fix(datadog): keep visitor e-mail addresses out of RUM view URLs

[dawsontoth]

Studio was sending visitors' e-mail addresses — and live password-reset tokens — to Datadog RUM inside the URL fields of every auth screen, where they were retained and searchable. This redacts both in beforeSend, for every event type.

The addresses ride in the app-generated ?me=/?email= form-persistence params and in the /config/users/<address> path; the token rides in ?token= on /reset-password and /verify-email, and useResetPassword exchanges it for a password change. Nothing redacted any of it: beforeSend only ever touched error.* fields, and shouldKeepEvent returns early for non-error events, so the view and resource events carrying the bulk of it were never visited.

For the human reviewer

1. Redact at the sink, not at the source. Every writer could encode instead, but that is an invariant each future caller has to re-earn and its failure mode is silent PII. Fixing the sink is one choke point. Fully reversible. What a "no" costs: the source fix is strictly larger and touches six call sites; it is also the only fix for the third-party leak below, so this is "as well as", not "instead of".
2. A partial redaction is treated as worse than none. zodRequireEmail accepts '()!~* and encodeURIComponent leaves them bare, so a value that ended at those emitted ?email=<redacted>'reilly%40example.com — still identifying, but looking handled. The value therefore ends only at delimiters no accepted address can contain. Cost: an apostrophe or paren wrapping a URL in prose is consumed into the redaction. Ruling requested by @kriszyp; I agree with it, but it is the one trade a reviewer might reverse.
3. Credential param names go beyond the observed exposure. Only token appears in RUM today; access_token, id_token, refresh_token, code, secret, password, api_key do not. For a credential redactor I treated the standard names as the point rather than speculative generality. A "no" means trimming the list to token and accepting that the next OAuth param to reach a URL ships once before anyone notices.
4. URL redaction runs before shouldKeepEvent, so dropped events pay for it. The filter can throw on a malformed error field, and the SDK's catchUserErrors swallows that into sending the event anyway — a view event cannot be dismissed from beforeSend at all. The cheaper order is the one that leaks. Both outside legs raised the allocation cost; I kept the order and made the common path a single test instead.
5. Scope: this fixes Datadog only. The same URLs are captured by the HubSpot, Meta, LinkedIn and Google Analytics beacons, which beforeSend cannot touch — measured, and filed separately. If the view is that the source fix should land first, this PR is the wrong shape and I would rather hear that now.
6. Known cosmetic residue: an encoded JSON param value redacts to ?filters=<redacted>%22%7D, because % is legal in a local part so the match cannot tell where the encoding stops. No address survives; pinned by a test that says so.

Verification

Fails on base. A detached worktree at the merge base, calling base's beforeSend directly (not the new module, so the failure is behavioural rather than a missing import):

× keeps the visitor address out of the view URL
  AssertionError: expected '…/#/sign-in?me=someone%40example.com' not to contain 'someone%40example.com'
× keeps the reset token out of the view URL
  AssertionError: expected '…/#/reset-password?token=abc.def' not to contain 'abc.def'

Both pass on the branch.

Gate: vitest run 294 files / 2,316 tests, tsc -b, oxlint, dprint check — all clean under Node 24.19.0 (.nvmrc).

Backtracking bound, measured. An earlier revision of the address match had two repetitions that both accepted -: 18ms at 22 characters, 553ms at 26, 8.7s at 30, on the main thread, per event. Now 0.2ms at 40 characters, with a test asserting under 100ms.

Exposure quantified in RUM (app f590deee-…, 30 days): 991 view events across 332 sessions carrying an address, plus 8,988 resource / 448 long-task / 289 action events; 140 view events across 77 sessions carrying a reset token, plus 3,732 resource and 1,400 long-task. 190 resource events carry an address in resource.url itself, 62 of them Studio's own auth URLs.

End-to-end route: not observable in the browser preview — beforeSend produces no UI, and the only true end-to-end exercise is the real SDK in production. Unit coverage plus the RUM measurements above are the evidence; what the tests do not prove is behaviour against real @datadog/browser-rum payloads (read-only or proxied properties), which both legs correctly flagged as a gap.

Review coverage

Authored by Opus 5 (claude-opus-5[1m]). Six pre-push rounds, because rounds 1–5 each found a real defect and three of them were regressions introduced by the previous round's fix.

lens	outcome
codex gpt-5.6-sol	✓ all rounds (graded leg)
gemini via agy (default model, not pinned by the run)	✓ rounds 1, 4, 5 · ✗ no-output rounds 2, 3, 6
cursor-composer	✗ cursor-agent not installed (rounds 1–4); refuses a diff touching AGENTS.md (round 5); pruned as a low-risk delta (round 6)
cursor-grok	✗ pruned by policy every round
Harper domain adjudication	✗ exit-1 rounds 1–5, zero-byte log; pruned as a low-risk delta (round 6)

The adjudicator never ran, so outside findings were not machine-adjudicated — I triaged them by hand and rejected two on evidence: Codex's claim that error.handling_stack is outside the SDK's editable list (it is present in the installed 7.8.0 bundle's ERROR entry), and Gemini's request for a null-event guard (the SDK's types make it non-nullable). Everything else was reproduced before being fixed.

_{Human-Review-Need: 3 @ 1a54ef3}

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Coverage Report

Status	Category	Percentage	Covered / Total
🔵	Lines	57.15%	7102 / 12426
🔵	Statements	57.7%	7634 / 13229
🔵	Functions	49.62%	1782 / 3591
🔵	Branches	51.71%	5094 / 9851

File Coverage

File	Stmts	Branches	Functions	Lines	Uncovered Lines
Changed Files
src/integrations/datadog/beforeSend.ts	100%	100%	100%	100%
src/integrations/datadog/redactSensitiveParams.ts	100%	100%	100%	100%
src/integrations/datadog/shouldKeepEvent.ts	100%	100%	100%	100%

Generated in workflow #1761 for commit 3613b26 by the Vitest Coverage Report Action

[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request introduces email parameter redaction (me and email) from view URLs and referrers across all Datadog event types to prevent sensitive data exposure, especially on hash-routed authentication screens. The feedback suggests extending this redaction to error messages, stack traces, and resource URLs, as these fields could still leak email parameters on Harper-owned hosts due to exemptions in the general error text redaction. Additionally, adding test cases to verify this extended redaction is recommended.

[kriszyp]

Automated gate — not yet queued for human review.

This PR's AI review found issues, and the PR description reports no cross-model reviews.
Per team policy, a substantive PR with AI-review findings is queued for human review only after at least 2 cross-model reviews have been run, their findings addressed, and the coverage reported in the PR description (## Review coverage naming each model — see harper-engineering-guidelines).
The findings below count as one of the two: address them, run a second outside-model review, update the description, and the gate lifts automatically on the next pass.

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TL;DR

Commit 318ac76e correctly extends auth-parameter redaction to supported Datadog error fields and fixes the multiline overmatch.
However, the new terminator class stops at apostrophes, so a valid address such as o'reilly@example.com is only partially redacted.
Because this defeats the PR’s privacy guarantee for a real accepted input, changes are required.
The prior ruling that URL-based form persistence is broader than this Datadog-specific scope remains unchanged.

verdict: CHANGES
merge: rebase
Human-Review-Need: 4 @ 318ac76
Human-Review-Need: 6 @ 318ac76

Diff tour

• src/integrations/datadog/beforeSend.ts:39-69 composes repository/URL redaction with auth-parameter redaction across message, stack, handling stack, resource URL, view URL, and referrer while preserving filter-before-redact ordering.
• src/integrations/datadog/shouldKeepEvent.ts:9-22 adds error.handling_stack to the internal event shape. This is supported by the locked SDK: DataDog/browser-sdk#4357, “Allow updates of error.handling_stack”, added writability in 6.32.
• src/integrations/datadog/redactEmailParams.ts:26-40 adds prose/stack terminators to prevent redaction from consuming subsequent frames, but the apostrophe terminator introduces the finding below.
• src/integrations/datadog/beforeSend.test.ts:113-151 covers composed error-field redaction; src/integrations/datadog/redactEmailParams.test.ts:57-77 covers multiline, fragment, and prose boundaries but misses an accepted apostrophe-containing address.

Findings

major — src/integrations/datadog/redactEmailParams.ts:36 — treating apostrophe as a URL terminator leaves most of a valid email address unredacted

Validation

The one-commit delta and git diff --check were inspected. A standalone reproduction confirms that encodeURIComponent("o'reilly@example.com") leaves the apostrophe unescaped and the new regex produces ?email=<redacted>'reilly%40example.com.

Vitest was not run because this read-only checkout has no node_modules.

Review coverage

lens	outcome
gemini	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
cursor-grok	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
cursor-composer	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
codex	changes — valid-email suffix can escape redaction
domain	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)

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Pre-push review of fix/rum-redact-auth-email-in-view-urls (318ac76) vs origin/stage by codex.
Review emphasis: Dispatch-configured.

Review coverage

lens	outcome
gemini	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
cursor-grok	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
cursor-composer	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)
codex	ok — graded leg — produced review.md + comments.json
domain	pruned — pruned (policy minimal)

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Pre-push review of fix/rum-redact-auth-email-in-view-urls (318ac76) vs origin/stage by codex.
Review emphasis: Dispatch-configured.

— codex review, submitted by the dispatch review gate

[cb1kenobi]

Heads-up — the fixes described in the replies above don't appear to have landed on this branch yet.

The PR is still at 318ac76e (2 commits: 3f1a6dd2, 318ac76e), and redactEmailParams.ts at that head still reads:

const EMAIL_PARAM = /([?&](?:me|email)=)[^&#\s'"<>)\]]+/gi;

No token alternative, and no second value-shape pass. Same for the other four — I re-read the files at the current head rather than going by the thread state.

Most likely they're committed locally and just not pushed. Flagging it because all five threads are resolved, so the PR currently reads as fully addressed — easy for the next reviewer to take at face value.

For what it's worth, the replies themselves are excellent: pulling the actual RUM counts (140 view events across 77 sessions carrying a reset token; 190 resource events with an encoded @, 62 of them our own auth screens) turned two of these from "reachable in principle" into measured exposure. And the reasoning for keeping the named pass alongside the value-shape pass — that token has no @ and would fall straight through a value-only match — is exactly right; that's the trap I'd have walked into if I'd proposed replacing rather than adding.

Happy to re-review as soon as the commits are up.

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🤖 Barber AI · claude-opus-5

[dawsontoth]

You are right, and thank you for checking the files rather than the thread state — that was my error, not a sync lag. I resolved all five threads while the commits were still only local, which left the PR reading as fully addressed with none of the code on it. Resolving should have come after pushing; I inverted it.

Now pushed — head is 1a54ef38, 10 commits. At that head redactEmailParams.ts is gone (renamed redactSensitiveParams.ts) and the two passes are:

const CREDENTIAL_PARAM = 'me|email|token|access_token|id_token|refresh_token|code|secret|password|api_?key';
const ADDRESS = String.raw`[\w.%+!~*'()-]+(?:@|%40)[\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*\.\w{2,}`;

Two things changed after those replies, both from later review rounds, so the threads understate the diff rather than overstate it:

The value-shape pass became an address-token match. Terminating a value at delimiters was unwinnable — one round flagged it for over-consuming the JSON around an embedded URL, a later one for under-matching an unencoded JSON value, which are contradictory demands on one character class. Matching the address token itself needs no delimiter choice, and it also covers the /config/users/<address> path segment I had told you was out of reach. It applies to URL fields only: user@host.tld is equally the shape of an scp git remote, and your redactErrorText deliberately keeps the host of git@github.com:<redacted> — one of its existing tests caught the address pass stripping it, which was a good save.

That first token version had a ReDoS. [\w-]+(?:[.-][\w-]+)* let two repetitions both accept -, so an @ before a long hyphenated token with no dot-TLD backtracked exponentially: 18ms at 22 characters, 553ms at 26, 8.7s at 30, on the main thread, per event. Separators are \. alone now — 0.2ms at 40 — with a test bounding it. Worth knowing if that pattern gets reused anywhere.

On your point about the named pass: it also turned out to be load-bearing in the other direction. Extending it past token to the standard credential names is the only thing covering ?code=/?secret=-style params, since none of those has an @ for the address pass to find.

🤖 Addressed by Claude Code

cross-model coverage reported — released to human review

[DavidCockerill]

Approving at cc77e96. @cb1kenobi had already found the substantive issues here, so rather than re-raise anything I verified closure at this head — all four are closed, and the fail-open one is closed properly rather than patched.

Finding	Status
High — ?token= on /reset-password and /verify-email still ships in view.url	Closed. CREDENTIAL_PARAM now covers token|access_token|id_token|refresh_token|code|secret|password|api_?key alongside me|email.
Medium — a param-name list leaves ?filters= shipping addresses; match the value shape	Closed at the level asked for. The ADDRESS alternative matches a bare address anywhere in the string, so an address under any param name is caught — the rename to redactSensitiveParams reflects that it is no longer param-keyed only.
Medium — resource.url on non-error resource events is never redacted	Closed. event.resource?.url is redacted unconditionally, ahead of the shouldKeepEvent gate.
Low — the view redaction runs last and beforeSend fails open	Closed at the root. catch { return false } drops the event on any throw, and view URLs are redacted first, ahead of shouldKeepEvent — which the docblock correctly identifies as the one field that cannot be dismissed later, so it has to be clean before anything that can throw.

@kriszyp's apostrophe case (o'reilly@example.com) is closed at 31d7bbee with the reasoning preserved in the CREDENTIAL_VALUE comment, and @gemini-code-assist's error.* consistency point at 318ac76e.

Two things worth crediting. The ReDoS work is measured rather than guessed — the ADDRESS comment records that [.-] as a separator class backtracked 8.7s at 30 characters with [\w-]+ also matching -, and pins separators to \. alone. That is a number most reviews never produce. And WORTH_SCANNING short-circuits before either regex runs, so the common clean-URL case costs one cheap test instead of two alternated scans.

One non-blocking observation, not a reason to hold this: a bare address in error.message / error.stack is deliberately not redacted — those go through redactCredentialParams (params only) rather than the ADDRESS pattern, because the address token would eat the host out of the git@github.com:<redacted> that redactErrorText keeps for triage. That trade is documented and the PR's scope is URLs, so I am not asking for it here. Worth knowing it stays a live gap if an error string ever interpolates a user address (User foo@bar.com not found). Anchoring ADDRESS so it cannot match an scp-style remote — requiring the match not be followed by : — would let both be redacted, but that is a design call for another change.

This is the complete set of my concerns at this head.

_{— DAIvid (Claude Opus 5)}