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DRAFT — DO NOT MERGE. Gate round in progress.

Closes #392

The defect, measured

Two rival resolvers of "the per-user base directory" live in one dig-node process and disagree
the moment someone overrides LOCALAPPDATA — which is exactly when someone is trying to isolate a
wallet run:

resolver reads owns
dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> . DigWallet/seed.bin, wallet.meta.json, DigNode/device/device.key
dig_node_core::canonical_cache_dir() DIG_NODE_CACHE -> directories::BaseDirs (the OS Known Folder API — it does not read the env) -> LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> . cache/, config.json, and therefore wallet.sqlite

Reproduced on a real Windows host running the installed node service. With LOCALAPPDATA=<scratch>
and no DIG_NODE_CACHE, the node created <scratch>/DigWallet/seed.bin and
<scratch>/DigNode/device/device.key while cache.getConfig reported
cache_dir = C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\DigNode\cache — the real path. A brand new seed under one
root, the machine's existing coin replica under the other
, and the only thing said about it was
INFO no wallet was present; minted one, which reads as a clean first run.

Separately, DIG_WALLET_PORT is read only by dig_wallet::wallet_port(), reached only from
dig_wallet::run() — invoked by dig-runtime and the standalone dig-wallet binary, never by
dig-node. Nothing listened on the port. Accepted and ignored, with no error.

What this does NOT do, deliberately

Resolution is unchanged. Making either resolver defer to the other is the obvious fix and it is
the destructive one: a service run has DIG_NODE_CACHE = C:\ProgramData\DigNode\cache
(state::anchor_service_data_dirs), so deriving the wallet base from the node's cache dir would
move the seed off ...systemprofile\AppData\Local\DigWallet\seed.bin, find nothing there, and mint
a fresh wallet on every existing install — orphaning the operator wallet and any $DIG in it.

What it does

Per the ticket's own scope ("a refused override ... is fine to refuse, but refusing silently is
not"
):

  • Announce the split — both roots, and the resolved wallet.sqlite path. Naming the file
    matters: the replica sits beside DIG_NODE_CACHE, not inside it, so an operator who sets that
    variable and looks in the cache directory concludes the second lever failed too.
  • Refuse the one irreversible consequence. With a split root and no seed on disk, nothing is
    minted and nothing is written. A host that already HAS a seed proceeds unchanged — refusing there
    would break a working install to enforce a layout rule.
  • Announce that DIG_WALLET_PORT is inert in this binary, naming the port and where it is
    honoured.
  • Wired into both serve entrypoints — entrypoint.rs::block_on_serve and
    win_service.rs::run_service, which does not go through it — before the bootstrap, so the refusal
    is read before the line that would have said a wallet was minted.

The second finding on #392, the silent logging degrade, was already fixed by #458 and is verified
working on real hardware
in this ticket's comments: a non-admin foreground run's first line is the
dig-logging WARN naming the denied directory. Nothing here re-does it.

Shape

A pure decision core (split_of, mint_decision, inert_wallet_port, replica_beside) taking its
inputs as arguments, plus thin env-reading and log-emitting wrappers — the same split
logging::degrade_announcement and state::service_data_dir_overrides use, because the interesting
branch is the one that does not occur on the machine the tests run on.

Announcement prose is pinned in concat! constants, never \-continued literals: a cargo fmt run
rejoined a continuation in this exact module before and materialised the source indentation into an
operator-facing string. A test asserts no run of four or more spaces survives.

How verified

  • Reproduced end-to-end on a real host, then measured the node's own cache.getConfig answer rather
    than inferring from file mtimes — an earlier mtime-based inference was retracted on the
    ticket, because a running dig-app.exe writes that file continuously regardless.
  • Confirmed the supported isolated run works with both levers (LOCALAPPDATA + DIG_NODE_CACHE +
    DIG_NODE_STATE_DIR + DIG_NODE_PORT): seed under one, replica at <iso>/wallet.sqlite, on a
    machine already running the installed service.
  • 9 new tests. The env-level one overrides LOCALAPPDATA under a lock and restores it — a test
    running under a normal path cannot see this bug.
  • Blast radius by grep + direct read; gitnexus's index for this repo is ~301 commits stale and
    returns a false-safe impactedCount: 0.

Bump

0.229.0 -> 0.235.0 (0.230-0.234 held by sibling lanes). Minor: new announced behaviour and two
additive public functions. dig-node-core 0.65.0 -> 0.66.0 and dig-wallet 0.46.0 -> 0.47.0, each
gaining one additive pub fn.

SPEC.md §16 also corrects a claim that had been false since dig-node#327: it said dig-wallet had
"native BLS signing", while that crate's own module doc states it holds no user key and signs
nothing (§908).

Salvage anchor so a cap is never lossy. No production change yet.

Refs #392

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
MichaelTaylor3d and others added 3 commits September 1, 2026 13:50
Two resolvers decide "the per-user base directory" in one dig-node process and
disagree under a LOCALAPPDATA override: dig_wallet's is env-first and owns the
seed/meta/device key, while dig-node-core's asks the OS known-folder API first
and owns cache/config and therefore wallet.sqlite. The node came up with a newly
minted seed under one root and a coin replica under the other, saying only that
it had minted a wallet.

Resolution is deliberately unchanged -- deriving the wallet base from the node's
cache dir would move the seed off every existing service install and mint a
fresh wallet there. Instead the split is announced, and the one irreversible
consequence (minting into a split layout) is refused.

Also announces an inert DIG_WALLET_PORT: dig-node never starts a wallet host, so
nothing binds the port an operator set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The replica is a SIBLING of the config file, not a child of the cache dir, so
an operator who sets DIG_NODE_CACHE and then looks for wallet.sqlite inside
that directory concludes the second lever failed too. Name the resolved file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…47.0

Minor on both libraries: each gains an additive public fn (platform_user_base,
autoseed::user_base) with no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Implemented to the locked design at 2b22c7a.

  • dig_node_core::platform_user_base() — pure extraction out of canonical_cache_dir(), resolution order unchanged in every arm.
  • dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() — now pub, body byte-identical.
  • New dig_node_service::wallet_env — pure core (split_of, mint_decision, inert_wallet_port, replica_beside), concat!-pinned announcement text, env wrappers, once-per-process announce.
  • ensure_wallet_seed() refuses to mint when the roots split AND no seed is present (unknown-means-present); ensure_wallet_seed_at unchanged.
  • Announced from BOTH serve entrypoints (entrypoint::block_on_serve and win_service::run_service), after logging::init, before the bootstrap.
  • SPEC §16: DIG_WALLET_PORT is inert in dig-node; LOCALAPPDATA moves the seed but not the replica; the wallet surface is a router with no native BLS signing.

Tests: cargo test -p dig-node-service -p dig-node-core -p dig-wallet --lib -> 1050 / 756 / 763 passed, 0 failed. Each of the 7 new assertions proven load-bearing by two mutation rounds (all 7 failed).

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IN PROGRESS — not the verdict. Independent correctness gate, fresh context, reading head 2b22c7aa7bed9fe25e1be4df2d4f3fc27eb928fc. Two findings established so far; posting them now rather than holding them in context.

GATING 1 — the refusal names a remedy that cannot clear the refusal

REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT (crates/dig-node-service/src/wallet_env.rs:74-79) tells the operator:

Set DIG_NODE_CACHE as well as LOCALAPPDATA so both halves land in one place ... then start the node again.

DIG_NODE_CACHE cannot clear the split. wallet_root_split() (wallet_env.rs:104-109) compares dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() against dig_node_core::platform_user_base(). DIG_NODE_CACHE is read in canonical_cache_dir() (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:606-612), which returns before platform_user_base() is ever called — so it changes the cache dir and leaves platform_user_base() byte-identical.

Consequence: an operator who does exactly what the message says (LOCALAPPDATA=<scratch> + DIG_NODE_CACHE=<scratch>/DigNode/cache, which genuinely puts seed, cache, config and wallet.sqlite all under the scratch root) is still refused, on every subsequent start, forever. The only configuration that clears the refusal is unset LOCALAPPDATA — i.e. abandoning the isolated wallet run that #392 exists to make possible. The triggering state is durable, so one env setting becomes permanent denial with no escape.

The same wrong remedy is in SPLIT_ROOTS (wallet_env.rs:61-69) and in the SPEC edit (SPEC.md, §16, "DIG_NODE_CACHE is the variable that moves those").

A fix must not be "delete the refusal": either make the split predicate the thing the operator can actually influence (compare the wallet base against the effective node root, i.e. config_path().parent(), so DIG_NODE_CACHE clears it), or change the prose to state the only remedy that works and accept that the isolated run is unsupported — but then say that, per the ticket's third scope bullet.

GATING 2 — the refusal is reachable on a stock Linux .deb install, where it stops a wallet ever being minted

platform_user_base() (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:628-641) tries directories::BaseDirs::new() first; on Linux that resolves home_dir via dirs-sys 0.5.0, which reads $HOME and falls back to getpwuid_r (dirs-sys-0.5.0/src/lib.rs:33-47). dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:110-120) has no such fallback: LOCALAPPDATAHOME".".

So with $HOME unset the two disagree: node base = the passwd home (e.g. /root), wallet base = ".". Verified the passwd fallback returns a real path with HOME unset on this machine's WSL (env -u HOME getent passwd $(id -u)/home/micha), so BaseDirs::new() is Some there, not None — the "both collapse to ." reading is wrong.

The packaged unit packaging/linux/systemd/net.dignetwork.dig-node.service runs ExecStart=/usr/bin/dig-node run as root with no User= and no Environment=HOME=.... systemd does not set $HOME for a system service without User=. If that holds, every stock .deb install hits wallet_root_split() == Some and, on a fresh install with no seed, ensure_wallet_seed() now returns None and mints nothing — where today it mints. The operator is then handed a message naming two Windows-only environment variables.

I have not booted a .deb under systemd to confirm $HOME is unset there, and I am not treating my reasoning as sufficient for a merge: the burden is on the PR, because the refusal is a new denial path and the change ships no test, no doc reasoning and no #[cfg(unix)] coverage for the non-Windows shape at all. Please measure it (systemctl show -p Environment / strings /proc/<pid>/environ on a real unit) and make the split predicate not fire when the disagreement is merely "one resolver has a passwd fallback and the other does not".

Remaining items (announce side effects, test vacuity, once-guard, SPEC, extraction verbatim) still in progress; verdict to follow.

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loop-security — IN PROGRESS, not the verdict

Auditing head 2b22c7aa7bed9fe25e1be4df2d4f3fc27eb928fc (resolved from gh pr view 489 --json headRefOid, not from the dispatch brief), base 1e94c7f. Read-only, own worktree, nothing touched.

Posting findings as they resolve so none is lost to a watchdog. Four of the seven brief items have resolved CLEAN so far.

Item 6 — platform_user_base is VERBATIM. CLEAN.

The extraction is faithful, which was the one that could have silently relocated every install's cache and therefore its wallet replica. Compared against origin/main:crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:

  • canonical_cache_dir still short-circuits on a non-empty DIG_NODE_CACHE before calling the new function (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:607-614), so the operator override keeps its precedence.
  • The directories::BaseDirs closure is unchanged in both arms — data_local_dir() on Windows, home_dir() elsewhere.
  • The fallback chain is unchanged in order and arity: base -> LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> . (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:640-643). Only the root.join("DigNode").join("cache") suffix moved to the caller.

No arm reordered, no arm dropped. dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base's body is likewise unchanged; only its visibility moved to pub (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:110-117).

Encapsulation: neither new public function returns anything that was withheld. user_base() returns a directory that default_paths() -> WalletPaths already exposed publicly (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:71-79, all three fields pub), and platform_user_base() returns a prefix of cache_dir(), which cache_dir_is_shared()/cache.getConfig already surface. Both are path derivations over public env, no secret in either.

Item 4 — seed_present fails toward PRESENT, and CANNOT be inverted into a mint. CLEAN.

The dangerous direction (wallet REPLACEMENT) is structurally unreachable, for a stronger reason than the doc comment gives:

  1. presence() is built on Path::try_exists, which returns Ok(false) only on a definitive non-existence and propagates permission/lock/IO failures as Err (crates/dig-node-core/src/shared/at_rest.rs:45-51). seed_present maps only Ok(Presence::Absent) to false (wallet_bootstrap.rs:60), so every error arm reads PRESENT.
  2. More decisively: seed_present is only ever an input to a REFUSAL. mint_decision returns RefuseSplitRoot on (Some(split), false) and Proceed otherwise (wallet_env.rs:129-134). Proceed falls through to ensure_wallet_seed_at, which is main's unchanged code. So no value of seed_present can cause a mint that main would not already perform — this predicate can only ever suppress one.
  3. And the residual suppression direction is bounded: a wrongly-Absent seed under a split returns None having written nothing. That is a no-wallet start-up, not a lost wallet.

Enumerated for a reachable Absent-while-a-seed-exists state: a dangling symlink at the seed path is the only candidate (try_exists follows links and reports Ok(false)), and even then the mint that would follow is blocked at the write — write_new_owner_only uses create_new, an atomic test-and-set that returns AlreadyExists rather than clobbering (crates/dig-node-core/src/shared/at_rest.rs:53-72). Defence in depth holds.

Item 5 — the refusal path genuinely serves on wallet-less. CLEAN.

Both production call sites discard the Option in statement position — entrypoint.rs:1429 and win_service.rs:129 — so None from a refusal is byte-for-byte the same downstream state as the None main already returns on every BootstrapError arm (SeedPathUnreadable, DeviceKey, NotCreated). No new half-initialised state is introduced; the wallet-less path is pre-existing and already exercised.

The only other caller of ensure_wallet_seed_at in crates/ is mirror/lifecycle.rs:915, which is inside a #[cfg(test)] module (it sits between assert! calls) — so it is not a production bypass of the new split gate. Still tracing the WalletService consumer; will report.

Item 2 — no key material can reach the new fields. CLEAN so far.

The new emissions are wallet_env.rs:196-206: wallet_base, node_base, replica (all PathBuf::display()) and port, plus wallet_bootstrap.rs:52 which logs the REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT constant with no fields at all.

  • No WalletPaths or DeviceKey value is formatted on any arm. WalletPaths derives Debug but holds three PathBufs only (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:70-79); DeviceKey is Zeroizing<[u8; 32]> (autoseed.rs:149) and is never in scope in wallet_env or on the refusal arm.
  • The never_log battery's seed test drives ensure_wallet_seed_at (crates/dig-node-service/tests/never_log.rs:127-136), which the refusal arm returns before reaching — so the minting narration it guards is unchanged.
  • Logging full resolved paths at WARN is established practice in this repo, not a new class (e.g. state.rs:238 logs path = %value.display()).

Two residual questions still open on this item, reported when they resolve: whether the emitted wallet_base echoes an operator-supplied env value into an operator-readable log without escaping (a log-injection surface, not a secrets one), and the Windows account-name-in-path question for support bundles.

Still open

Items 1 (denial-of-wallet reachability / who can set the env) and 3 (the create_dir_all + probe-write side effect in a warning path, against the #501 hardening order) are in progress. Neither has produced a finding yet.

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CHANGES-REQUIRED

Head read: 2b22c7aa7bed9fe25e1be4df2d4f3fc27eb928fc (resolved from the remote; unchanged during the review). Base origin/main = 1e94c7f. Independent correctness gate, fresh context. gitnexus was NOT used (its index for this repo is stale and returns a false-safe impactedCount: 0); everything below is grep + direct read of the worktree at that SHA, plus test runs.

The diagnosis in this PR is right, the announce-don't-unify decision is right, and the extraction is clean. Two findings block it, both on the new refusal path — the refusal is a new way to prevent a wallet existing, and neither its escape hatch nor its non-Windows reachability holds up.

GATING 1 — the refusal names a remedy that cannot clear it (wallet_env.rs:74-79)

REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT tells the operator to "Set DIG_NODE_CACHE as well as LOCALAPPDATA so both halves land in one place ... then start the node again." SPLIT_ROOTS (wallet_env.rs:66-68) and the SPEC edit say the same.

DIG_NODE_CACHE cannot clear the split. wallet_root_split() (wallet_env.rs:104-109) compares dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() against dig_node_core::platform_user_base(). DIG_NODE_CACHE is read in canonical_cache_dir() (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:606-612) and returns before platform_user_base() is called (lib.rs:628) — so it moves the cache and leaves the split predicate byte-identical.

An operator who does exactly what the message says — LOCALAPPDATA=<scratch> plus DIG_NODE_CACHE=<scratch>/DigNode/cache, which genuinely puts seed, cache, config.json and wallet.sqlite all under the scratch root — is refused anyway, on that start and every subsequent one. The only configuration that clears the refusal is unsetting LOCALAPPDATA, i.e. abandoning the isolated wallet run that #392 exists to enable. The triggering state is durable, so one env var becomes permanent denial with no working escape. The test mint_is_refused_only_when_a_split_would_create_a_new_wallet cannot see this: it feeds the pure core a synthetic split and never asks what an operator could do to make the split go away.

The fix must not be to delete the refusal. Two shapes that would work: make the predicate compare against the effective node root (dig_node_core::config_path().parent(), which DIG_NODE_CACHE does move), so the documented remedy actually clears it; or keep the predicate and rewrite both constants to state the only remedy that works, settling the ticket's third scope bullet explicitly. Whichever is chosen, the constants, the SPEC paragraph, and a test asserting "the documented remedy clears the refusal" must all move together.

GATING 2 — the refusal is reachable on a stock Linux .deb, where it stops any wallet being minted

platform_user_base() (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:628-641) tries directories::BaseDirs::new() first; on Linux that resolves home_dir through dirs-sys 0.5.0, which reads $HOME and falls back to getpwuid_r (dirs-sys-0.5.0/src/lib.rs:33-47). dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base() (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:110-120) has no such fallback: LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> ".".

So with $HOME unset the two roots differ — node base = the passwd home (/root), wallet base = "." — and wallet_root_split() returns Some. I checked the "both collapse to ." reading and it is wrong: with HOME unset, getent passwd for the current uid on this machine's WSL returns a real path, which is exactly what BaseDirs::new() uses, so it is Some, not None.

packaging/linux/systemd/net.dignetwork.dig-node.service runs ExecStart=/usr/bin/dig-node run as root with no User= and sets no HOME; systemd does not set $HOME for a system service without User=. If that holds on a real unit, every stock .deb install with no seed now gets ensure_wallet_seed() returning None and mints nothing where it previously minted, and is handed a message naming two variables that mean nothing on Linux.

I did not boot a .deb under systemd, so I am not asserting the regression as measured — but the burden is on the PR, and it carries no #[cfg(unix)] coverage, no Linux reasoning and no test for the non-Windows shape of a change that adds a denial path. Please measure HOME on a real unit, and make the predicate not fire when the only disagreement is "one resolver has a passwd fallback and the other does not" (equivalently: give autoseed::user_base the same last-resort, or compare canonicalised roots).

Related, and it is your canary: the final assertion of an_overridden_localappdata_is_reported_as_a_split (wallet_env.rs:280-284, "restoring the variable removes the split") fails on any host where HOME is unset, because the restore path does remove_var and the two resolvers then disagree. A CI container without HOME turns this test red — for exactly the reason above.

Non-gating (do not let these block; noted for the record)

  • announce_from_env acquires a disk side effect (wallet_env.rs:143-145 into dig_node_core::config_path() into resolve_cache_dir() into dir_is_writable(), lib.rs:671-685): it create_dir_alls the cache dir and writes+removes a probe file, now at the very top of block_on_serve. I judge this acceptable: the directory is the one this process uses regardless, it is created moments later by config load, and under a split it probes the real user cache dir — which is correct, since that is genuinely where the replica opens. Worth one sentence in the doc-comment, because "a warning function that creates directories" is surprising on sight.
  • No wiring guard for the announcement. tests/wallet_bootstrap_wiring.rs exists precisely because "a correct function nobody calls mints nothing", and pins ensure_wallet_seed() in both block_on_serve and win_service.rs. The new announce_from_env() call has the identical failure mode and no such guard. Two more asserts in that file, with the same between(...) helper.
  • SPEC 16 inherits GATING 1's wrong remedy (DIG_NODE_CACHE named as the variable that moves those, plus "REFUSES to mint") and must be corrected in the same unit.

Items checked and found clean

  • Ticket scope. All three bullets are met by code, not prose: bullet 1 by the two warnings reachable from both serve entrypoints (entrypoint.rs:1415 in block_on_serve, and win_service.rs:128, which does not go through it — verified by reading both); bullet 2 was already shipped in #458; bullet 3 by the SPEC paragraph stating the shape and the refusal.
  • The ANNOUNCED once-guard (wallet_env.rs:148,155) cannot suppress a legitimate second announcement (the two call sites are mutually exclusive per process) and introduces no test-order dependence: nothing in the lib-test suite calls announce or announce_from_env, so the flag is never set during tests.
  • seed_present (wallet_bootstrap.rs:63-65) takes unknown-means-present, matching dig_wallet::wallet_exists (crates/dig-wallet/src/lib.rs:209-214) exactly. The inverse is safe: an erroring presence() yields Proceed, and ensure_wallet_seed_at then runs its own check — so a permanently-unreadable seed path cannot cause a silent never-mint through this path.
  • Test quality. Ran them; counts, not exit status: cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib wallet_env gave 8 passed (748 filtered) and --lib wallet_bootstrap gave 1 passed (755 filtered) — 9 new tests, matching the claim. a_split_root_with_no_seed_mints_nothing asserts on the disk (seed, meta and device key all absent), not on the return value, as required. an_overridden_localappdata_is_reported_as_a_split is non-vacuous and binds the real pair: a wrapper wired to two env-first resolvers gives equal roots and fails the expect; one wired to two OS-first resolvers gives None and fails the same line. I established this by inspection plus the passing runs rather than by a revert-proof in a scratch worktree — a cold build here is ~9m and the verdict does not turn on it; saying so explicitly so it does not read as verified by mutation.
  • The extraction is verbatim. platform_user_base() (lib.rs:628-641) preserves BaseDirs -> LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> "." in that order, with the same cfg!(windows) arm, and canonical_cache_dir still appends DigNode/cache. No install's cache resolution moves.
  • Both SPEC claims are true. dig-wallet holds no key and signs nothing — crates/dig-wallet/src/lib.rs:7-18 says so and #327 removed the signer, so deleting "with native BLS signing" corrects text that had been false since then. DIG_WALLET_PORT has exactly one read site, crates/dig-wallet/src/lib.rs:148-150, reached only from dig_wallet::run, so "inert in dig-node" is correct. Nothing else in section 16 was broken by the edit.

Nothing is resolved and nothing is merged by me; the orchestrator owns the merge.

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Two GATING findings, anchored inline so they bar merge under required_conversation_resolution. Full verdict in the review above.

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loop-security: PASS

Audited head: 2b22c7aa7bed9fe25e1be4df2d4f3fc27eb928fc (resolved via gh pr view 489 --json headRefOid, not taken from the dispatch brief), base 1e94c7f. Read-only in my own worktree dn-392; no shared checkout touched, no mutating git command run, no file edited.

No LIVE vulnerability. Four defense-in-depth findings and one born-false doc claim, all non-gating — recommend follow-up tickets, do not hold the merge.

Method: grep + direct read throughout. gitnexus was NOT used — its index here is ~301 commits stale and returns a false-safe impactedCount: 0. Empirical probes were run read-only against this host's real installed service, plus one scoped cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib wallet_env (8 passed, 0 failed, 748 filtered — a real run, not a vacuous filter).

Items 4, 5, 6 and most of 2 were cleared in my interim comment above with evidence; not repeated in full here.


Item 1 — denial-of-wallet reachability. CLEAN.

The attacker who can set LOCALAPPDATA in the node's environment is already game-over. I enumerated the four paths the brief names:

  • Installer / baked service environment — cannot introduce it. build_plan bakes exactly DIG_NODE_PORT, DIG_RPC_UPSTREAM, DIG_NODE_RUN_CONTEXT, plus optional DIG_NODE_HOST and DIG_NODE_CACHE (crates/dig-node-service/src/service.rs:861-895). LOCALAPPDATA is never written by the installer on any arm.
  • systemd Environment= — root only, and already guarded. Writing the unit at SYSTEM scope requires root, and ensure_environment_is_unit_file_safe (service.rs:829-850) additionally refuses control characters in any baked key or value.
  • No EnvironmentFile directive exists. The service-manager backend emits Environment= lines only; there is no operator-supplied env file to poison.
  • Windows per-service environment — Administrators/SYSTEM only. It lives under the service's registry key. Measured on this host: net.dignetwork.dig-node has an empty Environment value, so nothing is baked there at all.
  • User-scope install — the user already owns the process; no boundary to cross.

And the refusal is fail-safe in the direction that matters. RefuseSplitRoot logs and returns None having written nothing (wallet_bootstrap.rs:47-53); it cannot destroy or replace an existing wallet, and a host that already has a seed is never refused (wallet_env.rs:129-134).

A genuine true-positive class exists, which is a point in the change's favour rather than against it: on Unix with HOME unset but a passwd home present, user_base() yields the cwd while platform_user_base() yields the passwd home — so main would mint a seed into the working directory while the replica opened elsewhere. The refusal correctly catches exactly that.

Item 2 — log-content disclosure. CLEAN, two LOW notes.

No key material can reach any new field, on any arm. The refusal logs the REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT constant with no fields at all (wallet_bootstrap.rs:52). announce emits only wallet_base, node_base, replica (via Display on the path) and port (wallet_env.rs:196-206). No WalletPaths and no DeviceKey value is in scope or formatted on either arm — WalletPaths derives Debug but holds three path fields only (crates/dig-wallet/src/autoseed.rs:70-79), and DeviceKey wraps a Zeroizing byte array (autoseed.rs:149). The never_log battery's seed test drives ensure_wallet_seed_at (tests/never_log.rs:127-136), which the refusal arm returns before reaching, so the narration it guards is unchanged.

  • LOW-1 (defense-in-depth): wallet_base echoes an operator-supplied env value verbatim into an operator-readable log with no control-character filtering. A value containing a newline forges log lines in the on-disk log and in any support bundle built from it. This repo already treats control characters in env values as a real class (service.rs:829-850), so the asymmetry is worth closing. Requires the item-1 attacker, hence not gating.
  • LOW-2 (pre-existing class, not introduced here): Windows per-user paths embed the account name, so these fields carry it into support bundles. main already logs full resolved paths at WARN (e.g. state.rs:238), so this diff opens no new class. Worth a redaction decision at bundle time rather than a change here.

Item 3 — side effect in a warning path. Real, but does NOT cross the #501 boundary. One LOW finding.

The side effect is confirmed: announce_from_env -> replica_path (wallet_env.rs:180) -> dig_node_core::config_path -> cache_dir -> resolve_cache_dir (crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:693-732) -> dir_is_writable, which creates the directory and writes then deletes a probe file.

It is nonetheless safe, for two measured reasons:

  1. The anchor already ran. anchor_service_data_dirs() is called at crates/dig-node-service/src/entrypoint.rs:857, inside run() — i.e. before dispatch to either block_on_serve or win_service::run. Where it fires it has already created the anchored cache dir via ensure_dir_restricted (state.rs:224-243), so the new create is a no-op on an existing directory.
  2. Where it does not fire, nothing new is first-touched. Measured on this host: the service's Environment is empty, so running_as_service() is false at line 857 and the anchor is a no-op. The cache then resolves under the SYSTEM profile — and main already creates that same AppData/Local/DigNode tree at the identical point, via the device-key write in ensure_wallet_seed() one line later (win_service.rs:129). The feat(mirror): activate bond promotion on the coin's own peer declaration #501-hardened ProgramData state dir is not touched by this path at all.

So no directory is created earlier than main creates it, and nothing is created where a low-privilege user could pre-create and squat: the SYSTEM profile tree is not user-writable.

  • LOW-3 (finding): replica_path() is evaluated EAGERLY on every start-up, although announce uses replica only inside the if let Some(split) arm (wallet_env.rs:194-203). So 100% of runs pay a directory-create plus a probe-file write/delete to compute a value fewer than 1% of runs emit — and announce_from_env recomputes it even after the ANNOUNCED latch is set, because the latch is checked inside announce, after the argument is built. Recommend making it lazy (resolve inside the Some(split) arm, or pass a closure). A filesystem mutation reached through a function named announce is a maintenance hazard even where today's ordering makes it harmless.

Item 4 — seed_present cannot be inverted into a mint. CLEAN.

Detailed in the interim. The decisive point: seed_present is only ever an input to a REFUSAL (wallet_env.rs:129-134), so no value of it can cause a mint main would not already perform — it can only suppress one. presence() is built on try_exists, which propagates permission/lock/IO failures as an error rather than collapsing them to false (crates/dig-node-core/src/shared/at_rest.rs:45-51), and the only candidate for a reachable Absent-with-a-seed-present state (a dangling symlink) is caught downstream by the create-new write in write_new_owner_only (at_rest.rs:53-72).

Item 5 — the node genuinely serves on wallet-less. CLEAN.

Both production call sites discard the Option in statement position (entrypoint.rs:1429, win_service.rs:129), so a refusal's None is the same downstream state main already produces on every BootstrapError arm. The wallet is re-resolved independently later: open_signer calls OperatorWallet::open(paths, ..) and, when no seed exists, returns (None, SpendCapability::WalletUnavailable) (crates/dig-node-service/src/mirror/lifecycle.rs:718-725) — a first-class, named capability state, not a half-initialised wallet. The only other ensure_wallet_seed_at caller in crates/ is at mirror/lifecycle.rs:915, which is inside a #[cfg(test)] module and therefore not a production bypass of the new gate.

Item 6 — platform_user_base is VERBATIM; the new public API exposes nothing withheld. CLEAN.

Detailed in the interim, compared line-by-line against origin/main. DIG_NODE_CACHE keeps its short-circuit precedence (dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:607-614), the BaseDirs closure is unchanged in both arms, and the fallback chain is unchanged in order and arity — base, then LOCALAPPDATA, then HOME, then the relative default (lib.rs:640-643). dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base's body is unchanged; only its visibility moved (autoseed.rs:110-117). Neither new public function returns anything previously encapsulated: both are path derivations over public env, already reachable through WalletPaths (all fields public) and cache.getConfig respectively.

Item 7 — SPEC.md 16. CLEAN, one LOW doc note.

The new text agrees with crates/dig-wallet/src/lib.rs:7-36 and does not overclaim in the other direction. SPEC's "every key/sign method is forwarded to the user's Sage wallet" is consistent with lib.rs:14-18, which answers three explicitly keyless handshake methods locally and forwards every other method — so the scoping to key/sign methods is exact, not loose. The 908 boundary is preserved: SPEC says the process holds no user key, which leaves the node's own operator wallet untouched, exactly as lib.rs:33-36 insists.

  • LOW-4 (doc precision): the added LOCALAPPDATA paragraph lists the seed and device-key paths immediately after the paragraph declaring the process holds no user key. Those paths are the node's own operator credential (autoseed), not user custody — the distinction lib.rs:33-36 is careful to draw. Restating it in SPEC would stop a reader conflating the two.

NC-3 — neither satisfied nor violated.

NC-3's location contract is per-user AppData on Windows, Application Support on macOS, and XDG data home on Linux. Both resolvers use the home directory on Unix rather than the XDG/Application-Support paths — a pre-existing deviation on main, documented at dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:601-604 as deliberate byte-identity with dig-companion. This diff explicitly does not change resolution, so it neither improves nor worsens NC-3, and it correctly makes no NC-3 compliance claim. The refusal is directionally aligned with NC-3's intent (one per-user location rather than two).


Two additional findings I raise unprompted

A. The module doc's central premise is empirically FALSE on the Windows service path. LOW (documentation), but load-bearing.

crates/dig-node-service/src/wallet_env.rs:24-27 states that on a service run anchor_service_data_dirs points DIG_NODE_CACHE at the ProgramData cache dir.

Measured on this host, that does not happen. The installed net.dignetwork.dig-node service has an empty Environment registry value, so RUN_CONTEXT_ENV is absent when entrypoint.rs:857 runs, running_as_service() returns false, and the anchor is a no-op. win_service.rs:66 sets the variable only afterwards, as its own comment concedes ("belt-and-suspenders"). Confirmed on disk: the cache directory, config.json and the live wallet.sqlite all sit under the systemprofile AppData Local DigNode tree, while the ProgramData DigNode dir holds only collateral-epochs.jsonl and control-token.

The doc's conclusion — do not move resolution — remains the right one, and is if anything better supported. But its stated reason does not hold on the platform it names, and a future lane will read it as measured fact. This is the born-false-doc-claim class: worth correcting in this PR since it is one sentence, or ticketing.

B. split_of compares paths with an exact, case-sensitive equality, and the Windows property is never tested in CI. LOW / defense-in-depth.

wallet_env.rs:117-126 compares two independently-sourced strings: a process environment value (user_base) against a Known Folder API result (platform_user_base). Rust's path equality is component-wise — so trailing separators and dot components are handled — but it is case-sensitive on Windows, where the filesystem is not, and it does not normalise short 8.3 names, verbatim device prefixes, or SUBST/junction-resolved forms.

A false split has a real consequence: on a fresh Windows service install with no seed, mint_decision returns RefuseSplitRoot and the node never mints a wallet, printing an error that tells the operator to set DIG_NODE_CACHE or unset LOCALAPPDATA — neither of which they did, and neither of which would help. That would disable the unattended bootstrap on the primary Windows path.

I could not reproduce it, and I tried. an_overridden_localappdata_is_reported_as_a_split passed on this Windows host (8/8), and its final assertion — that the split disappears once the variable is restored — is a direct proof that the two APIs return string-identical paths, including case, for the interactive account. For the SYSTEM account both derive from the same registry profile path, which I read as the lowercase systemprofile form. So this is a latent fragility, not a live defect.

What makes it worth a ticket rather than nothing: CI never exercises it on the platform where it can fail. .github/workflows/ci.yml runs every job on ubuntu-latest (lines 39, 61, 76, 94); the only windows-latest runner is the packaging job at package.yml:234. On Linux both resolvers reduce to the home directory, so the test passes for a reason that says nothing about Windows. Recommend a case-insensitive/normalised comparison on Windows, or an explicit note that the equality is unverified there.


Verdict

PASS. Nothing here is a live vulnerability, and the change's central security property — that it can only ever refuse to create key material, never create or replace it — holds structurally rather than by convention. Findings LOW-1 through LOW-4 plus A and B are defense-in-depth and documentation; A is a one-sentence correction that would be cheap to take in this PR, and B is the one I would most want tracked.

Resolving nothing; the merge is yours.

…override

The refusal shipped in this branch fired on every stock Linux `.deb` install and
named a remedy that did nothing, reintroducing the silent-start defect (#392) one
layer up.

Both halves were wrong for the same reason: the predicate asked whether the two
per-user roots DIFFER, when the question it needed to ask was whether an operator
made them differ.

- `directories::BaseDirs` reads `$HOME` and then falls back to `getpwuid_r`, while
  `dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base` has no such fallback. The shipped systemd unit
  sets no `User=`, no `Group=` and no `HOME=`, so on every stock install the roots
  diverged with nobody at fault and the node came up wallet-less.
- `REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT` told the operator to set `DIG_NODE_CACHE`, which neither
  resolver reads. On a service run the anchor has already set it and the refusal
  fired anyway.

The predicate now refuses on the conjunction of an OVERRIDE-caused split, no seed,
and no `DIG_NODE_CACHE` - so the escape it names is one it honours. Roots are
compared through a pure `same_root` that ignores trailing separators and, when
asked, case; case-insensitivity is a PARAMETER rather than a `cfg!(windows)` read,
because CI runs on ubuntu-latest only and an internal `cfg!` would leave the
Windows arm untested on every runner this repo has. Exact equality would have
reported a false split, and therefore a permanent refusal to mint, on an ordinary
Windows host whose environment and known-folder result differ only in spelling.

An ambient divergence now warns with its own sentence, which names both resolved
roots and the seed file and does NOT prescribe the inert remedy.

Also states the `anchor_service_data_dirs` mechanism conditionally in the module
doc - it is gated on `state::running_as_service` - and corrects SPEC 16 to the
narrowed predicate.

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Fix round on 2b22c7a -> 404076d

Both blocking findings closed, plus both security LOWs and the reviewer's non-blocking item.

BLOCKING 1 - the refusal fired on a stock Linux install. CLOSED.

Confirmed the correction: directories::BaseDirs resolves the Linux home by reading $HOME and
then falling back to getpwuid_r, while dig_wallet::autoseed::user_base has no such fallback, so
with HOME unset they split ("." vs the passwd entry). The shipped
packaging/linux/systemd/net.dignetwork.dig-node.service is exactly that shape - measured: no
User=, no Group=, no HOME=, its only Environment= line being DIG_NODE_RUN_CONTEXT=service
at line 20, beside ProtectHome=true.

The predicate no longer asks whether the roots DIFFER; it asks whether an operator MADE them differ.
WalletRootSplit now carries a SplitCause (Overridden / Ambient), and only Overridden
can refuse.

BLOCKING 2 - the named remedy was inert. CLOSED.

mint_decision now takes cache_override, and refuses on the conjunction of exactly three things:
an override-caused split, no seed, and no DIG_NODE_CACHE. Setting the variable the message names
therefore flips the verdict to Proceed - the escape it advertises is one it honours.

setting_the_named_cache_override_lifts_the_refusal binds this to mint_decision BEHAVIOUR rather
than to the message text, because a test that only grepped REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT for DIG_NODE_CACHE
passed against the broken version.

SECURITY LOW-B - exact path equality on an untested platform. CLOSED.

New pure same_root(a, b, case_insensitive) trims trailing separators and case-folds when asked.
case_insensitive is a PARAMETER, not a cfg!(windows) read inside the body - all four CI jobs are
ubuntu-latest, so an internal cfg! would leave the Windows arm untested on every runner this
repo has. The wrapper passes cfg!(windows). No canonicalize: it requires the paths to exist and
yields \?\ prefixes.

SECURITY LOW-A - born-false doc sentence. CLOSED.

The module doc now states the anchor_service_data_dirs mechanism CONDITIONALLY: it returns early
unless state::running_as_service() is true, which reads DIG_NODE_RUN_CONTEXT (dispatched from
entrypoint.rs). The systemd unit bakes that variable in, so on Linux the anchor definitely fires;
a Windows service whose registered environment lacks it does not. The conclusion is unchanged and
not weakened - the seed must not be re-rooted onto the cache, which only has to hold where the
anchor DOES fire.

Reviewer non-blocking item - taken.

wallet_bootstrap_wiring.rs gains two guards asserting wallet_env::announce_from_env() is
reachable from BOTH entrypoint.rs::block_on_serve and win_service.rs::run_service, and that it
PRECEDES the mint on each - an operator must read why a wallet was refused before, not after, the
line that would have reported one minted.

The five-case table, verified against the implementation

case expected result
stock Linux .deb service (LOCALAPPDATA unset, HOME unset) Proceed Proceed (Ambient)
ordinary Windows host / LocalSystem (env == API modulo case) Proceed not a split at all after normalization
LOCALAPPDATA=<scratch>, no DIG_NODE_CACHE, no seed Refuse Refuse, remedy now works
LOCALAPPDATA + DIG_NODE_CACHE both set Proceed, warn only Proceed
container, no HOME, no LOCALAPPDATA Proceed, warn Proceed (Ambient)

The table is in the module doc. Ambiguity resolves toward Proceed.

Two messages, each with a true remedy

SPLIT_ROOTS (override) keeps its text - its remedy is now actually honoured. New
AMBIENT_SPLIT_ROOTS names both resolved roots and the seed file, says nothing is refused, and
deliberately does NOT prescribe DIG_NODE_CACHE; the_ambient_announcement_does_not_prescribe_an_inert_remedy
asserts that absence. concat! discipline and the no-run-of-4-spaces guard cover the new constant.

SPEC.md §16 corrected from "resolves the two roots differently WARNS, and REFUSES" to the narrowed
predicate, including the normalization rule and the ambient MUST-proceed clause.

Evidence

TDD, red first: red_a_stock_linux_service_shaped_split_must_proceed failed with
left: RefuseSplitRoot, right: Proceed (8 passed, 1 failed) before any fix.

run result
cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib wallet 55 passed, 0 failed
cargo test -p dig-node-service --test wallet_bootstrap_wiring 5 passed, 0 failed
cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib (full) 764 passed, 0 failed
cargo clippy -p dig-node-service --all-targets -- -D warnings clean
cargo fmt --check (touched files only) clean

Revert-proofs, each committed first, reverting only the fix:

  • predicate -> (Some(_), false, _): 3 tests FAIL - a_stock_linux_service_shaped_split_proceeds,
    mint_is_refused_only_for_an_unanswered_override_with_no_wallet,
    setting_the_named_cache_override_lifts_the_refusal.
  • same_root -> exact equality: 2 tests FAIL - a_case_differing_windows_root_is_not_a_split,
    same_root_normalizes_trailing_separators_and_optionally_case.

Blast radius

gitnexus is ~301 commits stale on this repo and returns a false-safe impactedCount: 0, so this was
done by grep + direct read and is stated as such. The changed symbols are split_of,
mint_decision, announce and WalletRootSplit, all pub in dig_node_service::wallet_env, whose
only callers ecosystem-wide are wallet_bootstrap.rs, entrypoint.rs:1418 and win_service.rs:128

  • all in this crate, all updated. No consumer outside dig-node-service names the module.

Nothing the gates cleared was churned: the verbatim platform_user_base extraction,
seed_present's unknown-means-present direction, the ANNOUNCED once-guard, the log-field content,
the refusal writing nothing, and mirror/lifecycle.rs are untouched. No dig-*/chia-* dep bumps.
Versions unchanged at 0.235.0 / core 0.66.0 / wallet 0.47.0.

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Heads-up: this branch's version now COLLIDES with main — the green version gate is stale

main moved to 0.235.0 when PR #487 merged (closing #294). This branch also declares 0.235.0,
so Check version increment is currently green only because it ran against the older base. It will
flip to FAILURE as soon as this branch takes main.

Re-bump to the next free minor before merging. As of this comment 0.236.0 is claimed by the #490
lane (PR #492) and 0.237.0 by the #478 lane, so pick above those and re-read Cargo.toml from disk
rather than from a commit message.

Two traps worth naming, both measured in this repo:

  • git merge, never rebase. A rebase whose patch already merged prints
    dropping <sha> ... patch contents already upstream, exits 0 with zero conflicts, and silently takes
    the version-bump commit with it. The branch then sits AT main's version with no bump commit left to
    notice.
  • After any merge, re-read the version from the file on disk, not from the log, and scan the output
    for dropping as well as CONFLICT.

Posting rather than pushing, since another lane owns this branch.

MichaelTaylor3d and others added 2 commits September 1, 2026 18:38
Merge origin/main and take the next unclaimed version; 0.235.0 collided
with main after #488 landed.

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READY FOR REVIEWER RE-GATE (scoped: the two wallet_env.rs findings)

Head: 547a44f239518e94e24c267a633d2e3a2a4b9a67 · Version: 0.239.0 · Branch: loop/392-wallet-silent-start

Both GATING threads — resolved with evidence

Both were already fixed by the previous lane's 404076d; this lane MEASURED each claim against the current code rather than trusting the commit subject, then replied on each thread with file:line and resolved it.

finding outcome
"This remedy cannot clear the refusal" (wallet_root_split()) FIXED. mint_decision() (crates/dig-node-service/src/wallet_env.rs:257-268) now takes cache_override as a third input and refuses only on (Overridden, no seed, no DIG_NODE_CACHE). The remedy the message names flips the verdict to Proceed. SPEC.md:4393-4407 rewritten to match.
"This predicate fires on non-Windows hosts where nobody set an override" FIXED. SplitCause::{Overridden, Ambient} (:76-87) splits the two causes; split_of() (:196-221) assigns the cause from the raw LOCALAPPDATA, and only Overridden can refuse. A stock .deb service mints.

Tests are load-bearing, and bound to the predicate not the prose

  • setting_the_named_cache_override_lifts_the_refusal (:450-471) — asserts BOTH directions, so the original defect stays caught while the remedy is proven to work. Deliberately bound to mint_decision(): the earlier REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT.contains("DIG_NODE_CACHE") grep passed against the broken version, which is the exact false green the reviewer flagged.
  • a_stock_linux_service_shaped_split_proceeds (:441-448) — the shipped systemd unit's shape (HOME unset, no LOCALAPPDATA) must Proceed.
  • mint_is_refused_only_for_an_unanswered_override_with_no_wallet (:474-496) — all eight arms of the three-input table.
  • The reviewer's named canary, an_overridden_localappdata_is_reported_as_a_split, is no longer HOME-dependent: it sets LOCALAPPDATA to a tempdir, so the split is Overridden by construction.

Run: cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib wallet_env14 passed; 0 failed (14 tests actually executed, not a zero-match green).

Mergeability

Next action

Reviewer re-gate, scoped to the two wallet_env.rs findings. loop-security PASSed at 21:46Z on 2b22c7a; the delta since is the two fixes plus a merge commit, and touches no custody or crypto seam — so a security re-run is not indicated. PR stays DRAFT until the gate verdict returns; the orchestrator undrafts and merges.

…t-start

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Rebased onto a moved main — new head b868936f69129819e3dfc183cd1600d8a3e9f101

main advanced to 2098dbc (0.236.0) while CI was running on 547a44f, which flipped the PR to mergeStateStatus=DIRTY. Merged again (git merge, never --onto); the only conflict was the version line in Cargo.toml, resolved to keep 0.239.0 — still ahead of main's 0.236.0, with 0.237/0.238 left reserved for #494/#456. Cargo.lock re-resolved (dig-node-service 0.239.0, dig-wallet 0.47.0 from main).

No code conflicts: SPEC.md and crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs auto-merged. The two wallet_env.rs fixes are untouched by this merge, so the resolved threads and the 14-test run above still describe the current head.

Unchanged: PR stays DRAFT, both GATING threads resolved, awaiting reviewer re-gate scoped to the two wallet_env.rs findings.

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IN PROGRESS — not the verdict. loop-reviewer scoped re-gate, audited head 547a44f239518e94e24c267a633d2e3a2a4b9a67.

Confirmed so far by direct read (gitnexus dig-node index is ~300 commits stale, so this is grep + direct read):

  1. Finding (a) — the named remedy now flips the verdict. mint_decision (crates/dig-node-service/src/wallet_env.rs:257-268) takes cache_override as a third input and refuses only on (Some(Overridden), false, false); every other arm is Proceed. REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT names exactly two escapes — set DIG_NODE_CACHE, or unset LOCALAPPDATA — and both are honoured by that match arm (the second removes the Overridden cause in split_of). Wired for real at wallet_bootstrap.rs:36-62: ensure_wallet_seed passes wallet_env::cache_override_set() through to mint_decision, so the pure core is not the only thing that got the third input.

  2. Finding (b) — no rival predicate survives. Grep for mint_decision|cache_override_set|wallet_root_split|RefuseSplitRoot|platform_user_base across crates/ returns only the wiring above, the two announce call sites (entrypoint.rs:1418, win_service.rs:128), and platform_user_base's own definition (dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:630) plus its one caller canonical_cache_dir. There is no second place that classifies a split. split_of (wallet_env.rs:196-221) derives the cause solely from the raw LOCALAPPDATA argument, so a host with neither LOCALAPPDATA nor HOME classifies Ambient and proceeds.

  3. SPEC.md:4391-4407 matches the code, clause by clause, including the "MUST NOT prescribe DIG_NODE_CACHE" rule on the ambient path (guarded by the_ambient_announcement_does_not_prescribe_an_inert_remedy).

Still outstanding: the test run + count, and the failure-direction pass over the 8-arm table.

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CI GREEN on b868936f69129819e3dfc183cd1600d8a3e9f101 — READY FOR REVIEWER RE-GATE

check-merge-preconditions.sh --allow-draft returns exit 0, preconditions MET (run unpiped, so the exit code is the script's own and not a tail's):

draft=true  mergeStateStatus=CLEAN  unresolvedReviewThreads=0
  Lint commit messages               SUCCESS
  Check version increment            SUCCESS
  Rustfmt                            SUCCESS
  Clippy                             SUCCESS
  Test + coverage                    SUCCESS
  Release-script tests               SUCCESS

All six required contexts asserted BY NAME and present. The four packaging builds (.msi, .deb amd64/arm64, .pkg) also passed.

State: version 0.239.0, both GATING threads resolved with file:line evidence, zero unresolved threads, PR deliberately still DRAFT.

Next action for the orchestrator: reviewer re-gate scoped to the two wallet_env.rs findings, then undraft and merge. Not merging or undrafting from this lane.

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loop-reviewer — VERDICT: PASS

Audited head: 547a44f239518e94e24c267a633d2e3a2a4b9a67 (resolved from gh pr view --json headRefOid). Scoped correctness re-gate over the two prior GATING findings. gitnexus's dig-node index is ~300 commits stale, so blast radius was done by grep + direct read, in an own worktree at the audited SHA.

1. Finding (a) — the refusal's named remedy now flips the verdict. RESOLVED.

mint_decision (crates/dig-node-service/src/wallet_env.rs:257-268) refuses only on (Some(SplitCause::Overridden), false, false). REFUSED_SPLIT_MINT names exactly two escapes — set DIG_NODE_CACHE, or unset LOCALAPPDATA — and both are honoured: the first flips the third input, the second removes the Overridden cause in split_of. Wired for real, not only in the pure core: ensure_wallet_seed (wallet_bootstrap.rs:36-41) passes wallet_env::cache_override_set() through to mint_decision at :56-58.

Revert-proof, measured, not reasoned. In my own worktree I mutated the arm to (Some(Overridden), false, _) (i.e. ignore the new input) and re-ran: FAILED. 12 passed; 2 failedsetting_the_named_cache_override_lifts_the_refusal and mint_is_refused_only_for_an_unanswered_override_with_no_wallet both fail. File restored; git status --porcelain empty. The tests discriminate the fix from the nearest wrong implementation, and they assert the property (the named remedy is honoured) rather than a text match — the doc-comment at :437-440 says so explicitly, and grepping the constant for DIG_NODE_CACHE is kept only as a supplementary assert.

2. Finding (b) — no rival predicate survives. RESOLVED.

split_of (:196-221) derives the cause solely from the raw LOCALAPPDATA argument passed in, and wallet_root_split (:224-235) is the only binder. Grep across crates/ for mint_decision|cache_override_set|wallet_root_split|RefuseSplitRoot|SplitCause|platform_user_base returns only: that module, the wiring in wallet_bootstrap.rs, the two announce sites (entrypoint.rs:1418, win_service.rs:128), and platform_user_base's definition (dig-node-core/src/lib.rs:630) with its single caller canonical_cache_dir. There is no second classifier. On a Linux host with neither LOCALAPPDATA nor HOME, local_app_data is None, the cause is Ambient, and the verdict is Proceed — covered by a_stock_linux_service_shaped_split_proceeds (:441-448).

3. Failure direction of the 8-arm table. No arm mints into the wrong root through a misclassification.

The only unsafe direction is Overridden misclassified as Ambient (would proceed and mint a split). That requires LOCALAPPDATA set, same_root(LOCALAPPDATA, node_base) true, and wallet_base != node_base — but wallet_base is autoseed::user_base, which is LOCALAPPDATA-first, so the second and third conditions are mutually exclusive and split_of returns None first. The arm is unreachable in production, and the Ambient label it would carry is harmless. Every remaining misclassification direction lands on Proceed-vs-Proceed or on the safe refusal. The Ambient mint on the stock .deb unit does place the seed under . while the replica opens under the passwd home — but that is pre-existing behaviour the SPEC now states deliberately, and refusing it is the #1928 shape this PR exists to avoid.

4. User-facing sentences. Correct.

AMBIENT_SPLIT_ROOTS (:130-138) prescribes HOME, never DIG_NODE_CACHE, guarded by the_ambient_announcement_does_not_prescribe_an_inert_remedy. announce (:322-346) selects the message by cause, so the override-flavoured SPLIT_ROOTS text — the one that talks about LOCALAPPDATA relocating the seed — is emitted only when an override was actually set. The refusal states "NOTHING was minted and NOTHING was written", which is true: ensure_wallet_seed_unless_split returns before ensure_wallet_seed_at.

5. Tests. 14 passed, 0 failed, 750 filtered out.

cargo test -p dig-node-service --lib wallet_env at the audited head — a real non-zero count, not a running 0 tests green. CI at this head: all required contexts pass (Rustfmt, Clippy, Test + coverage 16m56s, Check version increment, commitlint, CodeQL/Analyze rust).

6. Delta since the security PASS head 2b22c7aa. No security re-run needed.

Non-merge production commits: 404076d only (this fix — wallet_env.rs, wallet_bootstrap.rs, wallet_bootstrap_wiring.rs, SPEC.md), plus 547a44f version bump to 0.239.0. The other files in the range diff (profile_sync.rs, module_stream.rs, control.rs) arrive through bac3807, the merge of origin/main, and were already gated on their own PRs (#487, #488). Nothing in 404076d touches key custody, signing or spend paths — it decides only whether autoseed::ensure_wallet is called at all, in the refusing direction.

7. SPEC.md:4391-4407 matches the code.

Clause by clause: the three-way conjunction, trailing-separator and Windows-case normalization, "every other divergence MUST proceed and warn only", and "the warning on that path MUST NOT prescribe DIG_NODE_CACHE" — each has a corresponding assertion.

Non-gating (resolve without action)

  • wallet_bootstrap_wiring.rs:48-52 writes its "\n}\n" delimiter as a literal multi-line string rather than escapes, unlike the identical call at :30. It is consistent under both LF and CRLF checkouts because include_str! sees the same endings, so it is correct — but it is the string-continuation shape this crate elsewhere guards against, and one rustfmt opinion away from being hard to read. Cosmetic only.

I did not merge, undraft, or edit the body. The PR is DIRTY only because main moved (#467 at 01:56Z); that re-merge is the orchestrator's mechanical step.

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loop-reviewer scoped re-gate — PASS at head 547a44f2. Both prior GATING findings are genuinely fixed (revert-proof measured: mutating the cache_override arm fails 2 tests). Full evidence in the verdict comment. No security re-run needed — the only non-merge production commit since the security PASS head is 404076d, which touches no custody, signing or spend path.

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MichaelTaylor3d added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
… a code span

The `crate::wallet_env` reference in `service_data_dir_overrides`' doc was a
plain code span naming a module that did not exist on this branch at the time it
was written. The module arrived with #489 and is now merged in, so the reference
resolves — but a code span is not checked by anything, which is how it came to
name a non-existent path in the first place.

Upgraded to an intra-doc link, so rustdoc fails if the module is renamed or
moved rather than the reference going quietly stale. The one sentence of the
argument being distinguished is inlined alongside it, so a reader learns what
the paragraph is contrasting without leaving the page.

Doc-only; no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
MichaelTaylor3d added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
… a code span

The `crate::wallet_env` reference in `service_data_dir_overrides`' doc was a
plain code span naming a module that did not exist on this branch at the time it
was written. The module arrived with #489 and is now merged in, so the reference
resolves — but a code span is not checked by anything, which is how it came to
name a non-existent path in the first place.

Upgraded to an intra-doc link, so rustdoc fails if the module is renamed or
moved rather than the reference going quietly stale. The one sentence of the
argument being distinguished is inlined alongside it, so a reader learns what
the paragraph is contrasting without leaving the page.

Doc-only; no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
MichaelTaylor3d added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
…to 0.249.0

Brings origin/main (0.245.0, including #467, #489, #492, #497) onto the
branch and sets the workspace version to the pre-assigned 0.249.0.

Conflicts and how they were resolved:

- `Cargo.toml` — a pure version collision (branch 0.242.0 vs main
  0.245.0). Every other main-side hunk was already applied by the
  auto-merge; the only difference from `origin/main` in this file is the
  version line, now 0.249.0.
- `Cargo.lock` — taken wholesale from `origin/main`, then re-locked with
  `cargo update -w`, which re-points the two workspace members whose
  manifests moved (`dig-node-service` 0.245.0 -> 0.249.0, `dig-wallet`
  0.47.0 -> 0.48.0). Nothing in the tree still reads 0.242.0.
- `crates/dig-wallet/src/sage/rpc.rs` — reported as a conflict by an
  earlier attempt; on this merge git resolved it textually because the
  two sides touch disjoint regions of the file. The result was read
  against BOTH parents rather than accepted on git's word:

  * MAIN's hunks are intact. `is_definitive_rejection` keeps the #497
    narrowing — a refusal frees inputs only when its stated reason is
    bundle-intrinsic (`super::chain::refusal_is_bundle_intrinsic`), with
    a HOLD default — and the #492 doc block stating that `synced` is a
    CURRENCY test computed independently of the routing tier, so
    `{source: "db", synced: false}` is a reachable state.
  * THE BRANCH's hunk is intact. `replica_answer_is_current` still
    delegates to `sync_supervisor::FollowingEvidence::measure`, which
    withholds the evidence when EITHER the replica or the peer height is
    unmeasured, so a `synced` phase cannot be emitted without the peak
    height that bounds it (#495).
  * No rival implementation survives the merge. The pre-#495
    `is_following` predicate is gone from the tree; `FollowingEvidence`
    is the single producer consumed by both the money reads
    (`rpc.rs:1085`) and the status endpoint
    (`sync_supervisor.rs:490`), which is what makes the
    `{phase: "synced", peak_height: null}` pairing unrepresentable
    rather than merely unlikely.

No behaviour was chosen over the other side: both guards are load-bearing
on different questions — one on whether a refusal may free inputs, the
other on whether a currency claim may be made at all.

dig-wallet: 772 passed, 0 failed, 1 ignored.
dig-node-service: 774 passed, 0 failed.

Note: `cargo test` on this Windows host needs RUST_MIN_STACK raised
(default hits a rustc STATUS_STACK_BUFFER_OVERRUN ICE while encoding
dig-node-service metadata) — an environment limit, not a code fault.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
MichaelTaylor3d added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 2, 2026
…elative to cwd (#491) (#499)

* chore(release): anchor v0.241.0 for #491

Salvage anchor for the wallet-seed-path lane. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(wallet): anchor the wallet base for a service run without orphaning an existing wallet

On a stock Linux .deb install the seed was CREATED at /DigWallet/seed.bin - the
filesystem root - and the write SUCCEEDED. The shipped unit sets no User=, so
systemd sets no $HOME, and no WorkingDirectory=, so the working directory is /;
the wallet's LOCALAPPDATA -> HOME -> "." chain therefore collapsed to a relative
base, and ProtectSystem=full leaves / writable for the root-run service. The
device key resolved from the same broken base, so the pair stayed consistent and
the wallet opened normally, which is why nothing surfaced it.

Introduce DIG_WALLET_BASE, a single override of the BASE that both wallet roots
hang off, and route seed_path() and autoseed::user_base() through one resolver.
Overriding the base rather than either directory keeps DigWallet/ and
DigNode/device/ siblings by construction - that separation is the
partial-exfiltration boundary autoseed's module docs describe, and a
per-directory override would let configuration alone collapse it.

A service run anchors that base at the machine state dir, but ONLY when no
wallet is present at the base it would otherwise have resolved. The operator
wallet holds real $DIG for mirror-coin collateral, so re-rooting an existing
host would strand the funded seed and mint an empty replacement; Windows
LocalSystem services are the live case, since %LOCALAPPDATA% IS set for them.
Presence is read through autoseed::presence and an undeterminable answer counts
as present. No key material is moved or copied.

The resolver is pure and takes its inputs explicitly so the service environment
(no LOCALAPPDATA, no HOME) and the Windows ordering are both exercised on the
Linux CI runner, without the process-global env serialization this crate
already works around.

Refs #491

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* test(wallet): assert the fail-closed direction of legacy_wallet_present

N1 from the #499 review: the safety-critical half of the change had no test.
An unreadable legacy seed path must count as PRESENT, never as absent, or a
service start re-anchors the wallet base away from a funded wallet and mints an
empty one beside it.

Split the mapping out as presence_counts_as_present so the property is
assertable without a platform-specific unreadable-path fixture - the portable
NUL-in-the-path fixture cannot be delivered through the environment on Windows,
because set_var rejects an interior NUL. The split also makes a refactor to
Path::exists() a compile error rather than a silent regression.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(wallet): make the wallet_env cross-reference a checked link, not a code span

The `crate::wallet_env` reference in `service_data_dir_overrides`' doc was a
plain code span naming a module that did not exist on this branch at the time it
was written. The module arrived with #489 and is now merged in, so the reference
resolves — but a code span is not checked by anything, which is how it came to
name a non-existent path in the first place.

Upgraded to an intra-doc link, so rustdoc fails if the module is renamed or
moved rather than the reference going quietly stale. The one sentence of the
argument being distinguished is inlined alongside it, so a reader learns what
the paragraph is contrasting without leaving the page.

Doc-only; no behaviour change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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