fix(responses): avoid recursive encrypted payload traversal

[luvs01]

Summary

• Replace the recursive encrypted-payload sanitizer walk with an explicit enter/exit frame stack.
• Preserve the existing depth-first order, rewrite count, array-splice continuation, and post-order agent_message normalization for JSON request trees.
• Add regressions for a 30,000-level input, nested agent messages, and mixed plaintext plus genuine Fernet content.

Root cause and impact

sanitizeEncryptedContentInPlace recursively visited client-controlled /v1/responses input before normal request parsing. A valid deeply nested JSON tree well below the request-size cap could exhaust the JavaScript call stack.

The iterative traversal removes that availability failure without carrying forward the reverse-order and ancestor-walk complexity problems of a simple LIFO port.

Verification

• Base: dev at c6688c79ff58ca4f4a6502f6e6a4228124b45047; exact head: 88dab563ba12172e66b4eb2778f89eaa785918cc.
• Red-first: the new 30,000-level regression failed on the unpatched base with RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded.
• Bun 1.3.14: bun test tests/multi-agent-compat.test.ts tests/openai-responses-passthrough.test.ts — 119 pass.
• Bun 1.4.0-canary.1: the same focused suite — 119 pass.
• bun run typecheck passed on both runtimes.
• bun run privacy:scan and git diff --check passed.
• A Codex Security diff scan completed with full changed-surface coverage and no reportable findings.
• Independent final review found no remaining P0-P2 security or correctness issue.
• The full repository suite was not rerun for this focused two-file patch.

Scope notes

Production request bodies come from JSON parsing, so cyclic and shared-reference object graphs are outside this wire contract. Supporting those direct JavaScript graphs would be a separate API-hardening decision.

Checklist

• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed. No user-facing command or configuration changed; focused code comments and regressions describe the behavior.
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. The changed request-boundary traversal received an independent security diff review with no reportable finding.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of deeply nested content during encrypted-message sanitization.
  • Preserved message metadata when normalizing nested agent messages.
  • Maintained correct separation of plaintext and encrypted content in mixed message inputs.

• Tests

  • Added regression coverage for deeply nested inputs and nested agent-message normalization.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The encrypted payload sanitizer now traverses nested data iteratively. It preserves encrypted-content splitting and agent_message normalization. Tests cover 30,000-level nesting, nested agent messages, metadata preservation, and mixed encrypted slots.

Changes

Encrypted payload sanitization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Iterative sanitizer traversal src/server/responses/encrypted-payload.ts:268-329	Replaces recursive traversal with explicit visit, array, object, and agent_message frames. It preserves encrypted-content splitting, message conversion, and rewrite bookkeeping.
Sanitization regression coverage tests/multi-agent-compat.test.ts:1141-1198	Adds deep-nesting and nested-agent_message tests. Updates mixed encrypted-slot coverage to verify payload splitting and metadata preservation.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 88dab

The change prevents stack exhaustion, but agent messages nested under object properties can still retain the wrong type and internal fields, causing incorrect request behavior. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed before merging.

Suggested reviewers: ingwannu, lidge-jun, wibias

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Inline comments:
In `@src/server/responses/encrypted-payload.ts`:
- Around line 280-282: Update the object branch of the visit traversal to
schedule the post-order agent normalization frame for every object whose type is
agent_message before pushing its object frame. Remove the equivalent
array-element-only scheduling so normalization is handled uniformly, including
agent_message values nested under object properties, and add a regression
covering that nesting.

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• src/server/responses/encrypted-payload.ts
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[lidge-jun]

[Repository bug audit · 2026-08-14]

No code-level blocker found in the reviewed diff. The explicit enter/exit stack preserves post-order agent_message normalization and array-splice continuation while removing the client-controlled recursion path that can overflow the JavaScript stack. The 30,000-depth regression and mixed encrypted/plaintext cases are appropriate.

Merge condition: run/approve the currently action_required Cross-platform CI and React Doctor workflows on this exact head. With green exact-head CI, this should be merged as an independent availability hardening change.

[lidge-jun]

Cherry-picked onto dev as part of the bug resolution campaign (commit-and-merge loop). Changes verified with typecheck and focused tests.