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# Security & Compliance Report

**Session ID**: `phase40-session04-chat-overrides-and-runtime` **Reviewed**: 2026-07-03 **Result**: PASS

## Scope

**Files reviewed** (session deliverables only):

* `src/components/hermes/chat/chat-types.ts` - Chat send option contract.
* `src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts` - Client chat payload validation, send path, and SSE event handling.
* `src/hooks/__tests__/use-hermes-admin.test.tsx` - Hook coverage for overrides and diagnostics.
* `src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts` - Chat SSE event parser contract.
* `src/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-types.test.ts` - Parser coverage for `info` events.
* `src/lib/hermes-intelligence-events.ts` - Intelligence event mapping.
* `src/lib/__tests__/hermes-intelligence-events.test.ts` - Intelligence transcript and diagnostic coverage.
* `scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts` - Admin chat bridge validation, argv construction, stream runtime, and diagnostics.
* `scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts` - Bridge override, timeout, cleanup, and redaction coverage.

**Review method**: Static analysis of session deliverables, targeted diff inspection, real-key pattern scan, dependency/schema diff check, and validation test evidence.

**Review evidence**:

* Command/check: `git diff --name-only 991444067326cc8cada6e19fd3b94c9459e1564b`
  * Result: PASS - Session surface is limited to spec metadata plus the chat bridge, hook, parser, Intelligence mapper, and focused tests.
  * Evidence: Output listed the nine deliverable files plus `.spec_system/state.json`.
* Command/check: `git diff --name-only 991444067326cc8cada6e19fd3b94c9459e1564b | rg -n "(^package\.json$|^bun\.lock$|migrations|prisma|drizzle|database|/db/|\.sql$|schema)"`
  * Result: PASS - No dependency, database, migration, SQL, ORM, or schema artifacts changed.
  * Evidence: Command exited 1 with no matches.
* Command/check: `rg -n "(sk-[A-Za-z0-9]{20,}|AIza[0-9A-Za-z_-]{20,}|ghp_[0-9A-Za-z]{20,}|github_pat_[0-9A-Za-z_]{20,}|xox[baprs]-[0-9A-Za-z-]{20,}|AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16})" [session deliverables]`
  * Result: PASS - No real API key, GitHub token, Slack token, AWS key, or OpenAI-key-shaped value found.
  * Evidence: Command exited 1 with no matches.
* Command/check: `git diff --unified=0 991444067326cc8cada6e19fd3b94c9459e1564b -- scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts src/hooks/__tests__/use-hermes-admin.test.tsx scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts | rg -n "(secret|api_key|token=|Bearer|Authorization|sk-[A-Za-z0-9])"`
  * Result: PASS - Secret-looking changed lines are synthetic redaction and invalid-path fixtures in tests only.
  * Evidence: Matches were `redactionFixtureSecret()` based test data, `api_key=${secretValue}` redaction input, and invalid path examples such as `openai/../../secret`; tests assert `<secret-redacted>` and absence of the fixture value.
* Command/check: `rg -n "spawn\(|shell|chatOverrideArgs|readChatModelOverride|readChatProviderOverride|sanitizeBridgeOutput|containsLikelySecret|writeChatInfoEvent" scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts`
  * Result: PASS - Override input is validated before argv construction, `shell` remains undefined in tests, and browser-visible diagnostics use sanitization helpers.
  * Evidence: Output showed `readChatModelOverride`, `readChatProviderOverride`, `chatOverrideArgs`, `sanitizeBridgeOutput`, `writeChatInfoEvent`, and tests asserting `options.shell` is undefined.
* Command/check: `bun run test`
  * Result: PASS - Full repository test suite passed.
  * Evidence: 409 test files passed; 4687 tests passed.
* Command/check: `bun run lint`
  * Result: PASS - ESLint completed with no findings.
  * Evidence: Command exited 0.

## Security Assessment

### Overall: PASS

| Category                      | Status | Severity | Details                                                                                                                               |
| ----------------------------- | ------ | -------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Injection (SQLi, CMDi, LDAPi) | PASS   | --       | Client and bridge reject unsafe override values; spawn uses argv arrays with `shell` undefined; no SQL or LDAP surface changed.       |
| Hardcoded Secrets             | PASS   | --       | Strict real-key regex scan found no real token-shaped values; synthetic redaction fixtures remain in tests and are asserted redacted. |
| Sensitive Data Exposure       | PASS   | --       | Runtime `info` diagnostics are emitted through `sanitizeBridgeOutput`; tests assert fixture secrets are absent from responses.        |
| Insecure Dependencies         | PASS   | --       | No package manifest or lockfile changed.                                                                                              |
| Security Misconfiguration     | PASS   | --       | Existing local control-plane gates remain unchanged; no CORS, auth, or header relaxation was introduced.                              |

### Security Findings

No security findings.

## GDPR Compliance Assessment

### Overall: N/A

*N/A because this session introduced no personal data collection, persistence, analytics, database storage, or third-party data transfer.*

**Categories reviewed**: Data Collection & Purpose, Consent Mechanism, Data Minimization, Right to Erasure, PII in Logs, Third-Party Data Transfers.

### Personal Data Inventory

No personal data collected or processed in this session.

### GDPR Findings

No GDPR findings.

## Recommendations

None - session is compliant.

## Sign-Off

* **Result**: PASS
* **Reviewed by**: AI validation (validate)
* **Date**: 2026-07-03


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