feat(chief-of-staff): interface-only executive assistant layer

[chadsm-sys]

Summary

Transforms Hermes from an execution orchestrator toward a true Chief of Staff. Mission Control is the Executive Brain; Hermes becomes the Executive Assistant. This PR is the interface-only design layer — purely additive, zero existing files modified, nothing imports the new package, no runtime wiring.

Part	Deliverable
1 — Morning Brief Consumer	chief_of_staff/morning_brief.py — contract for the future Mission Control Morning Plan API: Today's Plan, Biggest Bottleneck, Executive Recommendation, AI Responsibilities, Estimated Operator Time. MorningBriefSource protocol + static source; no HTTP, no live Mission Control dependency (asserted by test).
2 — Evening Report Consumer	chief_of_staff/evening_report.py — Evening Report, AI Improvements, Compound Engine, Opportunity Summary. Interface only, same rules.
3 — Executive Conversation Mode	chief_of_staff/conversation.py — six deterministic intents ("Good morning." / focus / bottleneck / overnight / ignore / learn). Unrecognized utterances return None → existing pipeline handles them unchanged.
4 — Escalation Engine	chief_of_staff/escalation.py — ordered rule table → CONTINUE / PAUSE / NEEDS_CHAD. Questions only on NEEDS_CHAD, at most one. Never ask unnecessary questions.
5 — Recommendation Ranking	chief_of_staff/ranking.py — strict lexicographic: Safety → Highest ROI → Lowest Chad effort → Strategic alignment → Confidence, id tiebreak for a total (fully deterministic) order.
6 — Human Leverage Metrics	chief_of_staff/metrics.py — hours saved, operator time, AI autonomous time, recommendations accepted/rejected; LeverageStore persistence protocol.
7 — Documentation	docs/HERMES_EXECUTIVE_ARCHITECTURE.md, docs/CHIEF_OF_STAFF.md, docs/CONVERSATION_PATTERNS.md

Hard rules honored

• ✅ New feature branch; PR left OPEN — do not merge yet
• ✅ No Mission Control repository changes, no dependency on a live install
• ✅ No Telegram / OAuth / Gateway / LaunchAgent / DGX changes
• ✅ No production deployment, no runtime changes
• ✅ All existing Hermes behavior preserved — the diff creates 19 new files and touches nothing else; the package is not added to the wheel (packaging inclusion deferred to the PR that wires the first caller)

Validation

• tests/chief_of_staff/ — 114 tests, all passing (0.8s)
• ruff check . (CI-blocking rule set) — clean
• ty check chief_of_staff tests/chief_of_staff — clean
• Whole-suite collection verified; the only collection errors are pre-existing optional-dependency gaps (acp extra) unrelated to this change

Related

Complementary philosophy docs live on docs/chief-of-staff-philosophy (separate effort, kept on its own branch to avoid entangling this one).

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🔎 Lint report: feat/chief-of-staff-integration vs origin/main

ruff

Total: 0 on HEAD, 0 on base (➖ 0)

🆕 New issues: none

✅ Fixed issues: none

Unchanged: 0 pre-existing issues carried over.

ty (type checker)

Total: 10545 on HEAD, 10536 on base (🆕 +9)

🆕 New issues (9):

Rule	Count
unresolved-import	6
invalid-assignment	2
invalid-argument-type	1

First entries

tests/chief_of_staff/conftest.py:11: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_morning_brief.py:45: [invalid-assignment] invalid-assignment: Property `estimated_operator_minutes` defined in `MorningBrief` is read-only
tests/chief_of_staff/test_morning_brief.py:81: [invalid-argument-type] invalid-argument-type: Argument to function `parse_morning_brief` is incorrect: Expected `Mapping[str, Any]`, found `list[str]`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_escalation.py:7: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_conversation.py:5: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_evening_report.py:7: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_evening_report.py:35: [invalid-assignment] invalid-assignment: Property `summary` defined in `EveningReport` is read-only
tests/chief_of_staff/test_morning_brief.py:7: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`
tests/chief_of_staff/test_metrics.py:5: [unresolved-import] unresolved-import: Cannot resolve imported module `pytest`

✅ Fixed issues: none

Unchanged: 5513 pre-existing issues carried over.

Diagnostics are surfaced as warnings — this check never fails the build.