feat(ops): business events, and a large-swap approval gate that fails closed

[Kukks]

Two coupled features for a solver third parties will run: business-event notifications, and a large-swap approval gate that sends its request through the same transport. Both are off by default — an operator who configures nothing gets today's behaviour exactly.

The claim this feature rested on, and why it turned out to be half wrong

The original scope assumed the gate could sit before the irreversible step on every corridor. Reading the code first found three things that changed the design:

1. The Lightning receive corridor is inverted. receive/orchestrator.ts:886 calls arkade.fund(...) and :907 transitions armed -> funded. Money leaves before the row enters the exposed state — the only corridor where that is true. Re-read line by line, evmReceiveOrchestrator's other actions and both onchain-receive claim/refund paths transition first, so this is the sole inversion.
2. Two corridors adopt existing exposure before any gate — receive/orchestrator.ts:770-805 and receive/onchainOrchestrator.ts:593-609, both of which say so outright. A gate at the top of those methods would strand the solver's own already-spent sats.
3. The coupled funded -> claiming path is a collection, not a payout (send/orchestrator.ts:934-947). It takes money already owed to us after we paid out on the receive leg. Gating it would withhold our own recovery.

Why send legs only

On a send leg the client's Arkade lockup takes the covenant refund and the row self-expires, so a hold costs the counterparty nothing they had not already risked — the gate's cost falls on the party the gate protects.

On a receive leg the counterparty has already committed before the solver's money would move: a held Lightning HTLC, a confirmed L1 HTLC, a locked ERC20. Worse, a receive leg cannot cleanly release that money even if we wanted it to — ports/lightning.ts:536-544 states that once an HTLC is armed "the only two outcomes remain settle, or wait for E", and the port promises nothing about armed invoices. The fake backend throws on a cancel of an armed hold specifically to stop a caller violating that contract with the suite still green. So a receive-leg gate would charge someone else's money for our operator's deliberation, and could not shorten the wait.

Receive legs therefore notify but do not gate. This is a strict subset of gating everything: if receive-leg gating is ever wanted, nothing here has to be undone.

The gate, per corridor

corridor	gate sits	why it is fail-closed
arkade:BTC->lightning:BTC	send/orchestrator.ts:991 — after evaluateSendPayment, before the CAS into paying	a held swap whose invoice lapses meets decision.pay === false on a later tick and is refused, routing the lockup to the refund sweep
arkade:BTC->onchain:BTC	send/onchainOrchestrator.ts:665 — after evaluateOnchainSendFunding, before the CAS	same shape; the funding decision refuses at the refund locktime
arkade:BTC->ethereum:<token>	evmOrchestrator.ts:341 — before the transition into locking_evm	planEvmSend refuses past validUntil, so a held swap never enters the exposed state and still terminates

Ordering is the guarantee: the gate sits after the evaluate and before the CAS. Gated first, a forgotten approval would sit on a funded lockup indefinitely.

Deliberately NOT gated

• the coupled funded -> claiming collect path — takes money already owed to us; holding strands our own recovery
• every claim, and every refund — both move money toward the solver
• both receive-leg adoption paths — they exist to pick up exposure that already happened; gating them strands the solver's own spent sats
• whenPaying (LN) and recoverFunding (onchain) — crash recovery for rows whose money may already be committed; gating would strand it behind a human. Pinned by two tests asserting the gate is not consulted there.

No bypass — enumerated

The EVM leg needed this checked, because planEvmSend returns lock_evm from two states (quoted at evmSendPlan.ts:142, funded at :146):

• exactly one lock broadcast exists, evmOrchestrator.ts:370, inside case 'lock_evm'; :403 is the refund
• both planner states dispatch to that same arm, and the gate is on the arm rather than either branch
• exactly one transition into locking_evm (:345), immediately after the gate
• case 'locking_evm' never returns lock_evm, so a re-drive cannot lock twice
• no operator action locks; tick dispatches through the same step()

Same enumeration for the other two: exactly one transition into paying (orchestrator.ts:999) and one into funding_onchain (onchainOrchestrator.ts:667), each immediately after its gate.

What an operator sees, and what if they never answer

A held swap appears in /api/overview under attention.pendingApprovals, oldest first, with requestedAt so the remaining window is legible. Approval is approve-swap, armed, confirmed by typing the swap id — for the reason fund-withdraw gives, a fixed word becomes muscle memory. It refuses an id the gate never held, so nobody can pre-authorise a swap before it exists.

There is no deny-swap: park-swap already stops a row being driven and lands an unexposed one in refused, which is what routes the lockup to the refund sweep. A second way to say no would be a second money path to keep correct.

A forgotten approval cannot lock funds. The swap refuses at its own existing deadline and the client's lockup goes to the refund sweep. Proven by a test on each of the three legs, not by construction.

Approval arrives through the console, never an inbound webhook — that would be a public listener and a second auth surface on a port that is 127.0.0.1-only and off by default.

Business events

Fired on every terminal transition, from each corridor's own states.delivered rather than a word this code knows — claimed is delivery on the send legs and merely in flight on the receive ones, so a hardcoded success state would report half of every receive swap fulfilled the moment the client claimed and before the solver collected.

The emission point is the compare-and-swap in each store, which gives exactly-once per transition for free: the loser of a race changes no rows and announces nothing. Four corridors inherit it from BaseSwapStore; the two EVM stores and the two asset stores carry their own transition and get the same one-line call.

All eight stores are wired, offer fills and asset RFQ included. Offer fills carry no descriptor — they are not a corridor, which is also why that store has no exposed set — so their states are supplied directly, and lost (someone else took the offer) falls to failed.

Review caught both asset stores shipping with the hook present and no wiring, so those swaps emitted nothing while the source read as though they did. Fixed in d42a065, and the wiring is now pinned: a source test asserts all eight stores appear in an announceOutcomes(...) call, because that failure is invisible at run time and silent in review.

The async-is-not-deferred trap — the find worth reading

Both the notifier and the event reporter originally looked deferred and were not. An async function body runs synchronously up to its first await, so:

void (async () => { await store.getLastAnnouncedBalance() /* ... */ })()

...calls getLastAnnouncedBalance() — a database read — on the caller's stack, which is the settlement path. The notifier had the same defect one layer down: calling drain() inline ran the first sink.send(...) synchronously, so any work a sink does before returning its promise landed on the money path.

Both now defer through queueMicrotask, and both are pinned by a test that fails without it:

• test/ops/notify.test.ts — "RETURNS BEFORE the sink is called, so a hung webhook cannot block a swap"
• test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts — "returns synchronously without awaiting the store"

This is invisible on inspection; the code looks deferred. Anyone reviewing a notification system will assume async means deferred.

Balance staleness

wallet.getBalance() is not the cheap read it looks like. In the pinned SDK it awaits the same unfiltered contractSnapshot() that getSpendableVtxos() does (chunk-JVHO6XHG.js: getBalance 12825, getSpendableVtxos 12887, both reaching contractSnapshot 12980) and additionally races a getBoardingUtxos() against it. A latency investigation measured that snapshot at ~951ms. It is therefore worse than getSpendableVtxos(), not better — worth stating, since a reader would reasonably assume a balance read is the cheap one.

So the balance is timer-sampled and cached; the event reads the cache and reports the reading's age in the message. committedSats beside it is pure SQLite across the reader set. A sample that fails keeps the previous reading rather than throwing, which would kill the driving interval.

Percentage change

Persisted in the admin database, not memory — otherwise the first event after every deploy compares against nothing. n/a covers both cases with no honest percentage: no previous reading, and a previous reading of zero. Unchanged is +0.00% and deliberately not n/a, because that one is a real measurement.

Secrets

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID and SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL are env-only. Both credentials are URLs — Telegram embeds the token in the API path and a Slack webhook URL is the credential in its entirety — so no URL, token or upstream error object ever reaches an error this code raises; failures carry a status and a sink name only. The upstream cause is dropped rather than chained, because a transport error routinely quotes the URL it was dialling.

admin/settings.ts exposes an explicit allow-list, which is what keeps a new Config field off the admin API by default — the same protection ARK_MNEMONIC relies on. test/ops/notifySecrets.test.ts pins that the list stays that way, and that no credential appears on the sink objects.

Gates

gate	baseline 138d476	this branch
pnpm -r build	0	0
pnpm typecheck	0	0
pnpm test	240 files / 4168 tests, 0 failing	259 / 4523, 0 failing
pnpm format:check	0	0

12 new test files and 22 tests appended to 5 existing files. Comment ratio 9.9% of added TS lines.

Re-measured on this head after main was merged in: 258 files / 4463 tests, 0 failing before the approval coverage, 258 / 4466 after the approval e2e (+3 wiring pins), and 258 / 4491 after the asset gate (+25). The two e2e tests run under the e2e config, not pnpm test.

Mutation-verified, twice over: deleting the single gate line from all three legs turns 11 tests red across 3 files, and mangling any one store label in createServices turns the wiring pin red. Both restore to green.

The gate is now exercised end to end

Every e2e leg was green while none of them touched the gate: approvalGateFor returns undefined when APPROVAL_THRESHOLD_SATS is unset, and the generated .env.ci-e2e never sets it. The gate's first real execution would have been in production, on a large swap, on the money path.

test/e2e/sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts closes that, against a live regtest stack and REAL Lightning, on arkade:BTC->lightning:BTC.

The threshold is set per service, never in the shared env. The e2e harness builds SendSwapService from an explicit deps object, so the gate is wired the way services.ts:741 wires it while the other six groups keep an unset threshold. A threshold in .env.ci-e2e would have subjected all seven legs to the gate and held swaps they expect to complete. The file joins the existing send-lightning group — same stack, same corridor — so there is no eighth required context.

Both directions, one sat apart, which is what pins evaluateApproval's >=:

threshold	swap	expected
AMOUNT_SATS	AMOUNT_SATS	held
AMOUNT_SATS + 1	AMOUNT_SATS	pays normally

• Held is asserted on what the gate produces, not on the absence of an error: the admin_swap_approval row (swap id, corridor and amount, compared numerically rather than by substring), the onHeld callback, and the payee's own node still reporting the invoice OPEN with zero sats paid. Then approveSwap releases it and the same swap settles for the full amount with the payee's own preimage — which is what makes the hold attributable to the gate rather than to an unrelated stall.
• One sat below, the swap completes untouched, with no approval row and no notification. A gate that held everything would pass the first test and fail this one.

driveUntilHeld polls the approval row and never the swap state: the row sits in funded both before the gate runs and after it holds, so a wait on funded would have been satisfied before the thing it waited for happened.

Mutation-checked on a real stack, not just locally

The point of a gate test is that it goes red when the gate goes. Verified by deleting the single enforcement line — askApproval(this.deps.approvalGate, ...) at send/orchestrator.ts:1006 — on a throwaway branch and dispatching the real send-lightning group at it (run 34338418820, branch deleted straight after):

file	result
sendLightning.e2e.test.ts	6/6 pass
sendLightningEdges.e2e.test.ts	9/9 pass
sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts	above-threshold FAILS, below-threshold passes

1 failed, 16 passed — only the expected test went red, and it went red for the right reason rather than by timing out:

Error: swap 0eafd81d-… reached claimed instead of being held

That is the production hazard stated plainly: with the enforcement gone the swap paid out and claimed the lockup. The below-threshold test staying green in the same run is what rules out "any edit reddens this file".

The wiring itself was unpinned

Nothing in test/ asserted that createServices hands a gate to anything — the same failure both asset stores shipped with for announceOutcomes, and one the e2e leg cannot see because it builds its own service. Deleting approvalGate: gateFor('arkade:BTC->lightning:BTC') from services.ts:741 left 4465 of 4466 tests green.

test/ops/approvals.test.ts now pins all three wirings the way transitionHook.test.ts pins the store labels. With it, that same deletion turns exactly one test red and nothing else.

This is not an incidental extra to the e2e; it guards the larger hole of the two. The e2e builds its own service from an explicit deps object, so by construction it cannot observe what createServices wires — a feature can be fully tested, fully green, and reachable from nowhere. That is not hypothetical here: the balance sampler in this same PR shipped built, tested and invoked from nowhere, and would have reported balances: unread forever, because the test made the call production had forgotten.

One finding from running that probe

e2e.yml:105 builds the ad-hoc files= dispatch leg with lnd: false hardcoded, so dispatching any LND-dependent file by name gets a stack with no LND. It fails loudly rather than passing vacuously, confirmed by running it both ways: requireStack throws in beforeAll and vitest exits 1, and the "Every file ran, and nothing skipped" step independently exits 1 because it counts SKIPPED as a failure. A footgun, not a trap — but the reason the mutation above was dispatched as groups=send-lightning, which reads the real group definition and keeps its stack flags.

The asset payout paths, which the sats threshold could not reach

APPROVAL_THRESHOLD_SATS is sats-typed end to end — env, number | null, amountSats at every call site — so it reached exactly the three BTC-give send legs. Both LIVE asset paths spend with no gate at all: the offer fill (assetOffers.ts:338, driven from cli.ts:272) and the asset RFQ fill (assetRfqOrchestrator.ts:368). Neither contained a single askApproval.

The driver is not "assets need their own gate". It is that wantAssetId and toAssetId are string | null, so one call site pays sats on some rows and asset units on others. The gate therefore carries a unit, and the three working call sites are untouched:

askApproval(gate, id, amountSats)            // unchanged — the three BTC legs
askApprovalFor(gate, id, { assetId, amount }) // new general form

evaluateApproval now compares bigint. Asset atomic units run past 2^53 — assetRfqSwaps.ts stores them as TEXT for exactly that reason — and a double there rounds a hold into a spend. Its two fields are renamed amount/threshold: a name ending in Sats on a now unit-agnostic comparison is the trap itself. All eight of its original cases kept their call sites verbatim.

What each path actually risks

path	solver pays	gated by
arkade:BTC->lightning:BTC, ->onchain:BTC	sats	APPROVAL_THRESHOLD_SATS
arkade:BTC->ethereum:<token>	a token	sats, as a proxy
offer fill	wantAmount of wantAssetId	sats or asset
asset RFQ	toAmount of toAssetId	sats or asset

The proxy is precedent, not invention: evmOrchestrator.ts:340 already passes row.amountSats rather than evmAmount. Worth stating plainly — that proxy is exact only at the quoted rate, which is the rate the payout was priced from.

Config

ASSET_<SYMBOL>_APPROVAL_THRESHOLD, atomic units, env-only. Env rather than the console market row where the payout bounds live, and the reason is the decider: editableKeys() excludes the approval threshold deliberately, and the console is where a swap gets APPROVED — putting "raise the threshold" and "wave this one through" on one surface would let a single compromised session do both. Atomic rather than display because precision lives in the console, and reading it at parse time would couple config to that table. Per asset, because precisions and values differ so far that one number across assets would mean nothing. Malformed values fail at boot, never as a runtime unreadable.

The one path deliberately NOT gated

onchain:BTC->arkade:<asset> (#42). This follows the SEND-LEGS-ONLY rule rather than excepting it: the client's L1 BTC confirms before the solver funds the asset lockup, so a hold charges the counterparty a locktime wait on money already sent. The derivation lives in approvals.ts, where someone would go to add the gate, and a test pins it there so it reads as a decision rather than an omission. That leg is bounded by the exposure cap, not by this gate — worth knowing that two independent accuracy defects in that cap surfaced separately (LnAssetSendSwapStore.committedSats() has no pair filter; baseSwapStore.committedSats() sums the quoted rather than the funded amount), neither chased here.

Off-by-default, and the caveat I could not remove

No sats threshold and no asset thresholds still returns undefined — no gate object, structurally. Per asset it cannot be structural: one corridor pays several assets through one gate, so an unconfigured asset resolves to a null threshold and takes evaluateApproval's existing null branch. That means adding a payable asset silently gets no gate — the same belief gap that started this thread. So boot logs every payable asset left ungated. Not a refusal: gating only some assets is legitimate, but it must not be invisible.

One hazard this nearly walked into

admin_swap_approval gains asset_id and moves amount to TEXT (no migration — the table is new in this PR). /api/overview then had to project that amount to a string: c.json throws on a bigint, and the note above balances in status.ts records that this already took the entire console down once for any solver holding an asset. Holding a swap must not break the page the approval is granted from.

Mutation-checked, four ways

Each turns exactly one test red, and nothing else moves:

removed	red
gateFor('arkade offer fill')	that wiring pin
gateFor('arkade asset RFQ')	that wiring pin
the offer-fill askApprovalFor	its hold assertion
the asset-RFQ askApprovalFor	its hold assertion

The below-threshold tests stay green in every case — which is what shows they are not simply mirroring the hold.

The blind spots the gate still had

The notifier was never flushed on shutdown. Services.close() tore down every resource without draining it, so a queued APPROVAL NEEDED could be dropped at exit — the gate failing at the one thing it exists to do, since a hold nobody is told about does nothing. It now flushes first, and that ordering is pinned rather than left to convention. Bounded both ways (AbortSignal.timeout per request, capped retries), so it cannot hang the shutdown it precedes. Removing the step reds exactly two tests and leaves 4518 green — nothing pinned it before.

An asset no threshold can name. assertMarketsPriced requires an OFFER_MARKETS pair to have a console price row but not to appear in ASSET_MARKETS — and the symbol comes only from ASSET_MARKETS. So an offer fill can pay an asset with no ASSET_<SYMBOL>_APPROVAL_THRESHOLD it is possible to set, and the boot log, which enumerates configured assets, is structurally blind to it. That is the original defect reproduced inside its own fix.

The lookup now announces such an asset by id, once, and boot enumerates OFFER_MARKETS too. It proceeds rather than holds, and that is a deliberate departure from the usual fail-closed instinct: holding an unconfigured asset would mean the first threshold an operator sets silently gates every other asset they serve, with an offer-market asset having no symbol to unwedge it with. That inverts off-by-default rather than defending it, so the answer is to be loud, not to fail closed into a wedge.

The asset gate, exercised live

assetRfqCorridor.e2e.test.ts now drives the gate on a real arkade:BTC->arkade:<asset> swap, both directions one atomic unit apart: held at the payout the quote obliges, filled one unit below, and the held one released with approveSwap and then filled. Rides the existing asset group, so still no eighth required context.

A schema left in the pre-release shape

Raised by arkana against 857aa28, and real. CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS keeps an existing table whatever its shape, so a deployment that ran this branch before the asset columns landed fails every INSERT on its column list. approvals.ts swallows that by design, so the gate still holds — but no row is written and approveSwap needs one, making the swap unapprovable until it self-refuses. Fail-closed, but exactly the invisibility the gate exists to remove.

The table is dropped when it still carries amount_sats, guarded on that column so a correct table is never touched. The suggested ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN pair does not work, verified by running it rather than reading it — amount_sats is NOT NULL with no default, so an insert omitting it still fails with NOT NULL constraint failed: admin_swap_approval.amount_sats.

Nothing durable is lost: recordApprovalRequest runs on every tick a swap is held and inserts ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, so a dropped row is re-created on the next tick and only requested_at's age resets.

The migration reads pragma_table_info, which assumed SQLite — but AdminStore.open takes SqlDriver | string and d1Driver is exported, so the type permits a driver the migration assumed away, and the read would have failed the boot. It now falls back to leaving the table alone: exactly the behaviour before the migration existed, so the guard degrades to the status quo rather than to a guess about a schema it could not read.

The drop and the SCHEMA exec are not wrapped in a transaction, and that is safe only by accident — treat it as a constraint. A crash between them leaves no table; the next open() finds pragma_table_info empty, some() is false, and SCHEMA recreates it fresh. Self-healing, but nothing enforces it. Reordering the two, inserting a step between them, or making SCHEMA conditional would each break that recovery while looking harmless.

What the bots have and have not reviewed

arkana has now reviewed every commit here, including 7341c26, with no blocking findings. That took two passes: the pass before it was stamped commit_id=7341c26 while its body read "(f3afe5e → b015b49)" and its analysis covered b015b49 only. Read the commit range in the body, not commit_id — for a window today the field credited a commit with a pass it had not been given.

Its one informational note on 7341c26: the catch around the pragma is bare, so a driver that cannot answer pragma_table_info but does hold an old amount_sats table would keep it, and CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS would not replace it. That combination cannot arise — D1 is newly targeted, so no D1 deployment can hold a table from before the asset columns — but it is the constraint that keeps the bare catch safe, and it would stop holding if another driver were ever pointed at an existing admin database.

CodeRabbit's check also reports success when it has not reviewed; its earlier pass on this PR came back "Review rate limited" inside a collapsed block while the check stayed green.

Honest limits

• No real Telegram or Slack endpoint has been hit. sinksFrom and both sinks are exercised only through an injected fetch. The request shape is asserted; that the vendors accept it is not.
• Only the Lightning send leg has a regtest run. arkade:BTC->onchain:BTC and arkade:BTC->ethereum:<token> carry the same gate in the same position but are still covered by fakes only, as are the business events and both notifier sinks.
• A row at DB-state armed whose hold has gone un-armed is failed without retiring a still-payable invoice. In-contract to fix and tidiness-only, matching the existing "untidy, not unsafe" reasoning at receive/orchestrator.ts:719-721. Not addressed here; noted for whoever touches that path next.

Review findings, and what they were

CodeRabbit raised four; three were real defects, all fixed in bb80a00. Worth listing because two are the same shape as the asset-store wiring above — a mechanism built and never driven, invisible at run time.

• The balance sampler was never driven. sample() was called from nowhere, so current() stayed null and every event would have reported "balances: unread" and "n/a" in production. The unit test missed it by calling sample() itself. The watch loop now drives it on its own cadence, gated so an unconfigured deployment still never pays the ~951ms read, and a source test pins both halves.
• No request deadline. Node's fetch has no default timeout, so a hung Telegram or Slack request never settled: the drain stopped, flush() never resolved, and every later message was dropped against a queue that could not empty — neither the bounded queue nor the bounded retries were reached. Every request now carries AbortSignal.timeout.
• Committed sats under-reported. The sample reused totalCommitted, which reads the four BTC stores only, so a token-serving deployment announced a figure missing its EVM exposure. It now reads the full corridor reader set.
• A vacuous test. vi.waitFor(() => expect(posted).toEqual([])) returns at t=0 because the assertion is already true, so it would have passed even had the reporter posted. It now drains the microtask queue first, and a sibling test proves the drain is real by mutating the classifier.

Merge note

packages/solver-app/src/config.ts and packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts will need reconciling with #81, which is already open and touches both.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable human approval for large swap payouts, with pending approvals visible to operators and an approve-swap action.
  • Added optional Telegram and Slack notifications for swap outcomes and balance updates.
  • Added resilient notification delivery with retries and non-blocking processing.
  • Added business-event reporting for fulfilled and failed swaps.
• Bug Fixes
  • Held, unapproved swaps now refuse at expiry and refund the client lockup.
• Documentation
  • Documented approval and notification environment variables, including credential handling and optional behavior.

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Walkthrough

The change adds configurable large-swap approval gates, persistent approval records, an admin approval action, transition-based business events, balance reporting, and asynchronous Telegram or Slack notifications.

Changes

Approval configuration and administration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and approval administration .env.sample, README.md, packages/solver-app/src/config.ts, packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts, packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/actions.ts, packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts, test/admin/*, test/config.test.ts, test/packaging/appInjection.test.ts	The application reads an optional approval threshold and notification credentials. AdminStore persists approval requests and notifier state. The admin API exposes pending approvals and the armed approve-swap action. Tests cover validation, persistence, idempotency, and route behavior.

Approval execution

Layer / File(s)

Summary

Approval evaluation and send gating packages/solver-core/src/core/approvalGate.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/approvals.ts, packages/solver-corridors/src/send/orchestrator.ts, packages/solver-corridors/src/send/onchainOrchestrator.ts, packages/solver-corridors-evm/src/send/evmOrchestrator.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts, test/core/approvalGate.test.ts, test/ops/approvals.test.ts, test/send/*, test/e2e/sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts

Approval checks hold swaps at or above the configured threshold. Lightning, onchain, and EVM send paths wait before payment or funding, recheck held swaps, and allow deadline refusal or later approval.

Business notifications

Layer / File(s)

Summary

Business events and notification delivery packages/solver-core/src/core/businessEvent.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/businessEvents.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/notify.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/notifySinks.ts, packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts, packages/solver-app/src/cli.ts, packages/solver-corridors/src/db/*, packages/solver-corridors-evm/src/db/*, test/core/businessEvent.test.ts, test/db/transitionHook.test.ts, test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts, test/ops/notify*.test.ts, test/admin/notifyState.test.ts

Swap stores emit transition hooks after successful state changes. Reporters classify terminal outcomes and include balance data. The notifier queues messages, retries delivery, tracks statistics, and sends through configured Telegram and Slack sinks without exposing credentials.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 72660

Expired swaps can remain falsely actionable and accept meaningless approvals, while shutdown can drop pending operator notifications. These should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

Large-swap approval flow

sequenceDiagram
  participant SendService
  participant ApprovalGate
  participant AdminStore
  participant Operator
  participant PaymentBackend
  SendService->>ApprovalGate: check swap amount
  ApprovalGate->>AdminStore: read approval state
  AdminStore-->>ApprovalGate: hold or approve
  ApprovalGate->>AdminStore: record pending request
  Operator->>AdminStore: approve swap
  SendService->>PaymentBackend: pay or fund approved swap

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Business event notification flow

sequenceDiagram
  participant SwapStore
  participant OutcomeReporter
  participant BalanceSampler
  participant Notifier
  participant NotificationSink
  SwapStore->>OutcomeReporter: emit terminal transition
  OutcomeReporter->>BalanceSampler: read balance sample
  OutcomeReporter->>Notifier: post formatted event
  Notifier->>NotificationSink: deliver with retries

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In `@packages/solver-app/src/ops/notifySinks.ts`:
- Around line 11-15: Add a per-request deadline in the jsonPost request options
using AbortSignal.timeout, while preserving the existing POST method, JSON
content type, and serialized body. Ensure each sink fetch receives the abort
signal so pending Telegram or Slack requests terminate within the timeout.

In `@packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts`:
- Line 398: Update the balance sampling flow around readCommittedSats and
totalCommitted to include EVM commitments by hoisting a single all-corridor
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- Around line 396-401: Start periodic balance sampling during service startup by
invoking the sampler’s sample method on a timer, and store the timer handle for
cleanup. Update services.close() to clear that timer, preserving existing
shutdown behavior and ensuring outcome reports receive current balance readings.

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• .env.sample
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• packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/actions.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/config.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/approvals.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/businessEvents.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/notify.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/notifySinks.ts
• packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts
• packages/solver-core/src/core/approvalGate.ts
• packages/solver-core/src/core/businessEvent.ts
• packages/solver-corridors-evm/src/db/evmReceiveSwaps.ts
• packages/solver-corridors-evm/src/db/evmSendSwaps.ts
• packages/solver-corridors-evm/src/send/evmOrchestrator.ts
• packages/solver-corridors/src/db/assetRfqSwaps.ts
• packages/solver-corridors/src/db/baseSwapStore.ts
• packages/solver-corridors/src/db/offerFills.ts
• packages/solver-corridors/src/send/onchainOrchestrator.ts
• packages/solver-corridors/src/send/orchestrator.ts
• test/admin/approveSwapAction.test.ts
• test/admin/assets.test.ts
• test/admin/notifyState.test.ts
• test/admin/restartPending.test.ts
• test/admin/routes.test.ts
• test/admin/servedBy.test.ts
• test/admin/swapApprovals.test.ts
• test/config.test.ts
• test/core/approvalGate.test.ts
• test/core/businessEvent.test.ts
• test/db/transitionHook.test.ts
• test/ops/approvals.test.ts
• test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts
• test/ops/notify.test.ts
• test/ops/notifySecrets.test.ts
• test/ops/notifySinks.test.ts
• test/packaging/appInjection.test.ts
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Start periodic balance sampling.

createBalanceSampler updates its reading only when sample() runs. No caller invokes it, so outcome reports always emit balances: unread. Create the timer during service startup and clear it in services.close().

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In `@packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts` around lines 396 - 401, Start
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Three commits since your last pass (which was pinned to c272f64). All four of your findings are addressed in bb80a00 — the undriven sampler, the missing request deadline, the BTC-only committed figure, and the vacuous vi.waitFor assertion. The sampler one was the most valuable: it would have shipped reporting "unread / n/a" forever.

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Arkana review — PR #82

Overall shape is sound. The two coupled features — approval gate and business-event notifications — are well-isolated, the opt-in plumbing is structural rather than conditional, and the fail-closed invariant is correctly ordered on all three send legs. No protocol-critical findings (this PR does not touch VTXO handling, signing, forfeit logic, or round/exit flows). Four issues below, descending severity.

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1. Stale pending approvals in the overview — medium

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:368 / packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts:228

listPendingApprovals selects on approved_at IS NULL with no filter on whether the swap is still live. When a held swap refuses itself at its own deadline (the intended fail-closed path) the admin_swap_approval row is never touched, so pendingApprovals in /api/overview keeps showing it indefinitely. An operator watching the dashboard after a busy period will see a growing list of entries that are no longer actionable, with no indication that the swap has already self-refused.

The requestedAt field helps gauge age, but the comment at status.ts:228 says "requestedAt is the remaining window" — that is misleading: requestedAt is when the hold was registered, not when the swap's covenant expires. The remaining window requires looking up the swap row separately.

Options: (a) add a resolved_at column updated by the transition hook when a held swap reaches a terminal state; (b) join against the swap tables on swap_id and filter out terminal rows; (c) cap listPendingApprovals to rows younger than MAX_SWAP_SATS's upper deadline. Any of these would stop the stale-entry accumulation and let the comment on requestedAt become accurate.

No test currently pins that a self-refused swap disappears from the pending list.

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2. approveSwap succeeds on re-approval — low

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:333

UPDATE admin_swap_approval SET approved_at = ? WHERE swap_id = ?

This lacks AND approved_at IS NULL. If an operator calls approve-swap on a swap that has already been approved (e.g. a retry after a network hiccup), the UPDATE still modifies the row (overwriting approved_at) and result.changes === 1, so the action handler returns { approved: id } and reports success. This is harmless from a gate-safety perspective (the swap is already approved and the gate will let it through), but it means the action silently accepts re-approval instead of saying "already approved". Given that the PR is careful about refusing approval of IDs the gate never held, the same care would be consistent here.

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3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — low

packages/solver-corridors/src/send/orchestrator.ts:946–961 vs gate at :994

The funded → claiming collect path (when the solver is collecting a preimage for a coupled receive leg) returns early before askApproval is reached, so it is not gated by construction. The PR correctly identifies this and pins the analogous recovery paths for whenPaying (LN, test/send/approvalGate.test.ts:168) and whenFundingOnchain (onchain, test/send/onchainOrchestrator.test.ts:1450). There is no equivalent pin for the collect path in the LN orchestrator. The structural protection is sound, but a future refactor that moves the early-return below the gate call would be silently wrong — exactly the kind of invisible regression the other two pins guard against.

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4. Notification drain: narrow message-delay window — low / informational

packages/solver-app/src/ops/notify.ts:66–75

drain() sets draining = null at the end of the function body (after the while exits), and schedule() guards on draining !== null. A post() call that arrives after the while condition evaluates false but before draining = null is executed will find draining !== null, skip scheduling, and leave the new message in the queue until the next post(). In a quiet deployment the approval-held notification could be delayed until the next swap event. This is not a safety issue (the pending approval is also visible in /api/overview), but an operator who relies solely on Telegram/Slack in a low-traffic window could miss the notification window. A straightforward fix is to reschedule at the end of drain() if the queue is non-empty before clearing draining.

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Positive observations

Gate placement and ordering: All three legs place askApproval after the economic evaluation (evaluateSendPayment, evaluateOnchainSendFunding, planEvmSend) and before the state CAS. The evaluation's own deadline check is therefore the fail-closed mechanism for held swaps — no separate timer needed, no new code path to keep correct.

EVM single-arm coverage: The EVM gate sits on the case 'lock_evm' arm rather than on either of the two planner states that produce it (quoted at evmSendPlan.ts:142, funded at :146). Both paths converge at the arm, so a per-branch gate would leave a bypass — the PR identified and closed this.

Credential handling: notifySinks.ts drops the upstream cause on transport errors rather than chaining it, which prevents the Telegram URL or Slack webhook from appearing in logs or error bodies. test/ops/notifySecrets.test.ts pins both the settings allow-list exclusion and the absence of credential fields on the sink objects.

queueMicrotask deferral: The fix for the async-is-not-deferred trap (both createSwapOutcomeReporter and the notifier's schedule) is correct and pinned by tests that would fail if the queueMicrotask were removed.

Wiring pin: test/db/transitionHook.test.ts reads the services.ts source file and asserts all eight stores appear in announceOutcomes(...) calls. This is exactly the right shape for catching a silent no-wiring regression.

No APPROVAL_THRESHOLD_SATS in the override allow-list: applyOverrides only handles MAX_EXPOSED_SATS, LOCKUP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, and per-corridor settings. The threshold cannot be raised via the admin API without a restart. Correct.

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Cross-repo impact

approvalGate? and onTransition? are both optional fields on their respective deps/store types, so existing consumers that construct these types without the new fields are unaffected. The ts-sdk/packages/swap/src/store.ts consumer visible in the clone does not appear to depend on the solver's internal store types.

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Merge note from PR body: reconciliation with #81 on config.ts and ops/services.ts will need attention before merge.

[Kukks]

Thanks — went through all four against the code at bb80a00 rather than taking them as read. Two hold, one is a real issue whose suggested fix would make things worse, and one I think is wrong. Detail below.

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3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — agreed, fixed in e5d5f2c

Confirmed: send/orchestrator.ts:945-956 returns before the gate at :994. Correct by construction, but the only thing holding it was the ordering of two statements, while the analogous exclusions for whenPaying and whenFundingOnchain are both pinned.

Added does NOT gate the collect path for a coupled receive to test/send/approvalGate.test.ts. Mutation-checked: moving askApproval above the collect branch turns it red — alongside the existing lapsed-hold pin, which is what confirms the mutation was real rather than inert.

One wrinkle worth recording: the coupled row has to be null through quote and only appear afterwards. The quote-time coupling gate is a different check and refuses the fixture as duplicate_swap long before whenFunded is reached.

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4. Notification drain race — I do not think this one exists

The claim is that a post() arriving "after the while condition evaluates false but before draining = null is executed" will skip scheduling.

There is no await point between those two statements:

const drain = async () => {
  while (queue.length > 0) {
    ...
    await Promise.all(sinks.map(...))   // every await is INSIDE the loop body
  }
  draining = null                       // synchronous continuation of the failed check
}

After the last iteration's await resolves, the loop condition is re-checked and draining = null runs in the same synchronous continuation. JS is single-threaded, so no post() can interleave there. A post() during an await inside the body is picked up by the next iteration; one after draining = null finds it null and schedules normally.

Happy to be shown wrong if you had a concrete interleaving in mind, but I could not construct one and I would rather say so than add a defensive reschedule that reads as fixing a bug that is not there.

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2. approveSwap succeeds on re-approval — real, but not the fix as written; not changed here

Confirmed at admin/db.ts:333: the UPDATE has no AND approved_at IS NULL.

Adding that clause alone would make it worse, not better. approveSwap returning false makes the handler throw no swap is being held for approval under id ... check the id against the pending list (admin/routes/actions.ts:443). An operator retrying after a lost response — which is the exact scenario cited — would then be told the approval never took, when in fact it did, and would go hunting for a bug. That is the same shape of error as the one CodeRabbit caught on #94: treating an ambiguous retry as a definite failure.

The real defect underneath is narrower: the re-approval overwrites approved_at, silently losing the original approval time. The shape that fixes it without the misleading error is

const result = await this.driver.run(
  'UPDATE admin_swap_approval SET approved_at = ? WHERE swap_id = ? AND approved_at IS NULL', ...)
return result.changes === 1 || (await this.isSwapApproved(swapId))

which keeps the first timestamp, still answers true on a retry, and still answers false for an id the gate never held.

I have not applied it, deliberately. Nothing currently reads approved_at as a value — listPendingApprovals and isSwapApproved both only test it for null — so the improvement is unobservable through the store's public surface today, and the only test I could write for it would pass equally with the change reverted. A decorative test on a money path is worse than no change. It is a one-liner whenever a reader for that timestamp exists, or if you would rather take it on the audit argument alone.

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1. Stale pending approvals — confirmed, and I think it is your call, not a drive-by

Confirmed at admin/db.ts:368: WHERE approved_at IS NULL with no liveness filter, so a swap that self-refuses at its own deadline stays in pendingApprovals forever. The comment at status.ts:228 calling requestedAt "the remaining window" is misleading in the way you describe.

All three of your options are structural — a new resolved_at column driven by the transition hook, or a cross-store join on swap_id. Either changes the admin schema or couples the admin store to the corridor stores, and picking between them is a design decision on someone else's feature PR. Flagging it for @Kukks rather than choosing.

(Option (c) as written does not parse — MAX_SWAP_SATS is an amount, not a deadline. I assume you meant the corridor's lockup timeout.)

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Gate

Run directly and whole-suite in a worktree (pnpm --filter="...[HEAD]" selects zero projects there):

gate	baseline bb80a00	now e5d5f2c
pnpm test	252 files / 4302 tests / 0 failing	252 / 4303 / 0 failing
pnpm typecheck	exit 0	exit 0
pnpm format:check	exit 0	exit 0

+1 test, no new file — reconciles with the single pin added.

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (c272f64 → bb80a00)

2 commits reviewed (d42a065, bb80a00). 3 of 4 prior issues resolved; 1 still open by explicit deferral. No new blocking findings.

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Prior issues — close-the-loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open

No change to listPendingApprovals (admin/db.ts:368) or the approval row lifecycle. A self-refused swap never updates its admin_swap_approval row, so pendingApprovals in /api/overview grows indefinitely with stale entries. The misleading requestedAt comment at status.ts:228 is also unchanged. @Kukks' response correctly identifies this as a design decision (new column vs. join vs. TTL) and explicitly defers it. Flagging so it doesn't read as silently dropped: this is a known medium-severity UX issue the team has chosen to carry past this PR.

2. approveSwap re-approval silently overwrites timestamp — Still open by intentional deferral

admin/db.ts:333 UPDATE still has no AND approved_at IS NULL. @Kukks' response gives the correct rationale: the naive fix alone makes retries misleading, and the two-step fix (IS NULL guard + isSwapApproved fallback) is only worth landing when approved_at has a reader. Accepted.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed

Commit e5d5f2c (test(send): pin that the collect path is not behind the approval gate) — pushed 1 commit past this review's trigger point (bb80a00) but present in the branch now. test/send/approvalGate.test.ts gains the missing pin, mutation-verified alongside the existing lapsed-hold pin. The structural protection at orchestrator.ts:945-956 was always correct; the test locks the ordering.

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable

@Kukks correctly showed there is no await point between the while condition failing and draining = null. JS single-thread means no post() can interleave there. The analysis was wrong.

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New findings in d42a065 + bb80a00

A. allReaders null fallback is silently wrong — low

services.ts (near the readCommittedSats lambda):

readCommittedSats: async () => (allReaders === null ? totalCommitted() : committedAcrossCorridors(allReaders)),

totalCommitted() tallies only the LN/onchain swap tables — it misses asset RFQ and offer-fill committed balances. If balances.sample() were ever called before allReaders = readerSetFromDeps(...) runs (the assignment at the bottom of createServices), the balance would be silently under-reported with no log, no error, and no observable signal. Today this can't happen: sampleBalances is not on Services until after the assignment, and the daemon is the only caller. The wiring-pin test also prevents the daemon from losing the guard. The risk is a future refactor that samples during construction.

The current code is safe. A defensive if (allReaders === null) throw new Error('balance sampler called before corridor registration') in the callback would make the failure noisy rather than silent if the invariant is ever broken. Not blocking; noting for the record.

B. settle() microtask drain is count-fixed — informational

test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts:38:

for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) await Promise.resolve()

Five rounds is generous for a single queueMicrotask level. The companion "catches a post that should not have happened" test (test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts:52) confirms the helper actually exercises the deferred path, which is the right mitigation for a count-fixed drain. If the chain depth ever grows past 5 the "says NOTHING" test could pass vacuously, but the companion test would break first. Acceptable.

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New changes — assessment

d42a065 (wire asset stores + pin wiring):

• OfferFillStore and AssetRfqSwapStore each get announceOutcomes in services.ts. Both are guarded by if (store) matching the conditional-open pattern for the other corridors. Correct.
• OFFER_FILL_NON_TERMINAL / ASSET_RFQ_NON_TERMINAL / ASSET_RFQ_EXPOSED imported from their respective stores and forwarded — no hardcoded state lists in services. Right approach.
• test/db/transitionHook.test.ts gets two new direct-fire suites (one per asset store) and the wiring-pin suite that reads services.ts source and checks all 8 stores are named in announceOutcomes(...) calls. That source-read pattern is exactly the right shape for catching a silent no-wiring regression.

bb80a00 (drive balance sampler + bound requests):

• AbortSignal.timeout(REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000) on every jsonPost — fixes the hung-request wedge that would stall the drain loop and silently drop all later messages. The export lets tests import the constant; the test/ops/notifySinks.test.ts pin verifies an AbortSignal is present on both sinks and that a timeout error doesn't leak the endpoint URL.
• sampleBalances?: () => Promise<void> on Services, gated on notifySinks.length > 0. A deployment that configures no sinks pays zero cost; a configured one gets the 60-second cadence from cli.ts. Both are pinned by the source-read tests in test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts.
• allReaders deferred assignment: safe given construction order (assigned before return, sampleBalances never called before return). Comment explains the intent clearly.

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Cross-repo impact

sampleBalances? is an optional addition to the Services interface. No public protocol types changed. No cross-repo consumer of the solver's internal Services type found in the other clones.

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Overall

The two commits address the substantive gaps from the first pass: the asset store wiring that was silently absent and the balance sampler that was constructed but never driven. The hung-request timeout is a correct and testable fix for the class of problem raised in finding 4. Issue 1 (stale approvals) remains open by design decision; issue 3's pin landed in e5d5f2c after the trigger point. No new blocking issues in the incremental diff.

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (bb80a00 → e5d5f2c)

1 commit, 1 file (+40/-2). Finding 3 from my first pass is now fixed; 2 issues remain open by explicit deferral; no new findings in this increment.

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Prior issues — close the loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:368 / packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts:228

No change in this commit. listPendingApprovals still selects on approved_at IS NULL with no liveness filter. Self-refused swaps accumulate indefinitely. The misleading requestedAt comment is unchanged. Carried forward as a known medium-severity UX issue by team decision.

2. approveSwap re-approval overwrites timestamp — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:333 — UPDATE still has no AND approved_at IS NULL. The correct two-step fix was sketched in the prior exchange; awaiting a approved_at reader before it is worth landing. Unchanged here.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed in e5d5f2c

test/send/approvalGate.test.ts gains the pin. Verified:

• CoupledReceiveRow and SendServiceDeps imported correctly.
• serviceWith accepts an optional coupling dep; all existing tests pass it as undefined and are unaffected.
• The fixture correctly threads coupled = null through the quote tick (avoiding the duplicate_swap refusal at quote time, which is a different gate) and only sets the live coupled row after the funded transition, when whenFunded is the active branch.
• Assertions are right: asked must stay empty (gate not consulted) and payCalls must be zero (collect path reads a preimage, it doesn't pay).
• The structural protection at orchestrator.ts:943–956 returns before askApproval at :994; the test locks that ordering — moving the early return below the gate call would set asked.length > 0 and break the assertion.
• @Kukks confirmed mutation-verification: the test turns red if askApproval is moved above the collect branch. That is the right shape for a pin on an invisible-at-runtime invariant.

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable

Withdrawn in the previous pass; no change here.

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New findings from second-pass (bb80a00) findings — status

A. allReaders null fallback silently wrong (services.ts) — No change in this commit. Still low severity, still safe by construction order. No action needed before merge; defensive-throw suggestion stands if the team wants it.

B. settle() microtask count-fixed drain (test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts:38) — Informational. No change; acceptable as noted.

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Incremental diff assessment

The single commit is exactly scoped to what was requested. No test-only changes carry hidden behaviour risk here — the orchestrator code under test is unchanged, and serviceWith's new optional parameter has a default of undefined, so no existing test semantics change. The comment in the test correctly explains the architectural invariant being protected and why a structural guard alone is insufficient.

Nothing blocking. The two deferred issues (stale approvals, re-approval timestamp) are tracked above for the merge record.

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (e5d5f2c → 27f239d)

Head is a merge of main into feat/notify-approval. No feature code changed since e5d5f2c. 0 of 2 remaining open issues resolved; 0 new blocking findings.

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Prior issues — close the loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts is not in the incremental diff. listPendingApprovals still selects on approved_at IS NULL with no liveness filter; self-refused swaps accumulate indefinitely. The misleading requestedAt comment at status.ts:228 is unchanged. Carried forward as a known medium-severity UX issue by team decision.

2. approveSwap re-approval silently overwrites timestamp — Still open (deferred by design)

admin/db.ts:333 UPDATE still has no AND approved_at IS NULL. No change here; the two-step fix is awaiting a reader for approved_at. Unchanged and accepted per prior exchange.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed in e5d5f2c (confirmed in prior pass)

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable (withdrawn in prior pass)

Prior second-pass findings

A. allReaders null fallback silently wrong (services.ts) — services.ts is not in this incremental diff. Still low, still safe by construction. No action needed before merge.

B. settle() microtask count-fixed drain — Informational; no change; still acceptable.

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Incremental diff — new content from merge of main

The 27 commits merged in cover: Sentry crash reporting (d23c44d), receive-side double-funding exclusivity (be8ac75), LND read deadlines (65c546a), send orchestrator stuck-row diagnostics (cf23d32), onchain evidence classification (249ead5), and assorted CI/E2E plumbing.

None of these commits touch the approval gate, the admin approval store, the notifier, or the business-event emitters. The feature code is structurally identical to what was reviewed at e5d5f2c.

Gate integrity check

send/orchestrator.ts changes in this merge are confined to stuckBecause and the settleTerminalFailure signature. The gate at ~line 994 (askApproval before the paying CAS) is not touched. Same for onchainOrchestrator.ts (gate before funding_onchain CAS) and the EVM orchestrator. Placement and ordering are intact.

Receive-side double-funding fix — assessment

packages/solver-corridors/src/receive/onchainOrchestrator.ts:637-644 changed from "always release the fund lease on any error" to "only release on FundNotSubmittedError". The previous behaviour was the unsafe one: a lost-response throw would release the lease and allow a second worker to fund the same lockup. The fix is correct — retain the lease when the outcome is ambiguous, release only when the call provably submitted nothing. Both corridors (LN and onchain) are now consistent, both have tests pinning the retain-vs-release distinction, and the test for the onchain path (test/receive/onchainOrchestrator.test.ts:787-834) exercises the ambiguous-fail and the FundNotSubmittedError cases. No issue; noting for the merge record.

Sentry module — relevant to this feature

packages/solver-app/src/ops/sentry.ts (356 lines, new). The onError handler in cli.ts that fires on approval-gate and notifier faults now calls reporter?.report(context, error). A few observations:

• Credential scrubbing for notification URLs: scrubText applies URL_CREDENTIALS (catches scheme://user:pass@host) and LONG_BLOB (80+ contiguous base64/hex). Slack webhook URLs (https://hooks.slack.com/services/T.../B.../xxxx) carry the credential as a path segment, not in the authority: neither filter reliably catches them. The primary defence is in notifySinks.ts (drops the upstream cause before the error ever propagates), so Sentry's scrubber is belt-and-suspenders here. The notifier's drain() loop swallows sink transport errors internally and never propagates them to onError, so the Telegram/Slack URLs should not reach Sentry in practice. Low severity; noting for awareness.

• relativeFile fallback: sentry.ts:relativeFile takes only the basename when neither /packages/ nor /node_modules/ is in the path. No path traversal concern; just means a file at an unusual location sends only its filename. Not a security issue.

• Rate limiting and dedup: 10/minute window + 60-second per-signature dedup. Correct; prevents Sentry from becoming a DoS channel or a write amplifier during a runaway error loop.

• scrubText ordering: mnemonics first, then URL credentials, then key=value, then long blobs. The ordering comment ("BARE_SECRET stops at whitespace, so on mnemonic=<12 words> it ate one word and left 11 — under the threshold") is correct; the pipeline is safe.

• Stack frames: framesFrom emits only filename/lineno/colno/function-name — no locals, no source context, no abs_path. relativeFile strips the operator's home directory. Scoped correctly.

• Flush in all exit paths: reporter?.flush() is awaited in both the panic handler and the main().catch. Correct.

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No new blocking issues. Two deferred issues remain tracked above. The merge of main did not regress the feature, the gate placements are confirmed intact, and the new receive-side funding exclusivity is a correct protocol improvement. The Sentry module is well-scoped and tested; the one minor gap (Slack URL scrubbing) is defended at the source.

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Your last pass was pinned to c272f64, and the re-trigger after it came back "Action not completed — Review rate limited" inside a collapsed block while the check itself reported success, so nothing has actually reviewed since. There are new commits.

Since then, 726608b adds the coverage the gate never had. The gate shipped with all seven e2e legs green and none of them touching it — approvalGateFor returns undefined when APPROVAL_THRESHOLD_SATS is unset, and the generated .env.ci-e2e never sets it, so its first real execution would have been in production on a large swap.

Two things worth a look specifically:

• test/e2e/sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts sets the threshold per service rather than in the shared env, because a threshold in .env.ci-e2e would gate the swaps the other six groups expect to complete. It joins the existing send-lightning group, so no eighth required context.
• test/ops/approvals.test.ts pins the three approvalGate: gateFor(...) call sites in services.ts. Nothing asserted those before: deleting the Lightning one left 4465 of 4466 tests green, because the e2e builds its own service and by construction cannot see what createServices wires.

Mutation-checked on a real stack rather than argued: deleting askApproval(...) at send/orchestrator.ts:1006 on a throwaway branch and dispatching groups=send-lightning gave 1 failed / 16 passed — only the above-threshold test, failing with reached claimed instead of being held, i.e. the swap paid out. Branch deleted; full detail in the description.

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I found no new issue in commit 726608b.

The E2E test is assigned to send-lightning. It sets the threshold only on its constructed SendSwapService. Therefore, it does not gate swaps in the other E2E groups.

The test verifies both threshold boundaries. At the threshold, the invoice remains unpaid until approveSwap. One sat below the threshold, the swap completes without an approval record or hold notification.

The source-level assertions in test/ops/approvals.test.ts cover the three shipped send-service wiring sites. The production code supplies gates to the Lightning send, onchain send, and EVM send services. Each orchestrator still calls askApproval(...) before its irreversible send-side transition.

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224-228: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Clear approval records when their swap becomes terminal

The approval gate records a pending row, but expiry can refuse the swap without clearing that row. The reachable approve-swap action then marks any existing row approved and returns { approved: id }, even when the terminal swap cannot move. Clear the approval row during the terminal transition so stale approvals cannot succeed.

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In `@packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts` around lines 224 - 228,
Update the terminal swap transition to clear its corresponding approval record
when expiry refuses the swap. Ensure the reachable approve-swap action cannot
approve a stale row or return success after the swap is terminal, while
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In `@packages/solver-app/src/ops/services.ts`:
- Line 397: Update Services.close() to make notifier flushing the first shutdown
step by adding the notifier close action that calls notifier.flush(). Preserve
the existing subsequent resource teardown order so queued terminal and approval
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In `@packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts`:
- Around line 224-228: Update the terminal swap transition to clear its
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[Kukks]

@coderabbitai Both findings verified against the code at 726608b. One taken, one deliberately not — reasoning for each.

Taken: the notifier flush. You were right, and it matters more than "minor" on this PR specifically: APPROVAL NEEDED is the only signal a held swap gives, so dropping it at exit is the approval gate failing at the thing it exists to do. Services.close() now flushes the notifier first, before any resource teardown, and the ordering is pinned by a test rather than left to convention. It is bounded in both directions — each request carries AbortSignal.timeout (notifySinks.ts:20) and retries are capped (notify.ts:51) — so it cannot hang the shutdown it precedes. Nothing pinned this before: removing the step turns exactly two tests red and leaves 4518 green.

Not taken: clearing approval records on terminal transitions. The finding is real but it is a legibility defect, not a money one, and the diagnosis in the report overstates the consequence. A stale row cannot cause a spend: the orchestrator only consults the gate from the non-terminal state, and the compare-and-swap out of funded fails for a row that is already terminal — so approving a stale id returns { approved: id } and then nothing happens. The cost is an operator seeing a pending approval for a swap that has already refused, which is misleading rather than dangerous.

Against that, clearing the row correctly means touching the terminal transition in eight stores — your own tag on it is "Heavy lift" — on a PR that is already carrying the gate plus its asset generalisation. Doing it here would put a cross-cutting change to every store's terminal path in the same diff as the money gate, which is the wrong trade. Recorded as a follow-up rather than dropped.

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@Kukks Thanks for the detailed validation.

The notifier flush is the correct fix for the approval notification path. Flushing before resource teardown preserves queued APPROVAL NEEDED notifications during shutdown. The timeout and retry bounds make that ordering safe for shutdown.

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Your analysis of stale approval records is correct. The current Lightning send path checks approval before the funded to paying compare-and-swap. A later approval does not move a terminal row back into a payout state. The remaining issue is stale data in pendingApprovals, not an unauthorized payout.

Deferring cleanup avoids a broad terminal-transition change in this PR. Would you like me to open a GitHub follow-up issue for stale approval records and inaccurate pending-approval visibility?

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (27f239d → 726608b)

1 commit, 3 files (+233/-4), all test-only. 0 of 2 remaining open issues resolved (both deferred by design). No new blocking findings. This commit closes the last substantive gap from my earlier passes.

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Prior issues — close the loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:368 / packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts:228

No change. listPendingApprovals still selects on approved_at IS NULL with no liveness filter; self-refused swaps accumulate indefinitely. The misleading requestedAt comment is unchanged. Carried as a known medium-severity UX issue per team decision.

2. approveSwap re-approval overwrites timestamp — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:333 — UPDATE still lacks AND approved_at IS NULL. The two-step fix is awaiting a reader for approved_at. Unchanged and accepted per prior exchange.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed in e5d5f2c (confirmed two passes ago)

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable (withdrawn two passes ago)

Prior second-pass findings

A. allReaders null fallback silently wrong (services.ts) — Not in this diff. Still low, still safe by construction. No action needed before merge.

B. settle() microtask count-fixed drain (test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts:38) — Informational; no change; acceptable.

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Incremental diff — assessment

Single commit 726608b: test(e2e): exercise the approval gate on a real send leg. This directly addresses what I noted in my first pass: the gate shipped with no e2e path through it. Three files changed.

test/e2e/sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts (212 lines, new)

Structure and correctness:

• Threshold straddle correctly pins >=: GATING_THRESHOLD = AMOUNT_SATS, PERMISSIVE_THRESHOLD = AMOUNT_SATS + 1. A > comparator in the gate would pass the first case and the test would still be green. Running the swap at the threshold and one below is the exact boundary test needed.

• driveUntilHeld polls the approval row, not swap state: correct call. The swap sits in funded both before the gate runs and while it is held; polling swap state would satisfy immediately before the gate ever fires. Polling listPendingApprovals() directly is the right shape.

• GiveUp on terminal detection inside the poll: correct. A plain throw would cause poll to retry the terminal case indefinitely rather than surface it.

• Attribution proof: The "hold" test does not just check the approval row. It reads the LN counterparty invoice state directly — amt_paid_sat === 0 while held, then verifies the settled amount and preimage after approveSwap. That is what makes the hold attributable to the gate rather than to an unrelated stall.

• onHeld callback assertion: tests both the persistent store (listPendingApprovals) and the in-process callback (held[]). Covers both the storage path and the notification dispatch path without needing a live Telegram/Slack sink.

• HOLD_CONFIRM_TICKS = 5: five ticks after detecting the hold, confirming the swap stays in funded and no sats move. Appropriate belt-and-suspenders for an e2e test where clock discipline is loose.

One minor test hygiene note (test/e2e/sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts):

gatedStack calls AdminStore.open(...) twice across the two test cases, but neither instance is closed in afterAll. The outer afterAll closes store, ln, and arkade, but not the two AdminStore handles. In practice each file is in tempStoreDir() and the SQLite connections are idle by the time the suite finishes, so this will not cause a test failure, but it is worth closing them. Not blocking.

test/ops/approvals.test.ts (+19)

The new describe block reads services.ts source and asserts all three corridors appear as `approvalGate: gateFor('${corridor}')`. Same pattern as the announceOutcomes wiring pin in transitionHook.test.ts. The commit message reports mutation-verification: deleting the Lightning wiring turns exactly this test red and leaves the other 4465 green. That is the right shape for a pin on something invisible at runtime — the e2e test would not catch a missing wiring because it constructs its own SendSwapService with an explicit deps object.

.github/e2e-groups.json (+2/-2)

sendLightningApproval.e2e.test.ts correctly joins the send-lightning group, which already carries the boltz profile, LND, and the ln-counterparty container the new test calls via counterpartyInvoice / counterpartyInvoiceState. The updated why comment explains isolation clearly.

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The two deferred issues remain tracked above. No new blocking issues in this increment. The e2e test is the last structural gap from my first pass; the wiring pin closes the silent-no-wiring class of regression for the gate the same way the outcome pin closed it for the notifier. This commit makes the gate's end-to-end path observable before production.

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (e5d5f2c → f3afe5e)

7 commits reviewed. 1 new medium finding; 2 prior issues still open by explicit deferral; 2 prior issues no longer applicable. Asset gate logic and EVM scan fix are structurally sound.

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Prior issues — close the loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:376 / packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts:225

No change to the liveness filter. The status.ts hunk in 857aa28f adds a bigint projection (.map(row => ({ ...row, amount: row.amount.toString() }))) to fix the JSON serialisation crash — that is a correct and necessary fix in its own right — but listPendingApprovals still queries WHERE approved_at IS NULL with no terminal-state join. Self-refused swaps continue to accumulate. Carried forward as a known medium-severity UX issue by team decision.

2. approveSwap re-approval overwrites timestamp — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:333

No change. UPDATE still has no AND approved_at IS NULL. Deferred pending a reader for approved_at.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed in e5d5f2c

Confirmed in the previous pass. Not reopened here.

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable

Withdrawn in the previous pass.

A. allReaders null fallback silently wrong — No change

services.ts near readCommittedSats. Still low/informational; still safe by construction order. No action needed before merge.

B. settle() microtask count-fixed drain — No change

test/ops/businessEvents.test.ts:38. Still informational; acceptable as noted.

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New finding — schema migration gap in admin_swap_approval — medium

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts (commit 857aa28f)

The admin_swap_approval table DDL changed from

amount_sats INTEGER NOT NULL

to

asset_id     TEXT,
amount       TEXT NOT NULL

AdminStore.open() applies the schema with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS, which silently no-ops when the table already exists. Any deployment that ran this branch before 857aa28f (i.e. after the table was first introduced, before the column rename) will have the old schema on disk. After upgrading to the current head:

• The first INSERT INTO admin_swap_approval (swap_id, corridor, asset_id, amount, …) against the old schema fails with a column-not-found error from SQLite.
• That error is caught and swallowed by the try/catch at approvals.ts:56–59, so the swap is still held — money safety is intact, fail-closed is preserved.
• But listPendingApprovals() will never return the row (INSERT never wrote it), so the operator has no way to approve the swap and it will self-refuse at its deadline, invisibly.

The population of affected deployments is limited to any staging/test instance that ran the branch at an intermediate commit, not production (the PR is not merged). Nevertheless the failure mode — silent approval invisibility — is exactly the one the gate exists to prevent, so it warrants a fix before merge.

Minimal fix: add two ALTER TABLE idempotent migration steps in AdminStore.open() immediately after await store.driver.exec(SCHEMA):

// Migration: 857aa28f replaced amount_sats INTEGER with asset_id TEXT + amount TEXT.
// SQLite ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN is safe to run on a table that already has the column
// — it will throw "duplicate column name", so wrap with a try/catch.
for (const sql of [
  'ALTER TABLE admin_swap_approval ADD COLUMN asset_id TEXT',
  'ALTER TABLE admin_swap_approval ADD COLUMN amount TEXT',
]) {
  try { await store.driver.exec(sql) } catch { /* already migrated */ }
}

Alternatively, document explicitly that upgrading from any pre-857aa28f branch deployment requires deleting or re-creating the admin database. If the team is confident no staged deployments exist with the old schema, a code comment in open() calling out the rename is still worth adding.

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Commits 5f10e635, 258da6a9: from main (EVM _ENABLED docs fix, adopt-script cadence)

No interaction with the approval or notification paths. Out of scope.

Commit 029fd941fd — EVM claim scan flooring

The fix is correct. claimScanFloor derives the floor from evm_lock_txid's mined block minus minConfirmations, falling back to 0n when the TX has not resolved — conservative in both directions. The scanLogs pagination loop terminates only at the tip (not on empty pages), which prevents the silent preimage miss on a page boundary. findRefund starts from lock.timelock (exact, since the contract reverts below it). The logScanRange positive-integer validation at construction time prevents a misconfigured scan range from silently degrading to a thrown error per tick. No issues.

Commit 7c2d71945e — CAIP-19 asset ids / registryCard

Modifies registryCard.ts and card.ts. No intersection with the approval or notification paths. Out of scope for this review.

Commit 857aa28f — asset payout gate

Gate placement is correct on both call sites:

• assetOffers.ts:338–341: after offerWithinTolerance, before transition('fillable', 'filling'). A held row stays fillable, spending nothing. ✓
• assetRfqOrchestrator.ts:368–371: after the fill decision, before transition('funded', 'filling'). decision.fill is already false past validUntil, so a held swap self-refuses at its own deadline. ✓

The bigint promotion is correct: evaluateApproval now compares bigint throughout; the old amountSats: number field is renamed amount: bigint and the BTC shim (askApproval → BigInt(amountSats)) keeps the three existing call sites untouched. The 2^70 overflow test in test/ops/approvals.test.ts pins the precision requirement.

onchain:BTC->arkade:<asset> exclusion is documented in approvals.ts and its non-gating is pinned by the source-read test (test/ops/approvals.test.ts). The wiring-pin test now covers all five gated corridors.

Schema issue documented above.

Commit f3afe5e — notifier flush + ungated asset naming

Flush ordering: ['notifier', () => notifier.flush()] is the first entry in the shutdown steps array at services.ts:1227. Correctly precedes every store close. Bounded by AbortSignal.timeout on sinks, so it cannot hang the shutdown it precedes. Source-read test pins both presence and ordering.

onUngatedAsset fires at most once per asset id per gate instance (announced set), then returns { proceed: true } via a null threshold through evaluateApproval. Correct: proceeds rather than holds, which is the right default when an operator adds their first threshold without configuring every asset they serve. Boot-time enumeration of offer-market assets with no threshold closes the structural gap where OFFER_MARKETS assets carry no symbol and cannot be named in ASSET_MARKETS.

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Cross-repo impact

No public types exported from the solver's protocol boundary changed in these commits. ApprovalCheck's signature changed (amountSats: number → { assetId, amount }: ApprovalQuantity), but it is an internal type not visible in the cross-repo SDKs. No impact on ts-sdk, go-sdk, rust-sdk, or dotnet-sdk consumers found in the repo clones.

[Kukks]

Thanks — the schema finding is real and is fixed in b015b49. One correction to the suggested patch, because I tried it before writing anything else.

The ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN pair does not fix it. Adding asset_id and amount leaves amount_sats INTEGER NOT NULL in place with no default, so an insert that omits it still fails — just with a different error:

NOT NULL constraint failed: admin_swap_approval.amount_sats

That is a real run against the old DDL, not a reading of it.

What landed instead: the table is DROPPED when it still carries amount_sats, guarded on that column being present so a correctly-shaped table is never touched. That is safe here in a way it would not normally be — recordApprovalRequest is called on every tick a swap is held and inserts ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING, so a dropped row is re-created on the next tick. The only thing lost is requested_at's age.

Two tests pin it: one opens the store over the old DDL and records an asset-sized request through it, one proves a correctly-shaped table and its rows are left alone. Removing the drop reds exactly the first and nothing else.

Your severity read was slightly conservative, for what it is worth. You noted money safety is intact and the record is lost; the sharper consequence is the one you reached in the follow-up paragraph — approveSwap needs a row to update, so the swap is not merely unrecorded but unapprovable, and holds until it self-refuses. Fail-closed, but unserviceable, which is why it was worth fixing rather than documenting.

On the two carried items — stale pending approvals and approveSwap overwriting approved_at — both confirmed still open and still deferred, for the reason given on the PR: neither can cause a spend (the CAS out of the pre-spend state blocks it), and clearing rows correctly means touching the terminal transition in eight stores, which does not belong in the same diff as the money gate.

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Arkana follow-up — PR #82 (f3afe5e → b015b49)

1 commit, 3 files (+50/-0). Fixes a real pre-release schema migration bug I surfaced in an earlier pass. 0 of the 2 remaining open issues are addressed here (both carry by explicit design decision). No new blocking findings.

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Prior issues — close the loop

1. Stale pending approvals — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:368 / packages/solver-app/src/admin/routes/status.ts:228

No change in this commit. listPendingApprovals still selects on approved_at IS NULL with no liveness filter; self-refused swaps accumulate in the pending list indefinitely. The misleading requestedAt comment is unchanged. Carried forward as a known medium-severity UX issue by team decision.

2. approveSwap re-approval overwrites timestamp — Still open (deferred by design)

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:333 — UPDATE still has no AND approved_at IS NULL. Correct two-step fix sketched in prior exchange; awaiting an approved_at reader before it is worth landing. No change here.

3. Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned — Fixed (e5d5f2c, already closed in previous pass)

4. Notification drain race — No longer applicable (withdrawn in prior pass)

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Incremental diff — b015b49

What changed: dropLegacyApprovals added to AdminStore.open(); two migration tests added; asset e2e poll gets a fast-fail.

The bug being fixed is real and was correctly identified in the PR flow: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS silently keeps a table in its original shape, so any deployment that ran this branch before the asset_id/amount TEXT columns were added would have an admin_swap_approval table with amount_sats INTEGER NOT NULL. Every subsequent recordApprovalRequest (which includes the new asset columns in its INSERT) would fail at the NOT NULL constraint. approvals.ts swallows that error by design (the gate holds even without a DB row), but approveSwap needs the row — so held swaps became permanently unapprovable and self-refused at their deadline invisibly. Fail-closed, but the exact failure the gate's notification path exists to prevent.

The fix (dropLegacyApprovals):

• pragma_table_info('admin_swap_approval') returns zero rows if the table does not exist, so some(col => col.name === 'amount_sats') is false on a fresh database — no drop, SCHEMA creates the table correctly. ✓
• Old-schema table (has amount_sats): dropped unconditionally, then SCHEMA creates the new shape. ✓
• New-schema table (no amount_sats): some() returns false, table and its rows survive. ✓
• No transaction wraps the drop + SCHEMA exec: if the process crashes between them the next open finds no table, pragma_table_info returns empty, some() returns false, SCHEMA creates fresh. ✓ (acceptable for pre-release; a production migration would warrant ALTER.)
• Data loss is acknowledged and sound: the gate re-calls recordApprovalRequest on every tick (insert is ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING), so the dropped row is re-created on the next tick; only requested_at's age resets. ✓

Tests cover the two critical cases:

• Old schema → open → records asset-sized request through the new schema. Removing the drop turns this red (verified per commit message).
• New schema → re-open → existing rows survive. ✓

E2e fast-fail (assetRfqCorridor.e2e.test.ts): GiveUp on state !== 'funded' during the hold poll is correct — if the swap has already transitioned out of funded the gate did not hold it (or it was approved and moved on), so the poll's purpose is gone. The GiveUp propagates immediately rather than exhausting the 19s budget. ✓

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Overall

The single commit is well-scoped and correct. The migration is the right approach for a pre-release schema — a DROP is simpler and more reliable than ALTER given the NOT NULL column constraint. The two deferred issues (stale approvals, re-approval timestamp) are tracked above for the merge record. Nothing blocking.

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Catchup pass — 1 commit since b015b49b, 2 files, 23 lines. Prior issues: 1 fixed, 1 no longer applicable, 2 still open (unchanged).

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Prior-issue close-out

Issue 1 — Stale pending approvals (admin/db.ts:368 / status.ts:228): Still open. Nothing in this incremental touches listPendingApprovals or the approved_at IS NULL filter. Kukks acknowledged it and tagged it as a design-decision call. That is a reasonable position; noting it remains for whoever makes the merge call.

Issue 2 — approveSwap succeeds on re-approval (admin/db.ts:333): Still open. The AND approved_at IS NULL guard was not added, which is intentional per Kukks' rebuttal — the proposed fix would mislead an operator retrying after a lost response. The alternative formulation (preserve first timestamp, still answer true on retry) was noted but not applied because there is currently no reader for approved_at as a value. Low severity; documented.

Issue 3 — Collect-path gate exclusion not pinned: Fixed. Kukks added does NOT gate the collect path for a coupled receive to test/send/approvalGate.test.ts in e5d5f2c per the reply. Mutation-checked per that comment.

Issue 4 — Notification drain race: No longer applicable. My analysis was wrong. Kukks' rebuttal is correct: there is no await point between the while condition evaluating false and draining = null, so no post() can interleave there. Single-threaded JS prevents the interleaving I described.

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Incremental diff — 7341c26384

packages/solver-app/src/admin/db.ts:189–201 — dropLegacyApprovals pragma guard

The fix is structurally correct for the stated case. pragma_table_info is not available on every SqlDriver implementation (D1 being the named example), and previously that caused a boot failure before SCHEMA was even executed.

One property worth recording: the catch block is bare — it swallows all errors from the pragma, not just "not supported". For a standard better-sqlite3 driver the pragma never throws transiently, so this is fine in practice. For a hypothetical driver that supports DROP TABLE but not pragma_table_info AND already holds the old amount_sats NOT NULL table, the early return would leave the broken table in place and the CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS in SCHEMA would silently succeed without replacing it — subsequent recordApprovalRequest calls would then fail with a NOT NULL constraint on the missing amount_sats column. That combination cannot exist on D1 (D1 was newly targeted; no old table can pre-exist), so the risk is theoretical rather than actual. Informational; no action required.

test/admin/swapApprovals.test.ts:123–135 — new test

Test is correctly shaped: wraps all to throw on any pragma_table_info SQL, verifies AdminStore.open succeeds and listPendingApprovals returns empty. It covers exactly the failure path the fix addresses.

One gap: there is no test for the d1Driver path where the old table already exists on the driver. As noted above that combination is impossible on D1, so the gap is structural not practical.

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Overall

The incremental is a narrow, targeted boot-guard with a matching test. No new protocol, signing, or VTXO paths are touched. The two outstanding issues (#1, #2) are acknowledged and their disposition documented. No blocking findings in this pass.