logs-gateway 3.1.2 → 3.5.0

package/README.md

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-# logs-gateway
-
-A standardized logging gateway for Node.js applications. Flexible multi-transport logging with **console**, **file**, and **unified-logger** outputs; **ENV-first** configuration; **PII/credentials sanitization**; **dual correlation trails** (operation & thread); **OpenTelemetry** context; **YAML/JSON/text** formats; **per-run "Shadow Logging"** for test/debug capture; **scoping** with text filters; **story output** powered by `scopeRecord`; and **troubleshooting integration** with `nx-troubleshooting`.
-
-## 🚀 Env-Ready Component (ERC 2.0)
-
-This component supports **zero-config initialization** via environment variables and is compliant with the [Env-Ready Component Standard (ERC 2.0)](https://github.com/xeonox/erc-standard).
-
-### ERC 2.0 Compliance
-
-- ✅ **Auto-Discovery**: Zero-config initialization from environment variables
-- ✅ **Complete Documentation**: All environment variables documented (including dependencies)
-- ✅ **Type Safety**: Automatic type coercion and validation
-- ✅ **Manifest**: Auto-generated `erc-manifest.json` with all requirements
-- ✅ **Example File**: Auto-generated `.env.example` with all transitive requirements
-- ✅ **Dependency Tracking**: Documents both ERC and non-ERC dependencies
-
-### Quick Start (Zero-Config Mode)
-
-```bash
-# 1. Install the package
-npm install logs-gateway
-
-# 2. Set environment variables (replace MY_APP with your prefix)
-export MY_APP_LOG_TO_CONSOLE=true
-export MY_APP_LOG_LEVEL=info
-export MY_APP_LOG_FORMAT=json
-
-# 3. Use with zero config!
-import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' }
-); // Auto-discovers from process.env
-```
-
-### Advanced Mode (Programmatic Configuration)
-
-```typescript
-import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
-
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
-  {
-    logToFile: true,
-    logFilePath: '/var/log/myapp.log',
-    logLevel: 'info'
-  }
-);
-```
-
-### Environment Variables
-
-**Note**: This component uses **dynamic environment variable prefixes** based on `packageConfig.envPrefix`. Replace `{PREFIX}` with your actual prefix (e.g., `MY_APP`, `API_SERVICE`).
-
-See `.env.example` for the complete list of required and optional variables with descriptions. Generate it by running:
-
-```bash
-npm run generate-erc
-```
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- ✅ **nx-config2** (ERC 2.0) - Configuration engine
-- ℹ️ **@x-developer/unified-logger** (non-ERC) - Requirements manually documented
-- ℹ️ **nx-troubleshooting** (non-ERC, optional) - Requirements manually documented
-
----
-
-## Features
-
-* ✅ Console output (default)
-* ✅ File output (optional)
-* ✅ Unified-logger output (Papertrail/UDP/Console via `@x-developer/unified-logger`)
-* ✅ Dual/triple output (console + file + unified-logger)
-* ✅ Environment variable configuration
-* ✅ Custom logger injection (Winston, Pino, etc.)
-* ✅ Package-specific prefixes
-* ✅ **Five log levels**: `verbose`, `debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`
-* ✅ **Multiple formats**: `text`, `json`, `yaml` (console & file; unified stays JSON)
-* ✅ **PII/Credentials sanitization** (auto-detect & mask, opt-in)
-* ✅ **Dual trails**: operation (Depth) & thread (Causal), plus `runId`, `jobId`, `correlationId`, `sessionId`
-* ✅ **OpenTelemetry context** (`traceId`, `spanId`) when available
-* ✅ Routing metadata (control outputs per entry)
-* ✅ Recursion safety (prevent circular/unified feedback)
-* ✅ TypeScript support
-* ✅ **Shadow Logging (per-run capture)** with TTL & forced-verbose, great for tests
-* ✅ **Scoping** – Derive focused subsets of logs with text filters and correlation keys
-* ✅ **Story Output** – Human-readable narrative format built automatically from log entries
-* ✅ **Troubleshooting Integration** – Wire in `nx-troubleshooting` for intelligent error-to-solution matching
-
----
-
-## Installation
-
-```bash
-npm install logs-gateway
-```
-
-For troubleshooting integration:
-
-```bash
-npm install logs-gateway nx-troubleshooting
-```
-
----
-
-## Quick Start
-
-```ts
-import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
-
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
-  {
-    logToFile: true,
-    logFilePath: '/var/log/myapp.log',
-    logLevel: 'info',            // verbose|debug|info|warn|error
-    logFormat: 'json',           // text|json|yaml (yaml: console/file only)
-    enableUnifiedLogger: true,
-    unifiedLogger: {
-      transports: { papertrail: true },
-      service: 'my-app',
-      env: 'production'
-    },
-    // Optional: per-run Shadow Logging defaults (can also be enabled at runtime)
-    shadow: { enabled: false, ttlMs: 86_400_000 }, // 1 day
-    // Optional: Scoping & Troubleshooting
-    scoping: {
-      enabled: true,
-      errorScoping: { enabled: true, windowMsBefore: 60_000, windowMsAfter: 30_000 },
-      buffer: { maxEntries: 5000, preferShadow: true }
-    },
-    troubleshooting: {
-      enabled: true,
-      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
-      output: { formats: ['markdown'], emitAsLogEntry: true }
-    }
-  }
-);
-
-// Standard usage
-logger.verbose('Very detailed info', { step: 'init' });
-logger.debug('Debug info', { data: 'x' });
-logger.info('Application initialized', { version: '1.0.0' });
-logger.warn('Deprecated feature used');
-logger.error('Error occurred', { error: new Error('boom') });
-```
-
----
-
-## Automatic Application Identification
-
-**logs-gateway** automatically detects and includes your application's package name and version in every log entry. This is done by reading the consuming project's `package.json` file (the project using logs-gateway, not logs-gateway itself).
-
-### How It Works
-
-When you create a logger instance, logs-gateway automatically:
-1. Searches up the directory tree from `process.cwd()` to find the nearest `package.json`
-2. Extracts the `name` and `version` fields from that file
-3. Includes them in all log entries as `appName` and `appVersion`
-
-This happens **automatically** - no configuration needed! The detection is cached after the first call for performance.
-
-### Example
-
-If your project's `package.json` contains:
-```json
-{
-  "name": "my-awesome-app",
-  "version": "2.1.0"
-}
-```
-
-Then all log entries will automatically include:
-```json
-{
-  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z",
-  "package": "MY_APP",
-  "level": "INFO",
-  "message": "Application initialized",
-  "appName": "my-awesome-app",
-  "appVersion": "2.1.0",
-  "data": { ... }
-}
-```
-
-### Benefits
-
-- **Traceability**: Know exactly which application version generated each log entry
-- **Debugging**: Filter logs by application version in centralized logging systems
-- **Deployment Tracking**: Identify which deployments are running in production
-- **Zero Configuration**: Works automatically without any API changes
-
-### Important Notes
-
-- The detection searches from `process.cwd()` (the working directory where your app runs)
-- It stops at the first `package.json` that is not in `node_modules`
-- If no `package.json` is found, `appName` and `appVersion` are simply omitted (no error)
-- The result is cached after first detection for performance
-
----
-
-## Overview: Scoping, Story Output & Troubleshooting
-
-This extension adds four major capabilities:
-
-1. **Runtime Filtering (logger-debug.json)** – Filter logs at the source before they're written. Place `logger-debug.json` at your project root to filter logs by identity or application name. This reduces noise at runtime and complements post-processing scoping.
-
-2. **Scoping** – Given a verbose log stream, derive a **focused subset** of logs relevant to a problem or question. Scopes can be:
-   * Error-centric (anchor on a specific `error` entry)
-   * Run/Correlation-centric (anchor on `runId`, `correlationId`, etc.)
-   * Text-based (filter by message/data content)
-   * Narrative-based (optional, driven by "scoping narratives")
-
-   Scoping **always uses verbose logs** if available, regardless of the current log level.
-
-3. **Story vs Full Data Output** – A scope can be returned as:
-   * **Full data**: structured `ScopedLogView` with all entries
-   * **Story**: human-readable narrative built automatically from entries using a generic `scopeRecord` helper
-   * Or **both**
-
-4. **Troubleshooting Integration** – Wire in `nx-troubleshooting` so that errors/scopes:
-   * Are matched to **troubleshooting narratives**, and
-   * Produce troubleshooting artifacts (Markdown/JSON/text) as **another log output channel** (`troubleshooting`)
-
-The same `scopeRecord` helper is also exported as a **generic tool** for scoping arbitrary JSON records (not just logs).
-
----
-
-## Configuration
-
-### Via Constructor
-
-```ts
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'MY_PACKAGE', envPrefix: 'MY_PACKAGE', debugNamespace: 'my-pkg' },
-  {
-    // Outputs
-    logToConsole: true,              // default: true
-    logToFile: false,                // default: false
-    logFilePath: '/var/log/app.log', // required if logToFile
-    enableUnifiedLogger: false,      // default: false
-    unifiedLogger: { /* ... */ },
-
-    // Behavior
-    logLevel: 'info',                // verbose|debug|info|warn|error (default: info)
-    logFormat: 'text',               // text|json|yaml (default: text)
-    defaultSource: 'application',    // fallback source tag
-
-    // Sanitization (opt-in)
-    sanitization: {
-      enabled: false,                // default: false
-      maskWith: '[REDACTED]',
-      keysDenylist: ['authorization','password','secret','api_key'],
-      fieldsHashInsteadOfMask: ['userId'],
-      detectJWTs: true
-      // + other detectors & guardrails
-    },
-
-    // Trails & tracing (optional; safe no-ops if not used)
-    trails: {
-      enableDepthTrail: true,        // operation trail
-      enableThreadTrail: true,       // causal/thread trail
-      injectHeaders: true,           // for HTTP/queues adapters
-      extractHeaders: true
-    },
-    tracing: { enableOtelContext: true },
-
-    // Shadow Logging (per-run capture; can also be toggled at runtime)
-    shadow: {
-      enabled: false,                // default: false
-      format: 'json',                // json|yaml (default: json)
-      directory: './logs/shadow',    // default path
-      ttlMs: 86_400_000,             // 1 day
-      forceVerbose: true,            // capture all levels for the runId
-      respectRoutingBlocks: true,    // honor _routing.blockOutputs: ['shadow'|'file']
-      includeRaw: false,             // also write unsanitized (dangerous; tests only)
-      rollingBuffer: { maxEntries: 0, maxAgeMs: 0 } // optional retro-capture
-    },
-
-    // Scoping (opt-in)
-    scoping: {
-      enabled: false,                // default: false
-      errorScoping: {
-        enabled: true,               // default: true if scoping.enabled
-        levels: ['error'],           // default: ['error']
-        windowMsBefore: 30_000,     // default: 30_000
-        windowMsAfter: 30_000        // default: 30_000
-      },
-      runScoping: {
-        enabled: true,               // default: true if scoping.enabled
-        defaultWindowMsBeforeFirstError: 60_000,
-        defaultWindowMsAfterLastEntry: 30_000
-      },
-      narrativeScoping: {
-        enabled: false,              // default: false
-        narrativesPath: './metadata/log-scopes.json',
-        envPrefix: 'NX_SCOPE'
-      },
-      buffer: {
-        maxEntries: 0,               // default: 0 => disabled if Shadow is enough
-        maxAgeMs: 0,
-        includeLevels: ['verbose','debug','info','warn','error'],
-        preferShadow: true           // default: true
-      }
-    },
-
-    // Troubleshooting (opt-in, requires nx-troubleshooting)
-    troubleshooting: {
-      enabled: false,                // default: false
-      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
-      envPrefix: 'NX_TROUBLE',
-      loggingConfig: { /* optional */ },
-      engine: undefined,             // optional DI
-      output: {
-        formats: ['markdown'],       // default: ['markdown']
-        writeToFileDir: undefined,
-        attachToShadow: false,
-        emitAsLogEntry: false,
-        callback: undefined
-      }
-    }
-  }
-);
-```
-
-### Via Environment Variables
-
-**Note**: Environment variable names use a **dynamic prefix** based on `packageConfig.envPrefix`. Replace `{PREFIX}` in the examples below with your actual prefix (e.g., `MY_APP`, `API_SERVICE`).
-
-```bash
-# Console & file
-{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_CONSOLE=true|false
-{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_FILE=true|false
-{PREFIX}_LOG_FILE=/path/to/log
-
-# Unified-logger
-{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_UNIFIED=true|false
-
-# Level & format
-{PREFIX}_LOG_LEVEL=verbose|debug|info|warn|error
-{PREFIX}_LOG_FORMAT=text|json|yaml|table
-
-# Console output options
-{PREFIX}_SHOW_FULL_TIMESTAMP=true|false  # Show full ISO timestamp (default: false)
-{PREFIX}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_SHOW=package1,package2  # Only show these packages in console (default: show all)
-{PREFIX}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_HIDE=package1,package2  # Hide these packages in console (default: show all)
-
-# Debug namespace → enables verbose+debug for that namespace
-DEBUG=my-pkg,other-*
-
-# Sanitization (subset shown)
-{PREFIX}_SANITIZE_ENABLED=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SANITIZE_KEYS_DENYLIST=authorization,token,secret,api_key,password
-
-# Trails/tracing
-{PREFIX}_TRACE_OTEL=true|false
-{PREFIX}_TRAILS_DEPTH=true|false
-{PREFIX}_TRAILS_THREAD=true|false
-{PREFIX}_TRAILS_INJECT=true|false
-{PREFIX}_TRAILS_EXTRACT=true|false
-
-# Shadow Logging
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_ENABLED=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_FORMAT=json|yaml
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_DIR=/var/log/myapp/shadow
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_TTL_MS=86400000
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_FORCE_VERBOSE=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_RESPECT_ROUTING=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_INCLUDE_RAW=false
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_BUFFER_ENTRIES=0
-{PREFIX}_SHADOW_BUFFER_AGE_MS=0
-
-# Scoping
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ENABLED=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_ENABLED=true|false
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_WINDOW_MS_BEFORE=30000
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_WINDOW_MS_AFTER=30000
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_ENTRIES=5000
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_AGE_MS=300000
-{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_PREFER_SHADOW=true|false
-
-# Troubleshooting
-{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_ENABLED=true|false
-{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_NARRATIVES_PATH=./metadata/troubleshooting.json
-{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_OUTPUT_FORMATS=markdown,json
-{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_OUTPUT_EMIT_AS_LOG_ENTRY=true|false
-
-# Unified-logger dependencies (non-ERC, manually documented)
-# Required when unified-logger papertrail transport is enabled:
-PAPERTRAIL_HOST=logs.papertrailapp.com
-PAPERTRAIL_PORT=12345
-
-# Required when unified-logger udpRelay transport is enabled:
-UDP_RELAY_HOST=127.0.0.1
-UDP_RELAY_PORT=514
-```
-
-> **Default min level:** `info`.
-> **`DEBUG=`**: enables **both** `verbose` and `debug` for matching namespaces.
-> 
-> **ERC 2.0 Note**: Generate a complete `.env.example` file with all variables by running `npm run generate-erc`.
-
----
-
-## Core Types
-
-### LogEntry
-
-Internal normalized log shape:
-
-```ts
-export interface LogEntry {
-  timestamp: string;  // ISO-8601
-  level: 'verbose' | 'debug' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error';
-  package: string;
-  message: string;
-  source?: string;             // e.g. 'application', 'auth-service'
-  data?: Record<string, any>;  // user metadata, error, ids, etc.
-  
-  // Automatic application identification (from consuming project's package.json)
-  appName?: string;            // Auto-detected from package.json "name" field
-  appVersion?: string;         // Auto-detected from package.json "version" field
-  
-  // Correlation / trails / tracing
-  runId?: string;
-  jobId?: string;
-  correlationId?: string;
-  sessionId?: string;
-  operationId?: string;
-  parentOperationId?: string;
-  operationName?: string;
-  threadId?: string;
-  traceId?: string;
-  spanId?: string;
-  
-  // Routing
-  _routing?: RoutingMeta;
-  
-  // Optional scope metadata (for future/advanced use)
-  scope?: ScopedMetadata;
-}
-```
-
-### Runtime Filtering (logger-debug.json)
-
-Place a `logger-debug.json` file at your project root to filter logs at runtime:
-
-```json
-{
-  "scoping": {
-    "status": "enabled",
-    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login", "src/payment.ts:processPayment"],
-    "filteredApplications": ["my-app", "other-app"],
-    "logFrames": [
-      {
-        "action": "include",
-        "exactMatch": false,
-        "searchLog": false,
-        "startIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequest"],
-        "endIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequestEnd"]
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-**Behavior:**
-- When `status: "enabled"`, logs are filtered before being written to any output (console, file, unified-logger, shadow)
-- A log is included if its `identity` matches any entry in `filterIdentities` **OR** its `appName` matches any entry in `filteredApplications` **OR** it falls within an active "logFrames" frame (OR logic)
-- If all filters are empty or missing, all logs are included (no filtering)
-- File is auto-discovered from `process.cwd()` (searches up directory tree like package.json)
-- Configuration is loaded once at startup (not reloaded dynamically)
-- If file is not found or invalid, all logs are shown (graceful fallback)
-
-**Examples:**
-
-```json
-// Filter by identity only - only show logs from specific code locations
-{
-  "scoping": {
-    "status": "enabled",
-    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login", "src/payment.ts:processPayment"]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-```json
-// Filter by application only - only show logs from specific apps
-{
-  "scoping": {
-    "status": "enabled",
-    "filteredApplications": ["my-app"]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-```json
-// Filter by both (OR logic - matches if identity OR appName matches)
-{
-  "scoping": {
-    "status": "enabled",
-    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login"],
-    "filteredApplications": ["my-app"]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-```json
-// Logs Frames - stateful range-based filtering and log level control
-{
-  "scoping": {
-    "status": "enabled",
-    "logFrames": [
-      {
-        "action": "include",
-        "exactMatch": false,
-        "searchLog": false,
-        "startIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequest"],
-        "endIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequestEnd"]
-      },
-      {
-        "action": "exclude",
-        "exactMatch": true,
-        "searchLog": false,
-        "startIdentities": ["src/db.ts:query"],
-        "endIdentities": ["src/db.ts:queryEnd"]
-      },
-      {
-        "action": "setLevel",
-        "level": "debug",
-        "startIdentities": ["src/debug.ts:start"],
-        "endIdentities": ["src/debug.ts:end"]
-      },
-      {
-        "action": "include",
-        "exactMatch": false,
-        "searchLog": true,
-        "startIdentities": [],
-        "endIdentities": ["src/init.ts:complete"]
-      },
-      {
-        "action": "include",
-        "exactMatch": true,
-        "searchLog": true,
-        "startIdentities": ["Payment started"],
-        "endIdentities": ["Payment completed"]
-      }
-    ]
-  }
-}
-```
-
-**Logs Frames:**
-- **Stateful filtering and log level control**: Tracks active frames across log calls
-- **`action`**: 
-  - `"include"` to show logs within frame
-  - `"exclude"` to hide logs within frame
-  - `"setLevel"` to change the effective log level within the frame (requires `level` property)
-- **`level`**: Log level to use when `action` is `"setLevel"`. Must be one of: `"verbose"`, `"debug"`, `"info"`, `"warn"`, `"error"`
-- **`exactMatch`**: 
-  - `true`: Exact string match (case sensitive)
-  - `false`: Partial substring match (case insensitive, default)
-- **`searchLog`**: 
-  - `true`: Search entire log (message + identity + all meta fields stringified)
-  - `false`: Search only identity field (default)
-- **`startIdentities`**: Array of patterns that activate the frame. Empty array means frame starts from the beginning
-- **`endIdentities`**: Array of patterns that deactivate the frame. Empty array means frame never ends
-- **Multiple frames**: Can overlap and are tracked independently. Uses OR logic (if ANY include rule is active, include; if ANY exclude rule is active, exclude)
-- **Log level behavior**: 
-  - When multiple `setLevel` frames are active, the most permissive (lowest priority) level is used
-  - When a frame with `setLevel` action becomes active, the effective log level changes to the frame's level
-  - When the frame ends, the log level returns to the configured level
-- **Frame behavior**: 
-  - When a log matches a start identity, the frame becomes active
-  - When a log matches an end identity, the frame becomes inactive
-  - If a log matches both start and end identities, the frame state toggles
-  - Frames with empty `startIdentities` are active from the first log
-  - Frames with empty `endIdentities` never close once activated
-
-**Integration with Existing Scoping:**
-- `logger-debug.json` → Runtime filtering (reduces noise at source, filters before writing)
-- `scopeLogs()` → Post-processing scoping (analyzes already-written logs)
-- Both can be used together for maximum control
-
-### ScopeCriteria
-
-Scoping criteria defines *which logs* belong to a scope. It supports:
-
-* Correlation keys
-* Time windows
-* Levels
-* Sources
-* **Text matching on message and data**
-
-```ts
-export interface ScopeCriteria {
-  // Correlation / keys
-  runId?: string;
-  correlationId?: string;
-  sessionId?: string;
-  threadId?: string;
-  traceId?: string;
-  
-  // Time window bounds
-  fromTimestamp?: string;      // ISO-8601
-  toTimestamp?: string;        // ISO-8601
-  
-  // Window relative to an anchor (error or first/last entry)
-  windowMsBefore?: number;     // relative to anchor timestamp
-  windowMsAfter?: number;
-  
-  // Levels
-  levelAtLeast?: 'verbose' | 'debug' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error';
-  includeLevels?: ('verbose'|'debug'|'info'|'warn'|'error')[];
-  
-  // Source filters
-  sources?: string[];          // e.g. ['api-gateway','payments-service']
-  
-  // TEXT FILTERS
-  /**
-   * Match logs whose message OR data (stringified) contains ANY of the given strings (case-insensitive).
-   * - string: single substring
-   * - string[]: log must contain at least one of them
-   */
-  textIncludesAny?: string | string[];
-  
-  /**
-   * Match logs whose message OR data (stringified) contains ALL of the given substrings (case-insensitive).
-   */
-  textIncludesAll?: string[];
-  
-  /**
-   * Optional RegExp filter over the combined text (message + JSON-stringified data).
-   * If provided as string, it is treated as a new RegExp(text, 'i').
-   */
-  textMatches?: RegExp | string;
-  
-  // Scope metadata filters (if used)
-  scopeTags?: string[];        // must include all provided tags
-  
-  // Custom predicate for in-process advanced filtering
-  predicate?: (entry: LogEntry) => boolean;
-}
-```
-
-**Text filtering behavior:**
-
-* Combine `entry.message` and a JSON string of `entry.data` into one string (e.g. `"Payment failed {...}"`).
-* Apply:
-  * `textIncludesAny` – inclusive OR.
-  * `textIncludesAll` – inclusive AND.
-  * `textMatches` – regex test.
-* All text filtering is **case-insensitive** by default.
-* Text filters are **ANDed** with other criteria (correlation, time, etc.).
-
-### ScopedLogView (full data)
-
-```ts
-export interface ScopedLogView {
-  id: string;                    // e.g. 'scope:runId:checkout-42'
-  criteria: ScopeCriteria;
-  entries: LogEntry[];           // sorted by timestamp ascending
-  summary: {
-    firstTimestamp?: string;
-    lastTimestamp?: string;
-    totalCount: number;
-    errorCount: number;
-    warnCount: number;
-    infoCount: number;
-    debugCount: number;
-    verboseCount: number;
-    uniqueSources: string[];
-  };
-}
-```
-
-### scopeRecord – Generic Tool
-
-The `scopeRecord` helper is **generic** (not log-specific): given any JSON record, it produces:
-
-* A human-readable text description ("story" of the record).
-* A structured description (fields, truncation info).
-
-This function is:
-* Used internally to build **scope stories** from `LogEntry`s / aggregated records.
-* Exported publicly so other code can reuse it for non-log use cases.
-
-```ts
-import { scopeRecord } from 'logs-gateway';
-
-// Example usage
-const record = {
-  userId: '123',
-  action: 'payment',
-  amount: 100.50,
-  timestamp: '2025-01-01T10:00:00Z'
-};
-
-const result = scopeRecord(record, {
-  label: 'Payment Event',
-  maxFieldStringLength: 200,
-  excludeKeys: ['password', 'token']
-});
-
-console.log(result.text);
-// Output: "Payment Event\n  User ID: 123\n  Action: payment\n  Amount: 100.5\n  Timestamp: 2025-01-01T10:00:00Z"
-
-console.log(result.structured);
-// Output: { label: 'Payment Event', fields: [...], ... }
-```
-
-**Types:**
-
-```ts
-export interface AutoScopeRecordOptions {
-  label?: string;
-  formatting?: ScopingFormattingOptions;
-  maxFields?: number;
-  maxFieldStringLength?: number;
-  includeKeys?: string[];
-  excludeKeys?: string[];
-  skipNullish?: boolean;
-  header?: string;
-  footer?: string;
-}
-
-export interface ScopeRecordResult {
-  text: string;                    // Human-readable text output
-  structured: StructuredScopedPayload;  // Structured representation
-}
-```
-
-### Scope Story Output
-
-To let a scope answer with full data or story format:
-
-```ts
-export type ScopeOutputMode = 'raw' | 'story' | 'both';
-
-export interface ScopeStoryOptions {
-  recordOptions?: AutoScopeRecordOptions;
-  maxEntries?: number;
-  includeEntryHeader?: boolean;
-}
-
-export interface ScopeLogsResult {
-  view: ScopedLogView;         // always present
-  story?: ScopedLogStory;      // present if mode = 'story' or 'both'
-}
-```
-
----
-
-## API Reference
-
-### `createLogger(packageConfig, userConfig?) → LogsGateway`
-
-### `LogsGateway` Methods
-
-#### Standard Logging
-
-* `verbose(message, data?)`
-* `debug(message, data?)`
-* `info(message, data?)`
-* `warn(message, data?)`
-* `error(message, data?)`
-* `isLevelEnabled(level)` – threshold check (namespace DEBUG forces verbose+debug)
-* `getConfig()` – effective resolved config
-
-#### Scoping
-
-* `scopeLogs(criteria, options?)` – Scope logs by criteria, return full data and/or story
-
-```ts
-const result = await logger.scopeLogs({
-  runId: 'checkout-42',
-  textIncludesAny: 'timeout',
-  levelAtLeast: 'debug'
-}, {
-  mode: 'both',
-  storyOptions: {
-    maxEntries: 50,
-    includeEntryHeader: true,
-    recordOptions: {
-      label: 'Log Entry',
-      maxFieldStringLength: 200
-    }
-  }
-});
-
-console.log(result.view.summary);
-console.log(result.story?.text);
-```
-
-#### Troubleshooting
-
-* `troubleshootError(error, context?, options?)` – Error-centric troubleshooting
-
-```ts
-const { scope, reports } = await logger.troubleshootError(
-  new Error('Missing connections configuration'),
-  {
-    config: { /* app config */ },
-    query: { requestId: req.id },
-    operation: 'checkout'
-  },
-  {
-    formats: ['markdown'],
-    generateScopeStory: true,
-    storyOptions: { /* ... */ }
-  }
-);
-```
-
-* `troubleshootScope(scope, options?)` – Scope-centric troubleshooting
-
-```ts
-const { scope: scopeResult, reports } = await logger.troubleshootScope(
-  scopeView,  // or ScopeCriteria or scope id string
-  {
-    formats: ['markdown', 'json'],
-    generateScopeStory: true
-  }
-);
-```
-
-* `scopeByNarratives(options?)` – Narrative-based scoping (optional)
-
-### Shadow Controller
-
-* `logger.shadow.enable(runId, opts?)`
-* `logger.shadow.disable(runId)`
-* `logger.shadow.isEnabled(runId)`
-* `logger.shadow.listActive()`
-* `logger.shadow.export(runId, outPath?, compress?) → Promise<string>`
-* `logger.shadow.readIndex(runId) → Promise<ShadowIndex>`
-* `logger.shadow.cleanupExpired(now?) → Promise<number>`
-
-*(Shadow writes sidecar files; primary transports unaffected.)*
-
----
-
-## Usage Examples
-
-### 1) Error → Scoped logs (text filter) → Story + Troubleshooting
-
-```ts
-import { createLogger, scopeRecord } from 'logs-gateway';
-
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'PAYMENTS', envPrefix: 'PAY' },
-  {
-    logToConsole: true,
-    logFormat: 'json',
-    shadow: {
-      enabled: true,
-      format: 'json',
-      directory: './logs/shadow',
-      ttlMs: 86400000,
-      forceVerbose: true
-    },
-    scoping: {
-      enabled: true,
-      errorScoping: {
-        enabled: true,
-        windowMsBefore: 60_000,
-        windowMsAfter: 30_000
-      },
-      buffer: {
-        maxEntries: 5000,
-        maxAgeMs: 300_000,
-        includeLevels: ['verbose','debug','info','warn','error'],
-        preferShadow: true
-      }
-    },
-    troubleshooting: {
-      enabled: true,
-      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
-      output: {
-        formats: ['markdown'],
-        emitAsLogEntry: true,
-        writeToFileDir: './logs/troubleshooting'
-      }
-    }
-  }
-);
-
-async function handleCheckout(req: any) {
-  const runId = `checkout-${Date.now()}`;
-  logger.info('Checkout started', { runId });
-  logger.verbose('Preparing payment context', { runId });
-  
-  try {
-    // ...
-    throw new Error('Missing connections configuration');
-  } catch (error) {
-    // Direct troubleshooting call
-    const { scope, reports } = await logger.troubleshootError(error, {
-      config: { /* app config */ },
-      query: { requestId: req.id },
-      operation: 'checkout'
-    }, {
-      formats: ['markdown'],
-      generateScopeStory: true,
-      storyOptions: {
-        maxEntries: 50,
-        includeEntryHeader: true,
-        recordOptions: {
-          label: 'Log Entry',
-          maxFieldStringLength: 200,
-          excludeKeys: ['password', 'token']
-        }
-      }
-    });
-    
-    // Scope includes full data + story
-    console.log(scope?.view.summary);
-    console.log(scope?.story?.text);
-    
-    // Reports contain troubleshooting text
-    return {
-      ok: false,
-      troubleshooting: reports.map(r => r.rendered)
-    };
-  }
-}
-```
-
-### 2) Manual scoping by text ("include any log that mentions X")
-
-```ts
-// Scope all logs in the last 5 minutes that mention "timeout" anywhere:
-const timeoutScope = await logger.scopeLogs({
-  levelAtLeast: 'debug',
-  fromTimestamp: new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60 * 1000).toISOString(),
-  textIncludesAny: 'timeout'  // message or data, case-insensitive
-}, {
-  mode: 'both',
-  storyOptions: {
-    includeEntryHeader: true,
-    recordOptions: { label: 'Timeout Log' }
-  }
-});
-
-console.log(timeoutScope.view.summary);
-console.log(timeoutScope.story?.text);
-```
-
-### 3) Web Application
-
-```ts
-// src/logger.ts
-import { createLogger, LoggingConfig, LogsGateway } from 'logs-gateway';
-
-export function createAppLogger(config?: LoggingConfig): LogsGateway {
-  return createLogger(
-    { packageName: 'WEB_APP', envPrefix: 'WEB_APP', debugNamespace: 'web-app' },
-    config
-  );
-}
-
-// src/index.ts
-const logger = createAppLogger({ logFormat: 'json' });
-logger.info('Web application initialized', { version: '1.0.0' });
-
-async function handleRequest(request: any) {
-  logger.debug('Handling request', { requestId: request.id });
-  // ...
-  logger.info('Request processed', { responseTime: 42, runId: request.runId });
-}
-```
-
-### 4) Shadow Logging (per-run capture)
-
-Capture everything for a **specific `runId`** to a side file (forced-verbose), then fetch it — perfect for tests.
-
-```ts
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'API', envPrefix: 'API' },
-  { shadow: { enabled: true, format: 'yaml', ttlMs: 86_400_000 } }
-);
-
-const runId = `test-${Date.now()}`;
-
-// Turn on capture for this run (can be mid-execution)
-logger.shadow.enable(runId);
-
-logger.info('test start', { runId });
-logger.verbose('deep details', { runId, step: 1 });
-logger.debug('more details', { runId, step: 2 });
-
-// ... run test ...
-
-// Export & stop capturing
-await logger.shadow.export(runId, './artifacts');  // returns exported path
-logger.shadow.disable(runId);
-```
-
-> Shadow files are stored per-run (JSONL or YAML multi-doc), rotated by size/age, and removed by TTL (default **1 day**).
-> If `forceVerbose=true`, all levels for that `runId` are captured even when global level is higher.
-
----
-
-## Correlation & Trails
-
-Attach correlation fields freely on each call:
-
-* **Job/Correlation:** `runId`, `jobId`, `correlationId`, `sessionId`
-* **Depth / Operation trail:** `operationId`, `parentOperationId`, `operationName`, `operationPath`, `operationStep`
-* **Thread / Causal trail:** `threadId`, `eventId`, `causationId`, `sequenceNo`, `partitionKey`, `attempt`, `shardId`, `workerId`
-* **Tracing:** `traceId`, `spanId` (if OpenTelemetry context is active)
-
-Every log entry automatically merges the current trail context. The library provides optional adapters for HTTP and queue systems to **inject/extract** headers across process boundaries.
-
----
-
-## Routing Metadata & Recursion Safety
-
-```ts
-interface RoutingMeta {
-  allowedOutputs?: string[];  // e.g. ['unified-logger','console']
-  blockOutputs?: string[];    // e.g. ['unified-logger','file','shadow','troubleshooting']
-  reason?: string;
-  tags?: string[];
-}
-```
-
-* Gateway internal logs (`source: 'logs-gateway-internal'`) never reach unified-logger.
-* `_routing` lets you allow/block specific outputs per entry.
-* Shadow Logging honors `_routing.blockOutputs` by default (configurable).
-* Troubleshooting output can be blocked via `_routing.blockOutputs: ['troubleshooting']`.
-
----
-
-## Log Formats
-
-**Text**
-
-```
-[2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z] [MY_APP] [INFO] Application initialized {"version":"1.0.0"}
-```
-
-**JSON**
-
-```json
-{
-  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z",
-  "package": "MY_APP",
-  "level": "INFO",
-  "message": "Application initialized",
-  "source": "application",
-  "data": {"version": "1.0.0"}
-}
-```
-
-**YAML** (console/file; unified stays JSON)
-
-```yaml
----
-timestamp: 2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z
-package: MY_APP
-level: INFO
-message: Application initialized
-source: application
-appName: my-awesome-app
-appVersion: "2.1.0"
-data:
-  version: "1.0.0"
-```
-
-> **Note:** YAML is human-friendly but slower; prefer JSON for ingestion.
-
----
-
-## PII/Credentials Sanitization (opt-in)
-
-Enable to auto-detect and mask common sensitive data (JWTs, API keys, passwords, emails, credit cards, cloud keys, etc.).
-Supports key-based rules (denylist/allowlist), hashing specific fields, depth/size/time guardrails, and a truncation flag.
-
-```ts
-const logger = createLogger(
-  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
-  {
-    sanitization: {
-      enabled: true,
-      maskWith: '[REDACTED]',
-      keysDenylist: ['authorization','password','secret','api_key'],
-      fieldsHashInsteadOfMask: ['userId'],
-      detectJWTs: true
-    }
-  }
-);
-```
-
----
-
-## Shadow Logging (Per-Run Debug Capture)
-
-Shadow Logging allows you to capture **all logs for a specific `runId`** to a separate file in JSON or YAML format, with **raw (unsanitized) data**, regardless of the global log level. This is ideal for debugging tests, CI runs, or specific production workflows.
-
-### Key Features
-
-- **Per-runId capture**: Enable capture for specific run identifiers
-- **Verbose by default**: Captures all log levels for the target runId
-- **Raw data**: Bypasses sanitization to preserve original values (⚠️ use with caution)
-- **Optional rolling buffer**: Capture logs from before shadow was enabled ("after-the-fact")
-- **TTL cleanup**: Automatically manage storage with time-to-live expiration
-- **No interference**: Shadow writes are async and won't affect primary logging
-
-### Configuration
-
-#### Constructor Options
-
-```typescript
-interface ShadowConfig {
-  enabled?: boolean;                 // default: false
-  format?: 'json' | 'yaml';          // default: 'json'
-  directory?: string;                // default: './logs/shadow'
-  ttlMs?: number;                    // default: 86400000 (1 day)
-  respectRoutingBlocks?: boolean;    // default: true
-  rollingBuffer?: {
-    maxEntries?: number;             // default: 0 (disabled)
-    maxAgeMs?: number;               // default: 0 (disabled)
-  };
-}
-```
-
-### Runtime API
-
-#### `logger.shadow.enable(runId, opts?)`
-
-Enable shadow capture for a specific runId. Optionally override config for this run.
-
-```typescript
-logger.shadow.enable('test-run-123');
-
-// Or with custom options
-logger.shadow.enable('test-run-yaml', {
-  format: 'yaml',
-  ttlMs: 3600000  // 1 hour
-});
-```
-
-#### `logger.shadow.disable(runId)`
-
-Stop capturing logs for a runId and finalize the shadow file.
-
-#### `logger.shadow.isEnabled(runId)`
-
-Check if shadow capture is active for a runId.
-
-#### `logger.shadow.listActive()`
-
-List all currently active shadow captures.
-
-#### `logger.shadow.export(runId, outPath?)`
-
-Copy the shadow file to a destination path.
-
-#### `logger.shadow.cleanupExpired(now?)`
-
-Delete expired shadow files based on TTL. Returns number of deleted runs.
-
-### Important Considerations
-
-⚠️ **Security**: Shadow captures **raw, unsanitized data**. This means passwords, API keys, and PII will be preserved in shadow files. Only use shadow logging in secure environments (development, CI, isolated test systems).
-
-💾 **Storage**: Shadow files can grow quickly when capturing verbose logs. Configure appropriate `ttlMs` values and regularly run `cleanupExpired()`.
-
-🚫 **Default OFF**: Shadow logging is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled via config or environment variables.
-
----
-
-## Troubleshooting Integration
-
-The troubleshooting integration uses `nx-troubleshooting` to match errors to solutions. See the [nx-troubleshooting documentation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx-troubleshooting) for details on creating troubleshooting narratives.
-
-### Key Features
-
-- **Intelligent Error Matching** – Matches errors to solutions using multiple strategies
-- **Flexible Probe System** – Built-in probes plus extensible custom probes
-- **Template Variables** – Dynamic solution messages with `{{variable}}` syntax
-- **Multiple Output Formats** – Markdown, JSON, and plain text formatting
-- **Automatic Scoping** – Errors automatically trigger scoped log collection
-
-### Example Troubleshooting Narrative
-
-```json
-{
-  "id": "missing-connections-config",
-  "title": "Missing Connections Configuration",
-  "description": "The application config is missing the required 'connections' object...",
-  "symptoms": [
-    {
-      "probe": "config-check",
-      "params": { "field": "connections" },
-      "condition": "result.exists == false"
-    }
-  ],
-  "solution": [
-    {
-      "type": "code",
-      "message": "Add a 'connections' object to your config:",
-      "code": "{\n  \"connections\": { ... }\n}"
-    }
-  ]
-}
-```
-
----
-
-## Backwards Compatibility
-
-* All new behavior is **opt-in**:
-  * `scoping.enabled` and `troubleshooting.enabled` default to `false`.
-* If `nx-troubleshooting` is not installed:
-  * `troubleshooting.enabled` must remain `false` or initialization fails clearly.
-* If neither shadow nor buffer is configured:
-  * `scopeLogs` can still filter **currently available** logs if in-memory buffer is enabled; otherwise, scopes may be empty.
-* `scopeRecord` is pure and can be used independently anywhere.
-
----
-
-## Environment Variables (summary)
-
-| Key                    | Description                            | Default   |
-| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- | --------- |
-| `{P}_LOG_TO_CONSOLE`   | Enable console output                  | `true`    |
-| `{P}_LOG_TO_FILE`      | Enable file output                     | `false`   |
-| `{P}_LOG_FILE`         | Log file path                          | —         |
-| `{P}_LOG_TO_UNIFIED`   | Enable unified-logger                  | `false`   |
-| `{P}_LOG_LEVEL`        | `verbose\|debug\|info\|warn\|error` | `info` |
-| `{P}_LOG_FORMAT`       | `text\|json\|yaml\|table` | `table` |
-| `{P}_SHOW_FULL_TIMESTAMP` | Show full ISO timestamp in console | `false` |
-| `{P}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_SHOW` | Comma-separated packages to show (console only) | (show all) |
-| `{P}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_HIDE` | Comma-separated packages to hide (console only) | (show all) |
-| `DEBUG`                | Namespace(s) enabling verbose+debug    | —         |
-| `{P}_SANITIZE_ENABLED` | Turn on sanitization                   | `false`   |
-| `{P}_TRACE_OTEL`       | Attach `traceId`/`spanId` if available | `true`    |
-| `{P}_TRAILS_*`         | Toggle trails/header adapters          | see above |
-| `{P}_SHADOW_*`         | Shadow Logging controls                | see above |
-| `{P}_SCOPING_*`        | Scoping controls                       | see above |
-| `{P}_TROUBLESHOOTING_*` | Troubleshooting controls              | see above |
-
----
-
-## Development
-
-```bash
-npm install
-npm run build
-npm run dev
-npm run clean
-```
-
-## License
-
-MIT
-
----
-
-**Tip for tests:** set a `runId` at the beginning of each test (e.g., `runId: 'ci-<suite>-<timestamp>'`), enable **Shadow Logging**, run, then `export()` the captured logs for artifacts/triage.
+# logs-gateway
+
+A standardized logging gateway for Node.js applications. Flexible multi-transport logging with **console**, **file**, and **unified-logger** outputs; **ENV-first** configuration; **PII/credentials sanitization**; **dual correlation trails** (operation & thread); **OpenTelemetry** context; **YAML/JSON/text** formats; **per-run "Shadow Logging"** for test/debug capture; **scoping** with text filters; **story output** powered by `scopeRecord`; and **troubleshooting integration** with `nx-troubleshooting`.
+
+## 🚀 Env-Ready Component (ERC 2.0)
+
+This component supports **zero-config initialization** via environment variables and is compliant with the [Env-Ready Component Standard (ERC 2.0)](https://github.com/xeonox/erc-standard).
+
+### Package-level `.env` contract (libraries)
+
+For **per-package** log thresholds, logs-gateway follows **`{PREFIX}_LOGS_LEVEL`** (canonical). **`{PREFIX}_LOG_LEVEL`** remains supported when **`_LOGS_LEVEL`** is not set in the environment. Omitting both keys defaults to **`warn`** (warn and error only); set **`{PREFIX}_LOGS_LEVEL=off`** to silence. Cross-cutting options (console, file, format) stay host-level. Full detail: [`docs/package-usage.md`](./docs/package-usage.md) (published on npm). Helpers: `resolvePackageLogsLevel`, `parsePackageLogsLevelString`, `packageLogsLevelEnvKey`.
+
+### ERC 2.0 Compliance
+
+- ✅ **Auto-Discovery**: Zero-config initialization from environment variables
+- ✅ **Complete Documentation**: All environment variables documented (including dependencies)
+- ✅ **Type Safety**: Automatic type coercion and validation
+- ✅ **Manifest**: Auto-generated `erc-manifest.json` with all requirements
+- ✅ **Example File**: Auto-generated `.env.example` with all transitive requirements
+- ✅ **Dependency Tracking**: Documents both ERC and non-ERC dependencies
+
+### Quick Start (Zero-Config Mode)
+
+```bash
+# 1. Install the package
+npm install logs-gateway
+
+# 2. Set environment variables (replace MY_APP with your prefix)
+export MY_APP_LOG_TO_CONSOLE=true
+export MY_APP_LOGS_LEVEL=warn
+export MY_APP_LOG_FORMAT=json
+
+# 3. Use with zero config!
+import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' }
+); // Auto-discovers from process.env
+```
+
+### Advanced Mode (Programmatic Configuration)
+
+```typescript
+import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
+
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
+  {
+    logToFile: true,
+    logFilePath: '/var/log/myapp.log',
+    logLevel: 'info'
+  }
+);
+```
+
+### Environment Variables
+
+**Note**: This component uses **dynamic environment variable prefixes** based on `packageConfig.envPrefix`. Replace `{PREFIX}` with your actual prefix (e.g., `MY_APP`, `API_SERVICE`).
+
+See `.env.example` for the complete list of required and optional variables with descriptions. Generate it by running:
+
+```bash
+npm run generate-erc
+```
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- ✅ **nx-config2** (ERC 2.0) - Configuration engine
+- ℹ️ **@x-developer/unified-logger** (non-ERC) - Requirements manually documented
+- ℹ️ **nx-troubleshooting** (non-ERC, optional) - Requirements manually documented
+
+---
+
+## Features
+
+* ✅ Console output (default)
+* ✅ File output (optional)
+* ✅ Unified-logger output (Papertrail/UDP/Console via `@x-developer/unified-logger`)
+* ✅ Dual/triple output (console + file + unified-logger)
+* ✅ Environment variable configuration
+* ✅ Custom logger injection (Winston, Pino, etc.)
+* ✅ Package-specific prefixes
+* ✅ **Five log levels**: `verbose`, `debug`, `info`, `warn`, `error`
+* ✅ **Multiple formats**: `text`, `json`, `yaml` (console & file; unified stays JSON)
+* ✅ **PII/Credentials sanitization** (auto-detect & mask, opt-in)
+* ✅ **Dual trails**: operation (Depth) & thread (Causal), plus `runId`, `jobId`, `correlationId`, `sessionId`
+* ✅ **OpenTelemetry context** (`traceId`, `spanId`) when available
+* ✅ Routing metadata (control outputs per entry)
+* ✅ Recursion safety (prevent circular/unified feedback)
+* ✅ TypeScript support
+* ✅ **Shadow Logging (per-run capture)** with TTL & forced-verbose, great for tests
+* ✅ **Scoping** – Derive focused subsets of logs with text filters and correlation keys
+* ✅ **Story Output** – Human-readable narrative format built automatically from log entries
+* ✅ **Troubleshooting Integration** – Wire in `nx-troubleshooting` for intelligent error-to-solution matching
+
+---
+
+## Installation
+
+```bash
+npm install logs-gateway
+```
+
+For troubleshooting integration:
+
+```bash
+npm install logs-gateway nx-troubleshooting
+```
+
+---
+
+## Quick Start
+
+```ts
+import { createLogger } from 'logs-gateway';
+
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
+  {
+    logToFile: true,
+    logFilePath: '/var/log/myapp.log',
+    logLevel: 'info',            // verbose|debug|info|warn|error
+    logFormat: 'json',           // text|json|yaml (yaml: console/file only)
+    enableUnifiedLogger: true,
+    unifiedLogger: {
+      transports: { papertrail: true },
+      service: 'my-app',
+      env: 'production'
+    },
+    // Optional: per-run Shadow Logging defaults (can also be enabled at runtime)
+    shadow: { enabled: false, ttlMs: 86_400_000 }, // 1 day
+    // Optional: Scoping & Troubleshooting
+    scoping: {
+      enabled: true,
+      errorScoping: { enabled: true, windowMsBefore: 60_000, windowMsAfter: 30_000 },
+      buffer: { maxEntries: 5000, preferShadow: true }
+    },
+    troubleshooting: {
+      enabled: true,
+      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
+      output: { formats: ['markdown'], emitAsLogEntry: true }
+    }
+  }
+);
+
+// Standard usage
+logger.verbose('Very detailed info', { step: 'init' });
+logger.debug('Debug info', { data: 'x' });
+logger.info('Application initialized', { version: '1.0.0' });
+logger.warn('Deprecated feature used');
+logger.error('Error occurred', { error: new Error('boom') });
+```
+
+---
+
+## Automatic Application Identification
+
+**logs-gateway** automatically detects and includes your application's package name and version in every log entry. This is done by reading the consuming project's `package.json` file (the project using logs-gateway, not logs-gateway itself).
+
+### How It Works
+
+When you create a logger instance, logs-gateway automatically:
+1. Searches up the directory tree from `process.cwd()` to find the nearest `package.json`
+2. Extracts the `name` and `version` fields from that file
+3. Includes them in all log entries as `appName` and `appVersion`
+
+This happens **automatically** - no configuration needed! The detection is cached after the first call for performance.
+
+### Example
+
+If your project's `package.json` contains:
+```json
+{
+  "name": "my-awesome-app",
+  "version": "2.1.0"
+}
+```
+
+Then all log entries will automatically include:
+```json
+{
+  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z",
+  "package": "MY_APP",
+  "level": "INFO",
+  "message": "Application initialized",
+  "appName": "my-awesome-app",
+  "appVersion": "2.1.0",
+  "data": { ... }
+}
+```
+
+### Benefits
+
+- **Traceability**: Know exactly which application version generated each log entry
+- **Debugging**: Filter logs by application version in centralized logging systems
+- **Deployment Tracking**: Identify which deployments are running in production
+- **Zero Configuration**: Works automatically without any API changes
+
+### Important Notes
+
+- The detection searches from `process.cwd()` (the working directory where your app runs)
+- It stops at the first `package.json` that is not in `node_modules`
+- If no `package.json` is found, `appName` and `appVersion` are simply omitted (no error)
+- The result is cached after first detection for performance
+
+---
+
+## Overview: Scoping, Story Output & Troubleshooting
+
+This extension adds four major capabilities:
+
+1. **Runtime Filtering (logger-debug.json)** – Filter logs at the source before they're written. Place `logger-debug.json` at your project root to filter logs by identity or application name. This reduces noise at runtime and complements post-processing scoping.
+
+2. **Scoping** – Given a verbose log stream, derive a **focused subset** of logs relevant to a problem or question. Scopes can be:
+   * Error-centric (anchor on a specific `error` entry)
+   * Run/Correlation-centric (anchor on `runId`, `correlationId`, etc.)
+   * Text-based (filter by message/data content)
+   * Narrative-based (optional, driven by "scoping narratives")
+
+   Scoping **always uses verbose logs** if available, regardless of the current log level.
+
+3. **Story vs Full Data Output** – A scope can be returned as:
+   * **Full data**: structured `ScopedLogView` with all entries
+   * **Story**: human-readable narrative built automatically from entries using a generic `scopeRecord` helper
+   * Or **both**
+
+4. **Troubleshooting Integration** – Wire in `nx-troubleshooting` so that errors/scopes:
+   * Are matched to **troubleshooting narratives**, and
+   * Produce troubleshooting artifacts (Markdown/JSON/text) as **another log output channel** (`troubleshooting`)
+
+The same `scopeRecord` helper is also exported as a **generic tool** for scoping arbitrary JSON records (not just logs).
+
+---
+
+## Configuration
+
+### Via Constructor
+
+```ts
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'MY_PACKAGE', envPrefix: 'MY_PACKAGE', debugNamespace: 'my-pkg' },
+  {
+    // Outputs
+    logToConsole: true,              // default: true
+    logToFile: false,                // default: false
+    logFilePath: '/var/log/app.log', // required if logToFile
+    enableUnifiedLogger: false,      // default: false
+    unifiedLogger: { /* ... */ },
+
+    // Behavior
+    logLevel: 'info',                // verbose|debug|info|warn|error (default: info)
+    logFormat: 'text',               // text|json|yaml (default: text)
+    defaultSource: 'application',    // fallback source tag
+
+    // Sanitization (opt-in)
+    sanitization: {
+      enabled: false,                // default: false
+      maskWith: '[REDACTED]',
+      keysDenylist: ['authorization','password','secret','api_key'],
+      fieldsHashInsteadOfMask: ['userId'],
+      detectJWTs: true
+      // + other detectors & guardrails
+    },
+
+    // Trails & tracing (optional; safe no-ops if not used)
+    trails: {
+      enableDepthTrail: true,        // operation trail
+      enableThreadTrail: true,       // causal/thread trail
+      injectHeaders: true,           // for HTTP/queues adapters
+      extractHeaders: true
+    },
+    tracing: { enableOtelContext: true },
+
+    // Shadow Logging (per-run capture; can also be toggled at runtime)
+    shadow: {
+      enabled: false,                // default: false
+      format: 'json',                // json|yaml (default: json)
+      directory: './logs/shadow',    // default path
+      ttlMs: 86_400_000,             // 1 day
+      forceVerbose: true,            // capture all levels for the runId
+      respectRoutingBlocks: true,    // honor _routing.blockOutputs: ['shadow'|'file']
+      includeRaw: false,             // also write unsanitized (dangerous; tests only)
+      rollingBuffer: { maxEntries: 0, maxAgeMs: 0 } // optional retro-capture
+    },
+
+    // Scoping (opt-in)
+    scoping: {
+      enabled: false,                // default: false
+      errorScoping: {
+        enabled: true,               // default: true if scoping.enabled
+        levels: ['error'],           // default: ['error']
+        windowMsBefore: 30_000,     // default: 30_000
+        windowMsAfter: 30_000        // default: 30_000
+      },
+      runScoping: {
+        enabled: true,               // default: true if scoping.enabled
+        defaultWindowMsBeforeFirstError: 60_000,
+        defaultWindowMsAfterLastEntry: 30_000
+      },
+      narrativeScoping: {
+        enabled: false,              // default: false
+        narrativesPath: './metadata/log-scopes.json',
+        envPrefix: 'NX_SCOPE'
+      },
+      buffer: {
+        maxEntries: 0,               // default: 0 => disabled if Shadow is enough
+        maxAgeMs: 0,
+        includeLevels: ['verbose','debug','info','warn','error'],
+        preferShadow: true           // default: true
+      }
+    },
+
+    // Troubleshooting (opt-in, requires nx-troubleshooting)
+    troubleshooting: {
+      enabled: false,                // default: false
+      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
+      envPrefix: 'NX_TROUBLE',
+      loggingConfig: { /* optional */ },
+      engine: undefined,             // optional DI
+      output: {
+        formats: ['markdown'],       // default: ['markdown']
+        writeToFileDir: undefined,
+        attachToShadow: false,
+        emitAsLogEntry: false,
+        callback: undefined
+      }
+    }
+  }
+);
+```
+
+### Via Environment Variables
+
+**Note**: Environment variable names use a **dynamic prefix** based on `packageConfig.envPrefix`. Replace `{PREFIX}` in the examples below with your actual prefix (e.g., `MY_APP`, `API_SERVICE`).
+
+```bash
+# Console & file
+{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_CONSOLE=true|false
+{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_FILE=true|false
+{PREFIX}_LOG_FILE=/path/to/log
+
+# Unified-logger
+{PREFIX}_LOG_TO_UNIFIED=true|false
+
+# Level & format (per-package threshold: canonical _LOGS_LEVEL; legacy _LOG_LEVEL if _LOGS_LEVEL unset)
+{PREFIX}_LOGS_LEVEL=off|none|silent|error|warn|info|debug|verbose
+{PREFIX}_LOG_LEVEL=verbose|debug|info|warn|error
+{PREFIX}_LOG_FORMAT=text|json|yaml|table
+
+# Console output options
+{PREFIX}_SHOW_FULL_TIMESTAMP=true|false  # Show full ISO timestamp (default: false)
+{PREFIX}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_SHOW=package1,package2  # Only show these packages in console (default: show all)
+{PREFIX}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_HIDE=package1,package2  # Hide these packages in console (default: show all)
+
+# Debug namespace → enables verbose+debug for that namespace
+DEBUG=my-pkg,other-*
+
+# Sanitization (subset shown)
+{PREFIX}_SANITIZE_ENABLED=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SANITIZE_KEYS_DENYLIST=authorization,token,secret,api_key,password
+
+# Trails/tracing
+{PREFIX}_TRACE_OTEL=true|false
+{PREFIX}_TRAILS_DEPTH=true|false
+{PREFIX}_TRAILS_THREAD=true|false
+{PREFIX}_TRAILS_INJECT=true|false
+{PREFIX}_TRAILS_EXTRACT=true|false
+
+# Shadow Logging
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_ENABLED=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_FORMAT=json|yaml
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_DIR=/var/log/myapp/shadow
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_TTL_MS=86400000
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_FORCE_VERBOSE=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_RESPECT_ROUTING=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_INCLUDE_RAW=false
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_BUFFER_ENTRIES=0
+{PREFIX}_SHADOW_BUFFER_AGE_MS=0
+
+# Scoping
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ENABLED=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_ENABLED=true|false
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_WINDOW_MS_BEFORE=30000
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_ERROR_WINDOW_MS_AFTER=30000
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_ENTRIES=5000
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_AGE_MS=300000
+{PREFIX}_SCOPING_BUFFER_PREFER_SHADOW=true|false
+
+# Troubleshooting
+{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_ENABLED=true|false
+{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_NARRATIVES_PATH=./metadata/troubleshooting.json
+{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_OUTPUT_FORMATS=markdown,json
+{PREFIX}_TROUBLESHOOTING_OUTPUT_EMIT_AS_LOG_ENTRY=true|false
+
+# Unified-logger dependencies (non-ERC, manually documented)
+# Required when unified-logger papertrail transport is enabled:
+PAPERTRAIL_HOST=logs.papertrailapp.com
+PAPERTRAIL_PORT=12345
+
+# Required when unified-logger udpRelay transport is enabled:
+UDP_RELAY_HOST=127.0.0.1
+UDP_RELAY_PORT=514
+```
+
+> **Default min level:** `info`.
+> **`DEBUG=`**: enables **both** `verbose` and `debug` for matching namespaces.
+> 
+> **ERC 2.0 Note**: Generate a complete `.env.example` file with all variables by running `npm run generate-erc`.
+
+---
+
+## Core Types
+
+### LogEntry
+
+Internal normalized log shape:
+
+```ts
+export interface LogEntry {
+  timestamp: string;  // ISO-8601
+  level: 'verbose' | 'debug' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error';
+  package: string;
+  message: string;
+  source?: string;             // e.g. 'application', 'auth-service'
+  data?: Record<string, any>;  // user metadata, error, ids, etc.
+  
+  // Automatic application identification (from consuming project's package.json)
+  appName?: string;            // Auto-detected from package.json "name" field
+  appVersion?: string;         // Auto-detected from package.json "version" field
+  
+  // Correlation / trails / tracing
+  runId?: string;
+  jobId?: string;
+  correlationId?: string;
+  sessionId?: string;
+  operationId?: string;
+  parentOperationId?: string;
+  operationName?: string;
+  threadId?: string;
+  traceId?: string;
+  spanId?: string;
+  
+  // Routing
+  _routing?: RoutingMeta;
+  
+  // Optional scope metadata (for future/advanced use)
+  scope?: ScopedMetadata;
+}
+```
+
+### Runtime Filtering (logger-debug.json)
+
+Place a `logger-debug.json` file at your project root to filter logs at runtime:
+
+```json
+{
+  "scoping": {
+    "status": "enabled",
+    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login", "src/payment.ts:processPayment"],
+    "filteredApplications": ["my-app", "other-app"],
+    "between": [
+      {
+        "action": "include",
+        "exactMatch": false,
+        "searchLog": false,
+        "startIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequest"],
+        "endIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequestEnd"]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+**Behavior:**
+- When `status: "enabled"`, logs are filtered before being written to any output (console, file, unified-logger, shadow)
+- A log is included if its `identity` matches any entry in `filterIdentities` **OR** its `appName` matches any entry in `filteredApplications` **OR** it falls within an active "between" range (OR logic)
+- If all filters are empty or missing, all logs are included (no filtering)
+- File is auto-discovered from `process.cwd()` (searches up directory tree like package.json)
+- Configuration is loaded once at startup (not reloaded dynamically)
+- If file is not found or invalid, all logs are shown (graceful fallback)
+
+**Examples:**
+
+```json
+// Filter by identity only - only show logs from specific code locations
+{
+  "scoping": {
+    "status": "enabled",
+    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login", "src/payment.ts:processPayment"]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```json
+// Filter by application only - only show logs from specific apps
+{
+  "scoping": {
+    "status": "enabled",
+    "filteredApplications": ["my-app"]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```json
+// Filter by both (OR logic - matches if identity OR appName matches)
+{
+  "scoping": {
+    "status": "enabled",
+    "filterIdentities": ["src/auth.ts:login"],
+    "filteredApplications": ["my-app"]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```json
+// Between rules - stateful range-based filtering
+{
+  "scoping": {
+    "status": "enabled",
+    "between": [
+      {
+        "action": "include",
+        "exactMatch": false,
+        "searchLog": false,
+        "startIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequest"],
+        "endIdentities": ["src/api.ts:handleRequestEnd"]
+      },
+      {
+        "action": "exclude",
+        "exactMatch": true,
+        "searchLog": false,
+        "startIdentities": ["src/db.ts:query"],
+        "endIdentities": ["src/db.ts:queryEnd"]
+      },
+      {
+        "action": "include",
+        "exactMatch": false,
+        "searchLog": true,
+        "startIdentities": [],
+        "endIdentities": ["src/init.ts:complete"]
+      },
+      {
+        "action": "include",
+        "exactMatch": true,
+        "searchLog": true,
+        "startIdentities": ["Payment started"],
+        "endIdentities": ["Payment completed"]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}
+```
+
+**Between Rules:**
+- **Stateful filtering**: Tracks active ranges across log calls
+- **`action`**: `"include"` to show logs within range, `"exclude"` to hide logs within range
+- **`exactMatch`**: 
+  - `true`: Exact string match (case sensitive)
+  - `false`: Partial substring match (case insensitive, default)
+- **`searchLog`**: 
+  - `true`: Search entire log (message + identity + all meta fields stringified)
+  - `false`: Search only identity field (default)
+- **`startIdentities`**: Array of patterns that activate the range. Empty array means range starts from the beginning
+- **`endIdentities`**: Array of patterns that deactivate the range. Empty array means range never ends
+- **Multiple ranges**: Can overlap and are tracked independently. Uses OR logic (if ANY include rule is active, include; if ANY exclude rule is active, exclude)
+- **Range behavior**: 
+  - When a log matches a start identity, the range becomes active
+  - When a log matches an end identity, the range becomes inactive
+  - If a log matches both start and end identities, the range state toggles
+  - Ranges with empty `startIdentities` are active from the first log
+  - Ranges with empty `endIdentities` never close once activated
+
+**Integration with Existing Scoping:**
+- `logger-debug.json` → Runtime filtering (reduces noise at source, filters before writing)
+- `scopeLogs()` → Post-processing scoping (analyzes already-written logs)
+- Both can be used together for maximum control
+
+### ScopeCriteria
+
+Scoping criteria defines *which logs* belong to a scope. It supports:
+
+* Correlation keys
+* Time windows
+* Levels
+* Sources
+* **Text matching on message and data**
+
+```ts
+export interface ScopeCriteria {
+  // Correlation / keys
+  runId?: string;
+  correlationId?: string;
+  sessionId?: string;
+  threadId?: string;
+  traceId?: string;
+  
+  // Time window bounds
+  fromTimestamp?: string;      // ISO-8601
+  toTimestamp?: string;        // ISO-8601
+  
+  // Window relative to an anchor (error or first/last entry)
+  windowMsBefore?: number;     // relative to anchor timestamp
+  windowMsAfter?: number;
+  
+  // Levels
+  levelAtLeast?: 'verbose' | 'debug' | 'info' | 'warn' | 'error';
+  includeLevels?: ('verbose'|'debug'|'info'|'warn'|'error')[];
+  
+  // Source filters
+  sources?: string[];          // e.g. ['api-gateway','payments-service']
+  
+  // TEXT FILTERS
+  /**
+   * Match logs whose message OR data (stringified) contains ANY of the given strings (case-insensitive).
+   * - string: single substring
+   * - string[]: log must contain at least one of them
+   */
+  textIncludesAny?: string | string[];
+  
+  /**
+   * Match logs whose message OR data (stringified) contains ALL of the given substrings (case-insensitive).
+   */
+  textIncludesAll?: string[];
+  
+  /**
+   * Optional RegExp filter over the combined text (message + JSON-stringified data).
+   * If provided as string, it is treated as a new RegExp(text, 'i').
+   */
+  textMatches?: RegExp | string;
+  
+  // Scope metadata filters (if used)
+  scopeTags?: string[];        // must include all provided tags
+  
+  // Custom predicate for in-process advanced filtering
+  predicate?: (entry: LogEntry) => boolean;
+}
+```
+
+**Text filtering behavior:**
+
+* Combine `entry.message` and a JSON string of `entry.data` into one string (e.g. `"Payment failed {...}"`).
+* Apply:
+  * `textIncludesAny` – inclusive OR.
+  * `textIncludesAll` – inclusive AND.
+  * `textMatches` – regex test.
+* All text filtering is **case-insensitive** by default.
+* Text filters are **ANDed** with other criteria (correlation, time, etc.).
+
+### ScopedLogView (full data)
+
+```ts
+export interface ScopedLogView {
+  id: string;                    // e.g. 'scope:runId:checkout-42'
+  criteria: ScopeCriteria;
+  entries: LogEntry[];           // sorted by timestamp ascending
+  summary: {
+    firstTimestamp?: string;
+    lastTimestamp?: string;
+    totalCount: number;
+    errorCount: number;
+    warnCount: number;
+    infoCount: number;
+    debugCount: number;
+    verboseCount: number;
+    uniqueSources: string[];
+  };
+}
+```
+
+### scopeRecord – Generic Tool
+
+The `scopeRecord` helper is **generic** (not log-specific): given any JSON record, it produces:
+
+* A human-readable text description ("story" of the record).
+* A structured description (fields, truncation info).
+
+This function is:
+* Used internally to build **scope stories** from `LogEntry`s / aggregated records.
+* Exported publicly so other code can reuse it for non-log use cases.
+
+```ts
+import { scopeRecord } from 'logs-gateway';
+
+// Example usage
+const record = {
+  userId: '123',
+  action: 'payment',
+  amount: 100.50,
+  timestamp: '2025-01-01T10:00:00Z'
+};
+
+const result = scopeRecord(record, {
+  label: 'Payment Event',
+  maxFieldStringLength: 200,
+  excludeKeys: ['password', 'token']
+});
+
+console.log(result.text);
+// Output: "Payment Event\n  User ID: 123\n  Action: payment\n  Amount: 100.5\n  Timestamp: 2025-01-01T10:00:00Z"
+
+console.log(result.structured);
+// Output: { label: 'Payment Event', fields: [...], ... }
+```
+
+**Types:**
+
+```ts
+export interface AutoScopeRecordOptions {
+  label?: string;
+  formatting?: ScopingFormattingOptions;
+  maxFields?: number;
+  maxFieldStringLength?: number;
+  includeKeys?: string[];
+  excludeKeys?: string[];
+  skipNullish?: boolean;
+  header?: string;
+  footer?: string;
+}
+
+export interface ScopeRecordResult {
+  text: string;                    // Human-readable text output
+  structured: StructuredScopedPayload;  // Structured representation
+}
+```
+
+### Scope Story Output
+
+To let a scope answer with full data or story format:
+
+```ts
+export type ScopeOutputMode = 'raw' | 'story' | 'both';
+
+export interface ScopeStoryOptions {
+  recordOptions?: AutoScopeRecordOptions;
+  maxEntries?: number;
+  includeEntryHeader?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface ScopeLogsResult {
+  view: ScopedLogView;         // always present
+  story?: ScopedLogStory;      // present if mode = 'story' or 'both'
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+## API Reference
+
+### `createLogger(packageConfig, userConfig?) → LogsGateway`
+
+### `LogsGateway` Methods
+
+#### Standard Logging
+
+* `verbose(message, data?)`
+* `debug(message, data?)`
+* `info(message, data?)`
+* `warn(message, data?)`
+* `error(message, data?)`
+* `isLevelEnabled(level)` – threshold check (namespace DEBUG forces verbose+debug)
+* `getConfig()` – effective resolved config
+
+#### Scoping
+
+* `scopeLogs(criteria, options?)` – Scope logs by criteria, return full data and/or story
+
+```ts
+const result = await logger.scopeLogs({
+  runId: 'checkout-42',
+  textIncludesAny: 'timeout',
+  levelAtLeast: 'debug'
+}, {
+  mode: 'both',
+  storyOptions: {
+    maxEntries: 50,
+    includeEntryHeader: true,
+    recordOptions: {
+      label: 'Log Entry',
+      maxFieldStringLength: 200
+    }
+  }
+});
+
+console.log(result.view.summary);
+console.log(result.story?.text);
+```
+
+#### Troubleshooting
+
+* `troubleshootError(error, context?, options?)` – Error-centric troubleshooting
+
+```ts
+const { scope, reports } = await logger.troubleshootError(
+  new Error('Missing connections configuration'),
+  {
+    config: { /* app config */ },
+    query: { requestId: req.id },
+    operation: 'checkout'
+  },
+  {
+    formats: ['markdown'],
+    generateScopeStory: true,
+    storyOptions: { /* ... */ }
+  }
+);
+```
+
+* `troubleshootScope(scope, options?)` – Scope-centric troubleshooting
+
+```ts
+const { scope: scopeResult, reports } = await logger.troubleshootScope(
+  scopeView,  // or ScopeCriteria or scope id string
+  {
+    formats: ['markdown', 'json'],
+    generateScopeStory: true
+  }
+);
+```
+
+* `scopeByNarratives(options?)` – Narrative-based scoping (optional)
+
+### Shadow Controller
+
+* `logger.shadow.enable(runId, opts?)`
+* `logger.shadow.disable(runId)`
+* `logger.shadow.isEnabled(runId)`
+* `logger.shadow.listActive()`
+* `logger.shadow.export(runId, outPath?, compress?) → Promise<string>`
+* `logger.shadow.readIndex(runId) → Promise<ShadowIndex>`
+* `logger.shadow.cleanupExpired(now?) → Promise<number>`
+
+*(Shadow writes sidecar files; primary transports unaffected.)*
+
+---
+
+## Usage Examples
+
+### 1) Error → Scoped logs (text filter) → Story + Troubleshooting
+
+```ts
+import { createLogger, scopeRecord } from 'logs-gateway';
+
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'PAYMENTS', envPrefix: 'PAY' },
+  {
+    logToConsole: true,
+    logFormat: 'json',
+    shadow: {
+      enabled: true,
+      format: 'json',
+      directory: './logs/shadow',
+      ttlMs: 86400000,
+      forceVerbose: true
+    },
+    scoping: {
+      enabled: true,
+      errorScoping: {
+        enabled: true,
+        windowMsBefore: 60_000,
+        windowMsAfter: 30_000
+      },
+      buffer: {
+        maxEntries: 5000,
+        maxAgeMs: 300_000,
+        includeLevels: ['verbose','debug','info','warn','error'],
+        preferShadow: true
+      }
+    },
+    troubleshooting: {
+      enabled: true,
+      narrativesPath: './metadata/troubleshooting.json',
+      output: {
+        formats: ['markdown'],
+        emitAsLogEntry: true,
+        writeToFileDir: './logs/troubleshooting'
+      }
+    }
+  }
+);
+
+async function handleCheckout(req: any) {
+  const runId = `checkout-${Date.now()}`;
+  logger.info('Checkout started', { runId });
+  logger.verbose('Preparing payment context', { runId });
+  
+  try {
+    // ...
+    throw new Error('Missing connections configuration');
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Direct troubleshooting call
+    const { scope, reports } = await logger.troubleshootError(error, {
+      config: { /* app config */ },
+      query: { requestId: req.id },
+      operation: 'checkout'
+    }, {
+      formats: ['markdown'],
+      generateScopeStory: true,
+      storyOptions: {
+        maxEntries: 50,
+        includeEntryHeader: true,
+        recordOptions: {
+          label: 'Log Entry',
+          maxFieldStringLength: 200,
+          excludeKeys: ['password', 'token']
+        }
+      }
+    });
+    
+    // Scope includes full data + story
+    console.log(scope?.view.summary);
+    console.log(scope?.story?.text);
+    
+    // Reports contain troubleshooting text
+    return {
+      ok: false,
+      troubleshooting: reports.map(r => r.rendered)
+    };
+  }
+}
+```
+
+### 2) Manual scoping by text ("include any log that mentions X")
+
+```ts
+// Scope all logs in the last 5 minutes that mention "timeout" anywhere:
+const timeoutScope = await logger.scopeLogs({
+  levelAtLeast: 'debug',
+  fromTimestamp: new Date(Date.now() - 5 * 60 * 1000).toISOString(),
+  textIncludesAny: 'timeout'  // message or data, case-insensitive
+}, {
+  mode: 'both',
+  storyOptions: {
+    includeEntryHeader: true,
+    recordOptions: { label: 'Timeout Log' }
+  }
+});
+
+console.log(timeoutScope.view.summary);
+console.log(timeoutScope.story?.text);
+```
+
+### 3) Web Application
+
+```ts
+// src/logger.ts
+import { createLogger, LoggingConfig, LogsGateway } from 'logs-gateway';
+
+export function createAppLogger(config?: LoggingConfig): LogsGateway {
+  return createLogger(
+    { packageName: 'WEB_APP', envPrefix: 'WEB_APP', debugNamespace: 'web-app' },
+    config
+  );
+}
+
+// src/index.ts
+const logger = createAppLogger({ logFormat: 'json' });
+logger.info('Web application initialized', { version: '1.0.0' });
+
+async function handleRequest(request: any) {
+  logger.debug('Handling request', { requestId: request.id });
+  // ...
+  logger.info('Request processed', { responseTime: 42, runId: request.runId });
+}
+```
+
+### 4) Shadow Logging (per-run capture)
+
+Capture everything for a **specific `runId`** to a side file (forced-verbose), then fetch it — perfect for tests.
+
+```ts
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'API', envPrefix: 'API' },
+  { shadow: { enabled: true, format: 'yaml', ttlMs: 86_400_000 } }
+);
+
+const runId = `test-${Date.now()}`;
+
+// Turn on capture for this run (can be mid-execution)
+logger.shadow.enable(runId);
+
+logger.info('test start', { runId });
+logger.verbose('deep details', { runId, step: 1 });
+logger.debug('more details', { runId, step: 2 });
+
+// ... run test ...
+
+// Export & stop capturing
+await logger.shadow.export(runId, './artifacts');  // returns exported path
+logger.shadow.disable(runId);
+```
+
+> Shadow files are stored per-run (JSONL or YAML multi-doc), rotated by size/age, and removed by TTL (default **1 day**).
+> If `forceVerbose=true`, all levels for that `runId` are captured even when global level is higher.
+
+---
+
+## Correlation & Trails
+
+Attach correlation fields freely on each call:
+
+* **Job/Correlation:** `runId`, `jobId`, `correlationId`, `sessionId`
+* **Depth / Operation trail:** `operationId`, `parentOperationId`, `operationName`, `operationPath`, `operationStep`
+* **Thread / Causal trail:** `threadId`, `eventId`, `causationId`, `sequenceNo`, `partitionKey`, `attempt`, `shardId`, `workerId`
+* **Tracing:** `traceId`, `spanId` (if OpenTelemetry context is active)
+
+Every log entry automatically merges the current trail context. The library provides optional adapters for HTTP and queue systems to **inject/extract** headers across process boundaries.
+
+---
+
+## Routing Metadata & Recursion Safety
+
+```ts
+interface RoutingMeta {
+  allowedOutputs?: string[];  // e.g. ['unified-logger','console']
+  blockOutputs?: string[];    // e.g. ['unified-logger','file','shadow','troubleshooting']
+  reason?: string;
+  tags?: string[];
+}
+```
+
+* Gateway internal logs (`source: 'logs-gateway-internal'`) never reach unified-logger.
+* `_routing` lets you allow/block specific outputs per entry.
+* Shadow Logging honors `_routing.blockOutputs` by default (configurable).
+* Troubleshooting output can be blocked via `_routing.blockOutputs: ['troubleshooting']`.
+
+---
+
+## Log Formats
+
+**Text**
+
+```
+[2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z] [MY_APP] [INFO] Application initialized {"version":"1.0.0"}
+```
+
+**JSON**
+
+```json
+{
+  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z",
+  "package": "MY_APP",
+  "level": "INFO",
+  "message": "Application initialized",
+  "source": "application",
+  "data": {"version": "1.0.0"}
+}
+```
+
+**YAML** (console/file; unified stays JSON)
+
+```yaml
+---
+timestamp: 2025-01-15T10:30:45.123Z
+package: MY_APP
+level: INFO
+message: Application initialized
+source: application
+appName: my-awesome-app
+appVersion: "2.1.0"
+data:
+  version: "1.0.0"
+```
+
+> **Note:** YAML is human-friendly but slower; prefer JSON for ingestion.
+
+---
+
+## PII/Credentials Sanitization (opt-in)
+
+Enable to auto-detect and mask common sensitive data (JWTs, API keys, passwords, emails, credit cards, cloud keys, etc.).
+Supports key-based rules (denylist/allowlist), hashing specific fields, depth/size/time guardrails, and a truncation flag.
+
+```ts
+const logger = createLogger(
+  { packageName: 'MY_APP', envPrefix: 'MY_APP' },
+  {
+    sanitization: {
+      enabled: true,
+      maskWith: '[REDACTED]',
+      keysDenylist: ['authorization','password','secret','api_key'],
+      fieldsHashInsteadOfMask: ['userId'],
+      detectJWTs: true
+    }
+  }
+);
+```
+
+---
+
+## Shadow Logging (Per-Run Debug Capture)
+
+Shadow Logging allows you to capture **all logs for a specific `runId`** to a separate file in JSON or YAML format, with **raw (unsanitized) data**, regardless of the global log level. This is ideal for debugging tests, CI runs, or specific production workflows.
+
+### Key Features
+
+- **Per-runId capture**: Enable capture for specific run identifiers
+- **Verbose by default**: Captures all log levels for the target runId
+- **Raw data**: Bypasses sanitization to preserve original values (⚠️ use with caution)
+- **Optional rolling buffer**: Capture logs from before shadow was enabled ("after-the-fact")
+- **TTL cleanup**: Automatically manage storage with time-to-live expiration
+- **No interference**: Shadow writes are async and won't affect primary logging
+
+### Configuration
+
+#### Constructor Options
+
+```typescript
+interface ShadowConfig {
+  enabled?: boolean;                 // default: false
+  format?: 'json' | 'yaml';          // default: 'json'
+  directory?: string;                // default: './logs/shadow'
+  ttlMs?: number;                    // default: 86400000 (1 day)
+  respectRoutingBlocks?: boolean;    // default: true
+  rollingBuffer?: {
+    maxEntries?: number;             // default: 0 (disabled)
+    maxAgeMs?: number;               // default: 0 (disabled)
+  };
+}
+```
+
+### Runtime API
+
+#### `logger.shadow.enable(runId, opts?)`
+
+Enable shadow capture for a specific runId. Optionally override config for this run.
+
+```typescript
+logger.shadow.enable('test-run-123');
+
+// Or with custom options
+logger.shadow.enable('test-run-yaml', {
+  format: 'yaml',
+  ttlMs: 3600000  // 1 hour
+});
+```
+
+#### `logger.shadow.disable(runId)`
+
+Stop capturing logs for a runId and finalize the shadow file.
+
+#### `logger.shadow.isEnabled(runId)`
+
+Check if shadow capture is active for a runId.
+
+#### `logger.shadow.listActive()`
+
+List all currently active shadow captures.
+
+#### `logger.shadow.export(runId, outPath?)`
+
+Copy the shadow file to a destination path.
+
+#### `logger.shadow.cleanupExpired(now?)`
+
+Delete expired shadow files based on TTL. Returns number of deleted runs.
+
+### Important Considerations
+
+⚠️ **Security**: Shadow captures **raw, unsanitized data**. This means passwords, API keys, and PII will be preserved in shadow files. Only use shadow logging in secure environments (development, CI, isolated test systems).
+
+💾 **Storage**: Shadow files can grow quickly when capturing verbose logs. Configure appropriate `ttlMs` values and regularly run `cleanupExpired()`.
+
+🚫 **Default OFF**: Shadow logging is disabled by default and must be explicitly enabled via config or environment variables.
+
+---
+
+## Troubleshooting Integration
+
+The troubleshooting integration uses `nx-troubleshooting` to match errors to solutions. See the [nx-troubleshooting documentation](https://www.npmjs.com/package/nx-troubleshooting) for details on creating troubleshooting narratives.
+
+### Key Features
+
+- **Intelligent Error Matching** – Matches errors to solutions using multiple strategies
+- **Flexible Probe System** – Built-in probes plus extensible custom probes
+- **Template Variables** – Dynamic solution messages with `{{variable}}` syntax
+- **Multiple Output Formats** – Markdown, JSON, and plain text formatting
+- **Automatic Scoping** – Errors automatically trigger scoped log collection
+
+### Example Troubleshooting Narrative
+
+```json
+{
+  "id": "missing-connections-config",
+  "title": "Missing Connections Configuration",
+  "description": "The application config is missing the required 'connections' object...",
+  "symptoms": [
+    {
+      "probe": "config-check",
+      "params": { "field": "connections" },
+      "condition": "result.exists == false"
+    }
+  ],
+  "solution": [
+    {
+      "type": "code",
+      "message": "Add a 'connections' object to your config:",
+      "code": "{\n  \"connections\": { ... }\n}"
+    }
+  ]
+}
+```
+
+---
+
+## Backwards Compatibility
+
+* All new behavior is **opt-in**:
+  * `scoping.enabled` and `troubleshooting.enabled` default to `false`.
+* If `nx-troubleshooting` is not installed:
+  * `troubleshooting.enabled` must remain `false` or initialization fails clearly.
+* If neither shadow nor buffer is configured:
+  * `scopeLogs` can still filter **currently available** logs if in-memory buffer is enabled; otherwise, scopes may be empty.
+* `scopeRecord` is pure and can be used independently anywhere.
+
+---
+
+## Environment Variables (summary)
+
+| Key                    | Description                            | Default   |
+| ---------------------- | -------------------------------------- | --------- |
+| `{P}_LOG_TO_CONSOLE`   | Enable console output                  | `true`    |
+| `{P}_LOG_TO_FILE`      | Enable file output                     | `false`   |
+| `{P}_LOG_FILE`         | Log file path                          | —         |
+| `{P}_LOG_TO_UNIFIED`   | Enable unified-logger                  | `false`   |
+| `{P}_LOGS_LEVEL`       | Per-package threshold (canonical); omit both this and `{P}_LOG_LEVEL` → **`warn`** | `warn` |
+| `{P}_LOG_LEVEL`        | Legacy level — used only if `{P}_LOGS_LEVEL` is not set in the environment | — |
+| `{P}_LOG_FORMAT`       | `text\|json\|yaml\|table` | `table` |
+| `{P}_SHOW_FULL_TIMESTAMP` | Show full ISO timestamp in console | `false` |
+| `{P}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_SHOW` | Comma-separated packages to show (console only) | (show all) |
+| `{P}_CONSOLE_PACKAGES_HIDE` | Comma-separated packages to hide (console only) | (show all) |
+| `DEBUG`                | Namespace(s) enabling verbose+debug    | —         |
+| `{P}_SANITIZE_ENABLED` | Turn on sanitization                   | `false`   |
+| `{P}_TRACE_OTEL`       | Attach `traceId`/`spanId` if available | `true`    |
+| `{P}_TRAILS_*`         | Toggle trails/header adapters          | see above |
+| `{P}_SHADOW_*`         | Shadow Logging controls                | see above |
+| `{P}_SCOPING_*`        | Scoping controls                       | see above |
+| `{P}_TROUBLESHOOTING_*` | Troubleshooting controls              | see above |
+
+---
+
+## Development
+
+```bash
+npm install
+npm run build
+npm run dev
+npm run clean
+```
+
+## License
+
+MIT
+
+---
+
+**Tip for tests:** set a `runId` at the beginning of each test (e.g., `runId: 'ci-<suite>-<timestamp>'`), enable **Shadow Logging**, run, then `export()` the captured logs for artifacts/triage.