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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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Telemetry distinguishes web and desktop clients and identifies whether a server is managed by the desktop app or running standalone.
  • Telemetry includes runtime details and, where available, browser information such as the user agent, language, platform, and version.
  • The deployment environment can be specified through telemetry resource attributes.
• Documentation
  • Updated observability guidance to explain the telemetry attributes and service names. Existing queries using replaced attribute names may need updating.

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PR Summary

Medium Risk
Changes only telemetry labels, but dashboards and alerts keyed on service.mode / service.runtime will break until updated; desktop environment tier behavior is intentionally changed to honor OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES.

Overview
Telemetry resource attributes are aligned with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions instead of overloading service.* keys like service.runtime and service.mode.

Desktop, server, web UI, relay, and relay clients now emit standard fields such as service.version, deployment.environment.name, process.runtime.*, and (in the browser) user_agent.original / browser.*. Product-specific dimensions move under t3code.*: t3code.client.surface (web vs desktop window), t3code.server.managed_by (standalone vs desktop-launched server), and t3code.component for relay.

Shared nodeProcessRuntimeAttributes() centralizes Node/Electron runtime metadata. The desktop main process preserves operator deployment.environment.name from OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES when Effect would otherwise override it. Tests and observability docs are updated; saved queries that filter on the old attribute names need to change.

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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	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	+17 B (+0.1%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.5 KiB	6.5 KiB	+17 B (+0.3%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	56.2 KiB	56.3 KiB	+44 B (+0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	9	10	+1 (+11.1%)	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	13.5 KiB	13.5 KiB	−26 B (−0.2%)	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	7.1 KiB	7.1 KiB	+4 B (+0.1%)	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	6.4 KiB	6.4 KiB	−30 B (−0.5%)	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	57.0 KiB	57.0 KiB	−44 B (−0.1%)	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	9	8	−1 (−11.1%)	21	✅

Baseline: f5cb3b4 · PR result: 9bbb65d · 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: 114.0 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.7 KiB

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• apps/server/src/config.ts
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• apps/server/src/serverLogger.test.ts
• apps/web/src/observability/clientTracing.ts
• docs/fork/0026-telemetry-says-which-app-sent-it.md
• docs/operations/observability.md
• infra/relay/src/observability.ts
• packages/shared/src/relayTracing.ts

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Walkthrough

Telemetry resources now identify client surfaces, server management, runtime details, and browser metadata. Tests and observability documentation reflect the updated attributes.

Changes

Telemetry resource attributes

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared runtime and relay attributes packages/shared/src/observability.ts, packages/shared/src/relayTracing.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/relayTracing.ts	A shared helper emits Node or Electron runtime attributes. Relay tracing uses updated runtime and component attribute keys, and server relay layers specify nodejs.
Desktop and web resource attributes apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.ts, apps/web/src/observability/clientTracing.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.test.ts, apps/server/src/server.test.ts	Desktop resources use the configured deployment environment and runtime attributes. Web resources add the client surface, version, and available browser attributes. 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 add the package version, management surface, and runtime attributes. Tests and documentation reflect the updated fields; the fork proposal and ledger record the changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d9a31

Updating queries to the new telemetry attributes can remove runtime and component details from Cloudflare relay traces. Update the relay resource attributes to complete the migration.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d9a31

The change affects 5 systems.

Changed systems: apps/web, apps/server, docs, apps/desktop, packages/shared

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/web (ui) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — docs (service) was modified; 3 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — apps/desktop (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.test.ts: The log-export test replaces its service.runtime payload expectation with expectations for deployment.environment.name and process.runtime.name.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.test.ts: The resource-attribute test now checks that deployment.environment.name has the value staging, rather than merely checking that the key appears.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.test.ts: The test’s OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES input changes the deployment environment value from development to staging.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopObservability.ts: Imports nodeProcessRuntimeAttributes for use in the telemetry resource.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: updating observability resource attributes to follow 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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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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