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The implementation adds per-request Hermes chat model/provider overrides, supports MoA preset sends, hardens the admin chat runtime with heartbeat and timeout behavior, and routes sanitized `info` diagnostics through typed chat events without polluting assistant text or Intelligence transcripts. *** ## Deliverables ### Files Created | File | Purpose | Lines | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | ----- | | `.spec_system/specs/phase40-session04-chat-overrides-and-runtime/code-review.md` | Review and repair report | \~49 | | `.spec_system/specs/phase40-session04-chat-overrides-and-runtime/security-compliance.md` | Security and GDPR compliance report | \~105 | | `.spec_system/specs/phase40-session04-chat-overrides-and-runtime/validation.md` | Session validation report | \~151 | | `.spec_system/specs/phase40-session04-chat-overrides-and-runtime/IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md` | Final updateprd summary | \~112 | ### Files Modified | File | Changes | | ------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | `src/components/hermes/chat/chat-types.ts` | Added optional per-request chat model and provider override fields. | | `src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts` | Added client-side override validation, payload serialization, duplicate-send preservation, and `info` event retention without output accumulation. | | `src/hooks/__tests__/use-hermes-admin.test.tsx` | Added override serialization, invalid-option rejection, duplicate-send, MoA preset, and `info` diagnostic coverage. | | `src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts` | Added typed `info` chat SSE event parsing. | | `src/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-types.test.ts` | Added parser coverage for valid and invalid `info` events. | | `src/lib/hermes-intelligence-events.ts` | Mapped `info` events as diagnostics without adding them to assistant transcript text. | | `src/lib/__tests__/hermes-intelligence-events.test.ts` | Added diagnostic activity and transcript exclusion coverage. | | `scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts` | Added server override validation, argv construction, stream safeguards, heartbeat, timeout, cleanup, disconnect, and sanitized `info` SSE handling. | | `scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts` | Added ordinary model, MoA, invalid value, argv ordering, graph/yolo/toolset, runtime timer, disconnect, heartbeat, and redaction coverage. | | `.spec_system/PRD/phase_40/PRD_phase_40.md` | Marked Session 04 complete and updated phase progress. | | `.spec_system/state.json` | Recorded Session 04 completion and cleared the current session. | | `package.json` | Bumped package version from 0.5.107 to 0.5.108. | | `README.md` | Updated the visible version line to 0.5.108. | | `docs/CHANGELOG.md` | Added the Session 04 release note. | *** ## Technical Decisions 1. **Per-request only overrides**: Model and provider choices are carried on one chat request and do not mutate Hermes config or persisted defaults. 2. **Server remains authoritative**: The hook rejects malformed values early, but the admin bridge repeats validation before constructing argv. 3. **Non-shell execution boundary**: Overrides are appended as argv entries so injection-shaped values cannot alter shell parsing. 4. **Typed diagnostics**: Runtime notices use sanitized `info` events, while only `chunk` events can append assistant text. 5. **Bounded streaming lifecycle**: First-output timeout, post-output idle success, heartbeat comments, disconnect cleanup, and timer cleanup are owned by the bridge runtime path. *** ## Test Results | Metric | Value | | -------------- | ------------- | | Focused Tests | 87 | | Focused Passed | 87 | | Full Tests | 4687 | | Full Passed | 4687 | | Coverage | Not collected | *** ## Lessons Learned 1. Path-like and URL-like model IDs need explicit rejection beyond a basic safe-character allowlist. 2. `provider: "moa"` should fail before fetch dispatch when no preset model is supplied, even though the bridge repeats the authority check. 3. Diagnostics are safer as typed events because hooks and transcript mappers can preserve observability without changing assistant-visible text. *** ## Future Considerations Items for future sessions: 1. Session 05 should reuse the same output sanitization and controlled-error boundary for command endpoint responses. 2. Session 06 should apply the per-request validation and redaction approach to MoA save behavior. 3. 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