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# Security & Compliance Report

**Session ID**: `phase40-session06-moa-save-endpoint` **Reviewed**: 2026-07-03 **Result**: PASS

## Scope

**Files reviewed**:

* `scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts` - Admin bridge endpoint, payload validation, config read/backup/write helpers, and route handler.
* `scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts` - Admin bridge MoA save coverage for gates, validation, persistence, and safe errors.
* `src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts` - Browser parser contracts and error-code support.
* `src/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-types.test.ts` - Parser coverage for MoA save responses and setup-required errors.
* `src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts` - Browser hook action group, mutation state, and duplicate-trigger guard.
* `src/hooks/__tests__/use-hermes-admin.test.tsx` - Hook coverage for request serialization, disabled states, parser failures, and duplicate prevention.
* `src/components/hermes/__tests__/hermes-documents-gallery.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.
* `src/components/hermes/__tests__/hermes-mission-control.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.
* `src/components/hermes/__tests__/hermes-sections.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.
* `src/components/hermes/chat/__tests__/hermes-chat-tab.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.
* `src/components/hermes/intelligence/__tests__/intelligence-portal.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.
* `src/components/knowledge-graph/__tests__/knowledge-graph-grounded-chat.test.tsx` - Admin hook fixture shape update.

**Review method**: Static analysis of session deliverables, diff inspection against base commit `f76ac560d006164858a6e69c99094bc6443c456b`, focused and full test execution, lint/typecheck execution, and targeted secret/error-boundary grep.

**Review evidence**:

* Command/check: `rg -n "__hermes_moa_save|readMoaSavePayload|mergeMoaPreset|handleMoaSave|writeMoaConfig|setup_required|moaPresetConfig|MAX_MOA" scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts`
  * Result: PASS - endpoint, validation helpers, merge helpers, setup-required error, and bounded MoA constants are present.
  * Evidence: matches at `scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts:43-51`, `465`, `661-795`, `1217-1337`, and `2238-2278`.
* Command/check: `nl -ba scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts | sed -n '640,820p'`
  * Result: PASS - external payloads use exact-key, type, length, pattern, cardinality, temperature, and max-token validation.
  * Evidence: `assertExactKeys`, `readMoaPresetName`, `readMoaModelConfig`, `readMoaReferenceModels`, `readMoaTemperature`, `readMoaMaxTokens`, and `readMoaSavePayload` validate before filesystem access.
* Command/check: `nl -ba scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts | sed -n '1190,1345p'`
  * Result: PASS - config reads are bounded, missing config maps to `setup_required`, YAML must parse to an object, backups use filename labels, and writes use temp-file plus rename.
  * Evidence: `readHermesConfigText`, `parseHermesConfigYaml`, `backupHermesConfig`, `replaceHermesConfig`, and `mergeMoaPreset`.
* Command/check: `nl -ba scripts/lib/hermes-admin-bridge.ts | sed -n '2228,2285p'`
  * Result: PASS - route handler requires POST preflight, validates body before config read, backs up config before merge/write, and returns only preset/default/backup labels.
  * Evidence: `handleMoaSaveRequest` calls `requirePreflight`, `readMoaSavePayload`, `backupHermesConfig`, `mergeMoaPreset`, `replaceHermesConfig`, and safe response serialization.
* Command/check: `nl -ba src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts | sed -n '486,505p'; nl -ba src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts | sed -n '620,645p'; nl -ba src/hooks/use-hermes-admin.ts | sed -n '1010,1022p'`
  * Result: PASS - hook has a dedicated MoA in-flight ref, posts to `/__hermes_moa_save` with the parser, invalidates model data on success, and suppresses duplicate saves through `runScopedMutation`.
  * Evidence: `moaInFlightRef`, `moaSaveMutation`, and `moa.savePreset` are present.
* Command/check: `nl -ba src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts | sed -n '44,64p'; nl -ba src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts | sed -n '392,407p'; nl -ba src/lib/hermes-admin-types.ts | sed -n '512,534p'`
  * Result: PASS - browser contracts include typed MoA request/response fields, `setup_required`, and strict response parsing.
  * Evidence: `HermesMoaSaveRequest`, `HermesMoaSaveBody`, `setup_required`, and `parseHermesMoaSaveResponse`.
* Command/check: `rg -n --pcre2 '(AKIA|AIza|sk-[A-Za-z0-9]|xox[baprs]-|gh[pousr]_[A-Za-z0-9]|-----BEGIN|password\\s*=|api[_-]?key|secret|token)' [session deliverables]`
  * Result: PASS - no production hardcoded credentials found; matches are expected admin-token identifiers, bounded test fixture strings, and redaction regression fixtures.
  * Evidence: production matches are type/field names such as `invalid_token`, `tokenRequired`, `max_tokens`, and token-header handling; test matches are synthetic strings asserted not to leak.
* Command/check: `bunx vitest run scripts/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-bridge.test.ts src/lib/__tests__/hermes-admin-types.test.ts src/hooks/__tests__/use-hermes-admin.test.tsx`
  * Result: PASS - focused bridge/parser/hook suite passed.
  * Evidence: 3 test files passed, 101 tests passed.
* Command/check: `bun run test`
  * Result: PASS - full project test suite passed.
  * Evidence: 409 test files passed, 4708 tests passed.
* Command/check: `bun run lint`
  * Result: PASS - ESLint completed with exit code 0.
  * Evidence: command output was `eslint .`.

## Security Assessment

### Overall: PASS

| Category                      | Status | Severity | Details                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ----------------------------- | ------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Injection (SQLi, CMDi, LDAPi) | PASS   | --       | No SQL/LDAP/query layer is touched. The new endpoint writes YAML through structured validation and `js-yaml` dump, with model/name path-shape rejection before persistence. |
| Hardcoded Secrets             | PASS   | --       | No hardcoded production credentials found. Synthetic token/secret strings are confined to tests and redaction regression assertions.                                        |
| Sensitive Data Exposure       | PASS   | --       | Responses expose only `{ ok, preset, defaultPreset, backup }`; missing config and write errors use stable messages without raw paths or YAML contents.                      |
| Insecure Dependencies         | PASS   | --       | No dependency or lockfile changes were introduced. Existing `js-yaml` dependency is reused.                                                                                 |
| Security Misconfiguration     | PASS   | --       | The write route keeps loopback, Host, same-run token, explicit admin mode, method, body-size, and controlled-error gates.                                                   |

### Security Findings

No security findings.

## GDPR Compliance Assessment

### Overall: N/A

N/A because this session introduced no personal data collection, account storage, third-party transfer, logging of personal data, or user-facing analytics behavior.

**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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