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DottaandPaperclip 6ec4180ea1 fix: preserve ordinary diagnostic text during environment secret redaction (#19461)
## Thinking Path

> - Paperclip is the open source app people use to manage AI agents for
work.
> - Run diagnostics help operators find the cause of a failed agent run.
> - The failure reporter treated unknown environment settings as
credentials.
> - It replaced every use of those values in diagnostic text.
> - A flag set to `1`, `2`, or `safe` removed parts of dates, model
names, versions, and normal words.
> - This pull request preserves explicit ordinary settings and keeps
unknown values private.
> - Operators can read the failure details while real credentials stay
masked.

## Linked Issues or Issue Description

**What happened?**

Run-failure contexts contained redaction markers inside timestamps,
model names, driver versions, and the word "safely". Provider failure
diagnostics used the same broad environment-value rule.

**Expected behavior**

Ordinary flags, counts, paths, regions, and mode labels leave diagnostic
text readable. API keys, URL passwords, and declared secret bindings
remain masked.

**Steps to reproduce**

1. Set ordinary environment settings to `1`, `2`, and `safe`.
2. Report a failed native run with a timestamp, `gpt-6.1-sol`,
`phase6-v2`, and "safely" in its details.
3. Inspect the run failure report. Before this fix, unrelated fragments
are replaced.

Related work: #13668 addresses a separate model-ID false positive.
#11311 and #15524 address credential capture at other boundaries. This
change keeps the existing command scanner and registered-secret
replacement.

## What Changed

- Add a shared environment selector in adapter-utils. Keep unknown
values private. Exempt explicit ordinary process settings, typed flags
and counts, mode labels, and key selectors.
- Use the same selector for run-failure reports and inherited provider
failure environments. Keep one policy for both consumers.
- Keep configured provider bindings private because that API does not
carry separate secret-reference metadata.
- Preserve short declared secrets, unknown opaque values, encoded
credentials, and inherited Bedrock tokens. Add regressions for ordinary
`SORT_KEY` values and both Bedrock consumers.
- Add screenshot-shaped regressions, real database reporter coverage,
and credential tests.
- Document the policy in `doc/observability.md`. The optional monitoring
gate stays in place.

## Verification

Linux, Node v25.9.0, pnpm 9.15.4. The published tree matches the tested
local tree `cb236f072cca195e4c2cfb4034c7cc06ea7adbc5`.

- Before the fix, four diagnostic regressions failed. The output
reproduced the damaged timestamp, model, version, and word.
- Review regressions: six tests failed on the first revision. They
proved the missed Bedrock token, opaque inherited-value exposure, and
key-selector false positive. All pass after the correction.
- 555 focused tests pass on the final source tree.
- `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/__tests__/run-failure-diagnostics.test.ts
src/__tests__/redaction.test.ts src/__tests__/redact-sensitive.test.ts
src/__tests__/run-secret-redaction.test.ts`: 206 passed.
- `cd server && pnpm exec vitest run
src/services/__tests__/run-failure-report.test.ts`: 289 passed, with
real embedded PostgreSQL.
- `pnpm exec vitest run
packages/adapter-utils/src/command-redaction.test.ts
packages/adapter-utils/src/acpx-engine/terminal-session-failure.test.ts`:
60 passed.
- `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/adapter-utils typecheck`: passed.
- `git diff --check`: passed.
- The first reporter attempt could not load the unbuilt plugin SDK. It
passed after `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/plugin-sdk ensure-build-deps`.
- The filtered install omitted the CLI tsx loader, so `pnpm verify
--explain` could not start. The equivalent verifier entry points ran
with the installed server loader and returned exit 2: broader CI
coverage is required for the observability document.
- Full local build/typecheck and browser suites were not duplicated.
[Final-revision
CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/42231412547)
passed on `013960a4c6fa6279e1f28b0f6af5f036d7cad5a7`, attempt 1. This
includes typecheck, build, general/server/chat tests, serialized suites,
Runner checks, eight E2E shards, and the canary dry run.
- [Greptile
review](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/pull/19461#issuecomment-6686592783)
scored this head 5/5 with zero new findings. All four inline threads are
resolved. The security rescan and Snyk status passed. The PR has no
merge conflicts.

## Risks

- Ordinary-setting exemptions need a known name or a name/value type
rule. Unknown opaque values remain private. Declared secret bindings and
recognizable credentials override these exemptions.
- A real short secret still masks matching fragments. Removing that
protection would expose the secret.
- Existing stored redaction markers cannot restore their original text.
This fix applies when new diagnostics are produced.
- No migration, dependency, workflow, authorization, or default
monitoring changes.

> For core feature work, check [`ROADMAP.md`](ROADMAP.md) first and
discuss it in `#dev` before opening the PR. This change is a focused bug
fix.

## Model Used

OpenAI GPT-6, through Codex, with shell execution and file tools. The
host does not expose the exact runtime variant or context window size.

## Checklist

- [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context
to this change
- [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability
details)
- [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate
planned core work
- [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked
them above
- [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes
#` / `Refs #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant
issue template
- [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or
links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip`
URLs)
- [x] My branch name describes the change (e.g. `docs/...`, `fix/...`)
and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details
- [x] I have run tests locally and they pass
- [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable
- [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes
- [x] I have considered and documented any risks above
- [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green
- [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups
- [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before
requesting merge

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Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
2026-11-06 09:01:55 -06:00
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