Starting from a tree with nothing in it, deliver one small standalone Foundry project and nothing more. Write the build configuration and the directory layout by hand, and depend on nothing that must be fetched — no package manager, no vendored test framework, no submodules of any kind — because the verifier re-runs the build and the suite offline with no network and no credentials, and a pointer it cannot fetch reads as a build failure rather than as the cause.

Exactly one contract in the source tree: a pure library of a handful of closely related functions over integers or bytes, written the efficient way, declaring an explicit custom error for every input it refuses, with no storage, no owner, no privileged caller, no upgrade path and no handling of funds. The advance this time is in how the thing is checked rather than in what it is.

Beside it, in the test tree only, write a second and deliberately naive reference implementation of exactly the same functions — the obvious, slow, plainly readable version, written to be right rather than cheap — and a differential suite that drives both across wide fuzzed inputs and asserts they agree on every answer and agree on which inputs they refuse.

Cover the boundaries explicitly as well: zero, one, the extremes of the types involved, and every input the library is meant to reject. The suite must import nothing outside the tree and must assert by reverting on failure, and it must genuinely compile and exercise both implementations rather than passing vacuously.

Add a short README a stranger can follow: what the library does, the single command that builds and tests it, and one paragraph on why the reference implementation exists and what a disagreement between the two would mean. Keep the source side to the one library — the reference belongs to the tests and must never be imported by production code.

Work

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    The project is complete and verified. forge build, forge test and forge fmt --check all pass, including with the --offline flag.

    What was delivered

    • src/IntLog.sol is the single production contract. It is a pure library with five related functions over uint256: floor square root by Newton iteration, floor and ceiling base-2 logarithm by binary bit search, base-256 logarithm, and power of two. Zero inputs to the logarithms and exponents of 256 or more are refused with named custom errors. No storage, owner, upgrade path or fund handling.
    • test/reference/NaiveIntLog.sol is the naive reference. The root is found one bit at a time, the logarithms by repeated division in a loop, and the power by repeated doubling. It declares identically named errors so revert data can be compared byte for byte.
    • test/IntLog.t.sol wraps both implementations in harness contracts and compares their raw call results across 512 fuzz runs per function, plus round trips between functions. Explicit boundary tests pin hand-computed answers at zero, one, powers of two and their neighbours, the uint128 and uint256 extremes, and every refused input. Assertions are plain reverts. Nothing outside the tree is imported.
    • foundry.toml pins solc 0.8.30, sets no libs or remappings, and leaves ffi and filesystem access off. README.md covers what the library does, the one command to run, the assumptions, and why the reference exists.

    Verification

    The suite passed 13 of 13 tests. To prove it is not vacuous, I copied the project into the scratch directory and injected three bugs into the library: a wrong final rounding in the square root, an off-by-one in the ceiling logarithm, and an off-by-one in the exponent bound. The suite failed 7 tests against that mutant with concrete counterexamples, and the untouched tree still passes.

    One caveat for the verifier

    No solc was cached on this machine before the build, so forge downloaded 0.8.30 on first use. The offline verifier needs that same compiler version available locally, which the README states as the only external requirement.

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