refactor(telemetry): ship the redact waterfall without built-in rules

The seam keeps the telemetry/redact scrubbing interface but ships no rules
of its own: the innermost next() passes records through unchanged, and
deployments mount their rules as waterfall listeners. As an SDK we cannot
know which patterns are secrets in a given deployment; a shipped list
invites false confidence while catching only known shapes, and false
positives would corrupt exported bodies. Mechanism stays with the seam,
policy moves to the deployment; both READMEs and the Agent Note state the
raw-export default plainly.

The loader-composition e2e now mounts a deployment-style rule fixture and
pins the same wire behavior: secret absent, placeholder present, canonical
log untouched.
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## Decision
`packages/telemetry/` revives the two reviewed packages under the SDK stance — the harness provides the capability, the deployment configures where records go, and nothing crosses the seam unredacted:
`packages/telemetry/` revives the two reviewed packages under the SDK stance — the harness provides the capability, the deployment configures where records go and owns what leaves in them:
- **`@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry`** — the seam. `TelemetryBackend` (`emit`/`flush?`/`shutdown`), the service-registered `Telemetry` form, and `TelemetryCoordinator` owning capture: adoption with cursor read-back, the per-append firehose (project → `structuredClone` → redact → `emit`, zero I/O), the fixed first-chunk-per-(turn, step) projection, the `agent/error` relay, and dispose-time `shutdown` records.
- **The `telemetry/redact` waterfall** — the delta over the branch version. Every record passes it before reaching any backend; the innermost `next()` applies a conservative built-in rule set (credential shapes: API keys, GitHub/Slack tokens, AWS/Google keys, JWTs, PEM blocks, URL userinfo), deployments stack stricter rules as listeners, and a throwing rule withholds the record fail-closed. The pattern list is a security invariant, deliberately not configurable. Redaction applies to the exported copy only; the canonical log is never rewritten.
- **The `telemetry/redact` waterfall** — the delta over the branch version. Every record passes it before reaching any backend; the seam ships NO rules of its own — the innermost `next()` is a pass-through, deployments mount their rules as listeners (stacking by transforming `next()`'s return value), and a throwing rule withholds the record fail-closed. Redaction applies to the exported copy only; the canonical log is never rewritten.
- **`@deepseek-ai/dsh-session-telemetry-otel`** — the reference backend: OTel JS SDK log pipeline (`LoggerProvider` → `BatchLogRecordProcessor` → OTLP/HTTP exporter), configured verbatim through `exporter`/`processor` passthroughs. `exporter.url` is required and validated at load; unmounted or unconfigured, nothing leaves the process.
The boundary axiom holds: the harness's aspect ends at `emit()`. Batching, retry, queueing, and loss policy are the reporting SDK's, configured through passthroughs — delivery is best-effort (at-most-once across a crash), which the READMEs state plainly.
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ The boundary axiom holds: the harness's aspect ends at `emit()`. Batching, retry
**Implement the runtime-telemetry RFC's outbox (durable spool, per-sink cursors, at-least-once, a `readCommitted` persistence-seam method).** Deferred, not rejected: the SDK stance makes delivery semantics the reporting SDK's territory, and the OTel SDK's own batch pipeline is the honest default. The outbox is a pure additive layer (the `emit()` contract does not move); revive it when a deployment states a crash-loss requirement telemetry must satisfy.
**Export without built-in redaction, delegating to receiver-side collector processors.** Rejected — this is what legal declined. Receiver-side redaction ships the secret first and scrubs it second; the seam must scrub before bytes leave the process, and a waterfall makes the redaction point auditable and stackable.
**No in-process redaction point, delegating to receiver-side collector processors.** Rejected — receiver-side redaction ships the secret first and scrubs it second. The waterfall puts an auditable, stackable scrubbing point before bytes leave the process; where the branch version (what PR #222 shipped) had no redaction point at all, every record now passes one.
**A configurable pattern list for the default rules.** Rejected: deployment-varying tunables belong in config, but a security invariant does not — weakening the floor should require code, not YAML. Stricter rules stack as `telemetry/redact` listeners.
**A built-in conservative rule set as the waterfall's innermost `next()`.** Rejected: as an SDK we cannot know which patterns are secrets in a given deployment, a shipped list invites false confidence ("redaction is on") while catching only known shapes, and false positives would corrupt exported bodies for consumers who never asked. The seam owns the mechanism; the deployment owns the policy — the innermost `next()` is a pass-through, and rules mount as listeners.
**Map onto OTel spans (GenAI semantic conventions) instead of logs.** Rejected for this revival: the branch implementation's log mapping is reviewed and shipped-shaped; the span model is lossy for forkable, interruptible sessions and belongs to a future consumer with real span queries to serve.
## Consequences
A deployment adds one `cordis.yml` entry with an OTLP endpoint and gets its session stream in any OTel-compatible stack; removing the entry is the opt-out, with no residual state. Credential-shaped substrings never leave the process even on a rule-free deployment, at the cost of a synchronous per-record scrub on the capture path (string-regex over lossless-JSON bodies — bounded by event size, no I/O). Exported bodies can differ from canonical log bytes wherever the placeholder landed, so receivers must not treat telemetry as a byte-exact replica; the log remains the source of truth. Crash durability is explicitly out of scope until the outbox decision above is revisited.
A deployment adds one `cordis.yml` entry with an OTLP endpoint and gets its session stream in any OTel-compatible stack; removing the entry is the opt-out, with no residual state. A rule-free deployment exports records exactly as captured — including any credentials embedded in file contents or command output — so a deployment crossing a trust boundary must mount `telemetry/redact` listeners, and both READMEs state this plainly. Where rules are mounted, exported bodies can differ from canonical log bytes, so receivers must not treat telemetry as a byte-exact replica; the log remains the source of truth. Crash durability is explicitly out of scope until the outbox decision above is revisited.