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ShieldedMultiSig will be refactored separately. This PR proposes to just include minor adjustments to the preset in order for tests to pass, so it's technically correct just not complete atm. To be explicit, the following items are deferred to a separate PR specifically targeting shielded multisig:

  • refactor caller auth mechanism
  • add cap to expiry
  • re-export ledger vals

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Proposals now support configurable expiry deadlines.
    • Proposal status includes a new Expired state.
    • Status automatically reflects active, expired, executed, cancelled, or unknown proposals.
    • Proposal creation now requires a future expiry time.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Expired proposals can no longer be treated as active or executed.
    • Terminal proposal states remain preserved after cancellation or execution.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for expiry boundaries, lifecycle transitions, invalid deadlines, and backend time behavior.

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Proposal lifecycle storage now uses expiry deadlines and terminal sentinels. Creation APIs require expiry values. Status queries derive Active, Expired, terminal, or Inactive states. Tests cover lifecycle transitions across dry and live backends.

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Proposal Lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Encoded lifecycle contract
contracts/src/multisig/ProposalManager.compact
Proposal state now stores expiry deadlines or executed and cancelled sentinels. Creation validates future expiry values. Activity checks and status queries derive lifecycle status from state and block time.
Multisig and test integration
contracts/src/multisig/presets/ShieldedMultiSig.compact, contracts/src/multisig/test/mocks/MockProposalManager.compact, contracts/src/multisig/test/simulators/*
Shielded multisig creation forwards expiry values. Mocks and simulators expose encoded state helpers and test-only state controls.
Expiry and lifecycle validation
contracts/src/multisig/test/*.test.ts, contracts/test-utils/fixtures/blockTime.ts
Tests cover expiry boundaries, status transitions, terminal persistence, backend-specific time behavior, and expired ShieldedMultiSig proposals.

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Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 33975

The PR updates proposal timing tests and simulator time control; if the simulator’s block-time field changes, expiry tests could silently run against an unchanged clock and provide misleading results. This is a bounded, localized risk that is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to validate the expected field shape.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ShieldedMultiSig
  participant ProposalManager
  participant BlockTime
  ShieldedMultiSig->>ProposalManager: Create proposal with expiry
  ProposalManager->>BlockTime: Read current timestamp
  ProposalManager-->>ShieldedMultiSig: Store encoded proposal state
  ShieldedMultiSig->>ProposalManager: Query proposal status
  ProposalManager->>BlockTime: Read current timestamp
  ProposalManager-->>ShieldedMultiSig: Return derived status
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Suggested reviewers: pepebndc, 0xisk

Poem

A rabbit checks the clock with care,
And stores each deadline safely there.
Sentinels mark the finished trail,
Expired hops now plainly tell the tale.
New proposals bound ahead—
While tests guard every path they tread.

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In `@contracts/test-utils/fixtures/blockTime.ts`:
- Around line 30-51: Update queryContext and setBlockTime to validate that the
existing query context contains a block with a bigint secondsSinceEpoch before
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  • contracts/src/multisig/ProposalManager.compact
  • contracts/src/multisig/presets/ShieldedMultiSig.compact
  • contracts/src/multisig/test/ProposalManager.test.ts
  • contracts/src/multisig/test/ShieldedMultiSig.test.ts
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  • contracts/test-utils/fixtures/blockTime.ts

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LGTM

*
* @returns {Uint<64>} 1.
*/
export pure circuit executedState(): Uint<64> {

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🔴 blocking: the two new sentinel circuits (and the three whose proving cost changed: _createProposal, assertProposalActive, getProposalStatus) carry no @circuitInfo k=…, rows=…. The library applies that tag throughout — Signer, and every token / access / security module. Unblocked by annotating the 2 new + 3 modified circuits; a module-wide backfill (0/17 today) can ride with the deferred multisig PR.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)


// ─── State ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

export ledger _nextProposalId: Counter;

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🔴 blocking: both exported ledger fields are undocumented. NonFungibleToken.compact:99-115 is the convention — @description plus @type lines for key and value. Worth stating here: _nextProposalId is a monotonic id source that is read back (so ids are never reused, and that read-back is what serializes concurrent creates), and _proposals is keyed by it and stores the overlaid state encoding. Both are readable off-chain without a proof, so integrators consume them directly.

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Expired
}

export enum RecipientKind {

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🔴 blocking: RecipientKind and Recipient (line 60) are undocumented, while ProposalStatus and Proposal got thorough blocks in this PR. RecipientKind should say what each variant means and which rail accepts it — toShieldedRecipient rejects UnshieldedUser, toUnshieldedRecipient rejects ShieldedUser, and that mismatch is exactly the hazard _createProposal warns about. Recipient should state that address is raw 32 bytes whose interpretation depends on kind.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ export circuit deposit(coin: ShieldedCoinInfo): [] {
export circuit createShieldedProposal(

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🔴 blocking: createShieldedProposal has no doc comment, so this PR adds a required parameter to an integrator-facing circuit without stating its units (seconds since the Unix epoch), its constraints (must be in the future, must exceed the reserved sentinel range), or that the preset imposes no upper cap. The module documents all of it, but the preset is what dApps call. Unblocked by documenting expiry; the preset's other missing docs are pre-existing and out of scope here.

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question (non-blocking): _approveProposal (line 130) pins _proposalApprovals.member(id) == false on the first approval, so two first approvers of one proposal collide on that read as well, independently of the _approvalCount cell. Is that worth folding into the same fix? Flagging it so the approval-count refactor removes both collision points rather than one.

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🔵 followup (pre-existing, for the deferred multisig refactor): _approveProposal line 136 does getApprovalCount(id) + 1 — a read-modify-write on _approvalCount[id]. The read pins the old count into the transaction, so two signers approving the same proposal in one block conflict: the loser is rejected at inclusion and has to rebuild, re-prove and resubmit. Concurrent approval is the normal multisig flow, and the same pinned read makes executeShieldedProposal conflict with a late approval landing in the same block.

The per-signer approval inserts are blind per-key writes and never conflict, so the count cell is the only collision point. One direction: drop _approvalCount and prove the threshold at execute time from the per-signer entries (K membership checks over caller-supplied approvers).

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🔵 followup: the approval-concurrency limitation above isn't documented anywhere in the preset. There is a convention for this — ConfidentialFungibleToken.compact:163 carries @warning Known limitations. / Concurrency. Two transfers to the same recipient in the same block conflict. Documented limitation; acceptable for the v1 target use case. The header here documents the getCaller / contract-signer limitation at length but is silent on approvals. Worth writing down even while the fix is deferred.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

// ─── State ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

export ledger _nextProposalId: Counter;
export ledger _proposals: Map<Uint<64>, Proposal>;

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🔵 followup: lapsed proposals have no cleanup path. _cancelProposal routes through assertProposalActive, which rejects once the deadline passes, and there is no _proposals.remove, so every expired proposal keeps its entry and its original deadline forever and this map grows monotonically. The struct docs explain that the retained deadline is what tells a reader when it lapsed — worth stating the consequence too: no pruning circuit exists, growth is unbounded, and a consumer that needs cleanup must compose it. Adding a prune circuit is a separate design decision, not this PR.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

Comment thread CHANGELOG.md

### Changed

- Refactor ProposalManager (#780)

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nitpick: the breaking changes aren't marked, and this file uses a **Breaking:** prefix elsewhere (see the _isInitialized entry). Three integrator-facing breaks here: Proposal.status (enum) → state: Uint<64>, the new required expiry parameter on _createProposal / createShieldedProposal, and getProposalStatus returning Inactive instead of reverting for a missing id.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

* still carries its original deadline, which is what tells a reader when it
* lapsed.
*
* @warning `state` is a DEADLINE, not a ready-at time. `state > blockTime`

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nitpick: this reads awkwardly, and it states the comparison backwards from the code — blockTimeLt(state) is blockTime < state, so the subject is the block time, not state. It also contradicts the list just above it, where state is sometimes a sentinel rather than a deadline. Suggested rewrite:

@warning In the deadline range, `state` marks when a proposal STOPS being
executable, not when it starts: it is executable while `blockTime < state`
and inert once `blockTime >= state`.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

*
* @returns {[]} Empty tuple.
*/
export circuit assertProposalActive(id: Uint<64>): [] {

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nitpick: worth one line here on how this failure differs from a state conflict. A conflicting read is transient — rebuild against fresh state, re-prove, and the transaction lands. proposal expired at inclusion is terminal: an integrator retry loop that treats all rejections alike will re-prove a dead proposal forever.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

expect((await contract.getProposal(id)).state).toEqual(EXPIRY);

await contract._markExecuted(id);
expect((await contract.getProposal(id)).state).not.toEqual(EXPIRY);

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nitpick: assert the exact value instead of the negation — toEqual(contract.executedState()) pins which sentinel was written, where .not.toEqual(EXPIRY) would also pass for any other value.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)

// not state. These specs pin what that buys an attacker, so the hazard is
// recorded as behavior rather than only as a doc warning. They are not
// defended against; the module cannot defend against its own consumer.
describe('direct state writes by a consumer', () => {

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nitpick: state = 0 is the one reserved value these specs never decode — the group covers the sentinel forge (1) and backdated deadlines (> 2). forceProposalState(id, 0n) should read Expired and fail assertProposalActive with proposal not active (the sentinel check trips before the expiry one). One test completes the blast-radius set and pins which message that corner produces.

added by claude (dev3-midnight-basic-review)


// Needs control over the reported block time, which only the dry backend
// offers. See the live group below for what can be checked against a node.
describe.skipIf(isLiveBackend())('expiry (dry only)', () => {

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nitpick: the rejections at 0 / 1 / 2 are pinned, but the smallest legal expiry is never accepted anywhere — the lowest accepted value in the suite is NOW + 1 (1,000,001). setBlockTime(2) plus create(3) would pin the reserved range as exactly {0, 1, 2} from the acceptance side too, so a later widening to >= couldn't slip through on that side.

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return Proposal_getProposalStatus(id);
}

export pure circuit executedState(): Uint<64> {

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nitpick (if-minor): one line each pointing at Proposal.state's encoding would let an off-chain reader decode the field without opening the module. Low priority given the preset carries no docs today.

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Looking good @andrew-fleming! Left some blockings, questions and nitpicks comments. I'm still running the live testing locally.

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Confirmed all tests run successfully on a local live node on my end, Great work @andrew-fleming! 👌
live-proposal-manager.log
live-shielded-multisig.log

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