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Templates can opt into inputs[].predicate, a byte binding evaluated against the actual source input after source/tree and fixed output-locking checks. It can only reject an otherwise eligible action. Templates without it retain their identifiers and behavior. The actual pre-extension decoder rejects the unknown field before identifier calculation. This extends SDK #1206; packet construction is in SDK #1208, and the proposed specification is meta #35.

Programs run in a fresh input-only VM and must return exactly one canonical true. The closed opcode set, minimal pushes across all branches, 520-byte resolved size and 201 nonpush-instruction limit bound untrusted programs. The pinned raw VM lacks the context required for runtime compute charging, so frozen static heavy-op counts conservatively cover every branch. Per-input and shared per-Build limits combine binding-resolution expressions, nested ciphertext expressions and returned bytecode; expressions are charged before assembly even if they return empty bytes. Errors expose sanitized categories. Budgets and draft state are Build-local.

The opt-in receive fixture seals P32 || receiver32 || SHA256(program)32 || positive minimal ScriptNum and carries public program bytes in TLV4. Its fixed expression checks the exact program hash, receiver and real source amount; predicates add a rejection condition. The distinct ID is 9175f4917d1c2e90c4a70d8036e49679a94cef048860ea2f4f337c12ab68609a, bound by ECIES AAD. Enable this template once on a compatible engine; payments remain packet-only. Solver #348 transports both SDK vectors unchanged. The operator can decrypt the preimage; this is daemon policy, not a new source-covenant condition.

Nested-module baseline: 132 top-level tests / 487 test-and-subtest pass events. Final (unchanged module at b560e06): 145 / 558 across eight packages, zero failures. New field and resolution-budget regressions first failed against prior code. Both byte-identical SDK vectors pass actual Trigger → ECIES → VHTLC tree → Build; false, substituted, malformed, forbidden and over-budget cases reject. Module build/vet/gofmt, compiled daemon and tagged E2E compilation pass. Exact-head Linux CI passes unit/race, both linters, format, build/scan and all 21 funded E2E tests, with zero failures or skips. Arkana's follow-up at b560e06 confirms the budget/stream fixes and no blocking issues. Its low-severity frozen-multiplier observation is intentional versioned policy and answered. The resolution-budget thread is fixed and resolved. CodeRabbit's review covers a456d98; the requested b560e06 review was rate-limited, so its green status is not approval.

Funded CI at a456d98 confirmed the initial claim and negative observations but failed its final valid control: repeated expected eligibility rejections disabled the shared stream template after ten failures. Fixed in b560e06: only local streamed BuildOffchain/BuildIntent errors wrapping ErrIneligible are exempt from template-failure accounting. Bad built transactions and backend refusals still charge; client-registered behavior, error text and retry scheduling remain unchanged. Dynamic conditions can become eligible later, so children are not cancelled. Existing active-child, concurrency, retry and expiry limits remain; this is not a throughput/backoff redesign, and rejected children still consume bounded capacity and attempt records until expiry.

The new actual-build regressions fail before that fix and pass after it: application baseline 43 → 57 passing events across four packages. They exercise both build paths, more than the failure threshold, unchanged retries and error precedence. Independent review is clear. A broader local run has 229 passing tests and 45 host failures: 44 PostgreSQL authentication failures also occur on pristine c7bb4b7; the unchanged registry test fails with this checkout's CRLF fixture and passes all 11 cases with LF input. No database settings, fixture content or test exclusions were committed. Compiled daemon/E2E checks pass. Both funded tests pass at b560e06, including false/substituted or invalid sealed terms remaining unspent followed by a valid payment/preimage control. The named test results were read from CI logs. No merge, release or production deployment was performed.

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Template inputs can now include byte predicates. Builds validate and execute predicates before fee calculation and output allocation. Offline receive fixtures, vectors, and tests cover predicate matching and execution limits.

Changes

Input Predicate Evaluation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Predicate binding and build evaluation pkg/template/internal/schema/schema.go, pkg/template/input.go, pkg/template/draft.go, pkg/template/build.go, pkg/template/predicate.go, pkg/template/predicate_test.go	The input schema and compiler support optional byte predicates. Builds resolve and execute predicates before fee calculation and output allocation. Predicate programs are checked against size, opcode, push, and compute limits. Tests cover execution results, errors, input context, signatures, and resolution budgets.
Offline receive predicates and coverage pkg/template/testdata/offline_receive_predicate.json, pkg/template/testdata/*predicate*vector.json, pkg/template/testdata/ids.json, pkg/template/fixtures_test.go, pkg/template/predicate_test.go	Fixtures and vectors add offline receive predicates. Tests cover packet matching, receiver and amount conditions, output preservation, and expected build outcomes.
End-to-end predicate checks test/e2e/helpers_test.go, test/e2e/swap_test.go	The swap tests cover authenticated predicate terms and claim behavior. The neverSpent helper waits for a funding output to become readable and checks that it remains unspent.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Build as Instance.Build
  participant Predicates as Instance.predicates
  participant Input as Selected transaction input
  Build->>Predicates: Evaluate configured predicates
  Predicates->>Input: Execute predicate in input context
  Input-->>Predicates: Return execution result
  Predicates-->>Build: Return eligibility or error

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Suggested reviewers: louisinger

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to a456d

This adds opt-in input predicates that can only reject an otherwise eligible action. Templates without the field keep their existing behavior. The supplied evidence shows the earlier compute-budget concern was addressed and tests cover the main accept and reject paths. I found no remaining merge-blocking risk.

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- Line 18: Update checkPredicate so expression execution is charged to a shared
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Arkana review — #8 feat(template): support authenticated input predicates

Reviewed at head 3dc8845. No prior Arkana review to supersede.

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Protocol correctness

The two-phase design is sound. draft() runs first and evaluates the fixed output-locking expression, which independently enforces SHA256(predicate) == committed_hash (sealed in the ECIES ciphertext), receiver_program equality, and the minimum-amount gate. predicates() then runs the predicate VM as an additional filter. A dishonest executor that skips predicates() still cannot build a valid Action when the predicate substitution diverges from the committed hash — the locking expression rejects it at the same Build() call. The predicate can only narrow, never widen, what Build() returns.

The minimum-amount check in the locking expression is a daemon-level policy, not an on-chain covenant. The operator can decrypt the minimum. This is explicitly acknowledged in the PR description ("additional daemon policy rather than a new source-covenant condition") and is correct by design; the actual covenant (OP_INSPECTOUTPUTVALUE >= OP_INSPECTINPUTVALUE) is enforced on-chain through the existing claim covenant. No finding, but noting for reviewers who need to reason about trust assumptions.

Existing templates: the predicate field is omitempty / schema:"opt", so old schemas parse and produce identical IDs. Confirmed ids.json is unchanged for all pre-existing fixtures. ✓

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Finding 1 — Runtime compute enforcement is a silent no-op for predicate VMs (minor, maintenance risk)

emulator/pkg/arkade/engine.go:332-334:

func (vm *Engine) chargeOpcode(op byte) error {
    if vm.taprootCtx == nil {
        return nil   // ← always taken for predicate engines
    }

Predicate VMs are created with arkade.NewEngine(program, d.tx, index, nil, nil, ...) — no taproot leaf, so taprootCtx is nil. Neither the per-input vm.limits accounting nor the request-wide ComputeBudget fires at runtime. All compute-budget enforcement is carried entirely by checkPredicate().

This is not a bug — checkPredicate is always called on every program before execution, the static analysis counts all branches conservatively, and the ordering is maintained in predicates(). However, the guarantee is implicit: if the two calls were ever inverted (or checkPredicate skipped by a future caller), the VM would execute unlimited heavy ops with no runtime brake. A one-line comment in predicates() noting that the static check is the sole compute enforcement for predicate VMs would protect this invariant. predicate.go:92-134.

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Finding 2 — Aggregate multiplier 4* is hardcoded on both sides (predicate.go:172, predicate_test.go:499)

// predicate.go:172
if limit > 0 && total[op] > 4*limit {

// predicate_test.go:499
require.Equal(t, arkade.DefaultAggregateComputeLimits()[op], 4*predicateComputeLimit(op))

The factor 4 mirrors requestInputBudget in the emulator (compute_limits.go:62), but neither site derives it from that constant. If the emulator bumps requestInputBudget, the test at predicate_test.go:499 fails (catching the drift at CI time since DefaultAggregateComputeLimits() would no longer equal 4*predicateComputeLimit(op)), but the production code at predicate.go:172 silently becomes more permissive than the engine budget until a human also updates that literal.

Recommended: derive the aggregate in checkPredicate from arkade.AggregateComputeLimits(predicateStaticLimits()) so a single source of truth is in play, or at minimum export requestInputBudget from the emulator and reference it here. Low severity as-is — the test is the existing guard.

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Finding 3 — OP_INSPECTINPUTPACKET in predicate opcode set (predicate.go:233)

Predicates may read all TLV fields of the input emulator packet via OP_INSPECTINPUTPACKET, not only the predicate TLV (4). For the offline_receive_predicate.json fixture, TLV1 is the ciphertext (not secret — it is on-chain) and TLV3 is the encryption public key. A user-specified predicate could incorporate packet fields beyond its own bytes into its logic. This is intentional design (the receiver controls the predicate, the hash commitment authenticates it, and all TLV content is already visible in the transaction), but reviewers deploying this template should be aware that predicates are not restricted to their own TLV slot. No protocol issue.

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Finding 4 — minimalPredicatePush: single-byte zero path is implicitly correct but worth a comment (predicate.go:196-211)

The function has explicit arms for data[0] in [1..16] (→ use OP_1..OP_16) and data[0] == 0x81 (→ use OP_1NEGATE), but no explicit arm for data[0] == 0x00 (a one-byte literal zero byte, distinct from OP_0 which pushes the empty array). That case falls through to n <= 75 → int(op) == n → accepts opcode 0x01, which is correct — pushing [0x00] with 01 00 is the only minimal encoding for that specific byte sequence. Functionally correct, but the absence of a comment makes the gap look like an oversight. No bug.

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Test coverage

Coverage is thorough: binding validation, forbidden/reserved/inactive opcodes, nonminimal pushes, 201-op and 520-byte limits, aggregate budget across multiple inputs, concurrent builds, OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK signature verification, error-sanitization checks (sealed terms don't appear in error strings), frozen policy alignment with engine defaults, and the full SDK vector round-trip through Trigger → Match → Instantiate → Build. E2E test covers the substituted-predicate rejection path. No gaps found.

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Cross-repo impact

schema.Input.Predicate is new and optional — no existing schema consumers break. Grep of go-sdk, rust-sdk, dotnet-sdk, and ts-sdk found no consumers of template input predicates. The offline_receive_predicate.json template carries a new ID and requires explicit registration; no existing deployments are affected.

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Summary: The design is well-reasoned and the security properties are correct. Findings 1 and 2 are maintenance risks rather than bugs; both are low severity. Finding 1 warrants a comment in code; Finding 2 warrants tracking for the next emulator budget change. No protocol-critical or blocking issues found.

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Checked the nonblocking Arkana observations against the current head. The static-budget invariant is now documented beside checkPredicate, including the raw VM's missing charging context. The numeric caps and 4x aggregate are deliberately frozen as input-predicate/v1 policy, rather than silently expanding when emulator defaults change; the alignment test makes an upstream change require an explicit review. Meta #35 records those exact limits. OP_INSPECTINPUTPACKET can inspect all already-public source packet fields as intended. The literal 01 00 push remains the minimal encoding of a one-byte zero value; no behavior change is needed there.

The optional docstring-coverage suggestion would add narration to private helpers without addressing a correctness issue, so it is not being applied. CodeRabbit's actionable resolution-budget finding is fixed in 4e00700 and its thread is resolved. The latest CodeRabbit review covers a456d98 and posts no new actionable findings. Funded E2E CI is still running; it is a separate gate from passing module/race checks.

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Funded CI at a456d98 exposed a real shared-template availability issue: the first valid predicate claim succeeded, but repeated false/hash-mismatched builds consumed the template's failure allowance and blocked the final valid control. Fixed in b560e06.

Both offchain and intent paths now mark only local streamed ErrIneligible build errors. Those do not charge the shared template; actual bad transactions/refusals and client-registered behavior retain their safeguards. Error chains/text, failed-attempt persistence and retry times stay unchanged. Conditions can become true later, so this does not cancel children. New actual-build regressions failed for both stream paths before the fix and pass now; the application suite rises from 43 to 57 passing checks. Independent review and daemon/E2E compilation pass.

Both fixed and predicate funded tests now include a subsequent valid control. Exact-head CI is rerunning. This isolates failure accounting; it does not add a new backoff policy or establish large-scale throughput. Rejected children retain the existing capacity/expiry behavior.

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Please cover b560e06, which isolates streamed local eligibility failures from shared-template failure accounting and retains actual bad-transaction/refusal safeguards. The prior review covers a456d98; new regression cases exercise both local build paths and unchanged retries.

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Arkana follow-up review — #8 feat(template): support authenticated input predicates

Reviewed incremental range 3dc8845..b560e06 (3 commits: 4e00700, a456d988, b560e062). Finding 1 is fixed; Finding 2 remains open (low severity); no new blocking issues found.

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Prior-finding closure

Finding 1 — Runtime compute enforcement was a silent no-op for predicate VMs → Fixed (4e00700)

The fix is thorough. draft.go now hooks d.predicateBudget.expression(tokens) inside eval() before asm.Assemble is called (draft.go:70-74). Because the hook fires before the lookup function for <placeholder> is invoked, budget exhaustion in a resolution expression aborts the predicate before any ciphertext is decrypted. predicate.go:109-110 now carries the comment I requested explaining why static analysis is the sole compute enforcement for raw-engine predicate VMs.

The new tests are solid:

• TestPredicateResolutionBudget covers expression-only, raw-bytes-only, combined, and aggregate paths.
• TestPredicateResolutionNestedBudget covers nested ciphertext resolution and the critical "reject before assembly lookup" case — budget exhaustion stops execution before the secret is opened.
• TestPredicateResolutionPhaseEnds verifies that the predicateBudget is correctly restored (via defer) after predicates() returns, so ordinary eval() calls in later build steps are unaffected.

Finding 2 — Aggregate multiplier 4* hardcoded at both predicate.go:83 and predicate_test.go:256 → Still open

predicate.go:83 still reads:

if b.total[op] > 4*limit {

requestInputBudget = 4 is unexported in the emulator, but arkade.AggregateComputeLimits(limits) is exported (compute_limits.go:68) and would derive the correct multiplier from a single source of truth. TestInputPredicateFrozenPolicy (line 256) is a valid CI guard — it would fail if the emulator changed the multiplier — but the production code remains a disconnected literal. Low severity as-is; just noting it is still open so it isn't silently dropped.

Finding 3 — OP_INSPECTINPUTPACKET in predicate opcode set → No longer applicable (was informational; no action required).

Finding 4 — minimalPredicatePush single-byte zero path → No longer applicable (was informational; behavior confirmed correct).

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New findings from 4e00700 / a456d988 / b560e062

1 — chargesTemplate: implicit operator precedence, no parentheses (offchain.go:179) — low, style

return errors.Is(err, execution.ErrBadTx) || errors.Is(err, errRefused) ||
    errors.Is(err, template.ErrIneligible) && !errors.As(err, &streamed)

Go's && binds tighter than ||, so this is A || B || (C && !D), which is the intended policy. TestStreamBuildFailureClassification tests all eight combinations and confirms the mapping is correct. The correctness concern is nil, but the missing parentheses around (errors.Is(err, template.ErrIneligible) && !errors.As(err, &streamed)) make the intent non-obvious for anyone unfamiliar with Go's precedence table. Consider adding them — this function implements billing policy that people will return to.

2 — localBuildError does not suppress ErrBadTx / errRefused even from stream inputs — intentional, confirming

For errors.Join(template.ErrIneligible, execution.ErrBadTx) from a stream input, localBuildError wraps in streamIneligible, but chargesTemplate still returns true because errors.Is(err, execution.ErrBadTx) resolves through Unwrap. The test case {"ineligible bad transaction", ..., streamID:1, charge:true} explicitly pins this. The design is sound: a malformed transaction in a stream packet is a template fault even if ErrIneligible is also present. No action needed; confirming it is deliberate.

3 — neverSpent helper: read errors correctly fail the test — confirming

helpers_test.go (commit a456d988): read() errors inside require.Never now return true (condition occurred) which causes the assertion to fail, with t.Log(err) preserving the message. This is the correct semantics — a projection error is a test failure, not a "never spent" pass. The earlier version returning true on err != nil already behaved this way, but the richer diagnostic output is a clear improvement.

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Summary

The compute-budget enforcement gap is closed. The stream-isolation logic is correct, complete, and well-tested. The only carry-over item is Finding 2 (hardcoded 4* literal at predicate.go:83), which remains low severity as long as TestInputPredicateFrozenPolicy is in CI. Everything else is clean.

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Exact-head b560e06 CI is green: unit/race, both linters, formatting, build/scan and all 21 funded E2E tests (zero failures/skips). The named logs confirm TestStreamClaimEnforcesTheSealedTerms and TestStreamClaimEnforcesAnAuthenticatedPredicate both pass, including final valid payments after the rejection cases. This is daemon regtest evidence; the SDK stack's separate inherited setup failures remain.

Checked the latest Arkana follow-up. The aggregate multiplier remains deliberately fixed as input-predicate/v1 policy, as noted earlier and specified in meta #35; deriving it from mutable dependency defaults would silently change the versioned profile. The alignment test forces a dependency change to be reviewed explicitly. Standard Go precedence in chargesTemplate is pinned by the eight classification cases, including joined errors, so no cosmetic expression change is included. The follow-up reports no blocking issues and confirms the stream isolation and budget fixes.

CodeRabbit's requested review of b560e06 was rate-limited; its green status is not approval of this commit. All three review surfaces have been checked; there are no unresolved inline threads.