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Summary

The solver read the covenant co-signer key from the emulator's live /v1/info at boot. An operator that moves Arkade Script co-signing into its own signer may answer that endpoint with arkd's signer key. SDK clients (@arkade-os/sdk, @arkade-os/swap) derive with the SDK's per-network pin and never ask the emulator. A solver that followed the live report would quote lockups no client derives, and every RFQ verification would fail closed.

The solver now builds covenants on the same key the clients use: the SDK's pin, defaultEmulatorPubkey(network), whatever the emulator reports. A mismatch is logged at boot.

• Networks without a pin (signet): keep the report.
• Misconfigured network (an unknown network name): fails at boot.
• Private emulators on a pinned network: follow the pin, like SDK clients. An explicit override can be added, as the SDK has one, if a deployment needs it. Review suggested keeping a private emulator's report instead. That would let the emulator's own answer pick the covenant key on a pinned network, so the pin wins.

Nothing changes today: on bitcoin, mutinynet and regtest the report equals the pin. Rows already funded rebuild from their stored emulator_pubkey.

Changes

• packages/solver-app/src/ops/cosigner.ts: covenantCosignerKey(network, reported).
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts: the four consumers of the boot-time key (send ops, receive ops, asset-RFQ derivation, Services.emulatorPubkey) use it.
• test/cli/assetRfqServices.test.ts: the source assertion follows the renamed variable.

Test plan

• pnpm -r build, pnpm typecheck and pnpm format:check pass.
• pnpm test: 344 files, 6566 tests. The only failure was test/examples/rfqCore.test.ts, which hit its 5000 ms timeout.
  • That test failed in 1 of 5 runs on a clean origin/main checkout, so it's flaky on this machine.
  • CI ran it green on the previous heads.
• test/ops/cosigner.test.ts: the pin wins on bitcoin and mutinynet whatever the emulator reports, and signet keeps the report.

Follow-up

#350 adds an optional client-named co-signer key on RFQ requests, verified against arkd's info.

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Walkthrough

The change adds network-based emulator public key resolution with a reported-key fallback. createServices uses the resolved key for Arkade operations, asset RFQ derivation, receive operations, and Services.emulatorPubkey.

Changes

Emulator key resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Network-specific key derivation packages/solver-app/src/ops/cosigner.ts, test/ops/cosigner.test.ts	Adds covenantCosignerKey, which returns the default emulator public key for the network or the reported key if lookup throws. Tests cover Bitcoin, Mutinynet, and Signet.
Service integration packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts, test/cli/assetRfqServices.test.ts	createServices resolves the emulator key, logs when it differs from the reported key, and uses it for Arkade operations, asset RFQ derivation, receive operations, and Services.emulatorPubkey. The asset RFQ assertion now uses emulatorPubkey.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Low · up to ef5ed

The solver now builds covenants on the network's pinned co-signer key. Most deployments should see no change. An operator who moves from a different reported key to the pinned one with funded asset RFQs still outstanding could fail to settle them after restart. That risk is limited and has a planned follow-up, so the change can merge with that awareness.

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- Line 944: Preserve the original emulatorPubkey derivation for existing funded
asset RFQs; the network-pin derivation here can make quotedOfferSettleFor
reconstruct a different script and fail its stored-script comparison. Keep the
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Preserve the original derivation for existing asset RFQs.

If an existing funded asset RFQ used a reported key whose x-coordinate differs from the network pin, this change prevents settlement after restart. quotedOfferSettleFor in packages/solver-arkade/src/arkade/quotedOfferSettle.ts, Lines 63-127, reconstructs the script with this boot-time derivation. Its stored-script comparison then throws before fulfillOffer.

Unlike the per-swap reconstruction described for other corridors, this path does not use a stored co-signer key. Preserve the original derivation for existing asset RFQs, or provide a recovery path before applying the pin to them.

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Preserve the original emulatorPubkey derivation for existing funded asset RFQs; the network-pin derivation here can make quotedOfferSettleFor reconstruct a different script and fail its stored-script comparison. Keep the pinned-key behavior only where compatibility is established, or provide a recovery path that restores the original derivation before applying the pin to existing RFQs.

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[Kukks]

Valid, and broader than asset RFQ: on a pinned network the first version also ignored a private emulator's key for new quotes and refunds. Fixed in 36e7b07. The solver now keeps whatever key the emulator reports and falls back to the network pin only when that report is arkd's own signer key, which is the case where co-signing moved into arkd and the emulator answers with the operator key. So every existing derivation, including key-less asset-RFQ rows re-derived at settle, is unchanged on standard, switched and private deployments. (I did not run the embedded agent prompt; the fix was made against the code.)

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printf '\n%s\n' '--- asset RFQ restart and derivation tests ---'
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@Kukks Thanks for the fix and clarification. I checked 36e7b071: it preserves a private emulator’s reported key when that key is still reported.

Verification is inconclusive for existing funded RFQs. If an RFQ was quoted with a key that differs from the network pin, and the emulator later reports the operator key, settlement now uses the pin. The stored-script comparison can then fail.

Please check whether such rows can exist and test their settlement across a restart. I am not marking the finding as addressed yet.

I did not run the tests or execute the embedded agent prompt.

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Learnings added

Learnt from: Kukks
Repo: arkade-os/intent-solver PR: 349
File: packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts:948-948
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T10:41:07.368Z
Learning: Within repository "arkade-os/intent-solver", only for files matching one of ["packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts"]: When changing how packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts selects the co-signer key for asset RFQ derivation, check that previously funded RFQs can still reconstruct their recorded offer scripts at settlement after restart. If the selected key can differ from the quote-time key, verify a compatible reconstruction or recovery path; do not assume each asset RFQ row stores its co-signer key.

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[Kukks]

That case needs the deployment to repoint its EMULATOR_URL from a private co-signer to the operator's. Any such move already strands key-less asset-RFQ rows today, with or without this PR, because settle re-derives with whatever key the solver boots with. So it isn't introduced here. The real fix is to stop re-deriving from the boot key: the follow-up PR stores the co-signer key on asset-RFQ rows (null meaning a legacy row, settled with the boot default), which removes the dependency.

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@Kukks, you’re right about the private-to-operator endpoint change. The base code also re-derives with the boot key, so that transition could already cause a mismatch.

I checked this against the stored asset-RFQ reconstruction guidance. One upgrade case remains unverified: if a funded row was quoted while the emulator already reported the operator key, this PR changes reconstruction from that key to the network pin, even without an endpoint change. Can such rows exist on a pinned network? I’m not marking the finding as addressed until that is clear.

Would you like a follow-up issue for legacy-row recovery? I did not run tests or execute the embedded agent prompt.

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Learnings used

Learnt from: Kukks
Repo: arkade-os/intent-solver PR: 349
File: packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts:948-948
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T10:41:08.727Z
Learning: Within repository "arkade-os/intent-solver", only for files matching one of ["packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts"]: When changing how packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts selects the co-signer key for asset RFQ derivation, check that previously funded RFQs can still reconstruct their recorded offer scripts at settlement after restart. If the selected key can differ from the quote-time key, verify a compatible reconstruction or recovery path; do not assume each asset RFQ row stores its co-signer key.

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[Kukks]

Update: per the maintainer's decision, ef5eda5 makes the default the SDK pin (defaultEmulatorPubkey), the same key clients derive with. 36e7b07 kept a private emulator's report; this replaces it. On a pinned network the emulator's own answer no longer picks the covenant key. A private emulator on a pinned network would need an explicit override, which can be added the way the SDK has one, if a deployment needs it. Networks without a pin keep the report. Key-less asset-RFQ rows are covered in #350, which stores the key per row.

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@Kukks Thanks for clarifying the maintainer’s decision on the default key.

I checked #350 against the stored asset-RFQ reconstruction guidance. It stores the key for new rows, but legacy rows use the boot default. If a funded legacy row used a different key from the pin, settlement can still fail after the upgrade.

Before deployment, please verify whether such rows exist. If they do, verify a recovery path with a settlement test across the upgrade and restart. I’m not marking this finding as addressed.

I did not run tests or execute the embedded agent prompt.

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Learnings used

Learnt from: Kukks
Repo: arkade-os/intent-solver PR: 349
File: packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts:948-948
Timestamp: 2026-11-12T10:41:08.727Z
Learning: Within repository "arkade-os/intent-solver", only for files matching one of ["packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts"]: When changing how packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts selects the co-signer key for asset RFQ derivation, check that previously funded RFQs can still reconstruct their recorded offer scripts at settlement after restart. If the selected key can differ from the quote-time key, verify a compatible reconstruction or recovery path; do not assume each asset RFQ row stores its co-signer key.

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[Kukks]

@arkana-ai-bot Please review head 36e7b07

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Arkana review — head 36e7b07

Reviewed: packages/solver-app/src/ops/cosigner.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts, test/ops/cosigner.test.ts, test/cli/assetRfqServices.test.ts.

The core logic is correct and the services.ts wiring is a clean four-site replacement. Three things worth addressing before merge:

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🔴 cosigner.ts:9-13 — catch is too broad; silent wrong-key fallback on unexpected SDK throw

try {
  return defaultEmulatorPubkey(getNetwork(NETWORKS[network].arkdNetwork as NetworkName))
} catch {
  return reported
}

The catch fires for two distinct reasons:

1. Intended: the network has no pin (e.g. signet, NETWORKS[network] undefined). Returning reported is correct.
2. Unintended: the network does have a pin (e.g. 'bitcoin'), reported matched operatorKey, but defaultEmulatorPubkey throws for another reason (SDK version bump removes the network, corrupt NETWORKS map, etc.). In that case the function returns reported, which is arkServerPublicKey—the key clients do not derive with. No log line; nothing alerts the operator. Every quote issued from that boot would construct an unspendable covenant.

Minimum fix: log a warning before the fallback so the wrong path is visible in the boot log. Better fix: check whether the network is expected to have a pin before entering the try (e.g. inspect NETWORKS[network]?.arkdNetwork) and only enter the catch-as-fallback arm for the "no pin" case; treat an unexpected throw as an error.

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🟡 cosigner.ts:8 — assumes reported is a 66-char compressed-key hex string

if (reported.slice(-64).toLowerCase() !== hex.encode(operatorKey.slice(-32))) return reported

reported.slice(-64) correctly isolates the x-coordinate for a 66-char compressed (02/03) key. If emulatorInfo.signerPubkey ever returns an uncompressed (04-prefixed, 130-char) key, the slice takes the last 32 bytes of the y-coordinate, the comparison always fails, and the function silently returns the wrong key (always reported). The assumption should either be documented as a type contract (reported is a 66-char compressed hex string) or validated with a guard. Given that RestEmulatorProvider controls the format today this is low-probability, but worth making explicit on a code path that custodies covenant keys.

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🟡 test/ops/cosigner.test.ts — mutinynet not covered

The PR description and the CodeRabbit walkthrough both mention mutinynet coverage, but test/ops/cosigner.test.ts has no case for it. If defaultEmulatorPubkey for mutinynet returns a different constant than for bitcoin, the behaviour differs from the bitcoin test and that difference should be pinned. Add at least a "keeps the pin on mutinynet" case mirroring the bitcoin test.

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Nit — cosigner.ts:7 parameter typing

operatorKey: Uint8Array could be Readonly<Uint8Array> to make the no-mutation contract explicit. No bug today; just documents intent.

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services.ts — the four-site mechanical replacement is consistent and correct. The boot-time log at line 833 is appropriate for diagnostics (public keys are not secret).

test/cli/assetRfqServices.test.ts — variable rename in the string assertion is correct.

The broad-catch issue (#1) is the only one that creates a failure mode where the solver silently operates on the wrong key after boot. Everything else is defensive coding and test coverage.

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Reviewed head 36e7b071. Four changed files; no generated/lockfile exclusions.

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Summary

The logic is correct and the motivation is sound. covenantCosignerKey exactly captures the invariant: only override when the emulator reports arkd's own signer key; keep every other report. The fallback through try/catch to reported for unpinned networks (signet) is the right behaviour. No new public API surface; no cross-repo consumer breakage found in ts-sdk, go-sdk, rust-sdk, or dotnet-sdk.

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Findings

1. x-only comparison is sign-blind — confirm intentional (packages/solver-app/src/ops/cosigner.ts:8)

if (reported.slice(-64).toLowerCase() !== hex.encode(operatorKey.slice(-32))) return reported

arkade.wallet.arkServerPublicKey is stored as a 32-byte x-only key (confirmed in ts-sdk/packages/sdk/src/wallet/wallet.ts via equalBytes(xonly, this.arkServerPublicKey)), so operatorKey.slice(-32) is the whole key. reported.slice(-64) strips the prefix byte. The comparison is x-only on both sides, which means a reported key that shares an x-coordinate with arkServerPublicKey but carries a different parity prefix (02 vs 03) would also trigger the fallback.

For Tapscript (BIP-340) this is correct semantics — the parity bit is an artifact of the key-path commitment, not identity. The collision probability is negligible. However, the comment on this line only explains the "emulator reports arkd's key" case; it doesn't mention that the comparison is sign-blind. Worth a one-line note so future readers don't wonder if the prefix check was forgotten.

2. try/catch swallows both getNetwork() and defaultEmulatorPubkey() errors (cosigner.ts:9–12)

try {
  return defaultEmulatorPubkey(getNetwork(NETWORKS[network].arkdNetwork as NetworkName))
} catch {
  return reported
}

If getNetwork() throws (e.g., arkdNetwork misconfigured), the catch silently returns reported — which at that point is arkd's own signer key (the guard on line 8 already passed). On a misconfigured pinned deployment this means covenants would be signed by arkd rather than the emulator key, with no log and no crash. The services.ts:832–834 log only fires when emulatorPubkey !== emulatorInfo.signerPubkey, so a silent reported-return here would produce no log at all.

Consider splitting the catch or at minimum logging before returning in the catch branch, so a misconfiguration surfaces at boot rather than silently quoting wrong-key covenants.

3. Missing test: catch-path in covenantCosignerKey (test/ops/cosigner.test.ts)

The existing test for 'signet' exercises the defaultEmulatorPubkey-throws path (signet has no pin), which is the expected production path. The getNetwork() throwing path is not separately tested. This is a minor gap — the signet test covers the structural path — but a dedicated case for getNetwork failure would pin the behaviour and document it.

4. services.ts:833 logs external data to console

log(`emulator reports ${emulatorInfo.signerPubkey}; covenants keep the pinned ${emulatorPubkey}`)

emulatorInfo.signerPubkey is fetched from an external HTTP endpoint. It is a compressed public key (not secret), and the log correctly captures the diagnostic signal. No issue — noted only because external-sourced data flowing into log lines sometimes draws questions in audit.

5. assetRfqServices.test.ts:76 — source-code assertion style

The updated assertion (expect(body()).toContain('emulatorPubkey: xOnlyPubkey(hex.decode(emulatorPubkey))')) checks a string literal in the production source. This pattern predates this PR; the rename here is correct. The brittleness of this test style is an existing concern, not introduced by this change.

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Cross-repo impact

• ts-sdk: defaultEmulatorPubkey and BITCOIN_EMULATOR_PUBKEY are consumed by @arkade-os/swap (client side, not solver). No interface change here touches those paths.
• go-sdk, rust-sdk, dotnet-sdk: no references to defaultEmulatorPubkey or covenantCosignerKey. No breakage.

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Verdict

Blocking: none. The two items worth addressing before this ships:

1. (Finding 2) Either narrow the catch to only defaultEmulatorPubkey's error, or add a log/warning inside the catch body so a getNetwork() failure doesn't silently produce arkd-keyed covenants.
2. (Finding 1) One-line comment on the sign-blind comparison.

Finding 3 is a suggestion. Findings 4–5 are observations only.

[Kukks]

Thanks. Addressed in be8dc47:

1. Added a note that the comparison is x-only on purpose: the parity prefix isn't part of a tapscript key's identity.
2. getNetwork now sits outside the try. A misconfigured network fails at boot instead of silently building on arkd's key; only "no pin on this network" falls back to the report.

Not changed:

• 3: with getNetwork outside the catch, that path now throws at boot. NETWORKS is a fixed map, so a test for it would need a cast to an invalid network; I left it out.
• 4 and 5: observations, no change.

[arkana-ai-bot]

PROTOCOL-CRITICAL: human review required.

Follow-up pass — head be8dc47. One commit since 36e7b07 (+4/-2 lines in cosigner.ts only). Both prior blocking findings are now fixed; zero remain open.

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Prior-finding close-out

Finding 1 — x-only comparison is sign-blind, confirm intentional (cosigner.ts:8)
→ Fixed in be8dc47. Added comment: // Compared x-only: the parity prefix is not part of a tapscript key's identity. Documents intent clearly.

Finding 2 — try/catch swallowed both getNetwork() and defaultEmulatorPubkey() errors (cosigner.ts:9–12)
→ Fixed in be8dc47. getNetwork(NETWORKS[network].arkdNetwork as NetworkName) is now called outside the try block. A misconfigured arkdNetwork now throws at boot. The catch correctly covers only defaultEmulatorPubkey(), which the SDK is documented to throw for networks without a pin (confirmed: ts-sdk tests assert defaultEmulatorPubkey(networks.signet) throws). The comment // no pin on this network makes the intent explicit.

Finding 3 — missing test for the getNetwork() throw path (test/ops/cosigner.test.ts)
→ No longer applicable. With getNetwork() outside the catch, a misconfigured network now propagates as a boot-time crash rather than a silent fallback. A test for it would require passing an invalid SwapNetwork through a TypeScript cast. @Kukks explained this explicitly and the rationale holds — the signet test already exercises the structural catch path; the remaining gap is TypeScript-type-enforced out of existence at the callsite.

Findings 4 & 5 — observations only, no changes intended.
→ No longer applicable (unchanged, nothing to close out).

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Incremental findings from be8dc47

None. The change is minimal and correct:

• getNetwork() now lives before the try, correctly scoped.
• The comment on the x-only comparison is accurate (operatorKey.slice(-32) = x-only 32-byte key; reported.slice(-64) = last 64 hex chars, same semantics).
• The SDK confirms defaultEmulatorPubkey throws for signet and testnet by design, so the remaining catch is correct and the comment is accurate.
• Cross-repo: ts-sdk/packages/swap calls defaultEmulatorPubkey independently on the client path; this change does not affect that path. go-sdk, rust-sdk, dotnet-sdk have no consumers of these symbols.

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No new issues. All prior blockers resolved.

[arkana-ai-bot]

PROTOCOL-CRITICAL: human review required.

Follow-up pass — head ef5eda5. One commit since be8dc47 (+10/-24 lines across cosigner.ts, services.ts, cosigner.test.ts, assetRfqServices.test.ts). Zero prior findings remain open. One new observation, non-blocking.

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Prior-finding close-out

Finding 1 — x-only comparison is sign-blind, confirm intentional (cosigner.ts:8, first review)
→ No longer applicable. Fixed with a comment in be8dc47; ef5eda5 removed the entire operatorKey parameter and the comparison with it. The code that needed the annotation no longer exists.

Finding 2 — try/catch swallowed both getNetwork() and defaultEmulatorPubkey() errors (first review)
→ Still fixed. getNetwork() remains outside the try block in ef5eda5 (cosigner.ts:7). A misconfigured arkdNetwork still throws at boot.

Finding 3 — missing test for the getNetwork() throw path (first review)
→ No longer applicable. Same rationale as be8dc47: with getNetwork() outside the try, an invalid SwapNetwork is a boot-time crash, not a catch-path branch; the TypeScript type system makes it unreachable at the call site.

Findings 4 & 5 — observations only, no changes intended.
→ No longer applicable. Unchanged.

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What changed in ef5eda5

The operatorKey parameter is gone. Old logic: "if the emulator reports arkd's own signer key, substitute the SDK pin." New logic: "always use the SDK pin for a pinned network, regardless of what the emulator reports." This closes the scenario where a fresh emulator install on a pinned network (bitcoin, mutinynet) could steer all new covenant scripts away from the SDK constant and onto a key clients never derive.

Confirmed from ts-sdk/packages/sdk/src/networks.ts:105–109: defaultEmulatorPubkey has pinned entries for bitcoin, mutinynet, and regtest; it throws for testnet and signet. The signet test case in cosigner.test.ts:13–15 correctly exercises the throw-and-fall-through path. MUTINYNET_EMULATOR_PUBKEY is a proper public export of @arkade-os/sdk (ts-sdk/packages/sdk/src/index.ts).

The three usage sites in services.ts (lines ~828, ~941, ~1212, ~1668) all now read emulatorPubkey (the resolved key) instead of emulatorInfo.signerPubkey (the raw report). assetRfqServices.test.ts:76 updated to match — the assertion still pins the string it checks against production source, which is an existing brittleness predating this PR.

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New observation (non-blocking)

Private-emulator gap on pinned networks (cosigner.ts:5–12)

Operators running a co-signer of their own on a network that has a SDK pin (bitcoin, mutinynet) will now have that key silently ignored: covenantCosignerKey always returns the SDK pin and the log line at services.ts:825–827 will fire but cannot be acted upon — there is no config knob to substitute the operator's key. The commit message notes this explicitly ("the solver can grow one if a private emulator needs it") and the coderabbit walkthrough calls it out as a follow-up. No action needed here, but the follow-up should be tracked before this PR ships to any deployment that runs a private emulator on mainnet.

regtest coverage (test/ops/cosigner.test.ts)

regtest has a SDK pin (REGTEST_EMULATOR_PUBKEY) but is not tested. The existing two pinned-network tests (bitcoin, mutinynet) are sufficient to establish the structural path; regtest is an omission worth noting if regtest-network routing is used in CI.

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Cross-repo

No public API change. covenantCosignerKey is a new, unexported-from-package function introduced in this PR; no consumers exist in ts-sdk, go-sdk, rust-sdk, or dotnet-sdk. MUTINYNET_EMULATOR_PUBKEY import is confirmed exported. No cross-repo breakage.

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No new blocking issues. All prior blockers remain resolved. The private-emulator gap should be tracked as a follow-up before any mainnet private-emulator deployment.