@kitlangton/motel 0.2.5 → 0.2.6

package/src/daemon.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import * as fs from "node:fs"
 import { promises as fsp } from "node:fs"
 import * as path from "node:path"
 import { Effect } from "effect"
-import { isAlive, listAliveEntries, MOTEL_SERVICE_ID, MOTEL_VERSION, type RegistryEntry } from "./registry.js"
+import { isAlive, isManagedDaemonProcess, listAliveEntries, motelStateDir, MOTEL_SERVICE_ID, processIdentity, removeRegistryEntry, type RegistryEntry } from "./registry.js"
 
 const DEFAULT_REPO_ROOT = path.resolve(import.meta.dir, "..")
 const DEFAULT_HOST = "127.0.0.1"
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ const HEALTH_FAST_TIMEOUT_MS = 750
  *  and short enough that a truly-down daemon is still detected
  *  before START_TIMEOUT_MS fires. */
 const HEALTH_PATIENT_TIMEOUT_MS = 3_000
+const INGEST_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS = 3_000
 
 type HealthShape = {
 	readonly ok: boolean
@@ -34,11 +35,13 @@ type HealthShape = {
 	readonly workdir: string
 	readonly startedAt: string
 	readonly version: string
+	readonly instanceId?: string
 }
 
 type LockShape = {
 	readonly pid: number
 	readonly createdAt: string
+	readonly processIdentity?: string
 }
 
 type DaemonConfig = {
@@ -85,6 +88,9 @@ type DaemonOptions = {
 	readonly databasePath?: string
 	readonly host?: string
 	readonly port?: number
+	readonly startTimeoutMs?: number
+	readonly gracefulStopTimeoutMs?: number
+	readonly forceStopTimeoutMs?: number
 }
 
 export class DaemonError extends Error {
@@ -97,12 +103,14 @@ export class DaemonError extends Error {
 const sleep = (ms: number) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
 
 const resolveConfig = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonConfig => {
+	const envBaseUrl = new URL(process.env.MOTEL_OTEL_BASE_URL?.trim() || process.env.MOTEL_OTEL_QUERY_URL?.trim() || `http://${DEFAULT_HOST}:${DEFAULT_PORT}`)
 	const repoRoot = path.resolve(options.repoRoot ?? DEFAULT_REPO_ROOT)
 	const workdir = path.resolve(options.workdir ?? process.cwd())
-	const runtimeDir = path.resolve(options.runtimeDir ?? path.join(workdir, ".motel-data"))
-	const databasePath = path.resolve(options.databasePath ?? path.join(runtimeDir, "telemetry.sqlite"))
-	const host = options.host ?? DEFAULT_HOST
-	const port = options.port ?? DEFAULT_PORT
+	const runtimeDir = path.resolve(options.runtimeDir ?? motelStateDir())
+	const databasePath = path.resolve(options.databasePath ?? process.env.MOTEL_OTEL_DB_PATH?.trim() ?? path.join(runtimeDir, "telemetry.sqlite"))
+	const host = options.host ?? process.env.MOTEL_OTEL_HOST?.trim() ?? envBaseUrl.hostname
+	const envPort = Number.parseInt(process.env.MOTEL_OTEL_PORT?.trim() || envBaseUrl.port, 10)
+	const port = options.port ?? (Number.isFinite(envPort) && envPort > 0 ? envPort : DEFAULT_PORT)
 	return {
 		repoRoot,
 		serverEntry: path.join(repoRoot, "src/server.ts"),
@@ -123,17 +131,17 @@ const workdirMatches = (targetWorkdir: string, daemonWorkdir: string) => {
 	return normalizedTarget === normalizedDaemon || normalizedTarget.startsWith(normalizedDaemon)
 }
 
-const pickByWorkdir = (entries: readonly RegistryEntry[], targetWorkdir: string) => {
-	const withSep = targetWorkdir.endsWith(path.sep) ? targetWorkdir : `${targetWorkdir}${path.sep}`
+const pickByUrl = (entries: readonly RegistryEntry[], baseUrl: string, databasePath: string) => {
 	return entries
 		.filter((entry) => {
-			const workdir = entry.workdir.endsWith(path.sep) ? entry.workdir : `${entry.workdir}${path.sep}`
-			return withSep === workdir || withSep.startsWith(workdir)
+			return entry.url === baseUrl && (entry.databasePath === undefined || entry.databasePath === databasePath)
 		})
-		.sort((a, b) => b.workdir.length - a.workdir.length)[0] ?? null
+		.sort((a, b) => Number(b.databasePath === databasePath) - Number(a.databasePath === databasePath))[0] ?? null
 }
 
-const expectedEnv = (config: DaemonConfig) => ({
+const expectedEnv = (config: DaemonConfig, instanceId?: string) => ({
+	MOTEL_RUNTIME_DIR: config.runtimeDir,
+	...(instanceId ? { MOTEL_DAEMON_INSTANCE_ID: instanceId } : {}),
 	MOTEL_OTEL_BASE_URL: config.baseUrl,
 	MOTEL_OTEL_QUERY_URL: config.baseUrl,
 	MOTEL_OTEL_HOST: config.host,
@@ -145,43 +153,35 @@ const expectedEnv = (config: DaemonConfig) => ({
 
 export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager => {
 	const config = resolveConfig(options)
+	const startTimeoutMs = options.startTimeoutMs ?? START_TIMEOUT_MS
+	const gracefulStopTimeoutMs = options.gracefulStopTimeoutMs ?? STOP_TIMEOUT_MS
+	const forceStopTimeoutMs = options.forceStopTimeoutMs ?? 2_000
 	const mapError = (error: unknown) => new DaemonError(error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error))
-	const readRegistryEntry = () => pickByWorkdir(listAliveEntries(), config.workdir)
+	const readRegistryEntry = () => pickByUrl(listAliveEntries(config.runtimeDir), config.baseUrl, config.databasePath)
 
 	const fetchHealth = async (timeoutMs: number = HEALTH_FAST_TIMEOUT_MS): Promise<HealthShape | null> => {
 		try {
 			const response = await fetch(`${config.baseUrl}/api/health`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs) })
 			if (!response.ok) return null
-			return await response.json() as HealthShape
+			const health = await response.json() as HealthShape
+			return health.ok ? health : null
 		} catch {
 			return null
 		}
 	}
 
-	const startupMarkers = [`Listening on ${config.baseUrl}`, `motel local telemetry server listening on ${config.baseUrl}`]
-
-	const readLogSince = async (offset: number) => {
+	const fetchIngestProbe = async () => {
 		try {
-			const raw = await fsp.readFile(config.logPath, "utf8")
-			return raw.slice(offset)
+			const postEmpty = (path: string) => fetch(`${config.baseUrl}${path}`, {
+				method: "POST",
+				headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+				body: "{}",
+				signal: AbortSignal.timeout(INGEST_PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS),
+			})
+			const [traces, logs] = await Promise.all([postEmpty("/v1/traces"), postEmpty("/v1/logs")])
+			return traces.ok && logs.ok
 		} catch {
-			return ""
-		}
-	}
-
-	const detectStartedFromLog = async (pid: number, offset: number): Promise<HealthShape | null> => {
-		if (!isAlive(pid)) return null
-		const tail = await readLogSince(offset)
-		if (!startupMarkers.some((marker) => tail.includes(marker))) return null
-		return {
-			ok: true,
-			service: MOTEL_SERVICE_ID,
-			databasePath: config.databasePath,
-			pid,
-			url: config.baseUrl,
-			workdir: config.workdir,
-			startedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
-			version: MOTEL_VERSION,
+			return false
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -189,71 +189,12 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		if (health.service !== MOTEL_SERVICE_ID) {
 			return `Port ${config.port} is in use by ${health.service}, not ${MOTEL_SERVICE_ID}.`
 		}
-		if (!workdirMatches(config.workdir, health.workdir)) {
-			return `Port ${config.port} is serving motel for ${health.workdir}, not ${config.workdir}.`
-		}
 		if (health.databasePath !== config.databasePath) {
 			return `Port ${config.port} is serving motel with ${health.databasePath}, expected ${config.databasePath}.`
 		}
 		return null
 	}
 
-	/**
-	 * Mismatch check against a registry entry — mirrors describeManagedMismatch
-	 * but drives off the registry file instead of an HTTP health response.
-	 * Used on the fast path in getStatus so warm-start doesn't need to wait
-	 * on an HTTP round-trip that may queue behind heavy OTLP ingest.
-	 *
-	 * The service-id check is implicit: any entry living in the motel
-	 * registry dir is by construction a motel daemon. databasePath is
-	 * optional for back-compat with entries written by older builds;
-	 * when absent we skip the DB check rather than refusing to adopt.
-	 */
-	const describeRegistryMismatch = (entry: RegistryEntry): string | null => {
-		if (!workdirMatches(config.workdir, entry.workdir)) {
-			return `Port ${config.port} is serving motel for ${entry.workdir}, not ${config.workdir}.`
-		}
-		if (entry.databasePath && entry.databasePath !== config.databasePath) {
-			return `Port ${config.port} is serving motel with ${entry.databasePath}, expected ${config.databasePath}.`
-		}
-		return null
-	}
-
-	/**
-	 * Build a DaemonStatus from a live registry entry. Returns null when
-	 * there's no entry for our cwd, the registered pid isn't running, or
-	 * the entry is for a differently-configured daemon (different port).
-	 * This is the fast path: no HTTP, no event-loop round-trip, just a
-	 * directory read and a process.kill(pid, 0) liveness probe.
-	 */
-	const getStatusFromRegistry = (): DaemonStatus | null => {
-		const entry = readRegistryEntry()
-		if (!entry) return null
-		// Port discriminator: a motel registry shared across several
-		// daemons (e.g., user running two instances on different
-		// ports from the same workdir, or a test harness on a random
-		// port) would otherwise have us adopt an unrelated daemon.
-		// URL match is a fast, unambiguous identity check.
-		if (entry.url !== config.baseUrl) return null
-		const mismatch = describeRegistryMismatch(entry)
-		return {
-			running: mismatch === null,
-			managed: mismatch === null,
-			service: MOTEL_SERVICE_ID,
-			pid: entry.pid,
-			url: entry.url,
-			databasePath: entry.databasePath ?? config.databasePath,
-			workdir: entry.workdir,
-			startedAt: entry.startedAt,
-			version: entry.version,
-			sameWorkdir: workdirMatches(config.workdir, entry.workdir),
-			reason: mismatch,
-			logPath: config.logPath,
-			lockPath: config.lockPath,
-			registryPid: entry.pid,
-		}
-	}
-
 	const readLock = async (): Promise<LockShape | null> => {
 		try {
 			const raw = await fsp.readFile(config.lockPath, "utf8")
@@ -269,7 +210,7 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 			await fsp.rm(config.lockPath, { force: true })
 			return true
 		}
-		if (isAlive(current.pid)) return false
+		if (current.processIdentity ? processIdentity(current.pid) === current.processIdentity : isAlive(current.pid)) return false
 		await fsp.rm(config.lockPath, { force: true })
 		return true
 	}
@@ -281,7 +222,7 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		while (Date.now() < deadline) {
 			try {
 				const handle = await fsp.open(config.lockPath, "wx")
-				const contents = JSON.stringify({ pid: process.pid, createdAt: new Date().toISOString() } satisfies LockShape)
+				const contents = JSON.stringify({ pid: process.pid, createdAt: new Date().toISOString(), processIdentity: processIdentity(process.pid) ?? undefined } satisfies LockShape)
 				await handle.writeFile(contents, "utf8")
 				return {
 					release: async () => {
@@ -305,29 +246,17 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		return fs.openSync(config.logPath, "a")
 	}
 
-	const waitForHealthy = async (pid: number, logOffset: number) => {
-		const deadline = Date.now() + START_TIMEOUT_MS
+	const waitForHealthy = async (pid: number, instanceId: string) => {
+		const deadline = Date.now() + startTimeoutMs
 		while (Date.now() < deadline) {
 			const health = await fetchHealth()
 			if (health) {
 				const mismatch = describeManagedMismatch(health)
-				if (!mismatch) return health
-				throw new Error(mismatch)
+				const registry = readRegistryEntry()
+				if (!mismatch && health.pid === pid && health.instanceId === instanceId && registry?.pid === pid && registry.instanceId === instanceId && isManagedDaemonProcess(registry) && await fetchIngestProbe()) return health
+				if (mismatch) throw new Error(mismatch)
 			}
-			const started = await detectStartedFromLog(pid, logOffset)
-			if (started) return started
 			if (!isAlive(pid)) {
-				// The spawned child is gone. Before declaring failure,
-				// do one patient probe: the child may have died from
-				// EADDRINUSE because another healthy motel is alive on
-				// the port but was answering /api/health too slowly for
-				// our fast poll. If that's the case, adopt it.
-				const patient = await fetchHealth(HEALTH_PATIENT_TIMEOUT_MS)
-				if (patient) {
-					const mismatch = describeManagedMismatch(patient)
-					if (!mismatch) return patient
-					throw new Error(mismatch)
-				}
 				throw new Error(`Daemon process ${pid} exited before becoming healthy. See ${config.logPath}.`)
 			}
 			await sleep(START_POLL_INTERVAL_MS)
@@ -335,43 +264,41 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		throw new Error(`Timed out waiting for daemon health at ${config.baseUrl}/api/health. See ${config.logPath}.`)
 	}
 
-	const stopPid = async (pid: number) => {
+	const waitUntilNotOwned = async (entry: RegistryEntry, timeoutMs: number) => {
+		const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs
+		while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+			if (!isManagedDaemonProcess(entry)) return true
+			await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS)
+		}
+		return !isManagedDaemonProcess(entry)
+	}
+
+	const stopPid = async (entry: RegistryEntry) => {
+		if (!isManagedDaemonProcess(entry)) {
+			throw new Error(`Refusing to stop pid ${entry.pid}: registry identity does not match the running managed daemon.`)
+		}
 		try {
-			process.kill(pid, "SIGTERM")
+			process.kill(entry.pid, "SIGTERM")
 		} catch (error) {
 			const errno = error as NodeJS.ErrnoException
 			if (errno.code !== "ESRCH") throw error
 		}
 
-		const deadline = Date.now() + STOP_TIMEOUT_MS
-		while (Date.now() < deadline) {
-			if (!isAlive(pid)) return
-			const health = await fetchHealth()
-			if (health && health.pid !== pid) return
-			const registry = readRegistryEntry()
-			if (!health && (!registry || registry.pid !== pid)) return
-			await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS)
+		if (!await waitUntilNotOwned(entry, gracefulStopTimeoutMs)) {
+			try {
+				process.kill(entry.pid, "SIGKILL")
+			} catch (error) {
+				if ((error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code !== "ESRCH") throw error
+			}
+			if (!await waitUntilNotOwned(entry, forceStopTimeoutMs)) {
+				throw new Error(`Timed out force-killing daemon ${entry.pid}.`)
+			}
 		}
-
-		throw new Error(`Timed out waiting for daemon ${pid} to stop.`)
+		const current = readRegistryEntry()
+		if (current?.pid === entry.pid && current.instanceId === entry.instanceId) removeRegistryEntry(entry.pid, config.runtimeDir)
 	}
 
 	const getStatus = async (timeoutMs: number = HEALTH_FAST_TIMEOUT_MS): Promise<DaemonStatus> => {
-		// Fast path: trust the local filesystem registry. When a motel
-		// daemon started on this machine it wrote an entry for its pid
-		// + cwd + databasePath; if that entry is still there and the pid
-		// is alive, the daemon is almost certainly the one we want to
-		// adopt. HTTP health is skipped because the daemon's health
-		// endpoint can queue behind heavy OTLP ingest traffic, making
-		// the probe unreliable exactly when the daemon is busy.
-		const registryStatus = getStatusFromRegistry()
-		if (registryStatus) return registryStatus
-
-		// No local evidence → fall back to HTTP. Covers the edge cases
-		// where: a motel daemon is running but was started before this
-		// registry-first path shipped; OR the port is held by something
-		// entirely unrelated (the mismatch check turns that into a
-		// human-readable reason).
 		const registry = readRegistryEntry()
 		const health = await fetchHealth(timeoutMs)
 		if (!health) {
@@ -394,9 +321,10 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		}
 
 		const mismatch = describeManagedMismatch(health)
+		const managed = mismatch === null && registry?.pid === health.pid && registry.instanceId === health.instanceId && isManagedDaemonProcess(registry)
 		return {
 			running: mismatch === null,
-			managed: mismatch === null,
+			managed,
 			service: health.service,
 			pid: health.pid,
 			url: health.url,
@@ -405,7 +333,7 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 			startedAt: health.startedAt,
 			version: health.version,
 			sameWorkdir: workdirMatches(config.workdir, health.workdir),
-			reason: mismatch,
+			reason: mismatch ?? (managed ? null : "Responsive motel server is not an identity-verified managed daemon."),
 			logPath: config.logPath,
 			lockPath: config.lockPath,
 			registryPid: registry?.pid ?? null,
@@ -418,26 +346,39 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 		// negative here drops us into the spawn path and collides with
 		// any slow-but-healthy daemon sitting on the port.
 		const existing = await getStatus(HEALTH_PATIENT_TIMEOUT_MS)
-		if (existing.managed && existing.running) return existing
+		const existingEntry = readRegistryEntry()
+		if (existing.managed && existing.running) {
+			// /api/health can stay healthy after the lazy ingest worker/RPC path
+			// has been poisoned by an interrupted request. Empty OTLP posts are
+			// side-effect free and exercise the same path real exporters need.
+			if (existing.pid === process.pid || await fetchIngestProbe()) return existing
+			if (existingEntry) await stopPid(existingEntry)
+		}
+		if (!existing.running && existingEntry && isManagedDaemonProcess(existingEntry)) await stopPid(existingEntry)
 		if (existing.service !== null && existing.reason) {
 			throw new Error(existing.reason)
 		}
 
 		const lock = await acquireStartupLock()
 		let spawnedPid: number | null = null
+		let spawnedIdentity: string | null = null
 		try {
 			// Same reasoning for the post-lock re-check: another ensure()
 			// may have spawned a daemon between our first probe and the
 			// lock grant, and its initial health response can be slow
 			// while the runtime warms up.
 			const rechecked = await getStatus(HEALTH_PATIENT_TIMEOUT_MS)
-			if (rechecked.managed && rechecked.running) return rechecked
+			if (rechecked.managed && rechecked.running) {
+				if (rechecked.pid === process.pid || await fetchIngestProbe()) return rechecked
+				const recheckedEntry = readRegistryEntry()
+				if (recheckedEntry) await stopPid(recheckedEntry)
+			}
 			if (rechecked.service !== null && rechecked.reason) {
 				throw new Error(rechecked.reason)
 			}
 
 			const logFd = await openLogFile()
-			const logOffset = fs.fstatSync(logFd).size
+			const instanceId = crypto.randomUUID()
 			try {
 				const proc = Bun.spawn({
 					cmd: [process.execPath, "run", config.serverEntry],
@@ -445,11 +386,12 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 					detached: true,
 					env: {
 						...process.env,
-						...expectedEnv(config),
+						...expectedEnv(config, instanceId),
 					},
 					stdio: ["ignore", logFd, logFd],
 				})
 				spawnedPid = proc.pid
+				spawnedIdentity = processIdentity(proc.pid)
 				proc.unref()
 			} finally {
 				fs.closeSync(logFd)
@@ -459,7 +401,7 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 				throw new Error("Daemon failed to spawn.")
 			}
 
-			const health = await waitForHealthy(spawnedPid, logOffset)
+			const health = await waitForHealthy(spawnedPid, instanceId)
 			return {
 				running: true,
 				managed: true,
@@ -478,7 +420,17 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 			}
 		} catch (error) {
 			if (spawnedPid !== null) {
-				await stopPid(spawnedPid).catch(() => undefined)
+				const entry = readRegistryEntry()
+				if (entry?.pid === spawnedPid) {
+					await stopPid(entry).catch(() => undefined)
+				} else if (spawnedIdentity && processIdentity(spawnedPid) === spawnedIdentity) {
+					try { process.kill(spawnedPid, "SIGTERM") } catch { /* already exited */ }
+					const deadline = Date.now() + gracefulStopTimeoutMs
+					while (Date.now() < deadline && processIdentity(spawnedPid) === spawnedIdentity) await sleep(POLL_INTERVAL_MS)
+					if (processIdentity(spawnedPid) === spawnedIdentity) {
+						try { process.kill(spawnedPid, "SIGKILL") } catch { /* already exited */ }
+					}
+				}
 			}
 			throw error
 		} finally {
@@ -489,13 +441,12 @@ export const createDaemonManager = (options: DaemonOptions = {}): DaemonManager
 	const stop = async (): Promise<DaemonStatus> => {
 		const status = await getStatus()
 		if (status.pid === null) return status
-		if (!status.sameWorkdir) {
-			throw new Error(`Refusing to stop motel owned by ${status.workdir}.`)
-		}
 		if (status.service !== null && status.service !== MOTEL_SERVICE_ID) {
 			throw new Error(`Refusing to stop non-motel service ${status.service} on ${status.url}.`)
 		}
-		await stopPid(status.pid)
+		const entry = readRegistryEntry()
+		if (!entry || entry.pid !== status.pid) throw new Error(`Refusing to stop pid ${status.pid}: no matching managed registry entry.`)
+		await stopPid(entry)
 		return await getStatus()
 	}
 

package/src/httpApi.ts

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ const Health = Schema.Struct({
 	workdir: Schema.String.pipe(Schema.annotateKey({ description: "Working directory at the time the server started. Used by MCP discovery to match the current project via longest-prefix." })),
 	startedAt: Schema.String.pipe(Schema.annotateKey({ description: "ISO 8601 timestamp of when the server bound its port." })),
 	version: Schema.String.pipe(Schema.annotateKey({ description: "Motel version string." })),
+	instanceId: Schema.optionalKey(Schema.String).pipe(Schema.annotateKey({ description: "Managed-daemon instance nonce used for readiness and safe shutdown identity checks." })),
 })
 const IngestTraceResponse = Schema.Struct({ insertedSpans: Schema.Number })
 const IngestLogResponse = Schema.Struct({ insertedLogs: Schema.Number })

package/src/httpListPolicy.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "bun:test"
+import type { LogItem, TraceSummaryItem } from "./domain.js"
+import { LOG_LIST, LOG_STATS, parseListParams, paginateLogs, paginateSummaries, traceCursorArgs } from "./httpListPolicy.js"
+
+const BASE_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:27686"
+
+describe("HTTP list policy", () => {
+	it("bounds list parameters and extracts attribute filters", () => {
+		const params = parseListParams({
+			url: "/api/logs?limit=9999&lookback=9d&attr.session.id=abc&attrContains.message=failed",
+		}, LOG_LIST, BASE_URL)
+
+		expect(params.limit).toBe(500)
+		expect(params.lookbackMinutes).toBe(24 * 60)
+		expect(params.attributeFilters).toEqual({ "session.id": "abc" })
+		expect(params.attributeContainsFilters).toEqual({ message: "failed" })
+	})
+
+	it("round-trips a trace cursor through page metadata", () => {
+		const traces: readonly TraceSummaryItem[] = [
+			{
+				traceId: "trace-1",
+				serviceName: "api",
+				rootOperationName: "GET /first",
+				startedAt: new Date(1000),
+				isRunning: false,
+				durationMs: 2,
+				spanCount: 1,
+				errorCount: 0,
+				warnings: [],
+			},
+			{
+				traceId: "trace-2",
+				serviceName: "api",
+				rootOperationName: "GET /second",
+				startedAt: new Date(900),
+				isRunning: false,
+				durationMs: 1,
+				spanCount: 1,
+				errorCount: 0,
+				warnings: [],
+			},
+		]
+
+		const page = paginateSummaries(traces, { limit: 1, lookbackMinutes: 60 })
+		const parsed = parseListParams({ url: `/api/traces?cursor=${page.meta.nextCursor}` }, LOG_LIST, BASE_URL)
+
+		expect(page.meta.truncated).toBe(true)
+		expect(traceCursorArgs(parsed.cursor)).toEqual({ cursorStartedAtMs: 1000, cursorTraceId: "trace-1" })
+	})
+
+	it("formats log page metadata and emits a cursor", () => {
+		const logs: readonly LogItem[] = [{
+			id: "12",
+			timestamp: new Date(1200),
+			serviceName: "api",
+			severityText: "INFO",
+			body: "ready",
+			traceId: null,
+			spanId: null,
+			scopeName: null,
+			attributes: {},
+		}]
+
+		const page = paginateLogs(logs, { limit: 10, lookbackMinutes: 120 })
+
+		expect(page.meta).toMatchObject({ limit: 10, lookback: "2h", returned: 1, truncated: false })
+		expect(page.meta.nextCursor).not.toBeNull()
+	})
+
+	it("keeps aggregate log queries bounded to twenty groups by default", () => {
+		const params = parseListParams({ url: "/api/logs/stats?groupBy=service&agg=count" }, LOG_STATS, BASE_URL)
+
+		expect(params.limit).toBe(20)
+	})
+})

package/src/httpListPolicy.ts

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+import type { LogItem, TraceSummaryItem } from "./domain.js"
+import { attributeContainsFiltersFromEntries, attributeFiltersFromEntries } from "./queryFilters.js"
+
+type CursorShape =
+	| { readonly kind: "trace"; readonly startedAt: number; readonly id: string }
+	| { readonly kind: "log"; readonly timestamp: number; readonly id: string }
+
+export interface ListBounds {
+	readonly defaultLimit: number
+	readonly maxLimit: number
+	readonly defaultLookback: number
+	readonly maxLookback: number
+}
+
+export interface ListParams {
+	readonly url: URL
+	readonly limit: number
+	readonly lookbackMinutes: number
+	readonly cursor: CursorShape | null
+	readonly attributeFilters: Readonly<Record<string, string>>
+	readonly attributeContainsFilters: Readonly<Record<string, string>>
+}
+
+export const TRACE_LIST: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 20, maxLimit: 100, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+export const SPAN_LIST: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 100, maxLimit: 500, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+export const LOG_LIST: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 100, maxLimit: 500, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+export const AI_LIST: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 20, maxLimit: 500, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+export const TRACE_STATS: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 20, maxLimit: 100, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+export const LOG_STATS: ListBounds = { defaultLimit: 20, maxLimit: 500, defaultLookback: 60, maxLookback: 24 * 60 }
+
+export const requestUrl = (request: { readonly url: string }, baseUrl: string) => new URL(request.url, baseUrl)
+
+const parsePositiveInt = (value: string | undefined, defaultValue: number) => {
+	const parsed = Number.parseInt(value ?? "", 10)
+	return Number.isFinite(parsed) && parsed > 0 ? parsed : defaultValue
+}
+
+export const parseLimit = (value: string | null, fallback: number) => parsePositiveInt(value ?? undefined, fallback)
+
+export const parseLookbackMinutes = (value: string | null, fallback: number) => {
+	if (!value) return fallback
+	const match = value.trim().match(/^(\d+)([mhd])$/i)
+	if (!match) return fallback
+	const amount = Number.parseInt(match[1] ?? "", 10)
+	if (!Number.isFinite(amount) || amount <= 0) return fallback
+	const unit = (match[2] ?? "m").toLowerCase()
+	if (unit === "d") return amount * 1440
+	if (unit === "h") return amount * 60
+	return amount
+}
+
+const clamp = (value: number, min: number, max: number) => Math.max(min, Math.min(value, max))
+
+const decodeCursor = (value: string | null): CursorShape | null => {
+	if (!value) return null
+	try {
+		return JSON.parse(Buffer.from(value, "base64url").toString("utf8")) as CursorShape
+	} catch {
+		return null
+	}
+}
+
+const encodeCursor = (cursor: CursorShape) => Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(cursor), "utf8").toString("base64url")
+
+export const traceCursorArgs = (cursor: CursorShape | null) =>
+	cursor?.kind === "trace"
+		? { cursorStartedAtMs: cursor.startedAt, cursorTraceId: cursor.id }
+		: {}
+
+export const logCursorArgs = (cursor: CursorShape | null) =>
+	cursor?.kind === "log"
+		? { cursorTimestampMs: cursor.timestamp, cursorId: cursor.id }
+		: {}
+
+export const parseListParams = (request: { readonly url: string }, bounds: ListBounds, baseUrl: string): ListParams => {
+	const url = requestUrl(request, baseUrl)
+	return {
+		url,
+		limit: clamp(parseLimit(url.searchParams.get("limit"), bounds.defaultLimit), 1, bounds.maxLimit),
+		lookbackMinutes: clamp(parseLookbackMinutes(url.searchParams.get("lookback"), bounds.defaultLookback), 1, bounds.maxLookback),
+		cursor: decodeCursor(url.searchParams.get("cursor")),
+		attributeFilters: attributeFiltersFromEntries(url.searchParams.entries()),
+		attributeContainsFilters: attributeContainsFiltersFromEntries(url.searchParams.entries()),
+	}
+}
+
+const formatLookback = (minutes: number) => {
+	if (minutes % 1440 === 0) return `${minutes / 1440}d`
+	if (minutes % 60 === 0) return `${minutes / 60}h`
+	return `${minutes}m`
+}
+
+export const listMeta = (input: { readonly limit: number; readonly lookbackMinutes: number; readonly returned: number; readonly truncated: boolean; readonly nextCursor: string | null }) => ({
+	limit: input.limit,
+	lookback: formatLookback(input.lookbackMinutes),
+	returned: input.returned,
+	truncated: input.truncated,
+	nextCursor: input.nextCursor,
+})
+
+export const paginateSummaries = (summaries: readonly TraceSummaryItem[], options: { readonly limit: number; readonly lookbackMinutes: number }) => {
+	const page = summaries.slice(0, options.limit)
+	const last = page.at(-1)
+	return {
+		data: page,
+		meta: listMeta({
+			limit: options.limit,
+			lookbackMinutes: options.lookbackMinutes,
+			returned: page.length,
+			truncated: summaries.length > page.length,
+			nextCursor: last ? encodeCursor({ kind: "trace", startedAt: last.startedAt.getTime(), id: last.traceId }) : null,
+		}),
+	}
+}
+
+export const paginateLogs = (logs: readonly LogItem[], options: { readonly limit: number; readonly lookbackMinutes: number }) => {
+	const page = logs.slice(0, options.limit)
+	const last = page.at(-1)
+	return {
+		data: page,
+		meta: listMeta({
+			limit: options.limit,
+			lookbackMinutes: options.lookbackMinutes,
+			returned: page.length,
+			truncated: logs.length > page.length,
+			nextCursor: last ? encodeCursor({ kind: "log", timestamp: last.timestamp.getTime(), id: last.id }) : null,
+		}),
+	}
+}