Rebased onto the current release/v3.8.51 tip as part of a combined provider-retirement/provenance merge batch (Designer Web, Felo Web, Runtime, GPL-derived removal, Qwen Web already landed). Large conflict set (this is the biggest PR in the batch — the common ChatGPT Web provider touches chat, images, count-tokens, session leases, and combos). Conflicts resolved:
- `open-sse/config/providers/registry/chatgpt-web/*`, `open-sse/executors/chatgpt-web*`, `open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration/providers/chatgptWeb.ts`, and their tests: kept deleted, matching the PR's stated scope.
- `open-sse/config/providers/registry/minimax/web/index.ts`, `open-sse/handlers/imageGeneration/providers/geminiWeb.ts`, `open-sse/executors/gemini-web.ts`'s stale image-mode branch: base-drift collisions against already-merged sibling retirements (#11691, #11708) — kept deleted / dropped the dead code, since this PR's own branch forked before those merged.
- `src/shared/constants/reservedProviderPrefixes.ts`, `open-sse/executors/index.ts`, `executorProxy.ts`, `virtualFactory.ts`, `autoStrategy.ts`, `src/lib/db/providers.ts`, `src/sse/handlers/chat.ts`: combined the Designer + Runtime (Felo/Qwen) + common-ChatGPT-Web retirement guard calls at each shared chokepoint — compute-once-then-OR pattern, consistent with prior combinations in this batch.
- `src/sse/services/model.ts` / `src/sse/handlers/chatHelpers.ts`: adopted this PR's new `getModelInfoOrRetirementResponse()` central wrapper (a real improvement over ad-hoc try/catch), and extended it to also catch the Designer + Runtime retirement errors it didn't originally cover, so the consolidation doesn't regress the other two mechanisms.
- `src/app/api/v1/images/edits/route.ts`: this PR moved the retirement check earlier (before `enforceApiKeyPolicy`) but left the old later call+catch block in place from base drift — removed the now-redundant duplicate `resolveImageRouteModel()` call and merged the Designer catch into the earlier one.
- `open-sse/config/imageRegistry.ts`, `tests/snapshots/executors/executor-map.json` (`keyCount` recomputed to 133), `tests/snapshots/provider/translate-path.json`: same "both sides inserted a different retired provider at the same slot" pattern — resolved by dropping both.
- `tests/unit/chatcore-executor-proxy.test.ts`, `provider-node-reserved-prefix.test.ts`, `combo-auto-candidate-expansion.test.ts`, `messages-count-tokens-route.test.ts`, `virtual-auto-combo.test.ts`: split into independent per-mechanism test blocks (established pattern); `virtual-auto-combo.test.ts`'s old "includes cookie web-session providers" positive-inclusion test (which used chatgpt-web as its example) was retired along with the provider and replaced by this PR's negative-exclusion test for the same slot.
- `docs/architecture/ARCHITECTURE.md`, `CODEBASE_DOCUMENTATION.md` (+ 4 i18n mirrors), `README.md`, `FREE-TIERS-GUIDE.md`, `docs/diagrams/free-tier-budget.svg`, `docs/screenshots/free-tier-budget-card.svg`, `docs/reference/PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md`: recomputed every stale count from the real merged state — 104 executors (`countFiles` gate logic), 351 providers (regenerated via `gen:provider-reference`), 152/351 `hasFree` entries, 445/438/7 free-tier catalog rows, 13 ToS-avoid providers, budget-card regenerated via its real generator script. One doc conflict (`oauth/` module list) needed picking HEAD's side specifically — theirs still listed the already-removed `raycast` module instead of the real `openference`.
- `config/quality/test-masking-allowlist.json`: additive merge of the PR's 17 `_deletedWithReplacement` entries alongside the batch's existing ones (one real duplicate-key mistake in my first pass, caught and fixed via a `object_pairs_hook` duplicate-key check before finalizing).
Also fixed two real, unrelated-to-my-merge issues surfaced by the focused suite:
- `tests/unit/resolve-web-provider-host.test.ts`: the PR's own test had a typo — it asserted `perplexity-web`'s resolved host as `"perplexity.ai"`, but the provider's registered `website` is `"https://www.perplexity.ai"` and the resolver returns the URL's `host` verbatim (no www-stripping), so the correct value is `"www.perplexity.ai"` (consistent with the same test's own `url` assertion).
- `tests/unit/hard-session-lease-bypass-inventory.test.ts`: this golden call-site inventory was already stale on the pristine post-#11713 tip (confirmed via a throwaway probe worktree) — `src/lib/db/providers.ts`'s 3 connection-fallback sites and a third `src/app/api/providers/route.ts` site were never added to the golden list by the earlier-merged #11698/#11720 PRs. Updated it to the real current inventory (dated inline comments explain each delta and which PR introduced it), plus this PR's own legitimate deltas (image-edits duplicate-call removal, `ChatGptWebExecutor.execute()` site removed).
Focused suite green (433/433 across executor-proxy, reserved-prefix, hard-session-lease-bypass-inventory, resolve-web-provider-host, retirement/runtime-block/source-retirement/management-retirement/image-handler-retirement, migration-168, combo-auto-candidate-expansion, virtual-auto-combo, executor-map-golden and siblings), plus `typecheck:core`, `check-file-size`, and `check-changelog-integrity` clean. Thanks for the thorough provenance-hold retirement work — appreciated.
Validated on the resolved merge against the current tip (527da656 + the post-#11281 rebaseline): the single conflict was a comment-only collision in providers/[id]/models/route.ts (kept the tip's #10828-ordering note). Focused suites 125/125 across all 13 touched test files (build-sqlite-stub, cc-compatible, copilot-claude-messages, copilot-gemini-route, executor-github, ghe-copilot, github-copilot-discovery-token, github-copilot-model-discovery, noauth-sibling-7620, provider-header-profiles, provider-models-config, request-log-payloads, upstream-error-passthrough), typecheck:core clean, file-size/changelog-integrity OK. Merged --admin over the inherited 2026-08-23 base-red cluster (#9985) — the reds are proven tip failures (CLI catalog cluster + @testing-library allowlist, being drained by #11280), not from this diff. Note: the rebase means several items the body listed (relay x-relay-path SSRF, /v1/search blocked-providers, #10736 rotation fence, #10903, #10865, #10899, #10916) already landed upstream and are NOT in this delta — the delta is: better-sqlite3 build guard + build heap/worker caps + telemetry-off (#10060 re-derived), credential-echo passthrough refusal + OCR/moderation redaction + call-log key redaction, Copilot CLI 1.0.81-6 wire identity + Claude→/v1/messages name-matched routing + discovery token fix, CC model_not_found 400, compat overrides for no-auth aliases (#7620-pinned). The Copilot wire-identity change is the one to watch in production. Thank you @arminanton — and the ported-author credits in the commit history (@rqzbeh, yidecode, the #10899/#10916 authors) are preserved. Your config-posture finding (REQUIRE_API_KEY default vs 0.0.0.0) is noted for a maintainer decision, as you scoped it.
captureCurrentProviderRequest mirrors every Bedrock Converse request into the
pending-request log tracker right after openAIToBedrockConverse() builds it,
including the decoded image.source.bytes Uint8Array. sanitizePayloadPII() and
redactPayload() in src/lib/logPayloads.ts both gate their recursive walk on
Array.isArray(), which is false for typed arrays, so each image fell into the
generic-object branch and got enumerated one JS key per decoded byte (twice,
once per function) before any truncation bound applied. For 3x ~1MB images
this took ~4s of synchronous, event-loop-blocking work, matching the
reporter's "1-2 images OK, 3+ fails" threshold and their --stack-size
observation (data-width pressure, not call-depth).
Add an opaque-binary short-circuit (ArrayBuffer.isView) ahead of the
Array.isArray branch in both functions, returning a fixed-size placeholder
instead of recursing. Apply the same guard to cloneBoundedForLog() in
open-sse/utils/requestLogger.ts for defense-in-depth (same blind spot, only
accidentally safe today via its own key-count slice).
Regression test reproduces the exact reporter shape (3x 1MB images) through
the real openAIToBedrockConverse() converter and protectPayloadForLog(),
asserting completion well under the previous ~4s and that binary bytes are
never expanded into per-byte object keys.
