Require explicit buyback budgets and durable signer ownership

[Mathis (echobt)]

Changes

• Freeze explicit additional TAO allocation, currency, source, subnet, hotkey and destruction policy per job; reject insufficient funds, partial spends and skipped completion.
• Reserve signer ownership durably in shared SQLite before nonce selection; retain uncertainty across crashes, quarantine legacy intents, release atomically after reconciliation.
• Exact-hash block timestamp, complete finalized mortality-window scan, full Engine tick simulation with lost responses.
• File/custom stores fail closed without shared reservation support; legacy jobs require explicit migration.

Validation

• 43 feature-enabled unit tests passed, including independent-process SQLite contention and full Engine funding/sweep/buy/burn ticks reconstructed after each lost response.
• cargo test --features sqlite,http,webhook; cargo test --no-default-features --lib
• clippy all-features/all-targets and no-default-features/all-targets with -D warnings
• rustfmt, diff check, strict rustdoc passed.
• No live RPC/broadcast or deployment performed; localnet fixture updated but not run locally.

Limits

One shared SQLite file only, not independent replicas. Orphan pre-journal reservations require explicit operator reconciliation; no automatic lease unlock. PostgreSQL adapter is not wired. Historical USD provider remains unavailable. Standalone Engine buyback methods are disabled before RPC/signing; low-level Chain primitives remain outside Store guarantees. OpenType activation remains disabled.

Merge only after current-HEAD Greptile 5/5, green CI and no blocking findings.

Compatibility safety change (9c1d778)

• Startup hotkey validation is read-only; provision association before workers.
• Standalone Engine::buyback* / CLI buyback returns Error::Config before RPC/signing. Migrate to explicit-budget durable payment/sweep jobs; no standalone replacement yet.
• Low-level Chain signing primitives do not provide Store guarantees and must not run alongside signing workers.
• 43 unit tests and doctest pass; all-feature/no-default strict clippy pass. Current HEAD CI/review required before merge.

Confidence Score: 5/5

No outstanding review finding blocks merging.

Findings

1.  Preparation errors strand reservations ▶
2.  Legacy payments cannot resume ▶
3.  Disabled command needs network ▶

Summary

The PR adds explicit, archive-backed recovery for eligible legacy payments and freezes execution identity for new jobs. An operator can check an audited manifest against the finalized archive before applying it; recovery defaults to a read-only check, and application verifies again before saving atomically. Localnet recovery and killed-writer rollback coverage were added. Histories without sufficient evidence remain blocked for manual reconciliation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Automatic buybacks now require a fixed, explicit TAO budget and allocation source for each payment or sweep job.
  • Added legacy-job recovery with a read-only dry run by default and an explicit option to apply verified recovery.
• Behavior Changes
  • Standalone buyback commands and methods are disabled; use a durable payment or sweep job instead.
  • Treasury hotkeys must be provisioned in advance. Jobs with incomplete or invalid purchase and burn results cannot complete.
  • Buyback requirements are fixed when a job is created; later configuration changes do not enable buybacks for jobs that did not require them.
• Reliability
  • Transaction status is verified against finalized chain history, and durable signer reservations help prevent conflicting transactions.

[Mathis (echobt)]

Greptile (@greptileai) Please review current HEAD 9443284 for durable signer ownership, crash reconciliation and immutable buyback budgets. Activation remains disabled; no live broadcasts.

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Greptile (@greptileai) Re-review HEAD 06640dd please. Fixed failing localnet fixture race: both tests submitted from Alice concurrently while sharing global subnet registration state. Test-scoped async mutex now serializes whole fixtures; production assertions unchanged. Strict all-feature/all-target clippy and format checks pass. RPC errors still preserve pending ownership; only verified finalized inclusion or complete mortality-window absence permits release.

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Greptile (@greptileai) please review the latest HEAD. The repository has now been enabled in Greptile. Please provide an updated review and confidence score.

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Greptile (@greptileai) Re-review HEAD c0ddbc8 please. Both P1 threads addressed with guarded prebroadcast cancellation and explicit CAS migration of pristine legacy jobs; ambiguous jobs retain evidence and remain blocked. 42 tests + doctest pass, strict clippy all-features/all-targets and no-default/all-targets pass. Existing separate-process ownership and full Engine::tick lost-response tests remain active.

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Greptile (@greptileai) Re-review HEAD 9c1d778. Fixed outside-diff startup bypass: ensure_treasury_hotkey is read-only and missing association returns Error::Config before signing/broadcast. Explicit localnet fixture provisioning replaces implicit engine association. All standalone Engine::buyback* entry points now fail closed before RPC/signing, directing callers to durable budgeted payment/sweep jobs. Compatibility change documented; low-level Chain primitives remain separate and are not used by OpenType runtime for signing. Concurrent startup + all five wrapper refusal regression preserves unresolved signer ownership after restart, zero broadcasts; actual Engine::tick lost-response/restart flow still passes. 43 unit tests + doctest, strict all-feature and no-default clippy passed. No production activation or live transfer.

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Greptile (@greptileai) Review current HEAD b9e5dd9 once please. Substantive fix07fa61d rejects disabled CLI buyback before network/secrets/store initialization; actual CLI subprocess test with empty environment and local TCP listener proves disabled error and zero connections. Strict clippy passed. Documentation now identifies exactly which legacy evidence is absent and the audited archive/manifest/dry-run/CAS requirements; partially executed legacy importer remains absent, no claim of resolving that finding or weakening fail-closed. Please retain any genuine blocker in the current verdict.

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Greptile (@greptileai) Please review HEAD 3b1b629: explicit audited legacy recovery, immutable execution identity/configuration, real localnet archive/apply/CAS/resume coverage and killed-writer rollback regression. Review the actual trust boundary and fail-closed unsupported histories; do not treat this as universal recovery.

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Payment and sweep jobs now use explicit buyback budgets and persisted automatic-buyback policy. SQLite adds durable signer reservations and legacy recovery based on finalized archive data. Standalone buyback operations are disabled.

Changes

Durable Buyback Jobs and Recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Persist buyback budgets and job policy src/state.rs, src/config.rs, src/engine.rs, src/bin/buyback.rs, examples/payment_flow.rs, tests/localnet.rs, README.md	Configuration, payment records, the CLI, and the example use explicit TAO buyback budgets. The engine follows the automatic-buyback policy persisted with each job.
Reserve signers and reconcile transactions src/chain.rs, src/store.rs, tests/localnet.rs, README.md	SQLite stores durable signer reservations and validates journal updates transactionally. Chain reconciliation scans finalized blocks and reports a transaction as dead only after its complete mortality horizon is scanned.
Verify and import legacy job history src/recovery.rs, src/chain.rs, src/store.rs, src/bin/buyback.rs, src/lib.rs, .github/workflows/ci.yml, README.md	Recovery validates manifests against stored records and finalized archive data, then replays transactions against stored accounting. SQLite supports read-only checks and transactional imports. The CLI defaults to dry-run mode.
Disable standalone buyback operations src/bin/buyback.rs, src/engine.rs, tests/disabled_cli.rs, tests/localnet.rs, README.md	Standalone buyback operations return configuration errors. Documentation and tests describe the disabled behavior; the CLI test verifies that it does not connect to the supplied endpoint.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~100 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI as Buyback CLI
  participant Store as SqliteStore
  participant Chain as Chain archive
  CLI->>Store: Load job record
  CLI->>Chain: Connect to archive
  CLI->>Store: Request dry run or recovery apply
  Store->>Chain: Verify manifest against finalized archive
  Chain-->>Store: Return verified transaction summaries
  Store-->>CLI: Return recovery report

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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b1b6

Durable reservations reduce duplicate-signing risk, but an interrupted transaction can leave a shared signer blocked until an operator reconciles it. Legacy recovery also depends on operator-supplied identity and policy.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · observed: A failed journal write or interruption after reservation can strand durable ownership of a shared signer. Subsequent jobs remain blocked until explicit operator reconciliation; the payment record does not retain the pre-journal token.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An orphan reservation affects jobs sharing its signer in the same SQLite database. The documented guarantee does not extend to independently stored replicas or signing outside the store.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The identified pre-journal failure retains signer ownership rather than permitting another participating job to broadcast. Its demonstrated consequence is loss of signing availability until reconciliation, not a verified unauthorized-spend path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Recovery promotes a local operator manifest into persisted job identity only after record and archive checks. A recovered identity must match runtime identity before execution, but neither import nor the existing startup check establishes treasury ownership of every configured hotkey.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Version and reservation checks protect journal ownership, and clearing a pending journal deletes its matching reservation in the same SQLite transaction. They do not resolve a reservation made before a journal exists.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define an audited operator procedure for proving a pre-journal reservation safe to release, without replacing the fail-closed fence with an automatic timeout.

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