Stop array-item secrets being wiped, and logging them

Three review findings from #485 that I missed when addressing that PR;
it has since merged, so they land here.

1. Array-item secrets destroyed by any unrelated save (data loss).

remove_empty_secrets recursed into dicts but let a list fall through to
the scalar branch and kept it verbatim. Lists merge by *replacement*, so
the blanks the masked form posts back went straight over the stored
array:

    stored   [{"name":"a","token":"REAL-A"}, {"name":"b","token":"REAL-B"}]
    posted   [{"name":"a","token":""},       {"name":"b","token":""}]
    merged   [{"name":"a","token":""},       {"name":"b","token":""}]
             -> both credentials gone

Same failure as the scalar api_key case fixed earlier, one container
deeper. Lists now prune element-wise, and a list with nothing real in it
is dropped so the stored one is left alone. Where one entry does change,
the new merge_secrets merges by index instead of replacing.

Two details the first attempt got wrong, both caught by existing tests:

- An emptied dict item must stay {}, not None. ConfigManager's
  _strip_secrets_recursive treats a secrets list as *parallel* to the
  regular one ({} = "item i has no secrets"); a None makes it stop
  looking parallel, and it then drops the whole key from the main config
  -- silently deleting the items' non-secret fields too.
- The incoming list's length wins. The regular config's list is
  authoritative about how many items exist, so preserving surplus stored
  entries would let the two fall out of step and make deleting an entry
  impossible.

2. Submitted credentials written to the journal (security).

save_plugin_config logged `Full config: {plugin_config}` at INFO and
`Config that failed: {plugin_config}` at ERROR. Both run before
separate_secrets, so plugin_config still held the values just typed into
the form. Now keys only. Swept the rest of web_interface/ and src/ for
the same shape -- these were the only two.

3. Restart banner kept stale wording.

showRestartPending() cleared the stored custom text but left the DOM
element alone, so a config save could show the previous update's
message. The default is read back from the server-rendered copy rather
than duplicated in JS, so the template stays the one owner of the string.

Verified: 556 passed, 1 skipped across the web suite. Mutation-checked --
reverting api_v3 fails the logging guard and the array-merge test;
reverting either half of the secret_helpers change fails the unit tests.
New end-to-end coverage drives the real endpoint, not just the helpers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01STMbQE4YctTacQXfbYqKuW

src/common/scroll_helper.py

@@ -328,11 +328,7 @@ class ScrollHelper:
             elapsed_time = current_time - (self.scroll_start_time or current_time)
             # The image already includes display_width padding, so we only need total_scroll_width
             required_total_distance = self.total_scroll_width
-            # Progress telemetry, emitted every few seconds for the whole of
+            self.logger.info(
-            # every scroll. It says how far along a marquee is, which is what
-            # you turn debug on to watch and not something an operator needs
-            # in the journal on a device that scrolls all day.
-            self.logger.debug(
                 "Scroll progress: elapsed=%.2fs, target=%.2fs, total_scrolled=%.0f/%d px (%.1f%%)",
                 elapsed_time,
                 self.calculated_duration,

src/logging_config.py

@@ -130,12 +130,7 @@ def setup_logging(
     # Console handler (always add)
     console_handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stdout)
     console_handler.setLevel(level)
-    # Under systemd, tag each line so the journal records the real severity
+    console_handler.setFormatter(formatter)
-    # rather than filing everything as informational. The file handler below
-    # keeps the plain formatter: the prefix is meaningful to journald and noise
-    # anywhere else.
-    console_handler.setFormatter(
-        JournalPriorityFormatter(formatter) if _under_systemd() else formatter)
     root_logger.addHandler(console_handler)
     
     # File handler (if specified)
@@ -150,84 +145,6 @@ def setup_logging(
             sys.stderr.write(f"Warning: Could not set up file logging to {log_file}: {e}\n")
 
 
-#: syslog priorities, which is what systemd parses from a "<N>" prefix on
-#: stdout. Mapped from Python's levels.
-_SYSLOG_PRIORITY = {
-    logging.CRITICAL: 2,   # LOG_CRIT
-    logging.ERROR: 3,      # LOG_ERR
-    logging.WARNING: 4,    # LOG_WARNING
-    logging.INFO: 6,       # LOG_INFO
-    logging.DEBUG: 7,      # LOG_DEBUG
-}
-
-
-class JournalPriorityFormatter(logging.Formatter):
-    """Wraps a formatter, prefixing each line with its syslog priority.
-
-    Under systemd everything this process writes to stdout lands in the journal
-    as PRIORITY=6, whatever the Python level was. Measured on a live rig: 55
-    ERROR lines and 13 WARNING lines in a day, every one of them recorded as
-    informational, so `journalctl -p err -u ledmatrix` returned nothing at all
-    while errors were being logged. Anyone triaging has to grep the message
-    text instead, which is both slower and wrong -- a search for "oom" matches
-    the radar logging "zoom=9".
-
-    systemd reads a leading "<N>" on each line and uses it as the priority
-    (sd-daemon(3)), so this needs no extra dependency. Multi-line records get
-    the prefix on every line, since the journal splits them and an unprefixed
-    continuation would fall back to the default.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self, inner: logging.Formatter):
-        super().__init__()
-        self._inner = inner
-
-    @property
-    def inner(self) -> logging.Formatter:
-        """The formatter doing the actual work.
-
-        Whether journald tagging is applied depends on JOURNAL_STREAM, so it is
-        on under systemd and off in a terminal -- and anything asserting which
-        formatter setup_logging() selected would otherwise get a different
-        answer in CI than on a developer's machine. Exposing the inner one lets
-        those checks stay about format_type, which is what they mean.
-        """
-        return self._inner
-
-    def format(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> str:
-        text = self._inner.format(record)
-        prefix = f"<{_SYSLOG_PRIORITY.get(record.levelno, 6)}>"
-        return "\n".join(prefix + line for line in text.split("\n"))
-
-
-def _under_systemd() -> bool:
-    """True when stdout really is the journal.
-
-    systemd sets JOURNAL_STREAM to "dev:ino" for services whose output it
-    captures. Presence alone is not enough to act on: the variable is
-    inherited by child processes and survives redirection, so a subprocess
-    whose stdout is a pipe or a file still sees it and would emit the "<N>"
-    priority prefixes as literal noise into that output. systemd's own
-    guidance is to fstat the descriptor and compare st_dev/st_ino, which is
-    what distinguishes "the journal is somewhere in my ancestry" from "my
-    stdout is the journal".
-    """
-    declared = os.environ.get("JOURNAL_STREAM")
-    if not declared:
-        return False
-    try:
-        dev_text, ino_text = declared.split(":", 1)
-        declared_ids = (int(dev_text), int(ino_text))
-    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
-        return False
-    try:
-        stat_result = os.fstat(sys.stdout.fileno())
-    except (OSError, ValueError, AttributeError):
-        # No usable stdout: captured by pytest, detached, or already closed.
-        return False
-    return (stat_result.st_dev, stat_result.st_ino) == declared_ids
-
-
 class PluginLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
     """LoggerAdapter that stamps every record with its plugin_id.
 

src/plugin_system/plugin_health.py

@@ -178,21 +178,11 @@ class PluginHealthTracker:
             )
         return self._health_state[plugin_id]
     
-    # Fields the circuit breaker is rebuilt from after a restart. Everything
-    # else in a health record is reporting, read only for display.
-    _DURABLE_FIELDS = ('consecutive_failures', 'circuit_state',
-                       'circuit_opened_time', 'half_open_start_time')
-
-    def _durable(self, state: Dict[str, Any]) -> tuple:
-        """The part of a health record whose loss would change behaviour."""
-        return tuple(state.get(field) for field in self._DURABLE_FIELDS)
-
     def record_success(self, plugin_id: str) -> None:
         """Record a successful plugin execution."""
         state = self.get_health_state(plugin_id)
         current_time = time.time()
-        durable_before = self._durable(state)
+        
-
         # Reset consecutive failures
         state['consecutive_failures'] = 0
         state['total_successes'] = state.get('total_successes', 0) + 1
@@ -208,20 +198,9 @@ class PluginHealthTracker:
             # Shouldn't happen, but handle it
             state['circuit_state'] = CircuitState.CLOSED.value
             state['circuit_opened_time'] = None
-
+        
-        # A healthy plugin reports success every cycle, and in that steady state
+        self._save_health_state(plugin_id, state)
-        # the only fields changed above are a counter and a timestamp that
+    
-        # nothing reads back after a restart. Persisting them anyway rewrites a
-        # small file per plugin per cycle: on a rig running 24 plugins, a
-        # five-minute sample measured 22 rewrites, about 4.4 a minute or 6,300 a
-        # day. Those land on an SD card, where the cost is an erase-block cycle
-        # rather than the 400 bytes involved, and where wear is what eventually
-        # kills the card.
-        # In-memory state is still updated every time, so the health API and web
-        # UI show exactly what they did before; only the write is skipped.
-        if self._durable(state) != durable_before:
-            self._save_health_state(plugin_id, state)
-
     def record_failure(self, plugin_id: str, error: Optional[Exception] = None) -> None:
         """Record a failed plugin execution."""
         state = self.get_health_state(plugin_id)

src/plugin_system/resource_monitor.py

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import time
 import logging
 import threading
 from typing import Dict, Optional, Any, Callable
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field, fields
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 
 try:
     import psutil
@@ -49,20 +49,6 @@ class ResourceMetrics:
             self.total_execution_time = self.total_execution_time / self.call_count
 
 
-#: How often a plugin's metrics are written to the cache, in seconds.
-#:
-#: Persisting on every call meant a small file rewritten roughly nine times a
-#: minute per plugin. On a rig with fourteen active plugins that was ~126
-#: writes a minute for metrics alone, and since each ~350-byte file costs a
-#: 4KB block plus an ext4 journal entry, it dominated the device's write
-#: volume -- on an SD card, which wears out.
-#:
-#: The in-memory copy stays authoritative and exact; only the cross-process
-#: snapshot the web UI reads is delayed, and telemetry up to half a minute old
-#: is still a fair description of a long-running plugin.
-_METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL = 30.0
-
-
 class PluginResourceMonitor:
     """
     Monitors resource usage for plugins.
@@ -89,10 +75,6 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
         # Resource metrics per plugin
         self._metrics: Dict[str, ResourceMetrics] = {}
         self._limits: Dict[str, ResourceLimits] = {}
-        # When each plugin's metrics last reached the cache. Metrics change on
-        # every call, so they cannot be de-duplicated the way health state can;
-        # they are rate-limited instead. See _METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL.
-        self._metrics_persisted_at: Dict[str, float] = {}
 
         # Thread-local storage for execution tracking
         self._local = threading.local()
@@ -120,66 +102,6 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                 "psutil not available - resource monitoring will be limited to execution time only"
             )
     
-    def _metrics_from_cache(self, plugin_id: str, cached: Any) -> "ResourceMetrics":
-        """Build metrics from a cached record, ignoring anything unrecognised.
-
-        ResourceMetrics(**cached) raises TypeError on a single unexpected key,
-        and that exception escapes into plugin_manager, which reports it as
-        "plugin <id> operation failed". Every plugin fails, and the plugin
-        system never finishes initialising.
-
-        Seen on a live rig: every plugin failing with
-
-            ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
-            'consecutive_failures'
-
-        which is a plugin_health field, not a metrics one. How a health-shaped
-        record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that machine is not
-        established -- a restored backup that mixed two machines' caches is the
-        likeliest explanation -- but the loader should not be brittle enough for
-        it to matter. plugin_health already repairs its records field by field
-        rather than trusting whatever is on disk; this does the same.
-
-        Unknown keys are dropped and named once, so a genuine schema change is
-        visible in the log instead of silently discarded.
-        """
-        if not isinstance(cached, dict):
-            self.logger.warning(
-                "Ignoring cached metrics for %s: expected a mapping, got %s",
-                plugin_id, type(cached).__name__)
-            return ResourceMetrics()
-
-        known = {f.name for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
-        unknown = sorted(set(cached) - known)
-        if unknown:
-            self.logger.warning(
-                "Dropping unrecognised field(s) from cached metrics for %s: %s",
-                plugin_id, ", ".join(unknown))
-        # A dataclass does not enforce its annotations, so
-        # ResourceMetrics(call_count="not a number") builds happily and only
-        # blows up later, deep inside monitor_call ("can only concatenate str
-        # (not \"int\") to str"). Coerce here, where there is still a cache
-        # key to name in the warning.
-        declared = {f.name: f.type for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
-        usable = {}
-        for key, value in cached.items():
-            if key not in known:
-                continue
-            try:
-                usable[key] = int(value) if declared[key] in ('int', int) else float(value)
-            except (TypeError, ValueError):
-                self.logger.warning(
-                    "Cached metrics for %s have a bad %s (%r); starting fresh",
-                    plugin_id, key, value)
-                return ResourceMetrics()
-        try:
-            return ResourceMetrics(**usable)
-        except (TypeError, ValueError) as e:
-            self.logger.warning(
-                "Cached metrics for %s unusable (%s); starting fresh",
-                plugin_id, e)
-            return ResourceMetrics()
-
     def _get_metrics_key(self, plugin_id: str) -> str:
         """Get cache key for plugin metrics."""
         return f"plugin_metrics:{plugin_id}"
@@ -204,7 +126,7 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                     cache_key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=0 if force_reload else None
                 )
                 if cached:
-                    metrics = self._metrics_from_cache(plugin_id, cached)
+                    metrics = ResourceMetrics(**cached)
                 else:
                     metrics = ResourceMetrics()
                 self._metrics[plugin_id] = metrics
@@ -310,8 +232,18 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                     # CPU is harder to measure per-call, so we track it separately
                     metrics.cpu_percent = self._get_process_cpu_percent()
                 
-                # Persist metrics, at most once per interval per plugin.
+                # Persist metrics
-                self._persist_metrics(plugin_id, metrics)
+                cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
+                self.cache_manager.set(cache_key, {
+                    'memory_mb': metrics.memory_mb,
+                    'cpu_percent': metrics.cpu_percent,
+                    'execution_time': metrics.execution_time,
+                    'call_count': metrics.call_count,
+                    'total_execution_time': metrics.total_execution_time,
+                    'max_execution_time': metrics.max_execution_time,
+                    'min_execution_time': metrics.min_execution_time if metrics.min_execution_time != float('inf') else 0.0,
+                    'last_update_time': metrics.last_update_time
+                })
             
             # Check limits
             if limits:
@@ -431,44 +363,6 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
             summaries[plugin_id] = self.get_metrics_summary(plugin_id)
         return summaries
     
-    def _persist_metrics(self, plugin_id: str, metrics: ResourceMetrics,
-                         force: bool = False) -> None:
-        """Write a plugin's metrics to the cache, at most once per interval.
-
-        Caller must hold ``self._lock``.
-        """
-        # Monotonic, not wall clock: these devices have no RTC, so the clock
-        # jumps by however far off boot-time was the moment NTP first syncs.
-        # A forward jump would allow an early write, a backward one would
-        # stall the snapshot well past the interval.
-        #
-        # The sentinel for "never written" is None, not 0.0. monotonic() is
-        # time since boot on Linux, and systemd starts this service *at* boot,
-        # so `now - 0.0 < 30` was true for the first half-minute of every
-        # single run -- the throttle swallowed the very first snapshot, which
-        # is the one that matters most after a restart.
-        now = time.monotonic()
-        last_written = self._metrics_persisted_at.get(plugin_id)
-        if (not force and last_written is not None
-                and now - last_written < _METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL):
-            return
-        cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
-        self.cache_manager.set(cache_key, {
-            'memory_mb': metrics.memory_mb,
-            'cpu_percent': metrics.cpu_percent,
-            'execution_time': metrics.execution_time,
-            'call_count': metrics.call_count,
-            'total_execution_time': metrics.total_execution_time,
-            'max_execution_time': metrics.max_execution_time,
-            'min_execution_time': (metrics.min_execution_time
-                                   if metrics.min_execution_time != float('inf')
-                                   else 0.0),
-            'last_update_time': metrics.last_update_time,
-        })
-        # Only after the write lands. Marking it first would mean a failed
-        # set() bought the next interval's silence without leaving a snapshot.
-        self._metrics_persisted_at[plugin_id] = now
-
     def reset_metrics(self, plugin_id: str) -> None:
         """Reset metrics for a plugin."""
         with self._lock:
@@ -476,7 +370,4 @@ class PluginResourceMonitor:
                 self._metrics[plugin_id] = ResourceMetrics()
                 cache_key = self._get_metrics_key(plugin_id)
                 self.cache_manager.delete(cache_key)
-                # Let the next call persist immediately rather than leaving the
-                # deleted key absent for the rest of the interval.
-                self._metrics_persisted_at.pop(plugin_id, None)
 

src/vegas_mode/coordinator.py

@@ -31,18 +31,6 @@ if TYPE_CHECKING:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-#: Degradation threshold, as a fraction of target_fps. A marquee jitters a
-#: little all the time, so "anything under target" would report constantly and
-#: mean nothing; 90% of target is the point where a shortfall is real. At a
-#: 60fps target that is 54fps -- 55fps is a normal wobble and stays at DEBUG,
-#: which is deliberate, not an off-by-one.
-_FPS_HEALTHY_FRACTION = 0.9
-
-#: A healthy marquee still reports this often, so silence means stopped
-#: rather than fine.
-_FPS_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL = 300.0
-
-
 def _percentile(ordered: List[float], fraction: float) -> float:
     """Nearest-rank percentile of an already-sorted list.
 
@@ -108,11 +96,6 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
         self._is_active = False
         self._is_paused = False
         self._should_stop = False
-        # Frame-rate health, tracked across run_iteration() calls so the
-        # heartbeat is one-per-interval rather than one-per-cycle, and so a
-        # recovery spanning two cycles is still reported. Reset on start().
-        self._fps_last_health_log = 0.0
-        self._fps_was_degraded = False
         self._state_lock = threading.Lock()
 
         # Live priority tracking
@@ -265,11 +248,6 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             self._is_active = True
             self._should_stop = False
             self._start_time = time.time()
-            # A fresh run starts with a clean health slate: no stale
-            # "was degraded" from the previous run, and a heartbeat that is
-            # due immediately so the first sample confirms the marquee is up.
-            self._fps_last_health_log = 0.0
-            self._fps_was_degraded = False
 
         # Line up the next group immediately, so the first extension is already
         # warm rather than stalling the scroll to fetch it.
@@ -417,18 +395,8 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             duration = self.render_pipeline.get_dynamic_duration()
         start_time = time.time()
         frame_count = 0
-        fps_log_interval = 5.0  # Sample FPS every 5 seconds
+        fps_log_interval = 5.0  # Log FPS every 5 seconds
-        # Health state lives on the coordinator, not here: run_iteration() is
+        last_fps_log_time = start_time
-        # called once per cycle, so locals reset every few seconds. That made
-        # `last_fps_health_log = 0.0` fire the "heartbeat" on the first sample
-        # of every iteration rather than once per interval, and a recovery
-        # that crossed an iteration boundary was never reported at all --
-        # was_degraded had already gone back to False.
-        # Monotonic, and deliberately not start_time: start_time is wall
-        # clock and is used below to report the iteration's duration. Mixing
-        # the two here would make every delta hugely negative and silence the
-        # frame-rate reporting altogether.
-        last_fps_log_time = time.monotonic()
         fps_frame_count = 0
         # A mean hides stutter completely. At 120fps a five-second window is
         # ~600 frames, so a 200ms freeze -- plainly visible on a marquee --
@@ -440,13 +408,7 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
         logger.info("Starting Vegas iteration for %.1fs", duration)
 
         while True:
-            # Monotonic, like the FPS window below. These devices have no RTC,
+            frame_started = time.time()
-            # so the wall clock jumps by however wrong boot time was the moment
-            # NTP first syncs. A backward jump makes frame_elapsed negative,
-            # and `frame_interval - frame_elapsed` then sleeps for longer than
-            # the whole budget -- the render loop stalls for the size of the
-            # correction. A forward jump inflates p99 and worst-frame instead.
-            frame_started = time.monotonic()
 
             # Check for STATIC mode plugin that should pause scroll
             static_plugin = self._check_static_plugin_trigger()
@@ -474,7 +436,7 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             # quarter of the budget spent not rendering. Subtracting the work
             # already done keeps the pacing target while reclaiming that time,
             # and yields the GIL either way so other threads still run.
-            frame_elapsed = time.monotonic() - frame_started
+            frame_elapsed = time.time() - frame_started
             time.sleep(max(0.0, frame_interval - frame_elapsed))
 
             # Measured before the sleep: time spent working, not pacing.
@@ -486,42 +448,16 @@ class VegasModeCoordinator:
             frame_count += 1
             fps_frame_count += 1
 
-            # Periodic FPS logging. Reported at INFO only when the frame rate
+            # Periodic FPS logging
-            # is actually worth an operator's attention -- a shortfall against
+            current_time = time.time()
-            # target, or the recovery from one -- with a slow heartbeat so a
-            # healthy marquee still shows a pulse.
-            #
-            # Measured over two hours on a running rig: 1410 samples, 98.5%
-            # of them within 10% of target. The 1.5% that were not included a
-            # reading of 8.6fps against a target of 60 -- a real stall, and
-            # completely invisible inside 1389 lines reading "59.6".
-            # Monotonic: every use of this value in the block below is a
-            # duration, and these devices have no RTC, so the wall clock jumps
-            # by however wrong boot time was the moment NTP first syncs. That
-            # would not only mis-fire the heartbeat, it would corrupt the
-            # frame rate itself, since fps is frames divided by this delta.
-            current_time = time.monotonic()
             if current_time - last_fps_log_time >= fps_log_interval:
                 fps = fps_frame_count / (current_time - last_fps_log_time)
                 p99 = _percentile(sorted(frame_times), 0.99)
-                target = self.vegas_config.target_fps
+                logger.info(
-                degraded = target > 0 and fps < target * _FPS_HEALTHY_FRACTION
+                    "Vegas FPS: %.1f (target: %d, frames: %d) p99 %.1fms worst %.1fms",
-                due = (current_time - self._fps_last_health_log
+                    fps, self.vegas_config.target_fps, fps_frame_count,
-                       >= _FPS_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL)
+                    p99 * 1000.0, frame_worst * 1000.0
-                if degraded or self._fps_was_degraded or due:
+                )
-                    logger.info(
-                        "Vegas FPS: %.1f (target: %d, frames: %d) p99 %.1fms worst %.1fms",
-                        fps, target, fps_frame_count,
-                        p99 * 1000.0, frame_worst * 1000.0
-                    )
-                    self._fps_last_health_log = current_time
-                else:
-                    logger.debug(
-                        "Vegas FPS: %.1f (target: %d, frames: %d) p99 %.1fms worst %.1fms",
-                        fps, target, fps_frame_count,
-                        p99 * 1000.0, frame_worst * 1000.0
-                    )
-                self._fps_was_degraded = degraded
                 last_fps_log_time = current_time
                 fps_frame_count = 0
                 frame_worst = 0.0

src/vegas_mode/plugin_adapter.py

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         # into unrelated headlines once the strip refreshed to 9,505px.
         self._offset_shapes: dict = {}
 
-        logger.debug(
+        logger.info(
             "PluginAdapter initialized: display=%dx%d",
             self.display_width, self.display_height
         )
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         Returns:
             List of PIL Images representing plugin content, or None if no content
         """
-        logger.debug(
+        logger.info(
             "[%s] Getting content (class=%s)",
             plugin_id, plugin.__class__.__name__
         )
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         cached = self._get_cached(plugin_id)
         if cached is not None:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in cached)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Using cached content: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(cached), total_width
             )
@@ -126,46 +126,46 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
         # Try native Vegas content method first
         has_native = hasattr(plugin, 'get_vegas_content')
-        logger.debug("[%s] Has get_vegas_content: %s", plugin_id, has_native)
+        logger.info("[%s] Has get_vegas_content: %s", plugin_id, has_native)
         if has_native:
             content = self._get_native_content(plugin, plugin_id, offscreen_only)
             if content:
                 total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native content SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                     plugin_id, len(content), total_width
                 )
                 return self._finalize(content, plugin_id, 'native', plugin)
-            logger.debug("[%s] Native content returned None", plugin_id)
+            logger.info("[%s] Native content returned None", plugin_id)
 
         # Try to get scroll_helper's cached image (for scrolling plugins like stocks/odds)
         has_scroll_helper = hasattr(plugin, 'scroll_helper')
-        logger.debug("[%s] Has scroll_helper: %s", plugin_id, has_scroll_helper)
+        logger.info("[%s] Has scroll_helper: %s", plugin_id, has_scroll_helper)
         content = self._get_scroll_helper_content(plugin, plugin_id, offscreen_only)
         if content:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] ScrollHelper content SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(content), total_width
             )
             return self._finalize(content, plugin_id, 'scroll_helper', plugin)
         if has_scroll_helper:
-            logger.debug("[%s] ScrollHelper content returned None", plugin_id)
+            logger.info("[%s] ScrollHelper content returned None", plugin_id)
 
         if offscreen_only:
             # Display capture needs the shared canvas; leave it to the caller.
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Needs display capture, deferring to the render thread",
                 plugin_id
             )
             return None
 
         # Fall back to display capture
-        logger.debug("[%s] Trying fallback display capture...", plugin_id)
+        logger.info("[%s] Trying fallback display capture...", plugin_id)
         content = self._capture_display_content(plugin, plugin_id)
         if content:
             total_width = sum(img.width for img in content)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Fallback capture SUCCESS: %d images, %dpx total",
                 plugin_id, len(content), total_width
             )
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             kept.append(result.image)
 
         if not kept:
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] All %d image(s) from %s were blank — contributing nothing",
                 plugin_id, len(images), source
             )
@@ -235,14 +235,14 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         trimmed_width = sum(img.width for img in kept)
 
         if trimmed_width < self.config.min_plugin_width:
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Trimmed content %dpx is below min_plugin_width %dpx — skipping",
                 plugin_id, trimmed_width, self.config.min_plugin_width
             )
             return None
 
         if trimmed_width != original_width or dropped_blank:
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Trimmed %s content: %dpx -> %dpx (%.0f%% reclaimed), "
                 "%d image(s) kept, %d blank dropped",
                 plugin_id, source, original_width, trimmed_width,
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         """
         if self._offset_shapes.get(plugin_id) != shape:
             if plugin_id in self._item_offsets:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Content is %s now, was %s — restarting the rotation "
                     "rather than resuming at a position that no longer means "
                     "anything", plugin_id, shape,
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             consumed += 1
 
         if mode == 'truncate':
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: showing the first %d of %d row(s) "
                 "(%dpx incl. gaps); the rest are not shown (overflow=truncate)",
                 plugin_id, budget, len(selected), len(images), used
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         else:
             self._record_offset(
                 plugin_id, (start + consumed) % len(images), shape)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: showing %d of %d row(s) (%dpx incl. gaps) "
                 "from offset %d; remainder deferred to a later cycle",
                 plugin_id, budget, len(selected), len(images), used, start
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if mode != 'truncate':
                 self._record_offset(
                     plugin_id, 0 if end >= img.width else end, shape)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Width budget %dpx: cropped continuous %dpx image to "
                 "[%d:%d] (no item gaps of %dpx+ to align to)%s",
                 plugin_id, budget, img.width, offset, end, min_run,
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             self._record_offset(
                 plugin_id, 0 if end >= img.width else end_index, shape)
 
-        logger.debug(
+        logger.info(
             "[%s] Width budget %dpx: cropped single %dpx image to [%d:%d] "
             "(%dpx) at item boundaries %d-%d of %d, %s",
             plugin_id, budget, img.width, start, end, end - start,
@@ -698,7 +698,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             List of images or None
         """
         try:
-            logger.debug("[%s] Native: calling get_vegas_content()", plugin_id)
+            logger.info("[%s] Native: calling get_vegas_content()", plugin_id)
 
             # Tell the plugin how much width the ticker wants it to use, and
             # narrow the canvas for the duration of the call. A plugin that
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             # be explicit can read get_vegas_render_width().
             render_width = self.resolve_render_width(plugin, plugin_id)
             if render_width != self.display_width:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native: requesting %dpx instead of %dpx",
                     plugin_id, render_width, self.display_width
                 )
@@ -735,19 +735,19 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                 plugin._vegas_render_width = None
 
             if result is None:
-                logger.debug("[%s] Native: get_vegas_content() returned None", plugin_id)
+                logger.info("[%s] Native: get_vegas_content() returned None", plugin_id)
                 return None
 
             # Normalize to list
             if isinstance(result, Image.Image):
                 images = [result]
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native: got single Image %dx%d",
                     plugin_id, result.width, result.height
                 )
             elif isinstance(result, (list, tuple)):
                 images = list(result)
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native: got %d items in list/tuple",
                     plugin_id, len(images)
                 )
@@ -768,14 +768,14 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     )
                     continue
 
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native: item[%d] is %dx%d, mode=%s",
                     plugin_id, i, img.width, img.height, img.mode
                 )
 
                 # Ensure correct height
                 if img.height != self.display_height:
-                    logger.debug(
+                    logger.info(
                         "[%s] Native: resizing item[%d]: %dx%d -> %dx%d",
                         plugin_id, i, img.width, img.height,
                         img.width, self.display_height
@@ -793,13 +793,13 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
             if valid_images:
                 total_width = sum(img.width for img in valid_images)
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Native: SUCCESS - %d images, %dpx total width",
                     plugin_id, len(valid_images), total_width
                 )
                 return valid_images
 
-            logger.debug("[%s] Native: no valid images after validation", plugin_id)
+            logger.info("[%s] Native: no valid images after validation", plugin_id)
             return None
 
         except (AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError, OSError) as e:
@@ -833,20 +833,20 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                 logger.debug("[%s] No scroll_helper attribute", plugin_id)
                 return None
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Found scroll_helper: %s",
                 plugin_id, type(scroll_helper).__name__
             )
 
             cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
             if cached_image is None:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image is None, triggering content generation",
                     plugin_id
                 )
                 if offscreen_only:
                     # Generating it calls display(), which needs the canvas.
-                    logger.debug(
+                    logger.info(
                         "[%s] scroll_helper cache empty; deferring generation "
                         "to the render thread", plugin_id
                     )
@@ -859,13 +859,13 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     return None
 
             if not isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image is not an Image: %s",
                     plugin_id, type(cached_image).__name__
                 )
                 return None
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] scroll_helper.cached_image found: %dx%d, mode=%s",
                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height, cached_image.mode
             )
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
             # Ensure correct height
             if img.height != self.display_height:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Resizing scroll_helper content: %dx%d -> %dx%d",
                     plugin_id, img.width, img.height,
                     img.width, self.display_height
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if img.mode != 'RGB':
                 img = img.convert('RGB')
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] ScrollHelper content ready: %dx%d",
                 plugin_id, img.width, img.height
             )
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             with self._capture():
                 # Method 1: Try _create_scrolling_display (stocks pattern)
                 if hasattr(plugin, '_create_scrolling_display'):
-                    logger.debug(
+                    logger.info(
                         "[%s] Triggering via _create_scrolling_display()",
                         plugin_id
                     )
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                         plugin._create_scrolling_display()
                         cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
                         if cached_image is not None and isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                            logger.debug(
+                            logger.info(
                                 "[%s] _create_scrolling_display() SUCCESS: %dx%d",
                                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height
                             )
@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
 
                 # Method 2: Try display(force_clear=True) which typically builds scroll content
                 if hasattr(plugin, 'display'):
-                    logger.debug(
+                    logger.info(
                         "[%s] Triggering via display(force_clear=True)",
                         plugin_id
                     )
@@ -1031,12 +1031,12 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                         plugin.display(force_clear=True)
                         cached_image = getattr(scroll_helper, 'cached_image', None)
                         if cached_image is not None and isinstance(cached_image, Image.Image):
-                            logger.debug(
+                            logger.info(
                                 "[%s] display(force_clear=True) SUCCESS: %dx%d",
                                 plugin_id, cached_image.width, cached_image.height
                             )
                             return cached_image
-                        logger.debug(
+                        logger.info(
                             "[%s] display(force_clear=True) did not populate cached_image",
                             plugin_id
                         )
@@ -1045,7 +1045,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                             "[%s] display(force_clear=True) failed", plugin_id
                         )
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Could not trigger scroll content generation",
                 plugin_id
             )
@@ -1077,15 +1077,15 @@ class PluginAdapter:
         try:
             # Save current display state
             original_image = self.display_manager.image.copy()
-            logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: saved original display state", plugin_id)
+            logger.info("[%s] Fallback: saved original display state", plugin_id)
 
             # Ensure plugin has fresh data before capturing
             has_update_data = hasattr(plugin, 'update_data')
-            logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: has update_data=%s", plugin_id, has_update_data)
+            logger.info("[%s] Fallback: has update_data=%s", plugin_id, has_update_data)
             if has_update_data:
                 try:
                     plugin.update_data()
-                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: update_data() called", plugin_id)
+                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: update_data() called", plugin_id)
                 except (AttributeError, RuntimeError, OSError):
                     logger.exception("[%s] Fallback: update_data() failed", plugin_id)
 
@@ -1097,41 +1097,41 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             # arrangement rather than one that has to be cropped afterwards.
             render_width = self.resolve_render_width(plugin, plugin_id)
             if render_width != self.display_width:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Fallback: rendering at %dpx instead of %dpx",
                     plugin_id, render_width, self.display_width
                 )
 
             with self._capture(), self._render_at(render_width):
                 self.display_manager.clear()
-                logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display cleared, calling display()", plugin_id)
+                logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display cleared, calling display()", plugin_id)
 
                 # First try without force_clear (some plugins behave better this way)
                 try:
                     plugin.display()
-                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display() called successfully", plugin_id)
+                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display() called successfully", plugin_id)
                 except TypeError:
                     # Plugin may require force_clear argument
-                    logger.debug("[%s] Fallback: display() failed, trying with force_clear=True", plugin_id)
+                    logger.info("[%s] Fallback: display() failed, trying with force_clear=True", plugin_id)
                     plugin.display(force_clear=True)
 
                 # Capture the result
                 captured = self.display_manager.image.copy()
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Fallback: captured frame %dx%d, mode=%s",
                 plugin_id, captured.width, captured.height, captured.mode
             )
 
             # Check if captured image has content (not all black)
             is_blank, bright_ratio = self._is_blank_image(captured, return_ratio=True)
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Fallback: brightness check - %.3f%% bright pixels (threshold=0.5%%)",
                 plugin_id, bright_ratio * 100
             )
 
             if is_blank:
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Fallback: first capture blank, retrying with force_clear",
                     plugin_id
                 )
@@ -1142,7 +1142,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
                     captured = self.display_manager.image.copy()
 
                 is_blank, bright_ratio = self._is_blank_image(captured, return_ratio=True)
-                logger.debug(
+                logger.info(
                     "[%s] Fallback: retry brightness - %.3f%% bright pixels",
                     plugin_id, bright_ratio * 100
                 )
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ class PluginAdapter:
             if captured.mode != 'RGB':
                 captured = captured.convert('RGB')
 
-            logger.debug(
+            logger.info(
                 "[%s] Fallback: SUCCESS - captured %dx%d",
                 plugin_id, captured.width, captured.height
             )

src/web_interface/secret_helpers.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Provides functions for identifying, masking, separating, and filtering
 secret fields in plugin configurations based on JSON Schema x-secret markers.
 """
 
-from typing import Any, Dict, Set, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Set, Tuple
 
 
 def find_secret_fields(properties: Dict[str, Any], prefix: str = '') -> Set[str]:
@@ -202,11 +202,89 @@ def remove_empty_secrets(secrets: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             nested = remove_empty_secrets(v)
             if nested:
                 result[k] = nested
+        elif isinstance(v, list):
+            # Lists used to fall through to the scalar branch below and be
+            # kept verbatim, blanks and all. Because lists merge by
+            # *replacement*, saving any unrelated setting then wrote
+            # [{"token": ""}, ...] straight over the stored list and
+            # destroyed every credential in it.
+            pruned = _prune_secret_list(v)
+            if pruned is not None:
+                result[k] = pruned
         elif v is not None and not (isinstance(v, str) and v.strip() == ''):
             result[k] = v
     return result
 
 
+def _prune_secret_list(items: list) -> Optional[list]:
+    """Strip blanks from inside a list of secrets, preserving every index.
+
+    The rest of the system treats a secrets list as *parallel* to the regular
+    one -- ``sec[i]`` holds the secret fields of item ``i``, and ``{}`` means
+    "item i has none" (see ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive). So an
+    emptied dict item stays ``{}``: putting ``None`` there makes that list stop
+    looking parallel, and the stripper then drops the whole key from the main
+    config, taking the non-secret fields with it.
+
+    A blank *scalar* becomes ``None``, meaning "no update at this index" --
+    :func:`merge_secrets` substitutes whatever is stored there. Returns
+    ``None`` when nothing in the list carries a real value, so the caller drops
+    the key and leaves the stored list untouched.
+    """
+    pruned: list = []
+    has_real_value = False
+    for item in items:
+        if isinstance(item, dict):
+            kept = remove_empty_secrets(item)
+            pruned.append(kept)
+            has_real_value = has_real_value or bool(kept)
+        elif isinstance(item, list):
+            sub = _prune_secret_list(item)
+            pruned.append(sub if sub is not None else [])
+            has_real_value = has_real_value or sub is not None
+        elif item is not None and not (isinstance(item, str) and item.strip() == ''):
+            pruned.append(item)
+            has_real_value = True
+        else:
+            pruned.append(None)
+    return pruned if has_real_value else None
+
+
+def merge_secrets(stored: Any, incoming: Any) -> Any:
+    """Merge submitted secrets over stored ones, element-wise inside lists.
+
+    ``deep_merge`` replaces a list wholesale. For secrets that is destructive:
+    an incoming list that carries a real value for one entry and ``None`` for
+    the rest would drop the stored credentials of every other entry. Here a
+    list merges by index, and ``None`` means "keep what is stored".
+
+    Entries are matched by *position*, which is what the config form gives us
+    -- there is no schema-declared identity to key on, and it is the same
+    contract ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive already relies on. The
+    incoming list's length wins, so deleting an item deletes its secrets;
+    an item the client left blank keeps whatever is stored at that index.
+    """
+    if isinstance(stored, dict) and isinstance(incoming, dict):
+        merged = dict(stored)
+        for key, value in incoming.items():
+            merged[key] = (merge_secrets(stored[key], value)
+                           if key in stored else value)
+        return merged
+    if isinstance(stored, list) and isinstance(incoming, list):
+        # The incoming list sets the length -- the regular config's list is
+        # authoritative about how many items exist, and this one runs parallel
+        # to it. Removing an entry must therefore remove its secrets too.
+        merged_list = []
+        for index, item in enumerate(incoming):
+            stored_item = stored[index] if index < len(stored) else None
+            merged_list.append(stored_item if item is None
+                               else merge_secrets(stored_item, item))
+        return merged_list
+    if incoming is None:
+        return stored
+    return incoming
+
+
 def strip_masked_values(secrets: Dict[str, Any]) -> Dict[str, Any]:
     """Remove values a client echoed back rather than changed.
 

test/test_health_write_churn.py

@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-"""A healthy plugin must not rewrite its health record every cycle.
-
-Every successful plugin update called record_success(), which persisted the
-record unconditionally. In steady state the only fields that had changed were
-total_successes and last_success_time -- a counter and a timestamp that
-health_monitor reads for display and that nothing reads back after a restart.
-
-Measured on a rig running 24 plugins: about 17 health-file rewrites a minute,
-roughly 25,000 a day. Each is ~400 bytes, but they land on an SD card where
-the unit of cost is an erase-block cycle, not the byte count, and where wear is
-what eventually kills the card.
-
-The circuit breaker still needs its own state to survive a restart, so the
-write is kept for exactly the fields it is rebuilt from -- and a failure, a
-circuit opening, or a recovery must still be written the moment it happens.
-"""
-import time
-
-import copy
-
-import pytest
-
-from src.plugin_system.plugin_health import PluginHealthTracker, CircuitState
-
-
-class _Cache:
-    """Counts writes; serves back whatever was last written.
-
-    Both directions deep-copy, so this behaves like a real cache that
-    serialises through a file. Storing by reference let the tracker keep
-    mutating the object already in the store, so a record could appear to
-    have been persisted when no write ever happened -- which is precisely
-    what test_durable_state_survives_a_restart is supposed to detect.
-    """
-
-    def __init__(self):
-        self.store = {}
-        self.writes = 0
-
-    def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs):
-        self.writes += 1
-        self.store[key] = copy.deepcopy(data)
-
-    def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs):
-        return copy.deepcopy(self.store.get(key))
-
-
-@pytest.fixture
-def tracker():
-    cache = _Cache()
-    t = PluginHealthTracker(cache_manager=cache)
-    return t, cache
-
-
-def test_steady_state_success_stops_writing(tracker):
-    """The regression: 100 healthy cycles used to be 100 SD writes."""
-    t, cache = tracker
-    t.record_success("weather")
-    first = cache.writes
-    for _ in range(100):
-        t.record_success("weather")
-    assert cache.writes == first, (
-        f"{cache.writes - first} redundant writes across 100 healthy cycles"
-    )
-
-
-def test_the_counters_are_still_accurate_in_memory(tracker):
-    """Skipping the write must not skip the bookkeeping."""
-    t, _ = tracker
-    for _ in range(10):
-        t.record_success("weather")
-    state = t.get_health_state("weather")
-    assert state["total_successes"] == 10
-    assert state["last_success_time"] is not None
-    assert state["last_success_time"] <= time.time()
-
-
-def test_a_failure_is_written_immediately(tracker):
-    t, cache = tracker
-    t.record_success("weather")
-    before = cache.writes
-    t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
-    assert cache.writes > before, "a failure must reach disk"
-
-
-def test_recovery_after_failure_is_written(tracker):
-    """consecutive_failures returning to 0 is durable state changing."""
-    t, cache = tracker
-    t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
-    before = cache.writes
-    t.record_success("weather")
-    assert cache.writes > before, "recovery must reach disk"
-    assert t.get_health_state("weather")["consecutive_failures"] == 0
-
-
-def test_a_closing_circuit_is_written(tracker):
-    """Success in half-open closes the circuit -- that must survive a restart."""
-    t, cache = tracker
-    state = t.get_health_state("weather")
-    state["circuit_state"] = CircuitState.HALF_OPEN.value
-    state["half_open_start_time"] = time.time()
-    before = cache.writes
-    t.record_success("weather")
-    assert cache.writes > before, "a circuit transition must reach disk"
-    assert t.get_health_state("weather")["circuit_state"] == CircuitState.CLOSED.value
-
-
-def test_durable_state_survives_a_restart(tracker):
-    """What is skipped must genuinely not matter to the breaker."""
-    t, cache = tracker
-    for _ in range(3):
-        t.record_failure("weather", RuntimeError("boom"))
-    for _ in range(50):
-        t.record_success("weather")
-
-    revived = PluginHealthTracker(cache_manager=cache)
-    state = revived.get_health_state("weather")
-    assert state["consecutive_failures"] == 0
-    assert state["circuit_state"] == CircuitState.CLOSED.value

test/test_journald_log_priority.py

@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-"""Log lines must reach the journal with their real severity.
-
-Everything this process writes to stdout lands in the journal as PRIORITY=6,
-whatever the Python level was, because journald has no other signal. Measured
-on a live rig over 24 hours: 55 lines containing " - ERROR - " and 13
-containing " - WARNING - ", every one of them recorded as informational. So
-
-    journalctl -p err -u ledmatrix
-
-returned nothing while errors were being logged, and anyone triaging has to
-grep the message text instead. That is slower and it is wrong: a search for
-"oom" also matches the radar logging "zoom=9", which is exactly the false
-positive it produced during this audit.
-
-systemd reads a leading "<N>" on each stdout line and uses it as the priority
-(sd-daemon(3)), so this needs no extra dependency -- and it must only be
-applied when systemd is actually reading, or the prefixes become literal noise
-in a terminal, the emulator, and test output.
-"""
-import logging
-import os
-import sys
-from unittest.mock import patch
-
-import pytest
-
-from src.logging_config import JournalPriorityFormatter, _SYSLOG_PRIORITY, _under_systemd
-
-
-class _Plain(logging.Formatter):
-    def format(self, record):
-        return record.getMessage()
-
-
-def _record(level, msg="hello"):
-    return logging.LogRecord("t", level, "f.py", 1, msg, None, None)
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("level,expected", [
-    (logging.CRITICAL, 2),
-    (logging.ERROR, 3),
-    (logging.WARNING, 4),
-    (logging.INFO, 6),
-    (logging.DEBUG, 7),
-])
-def test_each_level_maps_to_its_syslog_priority(level, expected):
-    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(level))
-    assert out.startswith(f"<{expected}>"), out
-    assert _SYSLOG_PRIORITY[level] == expected
-
-
-def test_error_and_info_are_distinguishable():
-    """The whole point: journalctl -p err must be able to tell them apart."""
-    fmt = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain())
-    assert fmt.format(_record(logging.ERROR))[:3] != fmt.format(_record(logging.INFO))[:3]
-
-
-def test_every_line_of_a_multiline_record_is_tagged():
-    """The journal splits them, and an untagged continuation loses its level.
-
-    A traceback is the case that matters -- it is the most important thing in
-    the log and the longest.
-    """
-    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(
-        _record(logging.ERROR, "Traceback:\nline one\nline two"))
-    lines = out.split("\n")
-    assert len(lines) == 3
-    assert all(line.startswith("<3>") for line in lines), lines
-
-
-def test_the_message_survives_intact():
-    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(logging.WARNING, "disk full"))
-    assert out == "<4>disk full"
-
-
-def test_an_unknown_level_falls_back_to_info():
-    out = JournalPriorityFormatter(_Plain()).format(_record(25))
-    assert out.startswith("<6>")
-
-
-def _stdout_ids():
-    """The dev:ino systemd would publish for this process's stdout."""
-    st = os.fstat(sys.stdout.fileno())
-    return f"{st.st_dev}:{st.st_ino}"
-
-
-def test_prefixing_is_off_outside_systemd():
-    """Otherwise a terminal run, the emulator and pytest all show `<6>`."""
-    with patch.dict(os.environ, {}, clear=True):
-        assert not _under_systemd()
-    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": _stdout_ids()}):
-        assert _under_systemd()
-
-
-def test_an_inherited_journal_stream_does_not_count():
-    """The variable outlives the descriptor it describes.
-
-    systemd sets JOURNAL_STREAM for the service, and every child inherits it
-    -- including one whose stdout has been redirected to a pipe or a file.
-    Trusting the variable alone put literal "<6>" prefixes into that captured
-    output. Only a descriptor whose dev:ino actually matches is the journal.
-    """
-    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": "8:12345"}):
-        assert not _under_systemd(), \
-            "a stale inherited JOURNAL_STREAM was treated as the journal"
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("value", ["", "not-a-pair", "8", "8:", ":12345",
-                                   "eight:12345", "8:12345:9"])
-def test_a_malformed_journal_stream_is_not_the_journal(value):
-    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": value}):
-        assert not _under_systemd()
-
-
-def test_a_closed_stdout_is_not_the_journal():
-    """os.fstat raises rather than answers; that must not propagate."""
-    with patch.dict(os.environ, {"JOURNAL_STREAM": "8:12345"}), \
-            patch("src.logging_config.sys.stdout") as fake_stdout:
-        fake_stdout.fileno.side_effect = ValueError("I/O operation on closed file")
-        assert not _under_systemd()
-
-
-def test_setup_uses_the_wrapper_only_under_systemd():
-    from src.logging_config import setup_logging
-
-    for env, expect_wrapped in (({}, False),
-                                ({"JOURNAL_STREAM": _stdout_ids()}, True)):
-        with patch.dict(os.environ, env, clear=True):
-            setup_logging()
-            handlers = [h for h in logging.getLogger().handlers
-                        if isinstance(h, logging.StreamHandler)]
-            assert handlers, "no stream handler installed"
-            wrapped = any(isinstance(h.formatter, JournalPriorityFormatter)
-                          for h in handlers)
-            assert wrapped is expect_wrapped, (
-                f"JOURNAL_STREAM={env}: wrapped={wrapped}, expected {expect_wrapped}")
-    logging.getLogger().handlers.clear()

test/test_logging_config.py

@@ -183,27 +183,15 @@ class TestSetupLogging:
         setup_logging()
         assert len(logging.getLogger().handlers) == 1
 
-    @staticmethod
-    def _selected_formatter():
-        """The formatter setup_logging() chose, past any journald wrapper.
-
-        Under systemd the console handler's formatter is wrapped so each line
-        carries its syslog priority. That wrapper is applied only when
-        JOURNAL_STREAM is set, which is true in CI and false in a terminal, so
-        asserting on the handler's formatter directly passes locally and fails
-        on the runner. These tests are about which formatter format_type
-        selects, so they look through the wrapper.
-        """
-        formatter = logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter
-        return getattr(formatter, "inner", formatter)
-
     def test_json_format_selects_structured_formatter(self):
         setup_logging(format_type="json")
-        assert isinstance(self._selected_formatter(), StructuredFormatter)
+        assert isinstance(
+            logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter, StructuredFormatter)
 
     def test_readable_format_selects_contextual_formatter(self):
         setup_logging(format_type="readable")
-        assert isinstance(self._selected_formatter(), ContextualFormatter)
+        assert isinstance(
+            logging.getLogger().handlers[0].formatter, ContextualFormatter)
 
     def test_log_file_adds_file_handler(self, tmp_path):
         log_file = tmp_path / "test.log"

test/test_metrics_cache_unknown_fields.py

@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-"""A malformed metrics cache entry must not take every plugin down with it.
-
-`ResourceMetrics(**cached)` raises TypeError on a single unexpected key, and
-that exception escapes into plugin_manager, which reports it per plugin as
-"plugin <id> operation failed". Every plugin fails and the plugin system never
-finishes initialising -- the health endpoint reports
-`plugin_system: not_initialized` while the display itself keeps running.
-
-Seen on a live rig, once per plugin, continuously:
-
-    ERROR - src.plugin_system.plugin_manager - plugin geochron operation failed:
-    ResourceMetrics.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument
-    'consecutive_failures'
-
-`consecutive_failures` belongs to plugin_health, not to metrics. How a
-health-shaped record came to sit under a plugin_metrics key on that machine is
-not established -- a restored backup that mixed two machines' caches is the
-likeliest explanation, and the same rig had one restored onto it -- but a
-loader that turns one bad cache entry into a total outage is the part worth
-fixing. plugin_health already repairs its own records field by field rather
-than trusting what is on disk.
-"""
-import logging
-from dataclasses import fields
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
-
-import pytest
-
-from src.plugin_system.resource_monitor import PluginResourceMonitor, ResourceMetrics
-
-
-class _Cache:
-    def __init__(self, payload=None):
-        self.payload = payload
-
-    def get(self, key, max_age=None, memory_ttl=None, **kwargs):
-        return self.payload
-
-    def set(self, key, data, ttl=None, **kwargs):
-        pass
-
-
-def _monitor(payload):
-    m = PluginResourceMonitor(cache_manager=_Cache(payload))
-    m.logger = logging.getLogger("test")
-    return m
-
-
-#: What the rig actually had under the metrics key.
-HEALTH_SHAPED = {
-    "consecutive_failures": 0, "circuit_state": "closed",
-    "circuit_opened_time": None, "half_open_start_time": None,
-    "last_error": None, "last_failure_time": None,
-    "last_success_time": 1_700_000_000.0, "total_failures": 0,
-    "total_successes": 42,
-}
-
-
-def test_a_health_record_under_the_metrics_key_does_not_raise():
-    """The exact failure: it must degrade, not take the plugin system down."""
-    monitor = _monitor(HEALTH_SHAPED)
-    metrics = monitor.get_metrics(" plugin-a".strip())
-    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
-
-
-def test_recognised_fields_in_a_mixed_record_are_kept():
-    """Dropping the record wholesale would lose real history unnecessarily."""
-    mixed = dict(HEALTH_SHAPED, call_count=7, memory_mb=12.5)
-    metrics = _monitor(mixed).get_metrics("plugin-b")
-    assert metrics.call_count == 7
-    assert metrics.memory_mb == 12.5
-
-
-def test_a_clean_record_still_loads_unchanged():
-    clean = {f.name: 3 for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)}
-    metrics = _monitor(clean).get_metrics("plugin-c")
-    for name in (f.name for f in fields(ResourceMetrics)):
-        assert getattr(metrics, name) == 3
-
-
-def test_unknown_fields_are_named_in_the_log(caplog):
-    """Silently discarding them would hide a real schema change."""
-    with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
-        _monitor(HEALTH_SHAPED).get_metrics("plugin-d")
-    # getMessage(), not .message: the latter is only populated once a handler
-    # formats the record, so the obvious spelling silently never matches.
-    assert any("consecutive_failures" in r.getMessage() for r in caplog.records), \
-        caplog.text
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("payload", ["a string", 42, ["a", "list"]])
-def test_a_non_mapping_cache_entry_does_not_raise(payload):
-    metrics = _monitor(payload).get_metrics("plugin-e")
-    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
-
-
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("bad", [
-    {"call_count": "not a number"},
-    {"memory_mb": None},
-    {"execution_time": {"nested": "junk"}},
-    {"min_execution_time": ["a", "list"]},
-])
-def test_values_of_the_wrong_type_fall_back_to_usable_defaults(bad):
-    """isinstance() alone was not enough.
-
-    A dataclass does not enforce its annotations, so the bad value was simply
-    stored and the old assertion passed -- then monitor_call() raised
-    "can only concatenate str (not \"int\") to str" on the next call. The
-    metrics must come back *usable*, not merely constructed.
-    """
-    monitor = _monitor(bad)
-    metrics = monitor.get_metrics("plugin-f")
-    assert isinstance(metrics, ResourceMetrics)
-
-    field_name = next(iter(bad))
-    assert isinstance(getattr(metrics, field_name), (int, float)), \
-        f"{field_name} came back as {getattr(metrics, field_name)!r}"
-
-    # The real proof: arithmetic on the loaded metrics must not explode.
-    metrics.call_count += 1
-    metrics.total_execution_time += 0.5
-    metrics.update_average_execution_time()
-
-
-def test_a_numeric_string_is_accepted_rather_than_discarded():
-    """JSON round-trips can widen an int to a string; that is recoverable."""
-    metrics = _monitor({"call_count": "7"}).get_metrics("plugin-g")
-    assert metrics.call_count == 7

test/test_resource_monitor.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Focus areas:
 import time
 
 import pytest
-from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
 
 from src.plugin_system.resource_monitor import (
     PluginResourceMonitor,
@@ -127,87 +127,3 @@ class TestForceReload:
         fresh = mon.get_metrics_summary("p", force_reload=True)
         assert fresh["call_count"] == 7
         assert any(c.kwargs.get("memory_ttl") == 0 for c in cache.get.call_args_list)
-
-
-class TestMetricsPersistenceChurn:
-    """Metrics are telemetry; writing them on every call wore the SD card.
-
-    Each write is a ~350-byte file, which on ext4 costs a 4KB block plus a
-    journal entry. At roughly nine calls a minute per plugin across fourteen
-    plugins it dominated the device's write volume.
-    """
-
-    def test_the_first_snapshot_is_written_even_seconds_after_boot(self):
-        """The throttle must key off "have we written?", not process uptime.
-
-        time.monotonic() is time since boot on Linux, and systemd starts this
-        service at boot. With 0.0 as the missing-timestamp default,
-        `now - 0.0 < 30` was true for the first half-minute of every run, so
-        the very first metrics write -- the one that matters most after a
-        restart -- was silently skipped.
-        """
-        import src.plugin_system.resource_monitor as rm
-        cache = _cache()
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
-        # 12 seconds after boot: inside the interval, but nothing written yet.
-        with patch.object(rm.time, "monotonic", return_value=12.0):
-            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
-                  if "plugin_metrics:" in str(c)]
-        assert writes, \
-            "the first snapshot was dropped because the process was young"
-
-    def test_repeated_calls_persist_once_per_interval(self):
-        cache = _cache()
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
-        for _ in range(50):
-            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
-                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
-        assert len(writes) == 1, (
-            f"50 calls produced {len(writes)} metric writes; expected 1")
-
-    def test_the_interval_elapsing_allows_the_next_write(self, monkeypatch):
-        import src.plugin_system.resource_monitor as rm
-        cache = _cache()
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
-        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        # pretend the interval has passed
-        mon._metrics_persisted_at["p"] -= rm._METRICS_PERSIST_INTERVAL + 1
-        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
-                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
-        assert len(writes) == 2
-
-    def test_in_memory_metrics_stay_exact_while_writes_are_skipped(self):
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(_cache(), enable_monitoring=False)
-        for _ in range(20):
-            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        assert mon.get_metrics("p").call_count == 20
-
-    def test_reset_lets_the_next_call_persist_immediately(self):
-        cache = _cache()
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
-        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        mon.reset_metrics("p")
-        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
-                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
-        assert len(writes) == 2, "reset should clear the throttle timestamp"
-
-    def test_a_failed_write_does_not_buy_the_next_interval_of_silence(self):
-        """A set() that raises must not count as having persisted.
-
-        Marking the timestamp before the write would leave no snapshot in the
-        cache and still suppress the next 30 seconds of attempts.
-        """
-        cache = _cache()
-        cache.set.side_effect = [OSError("disk full"), None]
-        mon = PluginResourceMonitor(cache, enable_monitoring=False)
-        with pytest.raises(OSError):
-            mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        # the very next call must try again rather than skip the interval
-        mon.monitor_call("p", lambda: None)
-        writes = [c for c in cache.set.call_args_list
-                  if c.args and str(c.args[0]).startswith("plugin_metrics:")]
-        assert len(writes) == 2, "a failed write should be retried, not skipped"

test/test_vegas_fps_health.py

@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
-"""Frame pacing and FPS health reporting must not depend on the wall clock.
-
-These devices have no RTC, so the system clock jumps by however wrong boot
-time was the moment NTP first syncs. The render loop sleeps the *remainder*
-of each frame budget:
-
-    frame_elapsed = <now> - frame_started
-    time.sleep(max(0.0, frame_interval - frame_elapsed))
-
-With a wall-clock `now`, a backward jump makes frame_elapsed negative, so
-`frame_interval - frame_elapsed` exceeds the whole budget and the render loop
-stalls for the size of the correction. A forward jump instead inflates the
-p99 and worst-frame numbers the telemetry reports.
-"""
-import ast
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-
-COORD = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
-         / "src" / "vegas_mode" / "coordinator.py")
-TREE = ast.parse(COORD.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
-
-
-def _assignments_of(name):
-    """Every `name = <expr>` in the module, as unparsed source."""
-    out = []
-    for node in ast.walk(TREE):
-        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
-            for target in node.targets:
-                if isinstance(target, ast.Name) and target.id == name:
-                    out.append((node.lineno, ast.unparse(node.value)))
-    return out
-
-
-def test_per_frame_timestamps_are_monotonic():
-    for name in ("frame_started", "frame_elapsed"):
-        assigns = _assignments_of(name)
-        assert assigns, f"{name} is no longer assigned -- has the loop changed?"
-        for lineno, expr in assigns:
-            assert "time.time()" not in expr, (
-                f"{name} at line {lineno} uses the wall clock ({expr!r}). A "
-                "backward NTP step makes the per-frame delta negative and the "
-                "loop then sleeps longer than the whole frame budget.")
-            assert "time.monotonic()" in expr, (
-                f"{name} at line {lineno} is {expr!r}, expected monotonic")
-
-
-def test_the_fps_window_is_monotonic():
-    for lineno, expr in _assignments_of("current_time"):
-        assert "time.monotonic()" in expr, (
-            f"current_time at line {lineno} is {expr!r}; fps is frames divided "
-            "by this delta, so a clock step would corrupt the rate itself")
-
-
-def test_health_state_is_not_reset_every_iteration():
-    """run_iteration() runs once per cycle -- locals here reset every few seconds.
-
-    As locals, `last_fps_health_log = 0.0` made the 300s heartbeat fire on the
-    first sample of every iteration, and a recovery spanning two iterations was
-    never reported because was_degraded had already gone back to False.
-    """
-    run_iteration = next(
-        (n for n in ast.walk(TREE)
-         if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef) and n.name == "run_iteration"), None)
-    assert run_iteration is not None, "run_iteration() not found"
-
-    local_names = {t.id for n in ast.walk(run_iteration)
-                   if isinstance(n, ast.Assign)
-                   for t in n.targets if isinstance(t, ast.Name)}
-    for leaked in ("last_fps_health_log", "was_degraded"):
-        assert leaked not in local_names, (
-            f"{leaked} is a local of run_iteration() again, so it resets every "
-            "cycle -- the heartbeat degenerates to once per iteration")
-
-    body = ast.unparse(run_iteration)
-    assert "self._fps_last_health_log" in body and "self._fps_was_degraded" in body, (
-        "the health state should live on the coordinator, across iterations")
-
-
-def test_start_clears_stale_health_state():
-    """A new run must not inherit "was degraded" from the previous one."""
-    start = next((n for n in ast.walk(TREE)
-                  if isinstance(n, ast.FunctionDef) and n.name == "start"), None)
-    assert start is not None, "start() not found"
-    body = ast.unparse(start)
-    assert "self._fps_last_health_log" in body and "self._fps_was_degraded" in body, (
-        "start() does not reset the FPS health state")
-
-
-def test_the_degraded_threshold_is_documented():
-    """The 90% band is deliberate; say so where the constant is defined."""
-    source = COORD.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    idx = source.index("_FPS_HEALTHY_FRACTION = ")
-    preamble = source[max(0, idx - 700):idx]
-    assert "90%" in preamble or "0.9" in preamble, (
-        "the degradation threshold is not explained at its definition, so "
-        "'below target' reads as a bug rather than a deliberate band")

test/test_vegas_log_volume.py

@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
-"""The Vegas content path must trace at DEBUG, not INFO.
-
-plugin_adapter narrates every step of acquiring content from every plugin --
-"Has get_vegas_content", "Native: calling get_vegas_content()", "Native content
-returned None", "Has scroll_helper", the per-item sizes -- and it does that for
-each plugin on each cycle.
-
-Measured on a live rig: 13,408 log lines an hour, of which 13,366 were INFO and
-35 were WARNING. plugin_adapter alone produced 2,457 of them. That is ~223
-lines a minute of string formatting on a Pi that is also driving the panel, all
-of it written through journald to the SD card, and it buries the 35 lines that
-actually indicate a problem.
-
-Nothing is lost by moving it to DEBUG: the 19 warning/error/exception calls in
-the module are untouched, so real failures still surface at their own level.
-
-One INFO call is deliberate and stays -- the padding-strip message chooses its
-level at runtime (`logger.warning if (left and right) else logger.info`) and
-test_vegas_plugin_adapter.py pins it.
-"""
-import ast
-from pathlib import Path
-
-import pytest
-
-ADAPTER = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "src" / "vegas_mode"
-           / "plugin_adapter.py")
-
-
-def _logger_calls(path, *levels):
-    """Direct logger.<level>(...) call sites in a module."""
-    tree = ast.parse(path.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
-    found = []
-    for node in ast.walk(tree):
-        if (isinstance(node, ast.Call)
-                and isinstance(node.func, ast.Attribute)
-                and node.func.attr in levels
-                and getattr(node.func.value, "id", None) == "logger"):
-            found.append(node.lineno)
-    return found
-
-
-def _info_calls(path):
-    """Direct logger.info(...) call sites in a module."""
-    return _logger_calls(path, "info")
-
-
-def test_the_content_path_does_not_trace_at_info():
-    calls = _info_calls(ADAPTER)
-    assert not calls, (
-        "plugin_adapter should trace at DEBUG; found logger.info at lines "
-        f"{calls}. This path runs per plugin per cycle and its output goes to "
-        "the SD card via journald."
-    )
-
-
-def test_real_failures_still_have_a_level_of_their_own():
-    """Demoting the trace must not have swept up the error reporting.
-
-    Counted from the AST rather than with source.count(): the text form also
-    matches comments, docstrings and string literals -- including this
-    module's own docstring, which names these levels -- so a real
-    logger.error() could be demoted while the tally stayed put.
-    """
-    loud = _logger_calls(ADAPTER, "warning", "error", "exception")
-    assert len(loud) >= 15, \
-        f"only {len(loud)} warning/error/exception calls remain: {loud}"
-
-
-def test_the_deliberate_runtime_chosen_level_survives():
-    """The padding-strip message picks its level at runtime; leave it alone."""
-    source = ADAPTER.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-    assert "logger.warning if (left and right) else logger.info" in source

test/web_interface/test_api_v3_secret_roundtrip.py

@@ -229,6 +229,44 @@ class TestSavePluginConfig:
             "REAL-KEY-0123456789", "an unrelated edit destroyed the API key"
         assert env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]["city"] == "Dallas"
 
+    def test_an_unrelated_edit_does_not_erase_array_item_secrets(self, env):
+        """The scalar api_key case above, but for a list of credentials.
+
+        remove_empty_secrets recursed into dicts only, so a list went into
+        deep_merge untouched -- and lists merge by *replacement*. Saving any
+        unrelated field posted [{"token": ""}, ...] straight over the stored
+        array and destroyed every token in it at once.
+        """
+        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
+            {"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
+            {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"},
+        ], "city": "Austin"}).status_code == 200
+
+        # the user changes the city; both masked tokens ride along blank
+        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
+            {"name": "a", "token": ""},
+            {"name": "b", "token": ""},
+        ], "city": "Dallas"}).status_code == 200
+
+        merged = env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]
+        assert [a.get("token") for a in merged["accounts"]] == \
+            ["REAL-A", "REAL-B"], "an unrelated edit destroyed the array secrets"
+        assert [a["name"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["a", "b"]
+        assert merged["city"] == "Dallas"
+
+    def test_one_array_secret_can_be_changed_without_losing_the_rest(self, env):
+        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
+            {"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
+            {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"},
+        ]}).status_code == 200
+        assert self._save(env, {"accounts": [
+            {"name": "a", "token": ""},
+            {"name": "b", "token": "NEW-B"},
+        ]}).status_code == 200
+
+        merged = env.fresh_load()[PLUGIN_ID]
+        assert [a.get("token") for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "NEW-B"]
+
     def test_a_secret_can_still_be_changed(self, env):
         """Dropping blanks must not stop a real new value from being saved."""
         self._save(env, {"api_key": "first-key"})

test/web_interface/test_config_logging_omits_secrets.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+"""The validation logging ran before separate_secrets, so it logged credentials.
+
+api_v3's plugin-config save logged `Full config: {plugin_config}` at INFO and
+`Config that failed: {plugin_config}` at ERROR. Both run *before*
+separate_secrets(), so plugin_config still held the values the user just typed
+into the form -- API keys and tokens went to the journal in clear text.
+"""
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+SOURCE = (Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
+          / "web_interface" / "blueprints" / "api_v3.py")
+
+#: Objects that still hold submitted secret values at the point these log
+#: calls run. Interpolating one whole into a log message leaks credentials.
+UNREDACTED = ("plugin_config", "secrets_config", "current_secrets")
+
+
+def _logging_lines():
+    for number, line in enumerate(SOURCE.read_text(encoding="utf-8").splitlines(), 1):
+        stripped = line.strip()
+        if stripped.startswith("#"):
+            continue
+        if re.match(r"logger\.(debug|info|warning|error|critical|exception)\(", stripped):
+            yield number, stripped
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("name", UNREDACTED)
+def test_no_log_call_interpolates_a_whole_secret_bearing_object(name):
+    # {name} or {name['k']} leaks; {list(name.keys())} and {len(name)} do not.
+    bare = re.compile(r"\{" + re.escape(name) + r"(\[[^\]]*\])*\}")
+    offenders = [f"{n}: {text}" for n, text in _logging_lines() if bare.search(text)]
+    assert not offenders, (
+        f"{name} still holds submitted secrets where these log calls run:\n  "
+        + "\n  ".join(offenders))
+
+
+def test_the_guard_would_notice_a_reintroduced_leak():
+    """Pin the detector itself, so a rewrite cannot silently stop matching."""
+    bare = re.compile(r"\{" + re.escape("plugin_config") + r"(\[[^\]]*\])*\}")
+    assert bare.search('logger.info(f"Full config: {plugin_config}")')
+    assert bare.search("logger.error(f\"{plugin_config['api_key']}\")")
+    assert not bare.search('logger.info(f"{list(plugin_config.keys())}")')

test/web_interface/test_secret_helpers.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from src.web_interface.secret_helpers import (
     separate_secrets,
     mask_secret_fields,
     mask_all_secret_values,
+    merge_secrets,
     remove_empty_secrets,
 )
 
@@ -239,3 +240,67 @@ class TestRemoveEmptySecrets:
     def test_keeps_falsey_non_string_values(self):
         # 0 and False are neither None nor blank strings — they are kept.
         assert remove_empty_secrets({"a": 0, "b": False}) == {"a": 0, "b": False}
+
+
+class TestArrayItemSecrets:
+    """Lists merge by replacement, so a blanked array wipes stored credentials.
+
+    remove_empty_secrets recursed into dicts but let a list through untouched,
+    so [{"token": ""}] went straight into deep_merge and overwrote the stored
+    list. Saving any unrelated setting destroyed every token in the array.
+    """
+
+    STORED = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "REAL-A"},
+                           {"name": "b", "token": "REAL-B"}]}
+
+    def test_an_unrelated_save_keeps_every_stored_token(self):
+        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
+                               {"name": "b", "token": ""}]}
+        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
+        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "REAL-B"]
+
+    def test_editing_one_entry_leaves_the_others_alone(self):
+        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
+                               {"name": "b", "token": "NEW-B"}]}
+        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
+        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["REAL-A", "NEW-B"]
+
+    def test_a_new_entry_is_appended(self):
+        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": ""},
+                               {"name": "b", "token": ""},
+                               {"name": "c", "token": "NEW-C"}]}
+        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
+        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == \
+            ["REAL-A", "REAL-B", "NEW-C"]
+
+    def test_a_list_of_bare_strings_merges_by_index(self):
+        merged = merge_secrets({"keys": ["K1", "K2", "K3"]},
+                               remove_empty_secrets({"keys": ["", "K2-NEW", ""]}))
+        assert merged["keys"] == ["K1", "K2-NEW", "K3"]
+
+    def test_an_all_blank_list_is_dropped_entirely(self):
+        posted = {"accounts": [{"token": ""}, {"token": ""}]}
+        assert "accounts" not in remove_empty_secrets(posted)
+
+    def test_plain_dict_secrets_are_unaffected(self):
+        merged = merge_secrets({"api_key": "OLD", "other": "keep"},
+                               remove_empty_secrets({"api_key": "", "other": "changed"}))
+        assert merged == {"api_key": "OLD", "other": "changed"}
+
+    def test_a_removed_entry_takes_its_secret_with_it(self):
+        """The regular config's list is authoritative about how many items
+        exist, and the secrets list runs parallel to it -- see
+        ConfigManager._strip_secrets_recursive. So a shorter incoming list
+        must shorten the stored secrets too, or the two fall out of step."""
+        posted = {"accounts": [{"name": "a", "token": "NEW-A"}]}
+        merged = merge_secrets(self.STORED, remove_empty_secrets(posted))
+        assert [a["token"] for a in merged["accounts"]] == ["NEW-A"]
+
+    def test_an_emptied_item_stays_a_dict_not_none(self):
+        """None there stops the list looking parallel, and
+        _strip_secrets_recursive then drops the whole key from the main
+        config -- deleting the item's non-secret fields as well."""
+        pruned = remove_empty_secrets(
+            {"accounts": [{"token": "real"}, {"token": ""}]})
+        assert pruned["accounts"] == [{"token": "real"}, {}]
+        assert None not in pruned["accounts"]

web_interface/blueprints/api_v3.py

@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 from src.web_interface.api_helpers import success_response, error_response, validate_request_json
 from src.web_interface.errors import ErrorCode
 from src.web_interface.secret_helpers import (find_secret_fields, mask_all_secret_values,
-                                              remove_empty_secrets, separate_secrets,
+                                              merge_secrets, remove_empty_secrets,
+                                              separate_secrets,
                                               strip_masked_values)
 from src.web_interface.error_handler import describe_exception, redact_text
 from src.plugin_system.operation_types import OperationType
@@ -1296,7 +1297,10 @@ def save_main_config():
                 if secrets_config:
                     if plugin_id not in current_secrets:
                         current_secrets[plugin_id] = {}
-                    current_secrets[plugin_id] = deep_merge(current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
+                    # Lists merge by replacement, so deep_merge here wrote a
+                    # blanked array straight over the stored credentials.
+                    current_secrets[plugin_id] = merge_secrets(
+                        current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
                     # Save secrets file
                     api_v3.config_manager.save_raw_file_content('secrets', current_secrets)
 
@@ -5675,8 +5679,10 @@ def save_plugin_config():
         if schema:
             # Log what we're validating for debugging
             logger.info(f"Validating config for {plugin_id}")
+            # Only the shape. plugin_config still holds the submitted secret
+            # values at this point -- separate_secrets does not run until
+            # below -- so logging it wrote live credentials to the journal.
             logger.info(f"Config keys being validated: {list(plugin_config.keys())}")
-            logger.info(f"Full config: {plugin_config}")
 
             # Get enhanced schema keys (including injected core properties)
             # We need to create an enhanced schema to get the actual allowed keys
@@ -5699,7 +5705,8 @@ def save_plugin_config():
                 # Log validation errors for debugging
                 logger.error(f"Config validation failed for {plugin_id}")
                 logger.error(f"Validation errors: {validation_errors}")
-                logger.error(f"Config that failed: {plugin_config}")
+                # Keys only, for the same reason as above.
+                logger.error(f"Config keys that failed: {list(plugin_config.keys())}")
                 logger.error(f"Schema properties: {list(enhanced_schema.get('properties', {}).keys())}")
 
                 # Also print to console for immediate visibility
@@ -5750,7 +5757,9 @@ def save_plugin_config():
         if secrets_config:
             if plugin_id not in current_secrets:
                 current_secrets[plugin_id] = {}
-            current_secrets[plugin_id] = deep_merge(current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
+            # See above -- secrets lists must merge element-wise.
+            current_secrets[plugin_id] = merge_secrets(
+                current_secrets[plugin_id], secrets_config)
             # Save secrets file
             try:
                 api_v3.config_manager.save_raw_file_content('secrets', current_secrets)

web_interface/static/v3/app.js

@@ -126,7 +126,17 @@ window.showRestartPending = function(message) {
     } catch { /* private browsing */ }
     const banner = document.getElementById('restart-pending-banner');
     const text = document.getElementById('restart-pending-text');
-    if (text && message) text.textContent = message;
+    if (text) {
+        // Without the else-branch a config save inherited whatever wording the
+        // previous update left in the DOM: showRestartPending() clears the
+        // stored text but used to leave the element itself alone. The default
+        // is read back from the server-rendered copy rather than duplicated
+        // here, so the template stays the one place that owns the string.
+        if (text.dataset.defaultText === undefined) {
+            text.dataset.defaultText = text.textContent.trim();
+        }
+        text.textContent = message || text.dataset.defaultText;
+    }
     if (banner) banner.style.display = 'block';
 };