- Externalize inline images in messages and run events before persistence
- Keep snapshots, transcripts, and metadata free of inline payloads
- Serialize messages after externalization to reduce peak memory usage
- Preserve live messages, URL-only images, and SDK image retrieval behavior
- Add regression tests for deduplication, redaction, storage failures, and serialization order
- Add MediaCache using xxHash3-128 (with sha256 fallback) content-addressable storage
- Externalize message chain image payloads before recording monitoring and discarded messages
- Strip base64 payloads to null in SQLite monitoring_messages, dropping row size from megabytes to hundreds of bytes
- Add GET /api/v1/files/media/<filename> route with immutable HTTP cache headers to serve cached media
- Integrate age-based retention (default 30 days) and configurable disk quota with MaintenanceService cleanup loop
- Add defensive sanitizer in MonitoringService.record_message against oversized raw base64 payloads
- Add comprehensive unit tests and end-to-end verification covering CAS deduplication, route serving, and LRU pruning
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