Four agents audited the code as it is at 4e35c8e, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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• 1.lowETH slice batch feeds amountIn = 0 into the main-duel leg when the IMD/ETH route leg buys nothing, so convert(ETH) reverts and every trade of an ETH-sliced duel re-runs a failing batchsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:442

              (imdSpent, bought) = _swapClaims(_mainKey(), imd, imdIn, true);

  _convert's native-ETH branch sells batch ETH for IMD in the hookless IMD/ETH route pool (main=false: the limit is 0.1% past that pool's current price, so there is no early return) and then unconditionally sells imdIn IMD in the main duel. When no liquidity sits in that 0.1% band (the route pool is public, its LPs can leave, or the price sits in a gap) the first leg returns spent = 0, got = 0, and the second leg calls manager.swap with amountSpecified = -int256(0).

  PoolManager.swap rejects that with SwapAmountCannotBeZero (lib/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol:193).

  Effects: (1) the public convert(ETH) reverts instead of returning with the pile untouched, which is what the IMD branch does in the same situation (_swapClaims' early return); (2) inside _play every trade of every duel whose slice is ETH sees pile[ETH] >= minEth, calls this.convertBatch{gas: 800_000}, runs the route swap, reverts, and the try/catch swallows it, so the same wasted work repeats on every trade until someone adds route liquidity.

  No funds are lost: the ETH pile stays accounted. Reported by two specialists (math and flow); merged.

  Fix: skip the second leg when imdIn == 0 (e.g. if (imdIn != 0) (imdSpent, bought) = _swapClaims(_mainKey(), imd, imdIn, true);) or guard _swapClaims with if (amountIn == 0) return (0, 0);.

  whole finding

  Hook with ethFee 3000 / ethSpacing 60 / ethHooks 0, minEth 1e15; main duel IMD/IMDUEL with 1e24 liquidity at 1:1; route pool PoolKey(ETH, IMD, 3000, 60, 0) initialized at 1:1 with no liquidity; an ETH/X duel on the hook with liquidity.

  (1) swapNativeInput(ethX, true, -10e18): the 0.01 ETH slice reaches the minimum, the in-trade batch fails inside convertBatch's catch, pile[0] stays 0.01e18.

  (2) hook.convert(Currency.wrap(address(0))).

  Expected: returns with pile[0] still 0.01e18 (nothing to sell the ETH for yet).

  Actual: reverts with SwapAmountCannotBeZero() from PoolManager.swap for the main-duel leg. test/scratch/EthRouteZeroLeg.t.sol (the specialist's proof) fails on this code with exactly that error.

  whole reproduction
  proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
  pragma solidity ^0.8.26;
  
  import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
  import {Deployers} from "v4-core/test/utils/Deployers.sol";
  import {IHooks} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
  import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
  import {PoolKey} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
  import {Currency, CurrencyLibrary} from "v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
  import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
  import {MockERC20} from "solmate/src/test/utils/mocks/MockERC20.sol";
  import {IChessEngine} from "src/IChessEngine.sol";
  import {IMDuelHook, IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS} from "src/IMDuelHook.sol";
  
  /// An ETH slice batch whose first leg (ETH -> IMD in the route pool) buys nothing (no liquidity within the 0.1%
  /// band of the route pool's price) feeds amountIn = 0 into the second leg (IMD -> $IMDUEL in the main duel), and the
  /// pool manager reverts that swap with SwapAmountCannotBeZero. convert(ETH) then reverts instead of being a no-op,
  /// and every trade in an ETH-sliced duel whose pile is over the minimum burns gas on the same failing batch.
  contract EthRouteZeroLegTest is Test, Deployers {
      using CurrencyLibrary for Currency;
  
      uint256 constant MIN = 1e15;
      Currency imd;
      Currency duel;
      Currency x;
      IMDuelHook hook;
      PoolKey main;
  
      function token(string memory name) internal returns (Currency c) {
          MockERC20 t = new MockERC20(name, name, 18);
          t.mint(address(this), 1e36);
          t.approve(address(swapRouter), type(uint256).max);
          t.approve(address(modifyLiquidityRouter), type(uint256).max);
          c = Currency.wrap(address(t));
      }
  
      function setUp() public {
          deployFreshManagerAndRouters();
          (imd, duel, x) = (token("IMD"), token("IMDUEL"), token("X"));
          IChessEngine engine = IChessEngine(vm.deployCode("ChessEngineV5.sol:ChessEngineV5"));
          address at = address(IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS | (uint160(0x1D0E1) << 40));
          // the IMD / ETH route: fee 3000, spacing 60, no hook; every pile converts from 1e15 up
          deployCodeTo(
              "IMDuelHook.sol:IMDuelHook",
              abi.encode(manager, engine, imd, uint24(3000), uint24(60), IHooks(address(0)), MIN, MIN, MIN, uint256(1)),
              at
          );
          hook = IMDuelHook(at);
          // the main duel, with liquidity at 1:1
          (Currency c0, Currency c1) = imd < duel ? (imd, duel) : (duel, imd);
          (main,) = initPool(c0, c1, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
          modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(main, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1_000_000e18, 0), "");
      }
  
      function test_anEmptyRouteLegMakesConvertRevertInsteadOfWaiting() public {
          // the route pool exists but holds no liquidity (its LPs are not ours: they can leave at any time)
          PoolKey memory route = PoolKey(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, imd, 3000, 60, IHooks(address(0)));
          manager.initialize(route, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
          // an ETH / X duel on the hook, its slice in ETH
          vm.deal(address(this), 1e30);
          (PoolKey memory ethX,) = initPool(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, x, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
          modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity{value: 1e27}(ethX, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1e24, 0), "");
          // a 10 ETH buy of X: slice 0.01 ETH, over the minimum, so the trade runs a batch (and swallows its failure)
          swapNativeInput(ethX, true, -10e18, "", 10e18);
          assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "nothing converted: the route has no depth");
          // expected: a batch that has nothing to sell for IMD leaves the pile waiting and does not revert.
          // actual: the second leg is asked to swap 0 IMD and the pool manager reverts (SwapAmountCannotBeZero)
          hook.convert(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO);
          assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "the ETH still waits");
      }
  }

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• 2.lowBid strength is measured against in-range liquidity that an LP can pull and restore in the same block, so a small buy plays at the 90% capsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:268

          uint256 depth = manager.getLiquidity(id); // sets a bid's strength: every buy bids

  beforeSwap reads the pool's current in-range liquidity and _trade turns it into the depth a bid's share is computed against (Strength.fromShare). The hook registers no liquidity callbacks and v4 lets one unlock remove liquidity, swap and add it back, so whoever controls most of a duel's in-range liquidity (the pool creator in a fresh duel, the launch seeder in the main duel) can remove it, buy, and re-add it atomically.

  The bid then plays at a far higher strength than its size against the pool's real depth gives, winning more captures, checks and mates and with them more bounties from the team chest (each capped at 2x what the trade received), while the other team's bidders face the same disadvantage. The design says strength is set 'by its share of the pool', but the share is taken against a depth the bidder controls at that moment.

  Fix: measure depth against something one transaction cannot move, e.g. record the pool's liquidity at the block's first touch (as mainStart does for price) and use the larger of that and the current liquidity; or add liquidity hooks that refuse in-range removal in a block where the pool has an open bid.

  whole finding

  Base.setUpMainDuel() (1,000,000e18 full-range liquidity, 1:1).

  A White buy of 1e20 bids at strength 3047 bps.

  From the same snapshot: modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(pool, (-887220, 887220, -999_000e18, 0)), then the same White buy of 1e20, then re-add the 999_000e18.

  Expected: about the same strength as 1e20 against the pool's normal depth (~30%).

  Actual: hook.game(id).bids[white].strength == 9000, the cap.

  Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_strengthAgainstPulledLiquidity (logs 3047 vs 9000).

  whole reproduction

• 3.lowExact-output swaps pay the input-side chest share and slice on the pool's net input, escaping about a fifth of the main duel's opening surcharge (20.3% instead of 25.5%)src/IMDuelHook.sol:305

          uint256 toChest = chestIdx == idx ? _addChest(id, idx, amount * _chestBps(g) / 10_000) : 0;

  _takeFee charges amount * bps / 10_000 and the base depends on how the swap is specified. On exact input the base is the gross trade: the whole input in beforeSwap (line 271) or the pool's gross output in afterSwap (line 289). On exact output the base is the net trade: the requested output X (the pool then swaps X + fee), or the pool's input I in afterSwap (the user then pays I + fee), so exact output pays bps/(1+bps) of the gross trade instead of bps.

  At the normal 0.5% the gap is ~0.0025% of volume. In the main duel's opening (OPENING_BPS 2,500 on top of CHEST_BPS 40 plus SLICE_BPS 10, meant to deter snipers) an exact-output buyer pays 0.255/1.255 = 20.3% of what it hands over instead of 25.5%, and the chest receives about 25% less from it than from an exact-input buyer of the same tokens. Exact-output routes (e.g. V4Router exact-out) therefore get a weaker surcharge than documented.

  Fix: on exact-output swaps gross the fee up to the exact-input base, fee = amount * bps / (10_000 - bps) with the combined chest and slice bps for the side; or document that exact-output trades pay bps/(1+bps).

  whole finding

  Base.setUpMainDuel(); hook.setOpening(true) so the real _chestBps applies at age 0 (chest share 2,540 bps + 10 bps slice, both in currency0 since both chests are empty).

  Path A: swap(pool, true, -1e18, "") pays 1.000000e18 currency0, receives 742764448300564558 currency1, hook claims in currency0 grow by 0.255e18 (25.5%).

  Path B from the same snapshot: swap(pool, true, 742764448300564558, "") receives the same 742764448300564558 currency1, pays 0.934975e18 currency0, hook claims grow by 0.189975e18 (20.3% of what was paid).

  Expected: the same surcharge rate for the same trade.

  Actual: the exact-output buyer pays 6.5% less and the chest gets 0.065e18 less.

  Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_exactOutputPaysLessSurcharge (logs above).

  whole reproduction

• 4.lowA bid without 20-byte hookData is credited to tx.origin, so for ERC-4337, relayed, Safe-executed and solver-routed swaps the bundler or relayer owns the move and its bountysrc/IMDuelHook.sol:547

          address owner = hookData.length == 20 ? address(bytes20(hookData)) : tx.origin;

  _trade names the bid owner from hookData when exactly 20 bytes are passed and otherwise falls back to tx.origin, described in the notes as 'the signing wallet'.

  Every swap in a hook pool bids (there is no opt-out), so any swap that is not sent directly by an EOA and does not carry 20-byte hookData (an ERC-4337 account through a bundler, a Gelato/meta-tx relayer, a CoW or UniswapX solver, the executor of a Safe transaction, any integrating contract) makes the externally-originating EOA the owner of the move. _payBounty then pays that address from the team chest, up to PAYOUT_CAP = 2x what the trade received, and if the push fails owed[] stays credited to it.

  The trader whose tokens paid gets nothing and cannot reclaim it. This is the documented default and not exploitable by a third party, so it is a trust-gap/integration foot-gun rather than a theft path. Reported by two specialists (permissions and flow); merged.

  Fix: require 20-byte hookData for a bid to carry an owner (a bare swap bids for nobody, like a timeout move), or use the swap's sender argument (the router) instead of tx.origin; either way document that contract and relayed traders must pass hookData, and do not silently fall back to tx.origin when msg.sender of the swap is not tx.origin.

  whole finding

  Base.setUpMainDuel().

  A contract C (not an EOA) calls swapRouter.swap(pool, SwapParams(true, -1e18, MIN_PRICE_LIMIT), settings, "") in a transaction whose tx.origin is E != C (e.g. vm.prank(C, E)).

  Expected from the trader's point of view: the bid is C's.

  Actual: hook.game(id).bids[1].owner == E; when the move later captures, _payBounty pays E.

  The repository's own test asserts exactly this fallback: test/Launch.t.sol:80 assertEq(bid().owner, tx.origin, "the first buy owns White's turn") and test/Game.t.sol:65.

  whole reproduction

• 5.infopreviewMove reports a move as fixed in block closeBlock, where a later transaction can still change the top bid and the seedsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:611

          if (!b.open || block.number < g.closeBlock) return (false, 0);

  The doc says previewMove answers false while the window still takes bids. _play accepts a mover-team bid while block.number > g.closeBlock is false, so a trade in block closeBlock itself still takes the top spot, and the seed in _choose includes t.owner and t.size. previewMove uses the strict block.number < g.closeBlock, so an on-chain caller (or an eth_call against the pending block) in block closeBlock gets ready = true with a move computed from the current top bid, which a later transaction in the same block can replace.

  Note the tradeoff: an eth_call against the latest block executes with block.number == closeBlock after all of that block's transactions, which is the documented off-chain use ('fixed as soon as that block is in'); changing the check to <= would make that call answer false until the next block. So this is a doc/code mismatch for in-block callers only; no funds move.

  Fix: either change the comparison to block.number <= g.closeBlock and have the site query at closeBlock + 1, or document that the answer is final only once block closeBlock has no more transactions.

  whole finding

  Base.setUpMainDuel() (turnBlocks 1, so closeBlock is the current block). white(1e18, 0xA); previewMove(id, bytes32(7)) returns (true, 666).

  Still in the same block, white(3e18, 0xB): _beats passes (3e18100 > 1e18110), the bid's owner becomes 0xB, and previewMove(id, bytes32(7)) now returns (true, 80).

  Expected per the doc: (false, 0) while the window still takes bids.

  Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_previewInCloseBlock.

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2. Audit permissionsAgent #1678found 2 low

   I found two low-severity issues in the hook's permissions and no critical, high or medium ones. The two changes in this commit look correct. Both findings reproduced in scratch Foundry tests, and they're in .imd-findings.json. No repository files were changed, and the scratch tests have been deleted.

   Findings

   1. Low: bounties go to whoever sent the transaction, not to the trader (src/IMDuelHook.sol:547, _trade). Unless a swap passes exactly 20 bytes of hook data naming an owner, the bid belongs to tx.origin. When a smart account swaps through an ERC-4337 bundler, a relayer, a CoW solver or a Safe executor, that party owns the move. Every bounty goes to them, up to twice what the trade received, and so does any failed payout held in owed. In the test, wallet 0x5AFE paid for the swap but the bid's owner was the bundler 0xB0B.

   2. Low: a liquidity provider can make their own bids play at full strength (src/IMDuelHook.sol:268, beforeSwap). A bid's strength depends on how big it is next to the pool's liquidity at that moment. The hook watches nothing when liquidity is removed or added, so an LP can remove liquidity, buy, and put the liquidity back in one transaction. In the test, the same 1e20 buy played at 3,047 bps against normal liquidity and at the 9,000 bps cap after the LP removed 99.9% of it. Stronger moves win more captures and therefore more bounties.

   Each finding in the file includes its exact reproduction and a suggested fix.

   This commit's two changes

   • Partial-fill revert: I traced it against v4-core's Hooks.beforeSwap and afterSwap. A full fill always satisfies the new check, for both exact-input and exact-output swaps, and a swap stopped early by its price limit always reverts. A scratch test ran exact-output and exact-input swaps in both directions, including dust amounts, with no false reverts. The hook's own conversion swaps don't trigger its callbacks, so the check never blocks them. The fee value it relies on is stored in beforeSwap and read back in afterSwap within the same swap, and nothing else runs in between that could overwrite it.
   • No-route revert: I checked every currency combination: IMD, $IMDUEL, native ETH with and without the ETH route, an ETH-paired launch, and either token order. Each one either opens with its protocol slice taken in a currency that can be converted to $IMDUEL, or reverts. I found no gaps.

   What else I checked

   • Who can call what:
     • Only the pool manager can call the three hook callbacks and unlockCallback.
     • Only the hook itself can call payOut and convertBatch.
     • The public withdraw sends tokens only to the address they are owed to.
     • The public fundChest credits only what actually arrives.
     • The public convert can only trigger a conversion batch.
   • Re-entering during payouts: a token or ETH recipient that calls back in hits the re-entry lock or the pool manager's "already unlocked" check.
   • Accounting: ERC-6909 claim minting and burning balances out across fees, conversions, payouts and withdrawals.
   • Launch: the hook has no owner, admin or upgrade path. The main duel is the first pool opened, and the factory deploys and opens it in one transaction, so nobody can open a different pool first.

   Not covered: I didn't audit ChessEngineV5 or its libraries beyond confirming they are view-only with no access surface. The hook trusts the engine's returned board without re-checking it, which I'm treating as a trust assumption rather than a finding. The economics passes (math, invariants, pricing) weren't done in depth. One lead from there, which I didn't verify: anyone can call convert() as the first action in a block. It then records the price for that block's conversion batch, possibly after someone pushed the price at the end of the previous block. Slither was not run, and only one reviewer (me) did these passes.

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   • lowBid owner defaults to tx.origin: relayed, ERC-4337, Safe-module and solver swaps credit the relayer, not the tradersrc/IMDuelHook.sol:547

     _trade (called from afterSwap -> _play) makes tx.origin the owner of a bid whenever hookData is not exactly 20 bytes. The contract notes describe this as 'the signing wallet', but for any swap that is not sent directly by an EOA, tx.origin is someone else: an ERC-4337 bundler, a meta-tx/Gelato relayer, a CoW/UniswapX solver, or the executor of a Safe transaction.

     That party then owns the move. _payBounty pays it from the team chest, up to PAYOUT_CAP = 2x what the trade received, and if the push fails, owed[] stays credited to that address. The trader who actually paid gets nothing, and nobody else can claim it. This is a trust gap: the hook trusts tx.origin to stand for the payer.

     Nothing is checked or documented for contract callers, and any router that does not forward 20-byte hookData drops the trader's ownership without saying so.

     setUpMainDuel(); fund smart wallet W=0x5AFE with the token White pays in and have it approve swapRouter.

     Then vm.prank(W, bundler=0xB0B) and call swapRouter.swap(pool, SwapParams(z, -1e18, limit), settings, "") with empty hookData.

     Expected: the bid for White's move belongs to W, the account whose tokens paid.

     Actual: hook.game(id).bids[white].owner == 0xB0B (verified in a scratch test).

     Every bounty for that move goes to the bundler.

     Fix: when hookData is not 20 bytes, use the swap's sender argument (the router) only if it is an EOA, or require routers to pass the owner.

     Either way, document that contract or relayed traders must pass 20-byte hookData, and do not silently fall back to tx.origin when msg.sender of the swap is not tx.origin.

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   • lowBid strength is read from in-range liquidity that any LP can pull and restore inside the same unlock, so a small buy plays at the 90% capsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:268

     Strength.fromShare(paid, depth) scales a bid's strength by how big it is next to the pool's active liquidity, read in beforeSwap. The hook registers no liquidity callbacks, and v4 lets one unlock remove liquidity, swap and add it back. So an LP who controls most of a duel's in-range liquidity (often the pool creator, or the launch seeder in the main duel) can remove it, buy, and re-add it in one transaction.

     Its bid then plays at a much higher strength than its size against the pool's real depth would give. The design says strength is set 'by its share of the pool', but the share is taken against a depth the bidder controls at that moment. A stronger engine move wins more captures, checks and mates, and with them more bounties from the team chest (each capped at 2x what the trade received).

     The other team's bidders face the same disadvantage.

     setUpMainDuel() gives 1,000,000e18 liquidity on the full range.

     A White buy of 1e20 bids at strength 3047 bps.

     Next turn, the LP calls modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(pool, (-887220, 887220, -999_000e18, 0)) and a Black buy of the same 1e20 follows.

     Expected: about the same strength as 1e20 against the pool's normal depth (~30%).

     Actual: 9000 bps, the cap (verified in a scratch test; a real attacker would remove, swap and re-add atomically in one unlock).

     Fix: measure depth against something one transaction cannot move.

     For example, record the pool's liquidity at the block's first touch, the way mainStart does for price, and use the larger of that and the current liquidity.

     Or add before/afterRemoveLiquidity hooks that block removing in-range liquidity in a block where the pool has an open bid.

     whole reproduction
3. Audit economicsAgent #1794found 1 low

   I found one reproducible defect, rated low. Both fixes in this commit (PartialFill and NoRoute) hold. The finding is in .imd-findings.json, and no other files were changed.

   Finding (low): exact-output trades pay a smaller fee, so they escape about a fifth of the opening surcharge (src/IMDuelHook.sol:305)

   The fee is charged on different bases depending on how a swap is specified. Exact-input trades pay it on the gross trade. Exact-output trades pay it on the net amount the pool swaps, which works out to rate/(1+rate) of the gross trade. At the normal 0.5% the difference is negligible. In the main duel's first second it is not.

   Same trade, 742.76e15 $IMDUEL bought at age 0	User pays	Hook takes
   Exact input	1.000e18 IMD	0.255e18 (25.5%)
   Exact output	0.935e18 IMD	0.190e18 (20.3%)

   So a sniper using an exact-output route pays 6.5% less for the same tokens, and the war chest gets about 25% less from that trade. I measured these numbers with a scratch Foundry test, then deleted it. The existing tests check each fee base on its own but never compare the two paths. A fix would gross up the fee on exact-output swaps to amount * bps / (10_000 - bps), or else document the lower rate.

   The two fixes

   • PartialFill: I traced the check against v4's Hooks.beforeSwap/afterSwap and Pool.swap. When a swap fills completely, the pool's delta on the specified side equals the order plus the fee taken before the swap, exactly, for both exact-input and exact-output. So the check refuses only swaps that really were cut short. The hook's own conversion swaps skip its callbacks, so they never hit the check. The new packing of fee and liquidity into one transient slot is sound: liquidity fits in 128 bits, and the slot can't be overwritten between beforeSwap and afterSwap.
   • NoRoute: I checked how the slice currency is chosen for every pairing that passes the new check: IMD, $IMDUEL, native ETH with the ETH route, and the case where IMD itself is native ETH. In each case the slice is taken in a currency _convert can process, so no slice can pile up with nowhere to go.

   Checked and not reported

   • Claim accounting: the hook's balance in each currency equals its chests plus the pile plus what is owed to users. This holds across fees, bounties, failed payouts, withdraw, fundChest and every conversion path.
   • Conversion price protection: the 0.1% band around the block-start price stops pushes made inside one block. A sandwich on the ETH batch costs more in pool fees than it can earn.
   • Gas limits: a trader can't use a low gas limit to force an engine failure or to skip a payout for profit.
   • Design choices: bounties of up to twice what the trade received (even when the bidder sells straight back), the block-builder dice risk, and the timeout after a day without trades are all documented in the code. I didn't report them as defects.

   Coverage: I covered the economics passes (Economic Security, Invariant, Flow Gap) in depth on IMDuelHook and Strength, and read Rules and Chess for how they affect money. I did not audit the internals of ChessEngineV5 or Bitboard, nor the other nine specialty passes, outside the economics questions above. No helpers were used.

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   • lowExact-output swaps pay the chest share and slice on the net pool amount, so they escape about a fifth of the main duel's opening surcharge (20.3% instead of 25.5%)src/IMDuelHook.sol:305

     _takeFee charges amount * bps / 10_000, and the base amount depends on how the swap is specified. On an exact-input swap the base is the gross trade: the user's whole input in beforeSwap (line 271), or the pool's gross output in afterSwap (line 289), which the user then receives less the fee. On an exact-output swap the base is the net trade: the requested output X, where the pool swaps X + fee, or the pool's input I, where the user pays I + fee.

     So exact output always pays bps/(1+bps) of the gross trade, not bps. At the normal 0.5% this costs the chests and slice about 0.0025% of volume. In the main duel's opening, which charges 25.4% chest share plus 0.1% slice to deter snipers (OPENING_BPS, _chestBps), the gap is large.

     An exact-output buyer pays 0.255/1.255 = 20.3% of their payment instead of 25.5%, and the chest receives about 25% less from that buyer. Snipers using exact-output routes (for example V4Router exact-out) therefore pay a weaker surcharge than the one the contract notes describe. The tests check each base separately (test_exactOutputPaysTheFeeOnTheInput, test_chestShareGoesToTheChestWorthLess) but never compare the two paths.

     Fix: on exact-output swaps, gross the fee up to the same base as exact input: fee = amount * bps / (10_000 - bps), using the combined chest and slice bps for the side. Alternatively, document that exact-output trades pay bps/(1+bps).

     whole finding

     Setup: Base.setUpMainDuel() (currency0 = IMD, currency1 = $IMDUEL, 1:1, 1e24 full-range liquidity), then hook.setOpening(true) so the real _chestBps applies, at the main duel's opening second (age 0, chest share 2,540 bps + 10 bps slice, both in currency0 since both chests are empty).

     Path A: exact input swap(pool, true, -1e18, "") pays 1.000000e18 IMD, receives 742764448300564558 $IMDUEL, and the hook takes 0.255e18 IMD (25.5%).

     Path B, from the same snapshot: exact output swap(pool, true, 742764448300564558, "") receives the same 742764448300564558 $IMDUEL, pays only 0.934975e18 IMD, and the hook takes 0.189975e18 IMD (20.3%).

     Expected: the same surcharge rate for the same trade.

     Actual: the exact-output buyer pays 6.5% less for the same tokens, and the war chest receives 0.065e18 IMD (25.5%) less.

     Verified with a scratch Foundry test that logs both paths (vm.snapshotState / vm.revertToState).

     whole reproduction
4. Audit mathAgent #1198found 1 low, 1 info

   The review is complete and the findings are written to .imd-findings.json.

   Scope covered. I read all seven source files in full and applied the Math Precision, Boundary and Numerical Gap passes to the hook first, then the engine and libraries. I traced the two changes this commit makes: the PartialFill equality in afterSwap and the NoRoute check in afterInitialize. Both hold up. The PartialFill check compares the pool-level specified delta with the order plus the pre-swap fee for exact input and exact output alike, and the hook's own batch swaps skip it by design. The route check and slice selection agree for every pairing I enumerated, including an ETH-denominated IMD launch. The project's own hook suites all pass locally, 89 tests in 8 suites.

   Findings recorded.

   • Low, with a failing Foundry proof. In the ETH slice batch, a route-pool leg that buys nothing hands amountIn = 0 to the main-duel leg, and the pool manager rejects that swap. The public convert call reverts instead of waiting, and every trade in an ETH-sliced duel whose pile is over the minimum re-runs the same failing batch inside its try/catch. Trigger: route pool initialized with no liquidity in the 0.1% band, one 10 ETH buy in an ETH/X duel, then convert on native ETH. Proof is test/scratch/EthRouteZeroLeg.t.sol, which fails now with SwapAmountCannotBeZero and passes once the second leg is skipped when nothing was bought.
   • Info. The move preview says a move is fixed in the window's last block, while a trade in that same block can still replace the top bid and so the seed. Only the view is affected.

   Checked and found sound. Fee basis-point math and the opening surcharge, chest packing and the full-chest cap, the chest-value comparison at extreme prices, bounty caps, the transient stash layout, strength log math, the repetition ring lanes and parity, en passant and castling capture detection, and the engine's scoring arithmetic. Overflow and downcast paths I examined are unreachable because Uniswap v4 rejects deltas beyond int128 first.

   Not substantiated, so not reported. A two-block sandwich on main-duel batches is bounded by the small pile size and the attacker's round-trip fees. Self-play of both teams to collect bounties follows from the open bidding design rather than a defect.

   ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 23 turns · 21m 57s · 418 in · 55K out · 1.7M cached

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   • lowETH slice batch: an empty first leg feeds amountIn = 0 into the main-duel swap, so convert(ETH) reverts and every trade of an ETH-sliced duel re-runs a failing batchsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:442

     In _convert's native-ETH branch the first leg sells batch ETH for IMD in the hookless IMD/ETH route pool with a limit 0.1% (sqrt) past that pool's current price (main false, so there is no early return).

     When no liquidity sits in that band (the route pool is public: its LPs can withdraw, or the price can sit in a gap or a tiny pile buys 0 after rounding) the swap returns a zero delta, imdIn = 0, and the second leg calls manager.swap on the main duel with amountSpecified = -int256(0). The pool manager rejects that with SwapAmountCannotBeZero (its first check in swap), so the whole batch reverts.

     Two effects: (1) the public convert(ETH) reverts instead of being a no-op, (2) in _play every trade of every duel whose slice is ETH (ethX pools) sees pile[ETH] >= minEth and calls this.convertBatch{gas: 800_000}, which runs the pointless route swap and then reverts; the try/catch swallows it, the pile never shrinks, so the same wasted work repeats on every trade until someone else adds route liquidity.

     The IMD-sliced path does not have this problem because _swapClaims(main) is only ever called with the full pile (non-zero) or returns early.

     Fix: in the ETH branch skip the second leg when imdIn == 0 (e.g. if (imdIn != 0) (imdSpent, bought) = _swapClaims(_mainKey(), imd, imdIn, true);), or return early with the pile untouched; optionally also skip the batch in _play when the route pool has no liquidity.

     whole finding

     State: hook with ethFee 3000 / ethSpacing 60 / minEth 1e15, main duel IMD/IMDUEL with liquidity at 1:1, route pool (ETH, IMD, 3000, 60, no hook) initialized at 1:1 with NO liquidity, duel (ETH, X) on the hook with liquidity.

     Input: swap 10 ETH -> X in the ETH/X duel (slice 0.01 ETH >= minEth; the in-trade batch fails silently, pile[ETH] stays 0.01e18), then call hook.convert(Currency(address(0))).

     Expected: no revert, pile unchanged (nothing to sell the ETH for yet).

     Actual: revert SwapAmountCannotBeZero() raised by PoolManager.swap for the main-duel leg with amountIn 0. test/scratch/EthRouteZeroLeg.t.sol shows it.

     whole reproduction
     proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass

     // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
     pragma solidity ^0.8.26;
     
     import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
     import {Deployers} from "v4-core/test/utils/Deployers.sol";
     import {IHooks} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
     import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
     import {PoolKey} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
     import {Currency, CurrencyLibrary} from "v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
     import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
     import {MockERC20} from "solmate/src/test/utils/mocks/MockERC20.sol";
     import {IChessEngine} from "src/IChessEngine.sol";
     import {IMDuelHook, IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS} from "src/IMDuelHook.sol";
     
     /// An ETH slice batch whose first leg (ETH -> IMD in the route pool) buys nothing (no liquidity within the 0.1%
     /// band of the route pool's price) feeds amountIn = 0 into the second leg (IMD -> $IMDUEL in the main duel), and the
     /// pool manager reverts that swap with SwapAmountCannotBeZero. convert(ETH) then reverts instead of being a no-op,
     /// and every trade in an ETH-sliced duel whose pile is over the minimum burns gas on the same failing batch.
     contract EthRouteZeroLegTest is Test, Deployers {
         using CurrencyLibrary for Currency;
     
         uint256 constant MIN = 1e15;
         Currency imd;
         Currency duel;
         Currency x;
         IMDuelHook hook;
         PoolKey main;
     
         function token(string memory name) internal returns (Currency c) {
             MockERC20 t = new MockERC20(name, name, 18);
             t.mint(address(this), 1e36);
             t.approve(address(swapRouter), type(uint256).max);
             t.approve(address(modifyLiquidityRouter), type(uint256).max);
             c = Currency.wrap(address(t));
         }
     
         function setUp() public {
             deployFreshManagerAndRouters();
             (imd, duel, x) = (token("IMD"), token("IMDUEL"), token("X"));
             IChessEngine engine = IChessEngine(vm.deployCode("ChessEngineV5.sol:ChessEngineV5"));
             address at = address(IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS | (uint160(0x1D0E1) << 40));
             // the IMD / ETH route: fee 3000, spacing 60, no hook; every pile converts from 1e15 up
             deployCodeTo(
                 "IMDuelHook.sol:IMDuelHook",
                 abi.encode(manager, engine, imd, uint24(3000), uint24(60), IHooks(address(0)), MIN, MIN, MIN, uint256(1)),
                 at
             );
             hook = IMDuelHook(at);
             // the main duel, with liquidity at 1:1
             (Currency c0, Currency c1) = imd < duel ? (imd, duel) : (duel, imd);
             (main,) = initPool(c0, c1, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(main, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1_000_000e18, 0), "");
         }
     
         function test_anEmptyRouteLegMakesConvertRevertInsteadOfWaiting() public {
             // the route pool exists but holds no liquidity (its LPs are not ours: they can leave at any time)
             PoolKey memory route = PoolKey(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, imd, 3000, 60, IHooks(address(0)));
             manager.initialize(route, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             // an ETH / X duel on the hook, its slice in ETH
             vm.deal(address(this), 1e30);
             (PoolKey memory ethX,) = initPool(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, x, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity{value: 1e27}(ethX, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1e24, 0), "");
             // a 10 ETH buy of X: slice 0.01 ETH, over the minimum, so the trade runs a batch (and swallows its failure)
             swapNativeInput(ethX, true, -10e18, "", 10e18);
             assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "nothing converted: the route has no depth");
             // expected: a batch that has nothing to sell for IMD leaves the pile waiting and does not revert.
             // actual: the second leg is asked to swap 0 IMD and the pool manager reverts (SwapAmountCannotBeZero)
             hook.convert(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO);
             assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "the ETH still waits");
         }
     }

     whole proof

   • infopreviewMove reports a move as fixed one block early: at block.number == closeBlock the window still takes bids that change the seedsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:611

     The doc of previewMove says it answers false while the window still takes bids. _play treats a trade as in-window while block.number > g.closeBlock is false, i.e. a trade in block closeBlock itself can still take the top spot (and the seed in _choose includes t.owner and t.size). previewMove uses the strict block.number < g.closeBlock, so when called in block closeBlock it returns ready = true with a move computed from the current top bid, which a later transaction in the same block can replace.

     The move the hook then plays (next block, from the new bid) differs from the one previewed. Only a view is affected; no funds move.

     Fix: block.number <= g.closeBlock (ready only once the window's last block is behind us).

     State: turnBlocks = 3, a move played in block N, so closeBlock = N + 2; Alice's bid of size 1e18 is the top bid for the side to move.

     In block N + 2: call previewMove(id, h) with any h: returns (true, mA).

     Then, still in block N + 2, Bob trades 2e18 for the same team: _beats passes (2e18 * 100 > 1e18 * 110), _bid replaces owner and size, so the seed keccak(h, id, gameNo, ply, owner, size) changes.

     In block N + 3 the trade that resolves the move plays the engine's choice for Bob's seed, which generally differs from mA.

     Expected per the doc: previewMove returns (false, 0) in block N + 2 because the window is still open.

     whole reproduction
5. Audit flowAgent #3found 1 low, 1 info

   The review is complete. The findings file at .imd-findings.json holds two entries, neither critical or high.

   Outcome. The two changes under review hold up. The PartialFill check in afterSwap matches Uniswap v4's accounting: the pool swaps amountSpecified + taken, so a full fill leaves the specified delta equal to that sum, and any early stop (price limit or exhausted liquidity) now reverts. I verified this on both sides. The shipped test covers exact input; my scratch test covers exact output, where a limited order reverts with nothing moved and a fitting one delivers exactly the requested output. The NoRoute check makes every slice currency one of IMD, $IMDUEL or routed ETH, and the slice selection that follows is consistent with it in every pairing I enumerated, including the Sepolia shape where IMD is native ETH.

   Findings written:

   • Low, src/IMDuelHook.sol:442. The ETH-slice conversion calls the main-duel leg unconditionally with the IMD bought by the route leg. When the IMD/ETH route pool has no liquidity in range, that leg returns zero, and the hook asks the PoolManager to swap 0 IMD, which reverts with SwapAmountCannotBeZero. Inside a trade this is swallowed, so the pile just waits. A direct call to convert for ETH reverts outright, unlike the IMD branch in the same state. No funds are lost. Reproduced by test/scratch/EthRouteEmpty.t.sol.
   • Info, src/IMDuelHook.sol:547. A swap without 20-byte hookData credits the move and its bounty to tx.origin. For contract wallets and relayed swaps that is the bundler or relayer. This is the documented default, so it is reported as a design note, not a defect.

   What I checked and found sound. Fee sign conventions against the Hooks library, the transient stash and lock across nested swaps, reentrancy through payouts and hostile tokens, bid and window transitions including timeouts and the missing-hash path, the repetition ring indexing, the gas-starvation guard around the engine, conversion solvency, and the Bitboard legality and castling and en-passant paths.

   Verification. All non-engine suites pass on this commit, including Game, Money, Hostile, Slice, Bidding, Teams, Launch and Invariant. Both scratch tests pass.

   Not done. No helpers or static analyzers ran; the twelve guides were my own passes with the control-flow three in depth. I did not rerun the heaviest engine suites (EngineV5Games, V5Profile, InvariantDuels, RulesRandom, EngineV5Conversion) within the time budget. No contract file was changed; the only files I wrote are the findings file and two tests under test/scratch/.

   ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 44 turns · 31m 8s · 578 in · 75.4K out · 2.9M cached

   submission21e5df42f07d4a777e235c91fab001cb12cf5e69d9b3f0ac70e9422b6bc09367

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   started from4e35c8e2cbadd10830ca74c34858876fc4b5753d

   bundlenone

   • lowETH slice conversion asks the main duel to swap 0 IMD when the IMD/ETH route leg buys nothing, so convert(ETH) reverts and in-trade batches fail silentlysrc/IMDuelHook.sol:442

     _convert's native-ETH branch runs two legs: ETH -> IMD in the hookless IMD/ETH route pool, then IMD -> $IMDUEL in the main duel.

     The second leg is called unconditionally with imdIn, the IMD the first leg bought. _swapClaims only returns early when its price limit is already past the pool price (which for the non-main leg never happens, since the limit is computed from the current price), so when the route pool has no liquidity in the 0.1% band from its current price the first leg's swap just walks the price to the limit and returns spent = 0, got = 0. _swapClaims then calls manager.swap(mainKey, SwapParams(zeroForOne, -int256(0), limit)) and the PoolManager reverts with SwapAmountCannotBeZero (PoolManager.sol:193).

     Inside a trade the revert is swallowed by the try/catch around convertBatch, so the ETH pile simply never converts while the route is thin; the public convert(address(0)) reverts outright instead of returning with the pile untouched, which is the behaviour the IMD branch has in the same situation (test_aFailedConversionNeverBreaksATrade). The main-duel leg's own (0,0) early return is handled (pile[imd] += imdIn - imdSpent), so the asymmetry is only on the route leg.

     No funds are lost: the ETH pile stays accounted and converts once the route has liquidity again.

     Fix: return early (or skip the second leg) when imdIn == 0, e.g. if (imdIn == 0) return; after the first leg, or guard inside _swapClaims with if (amountIn == 0) return (0, 0);.

     whole finding

     Hook deployed with ethFee 3000 / ethSpacing 60 / ethHooks 0 and minEth 1e15; main duel (IMD/$IMDUEL) with liquidity; the route pool PoolKey(ETH, IMD, 3000, 60, 0) initialized at 1:1 but with no liquidity; an ETH/X duel with liquidity.

     (1) swapNativeInput(ethX, zeroForOne, -10e18): the 0.01 ETH slice reaches the minimum, the in-trade batch runs and fails inside convertBatch's catch; pile[0] stays 0.01e18 (expected per the IMD-branch behaviour: a no-op batch; actual: an internal revert, same observable pile).

     (2) hook.convert(Currency.wrap(address(0))): expected a no-op return as for convert(imd) against an empty main duel; actual: reverts with IPoolManager.SwapAmountCannotBeZero.

     Verified by test/scratch/EthRouteEmpty.t.sol (passes on this code, demonstrating the revert).

     whole reproduction

   • infoBids without 20-byte hookData credit the move and its bounty to tx.origin, which for contract wallets and relayed swaps is the bundler or relayer, not the tradersrc/IMDuelHook.sol:547

     _trade names the bid owner from hookData when exactly 20 bytes are passed, else falls back to tx.origin.

     Every swap through a hook pool bids (there is no opt-out), so any swap sent without hookData by a smart-contract wallet, an ERC-4337 account, a relayer-sponsored transaction, or a contract integrating the pool makes the externally-originating EOA (bundler, relayer, keeper) the owner of the move and the recipient of its bounty (paid directly in _payBounty, or accumulated in owed[tx.origin]). The trader who paid for the bid cannot reclaim it.

     This is the documented default ('the signing wallet') and is not exploitable by a third party, but it is a foot-gun for every integration that does not know about hookData, and the intended owner has no way to recover a bounty paid to the relayer.

     A safer default would be the swap's sender passed by the PoolManager (the first address argument of beforeSwap/afterSwap, i.e. the router), or requiring hookData for bids and treating a bare swap as a non-bidding trade; either changes documented behaviour, so this is reported as a design note.

     whole finding

     Main duel from Base.setUpMainDuel.

     A contract C (not an EOA) calls swapRouter.swap(pool, SwapParams(true, -1e18, MIN_PRICE_LIMIT), settings, "") from a transaction whose tx.origin is address E != C.

     Expected (from the trader's point of view): the bid is C's.

     Actual: hook.game(id).bids[1].owner == E (tx.origin); when the move is later played and captures, _payBounty pays E.

     The existing Launch.t.sol asserts exactly this fallback (assertEq(bid().owner, tx.origin)).

6. Audit judgeAgent #1470found 4 low, 1 info

   The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds five findings, all reproduced against the code.

   What the specialists reported, and what I kept

   • ETH slice batch asks the main duel to swap 0 IMD when the IMD/ETH route leg buys nothing. Two specialists (math and flow) reported the same mechanism at line 442. I merged them into one low finding and ran the specialist's proof from test/scratch. It fails on this code with SwapAmountCannotBeZero, so it travels with the finding.
   • Strength measured against pullable liquidity (line 268). Reproduced in a scratch test. The same 1e20 buy bids at 3047 bps normally and at the 9000 bps cap after 99.9% of the liquidity is pulled in the same block. Kept as low.
   • Exact-output swaps pay the surcharge on the net input (line 305). Reproduced with the opening surcharge on. The same tokens cost 1.0e18 with 25.5% taken on exact input, and 0.935e18 with 20.3% taken on exact output. Kept as low.
   • Bid owner falls back to tx.origin (line 547). Two specialists reported it at low and info. Merged into one low finding. The repository's own Launch and Game tests assert this fallback, which is the reproduction.
   • previewMove ready in block closeBlock (line 611). Reproduced: a second bid in the same block changed the previewed move from 666 to 80. Kept at info, with a note that the proposed <= fix would break the documented eth_call-at-latest use, so the fix is a doc or site-side change.

   What I checked beyond the specialists without finding a further defect: the new PartialFill arithmetic for all four swap shapes, the NoRoute gate, the transient lock and stash packing, chest solvency through pay and withdraw, the main-duel and route conversion bands, castling encoding against the capture bounty, and stale bids across game ends. The related project suites (Money, Slice, Bidding, Hostile) pass, 51 tests.

   No repository files were modified. The scratch tests live only under test/scratch/, which is not kept.

   ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 23 turns · 11m 14s · 322 in · 37.3K out · 884.7K cached

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   • lowETH slice batch feeds amountIn = 0 into the main-duel leg when the IMD/ETH route leg buys nothing, so convert(ETH) reverts and every trade of an ETH-sliced duel re-runs a failing batchsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:442

     _convert's native-ETH branch sells batch ETH for IMD in the hookless IMD/ETH route pool (main=false: the limit is 0.1% past that pool's current price, so there is no early return) and then unconditionally sells imdIn IMD in the main duel. When no liquidity sits in that 0.1% band (the route pool is public, its LPs can leave, or the price sits in a gap) the first leg returns spent = 0, got = 0, and the second leg calls manager.swap with amountSpecified = -int256(0).

     PoolManager.swap rejects that with SwapAmountCannotBeZero (lib/v4-core/src/PoolManager.sol:193).

     Effects: (1) the public convert(ETH) reverts instead of returning with the pile untouched, which is what the IMD branch does in the same situation (_swapClaims' early return); (2) inside _play every trade of every duel whose slice is ETH sees pile[ETH] >= minEth, calls this.convertBatch{gas: 800_000}, runs the route swap, reverts, and the try/catch swallows it, so the same wasted work repeats on every trade until someone adds route liquidity.

     No funds are lost: the ETH pile stays accounted. Reported by two specialists (math and flow); merged.

     Fix: skip the second leg when imdIn == 0 (e.g. if (imdIn != 0) (imdSpent, bought) = _swapClaims(_mainKey(), imd, imdIn, true);) or guard _swapClaims with if (amountIn == 0) return (0, 0);.

     whole finding

     Hook with ethFee 3000 / ethSpacing 60 / ethHooks 0, minEth 1e15; main duel IMD/IMDUEL with 1e24 liquidity at 1:1; route pool PoolKey(ETH, IMD, 3000, 60, 0) initialized at 1:1 with no liquidity; an ETH/X duel on the hook with liquidity.

     (1) swapNativeInput(ethX, true, -10e18): the 0.01 ETH slice reaches the minimum, the in-trade batch fails inside convertBatch's catch, pile[0] stays 0.01e18.

     (2) hook.convert(Currency.wrap(address(0))).

     Expected: returns with pile[0] still 0.01e18 (nothing to sell the ETH for yet).

     Actual: reverts with SwapAmountCannotBeZero() from PoolManager.swap for the main-duel leg. test/scratch/EthRouteZeroLeg.t.sol (the specialist's proof) fails on this code with exactly that error.

     whole reproduction
     proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass

     // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
     pragma solidity ^0.8.26;
     
     import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
     import {Deployers} from "v4-core/test/utils/Deployers.sol";
     import {IHooks} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IHooks.sol";
     import {IPoolManager} from "v4-core/src/interfaces/IPoolManager.sol";
     import {PoolKey} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolKey.sol";
     import {Currency, CurrencyLibrary} from "v4-core/src/types/Currency.sol";
     import {ModifyLiquidityParams} from "v4-core/src/types/PoolOperation.sol";
     import {MockERC20} from "solmate/src/test/utils/mocks/MockERC20.sol";
     import {IChessEngine} from "src/IChessEngine.sol";
     import {IMDuelHook, IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS} from "src/IMDuelHook.sol";
     
     /// An ETH slice batch whose first leg (ETH -> IMD in the route pool) buys nothing (no liquidity within the 0.1%
     /// band of the route pool's price) feeds amountIn = 0 into the second leg (IMD -> $IMDUEL in the main duel), and the
     /// pool manager reverts that swap with SwapAmountCannotBeZero. convert(ETH) then reverts instead of being a no-op,
     /// and every trade in an ETH-sliced duel whose pile is over the minimum burns gas on the same failing batch.
     contract EthRouteZeroLegTest is Test, Deployers {
         using CurrencyLibrary for Currency;
     
         uint256 constant MIN = 1e15;
         Currency imd;
         Currency duel;
         Currency x;
         IMDuelHook hook;
         PoolKey main;
     
         function token(string memory name) internal returns (Currency c) {
             MockERC20 t = new MockERC20(name, name, 18);
             t.mint(address(this), 1e36);
             t.approve(address(swapRouter), type(uint256).max);
             t.approve(address(modifyLiquidityRouter), type(uint256).max);
             c = Currency.wrap(address(t));
         }
     
         function setUp() public {
             deployFreshManagerAndRouters();
             (imd, duel, x) = (token("IMD"), token("IMDUEL"), token("X"));
             IChessEngine engine = IChessEngine(vm.deployCode("ChessEngineV5.sol:ChessEngineV5"));
             address at = address(IMDUEL_HOOK_FLAGS | (uint160(0x1D0E1) << 40));
             // the IMD / ETH route: fee 3000, spacing 60, no hook; every pile converts from 1e15 up
             deployCodeTo(
                 "IMDuelHook.sol:IMDuelHook",
                 abi.encode(manager, engine, imd, uint24(3000), uint24(60), IHooks(address(0)), MIN, MIN, MIN, uint256(1)),
                 at
             );
             hook = IMDuelHook(at);
             // the main duel, with liquidity at 1:1
             (Currency c0, Currency c1) = imd < duel ? (imd, duel) : (duel, imd);
             (main,) = initPool(c0, c1, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(main, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1_000_000e18, 0), "");
         }
     
         function test_anEmptyRouteLegMakesConvertRevertInsteadOfWaiting() public {
             // the route pool exists but holds no liquidity (its LPs are not ours: they can leave at any time)
             PoolKey memory route = PoolKey(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, imd, 3000, 60, IHooks(address(0)));
             manager.initialize(route, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             // an ETH / X duel on the hook, its slice in ETH
             vm.deal(address(this), 1e30);
             (PoolKey memory ethX,) = initPool(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO, x, IHooks(address(hook)), 3000, SQRT_PRICE_1_1);
             modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity{value: 1e27}(ethX, ModifyLiquidityParams(-887220, 887220, 1e24, 0), "");
             // a 10 ETH buy of X: slice 0.01 ETH, over the minimum, so the trade runs a batch (and swallows its failure)
             swapNativeInput(ethX, true, -10e18, "", 10e18);
             assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "nothing converted: the route has no depth");
             // expected: a batch that has nothing to sell for IMD leaves the pile waiting and does not revert.
             // actual: the second leg is asked to swap 0 IMD and the pool manager reverts (SwapAmountCannotBeZero)
             hook.convert(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO);
             assertEq(hook.pile(CurrencyLibrary.ADDRESS_ZERO.toId()), 0.01e18, "the ETH still waits");
         }
     }

     whole proof

   • lowBid strength is measured against in-range liquidity that an LP can pull and restore in the same block, so a small buy plays at the 90% capsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:268

     beforeSwap reads the pool's current in-range liquidity and _trade turns it into the depth a bid's share is computed against (Strength.fromShare). The hook registers no liquidity callbacks and v4 lets one unlock remove liquidity, swap and add it back, so whoever controls most of a duel's in-range liquidity (the pool creator in a fresh duel, the launch seeder in the main duel) can remove it, buy, and re-add it atomically.

     The bid then plays at a far higher strength than its size against the pool's real depth gives, winning more captures, checks and mates and with them more bounties from the team chest (each capped at 2x what the trade received), while the other team's bidders face the same disadvantage. The design says strength is set 'by its share of the pool', but the share is taken against a depth the bidder controls at that moment.

     Fix: measure depth against something one transaction cannot move, e.g. record the pool's liquidity at the block's first touch (as mainStart does for price) and use the larger of that and the current liquidity; or add liquidity hooks that refuse in-range removal in a block where the pool has an open bid.

     whole finding

     Base.setUpMainDuel() (1,000,000e18 full-range liquidity, 1:1).

     A White buy of 1e20 bids at strength 3047 bps.

     From the same snapshot: modifyLiquidityRouter.modifyLiquidity(pool, (-887220, 887220, -999_000e18, 0)), then the same White buy of 1e20, then re-add the 999_000e18.

     Expected: about the same strength as 1e20 against the pool's normal depth (~30%).

     Actual: hook.game(id).bids[white].strength == 9000, the cap.

     Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_strengthAgainstPulledLiquidity (logs 3047 vs 9000).

     whole reproduction

   • lowExact-output swaps pay the input-side chest share and slice on the pool's net input, escaping about a fifth of the main duel's opening surcharge (20.3% instead of 25.5%)src/IMDuelHook.sol:305

     _takeFee charges amount * bps / 10_000 and the base depends on how the swap is specified. On exact input the base is the gross trade: the whole input in beforeSwap (line 271) or the pool's gross output in afterSwap (line 289). On exact output the base is the net trade: the requested output X (the pool then swaps X + fee), or the pool's input I in afterSwap (the user then pays I + fee), so exact output pays bps/(1+bps) of the gross trade instead of bps.

     At the normal 0.5% the gap is ~0.0025% of volume. In the main duel's opening (OPENING_BPS 2,500 on top of CHEST_BPS 40 plus SLICE_BPS 10, meant to deter snipers) an exact-output buyer pays 0.255/1.255 = 20.3% of what it hands over instead of 25.5%, and the chest receives about 25% less from it than from an exact-input buyer of the same tokens. Exact-output routes (e.g. V4Router exact-out) therefore get a weaker surcharge than documented.

     Fix: on exact-output swaps gross the fee up to the exact-input base, fee = amount * bps / (10_000 - bps) with the combined chest and slice bps for the side; or document that exact-output trades pay bps/(1+bps).

     whole finding

     Base.setUpMainDuel(); hook.setOpening(true) so the real _chestBps applies at age 0 (chest share 2,540 bps + 10 bps slice, both in currency0 since both chests are empty).

     Path A: swap(pool, true, -1e18, "") pays 1.000000e18 currency0, receives 742764448300564558 currency1, hook claims in currency0 grow by 0.255e18 (25.5%).

     Path B from the same snapshot: swap(pool, true, 742764448300564558, "") receives the same 742764448300564558 currency1, pays 0.934975e18 currency0, hook claims grow by 0.189975e18 (20.3% of what was paid).

     Expected: the same surcharge rate for the same trade.

     Actual: the exact-output buyer pays 6.5% less and the chest gets 0.065e18 less.

     Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_exactOutputPaysLessSurcharge (logs above).

     whole reproduction

   • lowA bid without 20-byte hookData is credited to tx.origin, so for ERC-4337, relayed, Safe-executed and solver-routed swaps the bundler or relayer owns the move and its bountysrc/IMDuelHook.sol:547

     _trade names the bid owner from hookData when exactly 20 bytes are passed and otherwise falls back to tx.origin, described in the notes as 'the signing wallet'.

     Every swap in a hook pool bids (there is no opt-out), so any swap that is not sent directly by an EOA and does not carry 20-byte hookData (an ERC-4337 account through a bundler, a Gelato/meta-tx relayer, a CoW or UniswapX solver, the executor of a Safe transaction, any integrating contract) makes the externally-originating EOA the owner of the move. _payBounty then pays that address from the team chest, up to PAYOUT_CAP = 2x what the trade received, and if the push fails owed[] stays credited to it.

     The trader whose tokens paid gets nothing and cannot reclaim it. This is the documented default and not exploitable by a third party, so it is a trust-gap/integration foot-gun rather than a theft path. Reported by two specialists (permissions and flow); merged.

     Fix: require 20-byte hookData for a bid to carry an owner (a bare swap bids for nobody, like a timeout move), or use the swap's sender argument (the router) instead of tx.origin; either way document that contract and relayed traders must pass hookData, and do not silently fall back to tx.origin when msg.sender of the swap is not tx.origin.

     whole finding

     Base.setUpMainDuel().

     A contract C (not an EOA) calls swapRouter.swap(pool, SwapParams(true, -1e18, MIN_PRICE_LIMIT), settings, "") in a transaction whose tx.origin is E != C (e.g. vm.prank(C, E)).

     Expected from the trader's point of view: the bid is C's.

     Actual: hook.game(id).bids[1].owner == E; when the move later captures, _payBounty pays E.

     The repository's own test asserts exactly this fallback: test/Launch.t.sol:80 assertEq(bid().owner, tx.origin, "the first buy owns White's turn") and test/Game.t.sol:65.

     whole reproduction

   • infopreviewMove reports a move as fixed in block closeBlock, where a later transaction can still change the top bid and the seedsrc/IMDuelHook.sol:611

     The doc says previewMove answers false while the window still takes bids. _play accepts a mover-team bid while block.number > g.closeBlock is false, so a trade in block closeBlock itself still takes the top spot, and the seed in _choose includes t.owner and t.size. previewMove uses the strict block.number < g.closeBlock, so an on-chain caller (or an eth_call against the pending block) in block closeBlock gets ready = true with a move computed from the current top bid, which a later transaction in the same block can replace.

     Note the tradeoff: an eth_call against the latest block executes with block.number == closeBlock after all of that block's transactions, which is the documented off-chain use ('fixed as soon as that block is in'); changing the check to <= would make that call answer false until the next block. So this is a doc/code mismatch for in-block callers only; no funds move.

     Fix: either change the comparison to block.number <= g.closeBlock and have the site query at closeBlock + 1, or document that the answer is final only once block closeBlock has no more transactions.

     whole finding

     Base.setUpMainDuel() (turnBlocks 1, so closeBlock is the current block). white(1e18, 0xA); previewMove(id, bytes32(7)) returns (true, 666).

     Still in the same block, white(3e18, 0xB): _beats passes (3e18100 > 1e18110), the bid's owner becomes 0xB, and previewMove(id, bytes32(7)) now returns (true, 80).

     Expected per the doc: (false, 0) while the window still takes bids.

     Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_previewInCloseBlock.

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