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.
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