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As promised in #531. Documentation only, no behaviour change.

The situation this is meant to prevent: several outpoints in the known-script tables no longer resolve on chain, because a code cell can be consumed and recreated carrying the same code. Anyone who checks them against a node sees spent cells and concludes the library is broken. I did exactly that, and reported it as a bug.

It is not a bug, because nothing uses those outpoints as written: any dep carrying a type is resolved live by getCellDeps before it reaches a transaction. getCellDeps already said so, but in the method, which is not where somebody who is looking at the outpoints is reading.

So this adds:

  • A header on both known-script tables (mainnet and testnet) saying the outpoint is a starting point rather than a promise of liveness, that a dep with a type is resolved before use, and that finding these spent is expected. It also states the maintenance rule that falls out of it: a dep with a type id needs no attention when its code cell moves, and a dep without one does, which is the reason chore(core): update JoyId celldeps #279 split the JoyID dep group into five.
  • A stronger line in getCellDeps, saying plainly that the configured outpoint is discarded when a type is present, and that the case needing maintenance is a dep without one.

Happy to reword any of it, cut it down, or drop the testnet copy if one is enough. A changeset is included as a patch; say the word if a docs-only change should not carry one and I will remove it.

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Several outpoints in the known-script tables no longer resolve on chain,
because a code cell can be consumed and recreated carrying the same code.
That reads as a bug to anyone who checks them, and it is not one: any dep
carrying a type is resolved live by getCellDeps before it reaches a
transaction, so the configured outpoint is discarded.

Puts that where the reader actually is, which is the table of outpoints
rather than the method, and states the maintenance rule it implies: a dep
with a type id needs no attention when its cell moves, and a dep without
one does, which is why ckb-devrel#279 split the JoyID dep group into five.

Refs ckb-devrel#531.
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  • Documentation
    • Clarified that typed cell dependencies are resolved against the live blockchain before transaction building.
    • Documented that configured outpoints may be stale, with live matches used automatically when available.
    • Explained that configured outpoints are used as written when lookup results are empty.
    • Clarified that dependencies without type information use recorded outpoints and require maintenance when code cells move.
    • Added guidance for maintaining known script references across mainnet and testnet.

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The PR documents typed and untyped cell dependency resolution in getCellDeps and the mainnet and testnet known-script tables. It adds a patch-release changeset. No runtime code changes are included.

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Cell dependency documentation

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Dependency resolution contract
packages/core/src/client/client.ts
The getCellDeps documentation explains typed lookup by on-chain type and the configured-outpoint fallback when the lookup returns no cell.
Known-script maintenance guidance
packages/core/src/client/clientPublicMainnet.advanced.ts, packages/core/src/client/clientPublicTestnet.advanced.ts, .changeset/tidy-pianos-search.md
The known-script documentation describes starting outpoints, stale outpoints, typed and untyped dependency maintenance, and empty lookup results. The changeset declares a patch release for @ckb-ccc/core.

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Maintainers of non-Type-ID typed dependencies may miss that their configured outpoints are live-resolved. Correct the release-note terminology before merging.

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Good catch, and it is the more useful half of the point. getCellDeps only replaces the configured outpoint when findSingletonCellByType returns a cell; on an empty result it returns the configured one as written, stale or not.

Checked what reaches that branch: findSingletonCellByType iterates findCellsByType and returns the first cell, so a node that errors throws rather than falling through. The fallback is the genuinely empty result, which in practice means an indexer that has not caught up or does not carry the cell.

Reworded all four places to say that, rather than the unconditional "discarded" and "harmless" I had written:

  • client.ts: the lookup replaces the outpoint when it finds a cell, plus a paragraph on the empty-result case and why a failing node does not reach it.
  • both *.advanced.ts tables: same, with the one case where a stale outpoint below would reach a transaction named explicitly.
  • the changeset: describes the fallback instead of promising it never happens.

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These documentation updates look entirely correct, but I am certain no human would want to read them in their entirety. Please be more concise. The documentation should only cover what matters to developers, rather than simply translating the code. Furthermore, such verbose docstrings increase the likelihood of errors during future code and comment maintenance.

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8-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The release note calls the optional type a “type id,” but getCellDeps resolves any exact type script, not only CKB Type ID scripts. Use “type script” (or the API field name) so maintainers of other typed dependencies know they receive live resolution.

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I agree with @Hanssen0 here. Beyond readability, the length itself is a maintenance liability: when the implementation of getCellDeps changes in the future, whoever touches it will either have to re-read this whole paragraph end-to-end to check it's still accurate, or — more likely — forget to update it at all. A stale multi-paragraph comment is worse than no comment, because it actively misleads the next reader (human or AI tooling — code assistants tend to treat inline comments as ground truth when reasoning about behavior, so a stale explanation here can now propagate into generated code too).

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