Record the commits Protofire reviewed in audit/audits.json

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Closes #88

Verified against main (9a238f4)

The premise holds, and the numbers in the issue are stale in the direction that makes it worse.

Claim in #88	On main today
the audited commit is encoded only in the PDF filename	still true — grepping protofire over every tracked file on main, the PDF itself excluded, returns zero hits
README never mentions the audit	still true
228b35c6 is an ancestor of HEAD	yes
74 commits behind	142
5 of 9 libraries changed	8 of the 12 audited sources changed, and src/lib/LibStackPointer.sol has been deleted outright

The issue also gets the audited commit half wrong, which the fix had to correct. The report's own Reviews table lists two reviews, not one:

Date	Commit
13/01/26	228b35c6725877e7fbcd2432b4c692357f16f510
26/01/26	26bce6197383f193e35326bab4d4424cf6eafde7

26bce619 is the re-review after M01/L01/I01 were fixed — at 43222a6, 96955a1 and 9b0de96, all present and all ancestors of HEAD — and is the real end of the audited tree. Recording only 228b35c6, as the issue proposed, would have understated the audited surface by 11 commits and left the three fix commits looking unreviewed.

Scope is the report's own explicit twelve-file contract list, not the issue's src/**/*.sol glob. A glob is wrong today: it resolves to eleven files at HEAD, silently absorbing sources the audit never saw and silently dropping the deleted LibStackPointer.sol, so it would describe a scope the audit never had.

Changed

• audit/audits.json — auditor, report path, both review commits with their dates, and the twelve in-scope sources.
• README.md — an ## Audit section. It is the first link to the report from anywhere in the repo. It names the audited scope, links the report PDF directly, and pins the drift baseline to 26bce619 (see CodeRabbit review below).

No Solidity changed. Latest run at e36fae2 — nix develop -c forge test: 389 passed, 0 failed, across 35 suites. nix develop -c reuse lint: compliant, 69/69 files — audit/**/ in REUSE.toml already covers the new file.

Not in this PR

The issue's third part, a non-blocking CI drift report, is not here. This repo's CI is two uses: lines into rainix-sol.yaml; there is no step to add without putting shared CI in a consumer. The drift computation also needs fetch-depth: 0, which the rainix reusable's checkout controls. Filed as rainlanguage/rainix#321, with the manifest format and the two other repos whose audit filenames encode a tag or a bare date rather than a commit.

Adversarial mutation pass

No behaviour changed, so there is no Solidity mutant to raise. What this PR adds is a set of factual claims, so those are what I mutated — against the checks rainlanguage/rainix#321 will run.

Baseline: 27 checks, 27 pass, 0 fail — 1 report path, plus 2 commits x (1 ancestry check + 12 scope paths).

#	Mutation	Checks run	Result
M1	reviews[0].commit last hex digit 0 to 1	15	killed — commit not in history: …f16f511
M2	reviews[1].commit to a real commit object off every branch	27	killed — commit not an ancestor of HEAD, plus its 12 scope lookups
M3	scope gains test/src/lib/LibMatrix.flattenWrap.t.sol, which exists at HEAD but at neither review	29	killed — absent at both 228b35c6 and 26bce619
M4	report to audit/protofire/nope.pdf	27	killed — report missing
M5	scope drops src/lib/LibStackPointer.sol	25	SURVIVED

The check count moves with every mutation — 15 / 27 / 29 / 27 / 25 against a baseline of 27 — so the checks ran rather than matching nothing.

M5 is a real, disclosed gap. Narrowing scope leaves every surviving entry valid, so no ancestry or presence check can see it, and the manifest would quietly claim the audit never covered a file it did cover. LibStackPointer.sol is exactly the entry at risk, because it no longer exists at HEAD and dropping it would look like tidying. Only a human diffing the manifest against the PDF catches this, and rainlanguage/rainix#321 says so rather than implying the check is total.

QA

• Discriminating tests: n/a as forge tests — the change adds no Solidity, and the standing ruling is not to bind docs or metadata with a test. The discriminating checks are the four in the mutation table: report-path existence, commit resolution, ancestry, and per-commit scope-path presence. Each fails on a mutated manifest and passes on the committed one, and the checks are proven to have run by the differing counts, 15/27/29/27/25 against a baseline of 27.
• Mutations applied: reviews[0].commit last hex digit 0 to 1 -> killed by the commit-resolution check; reviews[1].commit to a real commit object off every branch -> killed by the ancestry check; scope gains test/src/lib/LibMatrix.flattenWrap.t.sol -> killed by the scope-presence check at both reviews; report to audit/protofire/nope.pdf -> killed by the report-path check; scope drops src/lib/LibStackPointer.sol -> SURVIVED, disclosed above as a gap no ancestry or presence check can close.
• Oracle: the Protofire PDF, read independently of the issue. Its Reviews table supplies both commits and their dates; its Scope table supplies the twelve contracts. Git supplies ancestry and drift. The issue text was not used as the oracle, and was wrong on three counts — one review commit rather than two, 74 commits behind rather than 142, and a src/**/*.sol glob rather than the report's explicit file list.
• Category check: the issue asks for A, a machine-readable audited commit; B, a non-blocking CI drift report; C, a README reference. A and C are covered here. B is deliberately not covered in this repo — shared CI lives in rainix reusables, and the drift computation needs fetch-depth: 0 from the reusable's checkout — and is filed as Report audited-source drift from audit/audits.json in rainix-sol rainix#321.

One consequence worth naming

.soldeerignore excludes /audit, so the manifest and the PDF do not ship in the soldeer package, and the two new README links are repo-relative only. The README already links .github/workflows/publish-soldeer.yaml the same way, so this follows the existing convention rather than breaking it; shipping the audit trail inside the package is a separate decision I have not made here.

The PDF's document metadata title reads Report_rain.solmem_2.0_jan_2025. Its cover, its Reviews table and both commit dates all say January 2026, so the manifest records 2026 and the metadata is a stale template field.

After merging main in

Main has moved twice while this was open, so it is merged in twice: at 21c0ac7, which took main to 7620643 (0.1.17), and again at e17ed4a, which took it to b74081b (0.1.22) and brought in #138 through #144. Full suite at e36fae2: 389 passed, 0 failed, 35 suites. reuse lint: compliant, 69/69.

The manifest re-verifies unchanged at each merge — 27 checks, 27 pass. Nothing in it is HEAD-relative: the scope-presence checks resolve at the two review commits, so main deleting an audited file cannot invalidate the record, which is the point of recording it.

Drift has grown each time. At 9a238f4 the table above recorded 228b35c6 142 commits behind and 8 of 12 audited sources changed. At e36fae2 it is:

	At 9a238f4	At 21c0ac7	At e36fae2
228b35c6 behind	142	151	188
26bce619 behind	131	140	177
audited sources changed	8 of 12	9 of 12	11 of 12
audited sources deleted	1	1	3

Only src/lib/LibPointer.sol is still byte-identical to the audited tree. The second merge brought in #140 (f6443d0), which deleted src/error/ErrBytes.sol and src/error/ErrUint256Array.sol — joining the already-deleted src/lib/LibStackPointer.sol — and added src/error/ErrTruncate.sol and src/error/ErrStackSentinel.sol, which the audit never saw. This is the drift the README section now warns about in words rather than leaving to the reader.

CodeRabbit review

Two inline findings on README.md, both judged against the manifest, the PDF and the tree. Both applied; the wording of the first diverges from the proposal, and the reason is on the thread.

1. Align the README with the audit manifest. Applied in substance: the section now states the scope and links the report PDF itself rather than the audit/protofire/ directory.

Not applied as worded. The finding says the prose "can imply that all of src/ was audited"; all of src/ was audited. At both reviewed commits src/ was exactly the twelve contracts in the manifest — git ls-tree -r --name-only <commit> -- src/ diffs empty against jq -r '.[0].scope[]' at 228b35c6 and again at 26bce619, and both match the PDF's Scope table. The proposed "the twelve files listed in audit/audits.json" drops that. The real defect is tense, not coverage, so the section says the twelve were all of src/ at those commits and then says outright that today's src/ is not that tree.

2. Use the latest audited commit as the diff baseline. Applied — <reviewed-commit> is now 26bce6197383f193e35326bab4d4424cf6eafde7, the later review and a descendant of 228b35c6 by 11 commits, so the end of the audited tree. Same reasoning this PR already gives for recording both commits.

Its committable suggestion was not applied, and could not be: it does not match its own proposed diff. It replaces lines 36-40 with only the prose line above the fence, which would delete the ```sh block and the command the finding is about. The proposed diff was applied instead. Noted on the thread.

One thing this PR does not fix

The ## Errors table on main cites src/error/ErrBytes.sol and src/error/ErrUint256Array.sol for TruncateError and OutOfBoundsTruncate. Both files were deleted by #140, which consolidated them into src/error/ErrTruncate.sol. That staleness is on main and predates this branch — git show main:README.md has it — so it is not this PR's to fix and merging this does not make it worse. Worth its own issue.

M5 closed for this manifest, not for future edits

The committed scope was checked against the report mechanically, not by eye: pdftotext -f 3 -l 4 over the PDF's Scope table, grep -oE 'src/[A-Za-z0-9_/]+\.sol', sorted and diffed against jq -r '.[0].scope[]'. 12 lines each side, empty diff. So the M5 mutant is a gap in the standing check, not an open question about what is in this file today — but the next edit to scope gets no such guarantee, which is why rainlanguage/rainix#321 states the limit rather than hiding it.

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• Documentation
  • Added an Audit section documenting the January 2026 review, including the report, reviewed files, and source comparison command.
  • Added a record of the audit scope and reviewed revisions for reference.

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The change records the January 2026 Protofire audit in audit/audits.json. It adds a README section with audit links, reviewed files, and a command to compare later changes under src/.

Changes

Audit documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Audit record and README documentation audit/audits.json, README.md	The audit record includes review metadata, commit hashes, report path, and twelve audited Solidity files. The README links to the audit materials and documents a git diff --stat command.

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