# Aere Network contracts: continuous verification (GITEA ACTIONS) # # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # WHY THIS FILE EXISTS, AND WHY IT IS A SEPARATE FILE # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # # The canonical host is our own Gitea instance at git.aere.network. Gitea # Actions scans BOTH `.gitea/workflows/` and `.github/workflows/`, and prefers # `.gitea/workflows/` when both are present. GitHub Actions scans # `.github/workflows/` only. (SPEC: Gitea Actions documentation.) # # An earlier version of this repository relied on that overlap to run ONE file # on both hosts, and justified pinning `actions/upload-artifact` at v3 with the # note "On GitHub, v3 still runs." # # THAT NOTE IS OUT OF DATE AND THE SINGLE-FILE DESIGN IS THEREFORE BROKEN. # GitHub retired the v3 artifact backend on 2025-01-30; `upload-artifact@v3` # now hard-fails on GitHub-hosted runners. So the single-file design did not # actually give portability, it gave a pipeline that fails on GitHub for a # reason having nothing to do with our code. A CI that goes red for a # tooling reason is worse than one that goes red for a real reason, because it # trains people to ignore the colour. # # The split is the fix: # # .gitea/workflows/ci.yml (THIS FILE) -> runs on git.aere.network. # upload-artifact pinned at v3, # which is the protocol the Gitea # artifact backend implements. # .github/workflows/ci.yml -> runs on GitHub mirrors. # upload-artifact at v4. # # Because Gitea prefers `.gitea/`, each host runs exactly one file and each # file is correct for its host. Nothing is duplicated silently: the two files # are identical except for the artifact action version and these header notes. # Drift between them is checkable in one command: # # diff <(grep -v '^\s*#' .gitea/workflows/ci.yml | grep -v '^$') \ # <(grep -v '^\s*#' .github/workflows/ci.yml | grep -v '^$') # # Note `^\s*#` and not `^#`: indented comments must be stripped too, or the # diff drowns in commentary and stops being a usable check. # # MEASURED 2026-07-20: that command returns exactly THREE differences, all of # them the `upload-artifact@v3` / `@v4` line. `runs-on:` is currently identical # in both files (`ubuntu-22.04`); it is called out separately below only because # it is the line you would change per host if your runner registers a different # label. If the diff ever returns anything other than those three lines, one of # the two hosts is no longer running what we claim it runs, and that is a bug. # # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # HONESTY STATEMENT: DOES THIS PIPELINE CURRENTLY PASS? # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # # NO. Two of the four jobs are RED, deliberately, and will stay red until the # underlying problems are fixed rather than until the pipeline is edited. # # job: build-and-test .......... RED # job: interop ................. RED # job: pqc-kat ................. GREEN # job: coverage ................ RED # # Each status below is recorded from a command someone actually ran, with the # date, and is labelled MEASURED. Nothing here is assumed. # # ── build-and-test: RED ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # MEASURED 2026-07-20, Windows 11, Node v24.14.1, npm 11.11.0, 15.78 GB RAM: # # NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=6144 npx hardhat test # # 1,448 passing # 9 failing # run ABORTED, exit 127 # last line: memory allocation of 3623878656 bytes failed # # Read the counts carefully. The process was killed, so mocha never printed its # summary. "1,448 passing / 9 failing" are result markers scraped from the log, # NOT the suite's totals. The suite's true totals are currently UNKNOWN. Quoting # 1,448 as "the number of passing tests" would be a smaller version of exactly # the fabrication this pipeline exists to correct. # # Two distinct causes, kept apart: # # (1) MEMORY. The full suite does not fit in ~16 GB. A standard Gitea or # GitHub runner has 16 GB, so this job is EXPECTED to die the same way # until the suite is sharded across jobs. That sharding is NOT done. # # (2) NINE FAILURES. # * 6 in `AereEthLightClient (real EIP-2537 BLS, Prague)`. A MISCONFIGURED # RUN, not a contract defect: that suite lives in test/interop/ and # ships its own config pinning the `prague` hardfork for the EIP-2537 # BLS12-381 precompiles (0x0b..0x11), while the default config pins # `cancun` where those precompiles do not exist. `npx hardhat test` # globs test/ recursively and drags it in under the wrong hardfork. # MEASURED: under the correct config, one of those six becomes a PASS, # and the run then SEGFAULTS in the EVM's EIP-2537 path. The `interop` # job below runs it correctly and is red because of that segfault. # * 3 undiagnosed (AereCompliancePool fuzz, AereGovernorV2 quorum # invariant, AereLendingMarket solvency invariant). We have their titles # and no assertion text, because the run died before mocha's summary. We # do not know whether they are product defects or run artifacts, and we # are not going to guess in public. # # ── interop: RED ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # Segmentation fault in node, inside the EVM implementation's EIP-2537 BLS # path, on `accepts a valid full-participation update and advances finality`. # A hard crash in the toolchain. Open and undiagnosed. Giving this suite its own # config is running it the way it was written, NOT an exemption: it gates like # every other job. If a green wall were the goal, this job would have been # deleted instead. # # ── pqc-kat: GREEN ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # MEASURED 2026-07-20, and INDEPENDENTLY RE-MEASURED the same day by a second # session running this job's exact commands, in two parts: # # part 1 (CryptoRegistry x3 + SPHINCS+): 60 passing (6s) exit 0 # part 2 (Falcon-512/1024 + PQCMessage): 41 passing (28s) exit 0 # # 101 passing, 0 failing, 0 pending. This is the one job that is green, and it # is green having been run twice rather than assumed once. # # ── coverage: RED ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # MEASURED 2026-07-20. The coverage run FAILED at the COMPILE phase: # # Unknown exception during compilation: Dynamic exception type: # class std::bad_alloc # Error in plugin solidity-coverage: HardhatError: HH600: Compilation failed # # exit 1, after roughly 45 minutes, node observed at 16.04 GB private bytes on a # 15.78 GB box. WE HAVE NO COVERAGE NUMBER FROM TODAY. Not a low one. None. # # CORRECTION CARRIED FORWARD, because an earlier copy of this file contradicted # itself on exactly this point and that is worth naming rather than quietly # patching. A previous revision's coverage-job comment asserted "The COMPILE # phase is solved: all contracts instrument and compile", while its own header # recorded a compile-phase std::bad_alloc. Both cannot be true. The header was # right and the job comment was a stale note from a 2026-07-19 run that did NOT # reproduce on 2026-07-20. An internal note that no longer reproduces is the # same species of problem as an unmeasured coverage percentage, only with a # shorter half-life. # # A SECOND CORRECTION: `--testfiles` does NOT reduce compile cost. # solidity-coverage instruments and compiles EVERY contract in the tree # regardless; `--testfiles` only narrows which tests execute AFTERWARDS. So # scoping by test file cannot rescue a run that dies during compilation. It # cannot, by construction. We made that mistake and are recording it so nobody # repeats it. # # THE COVERAGE FIGURE THIS PROJECT USED TO CARRY WAS FABRICATED. A "99.8 percent # statements / 95 percent branches" figure has been associated with Aere # Network. It was NEVER produced by a coverage tool. It was a target written as # though it had been achieved. It is not a claim this repository makes. # The honest replacement, in full: # # * Whole-repository coverage: NOT MEASURED. Not "approximately", not # "roughly 90 percent": not measured. The run does not complete. # * Best prior floor, dated 2026-07-19 and NOT reproduced on 2026-07-20: # 26.82% statements (2,585/9,638), 22.74% branches (2,088/9,184), # 23.25% functions (573/2,464), 27.21% lines (2,487/9,139), from a merge of # two completed shards covering 64 of 168 test files against the FULL # repository denominator. This is a floor from a minority of the test files. # It must never be quoted as the project's coverage figure in either # direction. # * Scoped economic-core cluster (7 contracts of ~285), same 2026-07-19 # provenance, also not reproduced: 98.17% statements, 79.82% branches. # Seven contracts is not a repository. # # 26.82 that reproduces is worth more to this project than 99.8 that evaporates. # # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # WHAT THIS PIPELINE IS FORBIDDEN FROM DOING # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # These are the standard ways a CI file is made green while the software is # broken. None is used here, and every absence is checkable by reading the file: # # * No `continue-on-error` on any compile, test, KAT or coverage step. # * No `|| true` swallowing a non-zero exit in any gating step. # * No coverage threshold invented below the real number to manufacture a # pass. There is no threshold at all, because there is no real number yet. # * No suite skipped for being slow or inconvenient. `.solcover.js` has an # EMPTY `skipFiles`, so nothing is removed from the coverage denominator. # * `if: always()` appears ONLY on artifact-upload steps, so a failing run # still hands you its evidence. It never appears on a step that decides # pass or fail. That distinction is the entire difference between a # debuggable pipeline and a dishonest one. # # Verify the first two yourself, and note the exact patterns. A bare # `grep secrets.` returns hits because this file DISCUSSES secrets in prose; the # patterns below match the forms that would actually grant access or actually # suppress a failure: # # grep -c '\${{ *secrets\.' .gitea/workflows/ci.yml # expect 0 # grep -cE '^\s*continue-on-error\s*:' .gitea/workflows/ci.yml # expect 0 # # MEASURED 2026-07-20: both return 0. # # If the suite goes red, the correct response is to fix the suite. Editing this # file to restore green is precisely the failure this design prevents. name: contracts-ci on: push: pull_request: workflow_dispatch: # Least privilege. This pipeline reads code and writes artifacts. Nothing else. permissions: contents: read # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # THE SECRETS BOUNDARY # ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════ # "Radical open source" invites this question immediately, so it is answered # here in full rather than as a footnote. Naming the boundary is part of the # credibility, not a caveat to it. Linux publishes all of its code and none of # its signing keys. # # WHAT THIS PIPELINE DOES NOT HAVE, AND MUST NEVER BE GIVEN: # # * validator signing keys for the 7 chain-2800 validators; # * any deploy key, funded account private key, or mnemonic with a balance; # * infrastructure credentials: SSH, hosting provider APIs, DNS, TLS private # keys; # * RPC admin, or any authenticated write endpoint; # * explorer, relayer or oracle service credentials. # # The `env:` block below is exhaustive and contains no `secrets.*` reference. # A pull request from a fork runs the identical pipeline against the identical # (empty) credential surface. # # SCOPE OF THAT CLAIM, stated precisely so it cannot be over-read. It covers # THIS workflow file. It is not a claim that no workflow anywhere in the wider # Aere monorepo references a secret: the internal `reproducible-besu-build.yml` # does reference a `WELLKNOWN_DEPLOY_TOKEN` used to publish a build digest to a # static `.well-known` path. That token publishes a hash to a website. It is not # a chain key, it cannot sign a transaction, and it is not present in this # published contracts repository at all. We are naming it because a reader who # greps only this file and trusts a blanket "no secrets anywhere" claim would # have been misled, and a boundary that survives only careless reading is not a # boundary. # # WHY A PUBLIC CI STRUCTURALLY CANNOT TOUCH THE LIVE CHAIN, beyond not holding # keys. Four independent reasons, any one of which is sufficient: # # 1. Every job runs against an in-process Hardhat EVM at chain ID 31337. It # never dials chain 2800. `AERE_RPC_URL` below is pinned to a dead local # address so a stray config cannot reach a real endpoint. # 2. The only account material anywhere in the test path is the well-known # public Hardhat test mnemonic ("test test ... junk"), which holds nothing # on any real network. # 3. Writing to chain 2800 requires a signature from a funded key. No such key # exists in this repository, this pipeline, or the runner environment. A # compromised workflow file, a malicious dependency, or a hostile pull # request still cannot produce a valid mainnet transaction. # 4. Deployment is a separate, human-gated, offline procedure. It is # deliberately NOT automated from CI. Moving it into CI would be a # downgrade in safety, not an improvement in convenience. # # Aere consensus is CLASSICAL secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT with 7 Foundation-operated # validators, f=2, quorum 5 of 7, 500 ms blocks (SPEC). Post-quantum # cryptography exists at the signature, precompile, account and transport layers # only. Nothing in this pipeline says anything about consensus, and no Aere # material should ever describe Aere as having post-quantum consensus. env: # Bounds only the V8 old-space heap. The bulk of coverage's growth is # Hardhat's in-process EVM state plus per-statement hit maps, which live # OUTSIDE this budget. Do not expect this setting alone to make a whole-repo # coverage run fit; it does not, and section "coverage: RED" above is why. NODE_OPTIONS: --max-old-space-size=6144 # Never let a stray config or test reach a real endpoint from CI. AERE_RPC_URL: http://127.0.0.1:0 jobs: # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 1. THE GATE. Clean-checkout install, compile, full suite. No exceptions. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── build-and-test: name: Install (lockfile) → compile → full test suite # GITEA PORTABILITY: the runner must register a label matching this string. # Ours registers `ubuntu-22.04`. If your Gitea runner registers only # `ubuntu-latest`, change this line in all four jobs. runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 timeout-minutes: 90 steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Node uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: # Pinned to the version every number in REPRODUCE.md was measured on. node-version: '24.14.1' cache: 'npm' - name: Record toolchain versions # Printed so any run can be compared against any other run. A number is # only reproducible if you know what produced it. run: | echo "node: $(node --version)" echo "npm: $(npm --version)" echo "os: $(uname -a)" echo "mem: $(free -g | awk '/^Mem:/{print $2" GB"}')" echo "cores: $(nproc)" - name: Install from the lockfile # `npm ci`, NOT `npm install`. ci deletes node_modules and installs the # exact lockfile tree, failing outright if package.json and # package-lock.json disagree. That is precisely what an outsider cloning # this repo does, and it is the step that catches "it works because of # what was already on my machine". run: npm ci - name: Compile contracts run: npx hardhat compile - name: Full test suite # THE GATE. No continue-on-error. A single failing test fails the run. # Currently RED: see the header. Leaving it red is the correct state. run: npx hardhat test - name: Upload compiled artifacts if: always() # v3, not v4: the Gitea artifact backend implements the v3 upload # protocol. The GitHub twin of this file uses v4, because GitHub retired # v3 on 2025-01-30. This is the ONLY functional difference between the # two files. uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: build-artifacts path: | artifacts/ retention-days: 30 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 2. ETHEREUM INTEROP, run under the config it was actually written for. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── interop: name: Ethereum interop (EIP-2537 BLS, prague hardfork) runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 timeout-minutes: 60 steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Node uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: '24.14.1' cache: 'npm' - name: Install from the lockfile run: npm ci - name: Interop suite (own config, prague hardfork) # No continue-on-error. Expected to fail today, and that failure is the # accurate signal. run: npx hardhat test --config hardhat.config.interop.js # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 3. PQC KNOWN-ANSWER TESTS, isolated so a crypto regression is legible. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # These also run inside the full suite. They are ALSO run alone, because # "do the post-quantum verifiers still match the official NIST vectors" is the # question this project is asked most often, and burying its answer in a # 1,400-line log is a bad answer. # # SCOPE HONESTY, because this is the most misread part of the project: # # * These KATs exercise the SOLIDITY verifier implementations against the # official NIST reference vectors (falcon512-KAT.rsp, falcon1024-KAT.rsp, # the FIPS 205 SLH-DSA ACVP vectors, the FIPS 202 SHAKE256 vector). The # vectors ship in this repository as test/falcon512_kat0.json and # test/falcon1024_kat0.json so you can diff them against the NIST # originals rather than trusting our copy. # * They assert BOTH directions, which is the part that matters: a genuine # NIST signature is ACCEPTED, and a single-bit-flipped signature, a # single-bit-flipped message, and a genuine signature under the wrong # public key are all REJECTED. An "accepts everything" verifier would pass # the first check and fail the rest. # * They run on the local Hardhat EVM, which has NO Aere precompiles. The # precompile-backed paths are therefore NOT covered by this job. A green # tick here is evidence about the Solidity implementations, not about the # deployed precompiles. Verifying those needs a precompile-bearing devnet, # which a public CI does not have. # * Precompile status is NOT uniform (SPEC): Falcon-512 0x0AE1, # Falcon-1024 0x0AE2, ML-DSA-44 0x0AE3, SLH-DSA-128s 0x0AE4 and # SHAKE256 0x0AE5 are live on mainnet from block 9,189,161. ML-KEM-768 # 0x0AE6 and Falcon HashToPoint 0x0AE7 are TESTNET-ONLY and are NOT live # on mainnet. P-256 at 0x100 is live. # * The on-chain ZK verifiers are classical BN254, which is breakable by a # sufficiently large quantum computer. Post-quantum signature verification # does not make the ZK stack post-quantum. pqc-kat: name: PQC known-answer tests (NIST vectors) runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 timeout-minutes: 60 steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Node uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: '24.14.1' cache: 'npm' - name: Install from the lockfile run: npm ci - name: Compile contracts run: npx hardhat compile - name: Falcon / SPHINCS+ / ML-DSA known-answer tests # No continue-on-error. A KAT mismatch is a hard failure: it means an # implementation stopped agreeing with the NIST reference. run: | npx hardhat test \ test/AereFalcon512Verifier.test.js \ test/AereFalcon1024Verifier.test.js \ test/AereSphincsVerifier.test.js \ test/AerePQCMessageVerifier.test.js \ test/AereCryptoRegistry.test.js \ test/AereCryptoRegistry.agility.test.js \ test/AereCryptoRegistry.newprecompiles.test.js - name: Upload KAT vectors used if: always() uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: pqc-kat-vectors path: | test/falcon512_kat0.json test/falcon1024_kat0.json retention-days: 90 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 4. COVERAGE. Read the header's "coverage: RED" section before quoting any # number that comes out of this job. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # WHAT THIS JOB IS FOR: producing a real, checkable coverage number and the # raw istanbul JSON alongside it, so anyone can recompute the percentage from # the counters rather than take our word for the summary line. # # WHAT IT CURRENTLY DOES: fails. MEASURED 2026-07-20, it dies at the COMPILE # phase with std::bad_alloc out of solc itself, exit 1, on a 15.78 GB box. # It is left doing the real thing and failing honestly rather than made green # by lowering a threshold, shrinking the denominator via skipFiles, or adding # continue-on-error. # # WHAT IT WILL NOT PRODUCE EVEN WHEN IT RUNS: a whole-repository percentage. # A single-process whole-repo run does not fit a 16 GB runner. The route to a # real whole-repo number is sharding with --testfiles plus an istanbul merge. # That merge is arithmetically valid because instrumentation is deterministic # over identical sources, so every shard emits identical statement, branch and # function maps and the per-counter arrays sum. Keeping skipFiles empty in # every shard is what guarantees those maps match. Until that sharded run is # taken to completion end to end, the honest whole-repo figure is NOT # MEASURED, and this pipeline says so rather than substituting a scoped number # for it. coverage: name: Coverage (scoped, with artifacts) runs-on: ubuntu-22.04 timeout-minutes: 120 steps: - name: Checkout uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Set up Node uses: actions/setup-node@v4 with: node-version: '24.14.1' cache: 'npm' - name: Install from the lockfile run: npm ci - name: Coverage over the economic-core cluster # Scoped by TEST FILE, never by skipFiles. This matters: skipFiles would # shrink the DENOMINATOR and inflate the percentage, which is the most # common way a coverage number gets quietly flattered. `--testfiles` # leaves every contract instrumented and simply runs fewer tests, so the # number produced is an honest "what these tests reach", measured # against the full instrumented denominator. # # Note the limitation recorded in the header: --testfiles does NOT # reduce COMPILE cost, so this scoping does not rescue the run from its # current compile-phase OOM. It is here for when the compile is fixed. # # No continue-on-error: if a test in this scope fails, coverage fails. run: | npx hardhat coverage \ --config hardhat.config.coverage.js \ --testfiles "{test/aere-fee-burn-vault.test.js,test/aere-sink-branch-coverage.test.js,test/saere-v2-fix.test.js,test/aeresink-conservation-invariant.test.js}" - name: Print the measured summary run: | echo "── Coverage summary (istanbul) ─────────────────────────────" cat coverage/coverage-summary.json 2>/dev/null \ || echo "coverage-summary.json not emitted; see the artifact for coverage.json" - name: Upload the raw coverage report # `if: always()` is used ONLY on artifact-upload steps, so a FAILED run # still hands you its evidence. It is never used on a step that decides # pass or fail. if: always() uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3 with: name: coverage-report path: | coverage/ coverage.json retention-days: 90