feat(analytics): report connected client platforms

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Client analytics currently describe the server but cannot reliably tell which client submitted a turn. This makes hosted web, native mobile, desktop, and remote connection usage hard to compare.

This adds normalized client metadata to each WebSocket connection and attaches it to the existing connection, thread, and turn events. The metadata stays per connection, old properties keep their meanings, and server-only events still contain server properties only. Web browser detection is best effort, desktop reads its own Electron platform, and native mobile now separates phones from tablets.

The internal analytics guide documents every field, the release boundary, and the saved PostHog reports for the Client and platform usage dashboard.

Tests cover web deployment and browser detection, native mobile device types, direct, SSH, and relay paths, invalid metadata, and simultaneous clients with different platforms.

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Medium Risk
Touches WebSocket upgrade parsing and remote authorization URL shaping across surfaces; behavior is lenient for bad telemetry, but the new connectionMethod requirement is a breaking API for internal auth callers.

Overview
Expands product analytics so server events can attribute turns and connections to the actual client (web vs desktop vs mobile), not just the server process. Each WebSocket connection carries normalized, per-socket metadata parsed from upgrade query params and attached to client.connected, client.thread.started, and client.turn.requested; invalid values are dropped without rejecting the connection.

Clients now populate that metadata: web derives OS, device class, browser, and hosted vs server-served deployment from UA heuristics; mobile maps Expo device type to phone/tablet; desktop exposes getClientPlatform on the preload bridge. Connection URLs also send connectionMethod (direct, ssh, relay) via appendClientConnectionParams, and authorizeBearer requires that argument on the client-runtime path.

Server batches gain explicit serverOs, serverArch, serverAppVersion, and serverMode on PostHog payloads alongside legacy fields. Contracts add shared enums for client OS, device type, web deployment, and connection method.

CI replaces grep-based preload checks with an AST + sandbox execution verifier that blocks dynamic import()/require, validates Electron-safe modules, and asserts callable desktopBridge APIs (including the new platform hook). Docs add product-analytics.md describing fields, privacy boundaries, and recommended PostHog insights.

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Add client and server platform telemetry to AnalyticsService

• Clients (web, desktop, mobile) now derive richer presentation metadata (OS, device type, browser, deployment, connection method) and append it to WebSocket connection URLs.
• Server's ws.readClientAnalyticsProps parses and validates these query params, passing them to makeWsRpcLayer for inclusion in client.connected and downstream analytics events.
• AnalyticsService augments all flushed events with host metadata: serverOs, serverArch, serverAppVersion, and serverMode.
• Desktop preload bundle is verified in CI by verify-preload-bundle.mjs, which runs the bundle in a sandbox to reject dynamic imports and confirm desktopBridge.getClientPlatform is exposed.
• Risk: RemoteEnvironmentAuthorization.authorizeBearer now requires a connectionMethod parameter, which breaks out-of-tree implementations of this interface.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Improved device and platform recognition across desktop, web, and mobile apps, including tablet detection.
  • Connection telemetry now distinguishes direct, SSH, and relay connections.
  • Analytics events include richer client and server details for more accurate reporting.

• Documentation

  • Added product analytics documentation covering event types, collected data, privacy boundaries, and reporting dashboards.
  • Added links to the new analytics documentation in internal documentation indexes.

• Bug Fixes

  • Invalid client telemetry parameters are now safely ignored without preventing connections.

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The PR adds typed client telemetry metadata, classifies web, desktop, and mobile clients, propagates connection methods through WebSocket authorization, records expanded client and server analytics properties, verifies the preload bundle, and documents the product analytics model.

Changes

Telemetry metadata

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Metadata contracts and client classification packages/contracts/src/*, apps/desktop/src/preload.ts, apps/web/src/connection/*, apps/mobile/src/lib/*, apps/mobile/src/features/cloud/linkEnvironment.test.ts	New schemas define client OS, device type, web deployment, and connection method. Desktop, browser, and mobile code now reports classified client metadata.
Connection metadata propagation packages/client-runtime/src/authorization/*, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/*	Connection methods and client metadata are added to remote WebSocket URLs and passed through bearer, DPoP, direct, and SSH authorization flows.
Server telemetry ingestion apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/telemetry/*, apps/server/src/server.test.ts	The server validates connection metadata, attaches it to client analytics events, and adds normalized host metadata to telemetry events. Tests cover client separation and invalid query values.
Preload bundle verification .github/workflows/ci.yml, apps/desktop/scripts/*, apps/desktop/package.json, docs/internals/ci.md	CI runs a script that checks required preload symbols, rejects dynamic imports, and limits runtime imports to supported Electron sandbox modules.
Product analytics documentation docs/README.md, docs/internals/overview.md, docs/internals/product-analytics.md	The event model, property names, dashboard definitions, legacy fields, collection boundaries, and preload verification details are documented and indexed.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8dc1c

The PR adds per-connection client platform metadata to analytics without affecting authentication or connection availability. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because the documented exclusion of user-assigned device names is not enforced, which could allow unintended device-name data into analytics.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant clientPresentationMetadata
  participant WebSocket
  participant AnalyticsService
  participant PostHog
  Client->>clientPresentationMetadata: classify platform, browser, and device
  clientPresentationMetadata->>WebSocket: provide connection metadata
  WebSocket->>AnalyticsService: record client analytics events
  AnalyticsService->>PostHog: send batched events with client and server properties

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 13.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 22 files. (2 skipped:…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: reporting connected client platforms in analytics.
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Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	13.3 KiB	13.3 KiB	−7 B (−0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	6.9 KiB	6.9 KiB	−5 B (−0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.4 KiB	6.4 KiB	−2 B (−0.0%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	55.6 KiB	55.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	11	11	0 (0.0%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.3 KiB	13.4 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	6.9 KiB	6.9 KiB	+5 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	+2 B (+0.0%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.4 KiB	56.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	11	11	0 (0.0%)	21	✅

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Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds broad cross-platform client telemetry and propagates connection metadata through existing WebSocket and authorization paths, rather than making a small isolated change. It also modifies sensitive authorization-directory code, so the scope and runtime impact warrant human review.

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