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Closes #4231

Summary

  • expose module-aware console output through IPipelineContext.Console
  • split plain text (WriteLine) from Spectre markup (WriteMarkupLine)
  • move IConsoleWriter into ModularPipelines.Logging and make the raw implementation internal
  • update call sites, API baselines, release notes, docs, and focused tests

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  • ModularPipelines.slnx Release build: 0 warnings, 0 errors
  • ConsoleWriterTests: 3/3
  • ModuleLoggerTests: 12/12
  • ContextHierarchyTests: 6/6
  • SecretObfuscatorTests: 3/3
  • PipelineCommandLineTests: 77/77
  • scoped whitespace verification: passed

Full ModularPipelines.Tests.slnf format verification hit the agent 2 GB guard while reporting unrelated existing formatting debt in ScaleTests.cs and ZipCentralDirectory.cs; touched-file whitespace checks pass. The build pipeline was not run per repository agent constraints.

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  • New Features

    • Added module-aware console output through context.Console.
    • Added plain-text, markup, and renderable output options with secret masking.
    • Console output is grouped with the active module, including lifecycle events.
  • Breaking Changes

    • Replaced LogToConsole with WriteLine and WriteMarkupLine.
    • The console writer API is now provided under the logging namespace.
    • Updated pipeline logger access to use the general logging interface.
  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for logging, console output, command logging, and HTTP logging configuration.

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Walkthrough

The console writer API moves to ModularPipelines.Logging. IPipelineContext.Console exposes the configured writer. Plain-text, markup, and renderable output use separate paths. Lifecycle wiring, production call sites, tests, and documentation use the new API.

Changes

Module-aware console output

Layer / File(s) Summary
Console API and context wiring
src/ModularPipelines/Logging/*, src/ModularPipelines/Context/*, src/ModularPipelines/PublicAPI.*
IConsoleWriter moves to ModularPipelines.Logging. WriteLine and WriteMarkupLine replace LogToConsole. Pipeline and hook contexts expose the configured writer.
Writer and buffered output semantics
src/ModularPipelines/Logging/*, src/ModularPipelines/Console/*
Plain text is escaped, markup is parsed, renderables retain styling, and output is obfuscated and buffered. Invalid markup falls back to plain-text output.
Lifecycle propagation and call-site migration
src/ModularPipelines/Engine/*, src/ModularPipelines/CommandLine/*, src/ModularPipelines.Build/..., src/ModularPipelines/Pipeline*.cs
Module writers propagate through lifecycle events. Framework components use WriteLine, WriteMarkupLine, and context.Console.
Validation and documentation updates
test/ModularPipelines.UnitTests/*, docs/docs/how-to/logging.md, RELEASE_NOTES_V4.md
Tests verify context access, markup handling, buffering, renderables, lifecycle output, and secret obfuscation. Documentation describes the updated API and logging configuration.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f63ef

The PR adds module-aware console output and explicit markup rendering, but secrets embedded in hyperlink or control metadata can still bypass masking and appear in terminal or CI logs, with an additional concern around markup content being transformed before secret matching. Merge should wait for these bounded security risks to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Module
  participant PipelineContext
  participant ModuleLogger
  participant OutputBuffer
  participant SpectreConsole
  Module->>PipelineContext: access Console
  PipelineContext->>ModuleLogger: return configured writer
  Module->>ModuleLogger: WriteLine or WriteMarkupLine
  ModuleLogger->>OutputBuffer: obfuscate and buffer output
  OutputBuffer->>SpectreConsole: render buffered output
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A rabbit writes plain words with care,
Then sends bright markup through the air.
Secrets hide in every line,
Buffered colors stay in time.
Console guides the writer’s way.

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The changes satisfy issue #4231. They add IPipelineContext.Console, split LogToConsole into WriteLine and WriteMarkupLine, move IConsoleWriter to ModularPipelines.Logging, and make the raw ConsoleWriter implementation internal.

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The PR includes unrelated public API baseline changes, including removal of the legacy File and Folder APIs, migration to FilePath and FolderPath, PowerShell option renames, and additional untracked declarations. These changes are not part of issue #4231 or the stated console writer objectives.

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Greptile Summary

The PR exposes module-aware console output through pipeline contexts, separates plain-text and Spectre markup APIs, and moves the console writer contract into the logging namespace.

  • Routes module lifecycle and hook output through module-scoped console writers.
  • Adds buffered rich-renderable output and plain-text report representations.
  • Updates public API baselines, documentation, release notes, call sites, and focused tests.

Confidence Score: 1/5

The PR is not safe to merge while renderable mask preservation and hyperlink metadata can still expose registered secrets.

The current renderable wrapper still preserves secret matches that fall inside an unsafe configured mask and retains unmasked hyperlink destinations through terminal emission.

Files Needing Attention: src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs, src/ModularPipelines/Engine/SecretObfuscator.cs, src/ModularPipelines/Console/ModuleOutputBuffer.cs

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Filename Overview
src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs Introduces segment-preserving secret masking for renderables; two previously reported secret-disclosure paths remain outstanding.
src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs Adds masked pipeline fallback output and ambient module-aware routing for plain text, markup, and renderables.
src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs Splits plain and markup output while buffering masked rich renderables with module output.
src/ModularPipelines/Context/PipelineContext.cs Replaces logger casting with a constructor-injected console writer, resolving the previously reported pipeline-level cast failure.
src/ModularPipelines/Console/ModuleOutputBuffer.cs Extends module buffering, report excerpts, and terminal flushing to support rich renderables.
src/ModularPipelines/Engine/Execution/ModuleRunner.cs Propagates module-scoped console writers through lifecycle callbacks and module event receivers.

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%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    Context[IPipelineContext.Console] --> Writer[IConsoleWriter]
    Writer -->|ambient module| ModuleLogger[ModuleLogger]
    Writer -->|pipeline fallback| PipelineConsole[ConsoleWriter]
    ModuleLogger --> Buffer[ModuleOutputBuffer]
    PipelineConsole --> Terminal[AnsiConsole]
    Buffer --> Terminal
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Reviewed the diff for PR #4277 against the linked issue (#4231) and the repo's CLAUDE.md.

This is a clean, mechanical API-naming refactor that does exactly what #4231 asked for:

  • IConsoleWriter moved from the root ModularPipelines namespace to ModularPipelines.Logging, and the concrete ConsoleWriter is now internal.
  • LogToConsole(string) split into WriteLine(string) (plain text, escaped) and WriteMarkupLine(string) (Spectre markup) — consistently applied across ModuleLogger<T>, the top-level ConsoleWriter, DependencyPrinter, PipelineCommandHandler, PipelineCommandLineHelp, and the build module.
  • IPipelineContext.Console was added and correctly wired through all three implementers (PipelineContext, ModuleContext, ModuleHookContext), backed by the module-aware/buffered/obfuscated writer rather than the raw singleton — which fixes the actual bug described in the issue (the build module was previously grabbing the unbuffered, unmasked writer via GetService<IConsoleWriter>(); it now uses context.Console).
  • PublicAPI.Shipped.txt / PublicAPI.Unshipped.txt were updated consistently with the namespace move and new member.
  • Docs (logging.md) and RELEASE_NOTES_V4.md were updated, and no stale references to LogToConsole or the old namespace remain outside the "removed" changelog note.
  • Test coverage was added/updated for the new members (ConsoleWriterTests, ContextHierarchyTests, ModuleLoggerTests, SecretObfuscatorTests, PipelineCommandLineTests), including a WriteLine_EscapesMarkup test confirming plain-text output is markup-escaped.

I checked for compile breakage from the interface addition (all IPipelineContext implementations updated; test doubles are Moq-based so they don't need the new member) and found none. I didn't find any bugs or CLAUDE.md violations in the changed code.

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head ac27960fde2487cbe4d6def7ea3fdcba1203b8db, comparing against the earlier claude[bot] review (CLEAR at 24be0d4b) and the findings other bots raised in between.

Since the last claude[bot] pass:

  • CodeRabbit/Greptile flagged that PipelineContext.Console was doing an invalid cast of Logger to IConsoleWriter. That's now fixed properly — IConsoleWriter is constructor-injected into PipelineContext (src/ModularPipelines/Context/PipelineContext.cs:82, :96) rather than cast from the logger. Good fix.

New issue found in this pass:

  1. Blocking — DependencyPrinter regression: dependency-tree group headers no longer render as markup on local/non-CI runs. src/ModularPipelines/Engine/DependencyPrinter.cs:57 and :65.
    Before this PR, DependencyPrinter routed the fallback writer through _consoleWriter.LogToConsole, which called AnsiConsole.MarkupLine(value) — i.e. it parsed Spectre markup. The refactor split LogToConsole into WriteLine (plain text, AnsiConsole.WriteLine, no markup parsing) and WriteMarkupLine (markup-aware, matches the old behavior) — but the call sites in DependencyPrinter.Print were updated to _consoleWriter.WriteLine instead of _consoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine.
    Concretely: DefaultFormatter.GetStartBlockCommand (used whenever formatter.UsesRawCommands is false, which is the default and applies to local/non-CI runs) returns $"{MarkupFormatter.PlayIcon} {name}", i.e. the literal string "[bold cyan]▶[/] Module Dependencies". Piped through WriteLine, that markup is never parsed, so users will see the raw [bold cyan]▶[/] Module Dependencies text printed instead of a colored play-icon header. This is a real, user-visible regression (with PrintDependencyChains = true, the default), not just a style nit.
    Fix: change both call sites to _consoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine to restore the original rendering.

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  1. src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.csWriteLine, WriteMarkupLine, and Write each re-implement the identical ambient-dispatch pattern (if (ModuleLogger.Values.Value is IConsoleWriter moduleConsoleWriter) { moduleConsoleWriter.X(...); return; }). Worth extracting into a small shared helper, e.g. private static bool TryGetModuleConsoleWriter(out IConsoleWriter? writer), and having each method do if (TryGetModuleConsoleWriter(out var w)) { w.X(...); return; }. Three independent copies of the same dispatch logic means a future change to the ambient-lookup behavior (e.g. adding a null check, or a new ambient source) is easy to apply to one method and silently miss the other two, reintroducing subtly inconsistent behavior between plain/markup/renderable output. A single shared helper makes that class of bug structurally impossible.

Everything else — the IConsoleWriter namespace move, IPipelineContext.Console wiring through PipelineContext/ModuleContext/ModuleHookContext, PublicAPI.* updates, docs, and the added test coverage — looks correct and consistent with the stated goal of #4231.

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Nice, focused refactor overall — splitting plain-text vs. markup output (WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine), relocating IConsoleWriter into ModularPipelines.Logging, making the raw implementation internal, and updating the API baselines/tests/docs together is a clean way to land this. I confirmed the LogToConsole migration is complete repo-wide (no leftover references) and the module-scoped obfuscation/escaping tests (ConsoleWriterTests, ModuleLoggerTests) look correct.

Finding: context.Console silently skips secret obfuscation outside an active module — but is now documented as always obfuscating

This PR adds IPipelineContext.Console and documents it, in both the XML doc comment and docs/docs/how-to/logging.md, with an unconditional guarantee:

"Output is buffered with the current module and secrets are obfuscated before rendering."

/// <summary>
/// Gets the module-aware console writer. Output is buffered with the current module
/// and secrets are obfuscated before rendering.
/// </summary>
IConsoleWriter Console { get; }

## Module-aware console output
Use `context.Console` when a module needs plain text or Spectre.Console rendering
instead of structured logging. Its output remains grouped with the module and secrets
are obfuscated before rendering.

That guarantee only holds when a module's AsyncLocal ambient logger (ModuleLogger.Values.Value) is set. PipelineContext.Console is just the raw DI-registered ConsoleWriter singleton, and when no module is ambient, WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine/Write fall straight through to AnsiConsole/System.Console with no call to ISecretObfuscator:

{
public void WriteLine(string value)
{
if (ModuleLogger.Values.Value is IConsoleWriter moduleConsoleWriter)
{
moduleConsoleWriter.WriteLine(value);
return;
}
AnsiConsole.WriteLine(value);
}

This ambient-fallback behavior itself predates this PR (it existed in the old LogToConsole), so it isn't a new bug in that sense. What's new is that this PR turns it into first-class, documented, easily-discoverable API surface — most concretely via IPipelineGlobalHooks.OnPipelineStartAsync/OnPipelineEndAsync, which hand callers an IPipelineContext explicitly before any module has started / after all modules have finished (i.e. guaranteed no ambient module logger):

{
/// <summary>
/// Called before any modules have started.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="context">A pipeline hook context object provided by the pipeline.</param>
/// <returns>A <see cref="Task"/> representing the result of the asynchronous operation.</returns>
Task OnPipelineStartAsync(IPipelineContext context) => Task.CompletedTask;

Concretely: a user implementing IPipelineGlobalHooks.OnPipelineStartAsync(context) and calling context.Console.WriteLine(secretValue) — following the new docs verbatim — will leak the secret to the raw console, contradicting the guarantee this PR itself documents. Previously the raw writer was only reachable via context.GetService<IConsoleWriter>(), which most users wouldn't stumble into; now it's the advertised, "just use context.Console" entry point.

Suggested fix: rather than relying on ambient thread-local detection (which is fragile and easy to bypass from any non-module call site), make obfuscation the default at the ConsoleWriter fallback level too. ISecretObfuscator is already a singleton in the same DI container as IConsoleWriter — inject it into ConsoleWriter and obfuscate in the non-module branches the same way ModuleLogger.WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine already do, instead of only documenting/relying on the module-scoped path. That gives a secure-by-default guarantee that actually matches the new docs, regardless of whether the caller happens to be inside a module.

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Rebased onto current main after #4268, combining the console-writer and module-result PublicAPI additions. Core Release and CI-conditioned API builds pass; 107 focused tests pass; all 61 PublicAPI baseline pairs and assertion harness pass.

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 903f806c9d0da13511b08614fe96952836ae3074, comparing against the prior claude[bot] reviews on this PR.

Fixed since the last pass: the invalid (IConsoleWriter) Logger cast in PipelineContext.Console is gone — IConsoleWriter is now constructor-injected directly (src/ModularPipelines/Context/PipelineContext.cs:82, :96), and ModuleContext.Console delegates to _pipelineContext.Console (src/ModularPipelines/Context/ModuleContext.cs:178). Good, targeted fix with a regression test (Console_ReturnsInjectedWriterWithoutResolvingPipelineLogger).

Both previously-flagged BLOCKING issues are still present and unaddressed at this head:

  1. DependencyPrinter regression: dependency-tree group headers no longer render as markup on local/non-CI runs. src/ModularPipelines/Engine/DependencyPrinter.cs:57 and :65 still call _consoleWriter.WriteLine where the old code called _consoleWriter.LogToConsole (which parsed Spectre markup, now equivalent to WriteMarkupLine). DefaultFormatter.GetStartBlockCommand (src/ModularPipelines/Engine/BuildSystemFormatters/DefaultFormatter.cs:15) returns literal markup ("[bold cyan]▶[/] Module Dependencies"), and ConsoleWriter.WriteLine (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:9-18) calls AnsiConsole.WriteLine, which does not parse markup. With PrintDependencyChains = true (the default) on any non-CI build system, users will see the literal [bold cyan]▶[/] Module Dependencies text instead of the colored header. Fix: change both call sites back to _consoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine.

  2. context.Console silently skips secret obfuscation outside an active module, but is documented as always obfuscating. IPipelineContext.Console's XML doc (src/ModularPipelines/Context/IPipelineContext.cs:33-36) and docs/docs/how-to/logging.md unconditionally state "secrets are obfuscated before rendering." That only holds when ModuleLogger.Values.Value (an AsyncLocal) is set, which only happens inside a module's ModuleLoggerScope. PipelineContext.Console is the raw DI-registered ConsoleWriter singleton (src/ModularPipelines/Context/PipelineContext.cs:82), and when no module is ambient — most notably in IPipelineGlobalHooks.OnPipelineStartAsync/OnPipelineEndAsync (src/ModularPipelines/Interfaces/IPipelineGlobalHooks.cs:10-17), which hand callers an IPipelineContext explicitly before any module runs / after all modules finish — WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine/Write fall straight through to AnsiConsole/System.Console with no ISecretObfuscator call (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:9-46). A user following the new docs and calling context.Console.WriteLine(secretValue) from a global hook will leak the secret. Suggested fix (as noted previously): inject ISecretObfuscator into ConsoleWriter and obfuscate in the non-module fallback branches too, so the guarantee holds unconditionally rather than only when a module happens to be ambient.

Non-blocking design suggestion (repeated from prior review, still applicable): ConsoleWriter.WriteLine, WriteMarkupLine, and Write each duplicate the same if (ModuleLogger.Values.Value is IConsoleWriter moduleConsoleWriter) { ...; return; } ambient-dispatch check. Extracting a shared TryGetModuleConsoleWriter helper would prevent a future change to that lookup from being applied inconsistently across the three methods — and would have been the natural place to add the obfuscation fallback from finding 2 above.

Everything else — the IConsoleWriter namespace move, PublicAPI.* updates, and the added test coverage — looks correct and consistent with the stated goal of #4231.

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Addressed the blocking review in 1198795: DependencyPrinter now sends local group commands through WriteMarkupLine; ConsoleWriter injects ISecretObfuscator and masks all non-module fallback paths, including renderables; duplicated ambient dispatch was consolidated. Added fallback masking tests for plain/markup/renderable output and a dependency-header routing regression. Validation: core build 0 warnings/errors; ConsoleWriterTests 6/6; DependencyPrinterTests 1/1; diff check clean. @claude please review current head 1198795.

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@claude please review current head 15ddf9f. Console routing/masking fixes are unchanged after rebasing onto #4260; the only new commit repairs the #4260/#4278 CmdTests File-to-FilePath merge break. Core/API build, 70 focused tests, and 61 baseline pairs pass.

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Fixed the current-head analyzer failure in 5076d80 by alphabetically ordering using directives in the two reported files. CI-equivalent analyzer build succeeds with 0 errors. @claude review

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 15ddf9f71750ce9f2542a8c120cfa4022141394a, comparing against the prior claude[bot] review (CLEAR at a9854be628).

Since that CLEAR pass: the branch was rebased onto main (picking up #4260's FilePath/FolderPath rename and #4278's Cmd/shell alignment — both purely mechanical, 15ddf9f717 itself is just the resulting FileFilePath rename in CmdTests), and, more substantively, ConsoleWriter/ModuleLogger<T> were reworked (85023e66ca..ffaa4dfb2e) to route all renderable output through a new SecretObfuscatedRenderable (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs) that obfuscates secrets segment-by-segment while preserving Spectre styling, instead of rendering to a string and obfuscating the flattened text. That's a nice fix for a real problem (flatten-then-obfuscate could break ANSI escapes / mis-render), but it introduces two new issues:

1. Blocking — invalid markup now throws synchronously and unguarded from module code, where it previously didn't. src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:266-268:

public override void WriteMarkupLine(string value)
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    WriteRenderable(new Markup(value));
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new Markup(value) parses the markup eagerly in the constructor — I verified this against Spectre.Console 0.51.1: new Markup("[bold cyan]unclosed") throws InvalidOperationException: Unbalanced markup stack immediately, before any render/write call. Before this PR, ModuleLogger<T>.WriteMarkupLine just obfuscated and buffered the raw string (_buffer.WriteLine(obfuscated)); markup was only parsed later, inside ModuleOutputBuffer.WriteDirect, which wraps the call in try/catch (Exception) and falls back to plain output. Now, any module calling context.Console.WriteMarkupLine(...) with a dynamic string that happens to contain unbalanced brackets (a file path, a test name, third-party tool output, etc.) throws straight out of the module's ExecuteAsync, terminating it.

The ambient ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:28-45) does still guard this with try/catch (InvalidOperationException) — but that guard is dead for the common case: when a module is running, ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine delegates straight to moduleConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine(value) (line 30-33) before reaching its own try/catch, so the guard only ever protects the rare non-module ambient path. The module-scoped path — which is what almost all pipeline code actually hits — has no protection at all now.

Fix: wrap the new Markup(value) construction (or the whole WriteRenderable call) in ModuleLogger<T>.WriteMarkupLine with the same try/catch (InvalidOperationException) → fall back to obfuscated plain text, mirroring ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine's fallback. Since both places now need identical fallback logic, this is also a good opportunity to share it (e.g. a static helper that takes a markup string and returns a safe IRenderable) rather than duplicating the try/catch a third time.

2. Non-blocking but real — SecretObfuscatedRenderable.MapFallbackSegments collapses per-segment styling to a single style when a custom ISecretObfuscator is used. src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:69-84:

private static IEnumerable<Segment> MapFallbackSegments(IReadOnlyList<Segment> segments, string obfuscated)
{
    var hasWrittenVisibleText = false;
    foreach (var segment in segments)
    {
        if (segment.IsControlCode) { yield return segment; }
        else if (!hasWrittenVisibleText)
        {
            hasWrittenVisibleText = true;
            yield return new Segment(obfuscated, segment.Style, segment.Link);
        }
    }
}

This path only runs for a custom (non-SecretObfuscator) ISecretObfuscator implementation — which is a deliberate, documented extension point (ISecretObfuscator is public, and its HasSecrets doc explicitly calls out "custom implementations"). When such an obfuscator changes multi-segment text (e.g. [red]abc[/][blue]123[/]), the whole obfuscated string is emitted once, using only the first segment's style, and every subsequent visible segment is dropped entirely rather than rendered — so text isn't lost, but any distinct styling on later runs (e.g. a highlighted secret in a different color from surrounding text) silently disappears and everything renders as if it were one uniform style. There's no test coverage for SecretObfuscatedRenderable at all (grep -rl SecretObfuscatedRenderable test/ returns nothing), so this wouldn't be caught by CI.

This is inherently hard to fix precisely without a source map (which is why the concrete SecretObfuscator path uses ObfuscatePreservingMasksWithSourceMap instead) — but the current behavior is worth being intentional about. At minimum, consider documenting on MapFallbackSegments/ISecretObfuscator that custom obfuscators lose per-segment styling on the fallback path, or fall back to a single flattened Segment using Style.Plain/no style rather than the misleadingly-specific first segment's style, so it doesn't look like a deliberate styling choice.

Everything else holds up: the #4260/#4278 rebase is mechanical and doesn't touch the console-writer feature files beyond the rename; all previously-blocking findings from earlier passes on this PR (dependency-tree markup regression, unobfuscated fallback console) remain fixed with their regression tests intact; and the SecretObfuscatedRenderable/ObfuscatePreservingMasksWithSourceMap happy path (the default, concrete SecretObfuscator) looks correct.

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 5076d80ed6cb1712a175156a6d5b15ae85c6ee17, comparing against the prior claude[bot] review (BLOCKING at head 15ddf9f717).

Since that pass: the only new commit is 5076d80ed6 ("style(core): order using directives"), a purely mechanical using-directive reorder in two unrelated files (ModuleLifecycleEventInvoker.cs, IPipelineSetupExecutor.cs). None of the console-writer feature files changed.

The previously-flagged BLOCKING issue is still present and unaddressed:

  1. Unbalanced/invalid markup thrown unguarded from module-scoped WriteMarkupLine. src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:267-270:

    public override void WriteMarkupLine(string value)
    {
        WriteRenderable(new Markup(value));
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    new Markup(value) parses eagerly in the constructor and throws InvalidOperationException on unbalanced markup (e.g. a file path or third-party tool output containing a stray [). This is what almost all pipeline code hits, since module code goes through ModuleLogger<T>, not the ambient ConsoleWriter singleton.

    ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:28-45) does wrap its own new Markup(...) construction in try/catch (InvalidOperationException) with a plain-text fallback — but that guard only protects the non-module ambient path. When a module is running, ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine delegates straight to moduleConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine(value) and returns before reaching its own try/catch, so the guard is dead code for the common case. The module-scoped path has no protection at all, meaning context.Console.WriteMarkupLine(...) with any dynamic string containing unbalanced brackets will throw straight out of the module's ExecuteAsync, terminating it.

    No regression test was added for this case — ConsoleWriterTests.cs still only covers well-formed markup for the module-scoped path (WriteMarkupLine_UsesAmbientModuleConsoleWriter, WriteMarkupLine_ObfuscatesSplitSecretInModuleBuffer), not invalid/unbalanced markup.

    Suggested fix: share one fallback helper (e.g. a static method that takes a markup string, tries to construct/render a Markup, and falls back to obfuscated plain text on InvalidOperationException) and call it from both ModuleLogger<T>.WriteMarkupLine and ConsoleWriter.WriteMarkupLine's ambient branch, rather than only guarding the ambient singleton path. This also avoids a third copy of the same try/catch if a future call site needs it.

Non-blocking, also still unaddressed (repeated from prior review): SecretObfuscatedRenderable.MapFallbackSegments (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:69-84) collapses all visible segments to a single Segment using only the first segment's Style when a custom (non-SecretObfuscator) ISecretObfuscator changes multi-segment text — later segments' distinct styling silently disappears. There's still no test coverage for SecretObfuscatedRenderable (git grep SecretObfuscatedRenderable -- test returns nothing). Worth at least documenting this limitation on the type/interface, or falling back to an unstyled segment instead of the misleadingly-specific first style.

Everything else from earlier passes — the IConsoleWriter namespace move, IPipelineContext.Console wiring, the DependencyPrinter markup fix, and the unobfuscated-fallback fix — remains correct and unaffected by this commit.

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Addressed the exact-head markup blocker at 91cb18f. ModuleLogger now catches only eager Markup-construction failures and routes invalid input through the existing obfuscated, escaped plain-text path, so dynamic malformed markup cannot terminate a module. Added a module-scoped regression. Also resolved the custom-obfuscator fallback concern: transformed multi-segment output is explicitly Style.Plain instead of inheriting the first segment's misleading style, with ANSI regression coverage. Validation: core test solution build 0 errors; ConsoleWriterTests 14/14; diff check clean. @claude review

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In `@src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs`:
- Line 272: Obfuscate the source value before constructing Markup so registered
secrets remain masked even when the value contains valid Spectre markup. Apply
this in ModuleLogger.cs at lines 272-272 and ConsoleWriter.cs at lines 39-39,
using the existing SecretObfuscatedRenderable flow, and add regression coverage
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- Around line 62-65: Update MapSegments to obfuscate segment.Link before passing
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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 91cb18f06e7e9262d24065ed0a3ed90a52087997, comparing against the prior claude[bot] review (BLOCKING at head 5076d80ed6).

Fixed since that pass: the previously-blocking issue — unbalanced/invalid markup thrown unguarded from module-scoped WriteMarkupLine — is now properly fixed. ModuleLogger<T>.WriteMarkupLine (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:266-278) now wraps new Markup(value) construction in try/catch (InvalidOperationException) and falls back to plain-text WriteLine, matching ConsoleWriter's ambient-path behavior. A real regression test was added (WriteMarkupLine_InvalidMarkupFallsBackToPlainModuleOutput). Good, targeted fix.

The same commit also tweaked SecretObfuscatedRenderable.MapFallbackSegments to use Style.Plain instead of the first segment's style for the fallback output (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:84), with a new test (Write_CustomObfuscatorUsesPlainFallbackStyle). This addresses the styling half of the previously-noted non-blocking issue, but not the underlying defect — see below.

New blocking finding, found on this pass:

  1. IModuleEventReceiver.OnModuleStartAsync/OnModuleEndAsync/OnModuleFailureAsync/OnModuleSkippedAsync never get the module-scoped console writer, unlike OnModuleReadyAsync. PipelineSetupExecutor (src/ModularPipelines/Engine/PipelineSetupExecutor.cs:48-71) only accepts a consoleWriter parameter for OnModuleReadyAsync; the other four call InvokeModuleEventReceiversAsync with no writer, so CreateModuleHookContext falls back to pipelineContext.Console (ModuleHookContext.cs:35: consoleWriter ?? pipelineContext.Console). ModuleRunner.cs confirms this: line 166 resolves a module-scoped readyConsoleWriter before calling OnModuleReadyAsync, but lines 914, 1051, 1076, 1088 call OnModuleStartAsync/OnModuleFailureAsync/OnModuleSkippedAsync/OnModuleEndAsync with no writer at all.

    This directly violates the documented contract: IModuleHookContext extends IPipelineContext and its own doc says it's "for use in module hooks (Ready, Start, End, Success, Failure, Skipped)" (src/ModularPipelines/Context/IModuleHookContext.cs:11-13), while IPipelineContext.Console's doc promises "Output is buffered with the current module ... secrets are obfuscated before rendering" (IPipelineContext.cs:36-38). For 4 of the 5 hooks, that's false — output goes to the ambient/pipeline-level writer instead of being grouped under the firing module.

    Notably, the parallel attribute-handler mechanism (ModuleLifecycleEventInvoker, src/ModularPipelines/Engine/Execution/ModuleLifecycleEventInvoker.cs:30-140) does generalize this correctly — its private GetConsoleWriter(context) helper is called for all five lifecycle events (Ready/Start/End/Failed/Skipped). The IModuleEventReceiver path in PipelineSetupExecutor/ModuleRunner should do the same instead of special-casing Ready. Sharing one GetConsoleWriter-style helper between both mechanisms (rather than keeping the ad hoc inline resolution only for Ready in ModuleRunner.cs:164-165) would prevent this kind of drift.

    No test covers this: ConsoleWriterTests.cs only has ReadyHooks_UseModuleConsoleWriter (line 245), nothing for Start/End/Failure/Skipped.

Non-blocking, still not fully addressed: SecretObfuscatedRenderable.MapFallbackSegments (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:70-87) still collapses every visible segment of a multi-segment renderable into a single Segment at the position of the first visible segment — later visible segments are dropped entirely (only control-code segments after the first are passed through). This only affects a custom (non-SecretObfuscator) ISecretObfuscator implementation whose obfuscation changes the text, but for something like a multi-cell Table or multi-line Markup, all text still collapses onto the first line/cell and subsequent visible content silently disappears — not just its style. The Style.Plain fix in this pass addressed the styling symptom noted previously but not this content-loss issue. Worth either mapping obfuscated output back per-segment (proportionally, similar to MapSegments) or at minimum documenting the collapsing behavior on the type.

Everything else — the IConsoleWriter namespace move, IPipelineContext.Console wiring, DependencyPrinter markup, and the non-module obfuscation fallback — remains correct and unaffected by this commit.

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Addressed the current blocking review at f63ef12. ModuleLifecycleContext now carries one module-scoped IConsoleWriter shared by attribute handlers and direct IModuleEventReceiver hooks; Ready, Start, End, Failure, and Skipped all receive it. Added five-phase reference coverage and buffered Ready/Start/End integration coverage. Validation: core test solution Release build passed (0 errors); ConsoleWriterTests 14/14; PipelineSetupExecutorTests 3/3; changed-file analyzer gate passed. @claude please review the new head.

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Rebased the lifecycle-hook fix onto current main at 517d35e; resolved release notes additively and dropped the now-upstream FilePath test patch. Post-rebase ModularPipelines.Tests.slnf Release build passed with 0 errors; prior focused results remain ConsoleWriterTests 14/14 and PipelineSetupExecutorTests 3/3. @claude please review the rebased head.

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 517d35eb0af2c535e1c88a9d5f19dda67f66e4f9. This head adds three new commits since the last claude[bot] CLEAR pass (a9854be6, since rebased away): preserve secure rich output (introduces SecretObfuscatedRenderable), tolerate invalid module markup, and scope all lifecycle hooks. I verified everything below directly against the current source (not just agent output) and cross-checked against the open inline threads from Codex/Greptile, several of which independently corroborate the same root causes.

Blocking

  1. Secret leak via hyperlink metadata — SecretObfuscatedRenderable only masks Segment.Text, never Segment.Link. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:45-65)
    MapSegments obfuscates and remaps the visible text but forwards segment.Link through untouched: new Segment(maskedText, segment.Style, segment.Link). If a module writes a Spectre renderable where a secret is embedded in a hyperlink target (e.g. new Text("view run").SetLink($"https://ci.example/run?token={secret}")), the visible label gets masked but the token survives verbatim in the OSC-8 hyperlink escape sequence emitted to the terminal (and to any ANSI-capturing log sink). This is a real secret-obfuscation bypass in a feature whose entire purpose is secret obfuscation — worth fixing before merge rather than in a follow-up, since the surrounding tests assert text masking but nothing exercises Segment.Link. Fix: either obfuscate the link string the same way as the text, or strip/deny links whose target contains a registered secret.

  2. Measure()/Render() disagree on text length, breaking layout renderables when a cell contains a secret. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:15)
    Measure(options, maxWidth) => inner.Measure(options, maxWidth) sizes off the original (unobfuscated) text, but Render() can substitute the fixed-width mask (**********, 10 chars) for text of a different length. For a Table/Grid/Panel written via context.Console.Write(table), Spectre bakes column widths/padding from Measure() during the table's own layout pass, then this wrapper swaps a cell's text for a differently-sized mask after that layout is fixed — producing a visibly misaligned table (borders and padding no longer match the row's actual character count) whenever a rendered cell contains a secret. Measure() needs to account for the post-obfuscation width, or the mask needs to be length-preserving.

  3. WriteLine's markup-escaped text leaks into the persisted run report as double-escaped brackets. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:261-264, src/ModularPipelines/Console/ModuleOutputBuffer.cs:434-449)
    WriteLine does _buffer.WriteLine(Markup.Escape(obfuscated)) — escaping is required so the string round-trips correctly through Spectre's MarkupLine at console-flush time (WriteDirect, ModuleOutputBuffer.cs:915-919). But CaptureOutputExcerpt captures that same escaped string verbatim into ModuleOutputExcerptBuffer, which becomes RunReport.Modules[...].Output.StdoutTail. So context.Console.WriteLine("Literal [brackets] stay literal") prints correctly to the live console but the persisted report/JSON shows "Literal [[brackets]] stay literal" — silently corrupting any downstream consumer of the run report (CI artifact parsers, dashboards), and directly contradicting this PR's own docs example that literal brackets "stay literal." The excerpt capture needs the pre-escape (or a separately un-escaped) string, not the markup-escaped one.

Non-blocking but worth addressing

  1. ConsoleWriter.Write(IRenderable)'s non-module fallback now unconditionally emits an extra blank line, a formatting regression from the pre-PR behavior. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:53-59)
    The deleted root ConsoleWriter.Write was AnsiConsole.Write(renderable) with no trailing newline. The new version adds AnsiConsole.WriteLine() after every non-module Write. DependencyPrinter.Print (src/ModularPipelines/Engine/DependencyPrinter.cs:59) calls _consoleWriter.Write(tree) before any module runs, so it always hits this fallback — every pipeline run now prints an unwanted blank line after the dependency tree, changing stable CI log output for no stated reason. If the extra newline is intentional (e.g. to match WriteMarkupLine's spacing), call it out in the PR description and add a regression test for it the way DependencyPrinterTests already covers the markup-vs-plain distinction; otherwise drop it.

  2. WriteMarkupLine's render step now runs synchronously with no exception handling, where the old path deferred and safely degraded. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:266-281)
    Pre-PR, all markup-bearing calls went through LogToConsole, which just buffered obfuscated text; markup was parsed later at flush time inside WriteDirect, wrapped in a broad catch (Exception) with a plain-text fallback — a bad render could never fail a module. Now WriteMarkupLine catches only InvalidOperationException around new Markup(value) (construction), then calls WriteRenderable, which does _renderConsole.Write(obfuscatedRenderable) with no try/catch at all. Any exception during that eager render (including from SecretObfuscatedRenderable.Render itself) now propagates out of the module body and fails it. Given essentially every former LogToConsole call site was migrated straight to WriteMarkupLine, this converts what used to be a purely cosmetic logging failure mode into a module-failing one. Worth wrapping the render step the same way the flush-time path does, or documenting the behavior change explicitly as intentional.

  3. ModuleHookContext's consoleWriter parameter/fallback is dead code. (src/ModularPipelines/Context/ModuleHookContext.cs:27,35)
    IConsoleWriter? consoleWriter = null with _consoleWriter = consoleWriter ?? pipelineContext.Console — all six construction sites (ModuleLifecycleEventInvoker.cs:39,60,81,102,123 and PipelineSetupExecutor.cs:106) always pass a concrete writer now. Making the parameter required (drop the default and the ??) turns "caller forgot to supply the module-scoped writer" from a silent wrong-writer fallback into a compile error — cheap insurance for exactly the kind of hook-wiring bug this PR is trying to fix.

  4. Minor duplication: the fallback expression logger as IConsoleWriter ?? pipelineContext.Console is written independently in ModuleContext.cs:179 and ModuleRunner.cs:1020-1021. A shared helper would keep the two resolution paths from silently diverging if the fallback rule ever changes.

  5. Minor efficiency: CreateLifecycleContext (ModuleRunner.cs:1007) is invoked twice per module execution in quick succession — once for the ready event (~163), once for the start event (~912) — each time re-resolving GetModuleLogger and _moduleAttributeEventService.GetAttributes. And ModuleLogger.WriteRenderable (ModuleLogger.cs:288-299) renders SecretObfuscatedRenderable once to capture plain text for buffering, then the stored renderable is rendered a second time when the buffer flushes to the real console — doubling the obfuscation/segment-remap cost per renderable write. Neither is urgent, but both are easy wins if this code path is revisited.

What's solid

The core refactor goal — splitting LogToConsole into WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine, relocating IConsoleWriter into ModularPipelines.Logging, and threading a single module-scoped console writer through all five lifecycle hooks (Ready/Start/End/Failure/Skipped) instead of the previous ambient-only access — is a real improvement and lands cleanly. The obfuscation source-mapping (SecretObfuscator.ObfuscatePreservingMasksWithSourceMap) is correctly reused rather than reinvented, PublicAPI.* is kept in sync, and the previously-blocking issues from earlier rounds (dependency-tree markup regression, unobfuscated pipeline-fallback secrets, invalid Console cast) remain fixed at this head.

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Re-reviewed PR #4277 at head 517d35eb0af2c535e1c88a9d5f19dda67f66e4f9. This head adds three new commits since the last claude[bot] CLEAR pass (a9854be6, since rebased away): preserve secure rich output (introduces SecretObfuscatedRenderable), tolerate invalid module markup, and scope all lifecycle hooks. I verified everything below directly against the current source (not just agent output) and cross-checked against the open inline threads from Codex/Greptile, several of which independently corroborate the same root causes.

Blocking

  1. Secret leak via hyperlink metadata — SecretObfuscatedRenderable only masks Segment.Text, never Segment.Link. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:45-65)
    MapSegments obfuscates and remaps the visible text but forwards segment.Link through untouched: new Segment(maskedText, segment.Style, segment.Link). If a module writes a Spectre renderable where a secret is embedded in a hyperlink target (e.g. new Text("view run").SetLink($"https://ci.example/run?token={secret}")), the visible label gets masked but the token survives verbatim in the OSC-8 hyperlink escape sequence emitted to the terminal (and to any ANSI-capturing log sink). This is a real secret-obfuscation bypass in a feature whose entire purpose is secret obfuscation — worth fixing before merge rather than in a follow-up, since the surrounding tests assert text masking but nothing exercises Segment.Link. Fix: either obfuscate the link string the same way as the text, or strip/deny links whose target contains a registered secret.

  2. Measure()/Render() disagree on text length, breaking layout renderables when a cell contains a secret. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/SecretObfuscatedRenderable.cs:15)
    Measure(options, maxWidth) => inner.Measure(options, maxWidth) sizes off the original (unobfuscated) text, but Render() can substitute the fixed-width mask (**********, 10 chars) for text of a different length. For a Table/Grid/Panel written via context.Console.Write(table), Spectre bakes column widths/padding from Measure() during the table's own layout pass, then this wrapper swaps a cell's text for a differently-sized mask after that layout is fixed — producing a visibly misaligned table (borders and padding no longer match the row's actual character count) whenever a rendered cell contains a secret. Measure() needs to account for the post-obfuscation width, or the mask needs to be length-preserving.

  3. WriteLine's markup-escaped text leaks into the persisted run report as double-escaped brackets. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:261-264, src/ModularPipelines/Console/ModuleOutputBuffer.cs:434-449)
    WriteLine does _buffer.WriteLine(Markup.Escape(obfuscated)) — escaping is required so the string round-trips correctly through Spectre's MarkupLine at console-flush time (WriteDirect, ModuleOutputBuffer.cs:915-919). But CaptureOutputExcerpt captures that same escaped string verbatim into ModuleOutputExcerptBuffer, which becomes RunReport.Modules[...].Output.StdoutTail. So context.Console.WriteLine("Literal [brackets] stay literal") prints correctly to the live console but the persisted report/JSON shows "Literal [[brackets]] stay literal" — silently corrupting any downstream consumer of the run report (CI artifact parsers, dashboards), and directly contradicting this PR's own docs example that literal brackets "stay literal." The excerpt capture needs the pre-escape (or a separately un-escaped) string, not the markup-escaped one.

Non-blocking but worth addressing

  1. ConsoleWriter.Write(IRenderable)'s non-module fallback now unconditionally emits an extra blank line, a formatting regression from the pre-PR behavior. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ConsoleWriter.cs:53-59)
    The deleted root ConsoleWriter.Write was AnsiConsole.Write(renderable) with no trailing newline. The new version adds AnsiConsole.WriteLine() after every non-module Write. DependencyPrinter.Print (src/ModularPipelines/Engine/DependencyPrinter.cs:59) calls _consoleWriter.Write(tree) before any module runs, so it always hits this fallback — every pipeline run now prints an unwanted blank line after the dependency tree, changing stable CI log output for no stated reason. If the extra newline is intentional (e.g. to match WriteMarkupLine's spacing), call it out in the PR description and add a regression test for it the way DependencyPrinterTests already covers the markup-vs-plain distinction; otherwise drop it.

  2. WriteMarkupLine's render step now runs synchronously with no exception handling, where the old path deferred and safely degraded. (src/ModularPipelines/Logging/ModuleLogger.cs:266-281)
    Pre-PR, all markup-bearing calls went through LogToConsole, which just buffered obfuscated text; markup was parsed later at flush time inside WriteDirect, wrapped in a broad catch (Exception) with a plain-text fallback — a bad render could never fail a module. Now WriteMarkupLine catches only InvalidOperationException around new Markup(value) (construction), then calls WriteRenderable, which does _renderConsole.Write(obfuscatedRenderable) with no try/catch at all. Any exception during that eager render (including from SecretObfuscatedRenderable.Render itself) now propagates out of the module body and fails it. Given essentially every former LogToConsole call site was migrated straight to WriteMarkupLine, this converts what used to be a purely cosmetic logging failure mode into a module-failing one. Worth wrapping the render step the same way the flush-time path does, or documenting the behavior change explicitly as intentional.

  3. ModuleHookContext's consoleWriter parameter/fallback is dead code. (src/ModularPipelines/Context/ModuleHookContext.cs:27,35)
    IConsoleWriter? consoleWriter = null with _consoleWriter = consoleWriter ?? pipelineContext.Console — all six construction sites (ModuleLifecycleEventInvoker.cs:39,60,81,102,123 and PipelineSetupExecutor.cs:106) always pass a concrete writer now. Making the parameter required (drop the default and the ??) turns "caller forgot to supply the module-scoped writer" from a silent wrong-writer fallback into a compile error — cheap insurance for exactly the kind of hook-wiring bug this PR is trying to fix.

  4. Minor duplication: the fallback expression logger as IConsoleWriter ?? pipelineContext.Console is written independently in ModuleContext.cs:179 and ModuleRunner.cs:1020-1021. A shared helper would keep the two resolution paths from silently diverging if the fallback rule ever changes.

  5. Minor efficiency: CreateLifecycleContext (ModuleRunner.cs:1007) is invoked twice per module execution in quick succession — once for the ready event (~163), once for the start event (~912) — each time re-resolving GetModuleLogger and _moduleAttributeEventService.GetAttributes. And ModuleLogger.WriteRenderable (ModuleLogger.cs:288-299) renders SecretObfuscatedRenderable once to capture plain text for buffering, then the stored renderable is rendered a second time when the buffer flushes to the real console — doubling the obfuscation/segment-remap cost per renderable write. Neither is urgent, but both are easy wins if this code path is revisited.

What's solid

The core refactor goal — splitting LogToConsole into WriteLine/WriteMarkupLine, relocating IConsoleWriter into ModularPipelines.Logging, and threading a single module-scoped console writer through all five lifecycle hooks (Ready/Start/End/Failure/Skipped) instead of the previous ambient-only access — is a real improvement and lands cleanly. The obfuscation source-mapping (SecretObfuscator.ObfuscatePreservingMasksWithSourceMap) is correctly reused rather than reinvented, PublicAPI.* is kept in sync, and the previously-blocking issues from earlier rounds (dependency-tree markup regression, unobfuscated pipeline-fallback secrets, invalid Console cast) remain fixed at this head.

Mask renderable metadata and source markup, snapshot mutable renderables, keep report text plain, and leave shared buffers open when scheduling defers execution.
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