asdict keeps the enum and json.dumps writes it as a string because
StrEnum is a str subclass, but nothing turns it back on the way in, so
a cache hit returned a plain str where the annotation promised an enum.
Verified end to end rather than assumed from the subclass relation.
A value outside the domain now raises inside the existing guard and the
call falls back to source, which is the right direction for a poisoned
or stale cache entry. Entries written before this column existed still
replay: the guard checks for the key first, and a test pins that, since
turning it into an unconditional conversion would quietly turn every
pre-upgrade entry into a permanent miss.
Chat rows stored full message and response text with no upper bound, so
downstream contracts and tenders lived in llm_calls indefinitely. Add
_cap_text/_cap_messages in the single telemetry exit (_record), applied
after digest_messages and before json.dumps, plus to response/thinking.
Capping is per text, not over the serialized JSON: cutting the whole
string would emit invalid JSON into an unvalidated TEXT column. The cap
builds new dicts and never mutates in place — digest_messages passes
non-list content straight through as the same object, so an in-place cut
would silently poison the caller's messages and the cache key.
text_cap is required on TelemetryEmitter (internal class, three known
construction sites) and defaults to None on the three public clients, so
the default behaviour stays byte-for-byte identical. Settings wiring
lands separately.
Includes config aggregation for multi-source env keys, from_env and
from_settings factories with explicit shared-backend injection,
gather_bounded, top-level exports, tightened import-linter layers with
the gate removed from the Makefile, and the finalized .env.example.