diff --git a/crates/typedialog-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/typedialog-core/Cargo.toml
index 0579eff..2279e74 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/typedialog-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ async-trait.workspace = true
 tera = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tempfile.workspace = true
 dirs.workspace = true  # For config path resolution
+tracing.workspace = true  # Logging framework
 
 # i18n (optional)
 fluent = { workspace = true, optional = true }
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@ axum = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tower = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tower-http = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-tracing = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 futures = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ criterion.workspace = true
 default = ["cli", "i18n", "templates"]
 cli = ["inquire", "dialoguer", "rpassword"]
 tui = ["ratatui", "crossterm", "atty"]
-web = ["axum", "tokio", "tower", "tower-http", "tracing", "tracing-subscriber", "futures"]
+web = ["axum", "tokio", "tower", "tower-http", "tracing-subscriber", "futures"]
 i18n = ["fluent", "fluent-bundle", "unic-langid", "sys-locale"]
 templates = ["tera"]
 nushell = ["nu-protocol", "nu-plugin"]
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-core/benches/parsing_benchmarks.rs b/crates/typedialog-core/benches/parsing_benchmarks.rs
index c5dcb1c..8431eee 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-core/benches/parsing_benchmarks.rs
+++ b/crates/typedialog-core/benches/parsing_benchmarks.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use criterion::{black_box, criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion};
+use criterion::{criterion_group, criterion_main, Criterion};
+use std::hint::black_box;
 use typedialog_core::form_parser::parse_toml;
 use typedialog_core::nickel::MetadataParser;
 
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-core/src/nickel/contract_parser.rs b/crates/typedialog-core/src/nickel/contract_parser.rs
index 2e58685..f3b06d5 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-core/src/nickel/contract_parser.rs
+++ b/crates/typedialog-core/src/nickel/contract_parser.rs
@@ -100,13 +100,18 @@ impl ContractParser {
                             ) {
                                 // Could be string, array, object, number, true, false, null
                                 // Skip parsing as validator call
-                                eprintln!(
-                                    "[DEBUG] Skipping literal for field '{}': '{}'",
-                                    field_name, right_side
+                                tracing::debug!(
+                                    field = %field_name,
+                                    value = %right_side,
+                                    "Skipping literal field (not a validator call)"
                                 );
                                 continue;
                             }
-                            eprintln!("[DEBUG] Parsing field '{}': '{}'", field_name, right_side);
+                            tracing::debug!(
+                                field = %field_name,
+                                expression = %right_side,
+                                "Parsing field with validator"
+                            );
 
                             // Extract module.function pairs from right side
                             if let Some(dot_pos) = right_side.find('.') {
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-tui/Cargo.toml b/crates/typedialog-tui/Cargo.toml
index d15e177..c0c9e1f 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-tui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/typedialog-tui/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 toml = { workspace = true }
 unic-langid = { workspace = true }
+tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-tui/src/main.rs b/crates/typedialog-tui/src/main.rs
index 4bd0871..43129ea 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-tui/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/typedialog-tui/src/main.rs
@@ -149,6 +149,14 @@ enum Commands {
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // Initialize tracing subscriber with env filter (respects RUST_LOG)
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(
+            tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info")),
+        )
+        .init();
+
     let args = Args::parse();
 
     // Load configuration with CLI override
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-web/Cargo.toml b/crates/typedialog-web/Cargo.toml
index 86ed558..1cccc88 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-web/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/typedialog-web/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 toml = { workspace = true }
 unic-langid = { workspace = true }
+tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/typedialog-web/src/main.rs b/crates/typedialog-web/src/main.rs
index 841904a..a5499d9 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog-web/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/typedialog-web/src/main.rs
@@ -211,6 +211,14 @@ fn extract_nickel_defaults(
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // Initialize tracing subscriber with env filter (respects RUST_LOG)
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(
+            tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info")),
+        )
+        .init();
+
     let args = Args::parse();
 
     // Load configuration with CLI override
diff --git a/crates/typedialog/Cargo.toml b/crates/typedialog/Cargo.toml
index 0ffa93f..606142c 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/typedialog/Cargo.toml
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread"] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 toml = { workspace = true }
 unic-langid = { workspace = true }
+tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true }
 
 [lints]
 workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/typedialog/src/main.rs b/crates/typedialog/src/main.rs
index 66f03cf..5755e05 100644
--- a/crates/typedialog/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/typedialog/src/main.rs
@@ -300,6 +300,14 @@ enum Commands {
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    // Initialize tracing subscriber with env filter (respects RUST_LOG)
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt()
+        .with_env_filter(
+            tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::try_from_default_env()
+                .unwrap_or_else(|_| tracing_subscriber::EnvFilter::new("info")),
+        )
+        .init();
+
     let cli = Cli::parse();
 
     // Load configuration with CLI override