Expert workspace observation and correction
Current contract: ADR-046
The former Expert Queue was a pre-delivery gate driven by confidence, risk, review flags, auto-reply settings, clarification parsing, and approval state. That delivery model is retired.
A successful Hermes reply is persisted canonically and delivered exactly once
without waiting for an Expert. Ordinary successful delivery does not create an
Expert work item. The workspace may show an explicit human request, a genuine
runtime failure, or a conversation an authorized Expert intentionally opens for
correction/follow-up. None of those records may set held_for_review,
waiting_approval, suppress a reply, or manufacture a substitute reply.
An Expert correction must update the exact canonical Hermes SessionDB locator, or append one canonical assistant row when the text is genuinely human-authored and no Hermes row exists. Retries are idempotent at that write boundary.
The deleted confidence-threshold routing, review-release, approval-continuation, and draft-queue behavior remains only in Git history.