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# Implementation Summary

**Session ID**: `phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions` **Package**: null **Completed**: 2026-06-26 **Duration**: 1 hour

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## Overview

Session 05 promoted command-center attention and permission handling into one audited operator queue. The protocol now carries decision audit and result metadata, the server owns bounded permission and attention synthesis plus hook and legacy adapters, and the web app exposes an Attention workbench with filters, counts, reason capture, duplicate-trigger guards, stale and timeout handling, and local-only product copy.

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## Deliverables

### Files Created

| File                                                                                       | Purpose                                                                          | Lines |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----- |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/spec.md`                   | Session implementation specification                                             | \~225 |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/tasks.md`                  | Session task checklist                                                           | \~71  |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/implementation-notes.md`   | Task-by-task implementation evidence                                             | \~611 |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/code-review.md`            | Code review and repair report                                                    | \~97  |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/security-compliance.md`    | Security and GDPR validation report                                              | \~101 |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/validation.md`             | Final validation report                                                          | \~179 |
| `.spec_system/specs/phase19-session05-attention-and-permissions/IMPLEMENTATION_SUMMARY.md` | Session completion summary                                                       | \~174 |
| `apps/server/src/lib/commandCenterAttentionAdapters.ts`                                    | Bounded id, dedupe, and adapter key helpers for attention and permission records | \~74  |
| `apps/web/src/components/orchestration/AttentionWorkbench.tsx`                             | Dedicated attention queue UI with filters, reason capture, and decision controls | \~222 |

### Files Modified

| File                                                                | Changes                                                                                                     |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `.spec_system/state.json`                                           | Marked Session 05 complete, cleared the current session, and appended completed history                     |
| `.spec_system/PRD/phase_19/PRD_phase_19.md`                         | Updated Phase 19 progress to 5/16 and added the Session 05 completion note                                  |
| `.spec_system/PRD/phase_19/session_05_attention_and_permissions.md` | Marked prerequisites and success criteria complete                                                          |
| `package.json`                                                      | Bumped root version from 0.1.152 to 0.1.153                                                                 |
| `package-lock.json`                                                 | Synced lockfile root version to 0.1.153                                                                     |
| `README.md`                                                         | Updated the version badge to 0.1.153                                                                        |
| `packages/protocol/src/orchestrationCommandCenter.ts`               | Added attention and permission decision audit/result fields and parser handling                             |
| `packages/protocol/tests/orchestrationCommandCenter.test.ts`        | Added parser coverage for decision audit fields, blocked payloads, stale metadata, and malformed states     |
| `apps/server/src/lib/commandCenterValidation.ts`                    | Added compact attention and permission decision body validation                                             |
| `apps/server/src/managers/orchestrationCommandCenter.ts`            | Added attention synthesis, permission creation, decision, timeout, stale, duplicate, and redaction behavior |
| `apps/server/src/routes/commandCenter.ts`                           | Added attention and permission decision routes with paired event emission                                   |
| `apps/server/src/routes/event.ts`                                   | Promoted hook permission request events into command-center state                                           |
| `apps/server/src/routes/permission.ts`                              | Routed legacy permission and plan approval responses through command-center decisions                       |
| `apps/server/src/server.ts`                                         | Wired command-center dependencies into event, permission, and WebSocket handlers                            |
| `apps/server/src/ws/handlers.ts`                                    | Routed WebSocket approval messages through the same decision state                                          |
| `apps/server/tests/commandCenterManager.test.ts`                    | Covered synthesis, decision, stale, duplicate, timeout, unsupported provider, and redaction behavior        |
| `apps/server/tests/commandCenterRoutes.test.ts`                     | Covered attention and permission routes, aliases, hook ingest, compact errors, and event emission           |
| `apps/server/tests/permission.test.ts`                              | Covered legacy response round trips through command-center state                                            |
| `apps/server/tests/websocket.test.ts`                               | Repaired expectations for paired command-center frames plus legacy compatibility frames                     |
| `apps/hooks/tests/hookPayloads.test.js`                             | Verified bounded permission hook metadata and no enforcement claims                                         |
| `apps/web/src/lib/orchestrationApi.ts`                              | Added attention decision helpers with stale, duplicate, timeout, refresh, and invalid id handling           |
| `apps/web/src/lib/commandCenterUi.ts`                               | Added attention filters, counts, state copy, risk copy, action availability, and blocked payload filtering  |
| `apps/web/src/store/useGameStore.ts`                                | Added in-flight cleanup and stale revision reset behavior for attention and permission updates              |
| `apps/web/src/components/orchestration/CommandCenterPanes.tsx`      | Replaced generic attention content with the Attention workbench                                             |
| `apps/web/src/components/orchestration/OrchestrationShell.tsx`      | Added approve/reject handlers, idempotency keys, refreshes, toasts, and cleanup                             |
| `apps/web/src/components/orchestration/OrchestrationTabs.tsx`       | Threaded attention decision props through tab wiring                                                        |
| `apps/web/src/components/orchestration/index.ts`                    | Exported the Attention workbench                                                                            |
| `apps/web/tests/orchestrationApi.test.ts`                           | Added attention decision helper success and failure coverage                                                |
| `apps/web/tests/commandCenterUi.test.ts`                            | Added attention filter, count, copy, and action-availability coverage                                       |
| `apps/web/tests/commandCenterStore.test.ts`                         | Added WebSocket reducer and in-flight cleanup coverage                                                      |
| `apps/web/tests/OrchestrationPanel.test.tsx`                        | Covered attention queue rendering, reason capture, controls, and product-facing states                      |
| `docs/api/README_api.md`                                            | Documented attention and permission decision behavior without executor or hosted claims                     |
| `apps/server/README_server.md`                                      | Documented command-center attention, permission adapters, and local-only audit behavior                     |
| `apps/web/README_web.md`                                            | Documented Attention tab states and non-executing approval boundary                                         |

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## Technical Decisions

1. **Manager-owned decision state**: Centralizing attention, permission, idempotency, stale revision, timeout, redaction, and event emission behavior keeps legacy adapters and direct command-center routes aligned.
2. **Compatibility routes stay adapters**: Existing permission and plan approval HTTP/WebSocket paths now update command-center state while preserving compatibility responses.
3. **Approval remains non-executing**: Decisions resolve local audit and pending response state, but do not run file, git, terminal, container, hosted, Worker, or remote executors.
4. **Bounded ids and payloads protect shared contracts**: Adapter-generated ids, dedupe keys, idempotency keys, timestamps, and broad attention rows are normalized before reaching protocol parsers or UI state.

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## Test Results

| Metric        | Value                                            |
| ------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Focused Tests | 76 passed                                        |
| Full Tests    | 2732 passed, 1 skipped                           |
| Coverage      | Not emitted by the configured `npm test` command |

Additional quality gates passed:

* `npm --workspace packages/protocol run typecheck`
* `npm --workspace apps/server run typecheck`
* `npm --workspace apps/web run typecheck`
* `npm run typecheck --workspaces --if-present`
* `npm run lint`
* `npm run format:check`
* `git diff --check`
* `npm run security:secrets`
* ASCII/LF validation across touched files

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## Lessons Learned

1. Long compatibility ids need deterministic truncation before they become protocol-visible command-center ids or idempotency keys.
2. Optional hook timestamps must be validated at the manager boundary so malformed expirations cannot persist into typed clients.
3. Web decision controls need both API-level duplicate guards and store-level cleanup on matching WebSocket changes.

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## Future Considerations

Items for future sessions:

1. Session 06 should add executor registry capability states before approvals can move toward runnable executor families.
2. Session 08 should reuse the same permission and attention audit fields for file and git intent protection.
3. Session 15 should build notification delivery from the attention state without weakening the local-only default boundary.

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## Session Statistics

* **Tasks**: 20 completed
* **Files Created**: 9
* **Files Modified**: 34
* **Tests Added**: 76 focused tests covered by the final focused review run
* **Blockers**: 0 resolved


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