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date: 2026-10-24
pr: pending
feature: Conversation startup and profile loading
impact: Load conversations independently of metadata and recover failed resume requests via HTTP.
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# 2026-10-24: Conversation startup and profile loading

- PR/commit: pending local review.
- Touched feature: client chat startup, session switching, resume listener lifecycle, and profile list metadata.
- Behavior impact: conversation loading no longer waits for profile/settings/model metadata. Session switches ignore obsolete replies (including A/B/A), cancel obsolete resume listeners, and fall back to paginated HTTP history after a three-second resume timeout. Failed history loads show a retry action. Profile inventory uses disk metadata instead of spawning Hermes CLI; uploaded avatar bodies are fetched on demand through an access-checked endpoint.
- The `/chat-run` event names, fields and server emission timing remain unchanged. Only the client's wait/fallback behavior changes.
- Validation: focused store/view/profile tests, Playwright startup/retry/multi-tab/profile tests, full Vitest coverage, harness and production build. See task results for actual outcomes.