agent-relay-runner 0.15.1 → 0.16.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "agent-relay-runner",
-  "version": "0.15.1",
+  "version": "0.16.0",
   "description": "Unified provider lifecycle runner for Agent Relay",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/plugins/claude/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "agent-relay-runner",
   "description": "Thin Agent Relay runner bridge for Claude Code",
-  "version": "0.15.1",
+  "version": "0.16.0",
   "agentRelayContracts": {
     "providerPluginProtocol": 1
   }

package/plugins/claude/hooks/permission-request.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
+source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard permission-request
 
 port="${AGENT_RELAY_RUNNER_PORT:-}"
 if [[ -z "$port" ]]; then

package/plugins/claude/hooks/post-compact.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard post-compact
 
 relay_post_timeline_status idle provider-turn "" compacted

package/plugins/claude/hooks/pre-compact.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard pre-compact
 
 relay_post_timeline_status busy provider-turn "" compacting

package/plugins/claude/hooks/relay-status.sh

@@ -92,6 +92,30 @@ relay_post_session_end() {
     -d "$body" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
 }
 
+# --- Hook FATAL surfacing (#198) -------------------------------------------
+# A hook that dies unexpectedly must never be silent. relay_install_hook_guard
+# arms an ERR trap that reports the failure FATAL to the runner control port,
+# which logs it to the dashboard-surfaced per-agent log. Best-effort and bounded
+# (--max-time 2) so the report itself can never blow the hook's timeout budget.
+relay_hook_fatal_report() {
+  local hook="${1:-unknown}" detail="${2:-}"
+  local port="${AGENT_RELAY_RUNNER_PORT:-}"
+  [ -z "$port" ] && return 0
+  local body="{\"hook\":\"$(relay_json_escape "$hook")\",\"error\":\"$(relay_json_escape "$detail")\"}"
+  curl -fsS --max-time 2 -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:${port}/hook-fatal" \
+    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
+    -d "$body" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+}
+
+relay_install_hook_guard() {
+  RELAY_HOOK_NAME="${1:-unknown}"
+  # Fires on any unhandled failure under `set -e`/`set -u`/pipefail in the hook's
+  # main body, just before the shell exits. Reports, then lets the exit proceed.
+  # (ERR is not inherited into functions without `set -E`; this covers the top-level
+  # flow, which is where a silent death actually wedges a turn.)
+  trap 'relay_hook_err_rc=$?; relay_hook_fatal_report "${RELAY_HOOK_NAME:-unknown}" "exit ${relay_hook_err_rc}: ${BASH_COMMAND}"' ERR
+}
+
 relay_pending_reply_stop_decision() {
   local port="${AGENT_RELAY_RUNNER_PORT:-}"
   [ -z "$port" ] && return 0

package/plugins/claude/hooks/session-end.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard session-end
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 reason="$(relay_json_string_field reason "$payload")"

package/plugins/claude/hooks/session-start.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard session-start
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 source_kind="$(relay_json_string_field source "$payload")"

package/plugins/claude/hooks/stop-failure.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard stop-failure
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 error="$(relay_json_string_field error "$payload")"

package/plugins/claude/hooks/stop.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard stop
+
+# Clearing the turn's busy state is the critical path (#199). Register it on EXIT
+# so it runs even if a side-call below fails or times out under `set -e`. The one
+# exception is the reply-obligation block path, which deliberately keeps the agent
+# busy to answer — it opts out via the flag before exiting.
+_relay_clear_idle_on_exit=1
+trap '[ "${_relay_clear_idle_on_exit:-0}" = "1" ] && relay_post_status_clearing_subagents idle' EXIT
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 stop_hook_active="$(relay_json_bool_field stop_hook_active "$payload")"
@@ -8,12 +16,14 @@ if [ "$stop_hook_active" != "true" ]; then
   last_assistant_msg="$(echo "$payload" | jq -c '.last_assistant_message // empty' 2>/dev/null || true)"
   relay_post_session_turn "$(relay_json_string_field transcript_path "$payload")" "$last_assistant_msg"
   # `|| true`: under `set -e`, a non-zero from the obligation check must never abort
-  # the hook before the idle-clear below — clearing the turn is the critical path (#199).
+  # the hook before the idle-clear — clearing the turn is the critical path (#199).
   stop_decision="$(relay_pending_reply_stop_decision || true)"
   if [ -n "$stop_decision" ]; then
+    _relay_clear_idle_on_exit=0
     printf '%s\n' "$stop_decision"
     exit 0
   fi
 fi
 
-relay_post_status_clearing_subagents idle
+# Normal turn end → the EXIT trap posts idle (always, even on an unexpected abort above).
+exit 0

package/plugins/claude/hooks/subagent-start.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}"
 # shellcheck source=/dev/null
 source "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard subagent-start
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 agent_id="$(relay_json_string_field agent_id "$payload")"

package/plugins/claude/hooks/subagent-stop.sh

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ set -euo pipefail
 PLUGIN_ROOT="${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}"
 # shellcheck source=/dev/null
 source "${PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard subagent-stop
 
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 agent_id="$(relay_json_string_field agent_id "$payload")"

package/plugins/claude/hooks/user-prompt-submit.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 source "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)}/hooks/relay-status.sh"
+relay_install_hook_guard user-prompt-submit
 payload="$(cat || true)"
 relay_post_status busy
 # Mirror a terminal/TUI-typed prompt into the dashboard chat and start reasoning

package/src/adapters/codex.ts

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { basename, join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import type { ContextState, Message } from "agent-relay-sdk";
 import { profileAllowsRelayFeature, providerMessageText, RELAY_CONTEXT, type ManagedProcess, type ProviderAdapter, type ProviderConfig, type ProviderPermissionDecisionInput, type ProviderSessionEvent, type ProviderStatusUpdate, type RunnerSpawnConfig, type SpawnArgs, type TerminalAttachSpec } from "../adapter";
 import { workspaceDepsNoteFromEnv } from "../relay-instructions";
+import { logger } from "../logger";
 
 /** Relay context prepended to a Codex agent's first turn: the standard relay
  * blurb plus, when running in an isolated workspace, the deps caveat (#159). */
@@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ export class CodexAdapter implements ProviderAdapter {
       input = codexRelayContextBlock() + "\n\n" + input;
       process.meta = { ...(process.meta ?? {}), relayContextSent: true };
     }
-    console.error(`[agent-relay] starting Codex initial prompt in thread ${threadId}`);
+    logger.info("codex", `starting Codex initial prompt in thread ${threadId}`);
     const client = process.meta?.client as CodexAppClient;
     await client.turnStart(threadId, input);
   }
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ export class CodexAdapter implements ProviderAdapter {
       text = codexRelayContextBlock() + "\n\n" + text;
       process.meta = { ...(process.meta ?? {}), relayContextSent: true };
     }
-    console.error(codexDeliveryNotice(messages, threadId));
+    logger.info("codex", codexDeliveryNotice(messages, threadId));
     const client = process.meta?.client as CodexAppClient;
     await client.turnStart(threadId, text);
   }

package/src/control-server.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,16 @@
 import type { Server, ServerWebSocket } from "bun";
 import type { Message, ReplyObligation } from "agent-relay-sdk";
 import type { ProviderPermissionDecisionInput, ProviderStatusEvent, SemanticStatus, TerminalAttachSpec } from "./adapter";
+import { logger, parseLogLevel, LOG_LEVELS } from "./logger";
+
+// A hook that failed in a way it could not handle itself reports here so the
+// failure is never silent (#198 item 5). Phase 1 logs it FATAL to the per-agent
+// log; Phase 2 (#196) will additionally route it through the runner outbox to the
+// server.
+export interface HookFatalReport {
+  hook: string;
+  error: string;
+}
 
 interface MonitorSocketData {
   kind: "monitor";
@@ -33,6 +43,10 @@ interface ControlServerOptions {
   // transcript. transcriptPath is optional — the runner falls back to the last
   // path it saw during the session.
   onSessionEnd?(input: { reason?: string; transcriptPath?: string }): Promise<void>;
+  // Phase 1 observability (#198): a hook reporting an unhandled failure. The
+  // control server already logs it FATAL; this is the seam for Phase 2 to also
+  // surface it to the server via the runner outbox.
+  onHookFatal?(report: HookFatalReport): void;
 }
 
 export function startControlServer(options: ControlServerOptions): ControlServer {
@@ -81,6 +95,15 @@ export function startControlServer(options: ControlServerOptions): ControlServer
       if (url.pathname === "/session-end" && req.method === "POST") {
         return handleSessionEnd(req, options);
       }
+      if (url.pathname === "/log-level" && req.method === "GET") {
+        return Response.json({ level: logger.getLevel(), levels: LOG_LEVELS });
+      }
+      if (url.pathname === "/log-level" && req.method === "POST") {
+        return handleLogLevel(req);
+      }
+      if (url.pathname === "/hook-fatal" && req.method === "POST") {
+        return handleHookFatal(req, options);
+      }
       if (url.pathname === "/monitor") {
         const upgraded = srv.upgrade(req, { data: { kind: "monitor" } });
         return upgraded ? undefined : new Response("WebSocket upgrade failed", { status: 400 });
@@ -361,6 +384,26 @@ async function handleSessionEnd(req: Request, options: ControlServerOptions): Pr
   return Response.json({ ok: true });
 }
 
+async function handleLogLevel(req: Request): Promise<Response> {
+  const body = await req.json().catch(() => null);
+  const level = parseLogLevel(isRecord(body) && typeof body.level === "string" ? body.level : undefined);
+  if (!level) return Response.json({ error: `level must be one of: ${LOG_LEVELS.join(", ")}` }, { status: 400 });
+  const previous = logger.getLevel();
+  logger.setLevel(level);
+  logger.info("logger", `log level set to ${level} (was ${previous}) via control port`);
+  return Response.json({ ok: true, level, previous });
+}
+
+async function handleHookFatal(req: Request, options: ControlServerOptions): Promise<Response> {
+  const body = await req.json().catch(() => null);
+  const hook = isRecord(body) && typeof body.hook === "string" && body.hook.trim() ? body.hook.trim() : "unknown";
+  const error = isRecord(body) && typeof body.error === "string" ? body.error : "(no detail)";
+  // Never silent: a hook that couldn't handle its own failure lands here as FATAL.
+  logger.fatal(`hook:${hook}`, error);
+  try { options.onHookFatal?.({ hook, error }); } catch { /* reporting must never throw back at the hook */ }
+  return Response.json({ ok: true });
+}
+
 async function handleStatus(req: Request, options: ControlServerOptions): Promise<Response> {
   const body = await req.json().catch(() => null) as Partial<ProviderStatusEvent> | null;
   const status = body?.status;

package/src/logger.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+import { appendFileSync, mkdirSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+// Phase 1 observability (#198): one leveled, runtime-togglable logger for the
+// Runner and the provider adapters below it. Replaces the ad-hoc scatter of
+// `console.error`, `logRunnerDiagnostic` (-> runner-<agent>.log) and
+// `sessionLog`/`sessionDebug` (-> session-mirror-<agent>.log) with a single
+// switch and a single greppable, ANSI-free sink.
+//
+// Sink: the per-agent `session-mirror-<agent>.log` — the file the orchestrator
+// already surfaces to the dashboard log-viewer (captureSessionMirror). One place
+// to look when anything in the Runner misbehaves.
+//
+// Level is read once from AGENT_RELAY_LOG_LEVEL (default "info") and can be
+// flipped at runtime via the control port (no restart) — so a phase refactor can
+// be watched at debug without bouncing the agent.
+
+export type LogLevel = "debug" | "info" | "warn" | "error" | "fatal";
+
+const ORDER: Record<LogLevel, number> = { debug: 10, info: 20, warn: 30, error: 40, fatal: 50 };
+export const LOG_LEVELS = Object.keys(ORDER) as LogLevel[];
+
+export function parseLogLevel(value: string | undefined | null): LogLevel | undefined {
+  if (!value) return undefined;
+  const v = value.trim().toLowerCase();
+  return (LOG_LEVELS as string[]).includes(v) ? (v as LogLevel) : undefined;
+}
+
+// Matches the runner's safeLogName and the orchestrator's safeMirrorLogName so all
+// three resolve the identical filename for a given agent id.
+function safeLogName(value: string): string {
+  return value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/g, "_").slice(0, 180);
+}
+
+export interface LoggerConfig {
+  agentId?: string;
+  level?: LogLevel;
+  headless?: boolean;
+  logDir?: string;
+}
+
+export class Logger {
+  private level: LogLevel;
+  private agentId: string;
+  private headless: boolean;
+  private logDir: string;
+
+  constructor(config: LoggerConfig = {}) {
+    this.level = config.level ?? parseLogLevel(process.env.AGENT_RELAY_LOG_LEVEL) ?? "info";
+    this.agentId = config.agentId ?? "runner";
+    this.headless = config.headless ?? false;
+    this.logDir = config.logDir ?? join(process.env.HOME || ".", ".agent-relay", "logs");
+  }
+
+  // Bind the logger to a concrete agent once the runner knows its id. Preserves a
+  // level already set via env/runtime unless an explicit level is passed.
+  configure(config: LoggerConfig): void {
+    if (config.agentId !== undefined) this.agentId = config.agentId;
+    if (config.headless !== undefined) this.headless = config.headless;
+    if (config.logDir !== undefined) this.logDir = config.logDir;
+    if (config.level !== undefined) this.level = config.level;
+  }
+
+  setLevel(level: LogLevel): void { this.level = level; }
+  getLevel(): LogLevel { return this.level; }
+  isEnabled(level: LogLevel): boolean { return ORDER[level] >= ORDER[this.level]; }
+
+  debug(component: string, message: string): void { this.log("debug", component, message); }
+  info(component: string, message: string): void { this.log("info", component, message); }
+  warn(component: string, message: string): void { this.log("warn", component, message); }
+  error(component: string, message: string): void { this.log("error", component, message); }
+  fatal(component: string, message: string): void { this.log("fatal", component, message); }
+
+  log(level: LogLevel, component: string, message: string): void {
+    if (!this.isEnabled(level)) return;
+    const line = `[${new Date().toISOString()}] ${level.toUpperCase().padEnd(5)} [${component}] ${oneLine(message)}\n`;
+    try {
+      mkdirSync(this.logDir, { recursive: true });
+      appendFileSync(join(this.logDir, `session-mirror-${safeLogName(this.agentId)}.log`), line);
+    } catch {
+      // Best-effort. If the per-agent file can't be written, surface error/fatal to
+      // stderr so it is not lost entirely (headless: lands in the orchestrator log).
+      if (ORDER[level] >= ORDER.error) { try { console.error(line.trimEnd()); } catch { /* give up */ } }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+// Newlines would split one record across several log lines and break greppability;
+// collapse them so a multi-line message stays one line.
+function oneLine(message: string): string {
+  return message.replace(/\r?\n/g, " ⏎ ");
+}
+
+// Process-global logger. A runner process serves exactly one agent, so a singleton
+// is the right scope; the runner calls configure() once it knows its id, and
+// adapters import this instance directly (no constructor threading).
+export const logger = new Logger();

package/src/runner.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { hostname } from "node:os";
-import { appendFileSync, closeSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { closeSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { readFile } from "node:fs/promises";
 import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
 import type { AgentProfile, ContextState, Message, MessageSessionMeta, ProviderCapabilities, TaskStatusInput, WorkspaceMetadata } from "agent-relay-sdk";
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import { extractLastAssistantTurn, extractFinalAssistantMessage, extractHookAssi
 import { agentProfileProjectionReport } from "./profile-projection";
 import { profileUsesHostProviderGlobals } from "./profile-home";
 import { runtimeMetadata } from "./version";
+import { logger, parseLogLevel } from "./logger";
 import { ensureSessionScratch, reapSessionScratch, sweepStaleSessions, type SessionScratchLayout } from "./session-scratch";
 
 interface RunnerOptions {
@@ -177,6 +178,14 @@ export class AgentRunner {
 
   constructor(private readonly options: RunnerOptions) {
     this.agentId = options.agentId ?? options.runnerId;
+    // Bind the process-global logger to this agent. AGENT_RELAY_SESSION_DEBUG=1 is
+    // kept as a back-compat alias for the verbose probe/emit lines, now expressed
+    // as log level "debug" (AGENT_RELAY_LOG_LEVEL still wins when both are set).
+    logger.configure({
+      agentId: this.agentId,
+      headless: options.headless,
+      ...(this.sessionDebugVerbose && !parseLogLevel(process.env.AGENT_RELAY_LOG_LEVEL) ? { level: "debug" as const } : {}),
+    });
     this.currentToken = options.token;
     this.currentTokenJti = options.tokenJti;
     this.currentTokenProfileId = options.tokenProfileId;
@@ -387,7 +396,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
         startedAt: this.options.startedAt,
       }, null, 2) + "\n", { mode: 0o600 });
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error(`[runner] failed to write runner info file: ${error}`);
+      logger.error("runner", `failed to write runner info file: ${error}`);
     }
   }
 
@@ -403,7 +412,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
       const messages = await this.http.pollMessages({ for: this.agentId, unread: true, limit: 100 });
       for (const message of messages) this.enqueueMessage(message);
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error(`[runner] inbox bootstrap failed: ${error}`);
+      logger.error("runner", `inbox bootstrap failed: ${error}`);
     }
   }
 
@@ -413,7 +422,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
     try {
       await this.options.adapter.deliverInitialPrompt(this.process, prompt);
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error(`[runner] initial prompt delivery failed: ${error}`);
+      logger.error("runner", `initial prompt delivery failed: ${error}`);
     }
   }
 
@@ -450,7 +459,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
             status: "in_progress",
             agentId: this.agentId,
             metadata: { messageId: message.id, completedBy: "runner" },
-          }).catch((error) => console.error(`[runner] task ${taskId} in_progress update failed: ${error}`));
+          }).catch((error) => logger.error("task", `task ${taskId} in_progress update failed: ${error}`));
           // Runner owns claim + status here; drop the server's self-claim instruction
           // so the agent doesn't improvise a stray claim send (see stripRunnerClaimedGuidance).
           toDeliver = { ...message, body: stripRunnerClaimedGuidance(message.body) };
@@ -468,7 +477,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
     try {
       const prepared = await messagesWithCachedAttachments(deliverable, this.http, {
         agentId: this.agentId,
-        onError: (message) => console.error(`[runner] ${message}`),
+        onError: (message) => logger.error("runner", message),
       });
       await this.options.adapter.deliver(this.process, prepared);
       for (const message of deliverable) {
@@ -477,7 +486,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
       }
     } catch (error) {
       failed = true;
-      if (shouldLogDeliveryFailure(error)) console.error(`[runner] message delivery failed: ${error}`);
+      if (shouldLogDeliveryFailure(error)) logger.warn("delivery", `message delivery failed: ${error}`);
       for (const message of deliverable) {
         this.clearActiveClaim(message);
         this.pendingMessages.set(message.id, message);
@@ -545,7 +554,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
         await this.http.deleteAgent(this.agentId).catch(() => {});
         if (this.options.exitProcessOnShutdown !== false) {
           setTimeout(() => void this.stop().catch((error) => {
-            console.error(`[runner] stop after command failed: ${error}`);
+            logger.error("lifecycle", `stop after command failed: ${error}`);
           }).finally(() => process.exit(0)), 10);
         }
       } else if (!this.stopped) {
@@ -680,7 +689,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
 
       if (this.shouldStopUnexpectedProviderExit(diagnostics)) {
         const hasResumeId = typeof diagnostics.claudeResumeId === "string" && diagnostics.claudeResumeId.length > 0;
-        console.warn(`[runner] ${this.options.provider} exited; leaving agent offline for manual recovery`);
+        logger.warn("lifecycle", `${this.options.provider} exited; leaving agent offline for manual recovery`);
         this.publishRunnerTimelineEvent({
           status: "provider.restart_decision",
           id: `provider-restart-decision-${this.providerSessionId}-${now}`,
@@ -708,7 +717,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
       }
 
       if (runtimeMs < RAPID_EXIT_MS && recent.length > MAX_RAPID_UNEXPECTED_EXITS) {
-        console.error(`[runner] provider session exited ${recent.length} times within ${Math.round(UNEXPECTED_EXIT_WINDOW_MS / 1000)}s; giving up`);
+        logger.error("lifecycle", `provider session exited ${recent.length} times within ${Math.round(UNEXPECTED_EXIT_WINDOW_MS / 1000)}s; giving up`);
         this.publishRunnerTimelineEvent({
           status: "provider.restart_decision",
           id: `provider-restart-decision-${this.providerSessionId}-${now}`,
@@ -732,7 +741,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
       }
 
       const delayMs = Math.min(10_000, Math.max(500, 500 * recent.length));
-      console.warn(`[runner] provider session exited unexpectedly after ${Math.round(runtimeMs / 1000)}s; restarting in ${delayMs}ms`);
+      logger.warn("lifecycle", `provider session exited unexpectedly after ${Math.round(runtimeMs / 1000)}s; restarting in ${delayMs}ms`);
       this.publishRunnerTimelineEvent({
         status: "provider.restart_decision",
         id: `provider-restart-decision-${this.providerSessionId}-${now}`,
@@ -757,7 +766,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
         this.publishStatus();
         this.scheduleDrain();
       } catch (error) {
-        console.error(`[runner] provider restart after unexpected exit failed: ${error}`);
+        logger.error("lifecycle", `provider restart after unexpected exit failed: ${error}`);
         this.setProviderStatus("error");
         this.options.onProviderExit?.(1);
       }
@@ -832,10 +841,10 @@ export class AgentRunner {
   private handleBusError(code: string, message: string): void {
     const action = runnerBusErrorAction(code, this.stopped);
     if (action === "ignore") return;
-    console.error(`[runner] bus error ${code}: ${message}`);
+    logger.error("bus", `bus error ${code}: ${message}`);
     if (action === "stop") {
       void this.stop().catch((error) => {
-        console.error(`[runner] stop after bus error failed: ${error}`);
+        logger.error("bus", `stop after bus error failed: ${error}`);
       }).finally(() => process.exit(0));
     }
   }
@@ -1363,36 +1372,24 @@ export class AgentRunner {
     this.logRunnerDiagnostic(`[runner] HTTP liveness update failed: ${suffix}`);
   }
 
+  // Runner operational diagnostics (HTTP liveness, token renewal failures). Routed
+  // through the leveled logger at warn — see logger.ts. Kept as a thin wrapper so
+  // the existing call sites and their `[runner]` framing stay put.
   private logRunnerDiagnostic(message: string): void {
-    if (this.options.headless) {
-      console.error(message);
-      return;
-    }
-    try {
-      const logDir = join(process.env.HOME || ".", ".agent-relay", "logs");
-      mkdirSync(logDir, { recursive: true });
-      appendFileSync(join(logDir, `runner-${safeLogName(this.agentId)}.log`), `[${new Date().toISOString()}] ${message}\n`);
-    } catch {
-      // Do not write runner diagnostics into an interactive provider TUI.
-    }
+    logger.warn("runner", message.replace(/^\[runner\]\s*/, ""));
   }
 
-  // Session-mirror diagnostics → a dedicated, ANSI-free, greppable log per agent
-  // (NOT the provider's TUI stdout, which is unreadable). This is the single place
-  // to look when chat/terminal sync misbehaves. Key transitions always log here.
+  // Session-mirror diagnostics → the leveled logger (component "mirror"), written
+  // to the dashboard-surfaced session-mirror-<agent>.log. Key transitions log at
+  // info; the single place to look when chat/terminal sync misbehaves.
   private sessionLog(message: string): void {
-    try {
-      const logDir = join(process.env.HOME || ".", ".agent-relay", "logs");
-      mkdirSync(logDir, { recursive: true });
-      appendFileSync(join(logDir, `session-mirror-${safeLogName(this.agentId)}.log`), `[${new Date().toISOString()}] ${message}\n`);
-    } catch {
-      // best-effort
-    }
+    logger.info("mirror", message);
   }
 
-  // Verbose, high-frequency lines (per-probe, per-emit) — only when AGENT_RELAY_SESSION_DEBUG=1.
+  // Verbose, high-frequency lines (per-probe, per-emit) — surfaced only at log
+  // level "debug" (AGENT_RELAY_LOG_LEVEL=debug, or flip live via /log-level).
   private sessionDebug(message: string): void {
-    if (this.sessionDebugVerbose) this.sessionLog(message);
+    logger.debug("mirror", message);
   }
 
   private ensureScratch(): void {
@@ -1657,7 +1654,7 @@ export class AgentRunner {
       })
         .then(() => true)
         .catch((error) => {
-          console.error(`[runner] task ${claim.taskId} completion update failed: ${error}`);
+          logger.error("task", `task ${claim.taskId} completion update failed: ${error}`);
           return false;
         });
       if (!ok) continue;
@@ -1962,10 +1959,6 @@ function httpErrorKey(error: unknown): string {
   return String(error);
 }
 
-function safeLogName(value: string): string {
-  return value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+/g, "_").slice(0, 180);
-}
-
 function isContextState(value: unknown): value is ContextState {
   if (!value || typeof value !== "object" || Array.isArray(value)) return false;
   const state = value as Record<string, unknown>;