Hold a transcript source at a line whose redaction timed out

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Refs #1155 (the live-watcher part; the issue stays open). No Linear issue.

What & why

When redaction hit the wall-clock record budget or a regex deadline, the record was replaced with a kcap_capture_loss marker, even though a later attempt would usually redact it. The watcher now holds the source at that line instead. It retries off the loop with a longer budget each time (5s doubling to 60s, backoff up to 5 min), indefinitely, and sends only the redacted line, under its original line number. Lines after a held one wait, because the server's high-water mark drops a line numbered below one it already accepted. Input, output and malformed losses still produce markers.

Where to look

• Durability: the transcript and the server's resume position (max line + 1) keep the line itself, and held-lines/ keeps the attempt ladder (hash and coordinate only). At session end, the tail is redacted under one budget that fits inside the 5s kill grace, then spooled. A line that still times out flags the session needs-import before the kill can land, and a held session below the buffering threshold is still drained.
• A tail spooled after session end reopens the session server-side, as any spooled tail already does.
• Import, repair, the Cursor backfill and the inline drain still mark these losses (Large tool results can be lost to the watcher's per-regex redaction deadline under load #1155).

Verification

• --treenode-filter "/*/*/HeldLine*/*": 15/15 passed.
• Full CLI unit suite: 5485 passed, 9 failed. All 9 pass when run alone (timing-sensitive under load).
• Solution build clean; dotnet publish -c Release reports no IL warnings.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Redaction timeouts now pause capture at the affected line instead of immediately replacing it with a loss marker. Earlier lines can still be delivered, while later lines wait until the held line is handled.
  • The held line is retried with increasing time budgets and delays, and retries can resume after a watcher restart. Once redacted, the line is delivered in its original position; lines that cannot be fixed are still reported as losses.
  • At shutdown, capture preserves redacted lines within the available time. If a line cannot be redacted, the session is marked as needing import.

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Walkthrough

The watcher now holds a transcript line when redaction reaches a transient time limit. It retries that line asynchronously with increasing budgets and delays. Capture stops before the held line and later lines. Persisted state supports watcher restarts. Drain and shutdown-tail paths preserve consumed prefixes and source line positions.

Changes

Held-line capture

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture and redaction contracts src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/CapturedLines.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLine.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/CaptureJsonContext.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/RedactionLossReason.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/SecretRedactor.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Capture/TranscriptCaptureTests.cs	Capture returns the encoded prefix and consumed count. Redaction classifies time-based losses as transient, accepts supplied secret patterns, and can encode a tail up to its first transient loss.
Held-line retry and persistence src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLine.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineStore.cs, src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Capture/*	Held-line state is persisted by session and agent. Matching lines are retried with increasing budgets and delays. Tests cover persistence, retry scheduling, restart recovery, release conditions, and non-transient losses.
Watcher drain and shutdown integration src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs, test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Commands/HeldLineDrainTests.cs, CLAUDE.md	Drains stop at the first unconsumed line and retain its source position. Shutdown-tail spooling appends the consumed redacted prefix and updates held-line state. Tests cover retry delivery and tail spooling.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant WatchCommand
  participant HeldLineRedaction
  participant SecretRedactor
  participant HeldLineStore
  WatchCommand->>HeldLineRedaction: Capture lines in source order
  HeldLineRedaction->>SecretRedactor: Redact line with current budget
  SecretRedactor-->>HeldLineRedaction: Return transient loss
  HeldLineRedaction->>HeldLineStore: Save held-line state
  HeldLineRedaction-->>WatchCommand: Return consumed prefix
  HeldLineRedaction->>SecretRedactor: Retry matching line with longer budget
  SecretRedactor-->>HeldLineRedaction: Return redacted line
  HeldLineRedaction->>HeldLineStore: Delete released held-line state

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cf3d1

When a send fails after a held line was successfully redacted, the watcher can throw that result away. It may then stall the transcript on the same line again or flag the session for import when it didn't need to. Keep the finished retry until the server confirms it received the line before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to cf3d1

Redaction remains fail-closed, and retries are tied to the original line content. However, shutdown can leave omitted transcript records without a delivered recovery warning, weakening the guarantee that incomplete capture is visibly recoverable.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · observed: The new shutdown transition can abandon held-line recovery without making the capture gap visible remotely. It releases held metadata even when persisting needs-import fails. When a marker exists, a transient warning-delivery failure can be followed by terminal completion; later ordered-drain passes skip the ended session before retrying the warning. The drain behavior predates this PR, but transient redaction timeouts now depend on it instead of producing transmitted loss markers.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Content that repeatedly times out can block the remainder of its session/agent transcript source. The demonstrated failure scope is capture completeness and recovery visibility for that source or session, not a demonstrated cross-tenant privilege or confidentiality breach.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A shutdown redaction timeout followed by failed needs-import delivery and successful terminal replay can leave an omitted transcript tail without a remote recovery warning. The client-side transition is supported; deliberately inducing the timeout and the server's resulting presentation were not verified. Original transcript content remains available for manual recovery.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Transcript content crosses into normal delivery or shutdown spooling only through redaction outcomes in the inspected changed paths. Transient failures withhold content; permanent failures become structured loss markers. Finished-retry reuse validates both source coordinate and content identity.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Recovery-marker persistence and delivery are not prerequisites for abandoning the shutdown hold or completing terminal replay. This weakens failure containment and honest reporting of capture gaps, while the inspected redaction boundary remains fail-closed.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make the transition from a held source to import recovery an acknowledged durable handoff: retain recovery state when marker persistence fails, and prevent terminal completion or ended-session suppression from stranding an undelivered needs-import warning.

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Hold and retry transcript lines after redaction timeouts

🐞 Bug fix 🧪 Tests 📝 Documentation 🕐 40+ Minutes

AI Description

• Hold timed-out transcript lines so later lines cannot pass the server’s line-number frontier.
• Retry held lines with increasing budgets and persist retry state across watcher restarts.
• Spool redacted shutdown tails; flag sessions for import when a line still times out.

Diagram

graph TD
  Source["Transcript source"] --> Drain["Watcher drain"] --> Timeout{"Redaction timeout?"} -->|no| Server["Server intake"]
  Timeout -->|yes| Store["Held-line state"] --> Retry["Background retry"] --> Timeout
  Drain --> Tail["Shutdown tail"] --> Spool["Transcript spool"] --> Server

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High-Level Assessment

The following are alternative approaches to this PR:

1. Queue timed-out lines independently

• ➕ Allows later transcript lines to continue flowing.
• ➖ Later accepted line numbers would cause the server to discard a retried earlier line.
• ➖ Requires a server protocol or high-water-mark change.

Recommendation: Keep the source-frontier hold for this PR. It preserves the server’s existing line-ordering contract without sending a loss marker for a potentially recoverable timeout; an independent queue would require coordinated server changes.

Files changed (13) +616 / -25

Enhancement (5) +81 / -11

CaptureJsonContext.csRegister held-line state for JSON serialization +1/-0

Register held-line state for JSON serialization

• Adds source-generated serialization metadata for persisted held-line records.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/CaptureJsonContext.cs

CapturedLines.csRepresent a partially consumed transcript read +7/-0

Represent a partially consumed transcript read

• Pairs captured output with the number of source lines consumed, allowing the drain and shutdown spool to stop at a timed-out line.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/CapturedLines.cs

HeldLine.csDefine persisted held-line retry metadata +11/-0

Define persisted held-line retry metadata

• Records a held line’s source identity, number, hash, failure reason, attempts, and next retry time without storing its raw content.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLine.cs

HeldLineStore.csPersist retry state per transcript source +49/-0

Persist retry state per transcript source

• Atomically stores and loads held-line metadata in 'held-lines/', keyed by session and agent. The transcript remains the source of the raw line.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineStore.cs

SecretRedactor.csAccept retry-specific budgets and pattern deadlines +13/-11

Accept retry-specific budgets and pattern deadlines

• Adds a redaction entry point that accepts a budget and pattern set, enabling background retries and shutdown scans to use different limits from the live watcher.

src/Capacitor.Cli/SecretRedactor.cs

Bug fix (4) +218 / -14

HeldLineRedaction.csHold timed-out lines and retry them off the watcher loop +135/-0

Hold timed-out lines and retry them off the watcher loop

• Stops capture at transient redaction failures and retries with increasing budgets and backoff. Releases the hold when the line is redacted, changes, or is already past the source frontier; permanent losses retain markers.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs

RedactionLossReason.csIdentify retryable redaction failures +7/-0

Identify retryable redaction failures

• Classifies regex deadlines and record-budget exhaustion as transient while leaving input, output, and malformed losses non-retryable.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/RedactionLossReason.cs

TranscriptCapture.csStop shutdown-tail encoding at transient failures +30/-5

Stop shutdown-tail encoding at transient failures

• Adds tail encoding that stops before a timed-out line using whole-recording redaction settings. Shares loss-marker generation and reporting with existing capture paths.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs

WatchCommand.csKeep live drains and shutdown spools behind held lines +46/-9

Keep live drains and shutdown spools behind held lines

• Caches held-line redactors per source and truncates live reads at the first held line, preserving its original number for delivery. Shutdown spools only the redacted prefix and flags the session for import if a line still times out.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs

Tests (3) +312 / -0

HeldLineRedactionTests.csTest held-line capture, retries, and persistence +180/-0

Test held-line capture, retries, and persistence

• Covers source ordering, redacted delivery, backoff, restart recovery, stale holds, permanent-loss markers, and retry caps.

test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Capture/HeldLineRedactionTests.cs

SwitchableRedactionClock.csProvide a controllable redaction-budget clock +9/-0

Provide a controllable redaction-budget clock

• Adds a test clock that can force budget exhaustion or permit redaction without waiting for wall-clock deadlines.

test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Capture/SwitchableRedactionClock.cs

HeldLineDrainTests.csTest watcher drain and shutdown behavior +123/-0

Test watcher drain and shutdown behavior

• Verifies that a timeout holds the live drain without a marker, retries retain line numbers across failed sends, and session end spools redacted held lines.

test/Capacitor.Cli.Tests.Unit/Commands/HeldLineDrainTests.cs

Documentation (1) +5 / -0

CLAUDE.mdDocument the held-line ordering contract +5/-0

Document the held-line ordering contract

• Explains why redaction timeouts pause a transcript source and why later lines must wait for the held line.

CLAUDE.md

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1. Early timeouts can skip session recovery ✓ Resolved

Description

DrainNewLines stops counting transcript lines at a held line, leaving a session watcher below its
delivery threshold even when the file contains many later lines. If that watcher exits before the
retry succeeds, shutdown skips both its final drain and its tail-spooling call, so the timed-out
line is neither delivered nor flagged for import.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[R2099-2105]

+            var captured = HeldLineFor(sessionId, agentId).Capture(drainRead.Lines, drainRead.LineNumbers,
                (reason, count) => Log(time, $"Capture loss: {count} record(s), {CaptureLossMarker.ReasonName(reason)}"));
+            if (captured.Consumed < drainRead.Lines.Count) {
+                drainRead = drainRead with {
+                    Lines        = drainRead.Lines.GetRange(0, captured.Consumed),
+                    LineNumbers  = drainRead.LineNumbers.GetRange(0, captured.Consumed),
+                    NextPosition = drainRead.LineNumbers[captured.Consumed]

Relevance

●●● Strong

Held-line truncation can bypass shutdown recovery, matching accepted watcher lifecycle and
restart-state concerns.

PR-#526
PR-#256

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

Capture truncates the read at the held line. Threshold promotion counts only captured lines, while
the below-threshold shutdown branch bypasses the final drain and the spool call.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2097-2110]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2283-2304]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[963-1010]
src/Capacitor.Cli.Core/Models.cs[276-280]

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## Issue description
A held line can keep a long session below the buffering threshold, causing shutdown to skip recovery of its transcript tail.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2099-2107]
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[963-1010]
## Recommended Fix
Distinguish a session blocked by a held line from a genuinely short session at shutdown. Run tail recovery or mark the session needs-import for the blocked case, without delivering ordinary below-threshold sessions.

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2. Usage updates can pass a held line ✗ Dismissed

Description

DrainNewLines truncates raw transcript lines at a timeout but still appends Antigravity or Kiro
usage records afterward, assigning them line numbers in billion-number bands. For a child watcher or
an already-thresholded session watcher with a pending usage update, the batch can send a line
numbered after the held one; the documented server high-water behavior can then prevent the retried
raw line from being accepted.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[R2099-2105]

+            var captured = HeldLineFor(sessionId, agentId).Capture(drainRead.Lines, drainRead.LineNumbers,
                (reason, count) => Log(time, $"Capture loss: {count} record(s), {CaptureLossMarker.ReasonName(reason)}"));
+            if (captured.Consumed < drainRead.Lines.Count) {
+                drainRead = drainRead with {
+                    Lines        = drainRead.Lines.GetRange(0, captured.Consumed),
+                    LineNumbers  = drainRead.LineNumbers.GetRange(0, captured.Consumed),
+                    NextPosition = drainRead.LineNumbers[captured.Consumed]

Relevance

●●● Strong

Appending synthetic records after a held-line cutoff violates the PR’s explicit high-water ordering
invariant.

PR-#291
PR-#1138

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

The new cutoff applies before the existing synthetic append calls, which can run independently of
whether any raw line was captured. The repository documents that the server drops lines numbered at
or below one it has already taken.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2097-2110]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2130-2150]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2893-2915]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2937-2983]
CLAUDE.md[74-78]

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## Issue description
Synthetic usage records can be sent while an earlier raw transcript line is held, violating the line-ordering requirement.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2099-2110]
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2130-2150]
## Recommended Fix
While a raw line is held, defer synthetic usage lines and their watermark or anchor commits. Resume emitting them only after the held raw line can be delivered without advancing the server past it.

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3. A second held line can stall its source permanently ✓ Resolved

Description

In HeldLineRedaction.Redact, a new transient failure calls Save(first) and then `Retry(first,
raw) without clearing _attempt/_attemptSha256`. If an attempt for an earlier-held line is still
in _attempt, Retry never collects it (its SHA does not match the new held line) and never starts
a new one (_attempt is null is false). The source then never advances again until the watcher
restarts. This can happen when the read position moves back below the held line, for example the
reconnect rewind to the server's acknowledged frontier or a Cursor ack below the held line, and a
line before the held one also times out.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[R69-72]

+        log($"Holding line {lineNumber} back: {first.Reason}; retrying off the loop");
+        Save(first);
+
+        return Retry(first, raw);

Relevance

●●● Strong

Specific state-machine bug can permanently block a source; local clearing fix is deterministic.

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence

Redact lets a line numbered below _held.LineNumber through to normal redaction, and on a
transient loss it calls Save (which only sets _held). Retry gates collection on
_attemptSha256 == held.LineSha256 and gates starting on _attempt is null. A completed attempt
with a different SHA meets neither condition, so it is never cleared. Only Release() clears
_attempt, and it runs only on a successful retry, a rewritten held line or ReleaseBelow.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[51-73]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[75-107]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[122-132]

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## Issue description
When `HeldLineRedaction.Redact` holds a new line while `_attempt` still belongs to a previously held line, `Retry` never clears or replaces `_attempt` because the SHA check fails and `_attempt` is non-null. The source stalls forever.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[60-72]
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[75-107]

## Recommended Fix
Before `Save(first)` in `Redact`, set `_attempt = null; _attemptSha256 = null;`. Also, in `Retry`, treat an `_attempt` whose `_attemptSha256 != held.LineSha256` as stale: drop it so a new attempt can start. Add a test: hold line 5, then capture line 3 with an exhausted clock while the line-5 attempt is pending, and assert that line 3 is eventually delivered.

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4. Failed sends restart successful retries ✓ Resolved

Description

HeldLineRedaction.Retry deletes the held state as soon as redaction succeeds, before
DrainNewLines sends the resulting batch. If that send fails while the normal short redaction
budget remains insufficient, the unchanged source cursor re-reads the line, creates a new hold, and
starts the retry ladder over rather than reusing the redacted result.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[R80-83]

+            if (outcome is { Loss: null }) log($"Held line {held.LineNumber} redacted on attempt {held.Attempts + 1}");
+            if (outcome is { Loss: null } || outcome?.Loss is { } final && !final.IsTransient()) {
+                Release();
+                return outcome;

Relevance

●● Moderate

Retry-result durability concerns are credible, but repeated resend behavior is explicitly tested and
may be intentional.

PR-#1305
PR-#1138

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Evidence

A successful retry calls Release during capture; Release deletes the stored state. The send happens
later, and a send exception leaves LinesProcessed unchanged, causing the next poll to run ordinary
redaction on the same raw line.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[51-73]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[75-84]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[127-132]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2420-2461]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2518-2522]

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## Issue description
A successfully redacted held line loses its retry state before delivery is confirmed, so a failed send can restart the timeout ladder.
## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[75-84]
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2452-2461]
## Recommended Fix
Keep the completed redacted result available while the source cursor remains at that line. Release the held state after successful delivery or when a server resume position confirms the line was accepted.

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5. A line that never redacts in time stops live capture ✗ Dismissed

Description

IsTransient treats every RegexTimeout and RecordBudget loss as retryable, but BudgetFor caps
at 60s and OutOfProcessPatterns caps each regex call at 30s. A line that always needs more than
that (a pathological or very large tool result) therefore fails every attempt. Each such attempt
also burns up to 60s of thread-pool time. Nothing after that line reaches the server while the
session is live, so content the agent reads (e.g. a crafted file) can silently halt capture for the
rest of the session; before this PR the line became a single loss marker.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[R109-111]

+    internal static TimeSpan BudgetFor(int attempt) => Doubling(attempt, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60));
+
+    internal static TimeSpan DelayAfter(int attempt) => Doubling(attempt, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5), TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5));

Relevance

●● Moderate

Reliability risk is substantial, but indefinite retries are explicitly part of the PR’s stated
design.

PR-#1302
PR-#173

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Evidence

Retry reschedules forever on any transient loss, and the drain cuts the read at the held line. The
redaction limits a retry gets are bounded (budget at most 60s, 30s per regex call). There is no
maximum attempt count and no fallback to a marker, so a line that deterministically exceeds those
limits holds the source until session end.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[86-103]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/RedactionLossReason.cs[5-9]
src/Capacitor.Cli/SecretRedactor.cs[26-26]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2097-2107]

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## Issue description
A held line that deterministically exceeds the capped retry budget (60s) or the out-of-process regex timeout (30s) is retried forever, and every later line of the live session waits behind it.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[75-111]

## Recommended Fix
Once attempts at the capped budget keep failing (e.g. N attempts at 60s, or a total hold duration), emit the capture-loss marker via `TranscriptCapture.Mark` and `Release()`, logging the decision so capture resumes. At minimum, log/flag the session needs-import once the cap is reached so the stall is visible.

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6. Tail loss counter hard-codes the reason count ✓ Resolved

Description

EncodeTail sizes its losses array as new int[5], whereas HeldLineRedaction.Capture sizes it
with Enum.GetValues<RedactionLossReason>().Length. Adding a new RedactionLossReason member would
then throw IndexOutOfRangeException on the session-end tail path.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs[24]

+        var losses = new int[5];

Relevance

●●● Strong

Enum-sized counters should not use a duplicated literal; this is a deterministic future-crash fix.

PR-#350
PR-#129

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Evidence

losses[(int)reason]++ indexes by the enum value; the array length is a literal that matches
today's five members only by coincidence.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs[22-35]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs[30-30]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/RedactionLossReason.cs[3-3]

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## Issue description
`EncodeTail` uses a hard-coded `new int[5]` for per-reason loss counts.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs[24-24]

## Recommended Fix
Replace it with `new int[Enum.GetValues<RedactionLossReason>().Length]`, matching `HeldLineRedaction.Capture`.

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7. Held-line files linger after a needs-import end ✓ Resolved

Description

When SpoolUndeliveredTranscriptTailAsync returns MarkedNeedsImport for a line that still cannot
be redacted, it never calls Release/ReleaseBelow. The held-lines/<hash>.json file therefore
stays on disk for good. Separately, WatchCommand._heldLines gains an entry per (session, agent)
that is never removed, so a long-running watcher keeps one HeldLineRedaction for every session and
subagent it has ever watched.

Code

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[R2624-2628]

+        if (result == TranscriptSpool.AppendResult.Appended && unredacted is { } line) {
+            Log(time, $"Line {line} of {sessionId} still cannot be redacted in time; spooled the {batch.Lines.Length} line(s) before it");
+            transcriptSpool.MarkNeedsImport(sessionId, $"shutdown tail: redaction of line {line} timed out");
+
+            return TranscriptSpool.AppendResult.MarkedNeedsImport;

Relevance

●● Moderate

Cleanup concerns are plausible, but retaining state may support restart/import recovery and lacks a
close precedent.

PR-#526
PR-#760

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Evidence

Only the Appended branch releases the held line. The needs-import early return does not, and
nothing else deletes held-lines/ files or prunes _heldLines.

src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2624-2634]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[40-54]
src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineStore.cs[41-45]

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The issue below was found during a code review. Follow the provided context and guidance below and implement a solution

## Issue description
Held-line store files and dictionary entries are never cleaned up after a session ends as needs-import, and dictionary entries are never removed at all.

## Fix Focus Areas
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[2624-2634]
- src/Capacitor.Cli/Commands/WatchCommand.cs[40-54]

## Recommended Fix
Once the session is flagged needs-import, release the held line (`HeldLineFor(...).ReleaseBelow(int.MaxValue)` or a dedicated Forget). When the watcher for a (session, agent) exits, remove its entry from `_heldLines`.

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✅ Tickets: 🎫 Large tool results can be lost to the watcher's per-regex redaction deadline under load

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Preserve held tails below the transcript threshold

When a timeout occurs before the session watcher has buffered 10 lines, resetting the frontier to the held line prevents every later source line from contributing to BufferedLines. If the session exits before the background retry succeeds, the shutdown path at WatchCommand.cs:966-970 classifies the session as below-threshold and skips both the final drain and SpoolUndeliveredTranscriptTailAsync, so even a long transcript behind an early held line disappears without a needs-import marker. The shutdown threshold decision needs to account for an active hold and recover its tail rather than treating it as a genuinely short session.

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Fixed in 49f4556. At shutdown, a session watcher still below the threshold with a held line is promoted, so its final drain and tail spool run.

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Bound shutdown redaction to the watcher termination grace

For a held line whose expensive regex continues running for several seconds, this synchronous shutdown scan can exceed the watcher's termination window: OutOfProcessPatterns permits each regex to run for 30 seconds, while WatcherManager.KillWatcher force-kills the process after 5 seconds (WatcherManager.cs:119-128). Because the spool append and needs-import marker happen only after EncodeTail returns, the process can be killed with neither recovery artifact written. Use a deadline shorter than the remaining shutdown grace, or persist the needs-import marker before starting the potentially long scan.

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Fixed in 49f4556. The tail now redacts under one budget for the whole tail, inside the kill grace, using the watcher patterns rather than the 30s ones. A line that still can't redact flags needs-import before the kill can land.

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Review comments at @src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/TranscriptCapture.cs:
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🟠 Major · Retain a finished retry until its line is acknowledged. · HeldLineRedaction.cs:71

src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs:71
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Retain a finished retry until its line is acknowledged.

If capture processes a line after a retried line, Redact clears _settled before DrainNewLines sends the batch. If that send fails, the next drain retries the previously finished line under the short live budget. Shutdown spooling also cannot reuse its result and can mark the session as needing import. Keep settled results for unacknowledged lines, and release them when the server frontier advances. Add a failed-send test with a line after the held line.

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Review comment at @src/Capacitor.Cli/Capture/HeldLineRedaction.cs at line 71:
Update `Redact` so processing later lines does not clear `_settled` before those
lines are acknowledged; retain the finished retry result for the unacknowledged
line and release it only when the server frontier advances. Add a failed-send
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