The browser treated sessionStorage as the source of truth for the logged-in
user and never verified or invalidated the server-side session cookie: no
GET /api/v1/demo/session or POST /api/v1/demo/logout endpoint existed, and a
central 401 handler was defined but never wired up.
Add both endpoints; the session-check response is marked Cache-Control:
no-store to avoid the browser serving a stale "authenticated" response right
after logout. AuthProvider now verifies against the server on every mount
(sessionStorage only caches presentation state to avoid a login-screen
flash), subscribes to a central 401 listener on the API client, and
RequireAuth shows a loading state during verification instead of flashing
protected content or the wrong role.
Four read-only, service-token-protected MCP provider endpoints (operations summary, attention vehicles, vehicle details, knowledge search facade). Shared-secret auth reusing the M4 callback pattern. Service-request audit trail for every call. Extracted shared operations-summary logic out of the dashboard router to avoid duplicating retrieval logic. 66 backend tests passing, ruff clean. Verified all four endpoints and audit trail directly via curl against the live stack (no live MCP Hub instance available in this environment).
KnowledgeProvider protocol with a deterministic TF-IDF-weighted extractive demo provider (never generative, always cites real excerpts) and a RAGcore HTTP adapter that degrades cleanly to unavailable. Knowledge nav + chat-style Q&A UI with source cards and honest grounded/insufficient/unavailable states. 57 backend tests passing, ruff clean. Fixed a real relevance bug (generic terms like "vehicle" crowding out distinctive matches) via IDF weighting, found by testing the actual S6 scenario. Verified end-to-end in the browser: grounded damage question cites both expected procedures; unrelated question honestly returns insufficient evidence with no fabrication.
Outbox dispatcher (background thread, FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED claim, exponential backoff, no transaction held during HTTP I/O). n8n callback endpoint with shared-secret auth and idempotency by event ID. Automation nav + UI with manual retry. 49 backend tests passing, ruff clean. Fixed a crash-on-redelivery bug in seeded outbox payloads and made the dispatcher defensive against malformed payloads. Verified the full live round trip against a real n8n instance: return -> outbox -> dispatcher -> n8n workflow -> callback -> succeeded, including the S5 failed-retry demo scenario.
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