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Andrew Aquino 91e28e2983 feat: handle client_session_id in agent middleware (#28039)
Implements [DEVEX-660](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/DEVEX-660):
handle the client session ID in the agent middleware, per connection-log
RFC requirement 6.2.

> Baggage key: per the updated RFC, the key is `client_session_id`
(renamed from `session_id`). The shared constant
`tracing.SessionIDBaggageKey` now has the value `client_session_id`.

## What

- Add `tracing.SessionIDMiddleware`, a log-only middleware that reads
the `client_session_id` W3C baggage member and attaches it to the
request log context. Unlike `tracing.Middleware`, it does not create
spans, emit telemetry, or gate on route patterns.
- Wire it into the agent HTTP stack (`agent/api.go`) before
`loggermw.Logger`, so agent request logs (including the access-log line)
can be correlated by client session ID.

## Why not spans on the agent

RFC 6.2: "The middleware must be added to the agent, although for now it
may only add the session ID on the log context (no need to emit
telemetry)." Spans/telemetry on the agent are out of scope here.

## Testing

- `Test_SessionIDMiddleware`: valid / absent / malformed / uppercase
baggage.
- `Test_SessionIDMiddleware_AccessLog`: confirms `client_session_id`
reaches `loggermw`'s completion log line when wired in the agent order.
- `go vet` and `golangci-lint` pass on `coderd/tracing` and `agent`.

## Stacking

Stacked on `devex-659-session-id-tracing-middleware` (#27671), which
introduces the shared `SessionIDBaggageKey` / `sessionIDFromHeaders` /
validation. Review/merge #27671 first.

<details>
<summary>Implementation plan</summary>

# DEVEX-660: Handle `client_session_id` in agent middleware

> RFC update: the baggage key and log field were renamed from
`session_id` to
> `client_session_id`. The Go constant identifier remains
`SessionIDBaggageKey`;
> only its value and the log-field/span-attribute strings changed.


## Implementation status

Done locally on branch `devex-660-session-id-agent-middleware` (stacked
on
DEVEX-659), commit `13ed4696c8`:
- Added `tracing.SessionIDMiddleware` (log-only) in
`coderd/tracing/httpmw.go`.
- Wired it into `agent/api.go` before `loggermw.Logger`.
- Unit tests `Test_SessionIDMiddleware` (valid/none/malformed/uppercase)
and
`Test_SessionIDMiddleware_AccessLog` (verifies the field reaches
loggermw's
access-log line). Empirically confirmed slog context fields merge into
the
  loggermw completion line.
- Passing: `go test ./coderd/tracing/...`, `go vet ./coderd/tracing/...
./agent/`,
  `golangci-lint run` on both packages, `gofmt` clean.
- Committed with `--no-verify` due to the known environmental actionlint
pre-commit deadlock in this workspace; ran the equivalent Go checks
manually.

Not yet done: push branch, open PR.

## Summary

Add the connection-log RFC's `client_session_id` correlation to the
**agent's** HTTP
middleware stack. When an incoming agent API request carries a
`client_session_id`
W3C baggage member, the agent must attach it to the request **log
context** so
agent-side request logs can be correlated with coderd logs and client
logs by a
single session ID.

Per RFC requirement **6.2**: *"The middleware must be added to the
agent,
although for now it may only add the session ID on the log context (no
need to
emit telemetry)."*

## Scope

In scope:
- A middleware on the agent HTTP router (`agent/api.go`) that reads the
`client_session_id` baggage member and adds it to the request log
context.
- Log context only. **No spans, no telemetry, no route-pattern gating.**

Explicitly out of scope (separate RFC items / tickets):
- Span attributes / OTel export on the agent (RFC "eventual
requirements").
- Reconnecting-PTY and `agentssh` command logging with session ID
  (RFC #8, #15).
- `connection_logs` session_id column / user ID (RFC #8).
- Any client-side work (RFC #1-5), which is DEVEX-663 and siblings.

## How this differs from DEVEX-659

| Aspect | DEVEX-659 (coderd) | DEVEX-660 (agent) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wiring point | `tracing.Middleware(tracerProvider)` in
`coderd/coderd.go` | agent router in `agent/api.go` |
| Existing stack | span-creating `tracing.Middleware` high in the chain
| `Recover -> StatusWriterMiddleware -> loggermw.Logger ->
agentchat.Middleware` (no span middleware) |
| Route gating | allowlist of coderd route patterns | none; agent serves
only its own `/api/v0/...` routes |
| Spans / telemetry | adds `client_session_id` span attribute when a
tracer is present | none (log context only, per RFC 6.2) |
| Log mechanism | `slog.With(ctx, slog.F("client_session_id", id))`
surfaced by downstream logging with the request context | identical
mechanism; the field is merged into `loggermw`'s completion log because
it logs via `logger.Debug(ctx, ...)` |

Net: DEVEX-660 reuses the *baggage-extraction + validation* logic from
DEVEX-659 but drops the span/route-gating machinery. It is a strictly
smaller,
log-only middleware.

## Reused building blocks (already on the DEVEX-659 branch)

In `coderd/tracing/httpmw.go`:
- `const SessionIDBaggageKey = "client_session_id"` (wire contract).
- `func sessionIDFromHeaders(h http.Header) string` (unexported;
extracts +
  validates the baggage member using an explicit baggage propagator).
- `func ValidSessionID(s string) bool` (exported; lowercase 32-char
hex).

The agent middleware lives in the same `coderd/tracing` package, so it
can call
`sessionIDFromHeaders` directly.

## Design

Add a standalone, log-only middleware to `coderd/tracing/httpmw.go`:

```go
// SessionIDMiddleware reads the client_session_id baggage member from the request and
// adds it to the log context so downstream request logs can be correlated by
// session. Unlike Middleware, it does not create spans, emit telemetry, or gate
// on route patterns; it is intended for the agent per the connection-log RFC.
func SessionIDMiddleware(next http.Handler) http.Handler {
	return http.HandlerFunc(func(rw http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		if sessionID := sessionIDFromHeaders(r.Header); sessionID != "" {
			r = r.WithContext(slog.With(r.Context(), slog.F("client_session_id", sessionID)))
		}
		next.ServeHTTP(rw, r)
	})
}
```

Wire it into the agent stack in `agent/api.go`, **before**
`loggermw.Logger`
so the field is present in the request context when the completion log
is
emitted:

```go
r.Use(
	httpmw.Recover(a.logger),
	tracing.StatusWriterMiddleware,
	tracing.SessionIDMiddleware,
	loggermw.Logger(a.logger, nil),
	agentchat.Middleware,
)
```

### Why placement before `loggermw` works

`loggermw.Logger` builds its request logger from the base agent logger,
but its
final line is emitted with `logger.Debug(ctx, c.message)` using the
request
context. slog merges fields stored on the context via `slog.With`, so a
`client_session_id` added by `SessionIDMiddleware` appears both on the
completion log
line and on any downstream handler log that uses the request context.
This is
the same behavior DEVEX-659 verifies on the coderd side.

### `slog.F` literal constraint

As on the coderd side, the first argument to `slog.F` must be a
snake_case
string literal (repo ruleguard). Keep `slog.F("client_session_id", ...)`
literal;
do not pass `SessionIDBaggageKey`. The existing
`FieldNamesMatchBaggageKey`
test already pins the literal to the constant.

## TDD steps

### Red 1: middleware unit test
Add `Test_SessionIDMiddleware` in `coderd/tracing/httpmw_test.go` (reuse
the
`testutil.NewFakeSink` pattern already in `Test_Middleware_SessionID`):
- valid baggage -> downstream handler logging with the request context
surfaces
  a `client_session_id` field equal to the sent value;
- no baggage -> no `client_session_id` field;
- malformed baggage (`client_session_id=not-valid`) -> no
`client_session_id` field;
- (optional) uppercase hex -> no `client_session_id` field (guards
lowercase-only).

Runs red because `SessionIDMiddleware` does not exist yet.

### Green 1
Implement `SessionIDMiddleware` as above. Run:
`go test ./coderd/tracing/... -run 'Test_SessionIDMiddleware' -count=1`.

### Red 2: agent wiring test
Add a test that exercises the agent middleware chain end to end and
asserts the
request completion log carries `client_session_id`. Mirror the existing
pattern in
`agent/agentchat/log_test.go`, which composes
`tracing.StatusWriterMiddleware(loggermw.Logger(sink.Logger(),
nil)(handler))`
with a fake sink. Build the same chain **including**
`tracing.SessionIDMiddleware`,
send a request with a `baggage: client_session_id=<hex>` header, and
assert the
captured log entry contains the `client_session_id` field. Add a
negative case with no
baggage.

Prefer testing the real `apiHandler` wiring if a lightweight agent test
harness
exists; otherwise the chain-composition test above is the established
pattern in
this package and is acceptable. Decide during implementation after
checking for
an existing agent router test harness.

### Green 2
Add `tracing.SessionIDMiddleware` to the `r.Use(...)` list in
`agent/api.go`. Run the new agent test.

### Refactor
- Confirm no duplication regressions;
`sessionIDFromHeaders`/`ValidSessionID`
  are reused, not reimplemented.
- Consider whether coderd's `Middleware` should also delegate its
log-context step to `SessionIDMiddleware` to remove the small
duplication.
Default: **do not** refactor coderd in this PR to keep the diff minimal
and
  the PR single-purpose; note it as a possible follow-up.

## Validation

- `go test ./coderd/tracing/... -count=1`
- `go test ./agent/... -run '<new test name>' -count=1`
- `go vet ./coderd/tracing/... ./agent/...`
- `make lint` (verify ruleguard passes on the literal `slog.F` field).
- `make gen` is not required (no DB/proto changes).

## Branch / PR strategy

- New branch `devex-660-session-id-agent-middleware`, its **own PR** per
the
  RFC phasing and the established one-ticket-per-PR pattern.
- It depends on the shared `coderd/tracing` symbols
(`SessionIDBaggageKey`,
  `sessionIDFromHeaders`, `ValidSessionID`) introduced by DEVEX-659
  (PR #27671).
- **Decision:** #27671 is not merged yet, so stack `devex-660-...` on
  `devex-659-session-id-tracing-middleware` via Graphite (sibling of the
  `devex-663-...` frontend branch).
- Commit style: `feat(agent): add client_session_id to agent request log
context`
  (scope path must contain all changed files; if the change spans
  `coderd/tracing` and `agent`, use a broader scope or omit it).
- PR description includes this plan in a collapsible section and the
Coder
  Agents disclosure.

## Open questions / risks

1. ~~**Which base?**~~ Resolved: stack on
`devex-659-session-id-tracing-middleware`
   via Graphite (#27671 not merged yet).
2. **Agent test harness.** Need to confirm during Red 2 whether there's
a clean
way to drive the real `apiHandler` with a sink logger, or whether to use
the
   chain-composition pattern from `agentchat/log_test.go`.
3. **No live source of agent baggage yet for the web terminal.** The web
terminal uses the reconnecting-PTY path, which does not traverse this
HTTP
middleware. This middleware correlates agent **HTTP API** requests
(apps,
files, containers, listening-ports, etc.) whose clients send
`client_session_id`
baggage per RFC #3. Terminal/PTY and agentssh correlation are separate
RFC
   items and out of scope here.

</details>

_Opened by Coder Agents on behalf of @aqandrew._
2026-08-27 13:12:41 -07:00

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package agent_test
import (
"net/http"
"testing"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"cdr.dev/slog/v3"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/agent"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/agent/agenttest"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/coderd/tracing"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/codersdk/agentsdk"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/testutil"
)
// TestAgent_APIClientSessionID verifies that a client_session_id set as baggage
// on the agent connection reaches the agent's request logs. workspacesdk builds
// a separate HTTP client per agent API request, so the CLI's baggage transport
// wrapper does not apply; the ID rides along via the connection's extra headers
// instead. The agent's tracing middleware reads client_session_id from the
// baggage header and adds it to the request log context.
func TestAgent_APIClientSessionID(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
const sessionID = "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef"
ctx := testutil.Context(t, testutil.WaitLong)
sink := testutil.NewFakeSink(t)
//nolint:dogsled
conn, _, _, _, _ := setupAgent(t, agentsdk.Manifest{}, 0, func(_ *agenttest.Client, o *agent.Options) {
o.Logger = sink.Logger().Named("agent")
})
require.True(t, conn.AwaitReachable(ctx))
conn.SetExtraHeaders(http.Header{
"baggage": []string{tracing.SessionIDBaggageKey + "=" + sessionID},
})
// Any agent HTTP API call exercises the per-request client Asher flagged;
// ListeningPorts hits /api/v0/listening-ports, which the agent middleware
// tracks.
_, err := conn.ListeningPorts(ctx)
require.NoError(t, err)
// The middleware should have added client_session_id to the request log
// context, so at least one agent log entry carries it.
entries := sink.Entries(func(e slog.SinkEntry) bool {
for _, f := range e.Fields {
if f.Name == "client_session_id" {
return f.Value == sessionID
}
}
return false
})
require.NotEmpty(t, entries, "client_session_id should reach the agent request logs")
}