[test-improver] Improve tests for logger/rpc_logger package

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Test Improvements: internal/logger/rpc_logger_test.go

File Analyzed

• Test File: internal/logger/rpc_logger_test.go
• Package: internal/logger
• Lines of Code: 485 → 596 (+111 net, mostly new tests)

Improvements Made

1. Better Idiomatic Testify Usage

Several tests used manual strings.Contains checks instead of testify's purpose-built assertions. This made failures harder to read and inconsistent with the rest of the codebase.

Before — manual loop with t.Errorf:

for _, expected := range tt.want {
    if !strings.Contains(result, expected) {
        t.Errorf("Expected result to contain %q, got: %s", expected, result)
    }
}

After — idiomatic testify:

for _, expected := range tt.want {
    assert.Contains(t, result, expected, "formatRPCMessage result should contain %q", expected)
}

Specific patterns replaced across 4 test functions (TestFormatRPCMessage, TestFormatRPCMessageMarkdown, TestFormatJSONWithoutFields, TestLogRPCRequestPayloadTruncation):

• ✅ if !strings.Contains(x, y) { t.Errorf(...) } → assert.Contains(t, x, y, ...)
• ✅ if strings.Contains(x, y) { t.Errorf(...) } → assert.NotContains(t, x, y, ...)
• ✅ assert.True(t, strings.Contains(x, y), ...) → assert.Contains(t, x, y, ...)
• ✅ assert.False(t, strings.Contains(x, y), ...) → assert.NotContains(t, x, y, ...)
• ✅ if err := Init...; err != nil { t.Fatalf(...) } → require.NoError(t, Init..., "...")

2. Increased Coverage — 5 New Tests

Four public API functions had zero test coverage:

Function	Status Before	Status After
LogRPCRequestWithAgentSnapshot	❌ untested	✅ tested
LogRPCResponseWithAgentSnapshot	❌ untested	✅ tested
LogRPCMessage	❌ untested	✅ tested

New tests added:

• ✅ TestLogRPCRequestWithAgentSnapshot — verifies AgentSecrecy/AgentIntegrity DIFC tags are written to JSONL output
• ✅ TestLogRPCResponseWithAgentSnapshot — same for response path, with multiple integrity tags
• ✅ TestLogRPCRequestWithAgentSnapshot_EmptyTags — verifies nil tag slices are correctly omitted from JSON (using omitempty)
• ✅ TestLogRPCMessage — covers the generic LogRPCMessage path (text + markdown)
• ✅ TestLogRPCResponse_NoError — directly verifies the JSONL output of a successful response (no error field)

3. Cleaner & More Stable Tests

• ✅ require.NoError stops tests immediately on logger init failure (previously t.Fatalf — same semantics but more idiomatic)
• ✅ Renamed shadowed err variable to readErr in TestLogRPCResponse to eliminate variable reuse across different error sources
• ✅ New agent-snapshot tests use assert.ElementsMatch for order-independent tag comparison

Why These Changes?

rpc_logger_test.go was testing important security-sensitive logging paths (secrets redaction, truncation) and the new agent DIFC snapshot functions — but used inconsistent assertion styles: a mix of manual strings.Contains loops, assert.True(t, strings.Contains(...)) wrappers, and proper testify calls. The manual patterns produce worse failure messages and bypass testify's consistent output format. The four untested public functions (LogRPCRequest/ResponseWithAgentSnapshot, LogRPCMessage) are important for DIFC audit trails and deserved direct coverage.

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Pull request overview

This PR improves the internal/logger RPC logger test suite by making assertions more idiomatic (testify) and adding new coverage for previously untested RPC logging entrypoints, including agent DIFC snapshot logging to JSONL.

Changes:

• Replaced manual strings.Contains loops and boolean wrappers with assert.Contains / assert.NotContains and require.NoError across existing tests.
• Added new tests for LogRPCRequestWithAgentSnapshot, LogRPCResponseWithAgentSnapshot, LogRPCMessage, and a “no error” JSONL response case.
• Expanded JSONL verification logic in tests by parsing log output.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

internal/logger/rpc_logger_test.go:528

• TestLogRPCRequestWithAgentSnapshot_EmptyTags claims to verify omitempty behavior, but unmarshalling into JSONLRPCMessage and asserting the slices are nil can’t distinguish between fields being omitted vs being present as null (which would happen if omitempty were removed). To actually test omission, parse the raw JSON line into a map[string]any (or json.RawMessage) and assert the agent_secrecy / agent_integrity keys are not present.

	// nil slices should not appear as fields in JSON
	assert.Nil(t, entry.AgentSecrecy, "AgentSecrecy should be nil when empty tags passed")
	assert.Nil(t, entry.AgentIntegrity, "AgentIntegrity should be nil when empty tags passed")
}

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After scanning the JSONL content, the test doesn’t check scanner.Err(). If the scanner hits an error (e.g., token too long), this loop will silently stop and the assertions may be misleading. Add an assertion on scanner.Err() after the loop (or avoid bufio.Scanner and split/read lines in a way that surfaces errors).

Suggested change

	}
	}
	require.NoError(t, scanner.Err(), "scanner encountered an error while reading JSONL content")

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This test says it verifies the JSONL entry has “no error field”, but unmarshalling into JSONLRPCMessage and asserting entry.Error is empty can’t detect whether the error key was omitted vs present as "error":"" (if omitempty were removed). If the intent is to enforce omission, unmarshal the JSON into a map[string]any and assert the error key is absent.

This issue also appears on line 525 of the same file.

Suggested change

	var entry JSONLRPCMessage
	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonlLines[0]), &entry))
	assert.Empty(t, entry.Error, "Error field should be empty when no error")
	// First, verify that the JSON object does not contain an "error" field at all.
	var raw map[string]any
	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonlLines[0]), &raw))
	_, hasErrorField := raw["error"]
	assert.False(t, hasErrorField, "JSONL entry should not contain an 'error' field when no error is passed")
	// Then, verify other structured fields as before.
	var entry JSONLRPCMessage
	require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal([]byte(jsonlLines[0]), &entry))