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## Cordis surface
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The backend contract in its loadable form: one implementation per context — the cordis `Service` registration under the `telemetry` key throws on a duplicate, cordis' standard behavior. A backend composes a TelemetryCoordinator in its constructor to install the capture side.
```ts cordis-catalog
/**
* See {@link TelemetryBackend.emit} — the seam declaration is the contract's one home.
* @param record - the logical record to report; owned by the backend after the call.
*/
abstract emit(record: TelemetryRecord): void
/** See {@link TelemetryBackend.flush}. */
flush?(): void
/**
* See {@link TelemetryBackend.shutdown}.
* @returns resolves when the backend's pipeline has quiesced.
Transform one outbound record before it reaches the backend. This waterfall is the seam's redaction extension point. It ships NO rules of its own: the innermost `next()` passes the record through unchanged, and with no listener mounted records reach the backend as captured, so exported data is exactly as clean as the rules a deployment mounts. Listeners stack by transforming `next()`'s return value; returning without `next()` replaces everything beneath. Dispatched synchronously on the capture hot path inside the coordinator's containment: a throwing listener withholds that one record (fail-closed) and never reaches the agent loop. Live capture dispatches at append time; on-demand capture dispatches while reading the canonical log. Redaction applies to the exported copy only; the canonical session log is never rewritten.
```ts cordis-catalog
/**
* Transform one outbound record before it reaches the backend. This
* waterfall is the seam's redaction extension point. It ships NO rules
* of its own: the
* innermost `next()` passes the record through unchanged, and with no
* listener mounted records reach the backend as captured, so exported
* data is exactly as clean as the rules a deployment mounts. Listeners
* stack by transforming `next()`'s return value; returning without
* `next()` replaces everything beneath. Dispatched synchronously on the
* capture hot path inside the coordinator's containment: a throwing
* listener withholds that one record (fail-closed) and never reaches the
* agent loop. Live capture dispatches at append time; on-demand capture
* dispatches while reading the canonical log. Redaction applies to the
* exported copy only; the canonical session log is never rewritten.
* @param record - the candidate record, already the coordinator's own deep
* copy; listeners return a (possibly new) record and must not mutate it.