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…ntrols, counting, features, delivery, fail-silent)
…n, surface hooks, docs
…ot system.arc42.md
…adlock, period send race
…, count cancelled MCP calls - spool: guard lease acquire/release with an OS lock (flock / msvcrt) so two processes can't both take over an expired lease - sender: lease acquire/release inside the fail-silent boundary - mcp: a cancelled tool call is counted with the 'cancelled' token - recorder: counting records in finally - cli: drop the SystemExit subclass; main hard-exits stdio mcp on exit/interrupt - features: split call/flag extraction to cut cognitive complexity - tests: lease race, cancellation, vanished config dir; escape the bidi sentinel
They never start telemetry (no notice, no send), so their four cli:telemetry.* keys could never be emitted: drop them from the vocabulary, assign no token to the group, and say so in the collection spec and the telemetry docs.
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- Line 1308: Remove the datasource assignment from the dry-run response in the
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The dry-run response no longer carries the datasource, so telemetry's observe_executed skips it; EXPLAIN still counts (it runs against the DB).
Package slayer.usage_reporting, CLI 'slayer usage-reporting', env vars SLAYER_USAGE_REPORTING(_ENDPOINT), usage-reporting config files, docs page, LikeC4 node and arc42 file, OpenSpec capabilities and tests. Behaviour unchanged.
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🟠 Major · Complete the PostHog release gate before shipping. · sender.py:44-67
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftComplete the PostHog release gate before shipping.
slayer/usage_reporting/sender.pystill shipsAPI_KEY = "", and_postsends that value for due default-on reports. Gate 6.2 explicitly requires a configured PostHog EU project, a DPA, a shippedphc_…project key, and a live smoke send. Complete those external prerequisites and replace the empty shipped default before release.The exact response for an empty key is not documented, so this comment relies on the explicit release requirement rather than asserting a specific PostHog rejection response.
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…fted untracked at release)
…ion at PostHog Install IDs rotate after 11 months, also at send time, and each is a PostHog person; a weekly workflow deletes every install whose first report is older than 11 months + 1 week (and one install on request), so reports live under 12 months. Docs, delivery spec and tasks updated; 6.2 ticked.
… script pages by key - settings.update_config: read-modify-write under an OS file lock; start(), enable, disable and the sender all use it, so a concurrent send can never undo an opt-out; the spool lease reuses the same lock primitive - retention script: keyset pagination (PostHog forbids OFFSET for personal API keys), UUID-shaped IDs only, HTTP errors print PostHog's detail, the run reports requested vs found
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22-22: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDisable checkout credential persistence.
actions/checkout@v4storesGITHUB_TOKENin.git/configby default. The retention script does not use Git, so this exposes an unnecessary read-only credential to code executed later in the job.Fix
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Adds anonymous, aggregated, opt-out usage reporting to the
slayerCLI and the servers it starts (mcp,serve,flight-serve,pg-serve; the Docker image runsslayer serve). Using SLayer as a library never records, notifies or sends anything: the recorder is a no-op untilslayer.cli.maincallsusage_reporting.start().Linear: DEV-2035 (decision log D1–D13 and the comparable-tools survey). Full spec:
openspec/changes/dev-2035-usage-tracking/.What gets sent
One JSON report, at most once per 24 h per install, and only while SLayer runs anyway (no heartbeat). Every value is a SLayer-defined token, a boolean, a bucket, a date, a random ID or a count:
slayer usage-reporting …) / MCP tool / REST route template / Flight and PG query, as ok + errors per error class token (never messages);customfor user-defined ones);other) with major version;No SQL, names, arguments, messages, paths or IPs. Nothing derived from them either: no hashes, prefixes or lengths. The new
architecture/usage_reporting.arc42.mdstates this as enforced principles. A schema-policy test and a sentinel fuzz across every surface (hostile Unicode, 10 kB strings, hash/base64 derivatives) check the report, the spool files and the config.Opt-out precedence:
DO_NOT_TRACK>SLAYER_USAGE_REPORTING=on|off> automatic off (CI, editable install, unwritable config dir) > persisted setting > default on. A one-time notice goes to stderr only, so stdio MCP stays byte-identical.How it works
last_sentrecorded, only after a 2xx.SLAYER_USAGE_REPORTING_ENDPOINToverrides the URL. Stdliburllibonly; no new dependencies.Retention and deletion
.github/workflows/usage-reporting-retention.ymlrunsscripts/usage_reporting_retention.pyweekly: it deletes every install whose first report is older than 11 months + 1 week, with all its events, so reports live under 12 months.slayer mcpalso unwinds on SIGINT and exits hard after spooling. Previously Ctrl-C and SIGTERM left it hanging on anyio's blocked stdin-reader thread.Other changes
SlayerResponse.datasource(excluded from serialization) tells surfaces which dialect a query ran on, without an extra storage call.sqlglotcannot tokenize (e.g. an unclosed") raised a rawTokenError. It crashed the PG session and escaped Flightdo_get. It is now aTranslationError/ syntax-error response, with regression tests./querybuilds its engine call once instead of three times.usage_reportingnode (childfeaturesis the only part importingcore/sql),usage_reporting.arc42.md, regenerated diagrams.docs/reference/usage-reporting.md(every field, controls, destination, privacy notice), README section, CLI reference.Before release
The PostHog EU project (SLayer) is live: client IPs discarded, DPA signed, project token shipped, a live send verified. The retention workflow needs the repository secret
POSTHOG_PERSONAL_API_KEY(Query: Read, Person: Write on that project) and runs only once merged tomain.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
slayerCLI, covering commands and supported query interfaces. Reports use approved statistics, exclude queries and credentials, and are sent at most once daily.DO_NOT_TRACK=1orSLAYER_USAGE_REPORTING=off; reporting is also disabled automatically in CI and certain installation or configuration conditions.Bug Fixes
Documentation