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Problem

Four account publishes still turned a size refusal into their own errors. When every relay refused a KeyPackage, a
block-list edit or the installed sticker list for size, whether by its own answer or over a known limit, the host got
Runtime, BlockListUnavailable or StickerNetwork instead of the EventTooLarge that profile, follow-list and
relay-list publishes already return. The backup pass and KeyPackage maintenance logged such a refusal under unrelated
kinds.

Fix

Each of these publishes now keeps the size proof the transport already makes, and reads it through one helper. The
transport sets that proof only when every relay refused the event for size, with no acceptance and no unresolved
relay. Host calls then fail as EventTooLarge { artifact: Other, size_class } (C 119, CLI event_too_large), and
background passes log event_too_large. Retries, the KeyPackage lifecycle and stored state do not change.

Verification

• Local: fmt; workspace --all-features clippy plus default clippy for marmot-session and marmot-app; the marmot-app size, block, sticker, backup, KeyPackage and error-table tests (214), observed_operations (5), --test stickers (3), the marmot-session KeyPackage tests (28), and the host-matrix tests in marmot-uniffi, marmot-c and wn-cli; just tracing-audit, just binding-docs-gate, just naming-gate; the app-runtime and CLI smokes. With the fix reverted, the three new host tests fail with the old errors, and the backup test logs the generic kind.
• Review: Codex (GPT-6.1 Sol) and Cursor (Grok 4.7 high-fast), four rounds; both recommend merge on 66b60e09c, the same tree as this commit. Fixed along the way: host-matrix rows for a size-refused KeyPackage, tests that pin the maintenance and backup log kinds, and changelog notes for the CLI commands and the new public field.

Decision per publish

Publish	Host sees the result?	Decision
KeyPackage: rotate_key_package, republish_key_package, account setup	Yes	EventTooLarge instead of Runtime. The lifecycle is unchanged: the failure still counts as possibly exposed and is retried with the same bytes.
KeyPackage maintenance: refresh and fanout retry	No	Logged as event_too_large.
KeyPackage deletions and slot withdrawals	Mostly no	Unchanged. They go to one relay at a time with per-relay receipts, so no all-relay proof exists, and a deletion is a few hundred bytes. The host's delete_account_key_package already returns EventTooLarge.
Block list: block_user, unblock_user, first attempt	Yes	EventTooLarge instead of BlockListUnavailable. The staged edit is cleared, as before.
Block list: retry of an uncertain attempt	Yes	Stays BlockPublicationUncertain, since the earlier attempt may have reached a relay. This is the rule a retried legacy Welcome follows.
Installed sticker list: sync_sticker_packs	Yes	EventTooLarge instead of StickerNetwork.
Installed sticker list: install, uninstall	No: the publish is tolerated	Still succeed, with the list owed to the next sync. This is the existing offline-tolerant contract.
Backup pointer	No	Logged as event_too_large, and retried like any refused pointer.

No host-visible error changes beyond these rules. The scripted test relay's size refusal now sets the all-relay proof,
as the SDK client does.

Part of #2334.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • KeyPackage publishing, block-list updates, and sticker synchronization now report a specific event-too-large error when all relays refuse an event because of its size, rather than a generic failure.
  • CLI key and identity commands now report event_too_large with artifact and size details in the same cases.
  • Sticker installation and removal still succeed when publication is refused; the list update remains pending for a later sync. Uncertain block-publication retries continue to report their distinct status.
• Documentation
  • Updated release notes and API documentation to describe these outcomes.

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Walkthrough

The changes classify relay size refusals as oversized-event errors across KeyPackage, block-list, sticker-sync, and backup publication paths. Sticker operations retain pending list updates after size refusals. KeyPackage maintenance and backup passes expose size-refusal failure kinds in logs or results.

Changes

Relay size-refusal reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Carry size-refusal evidence crates/marmot-session/src/key_package.rs, crates/marmot-session/src/error.rs, crates/marmot-session/src/runtime.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/error.rs	KeyPackagePublishError carries an optional event_size_class. App error conversion recognizes classified transport and KeyPackage errors. KeyPackage retry logs use event_too_large when the error carries that classification.
Map account publish refusals crates/marmot-app/src/error.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/error_kind_table.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/user_blocks.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/tests.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/tests/relay_event_limits.rs, crates/cli/CHANGELOG.md, crates/marmot-app/CHANGELOG.md, crates/marmot-c/CHANGELOG.md, crates/marmot-uniffi/CHANGELOG.md, crates/marmot-uniffi/README.md	Account publish failures with size evidence map to EventTooLarge; block-list errors retain their fallback when that evidence is absent. Tests and documentation cover the reported errors and the affected operations.
Handle deferred and background publication crates/marmot-app/src/client/backup_writer.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/stickers.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/tests/device_group/backup_writer.rs, crates/marmot-app/src/tests/relay_event_limits.rs	Sticker operations tolerate size refusals while keeping list updates pending. Backup passes return a failure kind, and backup-pointer publish errors use account publish conversion. Tests cover backup retries and deferred sticker-list publication.

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Possibly related issues

• marmot-protocol/mdk#2779: This change adds typed size-refusal outcomes and logging, which matches the issue’s diagnostic distinction. The audit v5 RejectionCategory mapping is not shown here.
• marmot-protocol/mdk#2334: This change implements size-refusal reporting for selected publish operations, but the issue’s preflight and artifact-boundary requirements are not shown as implemented.
• marmot-protocol/mdk#2336: This change reports typed size refusals in several account-publish paths, but does not implement the issue’s large-group transport design.

Possibly related PRs

• marmot-protocol/mdk#875: This change extends the sticker publication and outbox paths introduced by that PR to handle size refusals.
• marmot-protocol/mdk#3271: This change uses the known relay limits and transport size-refusal evidence added by that PR.
• marmot-protocol/mdk#3279: Both changes use known-limit size-refusal behavior in account-signed publication paths.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 36d74

The change maps relay size refusals to a dedicated oversized-event error across the KeyPackage, block-list, sticker-sync and backup paths. No merge-blocking issue was found.

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crates/marmot-app/src/tests/device_group/backup_writer.rs: 1

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Assert the emitted warning.

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Review comment at @crates/marmot-app/src/tests/device_group/backup_writer.rs at line 394:
Update the `drive_backup_pass` assertion to verify the emitted warning rather than its return value: capture the warning through the test’s existing warning-observation mechanism and assert its `error_kind`. Preserve the test’s existing setup and avoid relying on the worker’s discarded return value.

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• crates/cli/CHANGELOG.md
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• crates/marmot-app/src/error_kind_table.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/lib.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/stickers.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/tests.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/tests/device_group/backup_writer.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/tests/relay_event_limits.rs
• crates/marmot-app/src/user_blocks.rs
• crates/marmot-c/CHANGELOG.md
• crates/marmot-session/src/error.rs
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