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saddlepaddle · 2026-09-29T21:58:32Z

Problem

cli_command_invoked is about 13.3M events a week, roughly 60% of all PostHog events (Production project, last 7 days). 24 users send 80% of it. They are agents and dashboards that run the CLI every few seconds:

terminals list: 5.8M
terminals read: 3.7M
workspaces list: 1.2M
status: 0.47M

For example, one open-source fleet dashboard built on the CLI runs terminals list and terminals read every 2.5 s. Each event is also its own analytics.captureEvent call to the API.

Change

trackCommandInvoked now reports each command at most once per UTC day. It stores what it has already reported in $SUPERSET_HOME_DIR/reported-commands.json and skips both the event and the API call for a repeat. If the file cannot be written, the CLI reports as before.

Still correct: CLI DAU/WAU, and users per command (the "CLI — top commands" insight now reads as adoption).
Gone: raw call counts. "CLI — events per day" (mDPHNp0p) stops meaning anything and should be deleted. I have not changed it.
Timing: this only affects new CLI builds. Installed versions keep sending until they update. The heaviest users are on 1.30–1.31.

Verification

New analytics.test.ts covers repeats, separate commands, the next UTC day, and an unwritable file. The CLI suite passes (303/303) and typecheck is clean.
Dev CLI against a local listener: three runs of superset auth whoami sent one POST /api/trpc/analytics.captureEvent. The other two runs sent only their own calls.
Dev CLI against prod: three runs of auth whoami produced one cli_command_invoked event (cli_version 0.0.0-dev) in PostHog.

Summary by cubic

Reduces CLI telemetry volume by reporting each command at most once per UTC day instead of on every run, cutting ~13.3M weekly cli_command_invoked events (about 60% of all PostHog events) from agents and dashboards that run the CLI every few seconds, and requires no migration—only new CLI builds.

Stores reported commands in $SUPERSET_HOME_DIR/reported-commands.json and skips both the event and the API call for repeats; falls back to reporting every run if the file can't be written.
Ignores a malformed or unreadable reported-commands.json file instead of throwing, so one bad file won't break a command.
DAU/WAU and users-per-command insights stay correct, while raw call counts go away.

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Analytics
- Command usage is reported at most once per command per UTC day. Different commands are tracked separately, and reporting becomes available again the following UTC day. If reporting data is unavailable or cannot be updated, command usage reporting continues.

cli_command_invoked was about 13.3M events a week, roughly 60% of all PostHog events. 24 users sent 80% of them: agents and dashboards that call `terminals list`, `terminals read` and `workspaces list` every few seconds. Each event was also its own analytics.captureEvent call to the API. The CLI now keeps the commands it reported today (UTC) in $SUPERSET_HOME_DIR/reported-commands.json and skips both the event and the API call for repeats. DAU/WAU and users-per-command stay correct; raw call counts go away.

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The CLI records reported commands by UTC day. It skips analytics events for commands already reported on that day and accepts commands again on a later UTC day.

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Daily command analytics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record daily command reports `packages/cli/src/lib/analytics.ts`, `packages/cli/src/lib/analytics.test.ts`	`isFirstReportToday` reads and updates the reported-command state for the current UTC day. Tests cover per-command tracking, next-day eligibility, invalid file contents, and write failures.
Filter duplicate analytics events `packages/cli/src/lib/analytics.ts`	`trackCommandInvoked` joins the command path and skips event capture when the command has already been reported that day.

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Change: Bug fix

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The change suppresses repeated daily command reports while preserving reporting when state cannot be written. It is mergeable after normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 76f95

The new daily reporting gate does not appear to weaken API authentication or expand remote access. It does make CLI commands depend on a local analytics file: invalid contents can stop a command before it runs. Reporting is also best effort, rather than a guaranteed once-per-day delivery mechanism.

Retained concerns

Medium · reliability · inferred: A schema-invalid but parseable reported-commands.json can throw during the synchronous eligibility check. Because middleware checks eligibility before proceeding, optional telemetry state can prevent the CLI command itself from running until the file is repaired.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — The new file affects reporting and command execution for processes using that CLI home. No changed server authorization, desktop dependency, or remotely writable report-file path is established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — Authentication is resolved before CLI telemetry, and the API client still uses the protected server route. Sandbox requests rely on an externally added workspace credential, but that behavior is unchanged against the supplied review baseline and its runtime enforcement is not verified here.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — The cache is best effort for delivery but not fully isolated from command availability: parse errors fail open, while parseable records with an invalid shape can fail before middleware proceeds.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Keep malformed reporting state from blocking commands, and specify whether daily eligibility is merely best effort or must survive concurrent processes, failed delivery, and changes of authenticated identity.

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- Around line 26-27: Validate the parsed saved report inside the read error
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Valid JSON of the wrong shape (null, a non-array commands) threw in the middleware before the command ran, so one bad file broke every command.

* docs: weekly update for PRs merged 2026-09-23 to 2026-09-30 Source of truth: live Notion SOP "Weekly Docs Update (automation SOP)". Window: merged:>=2026-09-23 (139 PRs). PRs through the morning of 09-23 were covered by #7771. Changes - Pages: no auto-open on publish (#7790); page links and URL links split into their own settings (#7916, #7962, #7946); Listening agents menu with per-row stop and Add listening agent (#7724, #7820, #7919); globe on the Share button (#7766); Report on public pages (#7886); agents offer a page (#7759). Files: pages.mdx, cli/cli-reference.mdx. - Settings moves: Links replaced by Browser and Files & Editor (#7916, #7962). Files: editor.mdx, terminal-integration.mdx, customization.mdx. - Editor: inline rename and drag to move (#7692), Auto Save (#7693, #7916), open and save files outside the workspace (#7897, #7982), Copy as Markdown (#7591), per-pane error screen (#7983). File: editor.mdx. - Terminal copy follows Ghostty's whitespace rules (#7868). File: terminal-integration.mdx. - Agents: UFO (#7898); GPT-6 Astra, Sonnet 5.5, retiring GPT-5.5, retired GPT-5.4/5.3 Codex (#7783, #7894, #7935). Files: agent-integration.mdx, cli/cli-reference.mdx. - Host: superset start --daemon --auto-update and update-lock permission errors (#7735, #7952). Files: cli/host-server.mdx, cli/cli-reference.mdx. - Removed the mcp CLI section and the Connected Service Plugins section: #7776 made plugins/mcp internal, the Plugins page is staff-flagged, and apps/docs/AGENTS.md keeps internal commands out. Files: skills.mdx, cli/cli-reference.mdx. - Slack page unfurls and details panel (#7817, #7821, #7914, #7957). File: use-with-slack.mdx. - Workspaces: instant creation with background naming (#7518); recoverable project deletion (#7896). File: workspaces.mdx. - Shortcuts: prev/next workspace includes Pinned and wraps (#7851); ⌘B collapses the sidebar to a rail (#7964). File: keyboard-shortcuts.mdx. - Ship controls and open-in button moved to the right sidebar strip (#7958). Files: diff-viewer.mdx, use-with-ide.mdx. Deliberately skipped - Cloud workspaces/environments/sandboxes (flag-gated, AGENTS.md rule): #7784 #7795 #7824 #7840 #7844 #7845 #7847 #7849 #7850 #7858 #7861 #7863 #7874 #7911 #7913 #7918 #7922 #7931 #7932 #7937 #7956 #7961 #7969 #7981 #7637 #7794 #7789 #7838 (its CLI docs already shipped in the PR). - Staff-only plugins: #7912 Sentry plugin, #7716, #7727, #7955. - Already documented in their own PRs: #7917, #7921. - Removed feature never documented: #7796 Google Calendar triggers. - Agents chip remove/revert/default-off, never documented: #7870 #7871 #7872. - Billing/backend policy with no docs surface: #7947, #7812, #7786, #7792, #7798, #7761, #7948, #7949, #7951, #7827. - Reverted security trio: #7828 #7829 #7830 (reverted by #7834). - Fixes restoring expected behavior: #7683 #7696 #7707 #7743 #7751 #7756 #7764 #7765 #7781 #7788 #7791 #7823 #7825 #7833 #7837 #7852 #7857 #7860 #7864 #7865 #7869 #7873 #7897-covered #7903 #7938 #7980 #7943 #7964-chrome. - Mobile (no docs page): #7746 #7747 #7748 #7749 #7750 #7782 #7793 #7810 #7814 #7816 #7889 #7968. - Marketing, internal docs, CI, version bumps: #7651 #7744 #7752 #7771 #7774 #7776-infra #7777 #7785 #7811 #7818 #7822 #7826 #7834 #7884 #7885 #7895 #7909 #7933 #7934 #7942 #7944 #7965 #7966. Validation: bun run --cwd apps/docs typecheck, bun run lint:fix, bun run lint (exit 0), Vale on 13 changed files (0 errors, 0 warnings), git diff --check. * chore: log weekly docs update follow-ups * docs: tighten review findings in the weekly update Only the page creator can stop or add listening agents. On focus change also saves on window blur, and Auto Save pauses on conflicts. Taken-down pages do not unfurl. Model picker coverage matches agent-models.ts.

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fix(cli): ignore a malformed reported-commands file instead of throwing

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Valid JSON of the wrong shape (null, a non-array commands) threw in the middleware before the command ran, so one bad file broke every command.

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