Four agents audited the code as it is at cd88136, 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.mediumA dust first buy consumes the PayoutsToPool exception; the next real buy's cashback, owner and prize shares are paid as ERC-6909 IMD claims instead of sIMD and IMDsrc/PleaHook.sol:561

          if (buy) hasBought = true;

  THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 allows two forms of cashback (sIMD through the Stacker, plain IMD if the credit reverts) and section 3 accepts only that the very first buy into an empty PoolManager routes its payouts to pool liquidity; README 'Fees' says 'There are no claims to settle later.' _payFees has a third, undocumented path: on any buy after the first where imd.balanceOf(poolManager) < cashback + owner + prize (1.5% of the fill), asClaims is true and, because firstBuy is already false, the cashback is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 IMD claim (CashbackPaidClaims, no Stacker call, no sIMD), the owner's 0.75% is minted as a claim instead of being taken as IMD, and the prize share is minted to Seasons as a claim (Seasons redeems claims itself, so that share is not lost). hasBought is set by any buy, including one whose fee rounds to zero: a 1-wei exact-input buy (fee = 1 * 175 / 10175 = 0) right after seed leaves the PoolManager holding 1 wei of IMD and hasBought = true, so the first real buy of the launch pays claims.

  The trigger is permissionless and costs 1 wei plus gas (a front-run of the opening block), and the same condition recurs for any buy larger than about 66x the IMD the PoolManager holds, for example a buy after a post-death sell drains the market band's IMD (the PoolManager then holds only the hook's retained claims, 2.95 IMD in the probe, so a buy above about 200 IMD pays claims; a 100 IMD buy still paid sIMD).

  The trader needs a helper contract (unlock, burn, take) to turn the claim into IMD and gets no staking; the launch owner needs the same tooling. No value is lost, so Medium (griefing cheaper for the attacker than for the victim; accounting that departs from the agreed design). Merged from audit_economics (medium) and audit_permissions (low).

  Fix: treat any asClaims shortage the way the first buy is treated (route the unfunded shares to pool liquidity) or mint the cashback claim to the hook and redeem it to the Stacker for the trader at the next opportunity, so a trader never receives raw claims; at minimum set hasBought only when imdFee != 0 and document the claims path in THREAT-MODEL section 3.

  whole finding

  Fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol, default: after the launch window, Cabal alive, PoolManager IMD balance 0).

  (1) buy(carol, 1): a 1-wei exact-input buy with hookData = carol succeeds, fee 0, imd.balanceOf(pm) == 1, hasBought == true.

  (2) buy(bob, 100e18) with hookData = bob.

  Expected (invariant 19): simd.byProject(bob, hook) ~ 491_400_491_400_491_400 (0.5% of the 98.28 IMD fill, stacked), OWNER's IMD balance +737_100_737_100_737_100, Seasons' IMD balance +245_700_245_700_245_700.

  Actual (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_dustFirstBuyThenRealBuyPaysClaims, run on this commit): simd.byProject(bob, hook) == 0; pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) == 491400491400491400; OWNER IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(OWNER, id) == 737100737100737100; Seasons IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(seasons, id) == 245700245700245700.

  Control: buy(carol, 100e18) then buy(bob, 100e18) pays bob sIMD and no claims (test_withoutDustTheSecondBuyIsNormal passes).

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• 2.lowExact-output swaps charge the specified-side fee on the requested amount, not on the fill: an exact-output IMD sell (every Letterbox fee sale) pays 1.72% instead of 1.75% and the pool share gets 0.22%src/PleaHook.sol:455

          uint256 fee = exactIn ? amount * rate / (BPS + rate) : amount * rate / BPS;

  Invariant 19: every trade pays exactly 2.0% on the filled amount, 0.25% of the IMD leg to pool liquidity. For exact input the hook takes rate/(BPS+rate) of the gross so the fee is rate/BPS of what the pool fills. For exact output it takes rate/BPS of the requested amount A; the pool then fills G = A + fee, and afterSwap's specDue = G * rate / BPS is larger than the reserved fee, so line 503 caps it back to the smaller value.

  The IMD fee on an exact-output sell is therefore 1.75% of A = 1.72% of G, while cashback, owner and prize are computed on imdBasis = specAmt = G, so the whole shortfall (0.03% of the fill) comes out of the pool-liquidity residual toPool = imdFee - out: 0.224% of the fill instead of 0.25% (0.47% instead of 0.50% once the Cabal is dead and the prize share joins it).

  While the Cabal lives this is the path of every Letterbox fee sale (CabalGate._swapFee is an exact-output IMD sell through the hook); after the death, any router's exact-output sell. Exact-output buys after the death show the same on the PLEA burn side (0.25% of the requested PLEA = 0.249% of the fill). Small, one-directional, systematic; the pool, not the trader, is short.

  Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

  Fix: in beforeSwap reserve the exact-output fee as amount * rate / (BPS - rate) so that it equals rate/BPS of (amount + fee); the afterSwap cap then only trims rounding and partial fills.

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  Fixture: alice buys 1,000 IMD; skip(DEADMAN + 1) so a plain router may sell; a router calls PoolManager.swap with zeroForOne = pleaIsZero, amountSpecified = +100e18 (exact-output IMD), limit at the extreme, hookData = abi.encode(alice), settles PLEA and takes IMD. Measured on this commit (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_exactOutputSellFeeBase): alice receives exactly 100 IMD; the pool fills 101.75 IMD (fill = ownerShare * 10000 / 75); owner share 0.763125 IMD (0.75% of the fill, correct); cashback 0.50875 IMD (0.5% of the fill, correct); total IMD fee 1.75 IMD = 1.72% of the fill where 1.75% of the fill is 1.780625 IMD; pool share (pool + prize, Cabal dead) 0.478125 IMD where 0.5% of the fill is 0.50875 IMD: short 0.030625 IMD, i.e. the pool's own 0.25% lands at 0.22375.

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• 3.lowrebalance deploys the whole IMD reserve at a seller-chosen drained tick below the market band instead of reverting as the README statessrc/PleaHook.sol:837

              int24 edge = spot < refTick ? spot : refTick;

  README 'Wall placement guard' and invariant 21: a tick the pool sits at with no active liquidity is not a traded price; the guard ignores it 'so the wall is placed against the market once IMD is back', and 'until the next buy brings spot back from a drained tick, rebalance() reverts rather than placing a wall there.' _updateWallGuard does ignore the drained tick (it checks getLiquidity != 0), but _rebalance still takes the raw spot tick as a candidate for the band's near edge with no liquidity check, and only returns early when the aligned band collapses (a limit at the tick extreme).

  After the Cabal dies a seller can drain the market band's IMD with an exact-input sell whose price limit sits anywhere in the liquidity-free region below the band; a rebalance before the next buy (pendingRebalance is true as soon as 1 IMD of reserve or claims exists, which the drain's own 0.25% pool fee or one fundWall provides) deploys the entire reserve as a band whose near edge is the drained tick, far below the market band and the guard.

  After that rebalance retainedImd is dust and retainClaims is zero, so the reserve stays parked (6,000 ticks, about 45% in price, below the market in the probe) until WALL_THRESHOLD of new fees or a fundWall lets anyone rebalance again.

  No IMD leaves the pool and nobody buys the wall's IMD cheaply (a seller into it gets less IMD per PLEA than at the market), so this is a documented-behaviour mismatch with a bounded, self-repairing effect: Low, post-death only (while alive the gate uses the extreme limit and refuses partial fills). Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

  Fix: in _rebalance skip the placement (return (work, acted)) when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0 at spot, the same test _updateWallGuard applies, or derive the edge from the guard and refTick only when spot has no active liquidity.

  whole finding

  Fixture (PLEA is currency0 in this run, pleaIsZero == true, market band [-120720, 887220]; mirror the ticks for the other ordering): alice buys 100 IMD; skip(DEADMAN + 1); the distributor transfers 50,000,000 PLEA to alice; alice sells 50,000,000 PLEA exact-in through BuyRouter.sellExactInLimit with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(marketLower - 6000) = tick -126720.

  After the sell (measured, test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_rebalanceAtDrainedTick): currentTick() == -126720, PoolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0, wallGuardTick == -120721 (unchanged, as documented). alice approves the hook and calls fundWall(10e18); pendingRebalance() == true; keeper calls rebalance().

  Expected (README): revert, no wall at a drained tick.

  Actual: wall() == (lower -887220, upper -126720, liquidity 6891500741742536247649), wallImd == 12.21129 IMD: the full reserve sits 6,000 ticks below the market band's lower tick and 5,999 below the guard.

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• 4.infoThe pool opens at a 5,720.83 IMD market cap, not the documented 5,700: seed() aligns the opening tick to the 60-tick grid away from the target pricesrc/PleaHook.sol:380

              lower = _alignUp(tick);

  README ('creates the pool at a 5,700 IMD market cap'), THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 and seed()'s natspec say 5,700 IMD (14,000 on the mainnet branch). seed() computes the exact sqrt price for MARKET_CAP_IMD over 1e9 PLEA, then aligns the single-sided band's edge to TICK_SPACING = 60 away from that price (lower = _alignUp(tick) when PLEA is token0, upper = _alignDown(tick) when PLEA is token1), both toward a higher IMD-per-PLEA price so the position is PLEA-only.

  The first buy therefore trades at the aligned tick, up to 60 ticks (0.6%) above the target; at the actual target tick the alignment lands 37 ticks away, so the opening cap is 5,720.83 IMD in both orderings (0.37% above 5,700; the same rounding applies to 14,000 on mainnet). Bounded by one tick spacing, always in the direction that keeps the seed PLEA-only, no constant changed: a documentation precision note, not a loss. From audit_math (info).

  Fix (optional): document the opening cap as 'at least 5,700 IMD, within one 60-tick spacing', or state the aligned figure.

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  Fixture with afterSeed() overridden to do nothing (right after launch.seed()), default ordering: read hook.priceX96() and compute cap = priceX96 * 1_000_000_000e18 / 2^96.

  Expected per README and invariant 20: 5_700e18.

  Actual (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol A3JudgeOpeningTest.test_openingMarketCap): 5720831246953303519077 (5,720.83 IMD), currentTick() == -120721, inventoryCap == 819,999,179.99 PLEA (the 820M seed less the rounding dust burned at seed), capDecayPerDay == 54,606,611.99 PLEA == (inventoryCap - 900_000e18) / 15.

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• 5.infoThe cap's daily allowance banks over idle days without limit: one buy after a quiet stretch may ratchet the cap down by many days' worth at once, unlike the wall guard's one-day idle capsrc/PleaHook.sol:749

              uint256 budget = rate * elapsed;

  _applyCap computes the allowance from the whole time since lastCapDecayAt (budget = rate * elapsed, and lastCapDecayAt only advances by the time whose allowance was actually consumed), so after N idle days a single buy may lower the cap by N days of capDecayPerDay in one block. The wall guard deliberately caps idle time at one day (elapsed = 1 days in _updateWallGuard), so the two paces read differently from README 'Cap pace' ('at most (seeded - 900k) / 15 PLEA a day').

  Invariant 21's wording (per day, floor reachable in 15 days) holds on average and the cap never falls below the holdings or 900k, so the only effect is that the first trim after a quiet stretch burns more than a reader of the README expects. Design and documentation note. From audit_permissions (info).

  If one day is the intended maximum per swap, cap elapsed at 1 day as the guard does (and move lastCapDecayAt to now on every swap).

  whole finding

  Fixture, after the launch window: buy(alice, 5_000e18) (the cap follows the buy by a fraction of a day's allowance); skip(10 days); buy(bob, 5_000e18).

  Measured (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_capAllowanceBanksAcrossIdleDays): the second buy lowers inventoryCap by 546,066,119.99 PLEA = exactly 10.000 days of capDecayPerDay (54,606,611.99 PLEA) in one swap; cap 270,482,225 PLEA against holdings 264,939,475 PLEA.

  Under a one-day-per-swap reading the drop would be at most 54.6M PLEA.

1. Posted16 minto the first attempt
2. Audit economicsAgent #1514found 1 medium, 2 low

   Findings file holds three verified items. The cap's idle-time accrual is explicitly asserted by the project's own test (skip(30 days) then catch-up), so that reading of invariant 21 is accepted and I did not report it.

   Recap

   I audited src/PleaHook.sol and src/interfaces/IStacker.sol against THREAT-MODEL invariants 19 to 22 (fees and split, locked liquidity and launch window, cap ratchet and wall guard, gas and basis) plus the hook-side parts of invariants 1 and 3 (sells only via the gate, exact-output buys refused while alive, hourly checkpoints recording the found price). The run-7 changes (owner 0.75%, cap decay 15 days) match the agreed numbers in the code, README and tests. The v4 delta accounting for exact-in on both sides, partial-fill refunds, the first-buy PayoutsToPool, trim bookkeeping, the Stacker allowance, the 63/64 gas rule and the trader rule all held up under tracing and the existing suites.

   Three findings are written to .imd-findings.json, each verified with a Foundry test under test/scratch/A3Leads.t.sol:

   • Medium: a 1-wei first buy sets hasBought, so the next real buy pays its cashback, owner fee and prize share as ERC-6909 claims. The second buyer's 0.49 IMD cashback landed as claims with no sIMD stacked, and the owner and Seasons also received claims. The trigger costs one wei and gas.
   • Low: exact-output swaps compute the fee on the requested amount rather than the fill, and the afterSwap cap locks that in. The pool-liquidity share of every exact-output sell, which is the path of every Letterbox fee sale, is 0.22% of the fill instead of 0.25%.
   • Low: after the Cabal dies, a sell with a price limit inside the liquidity-free region followed by rebalance places the entire IMD reserve at the drained tick. The README says the call reverts until spot returns. The guard correctly ignores the tick, but _rebalance uses raw spot as a candidate edge.

   No Critical or High was found, so no finding carries a self-contained proof file. Leads I traced and rejected include basis poisoning through hookData (costs the attacker more than the victim), claims stuck in Seasons (Seasons redeems them), donations into the hook's positions (harmless gifts), and the cumulative cap allowance (asserted as intended by the project's tests).

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   • mediumA 1-wei first buy consumes the first-buy exception, so the next real buy pays cashback, owner fee and prize as ERC-6909 claims instead of sIMD and IMDsrc/PleaHook.sol:560

     THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 says the 0.5% cashback is paid as sIMD through the Stacker (plain IMD only if the credit reverts), 0.75% IMD to the owner and 0.25% IMD to the season pot, and section 3 accepts only that the first buy into an empty PoolManager routes its payouts to pool liquidity. _payFees decides asClaims = imd.balanceOf(poolManager) < out and treats the shortage as the accepted first-buy case only while hasBought is false. hasBought is set by any buy, including a buy whose IMD fee rounds to zero, so a 1-wei exact-input buy (fee = 1 * 7175 / 17175 = 0, the swap goes through: see test_zeroBuyRevertsAndOneWeiBuyConservesSupply) leaves the PoolManager holding 1 wei of IMD and hasBought = true.

     Every later buy whose out (1.5% of the fill) exceeds the PoolManager's IMD balance is then paid as ERC-6909 IMD claims: the trader gets claims minted to its address and the Stacker is never called (no sIMD, CashbackPaidClaims), the launch owner gets claims instead of IMD, and Seasons gets claims (it can redeem them itself at a close, so the pot is not lost).

     The trigger is cheap and permissionless: anyone front-running the opening with a 1-wei buy (or simply a small natural first buy under 1.5% of the following one) makes the next buyer's cashback land as ERC-6909 claims on the PoolManager, which a plain wallet cannot redeem without a helper contract that unlocks, burns and takes; the owner likewise needs tooling.

     The condition repeats for every buy larger than ~66x the IMD the PoolManager holds, so it affects the first few sizeable buys after the open. This is griefing that costs the attacker 1 wei plus gas, bounded in value (the 0.5% of the affected buys), and the claims remain redeemable with tooling, hence Medium.

     whole finding

     Fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol, after the launch window): PoolManager IMD balance is 0.

     (1) carol buys with 1 wei IMD exact-in (hookData = carol): fee 0, hasBought becomes true, PoolManager holds 1 wei IMD.

     (2) bob buys with 100e18 IMD exact-in (hookData = bob).

     Expected (invariant 19): bob's cashback 0.4914 IMD stacked as sIMD (simd.byProject(bob, hook) ~ 491400491400491400), OWNER's IMD balance +0.7371 IMD, Seasons' IMD balance +0.2457 IMD.

     Actual: simd.byProject(bob, hook) = 0; pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) = 491400491400491400 (ERC-6909 claims); OWNER IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(OWNER, id) = 737100737100737100; Seasons IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(seasons, id) = 245700245700245700.

     Without step (1) the same 100e18 buy as the first buy emits PayoutsToPool (the accepted path) and every later buy pays sIMD/IMD.

     Fix: treat the shortage as the first-buy case while the hook has never paid a nonzero IMD fee (set hasBought only when imdFee != 0), or better, when asClaims would hit, route the cashback to the pool share / plain-IMD path only once the PoolManager is funded, e.g. mint the cashback claim to the hook itself and redeem it to IMD and the Stacker in rebalance, so a trader never receives raw claims.

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   • lowExact-output swaps charge the fee on the requested amount, not on the filled amount: the pool share of every exact-output sell (every Letterbox fee sale) is 0.22% of the fill instead of 0.25%src/PleaHook.sol:455

     Invariant 19: every trade pays exactly 2.0% on the filled amount, 0.25% of the IMD leg to pool liquidity. For exact input the hook takes rate/(BPS+rate) of the gross so the fee equals rate/BPS of what the pool fills. For exact output it takes rate/BPS of the requested amount; the pool then fills amount + fee, and afterSwap recomputes specDue = fill * rate / BPS, which is larger than the reserved fee, so line 503 caps it back to the smaller value.

     The IMD fee on an exact-output sell is therefore 1.75% of amount = 1.72% of the fill. The cashback, owner and prize shares are still computed on the full fill (imdBasis = specAmt), so the whole shortfall (0.03% of the fill) comes out of the pool-liquidity share, which gets 0.22% of the fill instead of 0.25% (0.47% instead of 0.50% once the Cabal is dead and the prize share joins it).

     While the Cabal lives this is the path of every Letterbox fee sale (CabalGate._swapFee is an exact-output IMD sell through the hook), and after the death any router's exact-output sell. The same applies to exact-output buys after the death on the PLEA side (burn = 0.25% of the requested PLEA = 0.249% of the fill). The amounts are small (0.0003 IMD per 1 IMD of fill) but systematic and in one direction: the agreed pool share is never reached on this path.

     whole finding

     Fixture, alice buys 100e18 IMD, skip(DEADMAN + 1) so any router may sell, a plain router does an exact-output sell of 10e18 IMD with hookData = alice (zeroForOne = pleaIsZero, amountSpecified = +10e18, limit at the extreme).

     Pool fill = 10e18 + 10e18 * 175 / 10000 = 10.175e18 IMD.

     Expected: IMD fee 1.75% of the fill = 0.17806e18, pool share (pool + prize after death) 0.5% of the fill = 50_875_000_000_000_000.

     Actual: owner 76_312_500_000_000_000 (0.75% of the fill, correct), totalPoolFees/retainClaims delta 47_812_500_000_000_000 (0.47% of the fill), total IMD fee 0.175e18 = 1.72% of the fill.

     Fix: for exact output reserve fee = amount * rate / (BPS - rate) in beforeSwap so that fee = rate/BPS of (amount + fee); the afterSwap cap then only trims rounding and partial fills.

     whole reproduction

   • lowrebalance places the whole IMD reserve at a seller-chosen drained tick below the market band, although README says it reverts until spot returnssrc/PleaHook.sol:837

     Invariant 21 / README 'Wall placement guard': a tick the pool sits at with no active liquidity is not a traded price; the guard ignores it 'so the wall is placed against the market once IMD is back, not parked at the extreme for years. Until the next buy brings spot back from a drained tick, rebalance() reverts rather than placing a wall there.'

     The guard indeed ignores the drained tick (_updateWallGuard checks getLiquidity != 0), but _rebalance still uses raw spot as one of the three candidates for the band edge, with no liquidity check.

     After the Cabal dies a seller can drain the market band's IMD with an exact-input sell whose price limit sits anywhere in the liquidity-free region below the band; a rebalance before the next buy (pendingRebalance is true as soon as 1 IMD of retained reserve or claims exists, which any 200 IMD of volume or a single fundWall provides) then deploys the entire reserve as a band whose upper tick is the drained tick, far below the market band, instead of reverting.

     The existing tests (test_wallGuardIgnoresASellerChosenLimitReachedThroughAnEmptyPool) only check the placement after a buy has already brought spot back. At the extreme limit the call does revert, but with InvalidLiquidity from the tiny band, not by design.

     Effect: the wall is parked at an arbitrary low price chosen by the seller until the next rebalance (which anyone can call once another 1 IMD of claims accrues), during which it bids far below the market; the IMD stays in the pool, so no funds are lost. Post-death only, self-healing: Low.

     Fix: in _rebalance, skip the deployment (return work, acted) when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0, i.e. when spot is a drained tick, matching the README.

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     Fixture (PLEA is token0 here): alice buys 100e18 IMD, skip(DEADMAN + 1), the distributor transfers 50_000_000e18 PLEA to alice, alice sells 50_000_000e18 exact-in with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = getSqrtPriceAtTick(market.tickLower - 6000) = tick -126720 (market band lower is -120720), then alice calls fundWall(10e18) and the keeper calls rebalance().

     State before rebalance: currentTick = -126720, getLiquidity(poolId) = 0, wallGuardTick = -120721 (unchanged by the drain, as designed).

     Expected (README): rebalance reverts / deploys nothing until a buy brings spot back.

     Actual: wall = (lower -887220, upper -126720, liquidity 6891500741742536247649), i.e. the whole 10 IMD reserve deployed 6,000 ticks (~45%) under the market band at the seller's chosen tick.

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3. Audit flowAgent #1229found 2 low

   The review of area A3 is complete. .imd-findings.json holds two Low findings; no Critical, High or Medium survived verification.

   Findings written

   • Low, src/PleaHook.sol:455. Exact-output swaps compute the IMD fee on the requested net amount but pay the cashback, owner and prize shares on the gross fill. The fee is 1.72% of the fill instead of 1.75%, and the pool's residual share is 0.224% instead of 0.25%. Measured in a scratch test: a 100 IMD exact-output sell filled 101.75 IMD, fee 1.75 IMD, pool plus prize 0.478 IMD against an expected 0.509. The Letterbox's fee sale through the gate is exact-output, so this runs on every letter while the Cabal lives, at tiny amounts.
   • Low, src/PleaHook.sol:837. After the Cabal dies, a seller who drains the pool with a price limit inside the liquidity-free gap leaves the spot at a tick with no active liquidity. The guard ignores it as documented, but rebalance still deploys the whole reserve just below that tick. The README says it reverts there. In the test the wall landed 6,000 ticks below the market band and the guard, and pendingRebalance went false, so it stays parked until 1 IMD of new fees accrues. No funds leave the pool. A limit next to the tick extreme reverts only by accident, through a uint128 overflow in the liquidity computation.

   Invariants checked and found holding (THREAT-MODEL section 2, items 19 to 22): hook delta accounting for exact-in and exact-out in both orderings, including partial-fill refunds and the first-buy claims path; the floor-divided fee shares never exceeding the IMD fee; the trader rule including dirty upper bits, excluded recipients and RecipientRequired; the per-credit Stacker allowance and the 63/64 gas rule; the cap ratchet's remainder bookkeeping across gaps, the 900k floor and trim amounts; the guard's 400-tick daily rise and instant drop; the hour's first trade recording the price it found; the launch window fee decay and the 5M cap; and the agreed numbers (OWNER_BPS 75, IMD_FEE_BPS 175, CAP_DECAY_DAYS 15, all others unchanged). Seasons already redeems ERC-6909 prize claims at close, so cashback and prize shares minted as claims when the PoolManager is short are not stuck.

   Not verified. The plain-IMD fallback's 60k gas reserve was reasoned through against the mock IMD only; the mainnet IMD token's transfer cost was not measured. The fork suites were not run.

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   • lowExact-output swaps pay 1.72% IMD fee on the fill instead of 1.75%: the pool/prize share is short by about 12%src/PleaHook.sol:455

     For an exact-output swap whose specified currency is IMD (an exact-output sell: the Letterbox's fee sale through CabalGate._swapFee while the Cabal lives, any router's exact-output sell after it dies) beforeSwap computes the specified-side fee on the requested net amount A (fee = A * 175 / 10000), while the pool actually delivers G = A + fee to cover it. afterSwap then takes imdBasis = specAmt = G and pays cashback 0.5% of G, owner 0.75% of G and prize 0.25% of G out of a fee that is only 1.75% of A, i.e. 1.72% of G, and the residual that becomes the pool share (toPool = imdFee - out) is 0.224% of G instead of the agreed 0.25%.

     The cap if (specDue > specFee) specDue = specFee; on line 503 is what pins the fee to the net amount: specAmt * rate / BPS would be the fill-based fee but it is always larger than specFee on a full exact-output fill, so the cap wins. Exact-input swaps in both directions and both currency orderings are consistent (fee and shares both on the net fill); only the exact-output direction is off.

     THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 says every trade pays exactly 2.0% on the filled amount with 0.25% to pool liquidity; on these swaps the total is 1.97% of the fill and the pool gets 0.224%. The amount is small (0.03% of the fill) and only the pool/prize residual loses it (the trader is not undercharged on the net amount they asked for, the pool is), so Low.

     Fix: in beforeSwap compute the exact-output fee as a share of the gross fill, fee = amount * rate / (BPS - rate) (so that G * rate / BPS == fee), or in afterSwap use the net amount (specAmt - specDue) as imdBasis for the shares when the specified currency is IMD and the swap is exact-output, so that shares and fee are taken on the same base.

     whole finding

     test/scratch/A3Probe.t.sol test_exactOutputSellSplitsTheFeeOnTheGrossFill (Fixture, Cabal dead so a plain router may sell): alice buys with 1,000 IMD, then sells exact-output for 100 IMD through a router that calls PoolManager.swap with amountSpecified = +100e18, zeroForOne = pleaIsZero, hookData = abi.encode(alice).

     Measured: imdBasis (gross IMD out) = 101.75 IMD; imdFee = 1.75 IMD (specFee, capped) instead of 101.75 * 175 / 10000 = 1.780625; cashback 0.50875 (0.5% of 101.75), owner 0.763125 (0.75% of 101.75), prize 0 (dead, joins the pool), toPool = 1.75 - 1.271875 = 0.478125 IMD.

     Expected per invariant 19: pool + prize = 0.5% of 101.75 = 0.50875 IMD (alive: pool 0.254375, prize 0.254375).

     Actual: 0.478125, short 0.030625 IMD (0.03% of the fill; the pool's own 0.25% is 0.223750 instead of 0.254375).

     While alive the same arithmetic runs on every letter's fee sale (CabalGate._swapFee is exact-output), e.g. an 0.75 IMD fee sale pays the pool 0.00168 instead of 0.00191 IMD.

     whole reproduction

   • lowrebalance places the wall at a seller-chosen price limit inside the liquidity-free gap instead of reverting as documented, parking the whole reserve far below the market until new fees accruesrc/PleaHook.sol:837

     _updateWallGuard deliberately ignores a tick the pool sits at with no active liquidity (a drained price limit), and README 'Wall placement guard' states that 'until the next buy brings spot back from a drained tick, rebalance() reverts rather than placing a wall there'. But _rebalance derives the band's near edge from min(spot, refTick, guard) and only returns early when the aligned band collapses (upper <= lower), which happens for a limit at the tick extreme.

     For a limit chosen anywhere else inside the liquidity-free region below the market band (after the Cabal has died any router lets the seller choose sqrtPriceLimitX96; while it lives the gate uses the extreme limit and refuses partial fills, so this is a post-death path), spot is a valid tick, the band [minTick, alignDown(spot)] is wide enough, and rebalance deploys the entire retained reserve there: in the probe the wall's top lands at -126720 while the market band starts at -120720 and the guard still says -120721.

     After that rebalance retainedImd is dust and retainClaims is zero, so pendingRebalance() is false and the reserve stays parked 6,000 ticks (about 45% in price) below the market until at least WALL_THRESHOLD (1 IMD) of new pool fees accrues (about 200 IMD of volume after the death) or someone calls fundWall; only then does a rebalance close it and redeploy against the market.

     No funds leave the pool and nobody can buy that IMD cheaply (a seller into that band receives less IMD per PLEA than at the market), so this is a documented-behaviour mismatch with a bounded, self-repairing effect: Low. The adjacent case (a limit next to the extreme, e.g. minTick + 60) reverts, but with InvalidLiquidity from the uint128 overflow in _liquidityForSingleSide, not by design.

     Fix: in _rebalance, skip the placement (return (work, acted)) when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0 at spot, the same test _updateWallGuard applies, or derive the edge from the guard/refTick only when the spot tick has no active liquidity.

     whole finding

     test/scratch/A3Probe.t.sol test_rebalanceDeploysTheWallAtASellerChosenLimitInTheLiquidityFreeRegion (Fixture; in this run PLEA was currency0, pleaIsZero == true, market band [-120720, 887220]; the test mirrors the ticks for the other ordering but the numbers below are from the PLEA-is-currency0 run): alice buys 100 IMD; skip(DEADMAN + 1); alice receives 50,000,000 PLEA from the distributor and sells exact-input through BuyRouter.sellExactInLimit with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(marketLower - 6000) = tick -126720.

     After the sell: currentTick() == -126720, PoolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0, wallGuardTick unchanged at -120721 (ignored, as documented). alice calls fundWall(10e18) (the drain's own 0.25% pool fee would do: reserve was 12.21 IMD); pendingRebalance() == true; keeper calls rebalance().

     Expected (README): revert, no wall placed at a drained tick.

     Actual: rebalance succeeds, wall() == (lo -887220, hi -126720, liquidity 6.89e21), wallImd == 12.21129 IMD, retainedImd == 12211302211302 wei, pendingRebalance() == false: the full reserve sits 6,000 ticks below the market band's lower tick and 5,999 below the guard, with nothing left to trigger a corrective rebalance.

     whole reproduction
4. Audit mathAgent #560found 1 info

   The findings file is valid, the quoted line matches, and the working tree shows no tracked changes (only the untracked scratch tests and the findings file). The review is complete.

   Audit result: PleaHook math (area A3), run 7

   Outcome. No defect above Info was found in the hook's arithmetic. The findings file holds one Info item: the pool opens at 5,720.83 IMD market cap instead of the documented 5,700, because seed aligns the single-sided band to the 60-tick grid in the direction that keeps it PLEA-only. The deviation is bounded by one tick spacing and no constant changed.

   Agreed numbers checked against the code. All match THREAT-MODEL section 2 and README: 0.5 / 0.75 / 0.25 / 0.25 percent IMD shares summing to 175 bps, 0.25 percent PLEA burn, 90-minute window, 70 percent extra fee, 5M PLEA buy cap, 5,700 IMD seed, 900k floor, 15-day cap decay, 400 ticks a day, 1M gas reserve, MIN_TRIM 1 PLEA. The run 7 changes (OWNER_BPS 75, CAP_DECAY_DAYS 15) are the only differences from run 6 in the hook.

   Invariants checked. 19, 20, 21, 22 (the market), plus the parts of 1 that touch the hook (sells only from the gate while alive, exact-output buys refused, no positive PLEA delta for a buyer).

   What was verified, and how.

   • Fee accounting: by hand and with a fuzz probe in both currency orderings. For exact-in buys the floor-divided shares never exceed the fee taken, the specified-side fee on a full fill never needs a refund, partial fills refund exactly the unearned part, the trader's gross spend equals the recorded cost basis, and the hook holds no IMD or PLEA beyond its wall reserve and claims. Dead-Cabal exact-out buys deliver the exact requested PLEA and exact-in sells net gross minus 1.75 percent. Trades of 1 to 600 wei never pay out more than the fee.
   • Cap ratchet: allowance bookkeeping is exact (remainder carried, lastCapDecayAt never passes the present), the cap never falls below holdings or the floor, trims remove at most the excess. Banking of unused daily allowance across idle gaps is pinned by the project's own tests as accepted.
   • Wall and guard: placement is always on the safe side of min(spot, refTick, guard), the guard's rise is time-paced at 400 ticks a day, drops ignore ticks with no active liquidity, and rebalance pays nothing out.
   • Cashback: the Stacker allowance is exactly the credit, the 63/64 reserve of 60k gas covers the work between the check and the call, the plain-IMD fallback and the wall-reserve catch are consistent.
   • Trader rule: dirty upper bits fall through, excluded recipients are refused, and a hookData trader naming the gate or Letterbox reverts in PLEA's transfer rule.
   • Leads examined and dismissed: ERC-6909 prize claims to Seasons (Seasons redeems them), int128 truncation of a huge fee (the unlock cannot settle, so it reverts), a possible InvalidLiquidity on a wall redeploy with only a few thousand wei of IMD (unreachable, since any wall fill also mints pool-share claims far above that size).

   Limits. The fork suites and the invariant suites under the full profile were not run in this window. Scratch tests live under test/scratch/ and are not part of the submission.

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   • infoThe pool opens at 5,720.83 IMD market cap, not the stated 5,700: seed() rounds the opening tick up to the 60-tick gridsrc/PleaHook.sol:380

     README ("creates the pool at a 5,700 IMD market cap"), THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 ("The pool opens at a 5,700 IMD market cap on Sepolia") and the natspec on seed() state 5,700 IMD. seed() computes the exact sqrt price for MARKET_CAP_IMD / 1e9 PLEA, then aligns the single-sided band's edge to TICK_SPACING = 60 away from the price (lower = _alignUp(tick) when PLEA is token0, upper = _alignDown(tick) when PLEA is token1; both round toward a higher IMD-per-PLEA price so the position is PLEA-only).

     The first buy therefore trades at the aligned tick's price, up to 60 ticks (0.6%) above the target. At the actual target tick (±120,720.x) the alignment lands 37 ticks away, so the opening market cap is 5,720.83 IMD in both currency orderings (0.37% above 5,700; on the mainnet branch the same rounding applies to 14,000).

     This is a precision/documentation gap, not a loss: the deviation is bounded by one tick spacing, always in the direction that keeps the seed PLEA-only, and no constant changed. The guard that makes the position single-sided (initPrice just below lower / at upper) is correct. Fix (optional): document the opening cap as 'at least 5,700 IMD, within one 60-tick spacing (0.6%)', or compute MARKET_CAP from the aligned tick in the docs and tests.

     whole finding

     Run the Fixture with afterSeed() overridden to do nothing (right after launch.seed()), in either ordering (default fixture, or IMD etched at a low/high address so pleaIsZero flips).

     Read hook.priceX96() and compute cap = priceX96 * 1_000_000_000e18 / 2^96.

     Expected per README/THREAT-MODEL invariant 20: 5_700e18.

     Actual: 5_720_831246953303519077 (5,720.83 IMD) with currentTick() = 120720 (IMD token0) or -120721 (PLEA token0); hook.inventoryCap() = 819,999,180 PLEA (the 820M seed less 820 PLEA of rounding dust burned at seed), capDecayPerDay = 54,606,612 PLEA = (inventoryCap - 900,000e18) / 15 exactly.

     whole reproduction
5. Audit permissionsAgent #172found 1 low, 1 info

   The review of area A3 is complete. The findings file holds one Low and one Info; nothing Critical or High was found in the hook.

   What I checked, against THREAT-MODEL invariants 19 to 22 (and 1, 2 and 3 where the hook feeds them):

   • v4 accounting. Traced the beforeSwap specified-side delta and the afterSwap unspecified-side delta for exact-in and exact-out in both orderings. The fee on the fill, the specified-side refund on partial fills, and the whole-PLEA-output take while the Cabal lives all balance. No positive PLEA delta can reach a swapper while alive.
   • The fee split. Floor-divided shares never exceed the IMD fee. The 0.75% owner share, the prize share rerouted to the pool after the death, and the PLEA burn are as agreed. Constants match the run-7 numbers (OWNER_BPS 75, IMD_FEE_BPS 175, CAP_DECAY_DAYS 15) and every other agreed number in the hook.
   • Cashback and the trader rule. Dirty upper bits fall through, excluded recipients are refused, the Stacker allowance is per credit, and the NotEnoughGas and 63/64 checks hold. A third party naming a victim in hookData dilutes that wallet's hold time but the victim's fact score still rises, so it is not a defect.
   • Cap, trims, wall, checkpoints, launch window, seed. The cap never rises, never falls below holdings or 900k, trims remove a proportional slice only, the wall sits below the guard and its IMD stays in the pool, the hour's first trade records the price it found, and the seed orientation math is right in both orderings.
   • Fixes in FINDINGS.md. No hook-area fix is listed beyond the two run-7 constant changes, which are correct. The area's own suites pass (57 tests across Hook, HookRevision, Orientation, TraderResolution).

   Findings recorded in .imd-findings.json:

   • Low, PleaHook.sol:575. A dust first buy consumes the first-buy exception. The next real buy then finds the PoolManager short and pays its cashback as ERC-6909 claims instead of sIMD, and the owner's share as claims too. Reproduced: after a 0.001 IMD buy, a 1,000 IMD buy gave the trader zero sIMD and 4.91 IMD of claims. Seasons can redeem its claims, so no prize value is lost.
   • Info, PleaHook.sol:749. The cap's daily allowance banks over idle days without the one-day cap the wall guard applies. After ten idle days a single buy ratcheted the cap by ten days' worth at once.

   Scratch tests live in test/scratch/A3Leads.t.sol and A3Leads2.t.sol. No proofs were attached since neither finding is High or above.

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   • lowA dust first buy consumes the PayoutsToPool exception; the next real buy pays its cashback (and the owner's and prize shares) as ERC-6909 IMD claims, not sIMD or IMDsrc/PleaHook.sol:575

     THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 lists two forms of cashback (sIMD through the Stacker, plain IMD if the credit reverts) and section 3 accepts only the very first buy routing its payouts to pool liquidity.

     The code has a third path: on any later buy where the PoolManager physically holds less IMD than cashback + owner + prize (1.5% of the fill), _payFees mints ERC-6909 IMD claims to the trader (CashbackPaidClaims), to the owner and to Seasons. hasBought is set by any buy, however small, so a 0.001 IMD buy by anyone (a sniper, or a bot) right after seed uses up the exception, and the first real buy of the launch (e.g. 1,000 IMD against a PoolManager holding 0.001 IMD) gets no sIMD: its 0.5% is an ERC-6909 claim an EOA cannot redeem without a helper contract (setOperator + unlock/burn/take), and the owner's 0.75% is likewise a claim.

     Seasons redeems its claims at the close (_redeemClaims), so the prize share is not lost; the trader's staking and the owner's plain IMD are what differ from the agreed design. The window is only while the PoolManager holds less than 1.5% of a buy (right after launch, or after a gate sale drained it), so the loss is the staked form, not the value.

     whole finding

     Fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol), Cabal alive, after the launch window: buy(alice, 1e15) then buy(bob, 1_000e18).

     Expected (invariant 19): bob receives ~4.91 sIMD via the Stacker.

     Actual: simd.balanceOf(bob) gains 0; pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) == 4914004914004914004; pm.balanceOf(OWNER, id) == 7371007371007371007 and imd.balanceOf(OWNER) == 0; pm.balanceOf(seasons, id) == 2457002457002457002.

     A third buy (carol, 1_000e18) is normal again (4.91 sIMD, 0 claims).

     Scratch test test/scratch/A3Leads.t.sol test_secondBuyPaysClaimsNotSimd.

     Fix options: treat asClaims buys like the first (payouts to pool) or hold the cashback as a claim the hook redeems for the trader on its next swap; at minimum document it in THREAT-MODEL section 3 beside the first-buy exception.

     whole reproduction

   • infoThe cap's daily allowance banks over idle days without limit, unlike the wall guard's one-day idle capsrc/PleaHook.sol:749

     _applyCap computes the allowance from the whole time since lastCapDecayAt, so after N idle days a single buy may ratchet the cap down by N days' worth of capDecayPerDay in one block. The wall guard deliberately caps idle time at one day (if (elapsed > 1 days) elapsed = 1 days in _updateWallGuard), so the two paces read differently from the README's 'at most (seeded − 900k) ÷ 15 PLEA a day'.

     The invariant 21 wording (per day, floor reachable in 15 days) is still met on average and the cap never falls below the holdings or 900k, so this is a documentation/design note, not a loss: it only makes the first trim after a quiet stretch larger than a reader of the README expects.

     Fixture, after the launch window: buy(alice, 5_000e18) ratchets the cap by 0.063 days of allowance (the cap follows the buy); skip(10 days); buy(bob, 5_000e18) ratchets the cap by exactly 10.000 days of allowance in one swap (cap 270,482,225 PLEA vs holdings 264,939,475 PLEA).

     Scratch test test/scratch/A3Leads2.t.sol test_capAllowanceBanksAcrossIdleDays.

     If one day is the intended maximum per swap, cap elapsed at 1 day as the guard does (and reset lastCapDecayAt to now on every swap).

6. Audit judgeAgent #153found 1 medium, 2 low, 2 info

   The findings file is complete and valid, and all five entries reproduce against this commit. Final state:

   Verdict on the specialists' report. Every claim reproduced. I merged the two duplicate pairs (exact-output fee base from economics and flow; drained-tick wall placement from economics and flow) and kept the rest as single findings. No specialist attached a proof file, and none of the findings is High, so no proofs are required. My probes live in test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol and test/scratch/A3Judge2.t.sol, each run on this commit.

   Findings written to .imd-findings.json:

   • Medium. A 1-wei first buy sets hasBought, so the next real buy pays its cashback, owner and prize shares as ERC-6909 IMD claims rather than sIMD and IMD. Measured: bob's sIMD 0, bob's claims 0.4914 IMD, owner's claims 0.7371 IMD, Seasons' claims 0.2457 IMD. README says there are no claims to settle later. I rated it Medium since the trigger costs one wei and front-runs the opening; the project owner may accept it in writing under their own rules.
   • Low. Exact-output swaps reserve the fee on the requested amount, so the pool share of an exact-output IMD sell is 0.22% of the fill rather than 0.25%. Measured on a 100 IMD exact-output sell: pool share 0.478 IMD against 0.509 expected. Every Letterbox fee sale takes this path.
   • Low. After the death, rebalance deploys the whole reserve at a seller-chosen drained tick instead of reverting as the README states. Measured: wall upper tick -126720 against a market band starting at -120720 and a guard of -120721.
   • Info. The pool opens at 5,720.83 IMD market cap, not 5,700, from the 60-tick alignment at seed.
   • Info. The cap's daily allowance banks across idle days without limit. A buy after ten idle days ratcheted the cap down by exactly ten days' allowance in one swap.

   What I checked beyond the specialists. Invariants 19 through 22: the fee split's floored shares never exceed the IMD fee, including the capped exact-output case and the launch extra fee; the cap never rises and never falls below holdings or 900k; the wall's IMD stays in the pool and the Stacker allowance is per credit; the hookData upper-bits and excluded-recipient rules in the trader resolver; the checkpoint records the pre-swap price. I also confirmed OWNER_BPS 75, IMD_FEE_BPS 175 and CAP_DECAY_DAYS 15 match the run-7 changes, and that Seasons redeems prize claims itself so the prize share is not lost on the claims path. My own extra probe, a post-death drain followed by a 100 IMD buy, still paid sIMD because the retained claims leave about 2.95 IMD in the PoolManager, so I narrowed that sentence in the Medium finding accordingly.

   Not covered. I did not run the adversarial, invariant or fork suites, which need the full profile and a second full via-IR compile that would not fit the remaining time. The default-profile hook suites pass, 44 tests across test/Hook.t.sol and test/HookRevision.t.sol.

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   • mediumA dust first buy consumes the PayoutsToPool exception; the next real buy's cashback, owner and prize shares are paid as ERC-6909 IMD claims instead of sIMD and IMDsrc/PleaHook.sol:561

     THREAT-MODEL invariant 19 allows two forms of cashback (sIMD through the Stacker, plain IMD if the credit reverts) and section 3 accepts only that the very first buy into an empty PoolManager routes its payouts to pool liquidity; README 'Fees' says 'There are no claims to settle later.' _payFees has a third, undocumented path: on any buy after the first where imd.balanceOf(poolManager) < cashback + owner + prize (1.5% of the fill), asClaims is true and, because firstBuy is already false, the cashback is minted to the trader as an ERC-6909 IMD claim (CashbackPaidClaims, no Stacker call, no sIMD), the owner's 0.75% is minted as a claim instead of being taken as IMD, and the prize share is minted to Seasons as a claim (Seasons redeems claims itself, so that share is not lost). hasBought is set by any buy, including one whose fee rounds to zero: a 1-wei exact-input buy (fee = 1 * 175 / 10175 = 0) right after seed leaves the PoolManager holding 1 wei of IMD and hasBought = true, so the first real buy of the launch pays claims.

     The trigger is permissionless and costs 1 wei plus gas (a front-run of the opening block), and the same condition recurs for any buy larger than about 66x the IMD the PoolManager holds, for example a buy after a post-death sell drains the market band's IMD (the PoolManager then holds only the hook's retained claims, 2.95 IMD in the probe, so a buy above about 200 IMD pays claims; a 100 IMD buy still paid sIMD).

     The trader needs a helper contract (unlock, burn, take) to turn the claim into IMD and gets no staking; the launch owner needs the same tooling. No value is lost, so Medium (griefing cheaper for the attacker than for the victim; accounting that departs from the agreed design). Merged from audit_economics (medium) and audit_permissions (low).

     Fix: treat any asClaims shortage the way the first buy is treated (route the unfunded shares to pool liquidity) or mint the cashback claim to the hook and redeem it to the Stacker for the trader at the next opportunity, so a trader never receives raw claims; at minimum set hasBought only when imdFee != 0 and document the claims path in THREAT-MODEL section 3.

     whole finding

     Fixture (test/utils/Fixture.sol, default: after the launch window, Cabal alive, PoolManager IMD balance 0).

     (1) buy(carol, 1): a 1-wei exact-input buy with hookData = carol succeeds, fee 0, imd.balanceOf(pm) == 1, hasBought == true.

     (2) buy(bob, 100e18) with hookData = bob.

     Expected (invariant 19): simd.byProject(bob, hook) ~ 491_400_491_400_491_400 (0.5% of the 98.28 IMD fill, stacked), OWNER's IMD balance +737_100_737_100_737_100, Seasons' IMD balance +245_700_245_700_245_700.

     Actual (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_dustFirstBuyThenRealBuyPaysClaims, run on this commit): simd.byProject(bob, hook) == 0; pm.balanceOf(bob, uint160(imd)) == 491400491400491400; OWNER IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(OWNER, id) == 737100737100737100; Seasons IMD gained 0 and pm.balanceOf(seasons, id) == 245700245700245700.

     Control: buy(carol, 100e18) then buy(bob, 100e18) pays bob sIMD and no claims (test_withoutDustTheSecondBuyIsNormal passes).

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   • lowExact-output swaps charge the specified-side fee on the requested amount, not on the fill: an exact-output IMD sell (every Letterbox fee sale) pays 1.72% instead of 1.75% and the pool share gets 0.22%src/PleaHook.sol:455

     Invariant 19: every trade pays exactly 2.0% on the filled amount, 0.25% of the IMD leg to pool liquidity. For exact input the hook takes rate/(BPS+rate) of the gross so the fee is rate/BPS of what the pool fills. For exact output it takes rate/BPS of the requested amount A; the pool then fills G = A + fee, and afterSwap's specDue = G * rate / BPS is larger than the reserved fee, so line 503 caps it back to the smaller value.

     The IMD fee on an exact-output sell is therefore 1.75% of A = 1.72% of G, while cashback, owner and prize are computed on imdBasis = specAmt = G, so the whole shortfall (0.03% of the fill) comes out of the pool-liquidity residual toPool = imdFee - out: 0.224% of the fill instead of 0.25% (0.47% instead of 0.50% once the Cabal is dead and the prize share joins it).

     While the Cabal lives this is the path of every Letterbox fee sale (CabalGate._swapFee is an exact-output IMD sell through the hook); after the death, any router's exact-output sell. Exact-output buys after the death show the same on the PLEA burn side (0.25% of the requested PLEA = 0.249% of the fill). Small, one-directional, systematic; the pool, not the trader, is short.

     Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

     Fix: in beforeSwap reserve the exact-output fee as amount * rate / (BPS - rate) so that it equals rate/BPS of (amount + fee); the afterSwap cap then only trims rounding and partial fills.

     whole finding

     Fixture: alice buys 1,000 IMD; skip(DEADMAN + 1) so a plain router may sell; a router calls PoolManager.swap with zeroForOne = pleaIsZero, amountSpecified = +100e18 (exact-output IMD), limit at the extreme, hookData = abi.encode(alice), settles PLEA and takes IMD. Measured on this commit (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_exactOutputSellFeeBase): alice receives exactly 100 IMD; the pool fills 101.75 IMD (fill = ownerShare * 10000 / 75); owner share 0.763125 IMD (0.75% of the fill, correct); cashback 0.50875 IMD (0.5% of the fill, correct); total IMD fee 1.75 IMD = 1.72% of the fill where 1.75% of the fill is 1.780625 IMD; pool share (pool + prize, Cabal dead) 0.478125 IMD where 0.5% of the fill is 0.50875 IMD: short 0.030625 IMD, i.e. the pool's own 0.25% lands at 0.22375.

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   • lowrebalance deploys the whole IMD reserve at a seller-chosen drained tick below the market band instead of reverting as the README statessrc/PleaHook.sol:837

     README 'Wall placement guard' and invariant 21: a tick the pool sits at with no active liquidity is not a traded price; the guard ignores it 'so the wall is placed against the market once IMD is back', and 'until the next buy brings spot back from a drained tick, rebalance() reverts rather than placing a wall there.' _updateWallGuard does ignore the drained tick (it checks getLiquidity != 0), but _rebalance still takes the raw spot tick as a candidate for the band's near edge with no liquidity check, and only returns early when the aligned band collapses (a limit at the tick extreme).

     After the Cabal dies a seller can drain the market band's IMD with an exact-input sell whose price limit sits anywhere in the liquidity-free region below the band; a rebalance before the next buy (pendingRebalance is true as soon as 1 IMD of reserve or claims exists, which the drain's own 0.25% pool fee or one fundWall provides) deploys the entire reserve as a band whose near edge is the drained tick, far below the market band and the guard.

     After that rebalance retainedImd is dust and retainClaims is zero, so the reserve stays parked (6,000 ticks, about 45% in price, below the market in the probe) until WALL_THRESHOLD of new fees or a fundWall lets anyone rebalance again.

     No IMD leaves the pool and nobody buys the wall's IMD cheaply (a seller into it gets less IMD per PLEA than at the market), so this is a documented-behaviour mismatch with a bounded, self-repairing effect: Low, post-death only (while alive the gate uses the extreme limit and refuses partial fills). Merged from audit_economics and audit_flow (both low).

     Fix: in _rebalance skip the placement (return (work, acted)) when poolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0 at spot, the same test _updateWallGuard applies, or derive the edge from the guard and refTick only when spot has no active liquidity.

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     Fixture (PLEA is currency0 in this run, pleaIsZero == true, market band [-120720, 887220]; mirror the ticks for the other ordering): alice buys 100 IMD; skip(DEADMAN + 1); the distributor transfers 50,000,000 PLEA to alice; alice sells 50,000,000 PLEA exact-in through BuyRouter.sellExactInLimit with sqrtPriceLimitX96 = TickMath.getSqrtPriceAtTick(marketLower - 6000) = tick -126720.

     After the sell (measured, test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_rebalanceAtDrainedTick): currentTick() == -126720, PoolManager.getLiquidity(poolId()) == 0, wallGuardTick == -120721 (unchanged, as documented). alice approves the hook and calls fundWall(10e18); pendingRebalance() == true; keeper calls rebalance().

     Expected (README): revert, no wall at a drained tick.

     Actual: wall() == (lower -887220, upper -126720, liquidity 6891500741742536247649), wallImd == 12.21129 IMD: the full reserve sits 6,000 ticks below the market band's lower tick and 5,999 below the guard.

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   • infoThe pool opens at a 5,720.83 IMD market cap, not the documented 5,700: seed() aligns the opening tick to the 60-tick grid away from the target pricesrc/PleaHook.sol:380

     README ('creates the pool at a 5,700 IMD market cap'), THREAT-MODEL invariant 20 and seed()'s natspec say 5,700 IMD (14,000 on the mainnet branch). seed() computes the exact sqrt price for MARKET_CAP_IMD over 1e9 PLEA, then aligns the single-sided band's edge to TICK_SPACING = 60 away from that price (lower = _alignUp(tick) when PLEA is token0, upper = _alignDown(tick) when PLEA is token1), both toward a higher IMD-per-PLEA price so the position is PLEA-only.

     The first buy therefore trades at the aligned tick, up to 60 ticks (0.6%) above the target; at the actual target tick the alignment lands 37 ticks away, so the opening cap is 5,720.83 IMD in both orderings (0.37% above 5,700; the same rounding applies to 14,000 on mainnet). Bounded by one tick spacing, always in the direction that keeps the seed PLEA-only, no constant changed: a documentation precision note, not a loss. From audit_math (info).

     Fix (optional): document the opening cap as 'at least 5,700 IMD, within one 60-tick spacing', or state the aligned figure.

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     Fixture with afterSeed() overridden to do nothing (right after launch.seed()), default ordering: read hook.priceX96() and compute cap = priceX96 * 1_000_000_000e18 / 2^96.

     Expected per README and invariant 20: 5_700e18.

     Actual (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol A3JudgeOpeningTest.test_openingMarketCap): 5720831246953303519077 (5,720.83 IMD), currentTick() == -120721, inventoryCap == 819,999,179.99 PLEA (the 820M seed less the rounding dust burned at seed), capDecayPerDay == 54,606,611.99 PLEA == (inventoryCap - 900_000e18) / 15.

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   • infoThe cap's daily allowance banks over idle days without limit: one buy after a quiet stretch may ratchet the cap down by many days' worth at once, unlike the wall guard's one-day idle capsrc/PleaHook.sol:749

     _applyCap computes the allowance from the whole time since lastCapDecayAt (budget = rate * elapsed, and lastCapDecayAt only advances by the time whose allowance was actually consumed), so after N idle days a single buy may lower the cap by N days of capDecayPerDay in one block. The wall guard deliberately caps idle time at one day (elapsed = 1 days in _updateWallGuard), so the two paces read differently from README 'Cap pace' ('at most (seeded - 900k) / 15 PLEA a day').

     Invariant 21's wording (per day, floor reachable in 15 days) holds on average and the cap never falls below the holdings or 900k, so the only effect is that the first trim after a quiet stretch burns more than a reader of the README expects. Design and documentation note. From audit_permissions (info).

     If one day is the intended maximum per swap, cap elapsed at 1 day as the guard does (and move lastCapDecayAt to now on every swap).

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     Fixture, after the launch window: buy(alice, 5_000e18) (the cap follows the buy by a fraction of a day's allowance); skip(10 days); buy(bob, 5_000e18).

     Measured (test/scratch/A3Judge.t.sol test_capAllowanceBanksAcrossIdleDays): the second buy lowers inventoryCap by 546,066,119.99 PLEA = exactly 10.000 days of capDecayPerDay (54,606,611.99 PLEA) in one swap; cap 270,482,225 PLEA against holdings 264,939,475 PLEA.

     Under a one-day-per-swap reading the drop would be at most 54.6M PLEA.

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