feat(trace): opt-in trace store linked to usage.jsonl

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What

usage.jsonl stays the compact telemetry SOT. Full prompts/responses go to a separate local store, trace.sqlite, linked by traceId (= requestId). Off by default.

Modes (OCX_TRACE)

• off (default): nothing read or stored.
• metadata: no bodies stored; each usage row gets a payload-free trace object: byte sizes, message/tool-call/tool-def/attachment counts, request/outbound/response hashes, plus systemHash, toolsHash, prefixHash of the final provider wire body.
• redacted: also stores inbound request, final provider body and response (gzip BLOBs), secrets stripped with the existing lib/redact.
• full: verbatim bodies, explicit opt-in.

Knobs: OCX_TRACE_TTL_HOURS (24), OCX_TRACE_MAX_BODY_BYTES (512 KiB), OCX_TRACE_MAX_DB_MB (256, oldest evicted first), OCX_TRACE_SAMPLE (1.0).

Why the section hashes

For cache-hit debugging: two consecutive turns with equal prefixHash but a moved systemHash or toolsHash tells you which section broke the provider prompt-cache prefix, without storing any content.

Wiring

• src/trace/{types,settings,store,capture}.ts (new). Store is bun:sqlite, WAL, TTL + size-cap pruning, every entry point swallows its own failures.
• /v1/responses, /v1/messages, /v1/chat/completions: beginTrace (reads a clone of the inbound body) + runWithTrace (AsyncLocalStorage).
• fetchWithHeaderTimeout records the final wire body via noteOutboundRequestBody (last body wins on retries; outboundCount records how many were sent).
• inspectResponseLogJson / inspectResponseLogSsePayload feed the bounded response copy.
• addFinalRequestLog finalizes the trace and stamps traceId + trace on the usage row; normalizeUsageEntry whitelists/validates them.
• Docs: reference/cli.md.

Verified locally

• bun test: new tests/trace.test.ts (16) plus usage-log, request-log, usage-failure-persistence, usage-surfaces, usage-log-metrics, debug-settings, response-cache-e2e, api-usage, adapter-usage, chat-completions-endpoint, claude-messages-endpoint, openai-responses-passthrough, client-server-route-gate: all green.
• bun run privacy:scan: passed.
• Not run locally: bun run typecheck and the full suite (the 1 GB sandbox OOMs on tsc). Relying on CI for those; please treat red CI as authoritative.

Known limits (follow-ups)

• Outbound capture only covers adapters that send through fetchWithHeaderTimeout; adapters with their own fetch show outboundBytes absent.
• /v1/responses/compact, WebSocket and live/realtime routes are not wired.
• redacted is pattern-based: free-text secrets in prompts that match no known pattern are not detectable.
• No CLI/management-API reader yet; use readTrace/listTraces or sqlite3 on trace.sqlite.
• Cache-hit/replay paths (logCacheHitRequest) are not traced.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added optional request tracing, disabled by default, with metadata-only, redacted, and full-body modes.
  • Traces can capture request and response details, with configurable retention, storage limits, and sampling.
  • Request logs can include trace IDs and payload-free trace summaries.
• Documentation
  • Documented trace modes, configuration, captured traffic, storage limits, and privacy considerations.

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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 adds configurable request tracing for server requests. It captures request and response data, stores sampled payloads in trace.sqlite, and adds trace identifiers and metadata to usage logs. The CLI reference documents trace modes, settings, and capture coverage.

Changes

Request tracing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Trace contracts and settings src/trace/types.ts, src/trace/settings.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli.md, tests/trace.test.ts	Defines trace modes and normalized metadata. Resolves bounded settings from overrides and environment variables. Documents storage modes, defaults, and limits. Tests settings behavior.
Capture and storage lifecycle src/trace/capture.ts, src/trace/store.ts, src/server/responses/fetch-helpers.ts, tests/trace.test.ts	Captures request, outbound, and response data. Derives counts and hashes, applies redaction and size limits, and finalizes traces. Stores sampled payloads in SQLite with expiry and size-based pruning. Tests capture, storage, and expiry behavior.
Server and usage-log integration src/server/index.ts, src/server/request-log.ts, src/usage/log.ts, tests/trace.test.ts	Begins traces around server handlers and appends inspected responses. Finalizes traces with request metadata and adds available trace IDs and normalized metadata to usage-log entries. Tests usage-log integration.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant startServer
  participant TraceCapture
  participant fetchWithHeaderTimeout
  participant RequestLog
  participant traceStore
  participant usageLog
  Client->>startServer: send request
  startServer->>TraceCapture: beginTrace for effective request
  startServer->>RequestLog: run handler with trace context
  RequestLog->>TraceCapture: append inspected response payload
  fetchWithHeaderTimeout->>TraceCapture: note outbound request body
  RequestLog->>TraceCapture: finalizeTrace
  TraceCapture->>traceStore: write sampled trace
  RequestLog->>usageLog: persist available trace ID and metadata

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ec91e

Tracing can exceed its configured body limit or delay large requests, and trace links disappear from logs loaded after restart. Resolve these issues before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ec91e

Tracing is disabled by default, and body storage requires explicit opt-in. When enabled, response handling can weaken redaction, expiration does not guarantee timely removal from disk, and inbound capture checks its size limit only after reading the body. These affect confidentiality and service resource containment, but no new remote payload-access path was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Response capture retains a raw prefix and concatenates chunks before redaction. Truncation or multiple JSON payloads can make the accumulated text unparsable, replacing structured sensitive-key scrubbing with value-pattern scrubbing. Values under otherwise recognized secret keys can consequently remain in sampled redacted traces when their values do not match a known token pattern. Exposure requires access to the local trace database; this is not evidence of remote exfiltration.
• Medium · security · inferred: The configured TTL filters reads but is not a deletion deadline. The evidenced production cleanup path runs during subsequent writes, while reads and lists only exclude expired rows. If tracing becomes idle or is disabled, sensitive payloads can remain on disk past their expiry, extending the exposure window to filesystem readers.
• Medium · security · inferred: With tracing enabled, beginTrace reads the cloned inbound body completely before checking its actual byte size. The declared-length guard does not cover requests without an accurate Content-Length, and sampling does not avoid this read. A caller able to submit sufficiently large accepted requests can add input-sized buffering and delay handler execution in the shared server process. The deployed server's effective acceptance limit remains unknown.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Enabled tracing affects accepted requests through the three integrated handlers and stores sampled bodies in one local database. Confidentiality exposure is bounded to captured content and principals able to read that storage; resource exhaustion can affect the shared server process. The evidence does not establish cross-environment exposure or a remotely reachable payload reader.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The confidentiality concern is a body-to-storage path: sensitive provider content enters the bounded raw response accumulator, may lose JSON structure, receives only pattern-based fallback sanitization, and is compressed into SQLite. Logical expiry can extend the on-disk exposure period. These are introduced trace-storage concerns, not verified remote credential theft.
• observed — The suppressed URL/Gemini-header candidate is not supported by the inspected capture path: fetchWithHeaderTimeout supplies init.body to the outbound hook, which does not receive the URL or headers. This counterevidence does not establish complete redaction of secrets embedded in bodies.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Trace settings resolve from process environment or in-process overrides, not from captured request fields in the inspected code. AsyncLocalStorage and the done guard isolate normal request captures and prevent post-finalization accumulation. Store queries are parameterized and exclude expired records.
• observed — The store setup uses ownership helpers and best-effort restrictive permissions. Payload-reader functions have no tenant or user authorization parameter; the inspected callers do not establish a production HTTP payload-read boundary. Effective filesystem access and deployment-specific isolation therefore remain coverage gaps rather than demonstrated authorization bypasses.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Storage failures are swallowed and finalized buffers are released, containing diagnostic failures rather than making trace persistence mandatory for request success. Pruning attempts WAL truncation and incremental vacuum, but those operations do not prove secure physical erasure. The configured per-body byte limit is also applied using string length during persistence and response accumulation.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Preserve structured redaction by sanitizing complete response payloads before concatenation or prefix truncation, while keeping raw hashing separate. Enforce capture limits during reading and in UTF-8 bytes rather than after an unbounded read or by string length.
• proposed — Define whether TTL means logical invisibility or on-disk removal. If removal is required, provide cleanup independent of future writes, including restart and tracing-disable behavior, and validate permissions for the database and sidecars on supported platforms.

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🟡 Minor · Hydration drops traceId and trace from persisted rows. · request-log.ts:280-318

src/server/request-log.ts:280-318
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Hydration drops traceId and trace from persisted rows.

requestLogEntryFromPersistedUsage does not copy the new fields. After a restart, the /api/logs entries lose the trace link. Add ...(entry.traceId ? { traceId: entry.traceId } : {}) and add the same spread for trace.

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Update requestLogEntryFromPersistedUsage to preserve traceId and trace when
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/server/index.ts:
- Around line 1181-1182: Update beginTrace to read cloned request bodies
incrementally and cancel the reader as soon as the accumulated byte count
exceeds MAX_INBOUND_READ_BYTES. Only assemble and decode the body after it fits,
and set trace.inboundBytes to the measured byte count so requests without
Content-Length cannot be read fully before the limit is enforced.

Review comments at @src/trace/capture.ts:
- Around line 122-129: Update response capture and storableBody to enforce
maxBodyBytes using UTF-8 byte lengths rather than JavaScript string lengths.
Count inserted newline separators toward the cap, and truncate encoded data only
at valid UTF-8 character boundaries so stored text never exceeds the byte limit.

Review comments at @tests/trace.test.ts:
- Around line 82-93: Update the trace test hooks to save and restore the
original OCX_TRACE_TTL_HOURS and OCX_TRACE_SAMPLE values, clearing them during
setup and restoring or deleting them in afterEach. Remove the inline deletes
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Review comments at @src/server/request-log.ts:
- Around line 280-318: Update requestLogEntryFromPersistedUsage to preserve
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• inbound tracing now reads the cloned request incrementally and cancels once the 8 MiB trace-read limit is exceeded, including chunked requests without Content-Length;
• all stored body caps are enforced in UTF-8 bytes on valid character boundaries, including response separators;
• trace tests restore all OCX_TRACE_* environment variables;
• restart hydration preserves traceId and trace metadata;
• redacted multi-chunk responses are structurally redacted per chunk before accumulation, preventing sensitive-key values such as password from surviving the fallback path;
• expired rows are physically deleted on read/list activity in addition to normal write-time pruning.

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