         metadata,
         tags: config.traceTags,
         version: config.traceVersion,
       },
       () => {
         const session = createSessionSpan(
-          config.traceName ?? 'agent-runner',
+          traceName,
           config.redact ? config.prompt : scrubText(config.prompt),
           {
             model: message.model ?? config.model,
@@ -284,6 +286,7 @@ export function createMessageHandler(
       {
         sessionId: state.langfuseSessionId,
         userId: config.userId,
+        traceName,
         metadata: config.traceMetadata,
         tags: config.traceTags,
         version: config.traceVersion,
diff --git a/src/telemetry/trace-name.test.ts b/src/telemetry/trace-name.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a45784e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/telemetry/trace-name.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+import { LangfuseSpanProcessor } from '@langfuse/otel';
+import { NodeSDK } from '@opentelemetry/sdk-node';
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, beforeEach, describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { createMessageHandler } from './message-handler.js';
+import { setLangfuseProcessor } from './tracing.js';
+
+type CapturedSpan = {
+  name: string;
+  traceId: string;
+  attributes: Record<string, unknown>;
+};
+
+describe('Langfuse trace-name attributes', () => {
+  const spans: CapturedSpan[] = [];
+  const processor = new LangfuseSpanProcessor({
+    exporter: {
+      export: (batch, callback): void => {
+        for (const span of batch) {
+          spans.push({
+            name: span.name,
+            traceId: span.spanContext().traceId,
+            attributes: { ...span.attributes },
+          });
+        }
+        callback({ code: 0 });
+      },
+      shutdown: async (): Promise<void> => undefined,
+    },
+  });
+  const sdk = new NodeSDK({
+    autoDetectResources: false,
+    spanProcessors: [processor],
+    metricReaders: [],
+    logRecordProcessors: [],
+  });
+
+  beforeAll(() => {
+    sdk.start();
+    setLangfuseProcessor(processor);
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    spans.length = 0;
+  });
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    setLangfuseProcessor(undefined);
+    await sdk.shutdown();
+  });
+
+  it('emits a trace name on every observation without leaking it between runs in one session', async () => {
+    for (const traceName of ['pr-visual-validation.plan', undefined]) {
+      const handler = createMessageHandler({
+        prompt: 'Inspect a fixture.',
+        model: 'fixture-model',
+        maxTurns: 1,
+        redact: false,
+        userId: 'fixture-user',
+        initialSessionId: 'shared-workflow-session',
+        traceName,
+      });
+      handler.handleMessage({ type: 'init', sessionId: 'sdk-session' });
+      handler.handleMessage({
+        type: 'generation',
+        model: 'fixture-model',
+        text: '',
+        toolCalls: [
+          { id: 'read-1', name: 'Read', input: { file_path: '/fixture.txt' } },
+        ],
+        usage: { inputTokens: 1, outputTokens: 1 },
+        stopReason: 'tool_use',
+      });
+      handler.handleMessage({
+        type: 'tool_result',
+        toolUseId: 'read-1',
+        content: 'Fixture contents.',
+        isError: false,
+      });
+      handler.handleMessage({ type: 'result', success: true, result: 'Done.' });
+      handler.finalizeSessionSpan();
+      await processor.forceFlush();
+
+      const runSpans = spans.filter(
+        (span) => span.traceId === handler.getState().traceId,
+      );
+      const expectedName = traceName ?? 'agent-runner';
+      expect(runSpans.map((span) => span.name)).toStrictEqual([
+        'fixture-model',
+        'Read: fixture.txt',
+        expectedName,
+      ]);
+      for (const span of runSpans) {
+        expect(span.attributes).toMatchObject({
+          'langfuse.trace.name': expectedName,
+          'session.id': 'shared-workflow-session',
+        });
+      }
+    }
+
+    expect(spans).toHaveLength(6);
+    expect(new Set(spans.map((span) => span.traceId)).size).toBe(2);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/telemetry/tracing.test.ts b/src/telemetry/tracing.test.ts
index 71c9bdd..0f41ae9 100644
--- a/src/telemetry/tracing.test.ts
+++ b/src/telemetry/tracing.test.ts
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ describe('tracing helpers', () => {
     expect(callback).toHaveBeenCalledOnce();
   });
 
-  it('traceSpan propagates metadata, tags, and version when provided', () => {
+  it('traceSpan propagates trace name, metadata, tags, and version when provided', () => {
     setLangfuseProcessor({ forceFlush: vi.fn(async () => undefined) });
     const callback = vi.fn();
 
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ describe('tracing helpers', () => {
       {
         sessionId: 'session-1',
         userId: 'user-1',
+        traceName: 'my-eval-trace',
         metadata: { repo: 'metamask' },
         tags: ['eval', 'ci'],
         version: '1.0.0',
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ describe('tracing helpers', () => {
       {
         sessionId: 'session-1',
         userId: 'user-1',
+        traceName: 'my-eval-trace',
         metadata: { repo: 'metamask' },
         tags: ['eval', 'ci'],
         version: '1.0.0',
diff --git a/src/telemetry/tracing.ts b/src/telemetry/tracing.ts
index 8f1aaa2..8f6c0f8 100644
--- a/src/telemetry/tracing.ts
+++ b/src/telemetry/tracing.ts
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ export type TraceAttributes = {
   sessionId: string | undefined;
   /** User identifier for trace attribution. */
   userId: string;
+  /** Trace name shared by all observations in the run. */
+  traceName?: string | undefined;
   /** Arbitrary metadata attached to the trace. */
   metadata?: Record<string, string> | undefined;
   /** Tags for trace filtering and categorisation. */
@@ -103,6 +105,9 @@ export function traceSpan(attrs: TraceAttributes, fn: () => void): void {
     if (attrs.version !== undefined) {
       propagated.version = attrs.version;
     }
+    if (attrs.traceName !== undefined) {
+      propagated.traceName = attrs.traceName;
+    }
     propagateAttributes(propagated, fn);
   } catch {
     // Fire-and-forget tracing should not affect agent execution.
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 35acb98..426e17a 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ export type AgentRunnerConfig<
  * Per-run telemetry attributes propagated to Langfuse traces.
  */
 export type AgentRunTelemetryAttributes = {
-  /** Name for the root Langfuse trace. */
+  /** Name for the Langfuse trace and its root observation. Defaults to `agent-runner`. */
   traceName?: string;
   /** User identifier propagated to traces. */
   userId?: string;