feat: add safe granular tool failure diagnostics

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Summary

• Add bounded failure reasons, safe diagnostic summaries, and structured HTTP status provenance to MCP Tool Request events.
• Identify the failed command in agent batches while omitting command fields for setup failures and all failure details after successful retries.
• Preserve existing coarse categories, status properties, tool behavior, and single-event emission. Document the new properties and chart examples.

Test plan

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• npm run lint passes.
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• npm audit --audit-level=high: 0 vulnerabilities.
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Assumptions made

• Structured codes use a conservative allowlist because arbitrary code strings can contain sensitive input (src/lib/failure-details.ts). Extend it for documented safe codes without changing tool behavior or migrating data.
• Unrecognized free-form agent method names are omitted from diagnostic fields; the batch index remains available. The existing typed schemas define recognized names (src/tools/agent.ts).
• Diagnostic messages are synthesized from bounded reasons rather than copying upstream prose. This sacrifices arbitrary text detail to avoid publishing scripts, selectors, response bodies, credentials, or sensitive URLs.

Checklist

• Commits use conventional-commit prefixes.
• README documents properties, enums, status origin, and example breakdowns.
• No new dependencies.
• The repository template references CONTRIBUTING.md, but that file is absent from this checkout.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added structured failure diagnostics to analytics for agent actions, searches, and crawl timeouts, including safe error categories, sources, HTTP statuses, and approved error codes.
  • Validation failures are identified as invalid parameters, while command-related failures can include relevant command context.
  • Search failures now provide a reliable fallback message when details are unavailable.
  • Sensitive or untrusted error text is sanitized before reporting.

• Documentation

  • Added guidance for interpreting and reporting failure-only analytics diagnostics.

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Walkthrough

This change adds structured, sanitized failure diagnostics to API errors, tool analytics, agent execution, search analytics, and crawl timeouts. It also documents the diagnostic fields and adds coverage for classification, provenance, redaction, and retry recovery.

Changes

Failure Analytics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Diagnostic contracts and error extraction src/lib/failure-details.ts, src/lib/api-client.ts, README.md	Defines allowlisted failure fields and derives safe categories, sources, codes, statuses, and messages. API errors retain parsed codes and HTTP statuses.
Tool request and crawl analytics enrichment src/lib/define-tool.ts, src/tools/crawl.ts, test/lib/define-tool.spec.ts, test/tools/crawl.spec.ts	Adds failure diagnostics to tool and crawl events, classifies validation and timeout failures, and removes stale fields after success.
Agent failure attribution src/tools/agent.ts, test/tools/agent.spec.ts	Records structured failures for validation, connection, command, response, and navigation errors. Retry attempts clear previous failure state.
Search failure analytics src/tools/search.ts, test/tools/search.spec.ts	Adds structured diagnostics to failed searches and uses a fallback message for unknown failure reasons.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentOrSearch
  participant failureDetails
  participant AnalyticsHelper
  AgentOrSearch->>failureDetails: classify and sanitize failure
  failureDetails-->>AgentOrSearch: return structured diagnostics
  AgentOrSearch->>AnalyticsHelper: emit analytics with failure fields

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The reviewed timeout analytics change preserves the existing timeout behavior while adding sanitized diagnostic metadata and test coverage.

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test/tools/search.spec.ts (1)

129-129: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that structured error messages are absent from analytics.

failureDetails synthesizes error_message from the classified reason and does not copy error.message. The current assertion only rejects Unclassified, so a regression that copies message: 'private' would still pass.

Proposed addition

     expect(fire.firstCall.args[2].error_message).not.to.include('Unclassified');
+    expect(JSON.stringify(fire.firstCall.args[2])).not.to.match(/private/);

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In `@test/tools/search.spec.ts` at line 129, Strengthen the analytics assertion
around failureDetails so the emitted error_message does not contain the original
structured error message, such as “private,” while retaining the existing
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Inline comments:
In `@src/lib/define-tool.ts`:
- Line 197: Update the successful-event cleanup in defineTool to delete
error_category alongside the fields in failureFields, and add error_category to
the stale-property fixture in the corresponding define-tool test so the existing
key-filter assertion verifies it is removed.

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In `@test/tools/search.spec.ts`:
- Line 129: Strengthen the analytics assertion around failureDetails so the
emitted error_message does not contain the original structured error message,
such as “private,” while retaining the existing rejection of “Unclassified.”

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Review follow-up is settled on the current head. Fixed crawl timeout diagnostics and stale error_category on successful events; both regression tests failed before their fixes. Both bot-owned threads are resolved. The optional extra search assertion was not added: existing search and shared-wrapper tests already reject private error text.

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