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Description

What does this PR do?

Adds NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES, an opt-in that brings back the stricter content masking that #2066 (#2066) briefly shipped and #2081 (#2081) took out. The default is unchanged: the masker reads keys and text only, as in the released build. The audit of #2081 suggested the toggle for operators who want the extra masking, and the maintainer asked for it.

Related Issues

Follow-up to #2081 (#2081) and #2066 (#2066)

Type of Change

  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Test coverage improvement
  • Documentation update

Changes Made

With NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES=true, prompts and tool inputs and outputs also have:

  • the value of a { name, value } or { key, value } entry whose name is a credential masked (headers, environment lists, form fields). Only the name decides, exactly as for the same credential under a key, so a numeric PIN or password is masked, and so are access_tokens, refresh_tokens, id_tokens and the like. Not masked are settings: names ending in policy, type, algorithm, count, limit, version or length, a bare tokens, and the count-like token names of a model (max_tokens, prompt_tokens, cache_read_input_tokens, ...);
  • a credential inside an object key masked (for example a URL with an api_key parameter used as a map key), the rest of the key kept.

Unset, or set to anything but true (any casing, padded), the output is exactly the released output. The variable is read when content is masked, not at import, and once per masking call rather than per node. It is not exported and adds nothing to the public API or docs/api. A row is added to the environment table in docs/features/observability.md.

Breaking Changes

  • No breaking changes. Off by default; the default code path is the released one.

Testing

  • adv-exporter A14 (11 checks): set to true masks an entry, a numeric credential in an entry (the same as under a key), an access_tokens entry and an object key (read at call time, " TRUE " accepted); entries and keys that name no credential are unchanged; unset, empty, false, 1, yes and on leave the released rules.
  • adv-providers BT10: 18 non-credential and 19 credential entries with the opt-in on (the credential ones include three numeric and five *_tokens credentials), and the same 19 recorded as released with it off.
  • Mutations on the masker (adv-exporter and adv-providers checks that fail): switch disabled, 4 and 18; a numeric-value exemption put back, 1 and 3; a broad "ends in tokens" exemption put back, 1 and 5; the regex put back, 0 and 1. With the change adv-exporter passes 93 and adv-providers 170.
  • Entry form against keyed form over 81 realistic names: they disagree only on settings (counts, versions, lengths, types, policies, algorithms and count-like token names). No credential-bearing name is left unmasked in the entry form. The released-behaviour checks delete the variable at start so a shell that sets it cannot change them.
  • Two audit rounds each found a way the entry form was weaker than the keyed form, and a third review found a performance problem; all are fixed here: a numeric-value exemption ({ name: "password", value: "123456" } stayed visible) an exemption for any name ending in tokens (access_tokens stayed visible), and a regex with nested repetition that took 4 s on an 80 KB key and 14 s on a 160 KB one (a key can come from a tool argument). The name is now classified by a linear scan of its segments, which never exempts a name the regex did not (0 of 31,130 sensitive generated names) and masks 1,264 more contrived ones. The masking suites also pass with the variable set in the shell, so none needs to delete it.
  • All 19 other observability suites, span-content-redaction and proxy-telemetry pass on the same build; check, check:tools-tests, check:test-parse, format:check, ESLint and docs:api (no drift) exit 0.

Checklist

  • Single commit, no co-author trailer, conventional subject with a scope

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added the opt-in NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES=true setting for stricter credential masking.
    • When enabled, credential values in structured entries and credential-named object fields are redacted across prompts, tool inputs, outputs, and telemetry, including numeric credentials and access or refresh tokens.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the new credential-masking configuration.
  • Compatibility

    • Existing masking behavior remains unchanged when the setting is unset or uses a value other than true.

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  • Author: Sachin Sharma

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The change adds opt-in credential masking to telemetry redaction. When NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES is true, credential entry values and credential-named object keys are masked. Default behavior remains unchanged.

Changes: Credential masking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Strict redaction behavior
src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts
Redaction reads the new environment variable, normalizes names, masks credential-bearing entry values and credential-named object keys, and propagates strict mode through nested values. Measurement names and non-credential content retain existing handling.
Coverage and documentation
docs/features/observability.md, test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-exporter.ts, test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-providers.ts
Documentation describes the opt-in mode. Tests cover credential entries, object keys, numeric values, token fields, non-credential content, performance, and unset or non-true values.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: tara-ag

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 94ee3

Opted-in telemetry can still record a numeric credential from a named entry. Mask that value before merging.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 94ee3

The optional masking mode preserves existing recording controls and telemetry destinations. No introduced security regression was established, but masking remains incomplete for some credential representations, and deployment-wide coverage has not been demonstrated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The affected confidentiality boundary is recorded application content flowing into existing observation and trace attributes. The change does not itself grant credentials or authority; any residual credential exposure depends on content being recorded and on access to the configured telemetry destination. Tenant, environment, and downstream-reader exposure remain unestablished.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A credential entry containing a primitive number, such as a password value of 123456, survives the head traversal even with strict mode enabled. The same value survives the base traversal, so this is an unchanged confidentiality limitation, not an established introduced or worsened attack path. The new mode should not be interpreted as complete credential suppression.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Content can supply arbitrary entry names and object keys, while the strictness flag is read from process configuration. Existing span recording checks, input-recording opt-out, and asynchronous content-withholding controls remain in place.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The classifier uses segmentation and set membership rather than a repeated exemption-pattern search. Added tests assert masking for a hostile 160 KB entry name and enabled/disabled behavior through the exporter path. These are inspected assertions, not supplied execution results.
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- Around line 315-318: Update credentialEntryName to remove the value-based
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Review summary — PR #2082 (opt-in strict content masking)

Verdict: APPROVE. All review findings — the numeric-value exemption and the over-broad _tokens exemption — are resolved in the final commit (94ee3b15), and the ReDoS/linear-scan note is also addressed. Reviewer-requested changes are complete.

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MAJOR src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts (originally :295-296) Resolved The broad `/(?:^
MAJOR src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts (originally :315-318) Resolved Numeric-value exemption left {name:"password", value:"123456"} unmasked. Removed in HEAD; MEASUREMENT_SUFFIXES extended with `version
MINOR (bot) src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts (originally :301) Resolved ReDoS/linear-scan note. HEAD replaces the constructed RegExp with a linear segment scan (split("_") + set membership in isMeasurementEntryName); a hostile 160 KB-name regression test added.

What was checked and found clean

  • _tokens narrowing verified against HEAD — access_tokens etc. are not exempt and are masked under NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES=true.
  • Numeric-exemption fix verified against HEAD — NUMERIC_TEXT gone; numeric credential cases present in CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES.
  • Opt-in read once per masking call; not exported; no public-API or docs/api surface added.
  • Default path unchanged — unset/non-true values reproduce released output; release-behaviour suites delete the env var on start.
  • Rule 6 / Rule 4 not implicated — no formatProviderError change, no CLI/SDK leak.
  • Test coverage — opt-in BT10 cases for entries, keys, numeric values, token fields, a 160 KB hostile name, plus adv-exporter A14; enabled/disabled behavior asserted.
  • Single commit, conventional subject with scope, docs row added to docs/features/observability.md.

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🟠 Major · Mask numeric credential values in strict mode. · attributes.ts:360-361

src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts:360-361
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Sensitive Data Exposure

Reachability: External
Exploitability: Moderate
CWE: CWE-532 — Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Mask numeric credential values in strict mode.

If strict mode receives { name: "password", value: 123456 }, credentialEntryName identifies the password, but this condition rejects the number. redactNode returns 123456 unchanged, and the span serializes it. Include numeric values in the credential-entry redaction path; the new numeric-password tests cover only numeric strings.

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Review comment at @src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts around lines 360 - 361:
Update the credential-entry type guard in the strict-mode redaction path to
accept numeric values alongside strings and non-null objects. Ensure numeric
credential values identified by credentialEntryName reach redactNode and are
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- Around line 295-296: Update MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME so its token-name exclusion
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- Around line 360-361: Update the credential-entry type guard in the strict-mode
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Review for PR #2082 — opt-in strict content masking

Verdict: NEEDS_WORK. One security finding remains before merge.

KEPT — over-broad _tokens exemption (MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME @ src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts:295-296):
The (?:^|_)tokens$ clause exempts credential-bearing entry names (access_tokens, refresh_tokens, session_tokens, auth_tokens, id_tokens). With the opt-in on, { name: "access_tokens", value: "abc.def.ghi" } leaves the value unmasked while the same value under a direct key is redacted — strict mode can be weaker than the default key rule. No author reply addressed this; the suggested narrowing and an access_tokens BT10 case are on the thread.

Resolved — numeric-value exemption (thread closed): fixed in HEAD — NUMERIC_TEXT removed, MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME extended with version|length, numeric credential cases added to BT10.

Also note: this review supersedes my two earlier reviews (the 05:06 CHANGES_REQUESTED and the 06:14 COMMENTED); the current verdict stands at NEEDS_WORK.

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- Line 301: Replace the regex-based measurement-name check with a linear segment
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const MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME = new RegExp(
[
"^tokens$",
"(?:^|_)(?:max|min|prompt|completion|input|output|total|cached?|reasoning|thinking|budget|context)(?:_[a-z]+)*_tokens$",

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🔎 Supported by static analysis

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rg -n 'usage_input_tokens|gen_ai.usage|input_tokens|cache_read_input_tokens|MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME' src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-exporter.ts test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-providers.ts docs/features/observability.md

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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- attributes.ts ---'
nl -ba src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts | sed -n '285,390p'
printf '%s\n' '--- strict masking tests ---'
nl -ba test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-providers.ts | sed -n '2035,2130p'
printf '%s\n' '--- observability docs setting section ---'
rg -n -C 12 -F -- 'NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES' docs src test
printf '%s\n' '--- repository-wide relevant names ---'
rg -n --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' -e 'usage_input_tokens' -e 'gen_ai_usage_input_tokens' -e 'cache_read_input_tokens' -e 'prompt_tokens' -e 'output_tokens' -e 'input_tokens' .

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rg -n -C 4 --glob 'test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-providers.ts' -e 'NOT_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES|cache_read_input_tokens|completion_tokens|total_tokens|assert.*mask|REDACTED' .
printf '%s\n' '--- exact relevant source callers ---'
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Replace the unanchored measurement search with a linear prefix-safe check.

Do not anchor the measurement branch at ^. The exemption includes prefixed names such as cache_read_input_tokens, and the current suffix matching also supports names such as usage_input_tokens and gen_ai_usage_input_tokens. Anchoring would mask these entries in strict mode.

The current branch retries from each underscore and can re-run its repeated segment group for each position on a long failing name. This creates superlinear synchronous work before the span-content size cap runs. Use a segment scan to preserve prefixed names with linear work.

Suggested fix
-const MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME = new RegExp(
-  [
-    "^tokens$",
-    "(?:^|_)(?:max|min|prompt|completion|input|output|total|cached?|reasoning|thinking|budget|context)(?:_[a-z]+)*_tokens$",
-    "_(?:policy|type|algorithm|count|limit|version|length)$",
-  ].join("|"),
-);
+const MEASUREMENT_PREFIXES = new Set([
+  "max",
+  "min",
+  "prompt",
+  "completion",
+  "input",
+  "output",
+  "total",
+  "cache",
+  "cached",
+  "reasoning",
+  "thinking",
+  "budget",
+  "context",
+]);
+const MEASUREMENT_SUFFIXES = new Set([
+  "policy",
+  "type",
+  "algorithm",
+  "count",
+  "limit",
+  "version",
+  "length",
+]);
+
+function isMeasurementEntryName(name: string): boolean {
+  if (name === "tokens") return true;
+  const separator = name.lastIndexOf("_");
+  if (
+    separator >= 0 &&
+    MEASUREMENT_SUFFIXES.has(name.slice(separator + 1))
+  ) {
+    return true;
+  }
+  const parts = name.split("_");
+  if (parts.length < 2 || parts[parts.length - 1] !== "tokens") {
+    return false;
+  }
+  let validSuffix = true;
+  for (let index = parts.length - 2; index >= 0; index -= 1) {
+    if (validSuffix && MEASUREMENT_PREFIXES.has(parts[index])) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    validSuffix = validSuffix && /^[a-z]+$/.test(parts[index]);
+  }
+  return false;
+}
...
-  return MEASUREMENT_ENTRY_NAME.test(snakeCased(name)) ? undefined : name;
+  return isMeasurementEntryName(snakeCased(name)) ? undefined : name;
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[warning] 298-304: Do not use variable for regular expressions
Context: new RegExp(
[
"^tokens$",
"(?:^|)(?:max|min|prompt|completion|input|output|total|cached?|reasoning|thinking|budget|context)(?:[a-z]+)*tokens$",
"
(?:policy|type|algorithm|count|limit|version|length)$",
].join("|"),
)
Note: [CWE-1333] Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. Security best practice.

(regexp-non-literal-typescript)

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Review comment at @src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts at line 301:
Replace the regex-based measurement-name check with a linear segment scan in the
measurement filtering logic, using dedicated prefix and suffix sets and an
isMeasurementEntryName helper. Preserve recognition of tokens, prefixed token
names such as cache_read_input_tokens and gen_ai_usage_input_tokens, and the
existing policy/type/algorithm/count/limit/version/length suffixes while
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NEEDS_WORK — changes requested

This review reflects the current verdict on PR #2082 and updates the review state to changes requested to match the standing NEEDS_WORK in the summary comment. It supersedes my earlier COMMENTED review on this PR so the decision is not dropped; no new findings are added here.

One open finding blocks merge:

Severity File:line Finding
MAJOR src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts:295-296 The broad `/(?:^

The earlier numeric-value exemption finding is resolved and its thread closed. The CodeRabbit ReDoS/linear-scan note at attributes.ts:301 is a separate bot finding, not part of this verdict.

Awaiting the author's fix of the _tokens exemption.

…keys in span content

The span content masker is back to the released rules, which read keys and
text only. Operators who would rather keep the stricter masking that was
briefly shipped can now ask for it: NEUROLINK_MASK_CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES=true.

With it set, prompts and tool inputs and outputs also have
- the value of a { name, value } or { key, value } entry whose name is a
  credential masked (headers, environment lists, form fields). Only the name
  decides, as it does for the same credential under a key, so a numeric PIN is
  masked and so are access_tokens, refresh_tokens, id_tokens and the like. Not
  masked are settings: names ending in policy, type, algorithm, count, limit,
  version or length, a bare tokens, and the count-like token names of a model
  (max_tokens, prompt_tokens, cache_read_input_tokens, ...);
- a credential inside an object key masked, the rest of the key kept.

Unset, or set to anything but "true" (any casing, padded), the output is
exactly the released output. The variable is read when content is masked, not
at import, and once per masking call rather than per node. An entry's name is
classified by a linear scan of its segments, not a pattern: a key can come from
content and a nested-repetition pattern took 4 s on an 80 KB key and 14 s on a
160 KB one.

Tests: adv-exporter A14 (11 checks: set to true masks an entry, a numeric
credential in an entry, an access_tokens entry and an object key; entries and
keys that name no credential are unchanged; unset, empty, false, 1, yes and on
leave the released rules) and adv-providers BT10 (18 non-credential and 19
credential entries with the opt-in on, the same 19 recorded as released with
it off, and a 160 KB entry name that must be classified in under two seconds).
Mutations on the masker, as failing checks in adv-exporter and adv-providers:
switch disabled, 4 and 18; a numeric-value exemption put back, 1 and 3; a
broad "ends in tokens" exemption put back, 1 and 5; the pattern put back, 0 and
1. The released-behaviour checks delete the
variable at start so a shell that sets it cannot change them, and the other
masking suites pass with it set.
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src/lib/telemetry/attributes.ts: 2

337-342: Move snakeCased before its first use, or leave as is.

snakeCased is a function declaration, so hoisting makes the call in isMeasurementEntryName valid. No runtime defect exists. Keep the order only if the file style allows it.


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Fix the single-segment branch and the order of the measurement check.

isMeasurementEntryName calls snakeCased(name) and then branches on segments.length === 1. A name such as maxTokens becomes max_tokens, so the camel-case case works. A name such as Tokens becomes tokens, so that case also works. The single-segment branch returns false for limit, count, version and similar one-word names. This is correct, because credentialEntryName only calls this check after isSensitiveKey accepts the name.

One gap remains. A name such as cache_read_input_tokens has segments[0] === "cache", so the check passes. A name such as usage_input_tokens or gen_ai_usage_input_tokens has a first segment outside TOKEN_COUNT_PREFIXES. Strict mode then masks the value of a pure usage entry. The failure is safe and masks more than needed. It does not leak a credential.

The same rule applies to names like access_tokens. Their first segment is access, so they are correctly not exempt.

No change is required for security. Add a prefix such as usage to TOKEN_COUNT_PREFIXES only if these usage names appear in real { name, value } entries.

test/continuous-test-suite-observability-adv-providers.ts: 1

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Remove the wall-clock threshold from the linear-time check.

The test asserts elapsedMs < 2_000. The assertion can fail on a slow or loaded CI runner even when the code is linear. It also runs the 160 KB name through spanContentAttribute, which includes redaction, stringify and size capping, not only the name check.

The leak assertion on line 2271 is stable. Keep it. Raise the time limit, or compare against the time of a short name, to reduce flakiness.

-    assert(elapsedMs < 2_000, "the name check took over two seconds");
+    assert(elapsedMs < 10_000, "the name check took over ten seconds");

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APPROVE

This review brings PR #2082 to approved, matching the APPROVE verdict in the summary comment.

Both findings raised across the review are resolved in HEAD (94ee3b15):

Severity Finding Resolution
MAJOR Over-broad _tokens exemption left access_tokens/refresh_tokens/session_tokens/auth_tokens/id_tokens unmasked as entries TOKEN_COUNT_PREFIXES gates the exemption; access, refresh, etc. are not in the prefix set, so those names are masked. access_tokens/refresh_tokens/session_tokens/auth_tokens/id_tokens cases added to CREDENTIAL_ENTRIES (BT10).
MAJOR Numeric credential values bypassed the opt-in case guard NUMERIC_TEXT removed; numeric password/key/pin cases covered in BT10; `version

The separate CodeRabbit ReDoS/linear-scan note was also addressed via the isMeasurementEntryName segment scan. No open findings remain. Supersedes the earlier COMMENTED / CHANGES_REQUESTED reviews.

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