feat: make prompt cache behavior measurable

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Summary

Add an observability-first prompt-cache layer for OpenAI Responses routing so cache behavior can be measured before changing provider/model cache policy.

This PR does not inject cache options, enable paid cache writes, deploy anything, add Redis, or change request semantics. It records privacy-safe structural diagnostics from the exact final outbound Responses body and persists the final adapter alongside usage.

Why

The existing usage log already records provider-reported cache reads/writes, but historical rows do not record the adapter or enough outbound request shape to explain a miss.

The live audit found real historical write-heavy behavior on older provider paths, but applying cache policy from that history to the current Responses route would be speculative.

A deterministic read-only run against the retained live usage log, anchored at 2026-10-03T21:42:00Z, measured:

• 7d window: 215,536,617 successful provider-reported input tokens
• 184,376,962 cache-read tokens (85.5%)
• 690,312 cache-write tokens (0.3%)
• openai/gpt-5.6-terra: 93.2% cache-read ratio
• openai/gpt-5.6-luna: 5.9% cache-read ratio in the retained 7d cohort

Historical rows still report adapter=unknown because they predate this instrumentation. That is intentional evidence separation, not backfilled inference.

Changes

• capture prompt-cache diagnostics from the final sanitized outbound Responses body
• persist final adapter identity on usage rows
• persist only structural cache metadata:
  • cache mode / TTL / retention flags
  • key presence, never the key value
  • breakpoint count
  • tool count + stable tool-schema fingerprint
  • stable developer/system prefix fingerprint
  • response-format fingerprint / verbosity
  • continuation presence
• use a stable JSON serializer for fingerprints that preserves array/tool order and treats keys such as __proto__ as ordinary data
• keep persistence validation at the JSONL boundary and trust typed adapter metadata internally
• route adapter-derived request diagnostics through one lifecycle seam
• clear cache metadata when retries/failovers switch to an adapter with no cache observation
• add scripts/analyze-prompt-cache-usage.ts with strict CLI validation, --now reproducibility, typed cohort/cache-shape dimensions, and the hard proof boundary status=200 && usageStatus=reported
• reuse the canonical persisted prompt-cache parser in the analyzer rather than duplicating shape parsing
• add an end-to-end local proof from final outbound adapter body -> request log -> persisted usage.jsonl
• assert persisted bytes contain no raw cache key, fixed prefix text, or tool name
• split the new observation/analyzer stages into small pure helpers after CodeFactor identified avoidable method complexity

No prompt/user/tool text, cache-key value, or response content is persisted in the new diagnostics.

Storage boundary / Redis

Redis is deliberately not added here.

The repository architecture already defines the proxy response cache as local Map + LRU + TTL with optional file persistence and states that Redis is an opt-in for multi-process deployments. The current prompt-cache lane is observability over provider-side prompt caching, not a proxy-level shared cache.

The current durable source of truth remains append-only usage.jsonl. /v1/responses also remains excluded from the proxy body cache because Redis would not solve the missing previous_response_id / provider-continuation reconstruction problem.

Redis/Upstash should only become a follow-up when there is measured need for cross-process or cross-host shared hot state, distributed atomic counters/locks, or a shared response cache. If local analytics outgrow JSONL scanning first, SQLite is the lower-complexity next step; central Postgres/Neon only makes sense once cross-host aggregation is required.

Pstack design boundary

The implementation intentionally stays at the adapter/persistence boundaries:

final outbound body -> typed PromptCacheRequestObservation -> request log -> usage.jsonl -> analyzer

A generic cache normalizer in responses/core.ts was rejected because provider wire semantics belong to the adapter. Public OpenAI API semantics and the private ChatGPT Codex backend remain separate concerns.

Verification

Exact head 54e565df91a0721106da3f36476daa14465a3a4b has focused local verification. Its parent e468b0eae7a25b672137f81592d46d0244e7e183 also passed the full repository suite:

• bun run typecheck ✅
• focused cache/analyzer/request-log tests on exact head: 134 pass, 0 fail ✅
• full repository suite on parent e468b0ea: 7020 pass, 11 explicit skips, 0 fail across 524 files ✅
• 34,881 assertions ✅
• bun run privacy:scan ✅
• git diff --check ✅
• deterministic analyzer reproduced the retained live-log measurement with a fixed --now anchor ✅
• no paid model/API request was made for this work ✅

The 11 skips are existing environment/capability skips reported by the repository suite, not failures introduced by this PR.

Follow-up after this lands

Use normal traffic on the current Responses routes to compare cache reads/writes by:

adapter + provider + model + surface + promptCache shape

Only after that evidence exists should a second PR consider model/provider-specific prompt_cache_options, retention, or explicit breakpoints.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added prompt-cache insights to usage records, including cache settings, request shape, adapter, and privacy-preserving fingerprints.
  • Added an analyzer that summarizes cache usage by time range and groups results by adapter, provider, model, and request shape. Supports JSON and readable text output.

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PR-stack (mergen van onder naar boven; elke PR bouwt op de vorige):

1. 👉 feat: make prompt cache behavior measurable #296 feat: make prompt cache behavior measurable
2. feat: expand providers and make native model discovery account-aware #297 feat: expand providers and make native model discovery account-aware
3. feat(gui): start auth-inspired OpenCodex redesign #299 feat(gui): start auth-inspired OpenCodex redesign
4. feat(trace): opt-in trace store linked to usage.jsonl #298 feat(trace): opt-in trace store linked to usage.jsonl
5. feat(trace): add safe local trace reader #300 feat(trace): add safe local trace reader
6. feat(trace): cover compact and response-cache hits #301 feat(trace): cover compact and response-cache hits
7. feat(trace): cover Responses WebSocket turns #302 feat(trace): cover Responses WebSocket turns
8. feat(trace): cover live call-create HTTP #303 feat(trace): cover live call-create HTTP

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Walkthrough

The change captures structural prompt-cache metadata from OpenAI Responses requests, records it with adapter identity in request and usage logs, and adds a script to analyze persisted usage by cohort and cache shape.

Changes

Prompt-cache observability and analysis

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Observe and validate prompt-cache requests src/prompt-cache/observability.ts, src/adapters/base.ts, src/adapters/openai-responses.ts, tests/prompt-cache-observability.test.ts, tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts	The observer extracts supported cache settings, counts, and fingerprints from the finalized request body. Adapter requests carry the observation. Tests cover the captured dimensions, fingerprint behavior, normalization, and passthrough logging.
Record and persist adapter metadata src/server/request-log.ts, src/server/responses/core.ts, src/usage/log.ts, tests/request-log.test.ts, tests/usage-log.test.ts	Responses request paths record adapter metadata. Finalized request logs and persisted usage entries include normalized prompt-cache observations and adapter identity. Tests cover metadata replacement and persistence round trips.
Analyze persisted prompt-cache usage scripts/analyze-prompt-cache-usage.ts	The script filters usage records by time range, validates reported token usage, groups results by adapter, provider, model, surface, and cache shape, then emits JSON or human-readable output.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ResponsesAdapter
  participant PromptCacheObserver
  participant ResponsesCore
  participant RequestLog
  participant UsageLog
  participant UsageAnalyzer
  ResponsesAdapter->>PromptCacheObserver: observe finalized request body
  PromptCacheObserver-->>ResponsesAdapter: return prompt-cache observation
  ResponsesAdapter-->>ResponsesCore: return AdapterRequest with promptCacheLog
  ResponsesCore->>RequestLog: record adapter request metadata
  RequestLog->>UsageLog: persist adapter and prompt-cache metadata
  UsageAnalyzer->>UsageLog: read usage records
  UsageLog-->>UsageAnalyzer: return persisted entries

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e468b

The change is mergeable with owner follow-up: restrict logged verbosity values and correct the identified cache-usage accounting edge cases before relying on those measurements for detailed cohort comparisons.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e468b

The change adds persistent diagnostics without changing cache policy. One caller-provided text field can enter logs despite the intended structural-only privacy boundary. The demonstrated exposure is bounded, but log-access controls and some failure paths remain incompletely assessed.

Retained concerns

• Low · security · observed: The new diagnostic contract retains arbitrary caller-supplied text.verbosity rather than restricting it to supported values. Up to 32 characters can survive into durable usage records and request-log responses. This expands retained request content beyond structural diagnostics; unauthorized access or disclosure of another caller's data was not established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated privacy exposure concerns caller-controlled text entering the instance's request logs, usage file and downstream reports. No new service authority, credential access or cross-request disclosure was demonstrated. Tenant separation and deployment-wide reader exposure cannot be determined from the hydrated evidence.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The source-supported path is request text.verbosity to raw outbound body, bounded observation text, retained log metadata and log-reader serialization. This supports the privacy-contract concern, not a verified authorization bypass. The supplied security candidate remains deferred because its exact-candidate verification receipt is missing.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Usage normalization reconstructs an allowlisted observation rather than retaining arbitrary object fields. Management dispatch checks allowed origin before log routing. Neither control establishes that verbosity contains only supported values, and the caller-level authentication gate was not fully hydrated.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Replacing observations at the adapter callback and copying them at persistence boundaries limits stale state and object sharing on ordinary execution paths. The inspected request-context constructor and combo-child isolation provide counterevidence to cross-request leakage, but do not establish every interruption or concurrent-callback invariant.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Restrict diagnostic verbosity to the supported value set at observation and normalization boundaries, omitting unsupported strings without changing the outbound request. This would close the demonstrated raw-text retention path while preserving observability-first behavior.

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