Make telemetry actually reach PostHog, and cut audit --help down to what you need to read - #701
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…licating its own events Four options on the posthog-node client each disabled a different part of the library's delivery machinery. Together they turned a slow network into lost events, duplicated events, and `Error while flushing PostHog` in the terminal `failproofai audit` runs the dashboard in. The injected `resilientFetch` was the root. It retried 5 times over ~40s and then returned a synthetic 200 so the library would never log a network error. It could not work: posthog-node does not merely hand its abort signal to an injected fetch, it *races* that fetch against its own `requestTimeout` (`Promise.race([fetchPromise, deadline])`) precisely because an injected fetch may ignore the signal — which ours did, by stripping it. A ~40s budget racing a 5s deadline can never return in time, so the synthetic 200 was unreachable, the console.error it existed to prevent fired anyway at 5s, and the retries ran on detached from a client that had already given up. That 200 was also the wrong answer on its merits: posthog-node deliberately does NOT dequeue a batch that failed with a network error, so reporting success is what would have made it discard events that never arrived. `fetchRetryCount: 0` left that wrapper as the only thing retrying, at the wrong layer. `requestTimeout: 5000` was half the library's own default. `flushInterval: 0` is falsy and disables the flush timer outright — the one that actually stranded events, since the batch retained after a network error then had nothing scheduled to resend it and sat in an in-memory queue until an unrelated later event triggered a flush. Measured against a server that answers correctly but takes 6s, the old options delivered the event 4 times and logged 2 flush errors; the new ones deliver it once with nothing logged. `flushAt: 1` stays: volume is a handful of events per process and the queue is memory-only, so immediate send is the best defense against process death. The exit drain is now idempotent, since `beforeExit` re-fires whenever a handler schedules async work. No event, trigger or property changed — all 73 call sites fire as before. Tests: __tests__/lib/telemetry-delivery.test.ts asserts delivery against the real library over a real socket (gunzipping the batch body, without which a green test means nothing). The existing suite mocks posthog-node wholesale, which is what let this live in the tree. Also pins two facts rather than fixing them: posthog-node overwrites `$lib` on the server path, so `product` is the attribution that survives; and the opt-out still sends nothing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
It had grown to four sections and forty lines: a USAGE block that also carried the headless entry point, a separate SCHEDULING block, a WHAT IT DOES block re-describing the same scan, and a paragraph about which config file the flags write — an implementation detail of the CLI agreeing with the dashboard, not something to read while looking for a flag. Now two lines saying what the command is, then one aligned USAGE block with the five things a person can type. Each keeps its own usage: --schedule still names its optional day count, the 1-90 range and --email. The local-only promise survives, moved into the description where it reads as part of what the command is rather than as a footnote. --scheduled is dropped from the listing. It is not a flag anybody types but the second entry point the daemon spawns, and advertising a machine-facing flag one letter from --schedule is how somebody starts a full scan meaning to configure one. It still works and still refuses every argument it always refused. HELP becomes helpText(), because the command names are coloured through c(), which reads colorOn() at call time — a module-level string would bake in whatever the TTY looked like at import. Padding is measured on the raw command string, since the ANSI bytes occupy no columns; a test pins that in both colour modes, along with the 80-column fit and the presence of every command. No behaviour changed. All five commands verified dispatching against a temp FAILPROOFAI_HOME, and the output verified identical through dist/cli.mjs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates PostHog telemetry delivery and shutdown handling, adds real-socket telemetry tests, and replaces static audit help text with dynamically aligned output. It also updates related tests, comments, and the changelog. ChangesTelemetry delivery and shutdown
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The updated audit help and changelog incorrectly say that only scheduled digests leave the machine, while enabled telemetry also sends audit events. Correct the disclosure and its tests before merging. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant HookTelemetry
participant PostHog
participant LocalHTTPServer
HookTelemetry->>PostHog: capture hook event
PostHog->>LocalHTTPServer: send compressed event batch
LocalHTTPServer-->>PostHog: return success or failure
PostHog->>LocalHTTPServer: retry failed request
HookTelemetry->>PostHog: flush pending events
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Correct the local-only disclosure.
When telemetry is enabled, runAuditCli() sends cli_audit_* events through trackHookEvent(). The statement that only a scheduled digest leaves the machine is false.
src/audit/cli.ts#L94-L97: Limit the statement to local audit processing, or disclose telemetry explicitly.__tests__/audit/audit-cli-help.test.ts#L62-L64: Replace the assertion for the incorrect disclosure.CHANGELOG.md#L11-L11: Remove the claim that the local-only promise remains unchanged.
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In `@src/audit/cli.ts` around lines 94 - 97, Update runAuditCli’s help text to
accurately disclose telemetry or limit the local-only statement to audit
processing; update the corresponding assertion in
__tests__/audit/audit-cli-help.test.ts, and remove the unchanged local-only
promise from CHANGELOG.md.
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One medium-confidence privacy-contract issue: the new shortened audit help incorrectly says scheduled email is the only outbound activity, while manual audits still emit anonymous telemetry. What this changesflowchart LR
n0Dashboardtelemetryclient["~ Dashboard telemetry client"]
n1Hooktelemetrydispatcher["Hook telemetry dispatcher"]
n2PostHogingestionintegration["PostHog ingestion integration"]
n3Auditcommand["~ Audit command"]
n4Telemetrydeliverytests["+ Telemetry delivery tests"]
n5Audithelptests["+ Audit help tests"]
n6Releasenotes["~ Release notes"]
n3Auditcommand -- "emits cli_audit metrics" --> n1Hooktelemetrydispatcher
n1Hooktelemetrydispatcher -- "sends capture events" --> n2PostHogingestionintegration
n0Dashboardtelemetryclient -- "flushes batched events" --> n2PostHogingestionintegration
n4Telemetrydeliverytests -- "checks retries and flushes" --> n0Dashboardtelemetryclient
n4Telemetrydeliverytests -- "checks capture delivery" --> n1Hooktelemetrydispatcher
n5Audithelptests -- "checks rendered usage" --> n3Auditcommand
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- Medium/High Keep the help text's outbound-data claim accurate —
helpText()now says, “Everything runs on this machine; only a scheduled digest ever leaves it.” atsrc/audit/cli.ts:96. However, a normalfailproofai auditinvokestrackHookEventforcli_audit_startedat line 629 andcli_audit_completedat line 657; that dispatcher POSTs to PostHog unless telemetry is disabled. The existing audit documentation accurately distinguishes local session data from these anonymous usage counts. (src/audit/cli.ts:96)
Summary
Two independent fixes, both about something that looked fine and wasn't.
failproofai audit --helphad grown to forty lines across four sections. Now two lines of description and one usage block.No behaviour changed in either. No event, trigger, property or command was added, removed or rewired — the first is client configuration, the second is output formatting.
1. Telemetry: events that never arrived, and events that arrived four times
The symptom
Printed by the Next dashboard server that
failproofai auditstarts (src/audit/cli.ts→launch("start")).scripts/launch.tsonly filters the Server Action skew block, so it lands straight in the user's terminal.Only
lib/telemetry.tsusesposthog-node, and only the dashboard server reaches it —instrumentation.node.tsplus five API routes. The hook binary and audit CLI usesrc/hooks/hook-telemetry.ts(raw fetch, catch-and-ignore) and were never involved.What was actually wrong
Two stopwatches on the same request, with the wrong one on the outside.
resilientFetchwas injected as the client'sfetchto retry 5 times over ~40s and then return a synthetic200, so posthog-node "would never log a network error." It could not work. posthog-node does not merely hand its abort signal to an injected fetch — it races that fetch against its ownrequestTimeoutdeadline:That is exactly the wrapper we injected — it stripped the incoming signal (
const { signal: _, ...rest } = options), making it precisely the abort-ignoring fetch the race defends against. A ~40s budget racing a 5s deadline can never return in time, so:200was unreachable code (even the fastest failure path burns 1+2+4+8s of backoff — 15s, triple the deadline);console.errorit existed to prevent fired anyway, at 5s;The synthetic
200was also the wrong answer on its own terms. posthog-node deliberately does not dequeue a batch that failed with a network error:So reporting success is the one thing that would have made the library discard events that never arrived.
Three more, each disabling a different part of delivery:
fetchRetryCount0requestTimeout5000flushInterval0And the queue is
PostHogMemoryStorage— a plain in-process object. Nothing survives the process.Were events reaching PostHog?
Measured, not inferred. Both configs against a server that answers correctly but takes 6s — a slow network, not an outage:
So the honest answer is worse than "events were lost": on a slow network they arrived four times, inflating every count. The wrapper re-POSTed the same batch on each of its own retries while the library still held its retained copy. On a genuinely blocked network they sat in the in-memory queue with no timer to resend them, and died with the process.
On a healthy network everything always worked — which is why this hid.
The fix
lib/telemetry.ts, configuration only:resilientFetch. Plain global fetch is what the library expects (client.ts:422falls back to it).fetchRetryCount: 0 → 3— retries move to the layer that knows which errors are retryable and keeps the queue coherent.flushInterval: 0 → 10_000— arms the flush timer, so a retained batch gets another attempt.requestTimeout: 5000 → 10_000— the library's own default.flushAt: 1kept, deliberately. Volume is a handful of events per process, so batching buys nothing, and with a memory-only queue immediate send is the best defence against process death.beforeExitre-fires whenever a handler schedules async work, and the unguarded one started a fresh 30sshutdown()on every pass.Why no test caught it
__tests__/lib/telemetry.test.tsmocksposthog-nodewholesale. The constructor was called with the right shape, so the suite passed while real events were being stranded — and it explicitly assertedfetchRetryCount === 0andfetchbeing a function, pinning the broken values in place.New
__tests__/lib/telemetry-delivery.test.tsruns the real library over a real socket:/batch/with its properties intact500is retried and still deliveredlogFlushErroris a hardcodedconsole.erroron a fire-and-forget internal promise, so no.catch()at our call sites can intercept it)/capture/, andflushHookTelemetrylands events the caller never awaitedIt gunzips the batch body. Without that the assertions parse binary as "no events delivered" and pass while proving nothing — which is exactly what happened on the first run of this file.
The mock-based test now pins the four corrected values instead of the broken ones.
Two things pinned rather than changed
$lib.trackEventsets"failproofai"; what lands is"posthog-node".product: "failproofai-oss"is the attribution that actually survives. The raw-fetch hook dispatcher has no SDK to overwrite it, so its"failproofai-hooks"does land — the two paths disagree by construction. Worth knowing if any PostHog dashboard filters on$lib. Pinned so nobody "fixes"trackEventto fight the SDK.hook-telemetry.tsclaimedisTelemetryEnabled()is memoised.lib/telemetry-enabled.tsdocuments at length that it deliberately is not — an opt-out a long-lived process ignores until restart is not an opt-out. Comment corrected.2.
failproofai audit --helpBefore: 40 lines over four sections — a
USAGEblock that also carried the headless entry point, a separateSCHEDULINGblock, aWHAT IT DOESblock re-describing the same scan, and a paragraph about which config file the flags write.After:
Each command keeps its own usage —
--schedulestill names its optional day count, the 1–90 range and--email. Command names are brand teal through the samecolorOn()gate as the rest of the CLI, so piped output stays plain. Widest line is 79 columns.What was cut: the
WHAT IT DOESblock (it re-described the same scan the first line describes) and the config-file paragraph — that is the detail of the CLI agreeing with the dashboard, not something to read while hunting for a flag.Two judgment calls worth a reviewer's eye:
--scheduledis no longer listed. It is not a flag anybody types but the second entry point the daemon spawns, and advertising a machine-facing flag one letter away from--schedule, in the same block, is how somebody starts a 100-second scan meaning to configure one. It still works and still refuses every argument it always refused.docs/cli/audit.mdxnever advertised it either, so help and docs now agree.One structural change, no logic.
HELP(a const) becamehelpText()(a function), becausec()readscolorOn()at call time and a module-level string would bake in whatever the TTY looked like at import — long before anyone asks for help, in the bundled CLI. Padding is measured on the raw command string, since ANSI escape bytes occupy no terminal columns; get that backwards and every row shifts left, but only when colour is on, i.e. never in CI.__tests__/audit/audit-cli-help.test.tspins that in both colour modes, plus the 80-column fit and the presence of every command.Verification
tscclean,lint0 errors.FAILPROOFAI_HOME, so nothing touched a real config:--statusrenders,--no-schedulereports already-off,--schedule 999rejects on the 1–90 range,--bogusrejects and points at--help.dist/cli.mjs, since that is what ships.Pre-existing, not from this PR: two
__tests__/hooks/fp-reset.test.tscases time out on my machine (both on thedaemon.configured: truebranch). They fail identically on a stashed clean tree, and CI onmainat this branch's base commit is green — so they are local-environment only.No docs change needed. The only user-facing telemetry docs describe the opt-out contract, which is unchanged and now pinned by a test;
docs/cli/audit.mdxalready lists exactly the command set the new help lists.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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failproofai audit --helpwith clearer command descriptions, aligned formatting, color support, and a shorter output.Documentation
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daa250cbfe8f9030ae2cca7e96f1d74191b92fb71d8f31d926828f3bae215c58f5b35baa44acbff0gpt-5.6-terraSummary
One medium-confidence privacy-contract issue: the new shortened audit help incorrectly says scheduled email is the only outbound activity, while manual audits still emit anonymous telemetry.
Changes
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Skippeddocker run --rm -v /review/input/workspace:/src:ro -w /work oven/bun:latest sh -c 'cp -a /src/. /work/ && bun install --frozen-lockfile --ignore-scripts && bunx vitest run __tests__/lib/telemetry.test.ts __tests__/lib/telemetry-delivery.test.ts __tests__/audit/audit-cli-help.test.ts'— No centrally configured validation command exists. A targeted isolated-container run was attempted, but dependency installation stalled before dependencies were created, so no test result was produced. (31s)Findings
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helpText()now says, “Everything runs on this machine; only a scheduled digest ever leaves it.” atsrc/audit/cli.ts:96. However, a normalfailproofai auditinvokestrackHookEventforcli_audit_startedat line 629 andcli_audit_completedat line 657; that dispatcher POSTs to PostHog unless telemetry is disabled. The existing audit documentation accurately distinguishes local session data from these anonymous usage counts. (src/audit/cli.ts:96)Open questions
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