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Implements DEVEX-660: handle session_id in the agent middleware, per connection-log RFC requirement 6.2.

What

  • Add tracing.SessionIDMiddleware, a log-only middleware that reads the 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 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 the field 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.

Implementation plan

DEVEX-660: Handle session_id in agent middleware

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 session_id correlation to the agent's HTTP
middleware stack. When an incoming agent API request carries a 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
    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):

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 session_id span attribute when a tracer is present none (log context only, per RFC 6.2)
Log mechanism slog.With(ctx, slog.F("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 = "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:

// SessionIDMiddleware reads the 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("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:

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
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("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 session_id field equal to the sent value;
  • no baggage -> no session_id field;
  • malformed baggage (session_id=not-valid) -> no session_id field;
  • (optional) uppercase hex -> no 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 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: session_id=<hex> header, and assert the
captured log entry contains the 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 feat(coderd/tracing): correlate request logs and spans by session_id #27671).
  • Decision: feat(coderd/tracing): correlate request logs and spans by session_id #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 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 (feat(coderd/tracing): correlate request logs and spans by session_id #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 session_id
    baggage per RFC chore: Add golangci-lint and codecov #3. Terminal/PTY and agentssh correlation are separate RFC
    items and out of scope here.

Opened by Coder Agents on behalf of @aqandrew.

Add tracing.SessionIDMiddleware, a log-only middleware that reads the
session_id W3C baggage member and attaches it to the request log context,
and wire it into the agent HTTP stack before loggermw so agent request
logs can be correlated by session. Unlike Middleware, it does not create
spans, emit telemetry, or gate on route patterns, per RFC requirement 6.2.

Verified with go test ./coderd/tracing/..., go vet, and golangci-lint on
the changed packages.
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