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Problem

MDK sends every event to every target relay and learns a relay's size limit only from its refusal (#2993). On strfry, an event bigger than the relay's WebSocket frame limit gets no refusal: the relay closes the socket. That reads as a possible exposure, so the event is sent again on every retry (#2332). White Noise's two relays take events up to 2 MiB but don't advertise it.

Fix

Relays can now have a known event limit, and the account adapter sends no group event or Welcome over it.

• A deployment lists limits for relays that don't advertise them. MarmotDeployment::white_noise() sets 2 MiB on its two relays; neutral() sets none. UniFFI gets a field with an empty default, and C gets marmot_deployment_set_relay_event_limits.
• For events over 64 KiB, MDK also reads limitation.max_message_length from the relay's NIP-11 document, less the 10 bytes of ["EVENT",…] framing. This uses the document cache Rebuild account recovery as a background subsystem with a coverage ledger and resumable sweeps #2660 already keeps. The smaller known value wins. A relay with no known limit is assumed to fit and is still sent to.
• An endpoint the event doesn't fit gets TransportEndpointFailure::over_known_limit: NotExposed, with the TooLarge category and the event's size class. The adapter measures the event the way relay refusals are measured (signed event JSON), and a test pins that the two measures agree.
• fix(transport): expose conclusive event-size refusals to hosts #2993's size proof now accepts these refusals, alone or mixed with relays' own size refusals. Its evidence rule is unchanged: any acceptance or unresolved endpoint makes the failure untyped. So a refusal on every relay gives hosts EventTooLarge (C 119, CLI event_too_large), a refused commit rolls back with nothing sent, and Explain pending Welcome size refusals to hosts #2999's owed Welcome shows its size.
• Audit v5 records the new reason as publish_attempt_failed_before_exposure.

Does this close the socket-close resend loop?

Only for relays with a known limit:

• White Noise's two relays, from the deployment. Their 2 MiB event limit is below their 4 MiB frame limit, so no oversized event reaches them.
• Relays whose NIP-11 document advertises max_message_length, which strfry fills with its frame limit. Events between strfry's event limit and its frame limit still get the relay's invalid: answer, which fix(transport): expose conclusive event-size refusals to hosts #2993 already treats as final.

The loop stays open for a relay with neither: no configured limit, and no document or no max_message_length in it. A failed document fetch counts as unknown for 5 minutes.

Not in this PR

• Welcomes still go out after their commit is confirmed. Here an invite whose Welcome fits none of the invitee's inbox relays confirms the commit, and the Welcome stays owed with its size class. The next PR checks before staging and refuses such a change before its commit is sent. A founding create's Welcomes, and other Welcome sends Multi-device: one account on several devices #2628 added outside that seam, get only this adapter refusal.
• Account publishes that don't go through the transport adapter (profiles, relay lists, KeyPackages, backups) aren't checked.

Verification

• Local: cargo fmt --all --check, just tracing-audit, just naming-gate, just binding-docs-gate, just c-parity-gate, and just c-header with no header diff
• Local: cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features --locked -- -D warnings, and default-feature clippy on the seven changed crates
• Local: cargo nextest run -p transport-nostr --all-features (149 passed); the marmot-app deployment, relay_caps, relay_event_limits, relay-plane and telemetry tests; the marmot-uniffi and marmot-c deployment tests; just c-smoke
• Local: the marmot-session audit and frozen-fanout tests this change extends
• Local: the end-to-end smoke (public_app_03_late_join_and_messaging, engine_app_runtime_and_process_adapters_reach_equivalent_public_state, and the two wn-cli tests) and just simulator-smoke (508 + 4 passed)
• Review: Codex gpt-6.1-sol and Cursor grok-4.7-high-fast recommend merge at 8940e1bac. Rebased onto Hosts reach onboarding through runtime.account_setup() (#2782 PR 2) #3270 as 1b2e5e7d4; the only conflict was the marmot-app changelog, and the app, binding and C checks above were rerun after it.

Part of #2334.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added configurable event-size limits for individual relays. Events that exceed a known limit aren’t sent to that relay; if no relay can accept an event, the send fails with an EventTooLarge error.
  • The White Noise preset now sets a 2 MiB event limit for each of its relays. Deployments without configured or advertised limits retain the existing send behavior.
  • Relay message-size limits advertised by NIP-11 are also considered for events larger than 64 KiB.

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Walkthrough

The change adds per-relay event-size limits to deployment configuration and filters publishing endpoints by configured and advertised limits. It adds refusal and size-class handling, integrates the configuration into app, C, and UniFFI APIs, and adds tests and documentation.

Changes

Relay event-size limits

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transport filtering and refusal classification crates/traits/src/transport_adapter.rs, crates/transport-nostr/src/lib.rs, crates/transport-nostr/src/tests.rs, crates/marmot-forensics/..., crates/marmot-session/...	The transport adapter filters endpoints using known event-size limits and includes local refusals in publish reports. Size-class classification accepts eligible NotExposed refusals, and audit classification recognizes the known-limit refusal reason.
Deployment limits and NIP-11 resolution crates/marmot-app/src/deployment.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/relay_caps.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/relay_event_limits.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/tests/..., crates/marmot-app/CHANGELOG.md	MarmotDeployment gains normalized per-relay limits. The NIP-11 cache stores advertised message lengths with relay caps, and the app configures account adapters with the limit provider. Tests cover normalization, limit selection, and oversized group events and Welcomes.
C and UniFFI deployment APIs crates/marmot-c/..., crates/marmot-uniffi/...	The C API adds a relay-limit setter. UniFFI adds the corresponding record and deployment field with conversions to and from the app type. Tests and documentation describe the APIs and limit behavior.

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Possibly related PRs

• marmot-protocol/mdk#2620: This PR sends group messages through the outbound publishing path. The current change adds endpoint-specific size refusals to that path, which can affect publication of those messages.

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crates/marmot-app/src/relay_event_limits.rs: 1

111-111: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Use the multi-thread flavor for these async tests.

Both tests use bare #[tokio::test]. That selects the current-thread runtime. The repository default for async tests in crates/marmot-app/src/** is flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2. Neither test shows a need for one thread. Neither has a // comment that gives a reason.

Change both attributes.

♻️ Proposed fix

-    #[tokio::test]
+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
     async fn a_configured_limit_matches_any_spelling_of_its_relay() {

-    #[tokio::test]
+    #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]
     async fn an_unavailable_document_keeps_the_configured_limit() {

As per coding guidelines: "Async tests in src/ and tests/ default to #[tokio::test(flavor = "multi_thread", worker_threads = 2)]".

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Review comment at @crates/marmot-app/src/relay_event_limits.rs at line 111:
Update the #[tokio::test] attributes on
a_configured_limit_matches_any_spelling_of_its_relay and
an_unavailable_document_keeps_the_configured_limit to use the multi-thread
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Review comments at @crates/marmot-app/src/relay_event_limits.rs:
- Line 111: Update the #[tokio::test] attributes on
a_configured_limit_matches_any_spelling_of_its_relay and
an_unavailable_document_keeps_the_configured_limit to use the multi-thread
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• crates/marmot-app/src/relay_caps/tests.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/relay_event_limits.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/tests.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/tests/relay_event_limits.rs
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• crates/marmot-c/src/deployment.rs
• crates/marmot-forensics/src/v5/operational.rs
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