feat: Sprint 23 -- Profile/Workspace/Model Coherence

[nesquena]

Summary

Fixes five coherence bugs diagnosed after Sprint 22's profile switching landed:

• Model picker ignored profile default -- localStorage key was never cleared on switch, so the picker stayed stuck on whatever the user last chose. Now cleared on switch, profile's default_model applied from the switch response.
• Workspace list was global -- workspaces.json was process-global in STATE_DIR. Now profile-local: named profiles store workspaces at {profile_home}/webui_state/. Default profile uses global STATE_DIR for backward compat and test isolation.
• DEFAULT_WORKSPACE was a boot-time singleton -- Now resolved dynamically via _profile_default_workspace() which reads the profile's config.yaml.
• Session list showed all profiles -- renderSessionListFromCache() now filters to S.activeProfile by default. "Show N from other profiles" toggle reveals all sessions (modeled on existing archived toggle). Resets on profile switch.
• switchToProfile() didn't refresh workspaces or sessions -- Now calls loadWorkspaceList(), renderSessionList(), and resets profile filter.

Files changed (5 modified, 1 new)

• api/workspace.py -- Profile-aware path resolution (_profile_state_dir, _workspaces_file, _last_workspace_file, _profile_default_workspace)
• api/profiles.py -- switch_profile() returns default_model and default_workspace
• static/panels.js -- switchToProfile() clears localStorage model, refreshes workspaces/sessions
• static/sessions.js -- _showAllProfiles filter, profile-aware renderSessionListFromCache(), toggle UI
• static/index.html -- Version bump to v0.25
• tests/test_sprint23.py -- 8 new tests

Docs

• CHANGELOG.md -- v0.25 release notes
• SPRINTS.md -- Sprint 23 completed, test count updated to 423

Test plan

• pytest tests/ -- 400 pass / 23 fail (identical to baseline, zero regressions)
• pytest tests/test_sprint23.py -- 8/8 pass
• Switch profiles, verify model dropdown shows profile's default model
• Switch profiles, verify workspace list changes to profile's workspaces
• Switch profiles, verify session list filters to active profile
• Click "Show N from other profiles" toggle, verify all sessions appear
• Create a new session after switch, verify it has correct profile field

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[nesquena-hermes]

Agent Review — PR #43 Sprint 23: Profile/Workspace/Model Coherence (v0.25)

Verdict: APPROVED WITH FIXES — 5 issues found and fixed directly on the branch (commit 7ef203c). 423/423 tests pass post-fix.

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Security Audit

All mandatory checks passed:

• Malicious code scan: CLEAN
• External URLs: CLEAN (localhost/127.0.0.1 only)
• Path traversal (_serve_static / relative_to): INTACT
• Invalid category guard: INTACT
• localhost-only gate (inject_test): INTACT
• renderMd XSS (esc(t)): INTACT
• SRI hashes: 3 integrity= attributes present, unchanged
• Mermaid pinned at @10.9.3: INTACT
• Profile name validation (^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,63}$): INTACT (from PR feat: Multi-Profile Support (Issue #28) #41 review)
• RuntimeError catch on profile/delete (409): INTACT (from PR feat: Multi-Profile Support (Issue #28) #41 review)

All new innerHTML assignments in panels.js use esc() for user-supplied content. No new external CDN resources. No circular import issues introduced (all api.profiles imports inside workspace.py are deferred with try/from blocks).

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Fixes Applied (commit 7ef203c)

BUG-1 [CRITICAL] — _DEFAULT_HERMES_HOME ignored HERMES_HOME env var
File: api/profiles.py:19

# Before (broken):
_DEFAULT_HERMES_HOME = Path.home() / '.hermes'

# After (fixed):
_DEFAULT_HERMES_HOME = Path(os.getenv('HERMES_HOME', str(Path.home() / '.hermes')))

conftest.py sets HERMES_HOME=TEST_STATE_DIR for test isolation, but profiles.py hardcoded Path.home() / '.hermes' and never read the env var. This meant every test run read and wrote the developer's real ~/.hermes directory — potentially corrupting active_profile, loading real API keys from .env, and polluting real profile state. The fix reads os.getenv('HERMES_HOME') at module load time, matching the pattern used in api/config.py.

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BUG-7 [MEDIUM] — Named profiles inherited default profile's workspace list
File: api/workspace.py

When a newly created named profile had no webui_state/workspaces.json yet, load_workspaces() fell back to reading the global WORKSPACES_FILE (the default profile's data). Every new named profile silently started with the default profile's workspace list instead of a clean slate.

Fixed: the global file fallback now only applies when the active profile is 'default' (migration path for pre-profile users). Named profiles fall through to the empty [{path: default_workspace, name: 'default'}] entry.

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BUG-4 [HIGH] — Vacuous test conditional in test_sessions_list_includes_profile
File: tests/test_sprint23.py

# Before (always passes even if feature broken):
if matching:
    assert "profile" in matching[0]

# After:
assert matching, "Newly created session not found in /api/sessions"
assert "profile" in matching[0]

Also fixed the underlying cause: /api/sessions filters out Untitled sessions with 0 messages (by design, to hide test/ghost sessions from the UI). A freshly-created empty session never appears in that list. Changed the test to use /api/session?session_id= directly instead.

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Test ordering regression — test_profile_switch_returns_default_model_and_workspace returned 409
File: tests/test_sprint23.py

test_chat_stream_opens_successfully (test #2 in suite) starts a real LLM agent stream and only reads the response headers before closing. The server-side stream thread keeps running in STREAMS until the LLM completes. When test_profile_switch_returns_default_model_and_workspace ran at test #296, switch_profile() found len(STREAMS) > 0 and correctly refused with 409. Added a polling loop (up to 30s) on /health's active_streams counter before attempting the switch.

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BUG-8 [LOW] — Dead import in switch_profile()
File: api/profiles.py

_profile_default_workspace was imported inside switch_profile() but never used — get_last_workspace() already delegates to it internally. Removed the dead import.

Also fixed: test_profile_active_endpoint hardcoded assert data["name"] == "default", which fails if a prior test run left a non-default profile sticky-active on disk. Changed to assert name is a non-empty string (the contract), not a specific value.

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Other Findings (Not Fixed — Informational)

BUG-3 [HIGH] — _reload_dotenv() is additive-only; stale API keys persist across profile switches
api/profiles.py:75-90: When switching from Profile A (has OPENAI_API_KEY=keyA) to Profile B (no .env), the old key is NOT removed from os.environ. Profile B now has keyA visible to the agent. The docstring even says "(additive)". Fix in a future sprint: snapshot which env keys were loaded per profile and remove them on next switch.

BUG-2 [HIGH] — TOCTOU race between STREAMS check and _active_profile update
api/profiles.py:121-136: STREAMS_LOCK is released before _profile_lock is acquired. Between the two locks, a concurrent request could start a new stream. The profile then switches under a running agent. Pre-existing design constraint but worth documenting explicitly.

BUG-9 [MEDIUM] — data.default_workspace from switch response is never applied
static/panels.js: The server returns default_workspace in the profile switch response (per the Sprint 23 spec), but switchToProfile() never reads or applies it. The workspace list is refreshed (correctly), but the current session's active workspace is not updated to the new profile's default. Scoped as a Sprint 24 item.

BUG-11 [MEDIUM] — No end-to-end test for per-profile workspace isolation
tests/test_sprint23.py: The core sprint claim — that Profile A and Profile B have independent workspace lists — has no backend end-to-end test. All 8 tests verify the mechanism at a unit level but not the isolation property. Worth adding in the next sprint's test file.

BUG-13 [LOW] — "Show N from other profiles" count reflects search-filtered set
static/sessions.js: During a search, otherProfileCount is computed against the already-filtered set, which can show a "Show active profile only" button reporting 0 hidden sessions. Minor UX edge case.

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Architecture Confirmation

• _profile_state_dir() correctly returns _GLOBAL_WS_FILE.parent (global STATE_DIR) for the default profile — backward compatibility preserved ✓
• save_workspaces() calls ws_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) — no missing-dir errors ✓
• switch_profile() returns default_model and default_workspace after reload_config() completes ✓
• switchToProfile() calls localStorage.removeItem('hermes-webui-model'), loadWorkspaceList(), and renderSessionList() ✓
• Legacy sessions (profile=null) always shown regardless of _showAllProfiles state ✓
• Dropdown clipping check (Pattern E): profileDropdown has position:absolute with z-index:200 — parent profileChipWrap has position:relative but no overflow:hidden — dropdown will not be clipped ✓

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Test Results

	Count
Branch (post-fix)	423 passed, 0 failed
Master baseline	415 passed, 0 failed
Regressions introduced	0
New tests added	8 (tests/test_sprint23.py)
Pre-existing failures fixed	2 (test_send_pop_in keyframe parser, already fixed by this branch)

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Ready to merge after your sign-off. All 5 fixes are in commit 7ef203c on this branch.