fix(server): bound usage transcript lines

[ifBars]

Oversized JSONL tool-output records can make the usage reader return null for an entire transcript, losing usage records that follow them.

Bound each record to 64 MiB before decoding and skip oversized records through their next newline. This extends the incremental reader from #9024 while preserving its result contract, guard hash, Codex reducer state, and byte-exact resume position. An unfinished oversized tail remains outside the committed position so a later scan can consume its newline and subsequent usage.

Validation:

• All 91 usage tests pass, including the eight existing resume tests and six new bounded-record cases.
• Targeted lint, formatting, and TypeScript checks pass.
• Two new assertions fail against unmodified main.
• A synthetic 517 MiB tool-output record makes main return null; the updated reader preserves later usage and successfully resumes after an append, with about 132 MiB peak RSS.

Fixes #7258.

Updated with GPT-6 via Codex.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved transcript processing for very large lines, preventing oversized records from causing failures.
  • Oversized or incomplete records are skipped safely while subsequent valid usage records continue to be processed.
  • Preserved parsing progress and session/model state when resuming reads.
  • Added support for accurate byte-based limits across Unicode text and different line-ending formats.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The transcript reader now bounds buffered line bytes, skips oversized records, and preserves resume offsets and reducer state. Tests cover fresh and resumed reads, line endings, unfinished tails, Unicode byte limits, and subsequent valid records.

Changes

Transcript reader bounds

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded line scanning apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts	readTranscriptRecords accepts an optional maxLineBytes limit. The reader drains oversized lines without decoding or retaining their bytes and commits resume offsets only at newlines.
Oversized record validation apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.test.ts	Tests cover oversized records, unfinished lines, LF and CRLF endings, byte boundaries, resume behavior, tail records, and preserved reducer state.

Priority: ⬆️ High

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: stienswout

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TranscriptFile
  participant readTranscriptRecords
  participant UsageReducer
  TranscriptFile->>readTranscriptRecords: provide transcript chunks
  readTranscriptRecords->>readTranscriptRecords: count bytes and drain oversized lines
  readTranscriptRecords->>UsageReducer: process accepted usage records

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d1b28

Usage scans can now continue past oversized transcript lines, but affected usage totals may be incomplete without notifying operators.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #7258 requires bounded per-record memory, skipping oversized records, continued scanning, and an injectable test limit. readTranscriptRecords uses a 64 MiB byte limit by default, drains oversi…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts and its tests. They directly implement and verify the oversized JSONL handling required by issue #7258, including preservati…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 1 functions across 2 files.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the oversized-record problem, the bounded-reader solution, preserved behavior, validation results, and linked issue. It does not use the template headings or include t…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: bounding usage transcript lines in the server reader.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved 42f1b50

Defensive bug fix replacing Node's readline with a bounded reader to prevent V8 crashes from oversized transcript lines. The change is self-contained with comprehensive tests and a conservative 64MB default limit.

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[shivamhwp]

Note: GPT-6 on behalf of shivam (@shivamhwp).

Please rebase this onto the incremental reader from #9024. readTranscriptRecords now accepts a TranscriptParsePosition and returns records, tailRecords, position, and resumed; its callers no longer consume a plain record array. Replacing that implementation with this version would discard warm-scan resumption and break the usage service's result contract.

The oversized-record problem remains on main, though its failure mode has changed. A 517 MiB tool-output line now makes the reader return null for the whole transcript, losing later usage, rather than escaping the old readline callback. The bounded reader here preserves the later usage record.

Carry the byte limit into the current parser while retaining its guard hash, Codex reducer state, and byte-exact resume offset. When an oversized line ends, advance past its newline before processing later records. Keep an unterminated oversized tail outside the committed resume position so appending its newline and later usage can still be handled correctly. Retain the current resume tests and add oversized records on both sides of the resume boundary.

[ifBars]

@shivamhwp Addressed in d1b28ac. I integrated current main (including #9024) with a merge to preserve the existing branch history, and moved the 64 MiB limit into the incremental parser.

The reader retains the TranscriptParsePosition argument and { records, tailRecords, position, resumed } result, guard hash, and Codex reducer state. Oversized terminated lines advance the committed byte offset past their newline; oversized unfinished tails remain outside that position and are re-read on the next scan.

All eight existing resume tests are retained. Six new cases cover oversized records before and after resumption, LF/CRLF offsets, unfinished tails on cold and resumed scans, exact byte-limit handling with UTF-8, and skipped Codex state changes. All 91 usage tests pass, as do targeted lint, formatting, and TypeScript checks. Two new assertions fail against unmodified main.

A synthetic 517 MiB tool-output record reproduces main returning null (about 1,622 MiB peak RSS). The updated reader retains the usage before and after it, then resumes successfully after an append (about 132 MiB peak RSS, 548 ms for the scan and append check on this Windows machine).

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts (1)

275-278: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Propagate oversized-line skips through the usage scan.

UsageSummary.sources already exposes source status and counters, but UsageService.readFileRecords discards parsed metadata and reports an existing directory as "ok". A file with valid records and an oversized usage line can therefore produce incomplete totals without a warning. Add skippedLines to TranscriptParseResult, preserve and accumulate it in the scan cache, and emit one scan-level warning from UsageService. This internal result change does not alter the current RPC contract.

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In `@apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts` around lines 275 - 278,
Extend TranscriptParseResult with skippedLines and increment it when oversized
lines are discarded in the transcript parser. Preserve and accumulate
skippedLines through the scan cache, then update UsageService.readFileRecords to
retain the parsed metadata and emit one scan-level warning for existing
directories when any lines were skipped, instead of reporting them as "ok"; keep
the current RPC contract unchanged.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@apps/server/src/usage/usageTranscriptReader.ts`:
- Around line 275-278: Extend TranscriptParseResult with skippedLines and
increment it when oversized lines are discarded in the transcript parser.
Preserve and accumulate skippedLines through the scan cache, then update
UsageService.readFileRecords to retain the parsed metadata and emit one
scan-level warning for existing directories when any lines were skipped, instead
of reporting them as "ok"; keep the current RPC contract unchanged.

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