fix(server): bound provider event log records before serialization

[juliusmarminge]

Large canonical turn diffs and provider histories were serialized in full before the log-size check. A duplicated diff produced a 3,145,926-byte NDJSON record in the regression case, spending CPU and allocations before any truncation.

Bound strings, collection sizes, depth, and field traversal before serialization. Preserve small routing/error details in summaries and skip transient raw protocol frames. This ports the existing v2 logger protection to main without provider/runtime changes.

Verification: 19 focused logger tests pass. The duplicated-diff regression fails on the original implementation and now emits under 2 KiB; other cases cover cyclic data, escaped output, oversized histories, and accessors. Targeted lint passes. No visual behavior changed.

First layer of the checkpoint fixes stack; targets main. Prepared with Codex.

Closes #10924

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved event logging to exclude transient, raw, and nested stream updates from persisted records.
  • Added safeguards to prevent circular data, oversized histories, and large error records from producing unbounded log entries.
  • Preserved essential metadata and failure details when records require compact serialization.
  • Strengthened secret redaction and sanitized file output for circular event data.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	+31 B (+0.2%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.0 KiB	7.1 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	+25 B (+0.4%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.3 KiB	56.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	10	10	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−24 B (−0.2%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	+1 B (+0.0%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.4 KiB	−25 B (−0.4%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.1 KiB	57.0 KiB	−44 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	10	9	−1 (−10.0%)	21	✅

Baseline: 4cc984f · PR result: cc9a856 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 114.0 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The production provider logger now suppresses additional event classes and transforms oversized, circular, or deeply nested records through new traversal and summarization logic. These changes alter diagnostic fidelity and introduce meaningful runtime complexity beyond a simple logging tweak.

No code changes detected at cc9a856. Prior analysis still applies.

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Changes

Provider event logging now suppresses additional transient native payloads and nested stream deltas. Accepted events are bounded before NDJSON serialization, with compact fallback summaries for oversized or inaccessible data. Tests cover filtering, truncation, cyclic data, large histories, errors, and duplicate diff payloads.

Provider event logging

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider event filtering apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts	The logger filters raw frames, decoded transient events, turn/diff/updated, and nested stream content deltas. Tests verify excluded accessors are not traversed.
Bounded event persistence apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts	The logger applies character, field, depth, array, cycle, and accessor limits. Oversized events use compact summaries. Tests verify bounded histories, errors, circular data, and canonical diff snapshots.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Priority: ⬆️ High

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ProviderService
  participant EventNdjsonLogger
  participant NDJSONFile
  ProviderService->>EventNdjsonLogger: submit canonical provider event
  EventNdjsonLogger->>EventNdjsonLogger: filter transient payloads
  EventNdjsonLogger->>EventNdjsonLogger: bound event for serialization
  EventNdjsonLogger->>NDJSONFile: write bounded NDJSON record

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 738d6

The bounded logging behavior appears mergeable, though its large-history regression test should more directly detect unintended item access.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation satisfies #10924. boundProviderEventForLogging applies character, field, depth, array, and cycle limits before serializeEvent. Oversized serialized output falls back to `summari…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within #10924 scope. They add provider-log bounding, compact summaries, transient-frame filtering, and focused logger tests. The additional history, cycle, accessor, and decoded-frame…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: bounding provider event log records before serialization.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains what changed, why it was needed, the verification performed, scope limits, and the linked issue. It does not use the template headings or include an explicit checklist, but th…

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apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts (1)

434-443: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Strengthen the large-history access check.

boundProviderEventForLogging catches traversal errors and then calls summarizeProviderEvent. If the array-size guard is removed, the throwing getter can be invoked, the error can be swallowed, and the current assertions can still pass because summarizeProviderEvent records only itemCount.

Count getter accesses and assert that the count remains zero:

♻️ Proposed test change

       const turns = Array.from({ length: 10_000 });
+      let itemReads = 0;
       Object.defineProperty(turns, 0, {
         get: () => {
-          throw new Error("history must not be serialized");
+          itemReads += 1;
+          return undefined;
         },
       });

After reading the log, add:

assert.equal(itemReads, 0);

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In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts` around lines 434 -
443, Strengthen the large-history test around the turns array by tracking
accesses to its first item and returning undefined from the getter instead of
throwing. After the log is read, assert that the access counter remains zero,
while preserving the existing summary assertions and setup in the test
“summarizes large histories without reading their items.”

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/server/src/provider/Layers/EventNdjsonLogger.test.ts`:
- Around line 434-443: Strengthen the large-history test around the turns array
by tracking accesses to its first item and returning undefined from the getter
instead of throwing. After the log is read, assert that the access counter
remains zero, while preserving the existing summary assertions and setup in the
test “summarizes large histories without reading their items.”

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