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Summary

  • Persist the typed shadowCallRewrittenFrom marker from the opt-in shadow-call rewrite into runtime request logs and usage.jsonl.
  • Restore the bounded, redacted marker when request history is hydrated after restart, so intercepted helper traffic remains attributable without inspecting request content or guessing helper subtypes from timing.
  • Add request-path, persistence, and restart-hydration regressions. This does not enable interception automatically and does not change the GUI.

Refs #2157.

Verification

  • nice -n 10 taskset -c 0,1 bun test --isolate tests/request-log.test.ts tests/responses-shadow-intercept.test.ts — 65 pass / 0 fail.
  • nice -n 10 taskset -c 0,1 bun run typecheck — passed.
  • nice -n 10 taskset -c 0,1 bun run privacy:scan — passed.
  • git diff --check — passed.
  • Full suite: 13,532 pass / 15 skip / 1 host-environment failure. The only failure was tests/codex-shim.test.ts reading the real session's injected OPENCODEX_API_AUTH_TOKEN instead of its fixture; the changed files do not touch that shim path.
  • env -u OPENCODEX_API_AUTH_TOKEN nice -n 10 taskset -c 0,1 bun test --isolate tests/codex-shim.test.ts — 69 pass / 0 fail, including the previously contaminated assertion.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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  • New Features

    • Request logs now record the original helper model when an opt-in shadow-call rewrite occurs.
    • This metadata is preserved across restarts and stored in a sanitized, bounded form without request content.
    • Shadow-call handling now recognizes the updated helper model used by newer Codex versions.
  • Documentation

    • Updated usage-accounting documentation to describe shadow-call source-model tracking.

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Shadow-call rewrites now record the sanitized original model in request-log context, persisted usage entries, and hydrated request-log entries. Tests cover capture, persistence, projection, and disk hydration. Documentation describes the stored metadata.

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Shadow-call metadata

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and logging contracts
src/server/request-log.ts, src/server/responses/core.ts, tests/responses-shadow-intercept.test.ts
RequestLogContext and RequestLogEntry expose shadowCallRewrittenFrom. Shadow-call handling stores the sanitized source model. Tests pass a log context through handleResponses and verify the recorded model.
Usage persistence and hydration
src/usage/log.ts, src/server/request-log.ts, tests/request-log.test.ts, structure/05_gui-and-management-api.md
Usage normalization sanitizes and persists the field only when non-empty. Request-log creation, projection, and disk hydration preserve the field. Documentation describes the persisted metadata.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3d9fb

Request logs can retain and expose an unsanitized helper-attribution marker, allowing control characters or sensitive-looking text to reach exported logs. Merge should wait for sanitization before retention or explicit owner acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ShadowCall as handleResponses
  participant RequestLog as addRequestLog
  participant UsageLog as normalizeUsageEntry
  participant UsageFile as usage.jsonl
  participant Hydration as request-log hydration
  ShadowCall->>RequestLog: set shadowCallRewrittenFrom
  RequestLog->>UsageLog: pass source model metadata
  UsageLog->>UsageFile: persist sanitized non-empty field
  UsageFile->>Hydration: load persisted usage entry
  Hydration->>RequestLog: restore source model
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In `@tests/request-log.test.ts`:
- Around line 261-277: The regression test around addFinalRequestLog must
exercise sanitizeLogMetadataString with an unsafe, overlong
shadowCallRewrittenFrom fixture, then assert both persisted usage.jsonl data and
getRequestLogEntries() contain the sanitized value, no raw secret material or
control characters, and remain within the 64-character limit.
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In `@src/server/request-log.ts`:
- Around line 368-370: Update addRequestLog to sanitize shadowCallRewrittenFrom
on a copied entry before retaining it, and reuse that sanitized entry for
persistence so /api/logs cannot expose unsanitized values; add a direct-call
regression test in request-log.test.ts covering control characters and
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Comment on lines +368 to +370
...(entry.shadowCallRewrittenFrom
? { shadowCallRewrittenFrom: entry.shadowCallRewrittenFrom }
: {}),

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printf '%s\n' '--- type and sanitizer references ---'
rg -n -C 4 'shadowCallRewrittenFrom|sanitize.*shadow|sanitize.*Rewritten|control|secret' src/server/request-log.ts src tests
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printf '%s\n' '--- metadata sanitizer ---'
rg -n -C 10 'sanitizeLogMetadataString' src/server/request-log.ts src/server
printf '%s\n' '--- persisted-entry type and conversion ---'
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printf '%s\n' '--- persisted entry declaration and append ---'
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from pathlib import Path
source = Path("src/server/request-log.ts").read_text()
start = source.index("export function addRequestLog")
end = source.index("\nexport function", start + 1)
body = source[start:end]
retain = body.index("retainRequestLogEntry(entry)")
persist = body.index("shadowCallRewrittenFrom", retain)
print("addRequestLog exported:", True)
print("retains original entry:", retain >= 0)
print("persists original shadowCallRewrittenFrom:", "entry.shadowCallRewrittenFrom" in body[persist:persist + 250])
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Sanitize shadowCallRewrittenFrom before retaining the entry.

appendUsageEntry sanitizes this field before writing usage.jsonl, but addRequestLog retains the original entry first at src/server/request-log.ts:337. /api/logs then spreads retained entries through requestLogDto, so an exported addRequestLog caller can bypass sanitizeLogMetadataString and expose control characters or secret-shaped text. Sanitize a copy before retention and reuse it for persistence. Add a direct-call regression test in tests/request-log.test.ts.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@src/server/request-log.ts` around lines 368 - 370, Update addRequestLog to
sanitize shadowCallRewrittenFrom on a copied entry before retaining it, and
reuse that sanitized entry for persistence so /api/logs cannot expose
unsanitized values; add a direct-call regression test in request-log.test.ts
covering control characters and secret-shaped text.

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Thank you @Ingwannu — absorbed as #2166, with both of your commits preserved.

The diagnosis is entirely yours and it is a real one: shadowCallRewrittenFrom was being written through an untyped cast, and addFinalRequestLog rebuilds its row field by field, so the marker reached neither /api/logs nor usage.jsonl and could not survive restart. Your typing, projection, and hydration work is carried unchanged in principle.

One correction. You sanitize at the single call site in core.ts that populates the field today, which leaves the in-memory /api/logs row carrying whatever the caller sent. Since the value originates in an upstream-supplied model id, an unsanitized newline lets one field forge a record boundary in a line-oriented log viewer, and nothing bounded its length on that path. #2166 moves the sanitizeLogMetadataString call into addFinalRequestLog so the logging layer owns it — a future caller cannot reintroduce the hole by forgetting.

Worth noting how that surfaced, because it is a useful pattern: your persistence test uses a safe short slug, so it passes identically whether the sanitizer runs or not. Adding a fixture with a newline and an 80-character tail turned it red immediately.

One scope note: #2157 stays open. This is the backend attribution half, and the dashboard still has no badge or filter for the field (gui/src/pages/Logs.tsx), so closing that issue would claim a UI affordance that does not exist yet. If you want to take the GUI half, it would be a welcome follow-up.

Full suite 13564 pass / 0 fail. Closing this in favor of #2166, credited to you.

@lidge-jun lidge-jun closed this Aug 20, 2026
yansigit pushed a commit to yansigit/opencodex that referenced this pull request Aug 20, 2026
Builds on @Ingwannu's lidge-jun#2163, which types and persists
shadowCallRewrittenFrom so an intercepted helper request keeps its
original model in usage.jsonl and across restart hydration.

The original sanitized the value at the single call site that populates
it today, which left the in-memory /api/logs row carrying whatever the
caller sent. The marker originates in an upstream-supplied model id, so
an unsanitized newline lets one field forge a record boundary in any
line-oriented log viewer, and nothing bounded its length on that path.

addFinalRequestLog now runs it through sanitizeLogMetadataString itself.
A future caller cannot reintroduce the hole by forgetting to sanitize
first, and the in-memory row matches what usage.jsonl already stored.

The added regression writes an unsafe overlong marker and asserts the
newline is gone and the 64-character bound holds on both paths. The
original test used a safe short slug, so it passed identically whether
the sanitizer ran or not.
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