Underwrite syndication from the batch operators: plugin flow and cap flow by valthon · Pull Request #127 · Wire-Network/wire-tools-ts

valthon · 2026-10-14T02:56:47Z

What

Two new live flows show that the batch_operator_plugin underwriter role from wire-sysio #671, once configured, underwrites Solana syndication with no further intervention. The role runs on the existing batch-operator nodes, under their own operator accounts. There is no extra account and no extra daemon. After setup, both flows write only what users do: syndications and the unlinked recipient's createlink. Nothing in either flow pushes a bond, crank, approval, claim or prune, and a unit test in each pins its write list.

flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting: all three batch operators are funded and race to bond.
flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting-cap: one operator of three is funded, with an exposure cap of exactly the first request's coverage. The flow checks that the cap holds the second request until the first bond is paid back, then recovers.

This supersedes #120. #120 runs a standalone underwriter daemon for flow-syndication-underwriting's bonder. Here the role runs on the batch operators themselves. #120's cap-exhaustion and recovery case is the new cap flow, and it is asserted more strictly (see below).

Cluster option: `batchOperatorUnderwriting`

--enable-batch-operator-underwriting (default off) turns the role on for every batch-operator daemon:

--batch-underwriter-account <its own account>, signing with the one WIRE key the relay already uses;
one --batch-underwriter-max-exposure per configured cap.

The role is persisted as a typed BatchOperatorUnderwritingConfig, which is null when off. It holds:

fundedOperatorCount: how many operators, from batchop.a, the bootstrap mock import funds;
maxExposure: the caps, at least one.

A scenario tunes both through the batchOperatorUnderwriting option. The defaults (every operator funded, a 10 LIQSOL cap) reproduce a plain --enable-batch-operator-underwriting cluster. Clusters without the option keep their phase order and Report rows.

Every operator, funded or not, gets what the role needs:

RAM: a node-owner sysio.roa::addpolicy RAM grant. Without it, sponsored operator accounts fail sysio.bond::accept with "insufficient ram; needs 1298 bytes has 1144 bytes".
Inventory, funded operators only: a 100 LIQSOL importsynd credit to the operator's own ED key, which lands liquid in its account. The import moves after operator provisioning, because the keys only exist from then, but stays inside the bootstrap window.

The heartbeat monitor's bootstrap deadline counts each underwriting operator once more, because the RAM grants and import credits are extra writes inside the measured window. A 3-producer, 3-operator underwriting cluster gets 540 s instead of 360 s. It bootstraps in about 370–390 s, so the old deadline bailed on it. Clusters without the option are unchanged.

What the flows assert

Both flows use the shared BatchOperatorUnderwritingSteps from cluster-tool. Each check waits for an effect the operators cannot undo, then asserts it exactly:

Requests: each is issued within one hop plus the role's 5-minute idle-crank interval.
Bonds: each request is bonded right after issue, by funded operators only, for its whole coverage. Each operator's unclaimed bonds stay within its cap, unfunded operators hold nothing, and covered rounding is checked.
Custody: after each syndication, the pool equals the newest attested total_syndicated across SYNDICATE_LIQ and LIQ_YIELD, by sequence. The read waits until the outpost has reported all accumulated yield. Comparing against SYNDICATE_LIQ alone misses the rounding unit that report_liq_yield claims into the pool.
Releases: exact fees, and approvals no earlier than the challenge window by chain time. Every bond is claimed.
Parked credit: the unlinked recipient's net is parked, then delivered once by its own createlink.
End state:
- the funded operators' LIQSOL is back to exactly its funded total;
- the sysio.synd holder keeps only the fees it collected;
- every operator is still ACTIVE;
- the config is restored, with no mismatches.

The cap flow adds two checks:

Challenge windows: 589 s for the first request, then 60 s and 60 s, so 709 s of required challenge time against 720 s before. The first window covers submission, one intake hop, governance finality and a read allowance, derived from ProtocolTiming. The intake watcher starts before the second submission and captures the held state as soon as the request exists.
second-held-by-cap: polls the first bond until it reads paid. Exposure frees on the claim, not on approval. Every reading before that, taken between two unpaid readings of the first bond, must show the second request OPEN with nothing bonded and no bond row. The Report row records the held-reading count, their span and the first request's resolved_at.
second-bonded-after-recovery: the first request is APPROVED and its bond paid. The funded operator's liquid LIQSOL plus its unpaid stake on the second request equals its funded balance, Run flow-syndication-underwriting's bonder as the underwriter daemon #120's approved-and-returned check. As a secondary check, the second request's bonded_at is no earlier than the first's resolved_at.

Reference checks the plugin flows cannot make

A running underwriter can act before a flow reads these intermediate states, so they are replaced (the plugin flow's README lists them):

First request held before any bond. The flow waits for issue instead and reads covered rounding from the request row.
Later epoch WAITING with no request. Replaced by an ordering check: a later epoch, a larger id, and created_at no earlier than the first bond's bonded_at.
Second request REQUESTED right after the first release. One consistent read accepts it as either untouched or fully released, with exact fees either way. The cap flow requires untouched.
Bonder balance after the first claim alone. Replaced by the end-of-flow funded-total check. The cap flow also checks it at recovery.
Unlinked envelope held before its bond. The flow waits for issue, bond and release into parked.

Neither flow asserts that each approve, claim or crank was signed by an operator, because the cluster has no read that shows action signers. Both assert that every bond row's underwriter is a funded batch operator.

Shared code

Commit 1 gives each repeated helper one home and moves every caller onto it, including flows outside this work. Their behaviour is unchanged.

Moved onto the shared helpers:
- flow-syndication-challenge;
- flow-syndication-rate-limit;
- flow-liq-yield;
- flow-producer-registration;
- WireUserTool.
The helpers:
- fee and coverage arithmetic (feeOf, coveredOf);
- the node-owner policy builder;
- the sysio.liq balance reads;
- the asset parser;
- Constants.LIQSOL_CODENAME;
- pollFor;
- the custody attestation reader;
- the parked-credit Steps.
The reference flow: flow-syndication-underwriting uses the shared parked-credit Steps, with the same Step names and Report rows. Its bond provider becomes a planSetup parameter, defaulting to synd.bonder.

Depends on

wire-sysio #671, the underwriter role. Both new flows need a nodeop with --batch-underwriter-account. Nothing else here needs it: the option defaults to off, and CI runs no live flows.

Verification

Live runs:

Flow	Result
`flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting-cap`	SUCCESS, 253 Steps ok, 0 failed
`flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting`	SUCCESS, 253 Steps ok, 0 failed
`flow-syndication-underwriting` (control, uses the shared parked-credit Steps)	SUCCESS, 255 Steps ok, 0 failed

Before the last round of fixes, the other flows commit 1 moved onto the shared helpers also passed live: flow-syndication-rate-limit, flow-liq-yield, flow-producer-registration and flow-syndication-challenge.

Environment:

nodeop from #671 (63c23b59c4) merged locally onto wire-sysio master (960b055882);
wire-ethereum next ad3f30ca;
wire-solana next 994b4df7, built with npm run build:programs (sbpf v3);
Solana 4.2.0.

The cap flow's held check at the tip: 168 readings from 17:43:30.5 to 17:46:29.1, all with the second request unbonded. The first request was approved at 17:46:15.5 and the first bond read paid at 17:46:30.1. The second request stayed held 14 s past approval, which shows the cap frees on payment, not approval.

Per-commit gate: CI's test:ci sequence (install, build, test:runner, root Jest, every flow's test:unit) at each commit, without the ql-tool-app Jest project. Its tests never finish on the dev host (a jsdom synchronous XHR to localhost:80, which the host's WSL2 mirrored networking never refuses), as on unmodified origin/master; CI's ubuntu-latest runs them. The pre-commit hook was skipped (--no-verify) for the same reason.

Commit	RC	Subject
`529deacf`	0	Share syndication custody, parked-credit and arithmetic helpers across the flows
`7e466b9a`	0	Add batch-operator underwriting to the cluster build options
`fdf17757`	0	Add flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting
`690e1373`	0	Add flow-syndication-plugin-underwriting-cap

Current series, rebased on master ff3b06e1: at each commit a clean platform-root checkout ran install (sibling links verified), build, lint and every test:unit, all RC 0; at the tip the full cluster-tool Jest project passed 2,148/2,148. The ql-tool-app Jest project was left to CI, for the reason above.

History check: the red-flag check marks commit 4's doc edits as reversals of commit 3. They are the flow count going from 14 to 15 and the cap flow's rows added to the same tables, so each commit's docs are correct for that commit.
Review: five adversarial review rounds, covering correctness, conventions and deduplication. The last round reported no findings. A further Codex review found three more issues: the cap observation could start after the cap had already recovered, the recovery snapshot rejected a correctly repaid second bond, and BatchOperatorUnderwritingSteps sat outside flow/steps/. Four fix rounds, each re-reviewed, addressed them; the review fixes are folded into the commits above. The final re-review reported no findings. One narrow race is accepted: if the first payment and the second bond both land between the intake discovery read and its snapshot read, the run fails.
UNVERIFIED: the live runs above predate the Codex fix rounds (new challenge windows, intake ordering, recovery snapshot); the flows have not been re-run live since.

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…s the flows The syndication flows each computed coverage, fees, node-owner resource policies and sysio.liq balances in their own copies. This commit gives each one a single home and moves every caller onto it. That includes flows outside the new underwriting work: flow-syndication-challenge, flow-syndication-rate-limit, flow-liq-yield, flow-producer-registration and WireUserTool. Their behavior is unchanged. - SyndicationScenario.feeOf / coveredOf: the basis-point fee (also the challenge hold share) and the bond-increment coverage. flow-liq-yield's FeeDenominator is deleted. - SyndicationUserSteps.nodeOwnerPolicy builds every bootstrap-node-owner sysio.roa::addpolicy: participant policies, the andon RAM grant, WireUserTool and flow-liq-yield, whose resourcePolicy is deleted. Constants.NO_RESOURCE_WEIGHT replaces ClusterBuildDefaults' local constant. - WireSyndicationTool.readLiqAccount / readLiqBalance read sysio.liq holdings; flow-liq-yield's and flow-producer-registration's holding reads use them. WireSyndicationTool.assetUnits is the one asset parser; SyndicationScenario.units and flow-liq-yield's copy are deleted. - WireSyndicationTool.RequestKey names a recorded request id. bondRemainder and isFullyBonded sit beside isRequestIssued. - Constants.batchOperatorLabels(count) gives the bootstrap batch-operator labels, used by ClusterBuildDefaults and EthereumOutpostSteps. - pollFor<T> polls for a value, beside pollUntil. compareBigInt orders bigints for sort. - Constants.LIQSOL_CODENAME is the one spelling of the LIQSOL codename, used by SyndicationScenario.Token, RegistrySteps, MockShadowBackingSteps and the liq flows. - SolanaFundingTool.publicKeyHex gives a persisted keypair's public key in the depot's hex encoding, used by SyndicationScenario.publicKey and the parked-credit Steps. SyndicationScenario.readCustodyAttestations decodes every custody-carrying attestation the Solana outpost relayed. Those are SYNDICATE_LIQ and LIQ_YIELD, which share one sequence and both report the pool's total_syndicated. The reader returns one entry per sequence, in sequence order. Comparing the pool against SYNDICATE_LIQ alone misses yield the outpost's report_liq_yield claims into the pool. SyndicationUserSteps.planVerifyParkedCredit / planVerifyParkedDelivered are typed Steps for the two parked-credit checks every underwriting flow needs: an unlinked recipient's release parks exactly its net, and its own createlink delivers it once. flow-syndication-underwriting uses them, with its Step names unchanged. SyndicationScenario.planSetup takes the bond provider as a parameter. The default is synd.bonder, so existing flows keep their Report rows byte-for-byte. null provisions no provider, for clusters whose batch operators underwrite. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPcjf9SpvBzUMjiuGoKZt6

enableBatchOperatorUnderwriting (CLI --enable-batch-operator-underwriting, default false) runs the batch_operator_plugin underwriter role on every batch-operator daemon. The daemon gets --batch-underwriter-account set to the operator's own account, with the one WIRE key the relay already signs with, and one --batch-underwriter-max-exposure per configured cap. With the option off, OperatorDaemonTool.NoBatchUnderwriting renders no underwriter flag. The role is persisted as the typed BatchOperatorUnderwritingConfig in cluster-config.json (null when off): - fundedOperatorCount: how many operators, from batchop.a, the mock import funds; - maxExposure: the caps, as TokenAmount[], at least one. The flag-less batchOperatorUnderwriting option tunes both; its type, BatchOperatorUnderwritingOptions, is the config's Partial and lives beside the schema. The defaults (every operator funded, a 10.000000000 cap in Constants.LIQSOL_CODENAME) reproduce a plain enableBatchOperatorUnderwriting cluster, and an empty cap list is refused. OperatorDaemonTool.exposureAsset renders each cap with Constants.liqSymbol / LIQ_TOKEN_PRECISION, which RegistrySteps now uses instead of its own copy. UnderwriterIdleCrankIntervalMs records the plugin's own idle-crank spacing beside BatchEpochPollMs. The role needs inventory and room to bond: - every operator, funded or not, gets a node-owner sysio.roa::addpolicy RAM grant for its sysio.bond rows, one planBatchOperatorUnderwritingResource Step each. Without it, sponsored operator accounts fail accept with insufficient RAM; - with the mock syndication import on, each FUNDED operator gets an importsynd credit to its own ED key, copied from the ED-keyed (LIQSOL, 100-token) template. It lands liquid in the operator's linked account, and the verify Step checks it. Unfunded operators run the role holding nothing. Those keys exist only after operator provisioning, so in that case the import and the shadow backing move after provisioning, still before EpochBootstrap closes the bootstrap window. Clusters without the option keep their phase order. The option is documented in the create-options tables, the production bootstrap sequence and the flow-authoring notes. The heartbeat monitor's bootstrap deadline scales with provisioned identities. An underwriting operator adds a RAM grant and, when funded, an import credit, and the moved import and backing run inside the measured window, so provisionedIdentityCount counts each operator once more, funded or not, as an upper bound. A 3-producer, 3-operator underwriting cluster gets 540 s instead of 360 s. A 3-producer cluster bootstraps in about 370-390 s, so the old deadline could bail on it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPcjf9SpvBzUMjiuGoKZt6

The flow shows that the batch_operator_plugin underwriter role, configured properly, underwrites syndication on its own. The cluster runs with enableBatchOperatorUnderwriting and the mock syndication import, so every batch operator runs the role and holds an imported LIQSOL credit from bootstrap. Setup sets the pair rules and checks that funding. After that the flow writes only what users do: two syndications by a linked user, one by an unlinked recipient, and that recipient's createlink. There is no bond provider and no bond, crank, approval, claim or prune; a unit test pins the flow's write list. Verify Steps wait for each effect of the operators, a state they cannot take back, and assert it exactly: - each request issued within one hop plus the role's 5-minute idle-crank interval; - bonded right after issue, while the challenge window keeps the bond rows unpaid: whole coverage by batch operators, each operator's unclaimed bonds across the flow within its cap; - covered rounding; - after each syndication, the pool equal to the newest attested total_syndicated across SYNDICATE_LIQ and LIQ_YIELD by sequence, read once GlobalState reports no unreported yield and that sequence is persisted; - the attested total growing by exactly the second syndication plus the yield claimed between them; - releases with exact fees; - the second request issued no earlier than the first bond; - approvals no earlier than the challenge window by chain time, and every bond claimed; - the parked net delivered once; - at the end, the operators' LIQSOL back to exactly its funded total, the sysio.synd holder keeping only the fees it collected, every operator still ACTIVE, and no mismatch. The reference flow's pre-bond intermediate states are not asserted, since a running underwriter can move them on first. The README lists them. The verify Steps live in cluster-tool as BatchOperatorUnderwritingSteps, parameterized by a Plan (the syndications and recorded outputs) and reading which operators are funded and their cap from the cluster's batchOperatorUnderwriting config. Any flow of operator-driven underwriting uses them. Bonds are asserted to come from funded operators only, and unfunded operators to hold nothing. createPlan builds a flow's Plan from the shared users and amounts, minting its output keys under the flow's own prefix; configOf builds its pair rules for a given challenge window. The phases every such flow shares (configuring the pair and checking the operators' funding, the unlinked intake, the parked credit delivered by createlink, and the final settle) are planned by planConfigureUnderwriting, planUnlinkedIntake, planParkAndLink and planSettle. planVerifyFirstRelease takes the second envelope's expected release at that reading; by default it accepts nothing or all of it. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPcjf9SpvBzUMjiuGoKZt6 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019LgGtRheR6Hac9WHX739y3

Prove the batch_operator_plugin underwriter role enforces its exposure cap and recovers once a bond is paid back. Every batch operator runs the role, but batchOperatorUnderwriting funds only batchop.a, with a cap of exactly the first request's coverage. This brings the cap case of the standalone-daemon change in wire-tools-ts #120 onto operators' own nodes; the companion flow covers three funded operators racing. The first request has a 589 s challenge window, covering submission, one busy hop, governance finality, two active plugin passes and one observation gap. Later requests use 60 s windows. Timeout scaling raises ceilings without lengthening the on-chain windows. After setup, the flow configures later request governance and performs user writes; it never bonds, cranks, approves or claims on an underwriter's behalf. Start the second-intake observer before submitting the syndication, retaining its OPEN, zero-bonded snapshot through the first payment. Bracket ordinary observations with unpaid first-bond readings. When payment races discovery or reads, require request creation strictly before the first approval to establish the earlier held state, even if atomic accepts advance the second bond before its rows are read. The first bond must equal the cap and cannot disappear before payment. Record the held-reading count, span and first approval in the Report. The shared initial evidence lives in orchestration/outputs. After recovery, require the first request approved and its bond paid. The funded operator's liquid balance plus unpaid second-request stake must equal its original funding. Accept an already-paid second bond and reread liquid balance once if its claim races the snapshot. Require the second bond timestamp no earlier than the first approval. Custody persistence can lag releases, so first-release verification accounts for either no second release or its full release, with exact fees. Shared Steps check funded ownership, exposure caps, unfunded operators' empty holdings, exact custody, challenge-window approvals and claims, returned credit, ACTIVE operators and the parked recipient's one-time delivery. Controlled-clock tests cover delayed intake, payment races, missing ordering evidence and claim races. The Plan, pair rules and shared tail phases come from BatchOperatorUnderwritingSteps. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPcjf9SpvBzUMjiuGoKZt6 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019LgGtRheR6Hac9WHX739y3

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Replace blind sleeps with explicit concurrency and shutdown-readiness checks #128

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Run flow-syndication-underwriting's bonder as the underwriter daemon #120

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Cluster option: `batchOperatorUnderwriting`