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Summary

Harden the merged Hermes image-reuse workflow validator so action inputs and shell continuations cannot bypass credential, registry-write, build-cardinality, or artifact-handoff safeguards. Production workflow behavior is unchanged.

Related Issue

Part of #7451. Follow-up to #7508.

Changes

  • Scan action with inputs for protected secrets and reject docker/login-action outside the canonical producer authentication step.
  • Normalize shell continuations and recognize docker buildx build so multiline pushes and duplicate CLI builds fail closed.
  • Require the reviewed artifact action pins and download-before-load ordering on every Hermes artifact leg.
  • Add five adversarial regression tests for the reproduced bypasses.

Type of Change

  • Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
  • Code change with doc updates
  • Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
  • Doc only (includes code sample changes)

Quality Gates

  • Tests added or updated for changed behavior
  • Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
  • Tests not applicable — justification:
  • Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
  • Docs not applicable — justification: this hardens an internal workflow validator and its support tests; the production workflow and documented operator contract are unchanged.
  • Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight, onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
  • Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: an independent exact-diff maintainer/security review reproduced five fail-open mutations before the patch and verified the five guarded cases after the patch.
  • Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer — check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

Documentation Writer Review

  • Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
  • Result: no-docs-needed
  • Evidence: At reviewed head a6e864323, the only changes are internal E2E workflow-boundary validator hardening and adversarial support tests. The production workflow remains unchanged. Existing test/e2e/README.md already documents the Hermes producer/consumer artifact flow, exact action pins, local image loading, and disabled registry writes. The explicit affected suite passed 26/26 and npm run check:diff passed.
  • Agent: Codex Desktop

DGX Station Hardware Evidence

  • Tested on DGX Station
  • Tested commit:
  • Station profile/scenario:
  • Result:
  • Supporting evidence:

Verification

  • PR description includes a Signed-off-by: line and every commit appears as Verified in GitHub
  • Normal pre-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks passed; npm run check:diff also passed on exact refreshed head a6e864323.
  • Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set — explicit E2E-support suite passed 26/26 on exact refreshed head. Before the main refresh, npm run test:changed -- --coverage=false also passed 26/26; after the merge-topology refresh it selected no tests, so the affected files were run explicitly.
  • Applicable broad gate passed — not applicable to this narrow validator/test-only delta; exact focused tests and the complete diff gate passed, and GitHub CI remains required before approval.
  • Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or waivers
  • No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
  • npm run docs builds without warnings (doc changes only)
  • Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
  • New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela cvillela@nvidia.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Strengthened workflow validation for Hermes image consumers and producers.
    • Blocked unauthorized Docker authentication and secret propagation in consumer jobs.
    • Added validation against duplicate production builds, registry writes, and unsafe multiline commands.
    • Enforced correct artifact upload/download actions, image loading, and step ordering.
    • Improved detection of Docker Buildx commands and authentication methods across workflow formats.

cv added 2 commits July 25, 2026 18:43
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
@cv cv added the v0.0.96 label Jul 26, 2026
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The workflow boundary validator now detects action-based authentication, multiline Buildx commands, and expanded secret usage. Hermes producer and consumer checks enforce artifact ordering, canonical action pins, and authentication restrictions with updated E2E cases.

Changes

Hermes workflow boundary validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detection and normalization primitives
tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts
Shell continuations are normalized; validation evidence includes env, with, and run; registry authentication detects Docker login actions and commands; Docker build extraction recognizes Buildx.
Hermes producer and consumer rules
tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts, test/e2e/support/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.test.ts
Hermes checks reject consumer authentication, additional production builds and registry writes, enforce download-before-load ordering, require pinned artifact actions, and add targeted E2E coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Possibly related issues

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw issue 7451 — Covers Hermes image production and reuse changes in the same workflow boundary validator.

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/NemoClaw#7508 — Directly overlaps Hermes producer/consumer authentication, registry-write, and artifact action validation.

Suggested labels: integration: hermes, area: security, area: e2e, area: ci

Suggested reviewers: cjagwani, apurvvkumaria, ericksoa

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The overall coverage in commit a6e8643 in the codex/7508-validator... branch remains at 96%, unchanged from commit b4ef301 in the main branch.

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PR Review Advisor — Blocking findings reported

Advisor assessment: Blockers require maintainer review
Next action: Review the blockers below.
Findings: 1 blocker · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions

Model lanes

  • GPT-5.6 Terra (primary): Completed · high confidence · 1 blocker · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra (second opinion): Completed · high confidence · 0 blockers · 0 warnings · 0 suggestions
  • Model comparison: normalized findings differ; normalized E2E selections match; Nemotron reported 1 fewer blocker, the same number of warnings, the same number of suggestions.

Nemotron output stays in workflow artifacts and does not change the assessment above.

E2E guidance

Advisory only. E2E / PR Gate selects and runs jobs independently.

Recommended E2E: cloud-onboard, credential-sanitization, security-posture

Blockers

PRA-1 Blocker — Reject assigned Buildx push flags

  • Location: tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts:49
  • Category: security
  • Problem: REGISTRY_WRITE recognizes `--push` only when whitespace or line end follows it. A step can use `docker buildx build --push=true ...`; that supported flag form does not match. In a consumer such as `state-dir-guard-metadata`, which has no separate Buildx-build prohibition, the validator then accepts a registry write.
  • Impact: A workflow change can publish an image from a consumer job, bypassing the intended no-registry-write and producer-only trust boundary.
  • Fix: Match `--push` with an optional Boolean assignment, including `--push=true`, and retain rejection of registry-writing Buildx commands.
  • Verification: Read the REGISTRY_WRITE expression and evaluate it against `docker buildx build --push=true -t registry.example.invalid/image .`; it must match.
  • Test coverage: Mutate a non-Hermes consumer step to run `docker buildx build --push=true ...` and assert that validateSandboxImagesWorkflow reports that the step must not write images to a registry.
  • Evidence: tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts:49 matches `--push` only when `(?:\s|$)` follows the flag. tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts:347-348 applies REGISTRY_WRITE to all workflow steps. tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts:864-867 prohibit only `docker build`, not Buildx builds, in state-dir-guard-metadata. test/e2e/support/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.test.ts adds a regression case for bare multiline `--push` but none for `--push=true`.

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Inline comments:
In `@tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts`:
- Around line 388-393: Update the Hermes consumer check around the raw step.run
inspection at line 868 to pass the command through normalizeShellContinuations
before evaluating Docker Buildx commands, so backslash-continued docker buildx
build commands trigger the consumer rebuild guard. Add a regression test
covering this continued-command form.
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function dockerBuildLines(job: SandboxImagesWorkflowJob): string[] {
return steps(job).flatMap((step) =>
(step.run ?? "")
normalizeShellContinuations(step.run ?? "")
.split("\n")
.map((line) => line.trim())
.filter((line) => /^docker\s+build(?:\s|$)/u.test(line)),
.filter((line) => /^docker\s+(?:build|buildx\s+build)(?:\s|$)/u.test(line)),

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize continued Buildx commands in the Hermes consumer check.

Line 868 still tests raw step.run, so docker \ followed by buildx build --load ... bypasses the consumer rebuild guard. Apply normalizeShellContinuations there and add the corresponding consumer regression test.

Suggested fix
- /\bdocker\s+(?:build|buildx\s+build)\b/u.test(step.run ?? ""),
+ /\bdocker\s+(?:build|buildx\s+build)\b/u.test(
+   normalizeShellContinuations(step.run ?? ""),
+ ),
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@tools/e2e/sandbox-images-workflow-boundary.mts` around lines 388 - 393,
Update the Hermes consumer check around the raw step.run inspection at line 868
to pass the command through normalizeShellContinuations before evaluating Docker
Buildx commands, so backslash-continued docker buildx build commands trigger the
consumer rebuild guard. Add a regression test covering this continued-command
form.

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<!-- markdownlint-disable MD041 -->
## Summary

Close the remaining Hermes image-consumer validator bypasses identified
after #7551 merged. Shell continuations are normalized before the
no-rebuild check, and assigned Buildx push values are evaluated
case-insensitively. Literal `false` remains non-writing; true, empty,
mixed-case, and dynamic or otherwise nonliteral values are rejected so
the consumer cannot hide a rebuild or registry write.

## Related Issue

Part of #7451. Follow-up to #7508 and #7551.

## Changes

- Normalize Hermes consumer shell continuations before checking for
Docker and Buildx builds.
- Detect assigned, mixed-case, and dynamic Buildx registry-push values
in the consumer guard.
- Preserve literal `--push=false` as non-writing.
- Add adversarial regressions for multiline rebuilds and assigned push
values.

## Type of Change

- [x] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
- [ ] Code change with doc updates
- [ ] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
- [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes)

## Quality Gates

- [x] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [ ] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [x] Docs not applicable — justification: the production workflow and
documented no-rebuild contract are unchanged; this makes the internal
validator enforce that existing contract for continued commands.
- [x] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [x] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification: CodeRabbit reproduced
the bypass on #7551; the exact mutation is now an adversarial test and
passes only with normalization at the consumer guard.
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `no-docs-needed`
- Evidence: At PR SHA `2cef897b4fcba8033d115d94f2dd4c2ae12d86ed`, the
change only strengthens the repository-internal Hermes image-consumer
validator for multiline rebuilds and assigned, mixed-case, or dynamic
Buildx push values. Literal `--push=false` remains non-writing.
`test/e2e/README.md` already documents the no-rebuild/no-registry-write
contract. The focused E2E-support suite passed 29/29, the PR
workflow-contract suite passed 22/22, and `npm run build:cli` plus `npm
run check:diff` passed.
- Agent: Codex Desktop
<!-- docs-review-head-sha: 2cef897 -->
<!-- docs-review-agents-blob-sha:
be20a09 -->

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] Normal `pre-commit`, `commit-msg`, and `pre-push` hooks passed;
`npm run build:cli` and `npm run check:diff` also passed on exact head
`2cef897b4fcba8033d115d94f2dd4c2ae12d86ed`.
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set —
E2E-support passed 29/29 and the PR workflow-contract suite passed
22/22.
- [x] Applicable broad gate passed — not applicable to this
validator/test-only delta; the exact affected suites, CLI build, and
complete diff gate passed, and GitHub CI remains required before
approval.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only)
- [ ] Doc pages follow the style guide (doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)

---
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>

<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved sandbox image workflow validation to more precisely detect
`docker buildx build ... --push` commands, including shell line
continuations and `--push` casing/formatting.
* Strengthened Hermes prebuilt-image reuse checks by normalizing command
formatting before validating consumer steps.
* **Tests**
* Added new end-to-end negative cases covering consumer attempts to
rebuild the prebuilt Hermes production image.
* Added coverage to ensure consumers attempting registry writes via
`--push` are rejected, while explicitly using `--push=false` is allowed.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Charan Jagwani <cjagwani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Apurv Kumaria <akumaria@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Charan Jagwani <cjagwani@nvidia.com>
apurvvkumaria pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 27, 2026
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## Summary

Add the canonical `docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx` release entry with the
exact `## v0.0.96` heading.
The entry reconciles all 90 first-parent commits since v0.0.95 with all
92 merged PRs in the live `v0.0.96` label ledger and groups the
user-visible changes by operator journey.

## Changes

- Add the parser-safe dated MDX changelog entry for v0.0.96 with
root-absolute links to the focused user guides.
- Source summary:
- [#7194](#7194) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document persistent baseline network
policy exclusions and their inspection, rebuild, and snapshot behavior.
- [#7188](#7188),
[#7427](#7427), and
[#7546](#7546) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document DNS-backed HTTPS inference
routing, keyless loopback endpoints, and provider-marker isolation.
- [#7238](#7238) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document blueprint sandbox and provider
identifier validation before state writes or OpenShell calls, with
bounded terminal-safe rejection previews.
- [#7319](#7319),
[#7274](#7274),
[#7528](#7528),
[#7353](#7353), and
[#7560](#7560) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document the managed default gateway
service, onboarding readiness, and container-runtime identity
safeguards.
- [#7349](#7349),
[#7498](#7498),
[#7406](#7406),
[#7196](#7196),
[#7559](#7559),
[#7421](#7421),
[#7510](#7510),
[#7295](#7295), and
[#7565](#7565) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document gateway-scoped status,
lifecycle diagnostics, managed MCP recovery, delete-edge safeguards, and
fail-closed CLI prompt and command output.
- [#7591](#7591) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document opt-in authenticated MCP
tool-name discovery, its bounded and names-only contract, probe
interaction, and rebuild requirement.
- [#7305](#7305),
[#7480](#7480),
[#7471](#7471),
[#7365](#7365), and
[#7541](#7541) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document installer version checks,
version-tag reporting, license guidance, WSL Ollama selection, and DGX
Station vLLM detection.
- [#7482](#7482),
[#7466](#7466),
[#7208](#7208),
[#7434](#7434), and
[#7586](#7586) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document Ollama resource details,
reasoning precedence, Hermes onboarding behavior, and preserved managed
Hermes BuildKit failures.

- [#6830](#6830),
[#7492](#7492),
[#7563](#7563), and
[#7582](#7582) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Document the authoritative OpenClaw
production lock, fixed managed-image dependencies, immutable Hermes base
adoption, and Hermes image-size reduction.
- [#7505](#7505),
[#7530](#7530),
[#7547](#7547),
[#7508](#7508),
[#7548](#7548),
[#7549](#7549),
[#7537](#7537),
[#7534](#7534),
[#7515](#7515),
[#7511](#7511),
[#7551](#7551),
[#7562](#7562),
[#7575](#7575),
[#7496](#7496),
[#7594](#7594),
[#7595](#7595), and
[#7599](#7599) ->
`docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx`: Summarize release validation, transient
and bounded dispatch reconciliation, exact pre-tag qualification,
identity revalidation, npm-audit retry, sharding, image reuse, timeout,
telemetry, and workflow-hardening changes.
- Reconciled without separate changelog prose:
- [#7539](#7539),
[#7526](#7526),
[#7507](#7507),
[#7506](#7506),
[#7519](#7519),
[#7516](#7516),
[#7396](#7396),
[#7254](#7254),
[#7583](#7583),
[#7596](#7596), and
[#7598](#7598): Test-harness or
fixture-only changes.
- [#7403](#7403),
[#7161](#7161),
[#6877](#6877),
[#7531](#7531),
[#7525](#7525),
[#7522](#7522),
[#7536](#7536),
[#7552](#7552),
[#7566](#7566),
[#7553](#7553),
[#7561](#7561),
[#7577](#7577),
[#7569](#7569),
[#7585](#7585),
[#7584](#7584),
[#7592](#7592),
[#7580](#7580),
[#7571](#7571),
[#7517](#7517),
[#7589](#7589),
[#7402](#7402),
[#7558](#7558),
[#7544](#7544), and
[#7601](#7601): Dependency,
internal recovery, validation, contributor-workflow, E2E optimization,
telemetry, or CI trust changes with no separate user-facing release
claim.
- [#7556](#7556),
[#7573](#7573),
[#7576](#7576), and
[#7578](#7578): Experimental
repository-maintainer conflict automation with no canonical user
documentation surface.

## Type of Change

- [ ] Code change (feature, bug fix, or refactor)
- [ ] Code change with doc updates
- [x] Doc only (prose changes, no code sample modifications)
- [ ] Doc only (includes code sample changes)

## Quality Gates

- [ ] Tests added or updated for changed behavior
- [x] Existing tests cover changed behavior — justification:
`test/changelog-docs.test.ts` validates dated changelog structure,
version headings, and published links.
- [ ] Tests not applicable — justification:
- [x] Docs updated for user-facing behavior changes
- [ ] Docs not applicable — justification:
- [ ] Sensitive paths changed (security, policy, credentials, preflight,
onboarding, inference, runner, sandbox, or messaging)
- [ ] Sensitive-path review completed or maintainer-approved waiver
recorded — reviewer/approval link/justification:
- [ ] Non-success, skipped, or missing CI check accepted by maintainer —
check name, approval link, and follow-up issue:

## Documentation Writer Review

- [x] Documentation writer subagent reviewed the completed changes
- Result: `docs-updated`
- Evidence: Reviewed `docs/changelog/2026-07-25.mdx` at exact head
`0f5dedb47` against 90 first-parent release commits and 92 merged PRs
labeled `v0.0.96`. Verified parser-safe MDX SPDX, the exact version
heading, literal CLI names, writing style, skip terms, all 20
root-absolute published links, and the accepted #7591 opt-in
authenticated discovery bounds. #7544, #7599, and #7601 remain internal
or CI-only release-ledger entries. Changelog tests passed 6/6, the docs
build passed with 0 errors and two pre-existing Fern warnings, and `npm
run check:diff` plus the final diff check passed.
- Agent: Codex Desktop documentation-writer subagent
<!-- docs-review-head-sha: 0f5dedb -->
<!-- docs-review-agents-blob-sha: be20a09 -->

## DGX Station Hardware Evidence

- [ ] Tested on DGX Station
- Tested commit:
- Station profile/scenario:
- Result:
- Supporting evidence:

## Verification

- [x] PR description includes a `Signed-off-by:` line and every commit
appears as `Verified` in GitHub
- [x] Normal `pre-commit`, `commit-msg`, and `pre-push` hooks passed, or
`npm run check:diff` passed when hooks were skipped or unavailable
- [x] Targeted behavior tests pass for the current change set, or tests
are marked not applicable above — `npx vitest run
test/changelog-docs.test.ts`: 6/6 passed.
- [ ] Applicable broad gate passed — `npm test` for broad
runtime/test-harness changes; `npm run check` for repo-wide
validation/coverage changes — command/result: Not applicable to this
prose-only changelog entry.
- [x] Quality Gates section completed with required justifications or
waivers
- [x] No secrets, API keys, or credentials committed
- [ ] `npm run docs` builds without warnings (doc changes only) — the
build passed with 0 errors and 2 existing Fern warnings; the
published-route check passed.
- [x] Doc pages follow the [style
guide](https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md)
(doc changes only)
- [ ] New doc pages include SPDX header and frontmatter (new pages only)
— native changelog files use the required parser-safe MDX SPDX comment
and no frontmatter.

---
Signed-off-by: Carlos Villela <cvillela@nvidia.com>


<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Persistent network policy exclusions with consistent restore/exclusion
reporting across rebuilds/snapshots.
* Opt-in MCP tool discovery via `mcp status --tools` with bounded,
redacted authenticated traffic.
* Improved HTTPS inference switching for custom endpoints and refreshed
onboarding/model menu details.
* Refined OpenShell gateway defaults for port `8080`, including more
reliable readiness checks.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Prevent incorrect provider/model restoration after compatible-provider
update failures.
* Preserve managed MCP state after exec loss and tighten gateway/doctor
status scoping.
* **Tests**
* Stronger, fail-closed release validation with hardened
evidence/artifact handoff and bounded timeouts/retries.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
@wscurran wscurran added area: ci CI workflows, checks, release automation, or GitHub Actions area: e2e End-to-end tests, nightly failures, or validation infrastructure integration: hermes Hermes integration behavior labels Jul 29, 2026
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