fix: redact advisor fail-open errors in logs and the audit trail

[oamazonasgabriel]

Addresses the advisor fail-open portion of #615. The remaining paths (terminal switchyard_server::request events, server SSE errors, runner and Relay failure reporting) are left as follow-ups.

The leak

When an advisor consult fails and the gate fails open, two sinks received the raw error:

• the tracing::warn! in AdvisorGate::consult
• the advisor_review= audit record (ReviewAudit.error), via error.to_string()

LlmClientError::UpstreamHttp's Display interpolates the raw upstream body, which routinely quotes request content back — exactly the exposure #615 describes. The in-flight error is unchanged: the fail-closed path still returns the full typed error to the caller.

The fix

Reuse the crate-internal robustness::safe_error_summary (the same bounded summary llm_judge::report_fail_open has used since #611) for both sinks — no new public formatting API, consistent with the existing judge behavior. The audit record keeps its shape and stays greppable; it now carries the redacted summary instead of the raw message.

Regression test

fail_open_logs_redact_the_upstream_error_body fails a consult with an UpstreamHttp error whose body carries a unique marker, captures the rendered log output at the final sink (a fmt subscriber writing into a buffer, installed as the process default so the capture covers every thread the drive touches), and asserts:

• the marker body appears nowhere in the captured output,
• the redacted summary (upstream HTTP 500 …) does,
• the advisor_review= audit record still renders.

Verification

• cargo fmt --all --check clean; cargo clippy -p switchyard-libsy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean
• cargo test -p switchyard-libsy: 314 passed (includes the new regression test, verified stable under the full parallel suite)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved fail-open advisor error logging by masking sensitive upstream response details while retaining useful status information.
  • Preserved existing passthrough behavior and failure classification when advisor consultations fail.

• Tests

  • Added coverage confirming that sensitive upstream response bodies are excluded from logs and audit messages.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Advisor Error Safety

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sanitize fail-open advisor errors crates/libsy/src/algorithms/advisor_gate.rs, crates/libsy/src/algorithms/advisor_gate/tests.rs	Fail-open advisor errors use safe_error_summary for warning logs and ReviewAudit records. Tests verify redaction of the upstream body, preservation of the HTTP status, audit logging, and executor passthrough.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e7fbd

The redaction test can report success without proving that this fail-open path emitted its audit record. Scope or serialize the capture to make the regression coverage reliable.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: redacting advisor fail-open errors from logs and the audit trail.
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In `@crates/libsy/src/algorithms/advisor_gate/tests.rs`:
- Around line 729-743: The audit-log assertions around test_drive must only
observe records emitted by this test. Update the tracing subscriber setup and
capture flow in this test, or serialize it with other tests emitting
advisor_review records, so unrelated parallel output cannot satisfy
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