fix(observability): resource attributes follow OTel semantic conventions

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• Traces from the desktop window arrive as t3code-web, and the only thing telling them apart from a browser tab was service.mode, which nobody could find without reading the code.
• service.mode and service.runtime squatted in the service.* namespace OpenTelemetry reserves, and service.mode meant a different thing in each service.
• Attributes named by the semantic conventions are the ones collectors, dashboards, and vendors already know how to group and filter on.
• An operator-set deployment.environment.name has to keep winning over the default the desktop app reports.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Wide rename of exported telemetry resource keys across every app surface; behavior is unchanged but dashboards and alerts keyed on service.mode/service.runtime will stop matching until updated.

Overview
Telemetry resource attributes now follow OpenTelemetry semantic conventions across server, desktop main process, web UI, mobile relay clients, and the Cloudflare relay worker.

Custom keys in the reserved service.* namespace (service.runtime, service.mode, service.component) are replaced with standard fields such as service.version, service.instance.id, deployment.environment.name, and process.runtime.*, plus browser/user_agent attributes on the web client. Product-specific dimensions move under t3code.* (e.g. t3code.client.surface for web vs desktop window vs mobile, t3code.server.managed_by for desktop-launched vs standalone server).

Node-based exporters share new helpers (nodeProcessResourceAttributes, processServiceInstanceId) so each process gets a stable instance id and dev/prod environment defaults, while values from OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES for deployment.environment.name and service.instance.id still override defaults. Relay client tracing now requires serviceInstanceId and accepts caller-supplied semantic attributes instead of a single runtime string.

Tests and ops docs are updated for the new export shape; saved queries that filtered on the old attribute names need to be migrated.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	4.9 KiB	−40 B (−0.8%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.7 KiB	3.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.1 KiB	−40 B (−3.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.4 KiB	20.4 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	4.9 KiB	4.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.7 KiB	3.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.8 KiB	20.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 78af4c4 · PR result: 7dfbc2b · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 106.1 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 106.4 KiB

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• apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.ts
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• apps/mobile/src/features/observability/tracing.ts
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• apps/web/src/observability/clientTracing.ts
• apps/web/src/observability/serviceInstance.ts
• docs/fork/0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md
• docs/operations/observability.md
• infra/relay/src/observability.ts
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Telemetry resources now identify client surfaces, server management, runtime details, and browser metadata with updated resource attributes. Desktop environment values can come from OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES. Tests and observability documentation reflect the changes.

Changes

Telemetry resource attributes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared runtime and relay attributes packages/shared/src/observability.ts, packages/shared/src/relayTracing.ts, infra/relay/src/observability.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/relayTracing.ts	A shared helper emits Node or Electron runtime attributes. Relay tracing uses updated runtime, component, and client-surface attribute keys. Server relay layers specify the nodejs runtime.
Desktop and web resource attributes apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.test.ts, apps/web/src/observability/clientTracing.ts	Desktop resources use the configured deployment environment and Node runtime attributes. Web resources add the client surface, application version, and available browser attributes. Desktop tests check the updated resource fields.
Server resources and telemetry documentation apps/server/src/config.ts, apps/server/src/serverLogger.test.ts, docs/operations/observability.md, docs/fork/0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md, docs/fork/README.md	Server resources include the package version, management surface, and runtime attributes. Server log tests and observability documentation reflect the updated fields. The fork document and ledger record the telemetry changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 3411e

The telemetry attribute changes appear mergeable after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3411e

The changes primarily affect telemetry labels and metadata. The reviewed browser export path retains its existing endpoint and authentication controls, with no demonstrated increase in application authority. Newly exported browser details introduce a limited privacy consideration; downstream handling and retention remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated exposure increase is additional browser metadata delivered with traces from browser and Electron-rendered clients to their existing primary-environment destination. Downstream processing and retention were not established, so wider privacy exposure cannot be quantified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The base/head comparison found unchanged web export endpoint and authentication wiring. The existing primary HTTP layer includes cookies for same-origin browser primaries and applies its bearer-token transformation with cookies omitted for other environments. Resource collection does not bypass this layer.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Confirm that downstream access and retention policies cover the newly exported browser metadata, and retain only fields needed for operational diagnosis. This is a privacy-hardening proposal, not an observed control failure.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: aligning observability resource attributes with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
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🟡 Minor · Update the Cloudflare relay resource attributes. · 0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md:12-14

docs/fork/0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md:12-14
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Update the Cloudflare relay resource attributes.

The documentation requires every T3 Code signal to use process.runtime.* and t3.component. The reachable Cloudflare relay still exports service.runtime and service.component, so dashboards migrated according to the document can lose its runtime and component dimensions.

Suggested fix

-          "service.runtime": "cloudflare-worker",
-          "service.component": "relay",
+          "process.runtime.name": "cloudflare-worker",
+          "t3.component": "relay",

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Review comment at @docs/fork/0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md around
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Update the reachable Cloudflare relay’s resource attributes to use
process.runtime.name and t3.component instead of service.runtime and
service.component, keeping the values cloudflare-worker and relay respectively.

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