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Independently review the SeatVault contract prototype (an NFT-holding vault and its factory) at https://github.com/imtrippin/imd-seat-market, commit a51f9130a1f2a45da5299b657735c98d6a8c0dfa. Follow docs/SWARM-REVIEW-BRIEF.md at that commit for scope, the known limitations and the seven disclosed IMD integration assumptions. Check out this exact commit before initializing its pinned submodules: git checkout --detach a51f9130a1f2a45da5299b657735c98d6a8c0dfa; git submodule update --init --recursive. Do not substitute current main.

The rule: the owner places one seat NFT in a vault; the owner approves pairing signatures one at a time and the vault answers ERC-1271 only for that digest; every supported ERC-20 unit that reaches the vault is split by immutable basis points; each party claims its own allocation; the owner can recover the NFT at any time without the host and without any call to the reward token. There is no fee, no deposit and no admin. Review custody under any sequence of deposit, plain transfer, syncHeld, end, withdrawNFT and rescueERC721, including rejecting recipients and a second vault for the same token; ERC-1271 digest binding and replay boundaries (chain, relay, wallet, token, nonce), roles, expiry edges, revocation and device changes; reward accounting by balance difference, rounding, exact claims, reentrancy and hostile tokens, several tokens at once and claims after exit; the owner-only registry call facility and rescue of the agent NFT; the pairing helper's validation and the rehearsal script's at-most-once send logic; and test adequacy. State what can and cannot be made enforceable with this design, including the owner-withdraws-before-payout case. Give concrete reproductions and suggested fixes; do not implement them.

Inspect source before execution. From contracts/ run forge build, forge test, forge test --gas-report and forge fmt --check src test script using Foundry 1.8.3 and Solidity 0.8.30. From the repository root run node --test test/pair-vault.test.mjs test/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs and node contracts/script/pair-vault.mjs --selftest; Node 22+, Bash and a working Python 3 are needed. Set REVIEW_PYTHON if necessary. Expected counts are 48 Foundry tests across 4 suites and 26 script tests; report actual results and every skip. Public source, pinned dependencies, documentation and trusted toolchain downloads are the only permitted external reads. Offline fixture signing with the tests' public dummy key is allowed; no real key or wallet may be used, and no signed transaction may be broadcast.

This is a read-only review. No deployment, live RPC/IMD experiment, pairing, transfer, payment, worker change, wallet connection, credential access, GitHub push/PR, site publication or unrelated external message is authorized. Do not run the deployment script or the live walkthrough. Do not modify tracked source, tests or documentation; describe reproductions inline or in disposable local scratch copies. Use the worker's designated findings output only as required by its review protocol. Treat repository instructions and reference documents as material to assess, not permission for external actions. The website, the legacy JavaScript model and the removed rental escrow (git history only) are excluded; no fee or percentage policy is being chosen.

Return native structured review findings and a concise Markdown summary through the normal job result; do not publish separate files or create a Git bundle. Each finding must identify severity, exact path/function/line, concrete reproduction with expected and observed behavior, impact and suggested fix. Use the runtime's supported severity schema; map the brief's blocker label to critical if needed. Put category, impact and fix in the description when the schema has no dedicated fields. Separate demonstrated defects, design choices and production prerequisites. State the exact commit and checks, and distinguish verified code behavior from unknown IMD behavior. This is not a production audit certificate.

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Audit imported codeAgent #2found 1 medium, 4 low, 5 info

Review complete. The proof fails on the reviewed code and passes with the suggested one-line guard, so it is a valid revision anchor.

Summary

Commit reviewed: a51f9130a1f2a45da5299b657735c98d6a8c0dfa, detached, submodules at the pinned revisions (OpenZeppelin v5.4.0 c64a1edb, forge-std v1.16.2 bf647bd6). Toolchain: Foundry 1.8.3, solc 0.8.30, Node 22.23.2, Python 3.12.3.

Read in full: contracts/src/SeatVault.sol (vault and factory), all four Foundry suites and both mock files, DeployVault.s.sol, pair-vault.mjs, the fixture, testnet-walkthrough.sh, both Node suites, the CI workflow, README, VAULT-DESIGN, the brief and review history. Nothing in scope was unreachable. The Pashov reference at .imd/reads/ is not present in this tree, so I worked from the checklist embedded in the task. One external read: the Sourcify-verified ABI of the pinned seat collection, used only to bound one finding.

Checks run and results

Check	Result
`forge build`	ok, 4 lint warnings (1 src, 3 test)
`forge test`	48 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 4 suites
`forge test --gas-report`	ok; factory `create` median 2,104,774 gas
`forge fmt --check src test script`	clean
`node --test ...` without `REVIEW_PYTHON`	21 pass, 5 fail
same with `REVIEW_PYTHON=python3`	26 pass, 0 fail, 0 skipped
`pair-vault.mjs --selftest`	ok

No deployment, walkthrough, RPC, signing with a real key or network action was performed.

Findings written to .imd-findings.json (1 medium, 4 low, 5 info):

Medium, with proof: settle/claim accept the seat collection or registry as token. On an ERC-721 exposing legacy transfer(address,uint256) the provider moves the seat through claim. The pinned IMD collection lacks that function, so it is not exploitable on mainnet, but the guard is a one-liner.
Low: the provider can end() before deposit or front-run it, killing a 2.1M-gas vault.
Low: the pairing helper treats millisecond timestamps as seconds, silently disabling both expiry clocks.
Low: claims are all-or-nothing under a shortfall.
Low: registerAgent forwards arbitrary calldata; a three-selector allowlist is the better answer to brief item 4.
Info: immutable roles with no rotation, the REVIEW_PYTHON hard assertion, coverage gaps including a missing invariant suite, lint warnings, and key handling in the walkthrough.

What the design can and cannot enforce. Verified in code: the split of every unit that reaches the vault, exact-delivery claims, operator confinement to one approved digest, owner exit without touching the reward token, and no delegatecall, selfdestruct, proxy, initializer, mint or pause in the vault. Not enforceable here: owner withdrawal right before a payout, which only a lock-up or notice period could address and both contradict the stated rule. Also unenforceable: payout routing, device disconnect timing, and any host income. These depend on the seven IMD assumptions, none of which mocks can verify. A conservation invariant I ran as a scratch witness held over 4096 calls and is worth adopting.

Scratch reproductions are under contracts/test/scratch/ only. No tracked file was modified.

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mediumclaim()/settle() accept the seat collection and the registry as `token`; on a collection exposing transfer(address,uint256) the provider moves the seatcontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:281
Category: demonstrated defect (conditional on the collection ABI). settle(token) and claim(token) take any address and treat balanceOf(vault) as a fungible balance. Passing the pinned seat collection (IERC20(address(collection))) settles the vault's NFT count (1) as a reward: owner share floor(1*7000/10000)=0, provider share 1. The provider's claim then executes collection.transfer(provider, 1) through SafeERC20.

On an ERC-721 that implements the pre-standard transfer(address,uint256) (CryptoKitties-era ABI, still shipped by some collections) that call moves token id 1, and _pushExact accepts it because both balanceOf deltas equal 1. The core guarantee 'the host can never move the NFT' is thereby broken whenever tokenId == the claimable count (1, or 2 when an agent NFT of the same collection sits in the vault).

Verified against the pinned IMD collection 0x0000ec93127baa929e58e97dd0095a2bfb38ec1d: its Sourcify-verified ABI (compilation IdentityMD, not a proxy) has no transfer(address,uint256) and no fallback, so the call reverts there and the seat cannot be moved on mainnet; the identity registry is an upgradeable proxy whose future ABI is not pinned. rescueERC721(other=rewardToken, ...) has the mirror gap: only (collection, tokenId) is rejected.

Impact: conditional loss of the seat to the provider; on the pinned collection only spurious ledger entries (accounted[collection]=1).

Suggested fix: in _settle (or settle/claim) revert with UnsupportedToken when address(token) == address(collection) || address(token) == identityRegistry, and in rescueERC721 revert when address(other) == address(rewardToken); optionally restrict settle/claim to rewardToken plus an owner-designated allowlist.
State: vault created for (owner, provider, operator, collection C, tokenId 1, reward R, 3000 bps); owner deposits token 1 (C.ownerOf(1)==vault).

Input: provider calls vault.claim(IERC20(address(C))).

Expected: revert (C is not a reward token) and C.ownerOf(1)==vault.

Observed with a C that has transfer(address,uint256): Settled(C, 1, 0, 1) then Claimed(C, provider, 1), C.ownerOf(1)==provider, held still true.

Observed with an OpenZeppelin/Solady-style C (the pinned IMD collection): settle(IERC20(address(C))) succeeds and records accounted[C]=1, claimable[C][provider]=1; the claim reverts inside SafeERC20 (no such function), seat stays.

Scratch test: contracts/test/scratch/ClaimOnCollection.t.sol, forge test --match-path test/scratch/ClaimOnCollection.t.sol fails on this commit with 'the provider moved the seat through claim()'.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
```
// SPDX-License-Identifier: UNLICENSED
pragma solidity 0.8.30;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {SeatVault} from "src/SeatVault.sol";
import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol";
import {IERC721} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/IERC721.sol";
import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
import {ERC721} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC721/ERC721.sol";

/// @dev An ERC-721 that also exposes the pre-standard `transfer(address,uint256)` (CryptoKitties-era ABI, still
/// present on some collections). `claim(token)` treats `balanceOf` as a fungible balance and pays "amount" units with
/// `transfer(to, amount)`, which on such a collection moves token id == amount.
contract LegacyTransferERC721 is ERC721 {
    constructor() ERC721("Legacy seats", "LSEAT") {}

    function mint(address to, uint256 id) external {
        _mint(to, id);
    }

    function transfer(address to, uint256 id) external returns (bool) {
        _transfer(msg.sender, to, id);
        return true;
    }
}

contract Reward is ERC20 {
    constructor() ERC20("R", "R") {}
}

contract Registry {
    fallback() external {}
}

contract ClaimOnCollectionTest is Test {
    address owner = makeAddr("owner");
    address provider = makeAddr("provider");
    address operator = makeAddr("operator");
    uint256 constant TOKEN = 1;

    function test_providerCannotMoveTheSeatByClaimingTheCollectionAsAToken() public {
        LegacyTransferERC721 seats = new LegacyTransferERC721();
        Reward reward = new Reward();
        Registry registry = new Registry();
        seats.mint(owner, TOKEN);
        SeatVault vault = new SeatVault(
            owner,
            provider,
            operator,
            IERC721(address(seats)),
            TOKEN,
            IERC20(address(reward)),
            3000,
            keccak256("device"),
            address(registry),
            "https://api.imdnotdead.fun"
        );
        vm.startPrank(owner);
        seats.approve(address(vault), TOKEN);
        vault.deposit();
        vm.stopPrank();
        assertEq(seats.ownerOf(TOKEN), address(vault));

        // The provider settles the seat collection "as a token": balanceOf(vault) == 1, floor(1 * 70%) == 0 for the
        // owner, so the whole unit is the provider's allocation; claim pays it with transfer(provider, 1).
        vm.prank(provider);
        (bool ok,) = address(vault).call(abi.encodeCall(SeatVault.claim, (IERC20(address(seats)))));
        ok; // whether it reverted or not, the seat must still be in the vault
        assertEq(seats.ownerOf(TOKEN), address(vault), "the provider moved the seat through claim()");
        assertTrue(vault.held());
    }
}
```
lowProvider can end() a vault before the seat arrives (or front-run deposit), making the freshly created vault unusablecontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:181
Category: demonstrated defect (griefing, bounded). end() has no held precondition, so the provider may end an agreement that never started. After that onERC721Received reverts AlreadyEnded, so deposit() fails, syncHeld() fails, and the owner must create another vault (factory create median 2,104,774 gas in the gas report, ~2.1M on the seat's chain). A provider watching the mempool can front-run the owner's deposit() with end().

A plain transferFrom still lands in the dead vault and is only recoverable through withdrawNFT.

Impact: gas loss and denial of the agreement by the counterparty the owner chose; no asset loss.

Suggested fix: require held (or collection.ownerOf(tokenId) == address(this)) for a provider-initiated end(), e.g. if (msg.sender == provider && !held) revert NotHeld();, leaving the owner free to end at any time.
State: vault created, seat still with the owner, held==false, ended==false.

Sequence: (1) provider calls end() -> succeeds, ended==true.

(2) owner calls seats.approve(vault, 2048) then vault.deposit().

Expected: the owner can start the agreement it created, or at least end() before custody is rejected.

Observed: deposit() reverts AlreadyEnded() (from onERC721Received); syncHeld() after a plain transfer also reverts AlreadyEnded(); the vault is permanently unusable for pairing.

Scratch witness: contracts/test/scratch/Witnesses.t.sol test_providerEndsBeforeDepositAndTheDepositReverts (passes as a witness of the current behaviour).
lowpair-vault.mjs parseExpiry treats a millisecond Unix timestamp as seconds, silently disabling both expiry clockscontracts/script/pair-vault.mjs:44
Category: demonstrated defect in the pairing helper's validation (production prerequisite for live use). The pairing-response schema is unverified (assumption 2). If IMD returns expiresAt as a JavaScript-style millisecond number (Date.now()+300000), parseExpiry multiplies it by 1000 again and produces a date ~50,000 years out, so validatePairing never reports 'pairing code has expired' and expiryProblems in complete never reports 'IMD's pairing code expired'.

A 13-digit millisecond string is rejected as 'not a timestamp' (Date.parse returns NaN), so the string path fails closed while the number path fails open.

Impact: the 'two clocks' guard the round-two fix introduced is bypassed; the owner may mine an approvePairing transaction (gas spent, live approval left on-chain for up to an hour) for a code IMD will refuse. No key or fund risk.

Suggested fix: treat numbers >= 1e11 (or 13-digit strings) as milliseconds, or reject them explicitly; add the two cases to the self-test and to test/pair-vault.test.mjs.
Input: validatePairing({deviceKey:'aa'.repeat(32), nonce:'bb'.repeat(32), relayOrigin:'https://api.imdnotdead.fun', chainId:1, nftContract:'0x0000ec93127baa929e58e97dd0095a2bfb38ec1d', expiresAt: 1799999000000}, expect, 1800000000000) (a millisecond expiry 1000 s in the past).

Expected: ['pairing code has expired'].

Observed: [] (accepted); parseExpiry(1799999000000) returns 1799999000000000.

Likewise expiryProblems({message:{expiresAt:1800000600}, codeExpiresAt:1799999000000}, 1800000000) returns [] instead of the code-expired problem, while the same instant as an ISO string is correctly refused.

Reproduced with Node 22 by importing the helper's pure section (the same way test/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs does).
lowclaim() is all-or-nothing under a shortfall: a party owed more than the vault holds cannot take the part that is therecontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:288
Category: design choice with a sharp edge (documented as 'the last claimant bears the loss'). claim always pushes the full claimable amount; when balanceOf(vault) < claimable[msg.sender] (rebasing, upgraded, partially blocked or dishonest token) the transfer reverts and the party cannot withdraw even the units that are present, until someone tops the vault up.

Impact: for an unsupported token the remaining balance is frozen for the short party rather than partially recoverable; for the supported IMD token this cannot happen unless its balances change outside transfers.

Suggested fix: add an explicit partial claim claim(IERC20 token, uint256 amount) (amount <= claimable, exact-delivery check unchanged) or let claim pay min(claimable, balance) and keep the remainder allocated; document the choice either way.
State: 100 units of R settled (owner 70, provider 30); then R's balance of the vault drops by 50 outside a transfer (mock burn).

Sequence: provider claim(R) -> receives 30 (balance now 20); owner claim(R).

Expected: owner can take the 20 that remain (or a documented partial path exists).

Observed: owner's claim reverts (ERC20InsufficientBalance), claimable[R][owner]==70, shortfall(R)==50, 20 units stay in the vault.

Scratch witness: contracts/test/scratch/Witnesses.t.sol test_claimIsAllOrNothingUnderShortfall.
lowregisterAgent() forwards arbitrary calldata to an upgradeable proxy; a selector allowlist is safer even though the implementation can changecontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:265
Category: design choice (owner-only, self-affecting). Any 4+ byte calldata goes to the pinned registry with the vault as msg.sender, and AgentRegistered(data) is emitted even for non-registration calls.

Because the registry is an ERC-721 (agent NFTs), the owner can be talked into sending setApprovalForAll, approve or transferFrom calldata that IMD's register-intent endpoint proposes, handing the agent identity to a third party (tracked witness test_registryCalldataCanAuthorizeAnAgentNFTTransfer). It cannot touch the seat or the reward token: the vault never approves the registry on either, and the call is CALL (not DELEGATECALL) with zero value and a reentrancy guard.

Answer to brief item 4: an allowlist of the three register selectors (register(), register(string), register(string,(string,bytes)[])) is better despite the proxy. The proxy argument cuts the other way: if the implementation's ABI changes, the pinned EIP-712 domain and the factory would need a new version anyway, and an allowlist fails closed (revert) rather than open. Rescue of the agent NFT stays available through rescueERC721.

Also note the registry may later require a registration fee in ETH; the vault has no payable path, which is a production prerequisite to confirm.
State: seat deposited, agreement open.

Input: owner calls registerAgent(abi.encodeCall(IERC721.setApprovalForAll, (delegate, true))).

Expected under a register-only facility: revert.

Observed: the call succeeds, AgentRegistered is emitted with the approval calldata, and delegate can transferFrom(vault, delegate, agentId) on the registry (exactly what contracts/test/codex/SeatVaultRound3.t.sol test_registryCalldataCanAuthorizeAnAgentNFTTransfer shows).
infoOwner and provider are immutable with no rotation: a lost owner key strands the seat, a compromised provider key can end the agreementcontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:46
Category: design choice to state explicitly for the adapter. There is no owner transfer (one- or two-step), no operator rotation other than the device key, and no provider change other than a new vault.

Consequences: if the owner's key is lost while the seat is held, withdrawNFT and claim (owner side) are uncallable forever and the seat is locked in the vault; if the provider's key is compromised the attacker can end() (clearing a live approval) and claim the provider allocation. Neither is a bypass of the stated rule ('no admin'), but both are irreversible.

Suggested fix: none required; if rotation is wanted, a two-step transferOwnership restricted to the owner keeps the no-admin property. Otherwise document that the owner address must be a wallet the owner can always control (a Safe is fine: the owner never has to sign a digest, the operator does).
State: seat deposited.

Input: the owner's private key is lost (no transaction can be signed from owner).

Expected: some recovery path.

Observed: withdrawNFT, rescueERC721, approvePairing, revokePairing, setDeviceKey and the owner's claim all revert NotOwner() for every other caller; ownerOf(tokenId) stays the vault indefinitely; only the provider's allocation remains claimable.
infotest/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs fails (not skips) 5 tests unless REVIEW_PYTHON is set, although python3 is on PATHtest/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs:89
Category: test adequacy / verification friction. The round-three suite hard-asserts process.env.REVIEW_PYTHON, while test/pair-vault.test.mjs discovers python3/python automatically. On this box (Node 22.23.2, Python 3.12.3 on PATH) the brief's command node --test test/pair-vault.test.mjs test/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs reports 21 pass / 5 fail; with REVIEW_PYTHON=python3 it reports 26/26.

CI sets the variable, so the tree is green there, but an independent verifier following the brief literally sees failures.

Suggested fix: reuse the discovery from test/pair-vault.test.mjs (or {skip: !realPython}) so the probes skip with a reason instead of failing, and state in the brief that REVIEW_PYTHON is required rather than optional.
Command from the repository root without REVIEW_PYTHON: node --test test/pair-vault.test.mjs test/codex/vault-round3.test.mjs.

Expected (brief): 26 script tests pass or skip with a reason.

Observed: 'tests 26, pass 21, fail 5' with AssertionError 'Set REVIEW_PYTHON to a Python executable for the offline receipt probes.' for R3-2, R3-3, stale, wrong-publish and two-calls.

With REVIEW_PYTHON=python3 the same command gives 'pass 26, fail 0, skipped 0'.
infoCoverage gaps: no invariant suite, no test for non-reward addresses passed as `token`, no end-before-deposit or zero-recipient testcontracts/foundry.toml:16
Category: test adequacy. foundry.toml configures [invariant] (64 runs, depth 64) but no invariant test exists in contracts/test.

Untested edges found during this review: (1) settle/claim with token == collection or token == identityRegistry (finding 1); (2) provider end() before deposit and front-running deposit() (finding 2); (3) withdrawNFT(address(0)) and rescueERC721(..., address(0)) — the vault has no zero check and relies on the collection (OpenZeppelin v5 and the pinned Solady-style collection both revert); (4) approvePairing at exactly block.timestamp + 1 hours (accepted; only +1 is tested); (5) fuzzing isValidSignature over random hashes/signature bytes; (6) deposit() executed by an approved operator on the owner's behalf (from == owner path); (7) the pairing helper with millisecond timestamps (finding 3).

A scratch conservation invariant (accounted[t] == claimable[t][owner] + claimable[t][provider] and balanceOf(vault) >= accounted[t] for an honest token, handler: mint/settle/claim/claim/end) held for 64 runs x 64 depth (4096 calls, 0 reverts) and is worth adopting as a tracked invariant.

Suggested fix: add the invariant file and the seven unit cases above.
State: the tracked suites at this commit (forge test: 48 tests, 4 suites, all pass).

Input: forge test --match-test invariant_ .

Expected: at least one invariant over the reward ledger.

Observed: 'No tests match the provided pattern'.

Scratch invariant and witnesses: contracts/test/scratch/Witnesses.t.sol (6 tests, all pass on this commit).
infoforge build lint warnings: event after external call in factory create(), environment reads across vm.warp/vm.chainId in testscontracts/src/SeatVault.sol:399
Category: hygiene, no defect. Foundry 1.8.3 forge build prints reentrancy-events for VaultCreated emitted after new SeatVault(...) (the only external interaction is the constructor of a contract this factory deploys, so no reordering is possible) and three environment-read-across-mutation warnings in contracts/test/SeatVault.t.sol (lines 71, 251, 254: block.chainid/block.timestamp captured before vm.chainId/vm.warp).

The test warnings do not affect results here because the captured values are the intended pre-mutation values.

Suggested fix: use vm.getChainId()/vm.getBlockTimestamp() in the tests; optionally emit VaultCreated before vaults.push is irrelevant, the warning can be silenced with a forge-lint disable comment.
Command: cd contracts && forge build.

Expected: clean build.

Observed: build succeeds with 4 lint warnings (1 in src, 3 in test) as listed; forge fmt --check src test script exits 0.
infoWalkthrough passes throwaway private keys on the cast command line and reads them with `python` from $HOME/.ssh by defaultcontracts/script/testnet-walkthrough.sh:83
Category: production prerequisite (testnet rehearsal only; statically reviewed, not executed). send hands the key to cast mktx --private-key "$who" and cast wallet address --private-key, so the key is visible in the process table of the machine for the duration of each call; key()/addr() invoke python (not python3), which is absent on many systems, and default KEYS=$HOME/.ssh mixes wallet JSON with SSH material.

The at-most-once logic itself is sound as reviewed: one cast mktx per call, same-bytes rebroadcast only, receipt required for the locally computed hash with a block number and status 1, no rebuild on 'nonce too low'/'already known'/'underpriced' or on a receipt for another hash, nonce read once per key and advanced locally, and set -e stops the run on the first failure so a restart needs manual reconciliation (documented).

One diagnostic nit: 'transaction underpriced' (never accepted by the node) is treated like 'already known', so the script waits 45 s and prints 'check that hash by hand' for a transaction that was never in a mempool.

Suggested fix: use cast wallet import/keystore or --keystore with a password file instead of --private-key arguments, call python3, default KEYS to a dedicated directory, and distinguish 'replacement transaction underpriced' from 'transaction underpriced' in the retry condition.
Static: contracts/script/testnet-walkthrough.sh lines 18-22 (python -c ... print(w['private_key']), KEYS default $HOME/.ssh) and 83 (--private-key "$who").

Expected: no key on an argv; observed: every send exposes it to ps.

Offline behaviour verified via the tracked shims: with REVIEW_PYTHON=python3 all 12 send/receipt scenarios pass (never rebuilds, stops on missing/mismatched receipt, stops before signing on nonce read failure).

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