# Aere Network contracts: continuous verification # # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # WHY THIS FILE IS AT .github/workflows/ AND NOT .gitea/workflows/ # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # The canonical host is our own Gitea instance at git.aere.network. Gitea Actions # scans BOTH `.gitea/workflows/` and `.github/workflows/`, and prefers `.gitea/` # only when both exist. GitHub Actions scans `.github/workflows/` only. # # THIS FILE IS THE GITHUB-MIRROR HALF OF A TWO-FILE PAIR. Its twin is # `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml`, which is what git.aere.network actually runs. # # CORRECTION, 2026-07-20. An earlier revision of this file was a SINGLE file # meant to serve both hosts, and justified pinning `actions/upload-artifact` at # v3 with the note "On GitHub, v3 still runs." THAT NOTE WAS WRONG. GitHub # retired the v3 artifact backend on 2025-01-30 and `upload-artifact@v3` now # hard-fails on GitHub-hosted runners. So the single-file design did not deliver # the portability it claimed; it delivered a pipeline that fails on GitHub for a # reason that has 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 teaches # people to ignore the colour. Splitting the file is the fix. # # The two files are identical except for the `upload-artifact` major version and # their header notes. Drift 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: exactly THREE differences, all the `upload-artifact@v3` / # `@v4` line. `runs-on:` is currently identical in both files (`ubuntu-22.04`). # Anything else in that diff means one host is no longer running what we say. # # Portability notes for anyone porting this elsewhere: # * `actions/checkout@v4`, `actions/setup-node@v4` and # `actions/upload-artifact@v4` all resolve on GitHub. Gitea Actions proxies # to github.com for action resolution by default, but its artifact backend # implements the v3 protocol, which is why the `.gitea/` twin pins v3. # * Runners need a label matching `runs-on`. If your runner registers only # `ubuntu-latest`, change the four `runs-on:` lines. # # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # HONESTY STATEMENT: DOES THIS PIPELINE CURRENTLY PASS? # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # NO. `build-and-test` IS CURRENTLY RED. This is written here, at the top of the # file, because the alternative (shipping a pipeline tuned to look green) is the # specific failure this file exists to prevent. # # Status recorded from an actual run on 2026-07-20, not assumed. Command: # # NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=6144 npx hardhat test # # on Windows 11, Node v24.14.1, npm 11.11.0, 15.78 GB RAM. Result: # # 1,448 tests passing # 9 tests failing # run ABORTED before finishing, exit 127, last line of output: # `memory allocation of 3623878656 bytes failed` # # Note carefully: because the process was killed, mocha never printed its # summary. So even "1,448 passing / 9 failing" is a PARTIAL count taken by # counting result markers in the log. It is not the suite's totals, and the true # totals are currently unknown. We are not going to round that into a # comfortable number. # # TWO SEPARATE PROBLEMS, deliberately not conflated: # # (1) MEMORY. The full suite does not fit in ~16 GB. The on-chain crypto # suites (Falcon, ML-DSA, SPHINCS+) are enormously expensive to execute in # an in-process EVM. A standard GitHub or Gitea runner has 16 GB, so # `build-and-test` is EXPECTED to die the same way until the suite is # sharded across jobs. That work is not done. The job is left in its # honest failing state rather than trimmed until it fits. # # (2) NINE REAL FAILURES. Grouped by cause: # # * 6 in `AereEthLightClient (real EIP-2537 BLS, Prague)`. MISCONFIGURED # RUN, not a contract defect. That suite lives in test/interop/ and has # its own config (hardhat.config.interop.js) pinning the `prague` # hardfork, because it needs the EIP-2537 BLS12-381 precompiles # (0x0b..0x11). The default config pins `cancun`, where those # precompiles do not exist, and `npx hardhat test` globs test/ # recursively and drags the interop suite in under the wrong hardfork. # MEASURED: re-running that suite with `--config hardhat.config.interop.js` # turns "hashes a message to G2 identically to noble hashToCurve" from # failing to PASSING. The `interop` job below therefore runs it the # correct way. This is not skipping an inconvenient suite; it is running # each suite under the config it was written for, and the interop job is # itself a hard gate. # # * ...but that same corrected run then dies with a SEGMENTATION FAULT in # node on `accepts a valid full-participation update and advances # finality`. That is a hard crash in the EVM implementation's EIP-2537 # path, not something the Solidity can be blamed for and not something # a config flag fixes. It is an open, unresolved blocker. The `interop` # job is red because of it. # # * 3 others, causes NOT yet diagnosed, listed so they are not lost: # - AereCompliancePool fuzz: "survives 1500 randomized actions with # all invariants intact" # - INVARIANT AereGovernorV2: "post-creation locks never inflate a # proposal's quorum; bounds + turnout rule hold" # - INVARIANT AereLendingMarket: "drives multi-actor # supply/borrow/repay/withdraw/liquidate across price moves" # Because the run was killed before mocha's summary, the assertion text # for these three was never printed. We have their titles and nothing # more. Diagnosing them is outstanding work, and until it is done we # cannot say whether they are product defects or run artifacts. We are # not going to guess in public. # # job: build-and-test .......... RED (memory abort + 9 failures, above) # job: interop ................. RED (segfault in the EIP-2537 BLS path) # job: pqc-kat ................. GREEN. MEASURED 2026-07-20 in a CLEAN # directory (fresh `npm ci`, fresh compile), # running this job's exact command in two # parts: 60 passing (7s) exit 0, then 41 # passing (27s) exit 0. 101 passing, 0 failing, # 0 pending. Includes the official NIST # Falcon-512, Falcon-1024 and SPHINCS+ (FIPS # 205 SLH-DSA ACVP) vectors, asserted in BOTH # directions: genuine signature ACCEPTED, and # tampered-signature / tampered-message / # wrong-public-key all REJECTED. # job: coverage ................ RED, most likely. MEASURED 2026-07-20: the # coverage run failed at the COMPILE phase with # `std::bad_alloc` out of solc itself, exit 1, # after ~45 minutes, with the node process # observed at 16.04 GB private bytes on a # 15.78 GB box. We have NO coverage number # from today. None. Not a low one. # # Two corrections worth carrying forward: # (a) an earlier internal note recorded that the # instrumented whole-repo COMPILE was solved. # It did not reproduce. # (b) `--testfiles` does NOT reduce compile # cost. solidity-coverage instruments and # compiles EVERY contract regardless; # --testfiles only narrows which tests execute # afterwards. So scoping by test file cannot # rescue a run that dies during compilation. # This job 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 this pipeline deliberately does NOT do, because each would be a way of # being green while being wrong: # * no `continue-on-error` on any compile, test or KAT step; # * no `|| true` swallowing a non-zero exit anywhere in a gating step; # * no coverage threshold invented below the real number to manufacture a # pass. The one threshold that exists is set AT a measured value and exists # to catch regression; # * no test file excluded from the suite for being inconvenient. `skipFiles` # in .solcover.js is empty; # * `npm ci` (not `npm install`), so the lockfile is authoritative and a # drifting transitive dependency fails the build instead of silently # changing what was tested. # # If the suite goes red, the correct response is to fix the suite. Editing this # file to make it green again is the failure mode this file exists to prevent. 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 # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # This is a public CI on a public repository. It has NO access to, and must # never be given access to: # # * validator signing keys for the 7 chain-2800 validators; # * any deploy key, funded account private key, or mnemonic with a balance; # * infrastructure credentials (SSH, cloud provider API, DNS, TLS private keys); # * RPC admin or any authenticated write endpoint; # * the explorer, relayer or oracle service credentials. # # The `env:` block below is exhaustive and contains no `secrets.*` reference. # That is verifiable by reading this file: grep it for `secrets.` and you get # nothing. A fork's pull request runs the identical pipeline with the identical # (empty) credential surface. # # WHY A PUBLIC CI STRUCTURALLY CANNOT TOUCH THE LIVE CHAIN, beyond just not # holding keys: # 1. Every job runs against an in-process Hardhat EVM at chainId 31337. It # never dials chain 2800. # 2. The only account material anywhere in the test path is the well-known # public Hardhat mnemonic ("test 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, in this pipeline, or in the runner # environment, so 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 not # automated from CI by design, and moving it into CI would be a downgrade. # # Naming this boundary is part of the argument, not a caveat to it. "Radical # open source" means every number here is reproducible by a stranger; it does # not mean the keys are open. Linux publishes all of its code and none of its # signing keys. env: # Coverage instrumentation is memory-hungry. Raise V8's old-space so the # sharded run has room. NOTE: this bounds only the V8 old-space heap; the bulk # of coverage's growth is Hardhat's in-process EVM state plus the # per-statement hit maps, which live OUTSIDE this budget. Do not expect this # setting alone to make a whole-repo run fit. 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 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 the numbers in REPRODUCE.md were 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 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 "works because of what is 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. run: npx hardhat test - name: Upload compiled artifacts if: always() uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: build-artifacts path: | artifacts/ retention-days: 30 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 2. ETHEREUM INTEROP, run under the config it was actually written for. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # test/interop/ needs the `prague` hardfork for the EIP-2537 BLS12-381 # precompiles (0x0b..0x11). The main config pins `cancun` to keep every other # contract's bytecode byte-stable, so this suite ships its own config. # # WHY THIS IS A SEPARATE JOB AND NOT A SKIP. Running these tests under the # default cancun config is simply the wrong runner setup, and it produces 6 # failures that say nothing about the contracts. Giving the suite its correct # config is the fix. It is NOT an exemption: this job gates like any other and # is currently RED (see the header: a segfault in the EVM's EIP-2537 path). # Leaving it red is the point. If we wanted a green wall we would have deleted # this job. 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. This job is 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 run inside the full suite too. They are ALSO run alone, because # "did the post-quantum verifiers still match the official NIST vectors" is # the single question this project is most often asked, 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, # FIPS 202 SHAKE256). # * They run on the local Hardhat EVM, which has NO Aere precompiles. The # precompile-backed verification paths (0x0AE1 to 0x0AE5 live on chain # 2800; 0x0AE6 ML-KEM-768 and 0x0AE7 HashToPoint are TESTNET-ONLY) cannot # be exercised here and are therefore NOT covered by this job. Verifying # those requires a precompile-bearing devnet. Do not read a green tick # here as evidence about the precompiles. # * Aere consensus is CLASSICAL secp256k1 ECDSA QBFT. Post-quantum # cryptography exists at the signature, precompile, account and transport # layers only. Nothing in this job says anything about consensus. 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@v4 with: name: pqc-kat-vectors path: | test/falcon512_kat0.json test/falcon1024_kat0.json retention-days: 90 # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # 3. COVERAGE. Read the scope statement before quoting any number from here. # ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── # # WHAT THIS JOB PRODUCES: a SCOPED coverage number over a named cluster of # contracts, plus the raw istanbul JSON as an artifact so anyone can recompute # it. It does NOT produce a whole-repository coverage percentage. # # WHY NOT, stated plainly rather than hidden behind a green tick: # A single-process whole-repo coverage run does not fit in a standard CI # runner's memory. Measured on a 15.78 GB / 33.78 GB-commit box, the process # reached the entire commit limit and was killed by the OS during the TEST # phase when the full test set was in scope. # # CONTRADICTION RESOLVED, 2026-07-20. An earlier revision of this comment # asserted "The COMPILE phase is solved: all contracts instrument and # compile", while this same file's header recorded a compile-phase # `std::bad_alloc`. Both could not be true, and shipping a file that # contradicts itself about its own headline number is exactly the failure this # pipeline exists to prevent. What is actually true, measured rather than # asserted: # # * The instrumented whole-repo compile is NOT reliable. It succeeded in an # earlier session and failed on 2026-07-20 with `std::bad_alloc` out of # solc after ~45 minutes. Same machine, same tree. It is # memory-pressure-dependent, not deterministic, and a 16 GB runner should # be expected to hit the failing side of that coin. # * Zero contracts are excluded from instrumentation. `.solcover.js` has an # empty `skipFiles`. MEASURED 2026-07-20: 294 files instrument. # * When the instrumented artifacts are already cached, the TEST phase and # report generation complete cleanly at small test scope. MEASURED # 2026-07-20, exit 0, full report emitted over all 294 files. # # So the blocker is the cold instrumented compile, and secondarily test-phase # memory at large scope. Not one single cause. Saying so costs nothing and # keeps the file honest against its own header. # # The path to a real whole-repo number is sharding: run coverage over subsets # with --testfiles, then merge the per-shard istanbul JSONs. That merge is # arithmetically valid because instrumentation is deterministic over identical # sources, so every shard emits identical statement/branch/function maps and # the per-counter arrays sum. Until that full sharded run completes end to # end, the honest whole-repo figure is NOT MEASURED, and this pipeline says so # rather than substituting a scoped number for it. # # ANY figure of the "99.8% coverage" kind that has ever been attached to this # project was never produced by a coverage tool. It was a target written as # though achieved. It is not a claim this repository makes. The numbers below # are the real ones, and they are lower. 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, not by skipFiles. This matters: skipFiles would # shrink the DENOMINATOR and inflate the percentage. --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. # # 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 that a FAILED # run still hands you its evidence. It is never used on a step that # decides pass or fail. That distinction is the whole difference between # a debuggable pipeline and a dishonest one. if: always() uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4 with: name: coverage-report path: | coverage/ coverage.json retention-days: 90