bsv_overlay_engine/

engine.rs

//! Overlay Services Engine — the core orchestrator.
//!
//! Receives transactions (submit), answers queries (lookup), manages advertisements,
//! and coordinates GASP sync. All storage, topic management, and lookup service
//! operations go through trait interfaces.
//!
//! Ported from `~/bsv/overlay-services/src/Engine.ts` (1,337 lines).

use crate::beef_limits;

use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, Transaction};
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
use tracing::{error, info, warn};

use crate::advertiser::{Advertiser, AdvertiserError};
use crate::broadcaster::{ArcBroadcaster, Broadcaster};
use crate::lookup_service::{LookupService, LookupServiceError};
use crate::storage::{Storage, StorageError};
use crate::topic_manager::{TopicManager, TopicManagerError};
use crate::types::*;

/// Controls how much spend history to include in lookup responses.
///
/// Maps to the TS `historySelector` parameter which can be a number
/// (depth limit) or an async function (per-output decider).
#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub enum HistorySelector {
    /// Include up to N levels of ancestor spend history.
    Depth(u32),
}

/// Configuration for constructing the Engine.
pub struct EngineConfig {
    /// URL where this engine is hosted. Required for advertisement sync.
    pub hosting_url: Option<String>,
    /// Known SHIP tracker URLs for bootstrapping.
    pub ship_trackers: Vec<String>,
    /// Known SLAP tracker URLs for bootstrapping.
    pub slap_trackers: Vec<String>,
    /// Configuration for GASP topic synchronization.
    pub sync_configuration: SyncConfiguration,
    /// Whether to suppress default SHIP/SLAP sync advertisements.
    pub suppress_default_sync_advertisements: bool,
}

impl Default for EngineConfig {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self {
            hosting_url: None,
            ship_trackers: Vec::new(),
            slap_trackers: Vec::new(),
            sync_configuration: HashMap::new(),
            suppress_default_sync_advertisements: true,
        }
    }
}

/// The Overlay Services Engine.
///
/// Orchestrates topic managers, lookup services, storage, and advertisements.
/// Does NOT include an HTTP server — that's the job of overlay-cloudflare.
pub struct Engine {
    managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>>,
    lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupService>>,
    storage: Box<dyn Storage>,
    advertiser: Option<Box<dyn Advertiser>>,
    broadcaster: Option<Box<dyn Broadcaster>>,
    arc_broadcaster: Option<Box<dyn ArcBroadcaster>>,
    chain_tracker: Option<Box<dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>>,
    gasp_remote_factory: Option<Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory>>,
    ship_lookup_client: Option<Box<dyn crate::ship_lookup::ShipLookupClient>>,
    ship_bootstrap_peers: HashMap<String, Vec<String>>,
    /// OPT-IN / OFF BY DEFAULT chain-backed ancestor fetcher for GASP ingest.
    /// When `None` (default / production), GASP ingest is byte-identical to
    /// today. A platform crate may set `Some` (one-time-migration only) to let
    /// ingest self-heal missing ancestry by fetching it from chain.
    ancestor_fetcher: Option<std::rc::Rc<dyn crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher>>,
    gasp_ancestor_fetcher: Option<std::rc::Rc<dyn crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher>>,
    /// bsv-low#302: per-peer GASP sync wall-clock budget —
    /// `(sleep factory, budget ms)`. `None` (default) = unbounded per-peer
    /// sync, byte-identical to the pre-#302 behavior. When set, each peer's
    /// `GASPSync::sync` is raced against `sleep(budget_ms)`; a peer that
    /// exceeds the budget is DROPPED (loud log, failure recorded, cursor NOT
    /// advanced) and the loop continues with the next peer.
    peer_sync_budget: Option<(SleepFactory, u64)>,
    /// The per-GRAPH GASP budget (bsv-low #555): the sleep, the calls, the
    /// ms. `None`: no graph is deferred.
    graph_budget: Option<(SleepFactory, u32, u64)>,
    /// The per-graph budget's bytes and nodes limbs (bsv-low #586,
    /// [`Engine::set_graph_budget_limbs`]): in force once a graph budget is
    /// set.
    graph_budget_limbs: (u64, u32),
    /// The bound of one transaction's finalize submit (bsv-low #559), see
    /// [`Engine::set_finalize_submit_budget`].
    finalize_submit_budget: Option<(SleepFactory, u64)>,
    /// Open around each GASP finalize submit, so no deadline that races the
    /// sync drops a transaction between its writes (bsv-low #552, the lens
    /// fold's HIGH-1). See [`Engine::finalize_submit_gate`].
    finalize_gate: crate::gasp::SubmitGate,
    /// (txid, topic) pairs whose Phase-3 writes FAULTED in this engine and
    /// have not landed since (bsv-low #559): a successor that finds no coin
    /// while its predecessor is in here is not recorded as applied. One
    /// invocation's memory; across invocations the same question is put to
    /// the store ([`Engine::unlanded_predecessor`]).
    not_landed: std::cell::RefCell<HashSet<(String, String)>>,
    /// Asked before the door lands a carried predecessor (bsv-low #575, the
    /// E1D delta-2 fold, L2). See [`Engine::set_landing_guard`].
    landing_guard: Option<LandingGuard>,
    /// Reference-parity spend verification on submit (2026-09-08). `true`
    /// (DEFAULT): every submit outside `HistoricalTxNoSpv` runs the
    /// reference's `Transaction.verify` walk: merkle paths against the chain
    /// tracker AND every input's unlocking script EXECUTED, recursively over
    /// the unproven ancestry in the BEEF; with no chain tracker the walk is
    /// the ts-sdk's `'scripts only'` (roots accepted unchecked, scripts still
    /// run). `false` is an ESCAPE HATCH, not a mode: it restores the
    /// pre-2026-09-08 structural check (`Beef::verify_valid` + every root
    /// against the tracker; NOTHING without a tracker), which admitted an
    /// invalid spend on structure alone. See
    /// [`Engine::set_script_verification`].
    verify_scripts: bool,
    /// The two limbs of the submit's own script walk (bsv-low #592): the
    /// door's [`DoorBudget`], [`DoorBudget::DEFAULT`] unless set. See
    /// [`Engine::set_walk_budget`].
    walk_budget: DoorBudget,
    config: EngineConfig,
}

/// Boxed platform sleep future (bsv-low#302). Not `Send` — the engine runs
/// single-threaded on wasm (Workers) and under `#[tokio::test]` locally.
pub type SleepFuture = std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = ()>>>;

/// Platform sleep factory (bsv-low#302): milliseconds → a future that
/// resolves after that delay. The Cloudflare crate passes its `sleep_ms`;
/// tests pass `ready(())` (instant deadline) or `pending()` (no deadline)
/// to drive the race deterministically.
pub type SleepFactory = std::rc::Rc<dyn Fn(u64) -> SleepFuture>;

/// The answer of a [`LandingGuard`]: `Ok` lets the body land, `Err` says why
/// it may not (the topic waits).
pub type LandingGuardFuture =
    std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<(), String>>>>;

/// The caller's admission predicate over a carried predecessor the door is
/// about to land: `(predecessor txid, topic)`. See
/// [`Engine::set_landing_guard`].
pub type LandingGuard = std::rc::Rc<dyn Fn(&str, &str) -> LandingGuardFuture>;

/// The bound of ONE GASP finalize submit's storage calls and hooks (bsv-low
/// #559, the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F2). The submit itself is never
/// dropped: it is the write section no deadline drops, and c9921ee, which
/// raced the whole submit against its budget inside the section, dropped it
/// between two writes all the same. Each storage call, lookup hook and topic
/// manager call inside it is raced against the section's ONE deadline
/// instead, and a call that has not answered when the deadline falls due is
/// dropped ALONE and reported as that call's fault: the submit runs on to
/// its end as for any storage fault. Once the deadline is due no further
/// call is started (each answers "no answer" at once), so a transaction
/// costs at most its budget, and once more for the undo
/// ([`CallBound::renew`]).
struct CallBound {
    sleep: SleepFactory,
    budget_ms: u64,
    deadline: std::cell::RefCell<SleepFuture>,
    due: std::cell::Cell<bool>,
}

impl CallBound {
    fn new(sleep: &SleepFactory, budget_ms: u64) -> Self {
        Self {
            deadline: std::cell::RefCell::new(sleep(budget_ms)),
            sleep: sleep.clone(),
            budget_ms,
            due: std::cell::Cell::new(false),
        }
    }

    /// A fresh allowance of the same length, for the undo of a faulted
    /// submit: the calls that put the store back as it was found must not be
    /// refused because the deadline the fault answered to has passed.
    fn renew(&self) {
        *self.deadline.borrow_mut() = (self.sleep)(self.budget_ms);
        self.due.set(false);
    }

    /// Whether a call under this bound went unanswered (or was not started
    /// because one had) since the last [`CallBound::renew`].
    fn is_due(&self) -> bool {
        self.due.get()
    }

    /// `call`, or `None` when the deadline fell due first.
    async fn call<T>(&self, call: impl std::future::Future<Output = T>) -> Option<T> {
        if self.due.get() {
            return None;
        }
        let mut call = std::pin::pin!(call);
        std::future::poll_fn(|cx| {
            if let std::task::Poll::Ready(v) = call.as_mut().poll(cx) {
                return std::task::Poll::Ready(Some(v));
            }
            if self.deadline.borrow_mut().as_mut().poll(cx).is_ready() {
                self.due.set(true);
                return std::task::Poll::Ready(None);
            }
            std::task::Poll::Pending
        })
        .await
    }
}

/// `call` under `bound` (or unbounded with none); `Err` is "no answer".
async fn bounded<T>(
    bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    call: impl std::future::Future<Output = T>,
) -> Result<T, String> {
    match bound {
        Some(bound) => bound
            .call(call)
            .await
            .ok_or_else(|| format!("no answer within {} ms", bound.budget_ms)),
        None => Ok(call.await),
    }
}

/// A storage call under `bound`: no answer in time is that call's fault.
async fn stored<T>(
    bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    call: impl std::future::Future<Output = Result<T, StorageError>>,
) -> Result<T, StorageError> {
    match bounded(bound, call).await {
        Ok(answer) => answer,
        Err(no_answer) => Err(StorageError::Database(no_answer)),
    }
}

/// A lookup hook under `bound`, its error as the report carries it.
async fn hooked(
    bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    call: impl std::future::Future<Output = Result<(), LookupServiceError>>,
) -> Result<(), String> {
    bounded(bound, call).await?.map_err(|e| e.to_string())
}

/// The most store reads [`Engine::unlanded_predecessor`] makes for one
/// topic of one submit (bsv-low #559, F3): the question is asked of every
/// transaction that admits nothing and found no coin, so it is kept cheap.
/// Counted are the reads spent on a body the BEEF does not prove and the
/// store does not hold as landed (the second delta fold of 2026-10-07, M2);
/// the 17th of those is never made: out of reads is "not now" (the delta
/// fold of 2026-10-07, M2). An unproven body still needs room under it for
/// the reads that find it landed (one for an applied row, two for a held
/// output): each is tested before it is made.
const PREDECESSOR_READS: usize = 16;

/// The most store reads [`Engine::unlanded_predecessor`] makes for one
/// SUBMIT (the third delta fold of 2026-10-07, M1): every read of the
/// question, counted against [`PREDECESSOR_READS`] or not (those of proven
/// and landed bodies included), in every topic of the submit together. The
/// 257th is never made: past the allowance the answer is "not now", never
/// "landed". Without it the question read as far as the BEEF reached (one
/// read per 41 bytes: 66,305 reads measured from one 2.7 MB BEEF), on a
/// public route. Per submit and not per topic because what it protects, the
/// invocation's D1 allowance, is per invocation; 256 is the door's own unit
/// ([`DoorBudget`]'s inputs per transaction), no derived figure.
const PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT: usize = 256;

/// Why a successor must wait ([`Engine::unlanded_predecessor`]), and the
/// unlanded predecessor whose body the BEEF carries, when the answer names
/// one: the door lands it first ([`Engine::land_carried`]).
/// A submit's STEAK and report, and the carried predecessor that blocks each
/// topic of a carried predecessor's own submit ([`Engine::submit_counted`]).
type Counted = (Steak, MutationReport, HashMap<String, String>);

/// What the landings of carried predecessors take from their successor's
/// submit (the E592 lens fold, M1): its breach policy, and whether its own
/// walk RAN (only then are the bodies it reached trusted).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
struct Landing {
    policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    subject_walk_ran: bool,
}

struct NotNow {
    why: String,
    carried: Option<String>,
}

/// Summary of an [`Engine::complete_missing_proofs`] pass.
///
/// All counts are over the single bounded page scanned this tick. A no-fetcher
/// (production) build returns the all-zero default.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct ProofCompletionSummary {
    /// Young walk-admitted rows selected without waiting for a callback.
    pub early_gasp: usize,
    /// Stored transactions inspected this tick (the bounded page size).
    pub scanned: usize,
    /// Of `scanned`, how many still lacked a merkle proof for their own tx.
    pub proofless: usize,
    /// Proofless txs whose BUMP was fetched + stitched into the stored BEEF.
    pub completed: usize,
    /// Proofless txs the fetcher could serve but that are not yet mined
    /// (no BUMP yet) — retried on a later tick.
    pub still_unconfirmed: usize,
    /// Proofless txs the fetcher errored on (e.g. budget exhausted, 429) —
    /// retried on a later tick.
    pub fetch_failed: usize,
    /// Proofless txs whose proof came back but failed to stitch into storage.
    pub stitch_failed: usize,
    /// Scanned rows that ALREADY carried a valid proof (stale `has_proof = 0`
    /// flag) and were marked proven this tick so they drop out of the candidate
    /// window — clearing the window-clog (#130).
    pub already_proven: usize,
}

/// Outcome of one [`Engine::sync_advertisements`] run (bsv-low #320 defect
/// 3a).
///
/// The engine used to swallow create/submit failures into `error!` and
/// return `Ok(())`, so the admin route reported `success` while zero
/// advertisements were admitted locally; a caller could not tell a
/// converged no-op (`to_create == 0`) from a silent failure. Every field
/// here is observational — the sync's behavior is unchanged, its outcome is
/// no longer hidden.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Serialize)]
#[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
pub struct SyncAdvertisementsReport {
    /// Advertisements the diff found missing (attempted this run). A
    /// converged node reports 0 here.
    pub to_create: usize,
    /// Stale advertisements the diff said to revoke.
    pub to_revoke: usize,
    /// `advertiser.create_advertisements` failure, verbatim.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub create_error: Option<String>,
    /// Local `Engine::submit` failure for the created ads, verbatim — the
    /// path that silently hid the self-admission failure live (our own
    /// ls_ship/ls_slap never gained our ads, so every cycle re-created all
    /// of them).
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub submit_error: Option<String>,
    /// Outputs admitted per topic by the local submit (from the STEAK).
    /// A successful submit that admitted NOTHING (topic-manager refusal)
    /// shows up here as explicit zeros.
    pub admitted: std::collections::BTreeMap<String, usize>,
    /// `advertiser.find_all_advertisements` failure, verbatim (#320 M2).
    /// When set, creation was REFUSED this run: a blind read must never
    /// become "current ads = none" and re-create (re-pay) the entire set.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub lookup_error: Option<String>,
    /// Stale ads the diff wanted revoked but the advertiser declined to
    /// build a revocation for (the CF advertiser's documented v1 no-op —
    /// #320 L2). Distinguishes "revoke happened" from "revoke skipped".
    pub revoke_skipped: usize,
    /// `advertiser.revoke_advertisements` failure, verbatim.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub revoke_error: Option<String>,
    /// Local `Engine::submit` failure for the revocation, verbatim.
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub revoke_submit_error: Option<String>,
}

impl SyncAdvertisementsReport {
    /// True when nothing errored. NOTE: a submit that admitted zero outputs
    /// is not an error at this layer — that refusal is [`Self::effective`]'s
    /// job.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn ok(&self) -> bool {
        self.create_error.is_none()
            && self.submit_error.is_none()
            && self.lookup_error.is_none()
            && self.revoke_error.is_none()
            && self.revoke_submit_error.is_none()
    }

    /// Total outputs admitted by the local submit across topics.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn admitted_total(&self) -> usize {
        self.admitted.values().sum()
    }

    /// True when the run errored nowhere AND the local submit admitted
    /// EVERY created ad (#320 M1 + delta D1): each advertisement is exactly
    /// one output and change is never a SHIP/SLAP token, so full admission
    /// means `admitted_total() >= to_create` (defensive `>=`). A weaker
    /// `> 0` bar let a PARTIAL admit pass — the live set is 9 SHIP + 8 SLAP
    /// in ONE tx with independent per-topic admission, so tm_ship admitting
    /// its 9 while tm_slap refused all 8 read as success while the diff
    /// re-created (re-paid for) the refused 8 every cycle. Subsumes the
    /// converged no-op (`0 >= 0`).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn effective(&self) -> bool {
        self.ok() && self.admitted_total() >= self.to_create
    }
}

/// Internal result from Phase 1 + 2 validation.
///
/// Carries per-topic admittance decisions, previous coins, and the parsed
/// transaction so that Phase 3 (mutations) can proceed without re-parsing.
struct TopicValidation {
    topic: String,
    is_dupe: bool,
    /// Input indices that spend previously-admitted outputs from this topic.
    previous_coins: Vec<u32>,
    /// The previous outputs found in storage (parallel to previous_coins).
    previous_outputs: Vec<Output>,
    admittance: AdmittanceInstructions,
    failed: bool,
    /// The FIRST storage read fault hit while scanning this topic's
    /// previous outputs (S2, bsv-low 2026-08-29). A faulted read makes a
    /// spend look like it consumes nothing — the settle's spend pointer is
    /// then never written — so it is carried into the [`MutationReport`]
    /// and blocks the `applied_transactions` record for this topic: a
    /// replay re-reads instead of being deduplicated away. With the read
    /// that faulted: `find_output` (a previous coin) or
    /// `does_applied_transaction_exist` (the dedup read, the delta fold of
    /// 2026-10-07, H3).
    read_fault: Option<(&'static str, String)>,
}

/// One Phase-3 write — or the validation read it depends on — that FAILED
/// during a submit (S2 queue-durable admission, bsv-low 2026-08-29).
///
/// Before this existed every such failure was `error!`-logged and swallowed
/// while `submit` returned `Ok(steak)`: under a D1-overload storm the
/// overlay ACKED admissions whose writes never landed (the 2026-08-26
/// phantom class — `c4d2ed06…`/`62c2a9b3…` absent from the engine store,
/// beta D1 queried directly). A fault is now a VALUE the caller can act on
/// (re-queue for an idempotent replay) instead of a log line nobody reads.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct MutationFault {
    /// The topic whose mutation faulted.
    pub topic: String,
    /// The write (or read) that failed: `insert_output`,
    /// `mark_utxo_as_spent`, `update_consumed_by`, `delete_utxo_deep`,
    /// `insert_applied_transaction`, `find_output` (validation read),
    /// `does_applied_transaction_exist` (the dedup read),
    /// `lookup_service.output_spent`, `lookup_service.output_admitted_by_topic`,
    /// `undo_insert_output` (the undo of a faulted submit's inserts),
    /// `record_spent_coin_applied` (the applied row a spender writes for the
    /// transaction of a coin it deletes), `predecessor_not_landed`.
    pub site: &'static str,
    /// The backend's own error text.
    pub error: String,
}

/// What Phase 3 actually landed for a submit — the durability report.
///
/// `applied_topics` are the topics whose EVERY write (and lookup-service
/// notification) succeeded and were therefore recorded in
/// `applied_transactions`. A topic with any fault is deliberately NOT
/// recorded: the dedup in Phase 1 would otherwise turn a replay into a
/// no-op and make the loss permanent (the ordering was already
/// write-then-record; the record is now conditional on the writes).
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct MutationReport {
    pub faults: Vec<MutationFault>,
    pub applied_topics: Vec<String>,
    /// Topics this (txid, topic) pair had ALREADY been applied under — the
    /// Phase-1 dedup skipped them, so their STEAK entry is an empty default
    /// that means "nothing new", never "judged another tx" (loop-3 client
    /// belt re-presents read the empty STEAK as index-pending).
    pub deduped_topics: Vec<String>,
    /// The predecessors the door LANDED first from this submit's BEEF, as
    /// `(txid, topic)`, ancestors first ([`Engine::land_carried`]; the E1D
    /// delta fold, L2). Each is an admission write of its own that no
    /// caller asked for: a caller that guards its admission writes (the
    /// worker's eviction ledger, bsv-low #513) guards these too.
    pub landed_predecessors: Vec<(String, String)>,
    /// The submit's own script walk could not run within the engine's
    /// budget (bsv-low #592) and the submit went on as under
    /// `HistoricalTxNoSpv` ([`WalkBreachPolicy::NetworkAccepted`] only; under
    /// `NotNow` a breach is [`EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun`]). `None` when it
    /// ran (or the mode does not walk). A caller counts it; it never makes a
    /// report undurable.
    pub walk_could_not_run: Option<WalkCouldNotRun>,
    /// The walks of the carried predecessors this submit tried to land
    /// ([`Engine::land_carried`]) that could not run within the budget (the
    /// E592 lens fold, L3): under `NotNow` each one's landing did not happen
    /// (the successor waits), under `NetworkAccepted` each went on. Counted
    /// by the caller beside `walk_could_not_run`.
    pub landed_walks_could_not_run: Vec<WalkCouldNotRun>,
}

/// bsv-low PLAN-PRE-LOOP4 §H4 (2026-09-06): what [`Engine::renotify_admitted`] did.
#[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, serde::Serialize)]
pub struct RenotifyReport {
    /// stored outputs of (txid, topic) the engine had ALREADY admitted
    pub outputs: u32,
    /// lookup-service notifications that returned Ok (outputs × services)
    pub notified: u32,
    /// notifications that failed — `<service>: <error>`; the others still ran
    pub faults: Vec<String>,
    /// the output indexes re-notified (the caller's spend discovery keys on them)
    pub vouts: Vec<u32>,
}

impl MutationReport {
    fn fault(&mut self, topic: &str, site: &'static str, error: String) {
        self.faults.push(MutationFault {
            topic: topic.to_string(),
            site,
            error,
        });
    }

    /// True when every mutation this submit needed landed (nothing to
    /// replay). A dupe-only submit is durable (there was nothing to write).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn is_durable(&self) -> bool {
        self.faults.is_empty()
    }

    /// One log line naming every fault (`topic/site: error`), each error
    /// clipped so a D1 stack dump cannot flood the log stream.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn summary(&self) -> String {
        self.faults
            .iter()
            .map(|f| {
                let err: String = f.error.chars().take(120).collect();
                format!("{}/{}: {}", f.topic, f.site, err)
            })
            .collect::<Vec<_>>()
            .join("; ")
    }
}

/// The DOOR's static work bound (bsv-low W-A gate MED-1, 2026-09-09). Bitcoin
/// script has no loops: every opcode runs at most once, so an input's work is
/// bounded BEFORE execution by its opcode census times the interpreter's
/// element limit (the stack memory limit bounds every element, and every
/// CAT / NUM2BIN / SPLIT result with it) plus its signature checks times the
/// transaction's own size or a floor, whichever is more (a BIP-143 preimage
/// hashes the prevouts and the outputs; the EC verification costs the same
/// whatever the transaction weighs). The estimate is computed from the bytes;
/// nothing executes past the budget, and a budget breach is the DOOR's
/// verdict (inconclusive: the network judges), never the interpreter's.
///
/// THE BODY IS NOT COUNTED (bsv-low #585, door 1). Until #585 the budget also
/// counted the BODY: 64 unproven transactions, 256 inputs per transaction,
/// 512 KB per transaction, and the parse's own size and counts. A valid BEEF
/// is never left unjudged for its size or its counts, so those are gone: the
/// walk reads the body through the streaming reader ([`crate::script_door`]).
///
/// TWO LIMBS, both a budget whose breach is "the network judges" and never a
/// refusal: the WORK the interpreter will do, and the MEMORY the door will
/// hold beside the caller's body. Each is estimated from the bytes before it
/// is spent.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct DoorBudget {
    /// The interpreter's stack memory limit: bounds every element, and is the
    /// unit of the work estimate (a hash-class opcode is charged one element).
    /// Not a bound on the BEEF: a script that trips it is "the network
    /// judges", as a breach of the work is.
    pub memory_limit: usize,
    /// The whole walk's estimated work, in bytes hashed or pushed.
    pub max_work_bytes: u64,
    /// The least a signature check is charged (the doors lens E585-D12-M1).
    /// A check is charged `max(its transaction's bytes, this)`: the digest
    /// hashes about the transaction, and the EC verification behind it costs
    /// the same whatever the transaction weighs (about 95 us native). Charged
    /// the transaction's bytes alone, a 106 byte `OP_CHECKSIG OP_NOT`
    /// transaction bought a verification for 106 bytes of budget: 90,000 of
    /// them walked at a fifth of the budget in 9.6 s. With the floor the
    /// budget bounds the EC verifications of one walk at
    /// `max_work_bytes / sig_check_floor`.
    pub sig_check_floor: u64,
    /// The whole walk's estimated memory beside the body, in bytes (the doors
    /// lens E585-D12-L3): what the index, the stream's element in hand and
    /// the walk's layout of a transaction hold, estimated from the frame's
    /// lengths and counts by [`crate::stream_sizing::estimate`] BEFORE the
    /// stream is opened; and, per input, what its two scripts hold once
    /// parsed and run (the delta lens E585-D12-DELTA-M1: bsv-rs's chunk
    /// records, their clones, a signature's subscript, the empty stack
    /// entries the interpreter's memory limit does not count), charged from
    /// the scripts' chunk count and bytes BEFORE either is parsed
    /// (`script_door::script_parse_charge`, 512 bytes a chunk and 8 a byte).
    ///
    /// How the two compose: the frame's estimate is the most the walk holds
    /// at any moment apart from the input being run (what is kept, and the
    /// heaviest transaction in hand, counted once with its raw bytes and the
    /// interpreter's raw copies of the unlocking script); the scripts' charge
    /// is the EXPANSION of one input's scripts past those bytes, held while
    /// that input runs and released after it. An input is run only while the
    /// frame's estimate plus its own charge is within this limb.
    pub max_memory_bytes: u64,
}

impl DoorBudget {
    /// Sized for LOW's real shapes with a wide margin. What the static census
    /// BOUNDS: hashing (hash-class ops × the element limit) and signature
    /// checks (× the transaction's size or the floor, whichever is more; a
    /// CHECKMULTISIG weighted by its static key count when the count is a
    /// small-int push, else by the most keys the element limit admits).
    ///
    /// THE FLOOR, 64 KiB (half the hash charge), chosen against LOW's shapes
    /// as the pin `door_low_shapes_sit_under_a_quarter_of_the_work_budget`
    /// measures them (work, of the 64 MiB; memory, the frame's and the
    /// largest input's scripts, of the 48 MiB limb; work before the floor in
    /// brackets):
    ///
    /// | shape | inputs | work | memory |
    /// |---|---|---|---|
    /// | the real covenant settle (5 hash opcodes, 4 checks: a CHECKSIG and the stated `OP_3` CHECKMULTISIG) | 1 | 924,112, 1.4 % (676,284) | 1,282,178, 2.55 % |
    /// | the real covenant refund | 1 | 924,112, 1.4 % (676,284) | 1,282,178, 2.55 % |
    /// | LOW's JOIN: two seats (bsv-low `template_tx_sizes.rs:76`), the real pot lock, each coin 40 unproven P2PKH hops deep (the deepest the fleet's record names) | 82 | 16,132,638, 24.0 % | 67,026, 0.13 % |
    /// | STRESS, not LOW's shape: nine seats, three hops each | 36 | 7,082,619, 10.6 % (4,740,838) | 36,420, 0.07 % |
    /// | a coin 30 P2PKH hops deep | 30 | 5,902,188, 8.8 % (3,941,856) | 23,720, 0.05 % |
    ///
    /// A P2PKH input is charged 196,739 bytes (a hash opcode at
    /// the element limit, a check at the floor, its 131 script bytes): 341 of
    /// them are the budget, 85 a quarter of it. The bound on EC verifications
    /// per walk is 64 MiB / 64 KiB = 1,024 (1,023 with their script bytes):
    /// measured natively, 1,000 of them walk in 87 ms in the release profile
    /// (1.4 to 1.8 s in a debug build), and the lens's 17,000 stop at the
    /// 1,024th in 108 ms. wasm32 was not measured.
    ///
    /// THE MEMORY, 48 MiB: three eighths of a 128 MB isolate. Beside it stand,
    /// for a 10 MB request (the figure the arithmetic is made at: since NL-6
    /// the route caps no body, so a heavier one is the isolate's), the
    /// request's body, the completed BEEF the route hands the door (a second
    /// copy of up to as much) and the EF batch (the route's 2 MB bound, twice
    /// while it is serialized): 24 MB, which leaves 56 MB for the module, the
    /// runtime, the allocator's fragmentation and what a native estimate does
    /// not see of wasm32. The limb bounds the walk (the door's, and since
    /// bsv-low #592 the submit's own and the GASP anchor's under
    /// [`Engine::set_walk_budget`]) and nothing else: the route's own
    /// hydrated parses before it are bounded by the isolate only (the land
    /// lens E585-LAND-M1: 1.43 GB natively for a 9.9 MB body of 900,000
    /// minimal transactions, before the route's 429). What
    /// it lets through, by the door's charges (`script_door::DOOR_CHARGES`,
    /// each an upper bound: the pins measure 1.3 to 5.3 times the heap the
    /// walk reaches): a BUMP of up to 72,944 leaves (690 bytes a level-0
    /// leaf); a single transaction of up to about 12 MB (4 bytes a byte)
    /// whose walked inputs' scripts are few chunks (a script is charged 520
    /// bytes a one-byte opcode and 8 a pushed byte: an input whose two
    /// scripts are about 96,000 opcodes, or a 1 MB `OP_NOP` lock, is past
    /// the limb before it is parsed, the network judges; LOW's covenant leg,
    /// 6,608 script bytes, is charged 1.3 MB); a 10 MB body of one-input,
    /// one-output P2PKH transactions (191 bytes, charged 570: 30 MB). What it
    /// stops: 111,848 transactions of no input and no output, whatever
    /// follows them.
    ///
    /// THE OPEN RESIDUAL (the W-A gate's delta-verify, 2026-09-09, measured):
    /// the interpreter itself meters nothing, so two classes stay charged
    /// only by their script bytes — bignum arithmetic (`OP_MUL`/`OP_DIV`/
    /// `OP_MOD` on operands up to the element limit: ~1.3 ms per 30 KB×30 KB
    /// round, linear in rounds) and `OP_NUM2BIN`, which
    /// allocates its size operand BEFORE the memory limit is consulted (up to
    /// bsv-rs's 1 GB element size: an isolate kill, not a refusal). None of
    /// them can refuse a spend (a breach and a trip are the door's bound and
    /// the request proceeds); all of them cost the beta overlay CPU until
    /// bsv-rs meters work dynamically (a `work_limit` charged per op with the
    /// real operand sizes, and a pre-allocation check in NUM2BIN) — OWED
    /// before any PROD flip of `SCRIPT_VERIFY_NETWORK_GATED`. Since #585 the
    /// count of such rounds is bounded by the body alone (the script bytes
    /// are charged, the transactions and inputs are not counted). A third,
    /// as before #585 (the doors lens N7): an opcode that copies an element
    /// (`OP_DUP`, `OP_CAT`, `OP_PICK`) is charged its one script byte and can
    /// copy up to the element limit. The class the floor CLOSED: a
    /// CHECKMULTISIG whose key count is a computed value was charged the most
    /// keys the element limit admits (3,971) at its transaction's bytes and
    /// run (~80 µs per key tried); at the floor those are 260 MB, past the
    /// budget, so such an input is never run at the door (the network
    /// judges). LOW's covenant states its count (`OP_3`).
    pub const DEFAULT: DoorBudget = DoorBudget {
        memory_limit: 128 * 1024,
        max_work_bytes: 64 * 1024 * 1024,
        sig_check_floor: 64 * 1024,
        max_memory_bytes: 48 * 1024 * 1024,
    };
}

/// Which limb of the [`DoorBudget`] a walk went past.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum DoorLimb {
    /// The static work estimate, or the interpreter's own memory limit
    /// tripping inside one input.
    Work,
    /// The estimate of what the door holds beside the body.
    Memory,
}

/// What [`Engine::run_validation`] answers: the topics' validations, the
/// preliminary STEAK, the subject and its txid, and whether the walk could
/// not run within the budget (bsv-low #592).
type Validated = (
    Vec<TopicValidation>,
    Steak,
    Transaction,
    String,
    Option<WalkCouldNotRun>,
);

/// Which limb of the [`DoorBudget`] a submit's own walk went past (bsv-low
/// #592): the [`DoorLimb`] of the door's error, with the interpreter's own
/// memory limit told apart from the static work estimate.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum WalkLimb {
    /// The static work estimate.
    OverWork,
    /// The estimate of what the walk holds beside the body.
    OverMemory,
    /// The interpreter's own memory limit (the budget's element limit)
    /// tripping inside one input.
    InterpreterMemory,
}

impl WalkLimb {
    /// The door's word for the same limb ([`DoorLimb`]: the interpreter's
    /// trip is `Work` there).
    #[must_use]
    pub fn door_limb(self) -> DoorLimb {
        match self {
            WalkLimb::OverWork | WalkLimb::InterpreterMemory => DoorLimb::Work,
            WalkLimb::OverMemory => DoorLimb::Memory,
        }
    }

    /// The limb's name in a log line and a counter's reason.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn as_str(self) -> &'static str {
        match self {
            WalkLimb::OverWork => "over_work",
            WalkLimb::OverMemory => "over_memory",
            WalkLimb::InterpreterMemory => "interpreter_memory",
        }
    }
}

/// What a submit does when its own script walk could not run within the
/// engine's [`DoorBudget`] (bsv-low #592; the E592 lens fold, H1, the owner's
/// ruling 3a read with the lens): a breach is NEVER an admission without the
/// network's word on record.
///
/// The work limb is a static estimate from the bytes, and a LOCK can be made
/// to pass it cheaply (a bare `OP_CHECKMULTISIG` in a fabricated parent's
/// lock is charged 3,971 keys). So a breach says nothing about whether the
/// spend is valid, and on a path where nothing else judges it an admission
/// would admit a spend nobody checked: the lens's forged spend of a held coin.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub enum WalkBreachPolicy {
    /// "Not now" ([`EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun`]): nothing judged, nothing
    /// written, never a final refusal. Every door but one: the ungated
    /// modes, `/admin/readmit`, the peer crawler, a library consumer's
    /// submit; the GASP anchor HOLDS its UTXO the same way.
    #[default]
    NotNow,
    /// The network's ACCEPT of these bytes is on record (the queue's replay
    /// of a gated submission, whose producer broadcast them and marked the
    /// message): the submit goes on exactly as under `HistoricalTxNoSpv`,
    /// reported on [`MutationReport::walk_could_not_run`]. The roots the walk
    /// reached are still checked, and a bad one is still the `SpvError` it is.
    NetworkAccepted,
}

/// A submit whose own script walk COULD NOT RUN within the engine's
/// [`DoorBudget`] (bsv-low #592, the owner's ruling 3a of 2026-10-10). Shaped
/// like [`EngineError::ScriptWalkOverBudget`]. Under
/// [`WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow`] it is carried by
/// [`EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun`] (not now); under
/// [`WalkBreachPolicy::NetworkAccepted`] the submit went on as under
/// `HistoricalTxNoSpv` and this says so on its [`MutationReport`]. The
/// reference (`Engine.submit`, `tx.verify`) has no budget; this is the
/// platform's addition, on the door's lineage (D8).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct WalkCouldNotRun {
    /// The submitted transaction.
    pub subject_txid: String,
    /// The transaction the walk stopped at.
    pub at_txid: String,
    /// Whether the subject's own inputs had all executed before the stop.
    pub subject_judged: bool,
    /// The limb it went past.
    pub limb: WalkLimb,
    /// The estimate against the limb, in the door's words.
    pub what: String,
}

/// What the walk did (the door's cost instrument, since `Date.now()` is
/// frozen during synchronous work on Workers and cannot time it).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Default)]
pub struct WalkStats {
    /// Unproven transactions whose inputs were executed.
    pub unproven_txs: usize,
    /// Inputs executed (scripts run).
    pub inputs_executed: usize,
    /// Unlocking + locking script bytes executed.
    pub script_bytes: usize,
    /// Hash-class opcodes seen (SHA1/SHA256/HASH160/HASH256/RIPEMD160).
    pub hash_ops: usize,
    /// Signature checks seen (CHECKSIG counts 1, CHECKMULTISIG counts its
    /// consensus maximum of 20).
    pub sig_ops: usize,
    /// The static work estimate charged against the budget.
    pub work_bytes: u64,
    /// The memory estimate charged against the budget: the frame's, made
    /// before the stream was opened, plus the largest charge of one walked
    /// input's scripts, made before they were parsed.
    pub memory_bytes: u64,
    /// Whether the SUBJECT's own inputs were all executed (an ancestor may
    /// still have faulted afterwards).
    pub subject_judged: bool,
}

/// Static opcode census of one input's scripts: (bytes, hash ops, sig ops).
///
/// A CHECKMULTISIG is weighted by its KEY COUNT: the small-int push that
/// precedes it when the script states the count (the Poc5 covenant's
/// `OP_3`), else the most 33-byte keys the element limit admits (the count is
/// a computed value the census cannot see; bsv-rs allows up to `i32::MAX`).
pub(crate) fn script_census(
    unlocking: &[u8],
    locking: &[u8],
    memory_limit: usize,
) -> Result<(usize, usize, usize), String> {
    use bsv_rs::script::op::*;
    let most_keys = (memory_limit / 33).max(1);
    let mut hash_ops = 0usize;
    let mut sig_ops = 0usize;
    for (label, bytes) in [("unlocking", unlocking), ("locking", locking)] {
        let script = bsv_rs::script::Script::from_binary(bytes)
            .map_err(|e| format!("{label} script does not parse: {e}"))?;
        let chunks = script.chunks();
        for (i, chunk) in chunks.iter().enumerate() {
            match chunk.op {
                OP_RIPEMD160 | OP_SHA1 | OP_SHA256 | OP_HASH160 | OP_HASH256 => hash_ops += 1,
                OP_CHECKSIG | OP_CHECKSIGVERIFY => sig_ops += 1,
                OP_CHECKMULTISIG | OP_CHECKMULTISIGVERIFY => {
                    let stated = i
                        .checked_sub(1)
                        .map(|j| chunks[j].op)
                        .and_then(|op| match op {
                            OP_1..=OP_16 => Some((op - OP_1 + 1) as usize),
                            _ => None,
                        });
                    sig_ops += stated.unwrap_or(most_keys);
                }
                _ => {}
            }
        }
    }
    Ok((unlocking.len() + locking.len(), hash_ops, sig_ops))
}

impl Engine {
    /// Page size used by `/requestSyncResponse` when the (public) caller
    /// omits `limit`. A bounded page is not lossy for a conforming
    /// initiator: ours ([`crate::gasp::GASPSync`]) keeps requesting pages
    /// for as long as the `since` score cursor advances (gate finding M1 —
    /// it must NOT require a "full" page to continue, because this clamp
    /// makes a full-by-the-initiator's-limit page impossible).
    pub const SYNC_RESPONSE_DEFAULT_LIMIT: u64 = 500;
    /// Hard cap on a `/requestSyncResponse` page. Before bsv-low #291 an
    /// absent/huge caller-supplied limit meant an unbounded scan of the
    /// outputs table on a public route.
    pub const SYNC_RESPONSE_MAX_LIMIT: u64 = 1000;

    /// Clamp the public `/requestSyncResponse` page size: absent → the
    /// default page; anything larger than the cap → the cap. The result is
    /// ALWAYS `Some`-worthy — a sync response is never unbounded (bsv-low
    /// #291). Completeness relies on the INITIATOR paging while its `since`
    /// cursor advances (see `SYNC_RESPONSE_DEFAULT_LIMIT`'s doc) — the
    /// responder alone cannot page for it.
    pub fn clamp_sync_limit(requested: Option<u64>) -> u64 {
        requested
            .unwrap_or(Self::SYNC_RESPONSE_DEFAULT_LIMIT)
            .min(Self::SYNC_RESPONSE_MAX_LIMIT)
    }

    /// Create a new Overlay Services Engine.
    pub fn new(
        managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>>,
        lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupService>>,
        storage: Box<dyn Storage>,
        advertiser: Option<Box<dyn Advertiser>>,
        config: EngineConfig,
    ) -> Self {
        Self::with_chain_tracker(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage,
            advertiser,
            None,
            None,
            config,
        )
    }

    /// Create a new Engine with an optional ChainTracker for SPV verification.
    pub fn with_chain_tracker(
        managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>>,
        lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupService>>,
        storage: Box<dyn Storage>,
        advertiser: Option<Box<dyn Advertiser>>,
        broadcaster: Option<Box<dyn Broadcaster>>,
        chain_tracker: Option<Box<dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>>,
        config: EngineConfig,
    ) -> Self {
        Self::with_all(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage,
            advertiser,
            broadcaster,
            None,
            chain_tracker,
            config,
        )
    }

    /// Create a new Engine with all optional components.
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    pub fn with_all(
        managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>>,
        lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupService>>,
        storage: Box<dyn Storage>,
        advertiser: Option<Box<dyn Advertiser>>,
        broadcaster: Option<Box<dyn Broadcaster>>,
        arc_broadcaster: Option<Box<dyn ArcBroadcaster>>,
        chain_tracker: Option<Box<dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>>,
        mut config: EngineConfig,
    ) -> Self {
        // Build default sync configuration: SHIP for all topics except tm_ship/tm_slap
        // which get their trackers merged with provided shipTrackers/slapTrackers.
        for manager_name in managers.keys() {
            if manager_name == "tm_ship" {
                if matches!(
                    config.sync_configuration.get(manager_name),
                    Some(SyncTarget::Disabled)
                ) {
                    continue;
                }
                let mut combined: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
                if let Some(SyncTarget::Peers(peers)) = config.sync_configuration.get(manager_name)
                {
                    combined.extend(peers.iter().cloned());
                }
                combined.extend(config.ship_trackers.iter().cloned());
                if !combined.is_empty() {
                    config.sync_configuration.insert(
                        manager_name.clone(),
                        SyncTarget::Peers(combined.into_iter().collect()),
                    );
                }
            } else if manager_name == "tm_slap" {
                if matches!(
                    config.sync_configuration.get(manager_name),
                    Some(SyncTarget::Disabled)
                ) {
                    continue;
                }
                let mut combined: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
                if let Some(SyncTarget::Peers(peers)) = config.sync_configuration.get(manager_name)
                {
                    combined.extend(peers.iter().cloned());
                }
                combined.extend(config.slap_trackers.iter().cloned());
                if !combined.is_empty() {
                    config.sync_configuration.insert(
                        manager_name.clone(),
                        SyncTarget::Peers(combined.into_iter().collect()),
                    );
                }
            } else if !config.sync_configuration.contains_key(manager_name) {
                config
                    .sync_configuration
                    .insert(manager_name.clone(), SyncTarget::Ship);
            }
        }

        Self {
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage: Box::new(crate::load_storage::MeteredStorage(storage)),
            advertiser,
            broadcaster,
            arc_broadcaster,
            chain_tracker,
            gasp_remote_factory: None,
            ship_lookup_client: None,
            ship_bootstrap_peers: HashMap::new(),
            ancestor_fetcher: None,
            gasp_ancestor_fetcher: None,
            peer_sync_budget: None,
            graph_budget: None,
            graph_budget_limbs: (
                crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_BYTES,
                crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_NODES,
            ),
            finalize_submit_budget: None,
            finalize_gate: crate::gasp::SubmitGate::default(),
            not_landed: std::cell::RefCell::new(HashSet::new()),
            landing_guard: None,
            verify_scripts: true,
            walk_budget: DoorBudget::DEFAULT,
            config,
        }
    }

    /// Set the ARC broadcaster for network broadcast to miners.
    ///
    /// When set, the Engine broadcasts transactions to ARC during Phase 2
    /// of `submit()` for `CurrentTx` submissions.
    pub fn set_arc_broadcaster(&mut self, arc: Box<dyn ArcBroadcaster>) {
        self.arc_broadcaster = Some(arc);
    }

    /// Set the GASP remote factory for peer communication during sync.
    ///
    /// Platform-specific crates (like overlay-cloudflare) provide an implementation
    /// that creates HTTP-based remotes using their native fetch API.
    pub fn set_gasp_remote_factory(&mut self, factory: Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory>) {
        self.gasp_remote_factory = Some(factory);
    }

    /// Set the platform lookup transport for network SHIP discovery.
    /// Trackers come from [`EngineConfig::slap_trackers`].
    pub fn set_ship_lookup_client(
        &mut self,
        client: Box<dyn crate::ship_lookup::ShipLookupClient>,
    ) {
        self.ship_lookup_client = Some(client);
    }

    /// Keep these peers in a topic's SHIP union even when trackers fail.
    /// This leaves the existing [`SyncTarget`] serialization unchanged.
    /// Such topics run ahead of tracker imports so discovery and sync can
    /// proceed without spending the tick on importing discovery records.
    pub fn set_ship_bootstrap_peers(&mut self, topic: impl Into<String>, peers: Vec<String>) {
        self.ship_bootstrap_peers.insert(topic.into(), peers);
    }

    /// Set the OPT-IN chain-backed ancestor fetcher for GASP ingest.
    ///
    /// **OFF BY DEFAULT.** When set, a peer's failure to serve a needed
    /// ancestor during GASP ingest falls back to fetching that ancestor's raw
    /// tx from chain (via the supplied fetcher), self-healing the graph and
    /// also enabling strict-BEEF finalize so missing ancestry fails loud.
    ///
    /// This is a deliberate one-time-migration escape hatch. Production must
    /// NOT call this — when unset, GASP ingest behavior is unchanged.
    pub fn set_ancestor_fetcher(&mut self, fetcher: std::rc::Rc<dyn crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher>) {
        self.ancestor_fetcher = Some(fetcher);
    }

    /// Supply a courier reserved for sync. Completion retains its own budget.
    pub fn set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(
        &mut self,
        fetcher: std::rc::Rc<dyn crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher>,
    ) {
        self.gasp_ancestor_fetcher = Some(fetcher);
    }

    /// Set the admission predicate asked BEFORE the door lands a carried
    /// predecessor (bsv-low #575, the E1D delta-2 fold, L2;
    /// [`Engine::land_carried`]). It is asked once per body the landing
    /// would submit, before that body's submit (a dry one included) and
    /// before its reads are charged; an `Err` (the caller's refusal, or its
    /// own read fault) ends the landing with nothing of that body written
    /// and the successor's topic answers "not now", as on `683dffd`. The
    /// worker installs its eviction ledger here: an OPEN eviction of the
    /// body refuses it. Its read is not one of the submit's 256 (it is the
    /// caller's store, at most one per landed body). Unset (default): every
    /// carried predecessor may land. What the predicate cannot see (a row
    /// opened while the landing writes) stays the caller's to guard after
    /// the write ([`MutationReport::landed_predecessors`]).
    pub fn set_landing_guard(&mut self, guard: LandingGuard) {
        self.landing_guard = Some(guard);
    }

    /// Set the per-peer GASP sync budget (bsv-low#302).
    ///
    /// `sleep` is the platform sleep factory (ms → future); `budget_ms` is
    /// the wall-clock slice ONE peer's sync may consume. A peer exceeding it
    /// is dropped (loudly logged, listed in the topic's `errors`) and the
    /// loop moves on. Unset (default) = unbounded, the pre-#302 behavior.
    ///
    /// **Progress survives the deadline (bsv-low #552).** With a budget set,
    /// every graph is submitted AS IT FINALIZES, inside the raced future (the
    /// reference submits inside `finalizeGraph` too), so what was finalized
    /// before the deadline stays admitted. At the deadline the cursor is
    /// advanced to `GASPSync::completed_cursor`: past the UTXOs whose graphs
    /// were completed, never past the one in flight. That graph is lost
    /// whole (nothing of it was finalized) and the next tick walks it again,
    /// down to whatever is now in storage.
    ///
    /// **The deadline never lands inside a transaction's writes** (the lens
    /// fold's HIGH-1). It is cooperative around a finalize submit
    /// ([`Engine::finalize_submit_gate`]): a deadline that falls due while
    /// one transaction is being written waits for that transaction, and the
    /// sync is dropped at the boundary. What a dropped tick leaves of the
    /// graph being submitted is an ancestors-first prefix of WHOLE
    /// transactions, with the cursor below its UTXO. Everywhere else (a
    /// request to the peer, the walk, the anchor check) the deadline drops
    /// the sync at once, as a budget against a dead peer must. A dropped tick that finalized a
    /// graph or moved the cursor is recorded as a SUCCESSFUL attempt for the
    /// quarantine count: a peer serving a long bootstrap is not a dead peer.
    /// One with no progress is a failed attempt, as before.
    ///
    /// The budget bounds the work of a TICK. Without a per-graph budget
    /// nothing bounds a GRAPH (parity: the reference has no node cap): one
    /// graph whose own walk outlasts the budget is dropped on every tick
    /// (`deadline_dropped_graphs`) and never admitted. With one
    /// ([`Engine::set_graph_budget`], bsv-low #555) that walk is deferred
    /// with its progress kept, here too, and resumed next tick.
    pub fn set_peer_sync_budget(&mut self, sleep: SleepFactory, budget_ms: u64) {
        self.peer_sync_budget = Some((sleep, budget_ms));
    }

    /// Set the per-GRAPH GASP budget and turn DEFERRAL on (bsv-low #555).
    ///
    /// A graph whose walk makes `max_calls` requests (to the peer, or chain
    /// fetches) or runs `budget_ms` in one pass is DEFERRED: its partial walk
    /// (the nodes fetched with their proofs, the inputs still pending, the
    /// calls spent, its age in passes) is saved as ONE record of the storage
    /// ([`Storage::put_deferred_graph`], replaced on every deferral), its
    /// UTXO is held below the cursor as a failed one is (the gap guard) and
    /// not walked again in the sync (#554), and the sync goes on to the next
    /// UTXO and topic. The next sync that is served that UTXO RESUMES the
    /// walk from the record, asking only what is pending, under the same
    /// budget; a graph so converges over passes and is then completed as
    /// any graph is (#551's anchor check, the finalize submits, e1d's
    /// rules). A walk cut by the per-peer deadline is deferred the same way.
    ///
    /// Bounds: a record deferred [`crate::gasp::DEFERRED_GRAPH_MAX_PASSES`]
    /// times is dropped with its reason and the UTXO fails as before (the
    /// gap guard asks again, from the root); a record has no byte bound
    /// (bsv-low #585); at most
    /// [`crate::gasp::DEFERRED_GRAPHS_PER_PEER_TOPIC`] records per (peer,
    /// topic). Keep `budget_ms` below the per-peer budget so that a deep
    /// graph leaves the pass time for the UTXOs after it. Defaults offered:
    /// [`crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_CALLS`],
    /// [`crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_MS`].
    ///
    /// Every resume of one sync shares ONE such budget (the lens fold's M1),
    /// so the deferred UTXOs, served first, leave the pass the rest; a walk
    /// that fetched nothing keeps no record and is a failed attempt for the
    /// quarantine (H1); a walk that cannot be kept, or whose save faulted,
    /// goes on under the per-peer budget alone (L4, the delta fold's D-L2);
    /// a FRESH walk's error keeps no record (D-M1). With a budget, a sync the
    /// peer served work that finalized no graph and moved no cursor is
    /// YIELDLESS, and past [`crate::gasp::PEER_YIELDLESS_SYNCS_ALLOWED`] in a
    /// row AND [`crate::gasp::PEER_YIELDLESS_SECS_ALLOWED`] since the streak
    /// began each is a failed attempt (D-M2, the delta-2 fold's D2-M1; the
    /// streak is kept by [`Storage::record_peer_sync_yield`], keyed on the
    /// peer's [`crate::gasp::peer_origin`] as its quarantine is). A FRESH
    /// walk that faults after half its calls or half its time keeps its
    /// record (D2-L1); a RESUMED one that faults having appended nothing
    /// [`crate::gasp::DEFERRED_GRAPH_MAX_IDLE_FAULTS`] passes in a row is
    /// dropped (D2-M2). Each record says whether its peer is configured
    /// (`SyncTarget::Peers`), for a storage that reserves part of its
    /// ceiling for those (the worker reserves half).
    ///
    /// Unset (the default) nothing is deferred and the walk is the one
    /// before #555 (parity: the reference has no budget and no deferral).
    /// The storage must KEEP records (the four required deferred-graph
    /// methods of [`Storage`]): over one that refuses every save, every
    /// graph past the budget is walked from its root under the per-peer
    /// budget alone on every pass, as before #555, so do not set a budget
    /// there.
    ///
    /// The budget has two more limbs (bsv-low #586), in force with it at
    /// their defaults: the bytes one graph may be SERVED in one pass
    /// ([`crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_BYTES`], a budget per pass only:
    /// a record has no byte bound since bsv-low #585 door 4) and the nodes it
    /// may APPEND ([`crate::gasp::DEFAULT_GRAPH_BUDGET_NODES`], 64);
    /// [`Engine::set_graph_budget_limbs`] names others.
    pub fn set_graph_budget(&mut self, sleep: SleepFactory, max_calls: u32, budget_ms: u64) {
        self.graph_budget = Some((sleep, max_calls, budget_ms));
    }

    /// The bytes and nodes limbs of the per-graph budget (bsv-low #586,
    /// zanaadu-v2 #377): a graph whose walk is SERVED `max_bytes_fetched`
    /// bytes in one pass (the hex of each node's raw transaction and proof,
    /// as the peer sends it and a record keeps it, every answer counted), or
    /// APPENDS `max_nodes` nodes, is DEFERRED exactly as at the call budget
    /// (reason `bytes` or `nodes`): its record saved, its UTXO held below
    /// the cursor, the walk resumed by the next pass from what is pending.
    /// Never a drop, a refusal or a discarded graph: these are budgets PER
    /// PASS, not limits on a graph or a BEEF. A pass always makes one
    /// request whatever a node's size; the resumes of one sync share one
    /// such budget, as they share its calls (M1); a walk that cannot be
    /// KEPT goes on under the per-peer budget alone (L4), as at the calls.
    /// They bound what one pass adds to the pending graph and to its record
    /// while the anchor check and the finalize hold it in memory. No effect
    /// until [`Engine::set_graph_budget`] turns deferral on; the reference
    /// has neither. This setter is UNCAPPED, as the worker's
    /// `GASP_GRAPH_BUDGET_BYTES` var is (bsv-low #585 door 4: the engine keeps
    /// no record cap for the limb to sit under). A consumer whose STORAGE caps
    /// a record must keep the bytes limb under that cap, or a pass whose
    /// record cannot be saved walks afresh (E586-L1).
    pub fn set_graph_budget_limbs(&mut self, max_bytes_fetched: u64, max_nodes: u32) {
        self.graph_budget_limbs = (max_bytes_fetched, max_nodes);
    }

    /// Bound ONE transaction's GASP finalize submit (bsv-low #559, the delta
    /// lens's DELTA-3). That submit is the write section no deadline drops
    /// ([`Engine::finalize_submit_gate`]), so a storage call or lookup hook
    /// that never answers inside it held the per-peer budget and any outer
    /// race for as long as it hung. With this set EACH storage call, lookup
    /// hook and topic manager call of that submit is raced against one
    /// `sleep(budget_ms)` of the section (the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F2):
    /// a call still unanswered when it falls due is dropped alone and is
    /// that call's FAULT, and no call is started after it. The SUBMIT is
    /// never dropped: it runs to its end and leaves what a fault leaves
    /// ([`Engine::submit_with_report`]: nothing of the transaction, or all
    /// of it), the transaction did not land, the rest of its graph is not
    /// submitted, its UTXO fails and the cursor stays below it. The undo of
    /// a faulted submit has one more `sleep(budget_ms)` of its own, so a
    /// peer costs at most its budget plus twice this one. What the backend
    /// does with a statement whose caller stopped waiting is its own: a
    /// write that lands after its timeout is not seen by this submit.
    ///
    /// DEFAULT: none (a native engine has no clock). A caller that sets a
    /// per-peer budget should set this too.
    pub fn set_finalize_submit_budget(&mut self, sleep: SleepFactory, budget_ms: u64) {
        self.finalize_submit_budget = Some((sleep, budget_ms));
    }

    /// The gate around every GASP finalize submit (bsv-low #552, the lens
    /// fold's HIGH-1). `start_gasp_sync` races each peer against its budget
    /// with [`crate::gasp::race_or_deadline_guarded`] over this gate. A
    /// caller that races `start_gasp_sync` ITSELF against a deadline (the
    /// worker's scheduled step) must use the same function over the same
    /// gate: a plain `race_or_deadline` there can still drop a finalize
    /// submit between its writes.
    pub fn finalize_submit_gate(&self) -> &crate::gasp::SubmitGate {
        &self.finalize_gate
    }

    /// Turn reference-parity script verification on submit on or off.
    /// **DEFAULT ON** (set in every constructor).
    ///
    /// On, every submit outside `HistoricalTxNoSpv` executes every unproven
    /// input's unlocking script against its source output (and checks every
    /// merkle path against the chain tracker), exactly as the reference's
    /// `Engine.submit` → `tx.verify(this.chainTracker)` does. Off is an
    /// ESCAPE HATCH for an operator who must admit a body the interpreter
    /// refuses (a bsv-rs interpreter defect, say) while it is fixed. It is
    /// NOT a mode: it restores the pre-2026-09-08 structural check, under
    /// which an invalid spend that no broadcaster had yet refused was
    /// admitted on BEEF structure alone. Prefer
    /// [`crate::builder::EngineBuilder::with_script_verification`].
    pub fn set_script_verification(&mut self, enabled: bool) {
        self.verify_scripts = enabled;
    }

    /// Whether submits execute input scripts, see
    /// [`Engine::set_script_verification`]. `true` by default.
    pub fn script_verification(&self) -> bool {
        self.verify_scripts
    }

    /// The budget of the submit's own script walk (bsv-low #592, the owner's
    /// ruling 3a of 2026-10-10). Every submit that walks (every mode but
    /// `HistoricalTxNoSpv`), and the GASP anchor check, read the BEEF through
    /// the door's stream walk ([`crate::script_door`]) under this budget's
    /// two limbs, the work and the memory, each estimated from the bytes
    /// before it is spent. A breach is "the walk could not run"
    /// ([`WalkCouldNotRun`], on [`MutationReport::walk_could_not_run`]),
    /// never a refusal: the submit goes on as under `HistoricalTxNoSpv`.
    /// A library consumer that sets nothing gets [`DoorBudget::DEFAULT`]
    /// (64 MiB of work, 48 MiB of memory). Prefer
    /// [`crate::builder::EngineBuilder::with_walk_budget`].
    pub fn set_walk_budget(&mut self, budget: DoorBudget) {
        self.walk_budget = budget;
    }

    /// The budget of the submit's own script walk, see
    /// [`Engine::set_walk_budget`].
    pub fn walk_budget(&self) -> DoorBudget {
        self.walk_budget
    }

    /// The reference's `tx.verify('scripts only')` over a BEEF: every unproven
    /// transaction from `subject_txid` down executes every input's unlocking
    /// script against its source output and obeys the value rule, while a
    /// transaction that carries a merkle path is TRUSTED AS-IS — no root is
    /// computed and no chain tracker is consulted (the ts-sdk's own shape when
    /// `chainTracker === 'scripts only'`: a proven tx is added to the verified
    /// set and the walk stops there).
    ///
    /// Built for an admission path whose bar is the NETWORK, not a proof
    /// (bsv-low's `broadcast-gated`, register row D1): the overlay broadcasts
    /// and admits on network evidence, so a lagging tracker must never read as
    /// a refused transaction — but a spend the interpreter refuses is one the
    /// network will refuse too, and executing it at the door saves the
    /// broadcast and names the fault. Independent of
    /// [`Engine::set_script_verification`] (that switch governs `submit`; this
    /// is an explicit ask) and of [`Engine::submit`]'s mode (`HistoricalTxNoSpv`
    /// still skips, as the reference does).
    ///
    /// Runs under the engine's budget ([`Engine::set_walk_budget`], the
    /// submit's own; [`DoorBudget::DEFAULT`] unless set: one budget per
    /// engine, the E592 lens fold's NOTE-2): the work is bounded statically
    /// before anything executes, and the interpreter's stack memory limit is
    /// the budget's element limit. The body is read through the streaming
    /// reader ([`crate::script_door`], bsv-low #585): no bound on its size,
    /// its transactions or a transaction's inputs or bytes; the budget's two
    /// limbs are the work and the memory beside the body.
    ///
    /// Errors: [`EngineError::ScriptVerificationFailed`] is the INTERPRETER's
    /// verdict and the only refusal; [`EngineError::ScriptWalkInconclusive`]
    /// is a structural fault (a transaction or source missing from the BEEF,
    /// a parse fault, the value rule) and [`EngineError::ScriptWalkOverBudget`]
    /// the door's own bound (the static budget or the memory limit) — both
    /// name whether the SUBJECT was judged before the fault, and a caller with
    /// a stronger bar behind it does not refuse on either.
    #[allow(
        clippy::unused_async,
        reason = "the door's callers await it on an engine; 'scripts only' asks no tracker"
    )]
    pub async fn verify_scripts_only(
        &self,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        subject_txid: &str,
    ) -> Result<WalkStats, EngineError> {
        crate::script_door::walk(beef_bytes, subject_txid, self.walk_budget)
    }

    /// [`Engine::verify_scripts_only`] under a budget the caller names (the
    /// pins measure the door with a limb lifted; a caller with another
    /// platform's ceiling sets its own).
    #[allow(
        clippy::unused_async,
        clippy::unused_self,
        reason = "the twin of `verify_scripts_only`"
    )]
    pub async fn verify_scripts_only_under(
        &self,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        subject_txid: &str,
        budget: DoorBudget,
    ) -> Result<WalkStats, EngineError> {
        crate::script_door::walk(beef_bytes, subject_txid, budget)
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Submit — 3-phase pipeline
    // ========================================================================

    /// Validate a tagged BEEF without applying mutations.
    ///
    /// Runs Phase 1 (topic validation) and Phase 2 (broadcast) but NOT Phase 3
    /// (storage mutations). Returns the Steak (admittance decisions) that
    /// `submit()` would return.
    ///
    /// Used by the onSteakReady pattern to return results to clients before
    /// mutations are applied via a queue consumer or `ctx.wait_until()`.
    ///
    /// The topic managers are called with `dry_run: true`
    /// (`TopicAdmittanceContext::DRY_RUN`): nothing is admitted on this call, so a
    /// manager that writes on admission leaves no trace of it.
    pub async fn submit_validate_only(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
    ) -> Result<Steak, EngineError> {
        // A validate-only call admits nothing: a dry run by its own name. A
        // manager that writes on admission must not write here, or the real
        // submit that follows meets a head this call already advanced.
        let (_validations, steak, _tx, _txid, _could_not_run) = self
            .run_validation(
                tagged_beef,
                mode,
                &TopicAdmittanceContext::DRY_RUN,
                None,
                None,
                WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow,
            )
            .await?;
        Ok(steak)
    }

    /// Submit a transaction for processing by the overlay.
    ///
    /// Three phases:
    /// 1. **VALIDATE** — check topics, dedup, find previous coins, call topic managers
    /// 2. **BROADCAST** — broadcast to network (if mode is CurrentTx)
    /// 3. **MUTATE** — mark spent, delete stale, insert new outputs, notify lookup services
    ///
    /// Returns a STEAK mapping each topic to its admittance instructions.
    ///
    /// Phase-3 faults are reported through [`Engine::submit_with_report`];
    /// this convenience keeps the historical signature and only LOGS the
    /// report's summary. A caller that must not ack an admission whose
    /// writes did not land (the `/submit` route — S2) uses the report form.
    pub async fn submit(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
    ) -> Result<Steak, EngineError> {
        let (steak, report) = self.submit_with_report(tagged_beef, mode).await?;
        if !report.is_durable() {
            warn!(
                "submit: {} mutation fault(s) — not durable: {}",
                report.faults.len(),
                report.summary()
            );
        }
        Ok(steak)
    }

    /// [`Engine::submit`] plus the Phase-3 durability report (S2
    /// queue-durable admission, bsv-low 2026-08-29).
    ///
    /// The STEAK is the admission DECISION; the report says whether the
    /// decision was DURABLY WRITTEN. They are returned together because
    /// they are answered by different things: Phase 1+2 decide, Phase 3
    /// lands, and only the caller knows whether an undurable landing may
    /// be acked (never, on the money path — re-queue it instead).
    ///
    /// Every write failure is still logged AND still non-fatal to the
    /// other topics (a faulted topic does not un-admit its siblings); what
    /// changed is that the failure is also VISIBLE, and that the faulted
    /// topic is not recorded as applied — so a replay of the same bytes is
    /// re-validated and re-written (every backend write is idempotent:
    /// `INSERT OR IGNORE` / `OR REPLACE` / `UPDATE`).
    ///
    /// What a fault leaves (bsv-low #559 and its lens fold of 2026-10-07):
    /// a topic's previous coins are deleted once EVERY admitted output of
    /// the transaction is inserted, and only then. A fault before that
    /// (a validation read, the spent mark of a coin the manager retains, an
    /// insert) leaves the previous coins held and nothing of the
    /// transaction: what did get inserted is taken out again, so the replay
    /// is the same judgement and no successor can spend half of it. A fault
    /// after it (a lookup notification, the consumed-by update, the applied
    /// row) leaves the transaction's outputs and no previous coin. A fault
    /// before any delete was started (the record of the spent coin's
    /// transaction, the read of the coin) is the first case if the coins
    /// are read back still held; once a delete was started its fault never
    /// undoes, answered or not (it may land yet): the outputs stay beside
    /// the stale coin, marked spent. A submit that deletes a stale coin
    /// first records that coin's transaction as applied, so a replay of it
    /// after its successor is a dupe. So a non-retaining chain never has
    /// two unspent heads and never none, whatever single call faults. The
    /// applied row is withheld on ANY fault. And a successor that was
    /// judged without the coin an unlanded predecessor has yet to leave is
    /// reported as a fault (`predecessor_not_landed`), not recorded as
    /// applied.
    ///
    /// A walk that could not run within the engine's budget is "not now"
    /// here ([`WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow`], [`EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun`]):
    /// never an admission. [`Engine::submit_with_report_under`] names the
    /// policy.
    pub async fn submit_with_report(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
    ) -> Result<(Steak, MutationReport), EngineError> {
        self.submit_with_report_under(tagged_beef, mode, WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow)
            .await
    }

    /// [`Engine::submit_with_report`] under an explicit
    /// [`WalkBreachPolicy`] (the E592 lens fold, H1): what a walk that could
    /// not run within the budget does. `NetworkAccepted` is for a caller that
    /// holds the network's accept of these very bytes (the queue's replay of
    /// a gated submission) and for nothing else: it admits a breached body
    /// with its scripts unrun.
    pub async fn submit_with_report_under(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    ) -> Result<(Steak, MutationReport), EngineError> {
        self.submit_bounded(tagged_beef, mode, None, false, policy)
            .await
    }

    /// [`Engine::submit_with_report`] with every storage call, lookup hook
    /// and topic manager call under `bound` (the GASP finalize submit,
    /// [`CallBound`]); `None` is the unbounded submit of every other door.
    /// `finalize` is `true` for the GASP finalize submit alone, bounded or
    /// not: it does not ask the store's predecessor question.
    async fn submit_bounded(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        finalize: bool,
        policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    ) -> Result<(Steak, MutationReport), EngineError> {
        // The reads the store's predecessor question has made in this
        // submit, every topic together ([`PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT`]),
        // the predecessors the door lands first from the BEEF included.
        let mut question_reads = 0usize;
        self.submit_counted(
            tagged_beef,
            mode,
            bound,
            finalize,
            None,
            &mut question_reads,
            policy,
        )
        .await
        .map(|(steak, report, _)| (steak, report))
    }

    /// [`Engine::submit_bounded`] over the submit's read allowance
    /// (`question_reads`), which a predecessor the door lands first from the
    /// BEEF shares with the successor that carried it (lane E1D's lens fold,
    /// M1). `carried` is `Some` for such a predecessor's own submit
    /// ([`Engine::land_carried`]), holding the bodies whose SPV walk already
    /// passed in this submit (none is walked twice; the delta fold, L4): it
    /// lands nothing first itself, and it names instead the carried
    /// predecessor that blocks each topic (the third value), so the landing
    /// is an explicit stack and never a recursion of submits (nested polls
    /// grow the stack, and a Worker's is small). Its manager is asked as a
    /// DRY RUN first, and for real only once its topic is not blocked: a
    /// link blocked below is judged twice and admitted once. Boxed: the
    /// landing is a submit of its own.
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    fn submit_counted<'a>(
        &'a self,
        tagged_beef: &'a TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        bound: Option<&'a CallBound>,
        finalize: bool,
        carried: Option<&'a HashSet<String>>,
        question_reads: &'a mut usize,
        policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<Counted, EngineError>> + 'a>>
    {
        Box::pin(async move {
            self.submit_counted_inner(
                tagged_beef,
                mode,
                bound,
                finalize,
                carried,
                question_reads,
                policy,
            )
            .await
        })
    }

    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn submit_counted_inner(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        finalize: bool,
        walked: Option<&HashSet<String>>,
        question_reads: &mut usize,
        policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    ) -> Result<Counted, EngineError> {
        // A submit is a real admission, never a dry run; a carried
        // predecessor's is judged dry until its topic is known not to wait.
        let carried = walked.is_some();
        let context = if carried {
            TopicAdmittanceContext::DRY_RUN
        } else {
            TopicAdmittanceContext::default()
        };
        let (mut validations, mut steak, tx, txid, could_not_run) = self
            .run_validation(tagged_beef, mode, &context, bound, walked, policy)
            .await?;
        if finalize {
            let now = (current_timestamp_ms() / 1000.0) as u64;
            for validation in &mut validations {
                let manager = &self.managers[&validation.topic];
                validation.admittance.outputs_to_admit.retain(|index| {
                    tx.outputs.get(*index as usize).is_none_or(|output| {
                        manager
                            .sync_expiry(&output.locking_script)
                            .is_none_or(|expiry| expiry > now)
                    })
                });
                steak.insert(validation.topic.clone(), validation.admittance.clone());
            }
        }
        let mut report = MutationReport {
            walk_could_not_run: could_not_run,
            ..MutationReport::default()
        };
        // The body every LOOKUP SERVICE receives NAMES the subject (BRC-95
        // atomic prefix over the WHOLE submitted body — bsv-rs's
        // `to_binary_atomic` sorts, names, never prunes). Lookup services
        // re-parse it with `from_beef(_, None)`; on a plain incomplete body
        // that pick is the wire-last ANCESTOR, so the pot index's admit hook
        // shape-checked a hop and wrote no record while the engine had
        // admitted the pot (loop-2 fleet, 2026-09-05; the live proof after
        // the engine's own subject fix). A body that cannot be re-serialized
        // (never, for a parsed subject) is handed through as submitted.
        let subject_named_beef: Vec<u8> =
            beef_limits::parse_beef(&tagged_beef.beef, &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS)
                .ok()
                .and_then(|mut b| b.to_binary_atomic(&txid).ok())
                .unwrap_or_else(|| tagged_beef.beef.clone());

        // The successor rule, asked of every topic that found no coin before
        // anything of this submit is written ([`Engine::successors_waiting`]):
        // the topics that must wait, each with why.
        let mut blocked: HashMap<String, String> = HashMap::new();
        // The landing trusts the subject's walk only if it RAN (the E592
        // lens fold, M1): after a breach nothing it reaches was walked.
        let landing = Landing {
            policy,
            subject_walk_ran: report.walk_could_not_run.is_none(),
        };
        let waits = self
            .successors_waiting(
                &tx,
                &txid,
                &subject_named_beef,
                &mut validations,
                &mut steak,
                tagged_beef.off_chain_values.as_deref(),
                mode,
                bound,
                finalize,
                !carried,
                &mut blocked,
                question_reads,
                &mut report.landed_predecessors,
                landing,
                &mut report.landed_walks_could_not_run,
            )
            .await;
        // A carried predecessor's topic that does not wait is judged again,
        // for real: what it admits is this call's word, over the same coins.
        if carried {
            for v in &mut validations {
                if v.is_dupe || v.failed || v.read_fault.is_some() || waits.contains_key(&v.topic) {
                    continue;
                }
                match self
                    .judge(
                        &tx,
                        &v.topic,
                        &v.previous_coins,
                        tagged_beef.off_chain_values.as_deref(),
                        mode,
                        &TopicAdmittanceContext::default(),
                        bound,
                    )
                    .await
                {
                    Ok(admittance) => v.admittance = admittance,
                    Err(e) => {
                        error!("Error validating topic {} during submit: {e}", v.topic);
                        v.failed = true;
                        v.previous_coins.clear();
                        v.previous_outputs.clear();
                        v.admittance = AdmittanceInstructions::default();
                    }
                }
                steak.insert(v.topic.clone(), v.admittance.clone());
            }
        }

        // =================================================================
        // PHASE 3: MUTATE STORAGE
        // =================================================================
        for v in &validations {
            if v.is_dupe {
                report.deduped_topics.push(v.topic.clone());
                continue;
            }
            // A failed topic comes first, a read fault of it included: a
            // previous-coin read that faulted and a manager that then ERRED
            // is a failed topic with a durable report, no fault and no
            // replay. Parity: the reference fails the topic and never
            // replays. Nothing was written, so the store is as it was.
            if v.failed {
                continue;
            }

            let topic = &v.topic;
            let admittance = &v.admittance;
            let faults_before = report.faults.len();

            // A validation read that faulted: the manager judged without a
            // coin the store may hold, so NOTHING is written on that
            // judgement (the lens fold of 2026-10-07). Writing its outputs
            // would leave them beside the unseen coin, for a successor to
            // spend before the replay deletes it.
            if let Some((read, err)) = &v.read_fault {
                report.fault(topic, read, err.clone());
                self.hold_unapplied(&txid, topic, "a validation read faulted, nothing written");
                continue;
            }

            // bsv-low #559 and lane E1D: a topic that found no coin while a
            // predecessor's landing is unknown is "not now", recorded
            // nowhere ([`Engine::successors_waiting`]).
            if let Some(not_now) = waits.get(topic) {
                report.fault(topic, "predecessor_not_landed", not_now.clone());
                self.hold_unapplied(
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    &format!("found no coin and its predecessor {not_now}"),
                );
                continue;
            }

            // ── Handle stale vs retained previous coins ──
            let mut outputs_consumed: Vec<Outpoint> = Vec::new();
            let mut stale_coins: Vec<&Output> = Vec::new();

            for (coin_idx, prev_output) in v.previous_outputs.iter().enumerate() {
                let input_index = v.previous_coins[coin_idx];
                if admittance.coins_to_retain.contains(&input_index) {
                    // Retained: track as consumed (will update consumedBy later)
                    outputs_consumed
                        .push(Outpoint::new(&prev_output.txid, prev_output.output_index));
                } else {
                    // Not retained: mark as stale for deletion
                    stale_coins.push(prev_output);
                }
            }

            // Update STEAK with removed coins
            if let Some(steak_entry) = steak.get_mut(topic) {
                steak_entry.coins_removed = Some(
                    stale_coins
                        .iter()
                        .enumerate()
                        .filter_map(|(i, _)| {
                            // Map back to input indices
                            v.previous_coins.get(i).copied()
                        })
                        .collect(),
                );
            }

            // ── Mark previous outputs as spent + notify lookup services ──
            // A mark that faults does not skip the notification (the
            // reference skips it): the coin is spent whatever the row says,
            // a stale one is deleted below and its lookup services must
            // know. The mark of a RETAINED coin is part of what landed: that
            // row stays, and left unspent it would be listed as a UTXO
            // beside the output that consumed it.
            let mut retained_mark_faulted = false;
            for (prev_idx, prev_output) in v.previous_outputs.iter().enumerate() {
                if let Err(e) = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.mark_utxo_as_spent(
                        &prev_output.txid,
                        prev_output.output_index,
                        topic,
                    ),
                )
                .await
                {
                    error!("Error marking UTXO as spent: {e}");
                    report.fault(topic, "mark_utxo_as_spent", e.to_string());
                    retained_mark_faulted |= admittance
                        .coins_to_retain
                        .contains(&v.previous_coins[prev_idx]);
                }

                // The input index within tx.inputs that spends this previous output.
                let spending_input_idx = v.previous_coins[prev_idx] as usize;

                // Notify all lookup services about the spent output
                for ls in self.lookup_services.values() {
                    let payload = match ls.spend_notification_mode() {
                        SpendNotificationMode::None => OutputSpent::None {
                            txid: prev_output.txid.clone(),
                            output_index: prev_output.output_index,
                            topic: topic.clone(),
                        },
                        SpendNotificationMode::Txid => OutputSpent::Txid {
                            txid: prev_output.txid.clone(),
                            output_index: prev_output.output_index,
                            topic: topic.clone(),
                            spending_txid: txid.clone(),
                        },
                        SpendNotificationMode::Script => {
                            // Extract unlocking script and sequence from the spending input
                            let input = &tx.inputs[spending_input_idx];
                            let unlocking_script = input
                                .unlocking_script
                                .as_ref()
                                .map(bsv_rs::UnlockingScript::to_binary)
                                .unwrap_or_default();
                            OutputSpent::Script {
                                txid: prev_output.txid.clone(),
                                output_index: prev_output.output_index,
                                topic: topic.clone(),
                                spending_txid: txid.clone(),
                                input_index: spending_input_idx as u32,
                                unlocking_script,
                                sequence_number: input.sequence,
                                off_chain_values: tagged_beef.off_chain_values.clone(),
                            }
                        }
                        SpendNotificationMode::WholeTx => OutputSpent::WholeTx {
                            txid: prev_output.txid.clone(),
                            output_index: prev_output.output_index,
                            topic: topic.clone(),
                            spending_atomic_beef: subject_named_beef.clone(),
                            off_chain_values: tagged_beef.off_chain_values.clone(),
                        },
                    };
                    if let Err(e) = hooked(bound, ls.output_spent(&payload)).await {
                        error!("Error notifying lookup service of spent output: {e}");
                        report.fault(topic, "lookup_service.output_spent", e);
                    }
                }
            }
            if retained_mark_faulted {
                self.hold_unapplied(
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    "the spent mark of a retained coin faulted, nothing inserted",
                );
                continue;
            }

            // ── Insert admitted outputs ──
            // The inserts stop at the first one that faults: what follows is
            // the undo, not the rest of the transaction.
            let mut new_utxos: Vec<Outpoint> = Vec::new();
            let mut attempted: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
            let mut insert_faulted = false;

            for &output_index in &admittance.outputs_to_admit {
                let (script_bytes, sats) =
                    if let Some(tx_output) = tx.outputs.get(output_index as usize) {
                        (
                            tx_output.locking_script.to_binary(),
                            tx_output.get_satoshis(),
                        )
                    } else {
                        (Vec::new(), 0)
                    };

                let output = Output {
                    txid: txid.clone(),
                    output_index,
                    output_script: script_bytes,
                    satoshis: sats,
                    topic: topic.clone(),
                    spent: false,
                    outputs_consumed: outputs_consumed.clone(),
                    consumed_by: Vec::new(),
                    beef: Some(tagged_beef.beef.clone()),
                    block_height: None,
                    score: Some(current_timestamp_ms()),
                };

                attempted.push(output_index);
                if let Err(e) = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.insert_output_with_origin(&output, finalize),
                )
                .await
                {
                    error!("Error inserting output for topic {topic}: {e}");
                    report.fault(topic, "insert_output", e.to_string());
                    insert_faulted = true;
                    break;
                }

                new_utxos.push(Outpoint::new(&txid, output_index));

                // Notify lookup services
                for ls in self.lookup_services.values() {
                    let (ls_script, ls_sats) =
                        if let Some(tx_out) = tx.outputs.get(output_index as usize) {
                            (tx_out.locking_script.to_binary(), tx_out.get_satoshis())
                        } else {
                            (Vec::new(), 0)
                        };

                    let payload = match ls.admission_mode() {
                        AdmissionMode::LockingScript => OutputAdmittedByTopic::LockingScript {
                            txid: txid.clone(),
                            output_index,
                            topic: topic.clone(),
                            satoshis: ls_sats,
                            locking_script: ls_script,
                            off_chain_values: tagged_beef.off_chain_values.clone(),
                        },
                        AdmissionMode::WholeTx => OutputAdmittedByTopic::WholeTx {
                            atomic_beef: subject_named_beef.clone(),
                            output_index,
                            topic: topic.clone(),
                            off_chain_values: tagged_beef.off_chain_values.clone(),
                        },
                    };

                    if let Err(e) = hooked(bound, ls.output_admitted_by_topic(&payload)).await {
                        error!("Error notifying lookup service: {e}");
                        report.fault(topic, "lookup_service.output_admitted_by_topic", e);
                    }
                }
            }

            // An insert faulted: the transaction did not land, so NOTHING of
            // it stays (the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F1). The previous coins
            // are kept (#559: with the delete first, one faulted insert left
            // a non-retaining head chain with NO head) and the outputs that
            // were inserted are taken out again, the faulted one included (a
            // backend's insert can fault after its row landed). Left in,
            // they could be spent and deleted by a successor before the
            // replay, and the replay, which still finds the previous coin,
            // would insert them a second time: a spent head back among the
            // UTXOs for good.
            if insert_faulted {
                if let Some(bound) = bound {
                    bound.renew();
                }
                self.undo_inserts(&txid, topic, &attempted, bound, &mut report)
                    .await;
                self.hold_unapplied(
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    &format!(
                        "an insert faulted: {} previous coin(s) kept, nothing of it held",
                        stale_coins.len()
                    ),
                );
                continue;
            }

            // ── Delete stale outputs recursively ──
            // AFTER the inserts, and once every one of them landed (bsv-low
            // #559 and the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F1). The reference
            // deletes first (`applyTopicStorageMutation`: `removeStaleOutputs`,
            // then `admitOutput`), catches a throw per topic and never
            // replays; here a fault is survived and replayed, so the order
            // is ours, an addition. The delete does NOT wait for a clean
            // report (c9921ee did, and one faulted mark or notification
            // after the insert then left the stale coin beside the new
            // output for good: two unspent heads): a fault of the mark, of
            // a notification, deletes as the reference does.
            //
            // Before a stale coin is deleted its transaction is recorded as
            // applied in the topic (the delta fold of 2026-10-07, H2; an
            // addition, one idempotent write per deleted coin). A held coin
            // proves the inserts of its transaction landed, but that
            // transaction may have no applied row (a fault after its
            // inserts withheld it, or its insert landed after its timeout),
            // and then its replay is judged again: a manager that admits it
            // with NO previous coin (the opener of a chain) had it inserted
            // a second time, unspent, beside the output that spent it, for
            // good. With the row its replay is a dupe. A record that faults
            // leaves its coin undeleted: that is a delete fault, below.
            let due_before_the_delete = bound.is_some_and(CallBound::is_due);
            let mut delete_faulted = false;
            let mut delete_started = false;
            for stale in &stale_coins {
                let spent_coin_tx = AppliedTransaction {
                    txid: stale.txid.clone(),
                    topic: topic.clone(),
                };
                if let Err(e) = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.insert_applied_transaction(&spent_coin_tx),
                )
                .await
                {
                    error!(
                        "Error recording {} as applied before its coin is deleted from topic {topic}: {e}",
                        stale.txid
                    );
                    report.fault(topic, "record_spent_coin_applied", e.to_string());
                    delete_faulted = true;
                    continue;
                }
                self.not_landed
                    .borrow_mut()
                    .remove(&(stale.txid.clone(), topic.clone()));
                match stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.find_output(
                        &stale.txid,
                        stale.output_index,
                        Some(topic),
                        None,
                        false,
                    ),
                )
                .await
                {
                    Ok(Some(stale_output)) => {
                        delete_started = true;
                        if let Err(e) = self.delete_utxo_deep(&stale_output, bound).await {
                            error!("Error deleting stale output for topic {topic}: {e}");
                            report.fault(topic, "delete_utxo_deep", e.to_string());
                            delete_faulted = true;
                        }
                    }
                    Ok(None) => {}
                    Err(e) => {
                        error!("Error reading stale output for topic {topic}: {e}");
                        report.fault(topic, "find_output", e.to_string());
                        delete_faulted = true;
                    }
                }
            }

            // A fault here, and what it leaves. The store is put back as it
            // was found (the inserts undone, the replay does the whole
            // transaction) only when NO delete was started: the fault is of
            // H2's record or of the read before the delete, the call
            // answered, and EVERY stale coin is read back still held.
            //
            // Once a delete was STARTED nothing is undone, whether it
            // answered or not (the delta fold of 2026-10-07, H1, for a call
            // that did not answer; the second delta fold, M1, for one that
            // answered an error). A statement can land after its caller was
            // told it failed, as after its caller stopped waiting: the coin
            // is read back held now and is deleted a moment later, and the
            // undo then left the chain with no head, for good, for a manager
            // that needs the previous coin. So the outputs stay, the stale
            // coin stays (marked spent) until its delete lands or is done
            // again, and there is no applied row. Since H2 every order from
            // there converges. The replay first, the delete never landed:
            // the coin is found, the manager admits again, the inserts are
            // no-ops, the delete is done and the row written. The replay
            // first, the delete landed late: no previous coin, so a manager
            // that needs one admits nothing and the transaction is recorded
            // with its outputs held. A successor first: it recorded this
            // transaction as applied (H2) and the replay is a dupe; the
            // stale coin's spent row is then left behind, no UTXO.
            //
            // A call that did not ANSWER before any delete (the record, the
            // read) undoes nothing either: it is not known what it did. A
            // deadline that was already due BEFORE the first of these calls
            // started nothing here, so the coins are certainly held and the
            // store is put back.
            if delete_faulted {
                let unanswered = !due_before_the_delete && bound.is_some_and(CallBound::is_due);
                if let Some(bound) = bound {
                    bound.renew();
                }
                let mut all_held = !unanswered && !delete_started;
                for stale in &stale_coins {
                    if !all_held {
                        break;
                    }
                    let read = stored(
                        bound,
                        self.storage.find_output(
                            &stale.txid,
                            stale.output_index,
                            Some(topic),
                            None,
                            false,
                        ),
                    )
                    .await;
                    if !matches!(read, Ok(Some(_))) {
                        all_held = false;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if all_held {
                    self.undo_inserts(&txid, topic, &attempted, bound, &mut report)
                        .await;
                }
                self.hold_unapplied(
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    if all_held {
                        "no delete of a stale coin was started: the coins are held, its outputs taken out"
                    } else if unanswered {
                        "the delete of a stale coin did not answer: nothing undone, its outputs stay"
                    } else if delete_started {
                        "the delete of a stale coin faulted: nothing undone, its outputs stay"
                    } else {
                        "no delete was started and a stale coin was not read back held: nothing undone, its outputs stay"
                    },
                );
                continue;
            }

            // ── Update consumedBy on retained previous outputs ──
            for consumed_outpoint in &outputs_consumed {
                let consumed_output = match stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.find_output(
                        &consumed_outpoint.txid,
                        consumed_outpoint.output_index,
                        Some(topic),
                        None,
                        false,
                    ),
                )
                .await
                {
                    Ok(Some(o)) => o,
                    Ok(None) => continue,
                    Err(e) => {
                        error!("Error reading consumed output for topic {topic}: {e}");
                        report.fault(topic, "find_output", e.to_string());
                        continue;
                    }
                };
                {
                    let mut new_consumed_by = consumed_output.consumed_by.clone();
                    for new_utxo in &new_utxos {
                        if !new_consumed_by.iter().any(|c| {
                            c.txid == new_utxo.txid && c.output_index == new_utxo.output_index
                        }) {
                            new_consumed_by.push(new_utxo.clone());
                        }
                    }
                    if let Err(e) = stored(
                        bound,
                        self.storage.update_consumed_by(
                            &consumed_outpoint.txid,
                            consumed_outpoint.output_index,
                            topic,
                            &new_consumed_by,
                        ),
                    )
                    .await
                    {
                        error!("Error updating consumedBy: {e}");
                        report.fault(topic, "update_consumed_by", e.to_string());
                    }
                }
            }

            // Record applied transaction — ONLY when every write above
            // landed. A faulted topic stays unrecorded so the Phase-1 dedup
            // cannot turn its replay into a no-op (S2).
            if report.faults.len() > faults_before {
                self.hold_unapplied(
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    &format!(
                        "{} mutation fault(s); a replay of these bytes re-applies",
                        report.faults.len() - faults_before
                    ),
                );
                continue;
            }
            let tx_record = AppliedTransaction {
                txid: txid.clone(),
                topic: topic.clone(),
            };
            match stored(bound, self.storage.insert_applied_transaction(&tx_record)).await {
                Ok(()) => {
                    report.applied_topics.push(topic.clone());
                    self.not_landed
                        .borrow_mut()
                        .remove(&(txid.clone(), topic.clone()));
                }
                Err(e) => {
                    error!("Error inserting applied transaction for topic {topic}: {e}");
                    report.fault(topic, "insert_applied_transaction", e.to_string());
                    self.not_landed
                        .borrow_mut()
                        .insert((txid.clone(), topic.clone()));
                }
            }
        }

        Ok((steak, report, blocked))
    }

    /// The successor rule (bsv-low #559; lane E1D, bsv-low #575; and its
    /// lens fold of 2026-10-08), asked of every topic of a submit that found
    /// NO previous coin while the transaction spends something, before
    /// anything of the submit is written. Returns the topics that must wait,
    /// each with why: those are reported as a fault (`predecessor_not_landed`)
    /// and recorded nowhere, "not now". An addition to the reference, which
    /// records every non-failed topic.
    ///
    /// Such a topic was judged without the coin a predecessor has yet to
    /// leave. Recorded as applied, its replay was a dupe for good: a
    /// transaction that admits nothing ended the chain at the predecessor
    /// (#559), and one the manager admits WITHOUT its coin (the pf head
    /// manager over its own head state, E1D) was inserted, and the
    /// predecessor, landing later, stood unspent beside the tip.
    ///
    /// "Has not landed" is known two ways: this engine saw it fault
    /// (`not_landed`, one invocation, every door), or the store says so
    /// ([`Engine::unlanded_predecessor`], any invocation, never at a GASP
    /// finalize submit: its graph passed the anchor check, every parent
    /// inside the graph was submitted just before it and the sequence stops
    /// at the first that does not land; the second delta fold of 2026-10-07,
    /// M2). For a successor that admits something, both look only at the
    /// inputs the manager NAMES as its history (`identify_needed_inputs`
    /// over the subject-named BEEF; the lens fold, L1): a manager that
    /// names nothing (all 16 of this workspace) asks nothing there, as in
    /// the reference. A successor that admits NOTHING is asked of every
    /// input whatever its manager names (D17 (a)), so under such a manager
    /// it still waits for, or lands first, a carried body that spends a
    /// coin the topic holds: there the store differs from the reference's
    /// (the E1D delta fold, L3).
    ///
    /// The door lands a carried predecessor FIRST (the lens fold, M1; the
    /// GASP walk's rule, at the door): when the question names an unlanded
    /// predecessor whose body the BEEF carries, that body is submitted on
    /// its own to this topic ([`Engine::land_carried`]), under the submit's
    /// read allowance, and once it lands the topic is judged again
    /// ([`Engine::validate_topic`]) and asked again. The re-judgement's
    /// reads (the applied row, one coin per input) are charged to that
    /// allowance BEFORE the landing (the E1D delta fold, M1): a landing whose
    /// re-judgement would not fit is not made, and the topic waits. So one
    /// submit reads at most its own validation and writes plus
    /// [`PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT`], landings (on their clean path) and
    /// re-judgements included; a faulted landing's read-backs and undo, and
    /// a deep delete's walk of retained history, are not charged.
    /// Nothing is landed into a topic whose manager or a lookup
    /// service reads off-chain values (the delta fold, L1: the landing has
    /// none to give, and the predecessor's own submit would be a dupe): the
    /// topic waits for that submit. The first predecessor that does not land
    /// ends it: the topic waits. A predecessor whose body the BEEF does not
    /// carry is never landed here: its successor converges only when it
    /// lands (its own replay, a GASP peer, a resubmit).
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn successors_waiting(
        &self,
        tx: &Transaction,
        txid: &str,
        subject_named_beef: &[u8],
        validations: &mut [TopicValidation],
        steak: &mut Steak,
        off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        finalize: bool,
        lands: bool,
        blocked: &mut HashMap<String, String>,
        question_reads: &mut usize,
        landed: &mut Vec<(String, String)>,
        landing: Landing,
        landed_breaches: &mut Vec<WalkCouldNotRun>,
    ) -> HashMap<String, String> {
        let mut waits = HashMap::new();
        let spent: Vec<(String, u32)> = tx
            .inputs
            .iter()
            .filter_map(|input| {
                let source = input.get_source_txid().ok()?;
                (!source.is_empty()).then_some((source, input.source_output_index))
            })
            .collect();
        if spent.is_empty() {
            return waits;
        }
        let found_no_coin = |v: &TopicValidation| {
            !v.is_dupe && !v.failed && v.read_fault.is_none() && v.previous_outputs.is_empty()
        };
        for v in validations.iter_mut() {
            if !found_no_coin(v) {
                continue;
            }
            let Some(manager) = self.managers.get(&v.topic) else {
                continue;
            };
            let topic = v.topic.clone();
            // The manager's word on the subject's history, asked at most
            // once per topic: up front for a successor that admits, by the
            // question when it needs it for one that does not.
            let mut subject_names: Option<HashSet<String>> = None;
            loop {
                let admits = !v.admittance.outputs_to_admit.is_empty();
                if admits && subject_names.is_none() {
                    subject_names = Some(
                        self.named_history(manager.as_ref(), subject_named_beef, bound)
                            .await,
                    );
                }
                let remembered = spent.iter().find(|(source, vout)| {
                    (!admits
                        || subject_names
                            .as_ref()
                            .is_some_and(|named| named.contains(&format!("{source}.{vout}"))))
                        && self
                            .not_landed
                            .borrow()
                            .contains(&(source.clone(), topic.clone()))
                });
                if let Some((predecessor, _)) = remembered {
                    waits.insert(topic.clone(), format!("{predecessor} has not landed"));
                    break;
                }
                if finalize {
                    break;
                }
                let Some(not_now) = self
                    .unlanded_predecessor(
                        tx,
                        txid,
                        subject_named_beef,
                        &topic,
                        mode,
                        admits,
                        &mut subject_names,
                        question_reads,
                        bound,
                    )
                    .await
                else {
                    break;
                };
                let Some(carried) = not_now.carried else {
                    waits.insert(topic.clone(), not_now.why);
                    break;
                };
                if !lands {
                    blocked.insert(topic.clone(), carried);
                    waits.insert(topic.clone(), not_now.why);
                    break;
                }
                if !self.lands_without_values(&topic) {
                    waits.insert(
                        topic.clone(),
                        format!(
                            "{}; not landed first from the BEEF: the topic's manager or a lookup service reads off-chain values, and only the predecessor's own submit carries them",
                            not_now.why
                        ),
                    );
                    break;
                }
                // The re-judgement after the landing, charged before it.
                let rejudge = 1 + spent.len();
                if *question_reads + rejudge > PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT {
                    waits.insert(
                        topic.clone(),
                        format!(
                            "{}; its landing and the re-judgement after it do not fit in the submit's {PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT} reads",
                            not_now.why
                        ),
                    );
                    break;
                }
                *question_reads += rejudge;
                match self
                    .land_carried(
                        subject_named_beef,
                        txid,
                        &carried,
                        &topic,
                        mode,
                        bound,
                        question_reads,
                        landed,
                        landing,
                        landed_breaches,
                    )
                    .await
                {
                    Ok(()) => {
                        *v = self
                            .validate_topic(
                                tx,
                                txid,
                                &topic,
                                off_chain_values,
                                mode,
                                &TopicAdmittanceContext::default(),
                                bound,
                            )
                            .await;
                        steak.insert(topic.clone(), v.admittance.clone());
                        if !found_no_coin(v) {
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    Err(did_not_land) => {
                        // No re-judgement follows: its reads were not made.
                        *question_reads -= rejudge;
                        waits.insert(
                            topic.clone(),
                            format!(
                                "{}; submitted first from the BEEF, it did not land ({did_not_land})",
                                not_now.why
                            ),
                        );
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
            // A subject that already HOLDS an output in the topic landed
            // there before (the leftover of its own earlier submit whose
            // delete was started and faulted, D17 M1: its outputs held, no
            // applied row), and that admission was judged with its coin.
            // Its replay finishes it and does not wait (the E1D lens fold,
            // L4: a proven head spend that names a decoy no peer serves was
            // "not now" on every replay, three and a dead letter). One read,
            // only on the way to "not now", inside the allowance.
            if !finalize
                && waits.contains_key(&topic)
                && *question_reads < PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT
            {
                *question_reads += 1;
                if let Ok(outputs) = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.find_outputs_for_transaction(txid, false),
                )
                .await
                {
                    if outputs.iter().any(|o| o.topic == topic) {
                        info!("topic {topic}: {txid} holds its outputs already; its replay finishes it");
                        waits.remove(&topic);
                        blocked.remove(&topic);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        waits
    }

    /// Land an unlanded predecessor whose body the successor's BEEF carries
    /// (lane E1D's lens fold, M1): submit it on its own to `topic`, its
    /// atomic BEEF out of the successor's, no off-chain values (the caller
    /// lands nothing into a topic that reads them; the delta fold, L1),
    /// never a broadcast (`current-tx` is submitted as `historical-tx`: the
    /// successor's BEEF carries it to the network).
    ///
    /// Each body is WALKED once in this submit (the delta fold, L4): the
    /// successor's own SPV walk (`subject`, the same mode, tracker and
    /// switch) already passed over every body it reaches without crossing a
    /// proven one, so those are not walked again; a body reached only
    /// through a proven one (which the successor's walk does not descend)
    /// gets its own walk, trusting what this submit already walked, and so
    /// does nothing twice. A walk that refuses a body ends the landing.
    ///
    /// A predecessor whose own submit waits on a carried predecessor of ITS
    /// own goes on a stack under it: ancestors first, the walk's rule at
    /// the door. Its manager was asked only a DRY RUN then and nothing was
    /// written; once the one under it landed it is submitted again and
    /// admitted for real, once ([`Engine::submit_counted`]). Each submit's
    /// reads on its clean path (its applied row, one coin per input, and
    /// its writes' one read of each coin it spends) are charged to the
    /// submit's allowance before it starts, and its predecessor
    /// question shares that allowance, so the landings of one submit stop
    /// at [`PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT`] reads, however deep the chain.
    /// Each body that lands is pushed on `landed` (the report's
    /// `landed_predecessors`, for the caller's admission guard; the delta
    /// fold, L2). Each body is asked of the caller's landing guard first,
    /// once ([`Engine::set_landing_guard`]; the delta-2 fold, L2): a refusal
    /// ends the landing before that body is submitted.
    /// `Ok` once `predecessor` LANDED in `topic` (recorded there,
    /// now or before); otherwise why not, at the first that did not.
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn land_carried(
        &self,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        subject: &str,
        predecessor: &str,
        topic: &str,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        question_reads: &mut usize,
        landed: &mut Vec<(String, String)>,
        landing: Landing,
        landed_breaches: &mut Vec<WalkCouldNotRun>,
    ) -> Result<(), String> {
        let beef = beef_limits::parse_beef(beef_bytes, &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS)
            .map_err(|e| format!("the BEEF could not be read again ({e})"))?;
        let mode = match mode {
            SubmitMode::CurrentTx => SubmitMode::HistoricalTx,
            other => other,
        };
        let walks = mode != SubmitMode::HistoricalTxNoSpv;
        // The trust set is what a walk that RAN covered (the E592 lens fold,
        // M1): a subject whose walk breached covered nothing, so each carried
        // predecessor is walked by its own submit (and its own breach is
        // reported, `landed_breaches`), never trusted by a breached walk.
        let mut walked: HashSet<String> = if walks && landing.subject_walk_ran {
            walk_cover(&beef, subject)
        } else {
            HashSet::new()
        };
        let mut stack = vec![predecessor.to_string()];
        let mut guarded: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
        while let Some(next) = stack.last().cloned() {
            let body = beef
                .find_atomic_transaction(&next)
                .ok_or_else(|| format!("{next}: its body is not in the BEEF"))?;
            // The caller's admission predicate, before anything of this body
            // is submitted (the delta-2 fold, L2).
            if let Some(guard) = &self.landing_guard {
                if guarded.insert(next.clone()) {
                    bounded(bound, guard(&next, topic))
                        .await
                        .and_then(|answer| answer)
                        .map_err(|why| format!("{next}: refused by the landing guard ({why})"))?;
                }
            }
            // Its validation (the applied row, one coin per input) and its
            // writes' one read of each coin it spends.
            let cost = 1 + 2 * body.inputs.len();
            if *question_reads + cost > PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT {
                return Err(format!(
                    "{next}: its submit does not fit in the submit's {PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT} reads"
                ));
            }
            *question_reads += cost;
            let atomic = body
                .to_atomic_beef(true)
                .map_err(|e| format!("{next}: its BEEF could not be built ({e})"))?;
            let tagged = TaggedBEEF::new(atomic, vec![topic.to_string()]);
            let (_, report, blocked) = match self
                .submit_counted(
                    &tagged,
                    mode,
                    bound,
                    false,
                    Some(&walked),
                    question_reads,
                    landing.policy,
                )
                .await
            {
                Ok(counted) => counted,
                // Its walk could not run and nothing stands in for it: it does
                // not land now, and the successor waits (counted, L3).
                Err(EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun(stop)) => {
                    let why = format!("{next}: {}", EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun(stop.clone()));
                    landed_breaches.push(stop);
                    return Err(why);
                }
                Err(e) => return Err(format!("{next}: {e}")),
            };
            // Its walk passed, so did that of every body it reaches; a walk
            // that went on past a breach (`NetworkAccepted`) passed nothing.
            if let Some(stop) = &report.walk_could_not_run {
                landed_breaches.push(stop.clone());
            } else if walks && !walked.contains(&next) {
                walked.extend(walk_cover(&beef, &next));
            }
            let landed_now = report.applied_topics.iter().any(|t| t == topic);
            if report.is_durable()
                && (landed_now || report.deduped_topics.iter().any(|t| t == topic))
            {
                info!("topic {topic}: {next} landed first from its successor's BEEF");
                if landed_now {
                    landed.push((next.clone(), topic.to_string()));
                }
                stack.pop();
                continue;
            }
            match blocked.get(topic) {
                Some(under) if !stack.contains(under) => stack.push(under.clone()),
                _ if report.is_durable() => return Err(format!("{next}: the manager failed it")),
                _ => return Err(format!("{next}: {}", report.summary())),
            }
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    /// A topic of a submit that is NOT recorded as applied: logged, and
    /// remembered for the successor rule (`not_landed`).
    fn hold_unapplied(&self, txid: &str, topic: &str, why: &str) {
        warn!("topic {topic}: {txid}: {why}; applied_transactions NOT recorded (bsv-low #559)");
        self.not_landed
            .borrow_mut()
            .insert((txid.to_string(), topic.to_string()));
    }

    /// Take out again the outputs a faulted submit inserted (bsv-low #559,
    /// the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F1), so that nothing of a transaction
    /// that did not land is held. Only a row nobody has touched since is
    /// deleted: unspent and consumed by nothing. A plain delete, not the
    /// deep one: the row's retained inputs were not pointed at it yet. A
    /// fault here is reported (`undo_insert_output`) and the row stays: the
    /// limit of an undo made of separate calls.
    async fn undo_inserts(
        &self,
        txid: &str,
        topic: &str,
        output_indices: &[u32],
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        report: &mut MutationReport,
    ) {
        for &output_index in output_indices {
            let row = stored(
                bound,
                self.storage
                    .find_output(txid, output_index, Some(topic), None, false),
            )
            .await;
            let undone = match row {
                Ok(Some(row)) if !row.spent && row.consumed_by.is_empty() => {
                    stored(bound, self.storage.delete_output(txid, output_index, topic)).await
                }
                Ok(_) => Ok(()),
                Err(e) => Err(e),
            };
            if let Err(e) = undone {
                error!("Error taking {txid}.{output_index} out of topic {topic} again: {e}");
                report.fault(topic, "undo_insert_output", e.to_string());
            }
        }
    }

    /// The store's own answer to "has a predecessor of `tx` not landed?"
    /// (bsv-low #559, the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F3; lane E1D, bsv-low
    /// #575, and its lens fold of 2026-10-08), for a transaction that found
    /// no previous coin. The engine's memory of a faulted submit
    /// (`not_landed`) dies with the invocation; this does not. A transaction
    /// HAS LANDED in `topic` when it has an applied row there or an output
    /// held there; anything else is not known to have landed, and it is a
    /// PREDECESSOR of `tx` when one of these says so:
    ///
    /// - its body is in the BEEF and it spends a coin the topic HOLDS (or,
    ///   one step up, a coin of another such transaction): a spend of this
    ///   topic the store has not taken yet (#559);
    /// - its body is in the BEEF, it spends no coin the topic holds, the
    ///   manager NAMES the outpoint the walk spends from it as overlay
    ///   history (`identify_needed_inputs` over the BEEF of the transaction
    ///   that spends it, `tx` or a body the walk reached), and the manager,
    ///   asked of that body in a dry run with no coins
    ///   (`TopicAdmittanceContext::DRY_RUN`, the submit's mode, no off-chain
    ///   values), would admit that named output: an OPENER that has not
    ///   landed (E1D, the cure D17 named). Only a NAMED output is dry-run
    ///   (the lens fold, H1): with every unheld body dry-run, a manager that
    ///   admits on output shape (all 16 of this workspace) made a spend of a
    ///   shape-admissible output this node never held (a revocation of an
    ///   ad it never saw; a stranger's own few-sat SHIP output) "not now" on
    ///   every presentation, three replays and a dead letter each, where the
    ///   reference records it. A manager `Err` in the dry run is "not now"
    ///   (the manager's contract at the anchor replay, D15), except its
    ///   typed refusal `NoAdmissibleOutputs`, which is "not admitted";
    /// - its body is NOT in the BEEF (a PROVEN successor carries none) and
    ///   the manager names the outpoint `tx` spends from it as overlay
    ///   history (D13's word; an `Err` there names nothing, as in the walk).
    ///
    /// The manager is asked over `beef_bytes`, the SUBJECT-NAMED BEEF of the
    /// submit (BRC-95 atomic, the body the lookup services get; the lens
    /// fold, M2): over the submitted bytes a manager that parses
    /// `from_beef(_, None)` took the wire-LAST transaction of a non-atomic
    /// BEEF, named an ancestor's inputs, and the question asked nothing.
    ///
    /// `admits` says which inputs of `tx` start the walk. A transaction that
    /// admits nothing (D17's class) starts from every input. One that admits
    /// WITHOUT its coin (E1D) starts only from the inputs the manager names:
    /// a manager that admits a successor with no coin has said the coin does
    /// not decide the admission, so only its own word makes an input a
    /// predecessor. Every manager of this workspace names nothing: an
    /// admitting successor is then asked nothing, as in the reference, and
    /// so is a spend of an unheld output nobody names (the lens fold, H1);
    /// but a successor that admits nothing still finds case (a), a carried
    /// body that spends a coin the topic holds, and waits for it or has it
    /// landed first, where the reference records the successor and never
    /// admits that body (the E1D delta fold, L3). A named input whose body
    /// the BEEF carries is still walked and dry-run, so a named decoy the
    /// manager would not admit is no predecessor.
    ///
    /// The answer carries the predecessor when its body is in the BEEF (the
    /// first two cases): the door lands it first ([`Engine::successors_waiting`]).
    ///
    /// The limits, stated. It cannot tell a faulted predecessor from one
    /// nobody submitted yet: a successor is "not now" in both until the
    /// predecessor lands (the door lands a carried one itself). A named
    /// input whose body is absent and which never lands (a decoy no one
    /// submits, beside a real predecessor that landed and holds no coin)
    /// keeps its successor "not now" at the door; the GASP walk prunes such
    /// an input instead (D14). Deeper than the successor's own inputs, an
    /// absent body ends the walk as before.
    ///
    /// "Landed" needs a clean answer (the delta fold of 2026-10-07, M1 and
    /// M2): a read that faults, or the question running out of its reads
    /// (the 16 of a topic or the 256 of the submit), answers "not now" too,
    /// naming the transaction it could not settle. Recording the successor
    /// there made its replay a dupe and stopped the chain behind it for
    /// good; a retried no-op is the lesser cost.
    ///
    /// What the bound counts (the second delta fold of 2026-10-07, M2): the
    /// reads spent on a body that is NEITHER proven in the BEEF NOR found
    /// landed, [`PREDECESSOR_READS`] of them per topic. A body the BEEF
    /// proves, and one whose applied row or held output answers "landed", is
    /// read and costs nothing against that bound: counted, they made a
    /// transaction that admits nothing over 17 landed parents, over six
    /// proven parents the topic never saw, or over one proven parent with 15
    /// inputs "not now" on every submit, with no unlanded predecessor
    /// anywhere. A landed body still needs ROOM under it: each read of an
    /// unproven body is tested before it is made, so with 15 counted reads
    /// spent one that landed by a held output (no applied row) is refused at
    /// its second read, and with 16 spent any unproven body at its first.
    ///
    /// "Proven" is the BEEF's word here: a body that carries a merkle path
    /// (a bump index) is counted as proven for the read bound ONLY. No proof
    /// is checked at this question; the SPV walk of the submit and the GASP
    /// anchor check are where proofs are checked, and under
    /// `historical-tx-no-spv` or the scripts-only walk nothing checked this
    /// one, so the 16 are the caller's to switch off. Nothing is recorded on
    /// that word (a proven body is walked like any other), and the allowance
    /// below does not ask it.
    ///
    /// The hard allowance (the third delta fold of 2026-10-07, M1):
    /// `question_reads`, owned by the submit, counts EVERY read of the
    /// question, those of proven and landed bodies included, over every
    /// topic of the submit, and stops it at
    /// [`PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT`]; the 16 stay inside it. A later
    /// topic's question starts from what the earlier ones left.
    ///
    /// The costs, stated. A transaction that admits nothing, found no coin
    /// and carries more UNPROVEN, UNLANDED bodies than 16 reads settle (five
    /// single-input ancestors, fewer with more inputs), or a BEEF whose
    /// question needs more than 256 reads over the submit's topics (a
    /// landed body costs one read by its applied row or two by a held
    /// output, a proven, unlanded one two and one per input), is never
    /// recorded, where the reference records it: each submit of it is a
    /// fault and a replay. The manager CPU it adds: one names call per
    /// spender a dry run needs (the subject's, and one per walked body with
    /// an unheld source), and at most one dry run per body the reads
    /// reached; each candidate is built out of the BEEF parsed once (the
    /// lens fold, L2).
    ///
    /// Returns why the submit must wait, for the report.
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn unlanded_predecessor(
        &self,
        tx: &Transaction,
        txid: &str,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        topic: &str,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        admits: bool,
        subject_names: &mut Option<HashSet<String>>,
        question_reads: &mut usize,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    ) -> Option<NotNow> {
        let manager = self.managers.get(topic)?;
        let wait = |why: String| Some(NotNow { why, carried: None });
        // The outpoints `tx` spends, as `txid.vout`.
        let starts: Vec<(String, u32)> = tx
            .inputs
            .iter()
            .filter_map(|input| {
                let source = input.get_source_txid().ok()?;
                (!source.is_empty()).then_some((source, input.source_output_index))
            })
            .collect();
        // The outputs of each candidate that the walk spends, and who spends
        // each: a dry run asks only of an output its spender names.
        let mut spent_of: HashMap<String, HashSet<u32>> = HashMap::new();
        let mut spenders: HashMap<String, Vec<(String, u32)>> = HashMap::new();
        let mut ask: Vec<String> = Vec::new();
        for (source, vout) in &starts {
            if admits
                && subject_names
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_some_and(|named| !named.contains(&format!("{source}.{vout}")))
            {
                continue;
            }
            spent_of.entry(source.clone()).or_default().insert(*vout);
            spenders
                .entry(source.clone())
                .or_default()
                .push((txid.to_string(), *vout));
            ask.push(source.clone());
        }
        // Nothing to ask (a transaction that admits and names nothing, every
        // manager of this workspace): the BEEF is not even parsed.
        if ask.is_empty() {
            return None;
        }
        let direct: HashSet<String> = ask.iter().cloned().collect();
        let beef = beef_limits::parse_beef(beef_bytes, &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS).ok()?;
        // Each body the BEEF carries, and whether the BEEF says it is
        // proven (a bump index: its word, no proof is checked here).
        let bodies: HashMap<String, (&Transaction, bool)> = beef
            .txs
            .iter()
            .filter_map(|btx| {
                btx.tx()
                    .map(|body| (btx.txid(), (body, btx.bump_index().is_some())))
            })
            .collect();
        // The manager's names over each walked body other than `tx`.
        let mut names_over: HashMap<String, HashSet<String>> = HashMap::new();
        // The reads spent on bodies neither proven nor found landed.
        let mut reads = 0usize;
        let mut asked: HashSet<String> = HashSet::new();
        while let Some(candidate) = ask.pop() {
            if candidate.is_empty() || !asked.insert(candidate.clone()) {
                continue;
            }
            let spent_outputs = spent_of.get(&candidate).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
            // An absent body is asked of the store only when it is one of
            // `tx`'s own inputs and the manager names it (E1D).
            let body = bodies.get(&candidate).copied();
            if body.is_none() {
                if !direct.contains(&candidate) {
                    continue;
                }
                if subject_names.is_none() {
                    *subject_names = Some(
                        self.named_history(manager.as_ref(), beef_bytes, bound)
                            .await,
                    );
                }
                let is_named = subject_names.as_ref().is_some_and(|named| {
                    spent_outputs
                        .iter()
                        .any(|vout| named.contains(&format!("{candidate}.{vout}")))
                });
                if !is_named {
                    continue;
                }
            }
            let proven = body.is_some_and(|(_, proven)| proven);
            // This candidate's own reads: they join `reads` once it is
            // found not landed, and never if the BEEF proves it.
            let mut spent = 0usize;
            let out_of = |spent: usize| !proven && reads + spent >= PREDECESSOR_READS;
            let out_of_reads = || {
                wait(format!(
                    "{candidate} is not known to have landed: the question ran out of its {PREDECESSOR_READS} reads"
                ))
            };
            // The submit's allowance, over every read: proven or landed,
            // this topic or an earlier one.
            let out_of_allowance = || {
                wait(format!(
                    "{candidate} is not known to have landed: the question ran out of the submit's {PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT} reads"
                ))
            };
            let unread = |e: StorageError| {
                wait(format!(
                    "{candidate} is not known to have landed: the store could not say ({e})"
                ))
            };
            let carried = |why: String| {
                Some(NotNow {
                    why,
                    carried: Some(candidate.clone()),
                })
            };
            let record = AppliedTransaction {
                txid: candidate.clone(),
                topic: topic.to_string(),
            };
            // An applied row, or an output held, ends the question for this
            // transaction: it landed.
            if out_of(spent) {
                return out_of_reads();
            }
            if *question_reads >= PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT {
                return out_of_allowance();
            }
            spent += 1;
            *question_reads += 1;
            match stored(bound, self.storage.does_applied_transaction_exist(&record)).await {
                Ok(false) => {}
                Ok(true) => continue,
                Err(e) => return unread(e),
            }
            if out_of(spent) {
                return out_of_reads();
            }
            if *question_reads >= PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT {
                return out_of_allowance();
            }
            spent += 1;
            *question_reads += 1;
            match stored(
                bound,
                self.storage.find_outputs_for_transaction(&candidate, false),
            )
            .await
            {
                Ok(outputs) if outputs.iter().all(|o| o.topic != topic) => {}
                Ok(_) => continue,
                Err(e) => return unread(e),
            }
            // Not landed. With no body to walk, the manager's word is the
            // whole answer (E1D).
            let Some((body, _)) = body else {
                return wait(format!(
                    "{candidate} has not landed (the manager names it as history; the BEEF does not carry it)"
                ));
            };
            for input in &body.inputs {
                let source = input.get_source_txid().unwrap_or_default();
                if source.is_empty() {
                    continue;
                }
                if out_of(spent) {
                    return out_of_reads();
                }
                if *question_reads >= PREDECESSOR_READS_PER_SUBMIT {
                    return out_of_allowance();
                }
                spent += 1;
                *question_reads += 1;
                let coin = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.find_output(
                        &source,
                        input.source_output_index,
                        Some(topic),
                        None,
                        false,
                    ),
                )
                .await;
                match coin {
                    Ok(Some(_)) => return carried(format!("{candidate} has not landed")),
                    // Not held: its own transaction may be the one that has
                    // not landed.
                    Ok(None) => {
                        spent_of
                            .entry(source.clone())
                            .or_default()
                            .insert(input.source_output_index);
                        spenders
                            .entry(source.clone())
                            .or_default()
                            .push((candidate.clone(), input.source_output_index));
                        ask.push(source);
                    }
                    Err(e) => return unread(e),
                }
            }
            // It spends no coin the topic holds. Does a spender NAME an
            // output the walk spends of it (the lens fold, H1)? A names call
            // per spender, no store read.
            let mut named_outputs: HashSet<u32> = HashSet::new();
            for (spender, vout) in spenders.get(&candidate).cloned().unwrap_or_default() {
                let names = if spender == txid {
                    if subject_names.is_none() {
                        *subject_names = Some(
                            self.named_history(manager.as_ref(), beef_bytes, bound)
                                .await,
                        );
                    }
                    subject_names.as_ref()
                } else {
                    if !names_over.contains_key(&spender) {
                        let names = match beef
                            .find_atomic_transaction(&spender)
                            .and_then(|spender| spender.to_atomic_beef(true).ok())
                        {
                            Some(spender_beef) => {
                                self.named_history(manager.as_ref(), &spender_beef, bound)
                                    .await
                            }
                            None => HashSet::new(),
                        };
                        names_over.insert(spender.clone(), names);
                    }
                    names_over.get(&spender)
                };
                if names.is_some_and(|named| named.contains(&format!("{candidate}.{vout}"))) {
                    named_outputs.insert(vout);
                }
            }
            if !named_outputs.is_empty() {
                // Would the manager admit a named output of it with no coins
                // (E1D, the opener)? A dry run over the candidate built out
                // of the BEEF parsed above (its proof and, unproven, its
                // sources linked): no store read, nothing counted.
                let judged = beef
                    .find_atomic_transaction(&candidate)
                    .unwrap_or_else(|| body.clone());
                let verdict = bounded(
                    bound,
                    manager.identify_admissible_outputs(
                        &judged,
                        &[],
                        None,
                        mode,
                        &TopicAdmittanceContext::DRY_RUN,
                    ),
                )
                .await;
                match verdict {
                    Ok(Ok(admittance)) => {
                        if admittance
                            .outputs_to_admit
                            .iter()
                            .any(|vout| named_outputs.contains(vout))
                        {
                            return carried(format!(
                                "{candidate} has not landed (the manager names the output spent from it and would admit it with no coin: an opener)"
                            ));
                        }
                    }
                    Ok(Err(TopicManagerError::NoAdmissibleOutputs(_))) => {}
                    Ok(Err(e)) => {
                        return wait(format!(
                            "{candidate} is not known to have landed: the manager could not judge it ({e})"
                        ))
                    }
                    Err(no_answer) => {
                        return wait(format!(
                            "{candidate} is not known to have landed: the manager did not answer ({no_answer})"
                        ))
                    }
                }
            }
            if !proven {
                reads += spent;
            }
        }
        None
    }

    /// The outpoints (`txid.vout`) the topic manager NAMES as overlay
    /// history of the transaction `beef_bytes` names (`identify_needed_inputs`,
    /// D13's word; an atomic BEEF, so a manager that parses
    /// `from_beef(_, None)` reads that transaction). An `Err` or no answer
    /// names nothing, as the GASP walk treats it (logged).
    async fn named_history(
        &self,
        manager: &dyn TopicManager,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    ) -> HashSet<String> {
        match bounded(bound, manager.identify_needed_inputs(beef_bytes, None)).await {
            Ok(Ok(named)) => named.iter().map(Outpoint::to_graph_id).collect(),
            Ok(Err(e)) => {
                warn!("the predecessor question: the manager could not name its inputs: {e}");
                HashSet::new()
            }
            Err(no_answer) => {
                warn!("the predecessor question: the manager did not name its inputs: {no_answer}");
                HashSet::new()
            }
        }
    }

    /// The reference's `tx.verify(chainTracker)` on submit: every unproven
    /// transaction from the subject down has every input's script executed
    /// against its source output and obeys the value rule; a proven one is
    /// not descended, and its BUMP's root is checked against the chain
    /// tracker (computed and accepted with none).
    ///
    /// Since bsv-low #592 (the owner's ruling 3a of 2026-10-10) the scripts
    /// are walked by the DOOR's stream walk ([`crate::script_door`]) under
    /// `budget`, the engine's [`DoorBudget`]: one walker, the same estimates
    /// charged from the bytes before anything is parsed or run. Before it this
    /// was a walk of its own over a hydrated `Beef` with no memory charge and
    /// no interpreter limit: 219.7 MB natively on a 1.9 MB push-only unproven
    /// parent, an isolate kill on Workers, met by every `historical-tx` replay
    /// of the queue. The roots are then asked for the proven transactions the
    /// walk reached, in its order, once per BUMP.
    ///
    /// `Ok(Some(_))` is a walk that COULD NOT RUN within the budget, never a
    /// refusal (below, at the match). The interpreter's refusal and a
    /// structural fault are what they were: `ScriptVerificationFailed`, and
    /// `SpvError` in the same words.
    ///
    /// The tracker is an ARGUMENT, not `self`'s: the GASP anchor check
    /// ([`verify_spv_like_the_reference`]) runs this same walk from
    /// `OverlayGASPStorage`, which borrows the engine's tracker.
    ///
    /// Why not bsv-rs `Transaction::verify`: it walks `source_transaction`
    /// links that `from_beef` builds by CLONING, once per input. Two inputs
    /// sourcing the same unproven parent (a covenant head output plus that
    /// spend's own change, the shape of every second head spend of a wallet)
    /// leave the second clone bare ("Input 0 has no source transaction"), and
    /// re-linking every clone materializes the ancestry EXPONENTIALLY along a
    /// diamond chain: a 12-deep unmined chain of head spends took a Worker past
    /// its memory on beta (zanaadu, 2026-09-08). The stream walk reads each
    /// transaction once, in place, keyed by txid.
    async fn verify_beef_linear(
        chain_tracker: Option<&dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        subject_txid: &str,
        trusted: &HashSet<String>,
        budget: DoorBudget,
    ) -> Result<Option<WalkCouldNotRun>, EngineError> {
        // A structural fault is the reference walk's `SpvError`.
        let spv =
            |msg: String| EngineError::SpvError(format!("Unable to verify SPV information: {msg}"));

        // THE SCRIPTS (bsv-low #592): the door's own stream walk, under the
        // engine's budget. One walker (Rule 10): the door and the submit run
        // the same function, the same estimates and the same interpreter
        // limit; the submit adds the roots below.
        let mut trace = crate::script_door::WalkTrace::default();
        match crate::script_door::walk_trusting(
            beef_bytes,
            subject_txid,
            budget,
            trusted,
            &mut trace,
        ) {
            Ok(_) => {}
            // The interpreter's verdict, the reference's refusal: unchanged.
            Err(refused @ EngineError::ScriptVerificationFailed { .. }) => return Err(refused),
            // A structural fault (a source missing, the value rule, ...):
            // the reference walk's `SpvError`, in the same words as before.
            Err(EngineError::ScriptWalkInconclusive { reason, .. }) => return Err(spv(reason)),
            // The budget, not the transaction: the walk COULD NOT RUN. Not a
            // refusal: the bytes are a BEEF the walk was not given the room
            // to judge, which says nothing about whether its scripts are
            // valid (refusing would refuse a valid BEEF for its size, the
            // owner's posture). Not an admission either: the caller's
            // [`WalkBreachPolicy`] decides, and only the network's word on
            // record lets the submit go on (the E592 lens fold, H1). The roots
            // the walk reached are checked first, below.
            Err(EngineError::ScriptWalkOverBudget {
                at_txid,
                subject_judged,
                limb,
                what,
            }) => {
                let limb = match limb {
                    DoorLimb::Memory => WalkLimb::OverMemory,
                    DoorLimb::Work if trace.interpreter_tripped => WalkLimb::InterpreterMemory,
                    DoorLimb::Work => WalkLimb::OverWork,
                };
                // THE ROOTS OF A BREACHED WALK (the E592 lens fold, H1): every
                // proven transaction it reached, and every proven source an
                // input read, whatever the scripts' verdict. A bad root is
                // the `SpvError` it is on a walk that ran: a breach never
                // skips a proof the walk relied on. Their cost is a tracker
                // question per BUMP, which the budget does not bound and
                // does not need to (the clean walk asks the same).
                let reached: Vec<String> = trace
                    .proven
                    .iter()
                    .chain(&trace.proven_sources)
                    .cloned()
                    .collect();
                Self::check_reached_roots(chain_tracker, beef_bytes, &reached).await?;
                return Ok(Some(WalkCouldNotRun {
                    subject_txid: subject_txid.to_string(),
                    at_txid,
                    subject_judged,
                    limb,
                    what,
                }));
            }
            Err(other) => return Err(other),
        }

        // THE ROOTS: every proven transaction the walk reached, in the order
        // it reached them, its BUMP's root computed and asked of the tracker
        // once per BUMP (NL-6e). With no tracker the roots are computed and
        // accepted (`'scripts only'`). The walk trusted them as it went; the
        // reference checks them in the same walk, so a body with BOTH a bad
        // script and a bad root now names the script.
        Self::check_reached_roots(chain_tracker, beef_bytes, &trace.proven).await?;
        Ok(None)
    }

    /// The roots of `reached` (display txids, in order; a repeat or a second
    /// transaction of one BUMP asks nothing more), each BUMP's root computed
    /// and asked of the tracker once. None reached: the body is not parsed.
    async fn check_reached_roots(
        chain_tracker: Option<&dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
        reached: &[String],
    ) -> Result<(), EngineError> {
        let spv =
            |msg: String| EngineError::SpvError(format!("Unable to verify SPV information: {msg}"));
        if reached.is_empty() {
            return Ok(());
        }
        let beef = beef_limits::parse_beef(beef_bytes, &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS)
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::BeefParseError(e.to_string()))?;
        let proven_in = proven_index(&beef);
        let mut checked: HashSet<usize> = HashSet::new();
        for txid in reached {
            let Some(&at) = proven_in.get(txid.as_str()) else {
                return Err(spv(format!("transaction {txid} is not in the BEEF")));
            };
            if !checked.insert(at) {
                continue; // its BUMP's root is the chain's, asked once
            }
            let mp = &beef.bumps[at];
            let root = mp
                .compute_root(Some(txid))
                .map_err(|e| spv(format!("invalid merkle path for transaction {txid}: {e}")))?;
            if let Some(tracker) = chain_tracker {
                match tracker
                    .is_valid_root_for_height(&root, mp.block_height)
                    .await
                {
                    Ok(true) => {}
                    Ok(false) => {
                        return Err(EngineError::SpvError(format!(
                            "Invalid merkle path for transaction {txid}: root {root} is not valid for block height {}",
                            mp.block_height
                        )));
                    }
                    Err(e) => {
                        return Err(EngineError::SpvError(format!(
                            "Chain tracker error at height {}: {e}",
                            mp.block_height
                        )));
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    /// The pre-2026-09-08 SPV block, kept as the
    /// [`Engine::set_script_verification`] `false` escape hatch: BEEF
    /// structural validity plus every root against the chain tracker, and
    /// NOTHING when no tracker is configured. It never executes a script.
    ///
    /// The structure is the streaming reader's
    /// ([`beef_limits::structure_roots`], bsv-rs 0.4.2): one element in hand,
    /// each BUMP walked once, linear in its leaves (NL-6e). Until NL-6e it
    /// was `Beef::verify_valid`, whose root check at bsv-rs 0.4.0 walked a
    /// BUMP once per leaf: one BUMP of 8,192 leaves gave no answer in 120 s
    /// (bsv-stack-lean NL-8 W1). The reader reads the wire's order, where
    /// `verify_valid` sorted first: an input that names a later transaction
    /// is refused here.
    async fn verify_spv_structurally(
        chain_tracker: Option<&dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>,
        beef_bytes: &[u8],
    ) -> Result<(), EngineError> {
        let Some(chain_tracker) = chain_tracker else {
            return Ok(());
        };
        let roots = beef_limits::structure_roots(beef_bytes)
            .map_err(|r| EngineError::SpvError(format!("BEEF structure refused: {r}")))?;
        let mut asked: HashSet<(u64, &str)> = HashSet::new();
        for (height, root) in &roots {
            if !asked.insert((*height, root.as_str())) {
                continue;
            }
            let Ok(height) = u32::try_from(*height) else {
                return Err(EngineError::SpvError(format!(
                    "Merkle root {root} invalid for block height {height}"
                )));
            };
            match chain_tracker.is_valid_root_for_height(root, height).await {
                Ok(true) => {}
                Ok(false) => {
                    return Err(EngineError::SpvError(format!(
                        "Merkle root {root} invalid for block height {height}"
                    )));
                }
                Err(e) => {
                    return Err(EngineError::SpvError(format!(
                        "Chain tracker error at height {height}: {e}"
                    )));
                }
            }
        }
        Ok(())
    }

    /// Phase 1 of ONE topic: the dedup read, the previous coins, the
    /// manager's judgement. Read-only. [`Engine::run_validation`] asks it of
    /// every topic; the door asks it again of a topic whose predecessor it
    /// landed first from the BEEF (lane E1D's lens fold, M1).
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn validate_topic(
        &self,
        tx: &Transaction,
        txid: &str,
        topic: &str,
        off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    ) -> TopicValidation {
        let tx_record = AppliedTransaction {
            txid: txid.to_string(),
            topic: topic.to_string(),
        };
        // A dedup read that FAULTS is the topic's read fault (the delta
        // fold of 2026-10-07, H3): nothing is judged and nothing is
        // written for the topic, the fault rides the report and the
        // replay asks again. The reference fails the topic there
        // (`Engine.ts` `submit`: the throw lands in the per-topic catch,
        // `failedTopics.add`). Read as "not a dupe", as it was, a
        // re-presented transaction the manager admits with no previous
        // coin was inserted a second time, unspent, beside the output
        // that had spent it, under a durable report.
        let is_dupe = match stored(
            bound,
            self.storage.does_applied_transaction_exist(&tx_record),
        )
        .await
        {
            Ok(is_dupe) => is_dupe,
            Err(e) => {
                error!("Error reading the applied row of {txid} for topic {topic}: {e}");
                return TopicValidation {
                    topic: topic.to_string(),
                    is_dupe: false,
                    previous_coins: vec![],
                    previous_outputs: vec![],
                    admittance: AdmittanceInstructions::default(),
                    failed: false,
                    read_fault: Some(("does_applied_transaction_exist", e.to_string())),
                };
            }
        };

        if is_dupe {
            return TopicValidation {
                topic: topic.to_string(),
                is_dupe: true,
                previous_coins: vec![],
                previous_outputs: vec![],
                admittance: AdmittanceInstructions::default(),
                failed: false,
                read_fault: None,
            };
        }

        let mut previous_coins: Vec<u32> = Vec::new();
        let mut previous_outputs: Vec<Output> = Vec::new();
        let mut read_fault: Option<(&'static str, String)> = None;

        for (input_idx, input) in tx.inputs.iter().enumerate() {
            let source_txid = input.get_source_txid().unwrap_or_default();
            if source_txid.is_empty() {
                continue;
            }
            match stored(
                bound,
                self.storage.find_output(
                    &source_txid,
                    input.source_output_index,
                    Some(topic),
                    None,
                    false,
                ),
            )
            .await
            {
                Ok(Some(prev_output)) => {
                    previous_coins.push(input_idx as u32);
                    previous_outputs.push(prev_output);
                }
                Ok(None) => {}
                Err(e) => {
                    // A faulted read is NOT "no previous coin": the
                    // spend may consume an admitted output we simply
                    // could not read. Validation proceeds (the topic
                    // manager decides on what it can see) but the fault
                    // rides the report and blocks the applied record.
                    error!(
                        "Error reading previous output {source_txid}:{} for topic {topic}: {e}",
                        input.source_output_index
                    );
                    if read_fault.is_none() {
                        read_fault = Some(("find_output", e.to_string()));
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        let judged = self
            .judge(
                tx,
                topic,
                &previous_coins,
                off_chain_values,
                mode,
                context,
                bound,
            )
            .await;
        match judged {
            Ok(admittance) => TopicValidation {
                topic: topic.to_string(),
                is_dupe: false,
                previous_coins,
                previous_outputs,
                admittance,
                failed: false,
                read_fault: read_fault.clone(),
            },
            Err(e) => {
                error!("Error validating topic {topic} during submit: {e}");
                TopicValidation {
                    topic: topic.to_string(),
                    is_dupe: false,
                    previous_coins: vec![],
                    previous_outputs: vec![],
                    admittance: AdmittanceInstructions::default(),
                    failed: true,
                    read_fault,
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /// The topic manager's judgement of `tx` over the previous coins found
    /// (input indices), as [`Engine::validate_topic`] asks it; a carried
    /// predecessor's submit asks it again for real once its topic does not
    /// wait (the E1D delta fold, L4).
    #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
    async fn judge(
        &self,
        tx: &Transaction,
        topic: &str,
        previous_coins: &[u32],
        off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
    ) -> Result<AdmittanceInstructions, TopicManagerError> {
        let manager = &self.managers[topic];
        let previous_coin_bytes = previous_coins
            .iter()
            .flat_map(|i| i.to_le_bytes())
            .collect::<Vec<u8>>();
        // Under a finalize submit's bound a manager that does not answer
        // is a manager that failed: nothing is written for the topic.
        bounded(
            bound,
            manager.identify_admissible_outputs(
                // The ONE engine parse of the submitted BEEF, shared by
                // every topic on this submit (bsv-low #289 — managers
                // used to re-parse the same bytes independently).
                tx,
                &previous_coin_bytes,
                off_chain_values,
                mode,
                // `dry_run` is `false` on a submit, `true` on a
                // validate-only call.
                context,
            ),
        )
        .await
        .map_err(TopicManagerError::Other)
        .and_then(|judged| judged)
    }

    /// Whether the door may land a carried predecessor into `topic` (the
    /// E1D delta fold, L1): neither its manager nor any lookup service
    /// reads off-chain values there, which the landing does not have.
    fn lands_without_values(&self, topic: &str) -> bool {
        self.managers
            .get(topic)
            .is_some_and(|manager| !manager.reads_off_chain_values())
            && self
                .lookup_services
                .values()
                .all(|ls| !ls.reads_off_chain_values(topic))
    }

    /// Run Phase 1 (topic validation) and Phase 2 (broadcast) without mutating storage.
    ///
    /// Returns (validations, steak, parsed_tx, txid) so the caller can either
    /// stop (validate-only) or proceed with Phase 3 (mutations).
    async fn run_validation(
        &self,
        tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        mode: SubmitMode,
        context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
        bound: Option<&CallBound>,
        walked: Option<&HashSet<String>>,
        policy: WalkBreachPolicy,
    ) -> Result<Validated, EngineError> {
        // Validate all topics are supported
        for topic in &tagged_beef.topics {
            if !self.managers.contains_key(topic) {
                return Err(EngineError::UnsupportedTopic(topic.clone()));
            }
        }

        // Parse the SUBJECT from the BEEF — order-independent (`subject.rs`,
        // loop-2 hardening 2026-09-05): `from_beef(_, None)` takes the last
        // tx in wire order, which an SDK-sorted INCOMPLETE ancestry fills
        // with a fully-sourced ancestor; the engine then judged a hop, admitted
        // nothing and the pot never entered the index while its JOIN mined.
        let subject = {
            let mut b =
                beef_limits::parse_beef(&tagged_beef.beef, &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS)
                    .map_err(|e| EngineError::BeefParseError(e.to_string()))?;
            crate::subject::subject_txid_of(&mut b)
        };
        let tx = beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(
            &tagged_beef.beef,
            subject.as_deref(),
            &beef_limits::ENGINE_BEEF_LIMITS,
        )
        .map_err(|e| EngineError::BeefParseError(e.to_string()))?;
        let txid = tx.id();

        // SPV verification, skipped ONLY for HistoricalTxNoSpv, exactly the
        // reference's `if (mode !== 'historical-tx-no-spv') tx.verify(...)`.
        // That mode exists for GASP `finalizeGraph`, whose graphs
        // `validateGraphAnchor` already verified, and since bsv-low #551 that
        // is TRUE here: `OverlayGASPStorage::validate_graph_anchor` runs this
        // same check ([`verify_spv_like_the_reference`], the same tracker and
        // the same switch) over the ROOT node's BEEF and replays the graph
        // through the topic manager before a single BEEF of it reaches this
        // door. Before #551 the anchor check was a no-op and this skip
        // admitted a peer's graph on structure alone.
        //
        // A predecessor the door lands first (`walked`, the E1D delta fold,
        // L4) is not walked again when this submit's walks already passed
        // over it, and its walk trusts what they passed over.
        //
        // The walk runs under the engine's budget (bsv-low #592,
        // [`Engine::set_walk_budget`]): one that could not run within it is
        // NOT a refusal (see `verify_beef_linear`), and NOT an admission
        // unless the caller holds the network's accept of these bytes (the
        // E592 lens fold, H1, [`WalkBreachPolicy`]): "not now" before any
        // manager is asked, or, under `NetworkAccepted`, this submit goes on
        // as under `HistoricalTxNoSpv` and the report says so.
        let mut could_not_run = None;
        if mode != SubmitMode::HistoricalTxNoSpv {
            match walked {
                Some(walked) if walked.contains(&txid) => {}
                trusted => {
                    could_not_run = verify_spv_trusting(
                        self.chain_tracker.as_deref(),
                        self.verify_scripts,
                        &tagged_beef.beef,
                        &txid,
                        trusted.unwrap_or(&HashSet::new()),
                        self.walk_budget,
                    )
                    .await?;
                }
            }
        }
        if let Some(stop) = could_not_run.take() {
            match policy {
                WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow => {
                    warn!(
                        "submit: the engine's script walk could not run for {} ({}: at {}, subject judged: {}; {}): not now, nothing judged or written; present it proven (bsv-low #592, E592 fold)",
                        stop.subject_txid,
                        stop.limb.as_str(),
                        stop.at_txid,
                        stop.subject_judged,
                        stop.what
                    );
                    return Err(EngineError::WalkCouldNotRun(stop));
                }
                WalkBreachPolicy::NetworkAccepted => {
                    warn!(
                        "submit: the engine's script walk could not run for {} ({}: at {}, subject judged: {}; {}): the network accepted these bytes, the submit goes on as historical-tx-no-spv (bsv-low #592)",
                        stop.subject_txid,
                        stop.limb.as_str(),
                        stop.at_txid,
                        stop.subject_judged,
                        stop.what
                    );
                    could_not_run = Some(stop);
                }
            }
        }

        let mut steak = Steak::new();

        // =============================================================
        // PHASE 1: VALIDATE (read-only)
        // =============================================================
        let mut validations = Vec::new();

        for topic in &tagged_beef.topics {
            validations.push(
                self.validate_topic(
                    &tx,
                    &txid,
                    topic,
                    tagged_beef.off_chain_values.as_deref(),
                    mode,
                    context,
                    bound,
                )
                .await,
            );
        }

        // Build preliminary STEAK
        for v in &validations {
            steak.insert(v.topic.clone(), v.admittance.clone());
        }

        // =============================================================
        // PHASE 2: BROADCAST / SHIP propagation (before mutations)
        // =============================================================
        if mode == SubmitMode::CurrentTx {
            // ── ARC network broadcast ──────────────────────────────────
            // Broadcast to miners via ARC, matching the TS Engine pattern.
            // Skip if the tx already has a merkle path (already mined).
            //
            // INCIDENT D1-CALLBACK-FLOOD 2026-09-01: also skip when EVERY
            // topic classified the tx as a dupe (already applied) — the
            // exact `!v.is_dupe` filter the SHIP arm below has always had,
            // ten lines away. Without it, every RE-PRESENT of an
            // already-applied tx (cron ad-sync, peer crawl, a client
            // retrying a default-mode /submit) re-POSTed to Arcade and
            // re-registered the status callback, and registrations
            // accumulate per POST on Arcade's side — the flood's fuel. A
            // genuinely new tx (any topic non-dupe) broadcasts exactly as
            // before.
            let all_topics_dupe = !validations.is_empty() && validations.iter().all(|v| v.is_dupe);
            if let Some(ref arc) = self.arc_broadcaster {
                if all_topics_dupe {
                    info!(
                        "Skipping ARC broadcast — tx already applied to every topic (re-present)"
                    );
                } else if tx.merkle_path.is_none() {
                    let raw_tx_hex = tx.to_hex();
                    match arc.broadcast(&raw_tx_hex).await {
                        Ok(arc_txid) => {
                            info!("ARC broadcast succeeded: txid={arc_txid}");
                        }
                        Err(e) => {
                            error!("ARC broadcast failed (non-fatal): {e}");
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    info!("Skipping ARC broadcast — tx already has merkle proof");
                }
            }

            // ── SHIP peer propagation ──────────────────────────────────
            if let Some(ref broadcaster) = self.broadcaster {
                let relevant_topics: Vec<String> = validations
                    .iter()
                    .filter(|v| {
                        !v.is_dupe && !v.failed && !v.admittance.outputs_to_admit.is_empty()
                    })
                    .map(|v| v.topic.clone())
                    .collect();

                if !relevant_topics.is_empty() {
                    if let Some(ship_ls) = self.lookup_services.get("ls_ship") {
                        for topic in &relevant_topics {
                            let question = LookupQuestion::new(
                                "ls_ship",
                                serde_json::json!({ "topics": [topic] }),
                            );
                            match ship_ls.lookup(&question).await {
                                Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(refs)) => {
                                    for reference in &refs {
                                        if let Ok(Some(output)) = self
                                            .storage
                                            .find_output(
                                                &reference.txid,
                                                reference.output_index,
                                                None,
                                                None,
                                                false,
                                            )
                                            .await
                                        {
                                            if let Some(domain) =
                                                parse_ship_domain_from_script(&output.output_script)
                                            {
                                                if let Some(ref our_url) = self.config.hosting_url {
                                                    if domain.trim_end_matches('/')
                                                        == our_url.trim_end_matches('/')
                                                    {
                                                        continue;
                                                    }
                                                }
                                                if let Err(e) = broadcaster
                                                    .broadcast_to_host(&domain, tagged_beef)
                                                    .await
                                                {
                                                    error!(
                                                        "SHIP propagation to {domain} failed for topic {topic}: {e}"
                                                    );
                                                }
                                            }
                                        }
                                    }
                                }
                                Ok(LookupResult::Answer(_)) => {
                                    // SHIP only ever returns OutputList; an Answer here means
                                    // a misconfigured replacement service. Skip rather than
                                    // attempt to extract refs from a freeform/formula payload.
                                    error!(
                                        "SHIP lookup for topic {topic} returned a pre-formed \
                                         LookupAnswer; expected OutputList. Skipping fanout."
                                    );
                                }
                                Err(e) => {
                                    error!("SHIP lookup for topic {topic} failed: {e}");
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        Ok((validations, steak, tx, txid, could_not_run))
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Lookup
    // ========================================================================

    /// Answer a lookup query.
    ///
    /// Delegates to the appropriate LookupService, then hydrates results with BEEF.
    ///
    /// When `history_selector` is provided, each output is hydrated with its
    /// ancestor spend chain (via `get_utxo_history`) before building the response.
    /// This matches the TS Engine behavior when a history selector is configured.
    pub async fn lookup(
        &self,
        question: &LookupQuestion,
        history_selector: Option<HistorySelector>,
    ) -> Result<LookupAnswer, EngineError> {
        Ok(self.lookup_with_txids(question, history_selector).await?.0)
    }

    /// Same as [`Engine::lookup`], additionally returning each hydrated
    /// output's txid, aligned index-for-index with the `OutputList` items
    /// (empty for pre-formed `Answer`s).
    ///
    /// The txid IS the storage primary key the row was just fetched by —
    /// handing it to the caller lets the aggregated wire serializer write it
    /// directly instead of re-deriving it with a full BEEF parse plus a
    /// double-SHA256 per output (bsv-low #289).
    pub async fn lookup_with_txids(
        &self,
        question: &LookupQuestion,
        history_selector: Option<HistorySelector>,
    ) -> Result<(LookupAnswer, Vec<String>), EngineError> {
        let service = self
            .lookup_services
            .get(&question.service)
            .ok_or_else(|| EngineError::LookupServiceNotFound(question.service.clone()))?;

        // Preserve WHOSE fault it was. A lookup service reports a malformed
        // query as `InvalidQuery` / `Unsupported`; stringifying both into
        // `LookupFailed` (as this did) threw that away and reported every
        // caller mistake as a 500.
        let result = service.lookup(question).await.map_err(|e| match e {
            LookupServiceError::InvalidQuery(m) | LookupServiceError::Unsupported(m) => {
                EngineError::InvalidQuery(m)
            }
            other => EngineError::LookupFailed(other.to_string()),
        })?;

        // Two paths per LookupResult:
        // - OutputList(refs): the LS yields outpoints; we hydrate each with
        //   BEEF (and optional ancestor chain via history_selector) and
        //   assemble LookupAnswer::OutputList.
        // - Answer(answer): the LS already produced the full answer
        //   (Freeform/Formula); pass through verbatim. The Engine does NOT
        //   apply history-selector hydration to a pre-formed Answer — the
        //   LS is presumed to have embedded whatever ancestry it wants.
        let refs = match result {
            LookupResult::OutputList(refs) => refs,
            LookupResult::Answer(answer) => return Ok((answer, Vec::new())),
        };

        // ONE batched hydration query for the whole result set instead of a
        // D1 round-trip per row (the #289 N+1). Order is preserved: the
        // batch contract returns outputs in input-outpoint order, skipping
        // outpoints with no stored row. A storage error is a REAL error now
        // (it used to be swallowed per-row into a silently-empty list — the
        // "vanishing table" failure mode): an uncertain read must never
        // masquerade as a confidently-empty lobby.
        let outpoints: Vec<Outpoint> = refs
            .iter()
            .map(|r| Outpoint::new(&r.txid, r.output_index))
            .collect();
        let found = self
            .storage
            .find_served_outputs(&outpoints)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

        let mut outputs = Vec::new();
        let mut txids = Vec::new();
        for output in found {
            // If history selector provided, hydrate ancestor chain
            let final_output = if history_selector.is_some() {
                match self
                    .get_utxo_history(&output, history_selector.clone())
                    .await
                {
                    Ok(Some(hydrated)) => hydrated,
                    _ => output,
                }
            } else {
                output
            };

            // Skip an output whose BEEF is missing OR empty: a lookup item
            // without decodable BEEF is useless to the client (it can only
            // drop it), and returning an empty-BEEF row is what made a fresh
            // LOW table show up in a query yet be undecodable/invisible to
            // opponents (the "vanishing table" — 2026-07-11). Only ever
            // return fully-hydrated, decodable outputs.
            if let Some(beef) = final_output.beef {
                if !beef.is_empty() {
                    txids.push(final_output.txid.clone());
                    outputs.push(OutputListItem {
                        beef,
                        output_index: final_output.output_index,
                        context: None,
                    });
                }
            }
        }

        Ok((LookupAnswer::OutputList { outputs }, txids))
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Metadata
    // ========================================================================

    // ========================================================================
    // UTXO History
    // ========================================================================

    /// Traverse and return the history of a UTXO.
    ///
    /// If no `history_selector` is provided, returns the output as-is.
    /// If a depth selector is provided, includes up to N levels of ancestor
    /// transactions by embedding them as source_transactions in the BEEF.
    pub async fn get_utxo_history(
        &self,
        output: &Output,
        history_selector: Option<HistorySelector>,
    ) -> Result<Option<Output>, EngineError> {
        let Some(selector) = history_selector else {
            return Ok(Some(output.clone()));
        };

        // Verify BEEF exists before attempting hydration
        if output.beef.is_none() {
            return Err(EngineError::Other(
                "Output must have associated transaction BEEF!".into(),
            ));
        }

        match self.hydrate_utxo_history(output, &selector, 0).await {
            Ok(Some(hydrated_output)) => Ok(Some(hydrated_output)),
            Ok(None) => Ok(None),
            Err(e) => Err(EngineError::Other(format!(
                "Error retrieving UTXO history: {e}"
            ))),
        }
    }

    /// Recursive UTXO history hydration.
    fn hydrate_utxo_history<'a>(
        &'a self,
        output: &'a Output,
        selector: &'a HistorySelector,
        current_depth: u32,
    ) -> std::pin::Pin<
        Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<Option<Output>, EngineError>> + 'a>,
    > {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let beef_data = output.beef.as_ref().ok_or_else(|| {
                EngineError::Other("Output must have associated transaction BEEF!".into())
            })?;

            // Check if we should traverse at this depth
            let should_traverse = match selector {
                HistorySelector::Depth(max_depth) => current_depth <= *max_depth,
            };

            if !should_traverse {
                return Ok(None);
            }

            // Start from the STORED BEEF, not from a re-parsed subject.
            //
            // #4: this used to be `Transaction::from_beef(beef_data, None)` followed
            // by `tx.to_beef(true)`, which keeps only the subject transaction and
            // therefore DESTROYS the stored BUMPs. Measured on prod before the fix:
            // `ls_low` byGameId `73de6e48…` returned 1,172 B / 1 tx / 1 bump (PROVEN)
            // with no header, and 676 B / 1 tx / 0 bumps with `x-history-depth: 3` —
            // a caller asking for MORE provenance got back a BEEF no wallet can
            // verify, silently, behind a 200.
            //
            // Accumulating into the stored BEEF fixes both halves: its own bumps
            // survive, and so does any ancestry that arrived inside the submitted
            // bytes but was never admitted as an output of its own (a foreign
            // parent), which the `outputs_consumed` walk below cannot see.
            let mut acc = beef_limits::parse_beef(beef_data, &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS)
                .map_err(|e| EngineError::BeefParseError(e.to_string()))?;

            // For each consumed output, recursively hydrate and embed as source transaction
            for consumed in &output.outputs_consumed {
                if let Ok(Some(child_output)) = self
                    .storage
                    .find_output(&consumed.txid, consumed.output_index, None, None, true)
                    .await
                {
                    if let Ok(Some(hydrated_child)) = self
                        .hydrate_utxo_history(&child_output, selector, current_depth + 1)
                        .await
                    {
                        // MERGE the hydrated ancestor in, rather than embedding it
                        // as a `source_transaction` on a re-parsed subject: a merge
                        // carries the child's own BUMPs across, which is the whole
                        // point of asking for history. An unparseable child is
                        // skipped — never allowed to poison the accumulator.
                        if let Some(ref child_beef) = hydrated_child.beef {
                            if let Ok(child) = Beef::from_binary(child_beef) {
                                acc.merge_beef(&child);
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

            Ok(Some(Output {
                beef: Some(acc.to_binary()),
                ..output.clone()
            }))
        })
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Metadata
    // ========================================================================

    pub async fn list_topic_managers(&self) -> HashMap<String, ServiceMetadata> {
        let mut result = HashMap::new();
        for (name, manager) in &self.managers {
            let meta = manager.get_metadata().await;
            result.insert(name.clone(), meta);
        }
        result
    }

    /// List all registered lookup services with their metadata.
    pub async fn list_lookup_service_providers(&self) -> HashMap<String, ServiceMetadata> {
        let mut result = HashMap::new();
        for (name, service) in &self.lookup_services {
            let meta = service.get_metadata().await;
            result.insert(name.clone(), meta);
        }
        result
    }

    /// Get documentation for a specific topic manager.
    pub async fn get_documentation_for_topic_manager(&self, name: &str) -> String {
        match self.managers.get(name) {
            Some(manager) => manager.get_documentation().await,
            None => "No documentation found!".to_string(),
        }
    }

    /// Get documentation for a specific lookup service.
    pub async fn get_documentation_for_lookup_service(&self, name: &str) -> String {
        match self.lookup_services.get(name) {
            Some(service) => service.get_documentation().await,
            None => "No documentation found!".to_string(),
        }
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // GASP endpoints
    // ========================================================================

    /// Respond to a GASP initial sync request.
    ///
    /// Returns UTXOs for the given topic since the requested score.
    ///
    /// The caller-supplied `limit` is CLAMPED to
    /// [`Engine::SYNC_RESPONSE_MAX_LIMIT`] (and defaulted when absent):
    /// `/requestSyncResponse` is a PUBLIC route, and an absent limit used to
    /// mean an unbounded scan of the outputs table (bsv-low #291). Bounding
    /// is lossless for sync correctness because the initiator
    /// ([`crate::gasp::GASPSync`]) pages for as long as its `since` score
    /// cursor advances — a truncated page is fetched by its NEXT request
    /// within the same run (gate finding M1: pagination must not demand a
    /// full page, which this clamp can make impossible).
    pub async fn provide_foreign_sync_response(
        &self,
        request: &GASPInitialRequest,
        topic: &str,
    ) -> Result<GASPInitialResponse, EngineError> {
        let limit = Self::clamp_sync_limit(request.limit);
        let outputs = self
            .storage
            .find_utxos_for_topic(topic, Some(request.since as f64), Some(limit), false)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

        Ok(GASPInitialResponse {
            utxo_list: outputs
                .iter()
                .map(|o| GASPOutput {
                    txid: o.txid.clone(),
                    output_index: o.output_index,
                    score: o.score.unwrap_or(0.0),
                })
                .collect(),
            since: request.since,
        })
    }

    /// Provide a GASPNode for a specific transaction within a graph.
    ///
    /// Searches the BEEF tree of the root output (identified by graphID) for
    /// the requested txid. If not found in the BEEF tree, recurses through
    /// outputsConsumed in storage.
    pub async fn provide_foreign_gasp_node(
        &self,
        graph_id: &str,
        txid: &str,
        output_index: u32,
    ) -> Result<GASPNode, EngineError> {
        let root_outpoint = Outpoint::from_graph_id(graph_id)
            .ok_or_else(|| EngineError::Other(format!("Invalid graphID: {graph_id}")))?;

        let root_output = self
            .storage
            .find_output(
                &root_outpoint.txid,
                root_outpoint.output_index,
                None,
                None,
                true,
            )
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?
            .ok_or(EngineError::NodeNotFound)?;

        self.hydrate_gasp_node(&root_output, graph_id, txid, output_index)
            .await
    }

    /// The nodes of up to [`crate::node_batch::NODE_BATCH_MAX_OUTPOINTS`]
    /// outpoints in one answer of at most
    /// [`crate::node_batch::NODE_BATCH_MAX_BYTES`] (engine 0.2.1, #58): each
    /// as [`Self::provide_foreign_gasp_node`] answers it for its own graph,
    /// in the asked order, a repeat answered once. `NodeNotFound` is the
    /// entry `not_found`; any other error the entry `error`. The outpoints
    /// from the one that does not fit on are left out (the asker names
    /// them again); a node larger than the whole budget is `over_budget`.
    pub async fn provide_foreign_gasp_nodes(
        &self,
        outpoints: &[crate::node_batch::BatchOutpoint],
    ) -> Result<crate::node_batch::NodeBatchAnswer, EngineError> {
        use crate::node_batch::{
            refusal, NodeBatchEntry, Packer, NODE_BATCH_MAX_BYTES, NODE_BATCH_MAX_OUTPOINTS,
        };
        if outpoints.len() > NODE_BATCH_MAX_OUTPOINTS {
            return Err(EngineError::InvalidQuery(format!(
                "a node batch names at most {NODE_BATCH_MAX_OUTPOINTS} outpoints"
            )));
        }
        let mut packer = Packer::new(NODE_BATCH_MAX_BYTES);
        let mut seen = std::collections::HashSet::new();
        for outpoint in outpoints {
            if !seen.insert(outpoint) {
                continue;
            }
            let graph_id = outpoint.key();
            let answer = self
                .provide_foreign_gasp_node(&graph_id, &outpoint.txid, outpoint.vout)
                .await;
            let (node, refused) = match answer {
                Ok(node) => (Some(node), None),
                Err(EngineError::NodeNotFound) => (None, Some(refusal::NOT_FOUND)),
                Err(_) => (None, Some(refusal::ERROR)),
            };
            if !packer.push(NodeBatchEntry {
                txid: outpoint.txid.clone(),
                vout: outpoint.vout,
                node,
                refused: refused.map(str::to_string),
            }) {
                break;
            }
        }
        Ok(packer.answer)
    }

    /// Recursively search a BEEF tree for a specific txid and return a GASPNode.
    fn hydrate_gasp_node<'a>(
        &'a self,
        output: &'a Output,
        graph_id: &'a str,
        txid: &'a str,
        output_index: u32,
    ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<GASPNode, EngineError>> + 'a>>
    {
        Box::pin(async move {
            let beef_data = output.beef.as_ref().ok_or(EngineError::NodeNotFound)?;

            // The stored body's SUBJECT by the same order-independent rule
            // (`subject.rs`) — a plain stored body's last tx can be an ancestor.
            let root = beef_limits::parse_beef(beef_data, &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS)
                .ok()
                .and_then(|mut b| crate::subject::subject_txid_of(&mut b));
            let root_tx = beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(
                beef_data,
                root.as_deref(),
                &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS,
            )
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::BeefParseError(e.to_string()))?;

            // Search the transaction tree for the requested txid
            if let Some(node) = Self::search_tx_tree(&root_tx, graph_id, txid, output_index) {
                return Ok(node);
            }

            // Fallback: try parsing BEEF with the target txid directly
            // (some BEEF structures have the tx in the list but not linked as source_transaction)
            if let Some(node) = Self::search_beef_for_txid(beef_data, graph_id, txid, output_index)
            {
                return Ok(node);
            }

            // Not found in BEEF tree — recurse through outputsConsumed in storage
            for consumed in &output.outputs_consumed {
                if let Ok(Some(consumed_output)) = self
                    .storage
                    .find_output(&consumed.txid, consumed.output_index, None, None, true)
                    .await
                {
                    if let Ok(node) = self
                        .hydrate_gasp_node(&consumed_output, graph_id, txid, output_index)
                        .await
                    {
                        return Ok(node);
                    }
                }
            }

            // The graph root is known but neither its BEEF nor anything it
            // consumed holds the requested transaction. That is a definite
            // "not held", the same answer as an unknown root: the reference
            // throws `Unable to find output associated with your request!`
            // here and its route answers 400. A syncing peer reads the 400 as
            // `GASPError::NodeNotFound` and prunes a decoy input on it (the D8
            // rule, `GASPSync::process_incoming_node`); a 500 would read as a
            // fault of the moment and strand the chain behind the decoy.
            Err(EngineError::NodeNotFound)
        })
    }

    /// Search a Transaction tree (via sourceTransaction links) for a specific txid.
    fn search_tx_tree(
        tx: &Transaction,
        graph_id: &str,
        target_txid: &str,
        output_index: u32,
    ) -> Option<GASPNode> {
        let current_txid = tx.id();

        if current_txid == target_txid {
            let mut node = GASPNode {
                graph_id: graph_id.to_string(),
                raw_tx: tx.to_hex(),
                output_index,
                proof: None,
                tx_metadata: None,
                output_metadata: None,
                inputs: None,
            };
            if let Some(ref merkle_path) = tx.merkle_path {
                node.proof = Some(merkle_path.to_hex());
            }
            return Some(node);
        }

        // Recurse into inputs via source_transaction
        for input in &tx.inputs {
            if let Some(ref source_tx) = input.source_transaction {
                if let Some(node) =
                    Self::search_tx_tree(source_tx, graph_id, target_txid, output_index)
                {
                    return Some(node);
                }
            }
        }

        None
    }

    /// Alternative search: try parsing the BEEF with the target txid directly.
    /// Some BEEF structures may not link source_transaction on inputs but
    /// still contain the transaction in the BEEF's transaction list.
    fn search_beef_for_txid(
        beef_data: &[u8],
        graph_id: &str,
        target_txid: &str,
        output_index: u32,
    ) -> Option<GASPNode> {
        // Try parsing BEEF with the specific txid
        if let Ok(tx) = beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(
            beef_data,
            Some(target_txid),
            &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS,
        ) {
            if tx.id() == target_txid {
                let mut node = GASPNode {
                    graph_id: graph_id.to_string(),
                    raw_tx: tx.to_hex(),
                    output_index,
                    proof: None,
                    tx_metadata: None,
                    output_metadata: None,
                    inputs: None,
                };
                if let Some(ref merkle_path) = tx.merkle_path {
                    node.proof = Some(merkle_path.to_hex());
                }
                return Some(node);
            }
        }
        None
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Merkle proof handling
    // ========================================================================

    /// Handle a new merkle proof for a transaction.
    ///
    /// When a transaction gets mined, ARC calls back with the merkle proof.
    /// This method:
    /// 1. Finds all outputs for the txid in storage
    /// 2. Parses the BEEF, updates the merkle path in the transaction tree
    /// 3. Serializes updated BEEF back to storage
    /// 4. Recursively updates the consumedBy chain (outputs that spent this one)
    /// 5. Updates blockHeight on the outputs
    pub async fn handle_new_merkle_proof(
        &self,
        txid: &str,
        proof_hex: &str,
        block_height: Option<u32>,
    ) -> Result<(), EngineError> {
        let outputs = self
            .storage
            .find_outputs_for_transaction(txid, true)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

        if outputs.is_empty() {
            return Err(EngineError::Other(
                "Could not find matching transaction outputs for proof ingest!".into(),
            ));
        }

        // Parse merkle proof if provided
        let proof = if proof_hex.is_empty() {
            None
        } else {
            Some(
                beef_limits::merkle_path_from_hex(proof_hex, beef_limits::PUSH_PROOF_MAX_BYTES)
                    .map_err(|e| EngineError::Other(format!("Invalid merkle proof hex: {e}")))?,
            )
        };

        for output in &outputs {
            // Stitch the proof into the STORED BEEF (#284) — never rebuild it
            // around a re-picked subject; see stitch_proof_into_stored_beef.
            if let (Some(ref beef_data), Some(ref proof)) = (&output.beef, &proof) {
                if let Some(new_beef) = Self::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(beef_data, txid, proof)
                {
                    let _ = self
                        .storage
                        .update_transaction_beef(&output.txid, &new_beef)
                        .await;
                }
            }

            // Update block height
            if let Some(height) = block_height {
                let _ = self
                    .storage
                    .update_output_block_height(
                        &output.txid,
                        output.output_index,
                        &output.topic,
                        height,
                    )
                    .await;
            }

            // Recursively update consumedBy chain
            for consuming in &output.consumed_by {
                if let Ok(consumed_outputs) = self
                    .storage
                    .find_outputs_for_transaction(&consuming.txid, true)
                    .await
                {
                    for consumed_output in &consumed_outputs {
                        // The consuming row's BEEF carries this tx as an
                        // ancestor — stitch the same bump in there too, again
                        // without rebuilding the tx set (#284: this branch is
                        // the one that was observed replacing a head-spend's
                        // stored BEEF with parent ancestry only).
                        if let (Some(ref beef_data), Some(ref proof)) =
                            (&consumed_output.beef, &proof)
                        {
                            if let Some(new_beef) =
                                Self::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(beef_data, txid, proof)
                            {
                                let _ = self
                                    .storage
                                    .update_transaction_beef(&consumed_output.txid, &new_beef)
                                    .await;
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        Ok(())
    }

    /// Complete missing merkle proofs for stored, confirmed transactions.
    ///
    /// The `/submit`-admitted ingest path stores a proofless BEEF for each
    /// transaction (the submitter does not yet have a merkle proof at submit
    /// time). When such a transaction later mines, nothing in the overlay
    /// re-fetches its proof, so its stored BEEF stays proofless forever — and a
    /// frontend that trims `inputBEEF` to `{source tx + its BUMP}` for a P2PKH
    /// payment-import spend has no BUMP to trim to, hanging the import (#130).
    ///
    /// This pass closes that gap from chain (the one blessed server-side WoC
    /// use). It:
    /// 1. Pulls a bounded page (`limit`) of stored `(txid, beef)` from storage.
    /// 2. Parses each BEEF and keeps only those whose target tx still lacks a
    ///    merkle proof (`Beef::find_txid(txid).has_proof() == false`).
    /// 3. For each proofless candidate, fetches its BUMP via the configured
    ///    [`AncestorFetcher`](crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher). If a proof comes
    ///    back, it calls [`Self::handle_new_merkle_proof`], which stitches the
    ///    BUMP into the stored BEEF (D1 + R2 mirror), updates output block
    ///    height, and recurses the `consumedBy` chain.
    /// 4. Skips (does NOT error) txs the fetcher can't prove yet (still
    ///    unconfirmed) — those are simply retried on a later tick.
    ///
    /// **No-op when no [`AncestorFetcher`] is configured** — production-safe
    /// default (the same opt-in switch as GASP ancestor hydration). Bounded by
    /// `limit` (a per-tick budget, like the platform fetcher's own budget).
    ///
    /// `min_age_secs` is the PUSH-PRIMARY BACKSTOP gate (bsv-low #228 /
    /// arcade#259): since the Arcade MINED webhook (`/arc-ingest`) pushes a
    /// verified proof ~150 ms after a tx mines, this poll pass is a BACKSTOP,
    /// not the primary source — rows stored less than `min_age_secs` ago are
    /// skipped entirely (their push is still expected). Pass `0` to disable
    /// the gate (poll everything — the pre-#228 behaviour, and the degradation
    /// mode if pushes stop: an old-enough row is ALWAYS polled, so webhook
    /// loss degrades to polling, never to nothing). Unknown-age rows are
    /// always eligible (fail-safe — see the storage-trait doc).
    pub async fn complete_missing_proofs(
        &self,
        limit: u64,
        min_age_secs: u64,
    ) -> Result<ProofCompletionSummary, EngineError> {
        let Some(fetcher) = self.ancestor_fetcher.as_deref() else {
            return Ok(ProofCompletionSummary::default());
        };
        self.complete_missing_proofs_with(fetcher, limit, min_age_secs)
            .await
    }

    /// Complete stored transactions using the caller's dedicated allowance.
    /// The engine's other passes retain their configured ancestor courier.
    pub async fn complete_missing_proofs_with(
        &self,
        fetcher: &dyn crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher,
        limit: u64,
        min_age_secs: u64,
    ) -> Result<ProofCompletionSummary, EngineError> {
        let mut summary = ProofCompletionSummary::default();

        let candidates = self
            .storage
            .find_transactions_for_proof_check(limit, min_age_secs)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        summary.scanned = candidates.len();

        for cand in candidates {
            summary.early_gasp += usize::from(cand.early_gasp);
            // Read the stored BEEF for the subject's OWN bump by streaming
            // folds (one element in hand, no `Beef` built: NL-6); skip
            // anything unparseable (don't error the whole pass on one bad row).
            let own_bump = match beef_limits::own_proof(&cand.beef, &cand.txid) {
                Ok(b) => b,
                Err(e) => {
                    warn!(txid = %cand.txid, error = %e, "[PROOF COMPLETION] unparseable BEEF, skipping");
                    continue;
                }
            };

            // Already structurally proven? The stored BEEF carries a merkle bump
            // for the target tx, but its backend `has_proof` flag may still be 0
            // — EITHER a legitimate GASP-synced proof written before overlay
            // migration 0010 (which defaulted every existing row to 0), OR an
            // admit-time bump that was NEVER SPV-verified (`/submit` skips SPV on
            // historical topics) or is outright forged. Serve-time BEEF trimming
            // trusts the `has_proof` flag, so latching one on STRUCTURE ALONE
            // would let a forged bump be trimmed on (#192/#193 MEDIUM). Re-verify
            // the STORED bump against chaintracks (via the fetcher — its header
            // source is the only arbiter of a merkle root). Genuine → latch
            // (fast, no re-fetch). Otherwise DON'T trust it: fall through to the
            // fetch+stitch path below, which overwrites the bump with a
            // chaintracks-verified one (or leaves the row proofless for retry).
            // Fail-closed throughout.
            // the tx's OWN bump (its `bump_index`), never `find_bump`
            // (the FIRST bump containing the txid — the stale one after a
            // same-height reorg; review HIGH-1).
            if let Some(bump_hex) = own_bump
                .as_ref()
                .map(bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath::to_hex)
            {
                if fetcher.verify_proof(&cand.txid, &bump_hex).await {
                    // Idempotent + best-effort: a failure here is logged, not
                    // fatal — the row simply lingers one more tick.
                    // bsv-low M19 R2 round 3 (review MED-2): latch WITH the
                    // anchor height (from the tx's OWN verified bump) so the
                    // revalidation sweep's transactions leg can window this
                    // row — `mark_transaction_proven` alone left every
                    // fast-path row anchorless, in no window forever.
                    let height = bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath::from_hex(&bump_hex)
                        .ok()
                        .map(|mp| u64::from(mp.block_height));
                    if let Err(e) = self
                        .storage
                        .mark_transaction_proven_at(&cand.txid, height)
                        .await
                    {
                        warn!(txid = %cand.txid, error = %e, "[PROOF COMPLETION] failed to mark verified-proven row");
                    } else {
                        summary.already_proven += 1;
                    }
                    continue;
                }
                warn!(txid = %cand.txid, "[PROOF COMPLETION] stored structural bump FAILED chaintracks re-verify — not trusting it, refetching");
            }
            // Unverifiable structural bump → treat as proofless (fall through).
            summary.proofless += 1;

            // Fetch this tx's own VERIFIED bump from chain — PROOF ONLY (the raw
            // is already in the stored BEEF, so no redundant raw fetch; #192/#193
            // FIX 2). A tx with no verified proof yet (still unconfirmed, or an
            // unverifiable/forged courier response) is skipped, not errored.
            let Some(proof_hex) = fetcher.verified_proof_for(&cand.txid).await else {
                summary.still_unconfirmed += 1;
                continue;
            };

            // Pull the block height out of the BUMP so the output rows update too.
            let block_height =
                beef_limits::merkle_path_from_hex(&proof_hex, beef_limits::COURIER_PROOF_MAX_BYTES)
                    .ok()
                    .map(|mp| mp.block_height);

            match self
                .handle_new_merkle_proof(&cand.txid, &proof_hex, block_height)
                .await
            {
                Ok(()) => summary.completed += 1,
                Err(e) => {
                    warn!(txid = %cand.txid, error = %e, "[PROOF COMPLETION] stitch failed");
                    summary.stitch_failed += 1;
                }
            }
        }

        info!(
            scanned = summary.scanned,
            proofless = summary.proofless,
            completed = summary.completed,
            still_unconfirmed = summary.still_unconfirmed,
            fetch_failed = summary.fetch_failed,
            stitch_failed = summary.stitch_failed,
            already_proven = summary.already_proven,
            early_gasp = summary.early_gasp,
            "[PROOF COMPLETION] pass complete"
        );

        Ok(summary)
    }

    /// Recursively update merkle paths in a transaction's input tree.
    ///
    /// If the transaction's id matches txid, set its merkle_path.
    /// Otherwise, recurse into sourceTransactions of each input.
    /// Stitch a verified BUMP for `txid` into a STORED BEEF, preserving every
    /// transaction and every other proof in it (#284).
    ///
    /// The old path round-tripped the stored bytes through
    /// `Transaction::from_beef(bytes, None)` -> `to_beef(true)`, and
    /// `from_beef(_, None)` picks **`txs.last()`** — it ignores the atomic
    /// subject pointer entirely. Whenever the subject was not the last tx in
    /// wire order, a PARENT was picked, `to_beef(true)` then serialized that
    /// parent's world, and the rewrite dropped the subject transaction from its
    /// own stored BEEF — observed live on every pf head-spend (list / reprice /
    /// delist / buy) the moment it mined, breaking the NEXT spend on that name
    /// (zanaadu#284). `update_input_proofs`' "already has a proof — update it"
    /// arm could even stamp the child's bump onto that mis-picked parent.
    /// This is the same destroy-the-stored-BEEF class the #4 fix note above
    /// (`hydrate_utxo_history`) already documents for lookup hydration.
    ///
    /// Operating on [`Beef`] directly has none of those failure modes:
    /// `merge_bump` dedupes against existing bumps by (height, root) and
    /// assigns the bump ONLY to transactions that appear as flagged txid
    /// leaves, so stitching tx X's proof can never mislabel tx Y, and the tx
    /// set is never rebuilt at all.
    ///
    /// Returns `None` when the bytes do not parse or `txid` is not in this
    /// BEEF (nothing to stitch — e.g. a consuming row whose ancestry got
    /// trimmed), so callers skip the write instead of writing garbage.
    ///
    /// bsv-low M19 R2 round 3 (review HIGH-1): a same-height DIFFERENT-root
    /// proof (the 2026-09-07 reorg shape) does NOT combine in `merge_bump`
    /// (the roots differ) — it is pushed as a SECOND bump, and
    /// `update_bump_indices` assigns it only to txs whose `bump_index` is
    /// `None`, so the reorged subject keeps its index on the STALE bump.
    /// Left alone, `has_proof`/`proofHeight` and every `find_txid(txid)
    /// .bump_index()` reader then keep pointing at the orphan bump, and the
    /// row refutes again next sweep pass forever. So after the merge, FORCE
    /// the subject onto the bump that actually proves it, then drop any bump
    /// no transaction references (the orphan's, now unreferenced).
    pub fn stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(
        stored: &[u8],
        txid: &str,
        proof: &bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath,
    ) -> Option<Vec<u8>> {
        let mut beef = beef_limits::parse_beef(stored, &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS).ok()?;
        beef.find_txid(txid)?;
        let i = beef.merge_bump(proof.clone());
        // Does the merged bump actually prove `txid` (a flagged txid leaf)?
        // (It always does for a completion proof; the guard keeps a stray
        // caller from mis-anchoring a subject onto an ancestor's bump.)
        let proves_subject = beef.bumps.get(i).is_some_and(|b| {
            b.path.first().is_some_and(|leaves| {
                leaves
                    .iter()
                    .any(|l| l.txid && l.hash.as_deref() == Some(txid))
            })
        });
        if proves_subject {
            if let Some(tx) = beef.find_txid_mut(txid) {
                tx.set_bump_index(Some(i));
            }
        }
        Self::gc_unreferenced_bumps(&mut beef);
        Some(beef.to_binary())
    }

    /// Drop every BUMP no transaction references and re-index the survivors
    /// (bsv-low M19 R2 round 3, review HIGH-1): after the subject is moved
    /// off an orphan bump, that bump is usually dead weight the next reader
    /// would still `find_bump`. A bump still referenced by ANOTHER tx (a
    /// sibling mined in the same block) is kept.
    fn gc_unreferenced_bumps(beef: &mut bsv_rs::transaction::Beef) {
        let referenced: std::collections::HashSet<usize> = beef
            .txs
            .iter()
            .filter_map(bsv_rs::transaction::BeefTx::bump_index)
            .collect();
        if referenced.len() == beef.bumps.len() {
            return;
        }
        let mut remap: Vec<Option<usize>> = vec![None; beef.bumps.len()];
        let mut kept = Vec::with_capacity(referenced.len());
        for (old, bump) in std::mem::take(&mut beef.bumps).into_iter().enumerate() {
            if referenced.contains(&old) {
                remap[old] = Some(kept.len());
                kept.push(bump);
            }
        }
        beef.bumps = kept;
        for tx in &mut beef.txs {
            if let Some(old) = tx.bump_index() {
                tx.set_bump_index(remap[old]);
            }
        }
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Advertisement sync
    // ========================================================================

    /// Sync SHIP/SLAP advertisements with configured managers and services.
    ///
    /// Creates missing advertisements and revokes stale ones. Returns a
    /// [`SyncAdvertisementsReport`] so a create/submit failure is VISIBLE to
    /// the caller (bsv-low #320 defect 3a): this method used to swallow both
    /// into `error!` and return `Ok(())`, so `/admin/syncAdvertisements`
    /// reported `success` while zero advertisements were admitted locally —
    /// a caller could not tell a converged no-op from a silent failure, and
    /// every cycle re-created the full ad set.
    pub async fn sync_advertisements(&self) -> Result<SyncAdvertisementsReport, EngineError> {
        let mut report = SyncAdvertisementsReport::default();

        let Some(advertiser) = &self.advertiser else {
            return Ok(report); // No advertiser configured
        };

        let hosting_url = match &self.config.hosting_url {
            Some(url) if !url.is_empty() => url.clone(),
            _ => return Ok(report), // No hosting URL
        };

        // Get configured topics and services
        let mut configured_topics: Vec<String> = self.managers.keys().cloned().collect();
        let mut configured_services: Vec<String> = self.lookup_services.keys().cloned().collect();

        if self.config.suppress_default_sync_advertisements {
            configured_topics.retain(|t| t != "tm_ship" && t != "tm_slap");
            configured_services.retain(|s| s != "ls_ship" && s != "ls_slap");
        }

        // Fetch current advertisements. A read failure REFUSES creation
        // (#320 M2): swallowing it into "current ads = none" made a
        // transient D1/storage fault re-create — and re-pay for — the
        // entire advertisement set, reported as a legitimate `to_create`.
        let current_ship = match advertiser.find_all_advertisements(Protocol::Ship).await {
            Ok(ads) => ads,
            Err(e) => {
                error!("Failed to read current SHIP advertisements — refusing to create: {e}");
                report.lookup_error = Some(format!("ship: {e}"));
                return Ok(report);
            }
        };
        let current_slap = match advertiser.find_all_advertisements(Protocol::Slap).await {
            Ok(ads) => ads,
            Err(e) => {
                error!("Failed to read current SLAP advertisements — refusing to create: {e}");
                report.lookup_error = Some(format!("slap: {e}"));
                return Ok(report);
            }
        };

        // Determine what to create
        let ships_to_create: Vec<AdvertisementData> = configured_topics
            .iter()
            .filter(|topic| {
                !current_ship
                    .iter()
                    .any(|a| a.topic_or_service == **topic && a.domain == hosting_url)
            })
            .map(|topic| AdvertisementData {
                protocol: Protocol::Ship,
                topic_or_service_name: topic.clone(),
            })
            .collect();

        let slaps_to_create: Vec<AdvertisementData> = configured_services
            .iter()
            .filter(|service| {
                !current_slap
                    .iter()
                    .any(|a| a.topic_or_service == **service && a.domain == hosting_url)
            })
            .map(|service| AdvertisementData {
                protocol: Protocol::Slap,
                topic_or_service_name: service.clone(),
            })
            .collect();

        // Determine what to revoke
        let ships_to_revoke: Vec<Advertisement> = current_ship
            .into_iter()
            .filter(|a| !configured_topics.contains(&a.topic_or_service))
            .collect();

        let slaps_to_revoke: Vec<Advertisement> = current_slap
            .into_iter()
            .filter(|a| !configured_services.contains(&a.topic_or_service))
            .collect();

        // Create new advertisements
        let mut all_to_create = ships_to_create;
        all_to_create.extend(slaps_to_create);
        report.to_create = all_to_create.len();
        if !all_to_create.is_empty() {
            match advertiser.create_advertisements(&all_to_create).await {
                Ok(tagged_beef) => match self.submit(&tagged_beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await {
                    Ok(steak) => {
                        for (topic, instructions) in &steak {
                            report
                                .admitted
                                .insert(topic.clone(), instructions.outputs_to_admit.len());
                        }
                    }
                    Err(e) => {
                        error!("Failed to submit new advertisements: {e}");
                        report.submit_error = Some(e.to_string());
                    }
                },
                Err(e) => {
                    error!("Failed to create advertisements: {e}");
                    report.create_error = Some(e.to_string());
                }
            }
        }

        // Revoke stale advertisements
        let mut all_to_revoke = ships_to_revoke;
        all_to_revoke.extend(slaps_to_revoke);
        report.to_revoke = all_to_revoke.len();
        if !all_to_revoke.is_empty() {
            match advertiser.revoke_advertisements(&all_to_revoke).await {
                // An advertiser that declines to build a revocation (e.g. the
                // CF advertiser's documented v1 no-op) returns an EMPTY
                // TaggedBEEF — submitting it would only manufacture a parse
                // error. Skip, but say so in the report (#320 L2): the stale
                // ads stay on-chain until they age out.
                Ok(tagged_beef) if tagged_beef.topics.is_empty() => {
                    report.revoke_skipped = all_to_revoke.len();
                }
                Ok(tagged_beef) => {
                    if let Err(e) = self.submit(&tagged_beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await {
                        error!("Failed to submit revocation: {e}");
                        report.revoke_submit_error = Some(e.to_string());
                    }
                }
                Err(e) => {
                    error!("Failed to revoke advertisements: {e}");
                    report.revoke_error = Some(e.to_string());
                }
            }
        }

        Ok(report)
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Deep deletion
    // ========================================================================

    /// Recursively delete a UTXO and all stale consumed inputs.
    ///
    /// Only deletes if the output has no remaining consumers (consumedBy is empty).
    /// Then recurses into outputsConsumed, removing the deleted output from their
    /// consumedBy lists and deleting them if they become unreferenced.
    #[allow(dead_code)] // Used by submit() once BEEF parsing is wired up
    ///
    /// `bound` is a finalize submit's [`CallBound`] over each call here
    /// (bsv-low #559); `None` everywhere else.
    fn delete_utxo_deep<'a>(
        &'a self,
        output: &'a Output,
        bound: Option<&'a CallBound>,
    ) -> std::pin::Pin<Box<dyn std::future::Future<Output = Result<(), EngineError>> + 'a>> {
        Box::pin(async move {
            // Only delete if nothing consumes this output
            if output.consumed_by.is_empty() {
                stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage
                        .delete_output(&output.txid, output.output_index, &output.topic),
                )
                .await
                .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

                // Notify lookup services. A hook error is dropped, not
                // reported (parity: the reference catches it, best effort).
                for ls in self.lookup_services.values() {
                    let _ = hooked(
                        bound,
                        ls.output_no_longer_retained_in_history(
                            &output.txid,
                            output.output_index,
                            &output.topic,
                        ),
                    )
                    .await;
                }
            }

            // Recurse into consumed outputs
            for consumed in &output.outputs_consumed {
                if let Ok(Some(mut stale_output)) = stored(
                    bound,
                    self.storage.find_output(
                        &consumed.txid,
                        consumed.output_index,
                        Some(&output.topic),
                        None,
                        false,
                    ),
                )
                .await
                {
                    // Remove the deleted output from consumedBy
                    stale_output.consumed_by.retain(|c| {
                        !(c.txid == output.txid && c.output_index == output.output_index)
                    });

                    stored(
                        bound,
                        self.storage.update_consumed_by(
                            &consumed.txid,
                            consumed.output_index,
                            &output.topic,
                            &stale_output.consumed_by,
                        ),
                    )
                    .await
                    .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

                    // Recurse
                    let _ = self.delete_utxo_deep(&stale_output, bound).await;
                }
            }

            Ok(())
        }) // Box::pin
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Eviction
    // ========================================================================

    /// Evict a specific outpoint from the overlay.
    ///
    /// 1. Deletes the output from storage for the given topic.
    /// 2. Notifies all lookup services via `output_evicted()`.
    ///
    /// If no topic is specified, finds all outputs for the txid and evicts the
    /// matching outputIndex across every topic.
    ///
    /// Matches TS OverlayExpress `/admin/evictOutpoint` (lines 974-1004).
    /// bsv-low PLAN-PRE-LOOP4 §H4 (2026-09-06): RE-NOTIFY every lookup service
    /// of the outputs the engine ALREADY admitted for (`txid`, `topic`).
    ///
    /// Phase-1 dedup means a (txid, topic) once recorded in
    /// `applied_transactions` never re-enters through `/submit`, so a lookup
    /// service that missed — or mis-parsed — its admit notification could
    /// never be told again (the loop-2 subject trap: the pot index's admit
    /// hook shape-checked a wire-last hop and wrote no record while the engine
    /// had admitted the pot). This replays `output_admitted_by_topic` from the
    /// engine's OWN stored outputs (with their BEEF) and the subject-NAMED body
    /// exactly as `submit_with_report` sends it. It validates nothing anew
    /// (the topic manager judged these outputs at admit), writes none of the
    /// engine's tables, and is idempotent for every lookup service whose
    /// writes are (the pot index's `store_record` is insert-if-absent for the
    /// spend fields — re-admission never regresses spend state).
    /// `outputs == 0` means the engine never admitted this txid on this topic:
    /// nothing to re-notify — the caller re-SUBMITS instead.
    pub async fn renotify_admitted(
        &self,
        txid: &str,
        topic: &str,
    ) -> Result<RenotifyReport, EngineError> {
        let txid = txid.to_ascii_lowercase();
        let outputs = self
            .storage
            .find_outputs_for_transaction(&txid, true)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        let mut report = RenotifyReport::default();
        for output in outputs.iter().filter(|o| o.topic == topic) {
            report.outputs += 1;
            report.vouts.push(output.output_index);
            // the body every WholeTx service receives NAMES the subject (BRC-95
            // atomic prefix) — the same rule as the live submit path
            let subject_named: Option<Vec<u8>> = output.beef.as_ref().map(|beef| {
                beef_limits::parse_beef(beef, &beef_limits::STORED_BEEF_LIMITS)
                    .ok()
                    .and_then(|mut b| b.to_binary_atomic(&txid).ok())
                    .unwrap_or_else(|| beef.clone())
            });
            for (name, ls) in &self.lookup_services {
                let payload = match ls.admission_mode() {
                    AdmissionMode::LockingScript => OutputAdmittedByTopic::LockingScript {
                        txid: txid.clone(),
                        output_index: output.output_index,
                        topic: topic.to_string(),
                        satoshis: output.satoshis,
                        locking_script: output.output_script.clone(),
                        off_chain_values: None,
                    },
                    AdmissionMode::WholeTx => {
                        let Some(atomic_beef) = subject_named.as_ref() else {
                            report.faults.push(format!(
                                "{name}: {txid}:{} is stored without its BEEF — a WholeTx service cannot be re-notified",
                                output.output_index
                            ));
                            continue;
                        };
                        OutputAdmittedByTopic::WholeTx {
                            atomic_beef: atomic_beef.clone(),
                            output_index: output.output_index,
                            topic: topic.to_string(),
                            off_chain_values: None,
                        }
                    }
                };
                match ls.output_admitted_by_topic(&payload).await {
                    Ok(()) => report.notified += 1,
                    Err(e) => report.faults.push(format!("{name}: {e}")),
                }
            }
        }
        Ok(report)
    }

    /// bsv-low PLAN-PRE-LOOP4 §H4 (2026-09-06): FORGET a PHANTOM applied row —
    /// (txid, topic) recorded in `applied_transactions` while the topic holds
    /// NO output of that txid (the engine judged the tx and admitted nothing:
    /// the loop-2 JOIN `f9e85aab…` under the pre-D5 subject rule). Such a row
    /// does nothing but block a correct re-submit through the Phase-1 dedup
    /// (`/admin/readmit` on beta answered `deduped: ["tm_pot_beta"]` and the
    /// pot stayed `known:false`). A row with ANY stored output on the topic is
    /// a real admission and is never touched (returns false, as does a missing
    /// row). The forgotten bytes are then re-VALIDATED by the topic manager
    /// like any first submit — nothing is admitted here.
    pub async fn forget_phantom_applied(
        &self,
        txid: &str,
        topic: &str,
    ) -> Result<bool, EngineError> {
        let txid = txid.to_ascii_lowercase();
        let outputs = self
            .storage
            .find_outputs_for_transaction(&txid, false)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        if outputs.iter().any(|o| o.topic == topic) {
            return Ok(false);
        }
        let rec = AppliedTransaction {
            txid: txid.clone(),
            topic: topic.to_string(),
        };
        let exists = self
            .storage
            .does_applied_transaction_exist(&rec)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        if !exists {
            return Ok(false);
        }
        self.storage
            .delete_applied_transaction(&rec)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        Ok(true)
    }

    pub async fn evict_output(
        &self,
        txid: &str,
        output_index: u32,
        topic: Option<&str>,
    ) -> Result<(), EngineError> {
        if let Some(topic) = topic {
            // Delete from storage
            self.storage
                .delete_output(txid, output_index, topic)
                .await
                .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

            // Notify all lookup services
            for ls in self.lookup_services.values() {
                let _ = ls.output_evicted(txid, output_index).await;
            }
        } else {
            // No topic specified — find all outputs for this txid and evict matching ones
            let outputs = self
                .storage
                .find_outputs_for_transaction(txid, false)
                .await
                .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;

            for output in &outputs {
                if output.output_index == output_index {
                    self.storage
                        .delete_output(txid, output_index, &output.topic)
                        .await
                        .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
                }
            }

            // Notify all lookup services once
            for ls in self.lookup_services.values() {
                let _ = ls.output_evicted(txid, output_index).await;
            }
        }

        Ok(())
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // GASP sync
    // ========================================================================

    /// Start GASP synchronization with peers for all configured topics.
    ///
    /// For each topic in `sync_configuration`:
    /// - `SyncTarget::Ship`: unions local SHIP records, network discovery via
    ///   configured SLAP trackers, and the topic's bootstrap peers.
    /// - `SyncTarget::Peers(urls)` — uses the provided peer URLs directly.
    /// - `SyncTarget::Disabled` — skips the topic.
    ///
    /// Filters out our own `hosting_url` to avoid self-sync.
    ///
    /// Returns a `GASPSyncResult` summarizing discovered peers per topic.
    ///
    /// Discovers peers for each configured topic and runs GASP sync with each.
    ///
    /// When a `GASPRemoteFactory` is set (via `set_gasp_remote_factory`), this
    /// method creates `OverlayGASPStorage` + `GASPRemote` instances per
    /// (topic, peer) pair and runs `GASPSync::sync()` to exchange UTXOs.
    ///
    /// Without a factory, peer discovery still runs but no actual sync occurs
    /// (backwards-compatible with the previous discovery-only behavior).
    pub async fn start_gasp_sync(&self) -> Result<GASPSyncResult, EngineError> {
        self.start_gasp_sync_filtered(&crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::default())
            .await
    }

    /// Run selected topic/peer pairs; explicit peers bypass network discovery.
    pub async fn start_gasp_sync_filtered(
        &self,
        filter: &crate::sync_load::SyncFilter,
    ) -> Result<GASPSyncResult, EngineError> {
        let meter = crate::meter::LoadMeter::default();
        self.start_gasp_sync_metered(filter, &meter).await
    }

    /// A caller holding the meter can read partial costs after cancellation.
    pub async fn start_gasp_sync_metered(
        &self,
        filter: &crate::sync_load::SyncFilter,
        meter: &crate::meter::LoadMeter,
    ) -> Result<GASPSyncResult, EngineError> {
        let run = self.gasp_run();
        meter.scope(self.run_gasp_sync(filter, &run, None)).await
    }

    fn gasp_run(&self) -> crate::backfill::Run {
        crate::backfill::Run::new(
            self.gasp_ancestor_fetcher
                .as_ref()
                .or(self.ancestor_fetcher.as_ref())
                .cloned(),
        )
    }

    /// Walk one selected pair, checkpointing on wall, request or progress bounds.
    /// The continuation never supplies a cursor to storage or to the remote.
    pub async fn start_gasp_backfill_metered(
        &self,
        request: &crate::backfill::SyncRequest,
        meter: &crate::meter::LoadMeter,
    ) -> Result<crate::backfill::BackfillResult, EngineError> {
        use crate::backfill::{
            BackfillResult, Continuation, Control, BACKFILL_MAX_SLICES, BACKFILL_REQUEST_MS,
        };
        request.validate().map_err(EngineError::InvalidQuery)?;
        let (topic, peer) = request.pair().map_err(EngineError::InvalidQuery)?;
        if request.until.is_none() || self.peer_sync_budget.is_none() || self.graph_budget.is_none()
        {
            return Err(EngineError::InvalidQuery(
                "backfill requires until: tip and peer/graph bounds".into(),
            ));
        }
        if self.gasp_remote_factory.is_none()
            || !matches!(
                self.config.sync_configuration.get(topic),
                Some(SyncTarget::Ship | SyncTarget::Peers(_))
            )
        {
            return Err(EngineError::InvalidQuery(
                "backfill topic is not enabled for sync".into(),
            ));
        }
        meter
            .scope(async {
                let initial = self.storage.get_last_interaction(peer, topic).await?;
                if let Some(token) = &request.continuation {
                    let token = Continuation::decode(token).map_err(EngineError::InvalidQuery)?;
                    if token.cursor > initial {
                        return Err(EngineError::InvalidQuery(
                            "continuation is ahead of the durable cursor".into(),
                        ));
                    }
                }
                let filter = request.filter();
                let run = self.gasp_run();
                let control = Control {
                    meter: meter.clone(),
                    budget_ms: request.budget_ms.unwrap_or(0).min(BACKFILL_REQUEST_MS),
                };
                let mut result = BackfillResult {
                    sync: GASPSyncResult {
                        filter: filter.clone(),
                        ..GASPSyncResult::default()
                    },
                    slices: 0,
                    reached_tip: false,
                    stop_reason: "slice_allowance".into(),
                    continuation: None,
                };
                let mut previous_cursor = initial;
                for _ in 0..BACKFILL_MAX_SLICES {
                    if let Some(reason) = control.stop_reason() {
                        result.stop_reason = reason.into();
                        break;
                    }
                    // Boxed: the slice's sync is the largest future here
                    // (clippy's `large_futures`, past its bound since the
                    // run's batch memo of engine 0.2.1).
                    let slice = Box::pin(self.run_gasp_sync(&filter, &run, Some(&control))).await?;
                    let topic_result = slice.topics_synced.get(topic).ok_or_else(|| {
                        EngineError::InvalidQuery("backfill selection matched no topic".into())
                    })?;
                    if !topic_result.peers.iter().any(|p| p == peer) {
                        return Err(EngineError::InvalidQuery(
                            "backfill selection matched no peer".into(),
                        ));
                    }
                    let summary = topic_result.peer_results.get(peer).cloned();
                    let waiting = !topic_result.peers_skipped.is_empty();
                    result.sync.append_slice(slice);
                    if let Some(summary) = summary {
                        result.slices += summary.slices;
                        if summary.reached_tip {
                            result.reached_tip = true;
                            result.stop_reason = "tip".into();
                            break;
                        }
                        if let Some(reason) = control.stop_reason() {
                            result.stop_reason = reason.into();
                            break;
                        }
                        if summary.cursor <= previous_cursor {
                            result.stop_reason = "no_progress".into();
                            break;
                        }
                        previous_cursor = summary.cursor;
                    } else {
                        result.stop_reason =
                            if waiting { "peer_wait" } else { "no_progress" }.into();
                        break;
                    }
                }
                let cursor = self.storage.get_last_interaction(peer, topic).await?;
                if !result.reached_tip {
                    result.continuation = Some(Continuation::new(topic, peer, cursor).encode());
                }
                result.sync.cost = meter.snapshot();
                Ok(result)
            })
            .await
    }

    async fn run_gasp_sync(
        &self,
        filter: &crate::sync_load::SyncFilter,
        run: &crate::backfill::Run,
        control: Option<&crate::backfill::Control>,
    ) -> Result<GASPSyncResult, EngineError> {
        use crate::gasp::{GASPSync, ENGINE_GASP_SYNC_PAGE_LIMIT};
        use crate::gasp_overlay::OverlayGASPStorage;

        if self.config.sync_configuration.is_empty() {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] No sync configuration — nothing to sync");
            return Ok(GASPSyncResult {
                cost: crate::meter::SyncCost::default(),
                topics_synced: HashMap::new(),
                filter: filter.clone(),
                topics_filtered: Vec::new(),
            });
        }

        let sync_fetcher = &run.fetcher;
        let mut topics_synced: HashMap<String, TopicSyncResult> = HashMap::new();
        // Resolve SLAP providers once per invocation, sharing their host cap
        // across all SHIP topics. Every topic still queries each lookup host.
        let mut ship_lookup_hosts = None;
        let mut topic_order = sync_order(&self.config.sync_configuration);
        // Explicit bootstrap-backed SHIP topics run ahead of large tracker
        // imports. Stable sorting preserves the existing order elsewhere.
        topic_order.sort_by_key(|(topic, target)| {
            !(matches!(target, SyncTarget::Ship)
                && self
                    .ship_bootstrap_peers
                    .get(topic.as_str())
                    .is_some_and(|peers| !peers.is_empty()))
        });

        let mut topics_filtered = Vec::new();
        for (topic, target) in topic_order {
            if filter
                .topics
                .as_ref()
                .is_some_and(|names| !names.contains(topic))
            {
                topics_filtered.push(topic.clone());
                continue;
            }
            let cost_before = crate::meter::snapshot();
            // A CONFIGURED topic's peers are reserved part of a storage's
            // deferred-graph ceiling (bsv-low #555, the delta-2 fold's D2-M2).
            let configured_peers = matches!(target, SyncTarget::Peers(_));
            let (peers, sync_type) = match target {
                SyncTarget::Disabled => {
                    info!("[GASP SYNC] Topic {topic} is disabled — skipping");
                    continue;
                }
                SyncTarget::Ship => {
                    info!("[GASP SYNC] Topic {topic} configured for SHIP discovery");
                    let peers = if let Some(peers) = &filter.peers {
                        self.ship_peers_excluding_self(peers.clone())
                    } else {
                        self.discover_ship_peers(topic, &mut ship_lookup_hosts)
                            .await
                    };
                    info!(
                        "[GASP SYNC] Discovered {} peer(s) for topic {topic}",
                        peers.len()
                    );
                    (peers, "ship".to_string())
                }
                SyncTarget::Peers(peer_urls) => {
                    info!(
                        "[GASP SYNC] Topic {topic} configured with {} hardcoded peer(s)",
                        peer_urls.len()
                    );
                    let peers: Vec<String> = peer_urls
                        .iter()
                        .filter(|url| {
                            if let Some(ref our_url) = self.config.hosting_url {
                                url.trim_end_matches('/') != our_url.trim_end_matches('/')
                            } else {
                                true
                            }
                        })
                        .cloned()
                        .collect();

                    info!(
                        "[GASP SYNC] {} peer(s) for topic {topic} after self-filtering",
                        peers.len()
                    );
                    (peers, "peers".to_string())
                }
            };

            let (peers, peers_filtered): (Vec<_>, Vec<_>) = peers.into_iter().partition(|peer| {
                filter
                    .peers
                    .as_ref()
                    .is_none_or(|names| names.contains(peer))
            });
            let mut peers_skipped = Vec::new();
            let advertisements = self.peer_advertisement_versions(topic).await;
            let mut errors = Vec::new();
            let mut pruned_inputs: u64 = 0;
            let mut discarded_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut expired_refused: u64 = 0;
            let mut roots_proven = 0;
            let mut roots_unproven = 0;
            let mut cursor_held_by = Vec::new();
            let expired = run.expired(topic);
            let mut peer_results = HashMap::new();
            let mut anchor_walk_held_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut finalized_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut deadline_dropped_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut cursor_moves: Vec<CursorMove> = Vec::new();
            let mut deferred_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut resumed_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut converged_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut dropped_graphs: Vec<DroppedDeferral> = Vec::new();
            let mut stalled_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut held_back_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut dead_graphs = 0;
            let mut expired_swept = 0;
            let mut memo_folded = 0;
            let mut unanchorable_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut unanchorable_cleared: u64 = 0;
            let mut absent_struck: u64 = 0;
            let mut route_faults: Vec<crate::route_fault::RouteFaultSeen> = Vec::new();
            let mut strikes_refused: u64 = 0;
            let mut backed_off_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut waiting_graphs: u64 = 0;
            let mut idle_counted: u64 = 0;
            let mut root_bounds = Vec::new();
            let mut faulted_roots: Vec<crate::gasp::FaultedRoot> = Vec::new();

            // If we have a remote factory, actually run GASP sync
            if let Some(ref factory) = self.gasp_remote_factory {
                for peer_url in &peers {
                    // bsv-low#302 quarantine gate: a peer at
                    // PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD consecutive failures is
                    // SKIPPED (no attempt recorded — its last-attempt age
                    // keeps growing) until the re-probe window opens. A
                    // health-read FAULT treats the peer as healthy: broken
                    // bookkeeping must never silence a live peer.
                    //
                    // The peer's health (its quarantine, its yieldless
                    // streak) is keyed on its NORMALIZED ORIGIN (bsv-low
                    // #555, the delta-2 fold's D2-M2): keyed on the URL, one
                    // server was a fresh peer for every spelling it
                    // advertised.
                    let health_key = crate::gasp::peer_origin(peer_url);
                    let health = self
                        .storage
                        .get_peer_sync_health(&health_key, topic)
                        .await
                        .unwrap_or_default();
                    if crate::gasp::peer_sync_quarantined(&health) {
                        peers_skipped.push(crate::sync_load::SkippedPeer {
                            peer: peer_url.clone(),
                            reason: "quarantine".into(),
                            retry_after_secs: crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_REPROBE_SECS
                                .saturating_sub(health.secs_since_last_attempt.unwrap_or(0)),
                        });
                        warn!(
                            "[GASP SYNC] Peer {peer_url} for {topic} QUARANTINED ({} consecutive failed syncs, last attempt {:?}s ago) — skipped until the {}s re-probe window (bsv-low#302)",
                            health.consecutive_failures,
                            health.secs_since_last_attempt,
                            crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_REPROBE_SECS
                        );
                        continue;
                    }

                    let cadence = self
                        .storage
                        .get_peer_cadence(&health_key, topic)
                        .await
                        .unwrap_or_default();
                    let advertisement =
                        advertisements.get(&health_key).cloned().unwrap_or_default();
                    let reset_cadence = filter.explicit() || cadence.advertisement != advertisement;
                    if !reset_cadence && cadence.retry_after_secs > 0 {
                        peers_skipped.push(crate::sync_load::SkippedPeer {
                            peer: peer_url.clone(),
                            reason: "no_yield".into(),
                            retry_after_secs: cadence.retry_after_secs,
                        });
                        continue;
                    }

                    let peer_cost_before = crate::meter::snapshot();
                    info!("[GASP SYNC] Syncing topic {topic} with peer {peer_url}");

                    // Get last interaction score for this (peer, topic) pair
                    let last_interaction = self
                        .storage
                        .get_last_interaction(peer_url, topic)
                        .await
                        .unwrap_or(0);

                    // Create shared sink for finalized graphs
                    let sink = crate::gasp_overlay::new_finalized_graph_sink();

                    // OPT-IN ancestor hydration: only when a fetcher is
                    // configured do we enable chain-backed ancestor fallback +
                    // strict-BEEF finalize. Default (None) = byte-identical to
                    // today (tolerant BEEF, peer errors abandon the graph;
                    // the one exception is the D8 prune of a manager-named
                    // input the peer answers it does not hold, which exists
                    // only WITHOUT a fetcher, see
                    // `GASPSync::process_incoming_node`).
                    let hydration_on = sync_fetcher.is_some();

                    // Create storage adapter and remote
                    let mut gasp_storage =
                        OverlayGASPStorage::new(self.storage.as_ref(), topic, sink.clone())
                            .with_peer(peer_url.as_str())
                            .with_configured_peer(configured_peers)
                            .with_strict_beef(hydration_on)
                            .with_script_verification(self.verify_scripts)
                            .with_walk_budget(self.walk_budget);
                    if let Some(manager) = self.managers.get(topic) {
                        gasp_storage = gasp_storage.with_topic_manager(manager.as_ref());
                    }
                    // bsv-low #551: the anchor check verifies each graph's
                    // root against THIS engine's tracker, with this engine's
                    // script switch, before finalize. No tracker is the
                    // reference's 'scripts only'.
                    if let Some(tracker) = self.chain_tracker.as_deref() {
                        gasp_storage = gasp_storage.with_chain_tracker(tracker);
                    }
                    let gasp_remote = Box::new(crate::load_remote::MeteredRemote(
                        factory.create_remote(peer_url, topic),
                    ));

                    let log_prefix = format!("[GASP {topic} <-> {peer_url}]");
                    // Graphs of this peer handed to submit (bsv-low #552).
                    let peer_finalized = std::cell::Cell::new(0u64);
                    // Engine 0.2.2: this peer's page buffer (`page_batch`).
                    let page = match &self.finalize_submit_budget {
                        Some((sleep, budget_ms)) => crate::page_batch::PageBuffer::default()
                            .with_bound(sleep.clone(), *budget_ms),
                        None => crate::page_batch::PageBuffer::default(),
                    };
                    let mut sync = GASPSync::new(
                        Box::new(gasp_storage),
                        gasp_remote,
                        last_interaction,
                        &log_prefix,
                        true, // unidirectional — overlay GASP is pull-only (submitNode throws); matches TS Engine.startGASPSync
                    )
                    .with_ancestor_fetcher(sync_fetcher.clone())
                    .with_expired_outpoints(std::rc::Rc::clone(&expired))
                    .with_batch_memo(run.single_only(peer_url));
                    if let Some(control) = control {
                        let control = control.clone();
                        sync = sync.with_page_slice(std::rc::Rc::new(move || {
                            control.stop_reason().is_some()
                        }));
                    }
                    // bsv-low #555: a graph past its own budget is deferred,
                    // not dropped with the sync.
                    if let Some((sleep, max_calls, budget_ms)) = &self.graph_budget {
                        let (sleep, budget_ms) =
                            (sleep.clone(), (*budget_ms).min(crate::meter::ROOT_MAX_MS));
                        let half_sleep = sleep.clone();
                        let share_sleep = sleep.clone();
                        sync = sync.with_graph_budget(crate::gasp::GraphBudget {
                            max_calls: *max_calls,
                            max_bytes_fetched: self.graph_budget_limbs.0,
                            max_nodes: self.graph_budget_limbs.1,
                            deadline: Box::new(move || sleep(budget_ms)),
                            half_deadline: Some(Box::new(move || half_sleep(budget_ms / 2))),
                        });
                        // Engine 0.1.11: the resumes take a named share of
                        // the per-peer slice, the rest is the page's.
                        if let Some((_, peer_ms)) = &self.peer_sync_budget {
                            let share_ms = crate::gasp::resume_share_ms(*peer_ms, budget_ms);
                            sync = sync.with_resume_share(Box::new(move || share_sleep(share_ms)));
                        }
                    }
                    // bsv-low #552: under a budget each graph is submitted as
                    // it finalizes, so the deadline cannot take it back. With
                    // no budget nothing can drop the sync, and the graphs are
                    // submitted after it as they always were.
                    if self.peer_sync_budget.is_some() {
                        sync = sync.with_finalized_graph_hook(Box::new(SubmitAsFinalized {
                            engine: self,
                            sink: sink.clone(),
                            peer_url,
                            topic,
                            submitted: &peer_finalized,
                        }));
                    }

                    // bsv-low#302: bound THIS peer's sync to the configured
                    // budget. `None` from the race = the budget won and the
                    // sync future was dropped mid-flight. What it finalized
                    // before that is already submitted (the hook above); the
                    // cursor then advances to `completed_cursor` only, see
                    // the deadline arm below. The race is GUARDED: it never
                    // drops the sync inside one transaction's finalize
                    // submit (the lens fold's HIGH-1), it waits for that
                    // transaction and the hook stops at the boundary.
                    let sync_outcome = match &self.peer_sync_budget {
                        Some((sleep, budget_ms)) => {
                            let budget_ms =
                                control.map_or(*budget_ms, |c| (*budget_ms).min(c.remaining_ms()));
                            let mut deadline = sleep(budget_ms);
                            let deadline = std::future::poll_fn(|cx| {
                                if control.is_some_and(|c| c.stop_reason().is_some())
                                    || std::future::Future::poll(deadline.as_mut(), cx).is_ready()
                                {
                                    std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                                } else {
                                    std::task::Poll::Pending
                                }
                            });
                            crate::gasp::race_or_deadline_guarded(
                                crate::page_batch::scope(
                                    page.clone(),
                                    sync.sync(Some(ENGINE_GASP_SYNC_PAGE_LIMIT)),
                                ),
                                deadline,
                                &self.finalize_gate,
                            )
                            .await
                        }
                        None => Some(
                            crate::page_batch::scope(
                                page.clone(),
                                sync.sync(Some(ENGINE_GASP_SYNC_PAGE_LIMIT)),
                            )
                            .await,
                        ),
                    };
                    // Engine 0.2.2: a sync stopped mid-page (its future
                    // dropped at the deadline, or an error) left the page's
                    // writes queued. They are written now; failing that,
                    // nothing of the page is admitted and the cursor keeps to
                    // the page's floor (below).
                    let page_lost = page.pending() > 0
                        && {
                            page.close();
                            match page.flush(self.storage.as_ref()).await {
                                Ok(()) => false,
                                Err(e) => {
                                    warn!(
                                    "[GASP SYNC] the page's storage batch for {topic} from {peer_url} failed, nothing of it admitted: {e}"
                                );
                                    page.discard();
                                    true
                                }
                            }
                        };
                    page.close();

                    let mut outcome_success = matches!(sync_outcome, Some(Ok(())));
                    // Engine 0.2.0 (#57): the platform answered in the peer's
                    // place, so this attempt says nothing about the peer.
                    let route_faulted = matches!(
                        sync_outcome,
                        Some(Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::RouteFault { .. }))
                    );
                    // D8 decoy rule: branches pruned in this peer's walk. Not
                    // an error and not a failed UTXO, so it is counted apart
                    // from `errors` and never touches the outcome or cursor.
                    // Summed over peers: one decoy seen through two peers
                    // counts twice.
                    pruned_inputs += sync.pruned_inputs();
                    expired_refused += sync.expired_refused();
                    roots_proven += sync.roots_proven();
                    roots_unproven += sync.roots_unproven();
                    // bsv-low #551: graphs the anchor check refused. Counted
                    // apart from `errors` for the same reason as a prune: a
                    // refused graph is not a failed sync (the reference
                    // discards it and carries on).
                    discarded_graphs += sync.discarded_graphs();
                    anchor_walk_held_graphs += sync.anchor_walk_held();
                    // Whether the sync ran (to its end, or to the deadline)
                    // and whether it moved the cursor (bsv-low #555, the
                    // delta fold's D-M2).
                    let ran = !matches!(sync_outcome, Some(Err(_)));
                    let mut advanced_cursor = false;
                    match sync_outcome {
                        None => {
                            let budget_ms = self.peer_sync_budget.as_ref().map_or(0, |(_, ms)| *ms);
                            let msg = format!(
                                "{peer_url}: per-peer sync budget of {budget_ms} ms EXCEEDED — dropped (bsv-low#302)"
                            );
                            warn!("[GASP SYNC] {msg}");
                            errors.push(msg);

                            // bsv-low #552: the work COMPLETED before the
                            // deadline is kept. Its graphs are already
                            // submitted (the hook); the cursor moves past the
                            // UTXOs that were completed and stops below the
                            // one in flight, whose graph is lost whole and
                            // walked again next tick. A graph the deadline
                            // met while it was being SUBMITTED is not "in
                            // flight" here: it left a prefix of whole
                            // transactions, is counted finalized, and its
                            // UTXO is below the cursor too.
                            let in_flight = u64::from(sync.graph_in_flight());
                            deadline_dropped_graphs += in_flight;
                            // bsv-low #555: the walk in hand is saved, so the
                            // next tick resumes it instead of walking it again.
                            sync.defer_in_flight().await;
                            let completed = match sync.page_floor() {
                                Some(floor) if page_lost => sync.completed_cursor().min(floor),
                                _ => sync.completed_cursor(),
                            };
                            if completed > last_interaction {
                                match self
                                    .storage
                                    .update_last_interaction(peer_url, topic, completed)
                                    .await
                                {
                                    Ok(()) => cursor_moves.push(CursorMove {
                                        peer: peer_url.clone(),
                                        from: last_interaction,
                                        to: completed,
                                    }),
                                    Err(e) => warn!(
                                        "[GASP SYNC] Failed to update last_interaction for {peer_url}/{topic}: {e}"
                                    ),
                                }
                            }
                            // A tick that finalized a graph or moved the
                            // cursor reached a live peer: not a failed
                            // attempt for the quarantine count. So did one
                            // whose walk PROGRESSED (bsv-low #555: it
                            // appended a node, or completed its graph). A
                            // deferral that fetched nothing is no progress
                            // (the lens fold's H1: a hung peer deferred with
                            // 0 nodes on every tick and was never
                            // quarantined).
                            //
                            // Engine 0.1.8: the deadline drop itself is not a
                            // failure of the peer. The per-peer deadline is
                            // OUR slice of the tick, set by our cadence and
                            // the Worker's limits; a peer that served every
                            // page and node we asked for until it fell due
                            // did not fail. What the slice did is the test:
                            // a sync that refused an expired root, retained
                            // a graph or resumed one with progress did work
                            // too (`GASPSync::did_work`).
                            advanced_cursor = completed > last_interaction;
                            outcome_success = peer_finalized.get() > 0
                                || (completed > last_interaction && sync.cursor_yielded())
                                || sync.deferral_stats().progressed > 0
                                || sync.did_work();
                            warn!(
                                "[GASP SYNC] {peer_url} for {topic} at the deadline: finalized_graphs={} deadline_dropped_graphs={in_flight} cursor {last_interaction} -> {} (bsv-low #552)",
                                peer_finalized.get(),
                                completed.max(last_interaction)
                            );
                        }
                        Some(Ok(())) => {
                            // Submit finalized graphs to the Engine (under a
                            // budget the hook already did, graph by graph,
                            // and the sink is empty here).
                            let landed = self
                                .submit_finalized_graphs(&sink, peer_url, topic, &peer_finalized)
                                .await;
                            // bsv-low #555, the lens fold's H1: a sync that
                            // ran to its end with walks the per-graph budget
                            // cut having FETCHED NOTHING, and nothing else
                            // got done (no walk progressed, no graph
                            // finalized, the cursor did not move), reached
                            // a peer that does not answer: a FAILED attempt.
                            // Before #555 such a peer held the sync to the
                            // per-peer deadline, a failure; the per-graph
                            // budget had made it an `Ok` sync. A sync whose
                            // UTXOs failed in any other way is unchanged.
                            let stats = sync.deferral_stats();
                            if stats.stalled > 0
                                && stats.progressed == 0
                                && peer_finalized.get() == 0
                                && !sync.did_work()
                                && !(landed
                                    && sync.last_interaction > last_interaction
                                    && sync.cursor_yielded())
                            {
                                outcome_success = false;
                                let msg = format!(
                                    "{peer_url}: {} graph walk(s) cut by the per-graph budget with nothing fetched (bsv-low #555)",
                                    stats.stalled
                                );
                                warn!("[GASP SYNC] {msg}");
                                errors.push(msg);
                            }

                            // Advance the persisted cursor when it moved forward — i.e.
                            // the peer reported UTXOs at a higher score than our last
                            // `since` (the in-memory cursor only grows on SEEN scores,
                            // so `>` already excludes the empty-bootstrap case where no
                            // UTXOs were seen). Mirrors TS `if (gasp.lastInteraction >
                            // lastInteraction)` — NOT gated on a new submission: a sync
                            // that re-sees already-known UTXOs must still advance, else
                            // every cron re-scans the same range forever (the cursor
                            // stayed pinned at 0 in prod).
                            //
                            // NOT advanced when a finalize submit above did
                            // not land (the lens fold's MEDIUM-1): the sink
                            // does not say which UTXO that graph was, so the
                            // whole cursor stays and the next sync is served
                            // the range again (what did land is known and
                            // skipped). Under a budget the hook fails that
                            // one UTXO instead and the gap guard has already
                            // capped `sync.last_interaction` below it.
                            advanced_cursor = landed && sync.last_interaction > last_interaction;
                            if !landed {
                                warn!(
                                    "[GASP SYNC] a finalize submit for {topic} from {peer_url} did not land: the cursor stays at {last_interaction}"
                                );
                            } else if sync.last_interaction > last_interaction {
                                match self
                                    .storage
                                    .update_last_interaction(peer_url, topic, sync.last_interaction)
                                    .await
                                {
                                    Ok(()) => cursor_moves.push(CursorMove {
                                        peer: peer_url.clone(),
                                        from: last_interaction,
                                        to: sync.last_interaction,
                                    }),
                                    Err(e) => warn!(
                                        "[GASP SYNC] Failed to update last_interaction for {peer_url}/{topic}: {e}"
                                    ),
                                }
                            }
                            info!(
                                "[GASP SYNC] Sync with {peer_url} for {topic} completed (last_interaction={})",
                                sync.last_interaction
                            );
                        }
                        Some(Err(e)) => {
                            let msg = format!("{peer_url}: {e}");
                            warn!("[GASP SYNC] Sync failed: {msg}");
                            errors.push(msg);
                            if let crate::gasp::GASPError::RouteFault { class, .. } = e {
                                route_faults.push(crate::route_fault::RouteFaultSeen {
                                    peer: peer_url.clone(),
                                    class,
                                });
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    // Engine 0.1.8: work is not a failure. A sync that
                    // finalized a graph, moved the cursor past what it
                    // finished, refused an expired root not refused before,
                    // retained a graph or resumed one with progress is never
                    // a failed attempt (a peer is quarantined for being
                    // dead, never for our cadence), even if it then faulted.
                    //
                    // The YIELD that ends the yieldless streak (and alone
                    // lifts a quarantine, D4-L2) is the narrower set: a
                    // finalized graph, a moved cursor, a refusal. A held or
                    // resumed walk is the peer's word until its anchor is
                    // checked: counted as a yield, a peer that lists one
                    // fabricated root a tick, serves it and hangs on its
                    // input would never be quarantined (bsv-low #555's D-M2).
                    // Such syncs stay inside the yieldless allowance (12
                    // syncs and 3 h), which an honest deep graph converges in.
                    let yielded = peer_finalized.get() > 0
                        || (advanced_cursor && sync.cursor_yielded())
                        || sync.expired_refused() > 0;
                    if yielded || sync.did_work() {
                        outcome_success = true;
                    }
                    // Engine 0.2.0 (#57): a route fault with no work done
                    // before it touches none of the peer's health rows: not
                    // its failures (the quarantine), not its yieldless
                    // streak, not its quiet cadence. The quarantine judges
                    // the peer, never the route. A sync the peer served work
                    // in before the route faulted is the peer's answer and
                    // is recorded as one.
                    let route_excused = route_faulted && !outcome_success;
                    if route_excused {
                        info!(
                            "[GASP SYNC] {peer_url} for {topic}: {} before the peer was reached; nothing counted against the peer (#57)",
                            route_faults
                                .last()
                                .map_or(String::new(), crate::route_fault::RouteFaultSeen::label)
                        );
                    }
                    // bsv-low #555, the delta fold's D-M2: "progress" (a node
                    // appended) is the peer's word. A sync the peer served
                    // work that finalized no graph and moved no cursor is
                    // YIELDLESS; past PEER_YIELDLESS_SYNCS_ALLOWED of them in
                    // a row each is a FAILED attempt, so a peer that serves
                    // one fresh root a tick and hangs on its input is
                    // quarantined. A quiet sync (nothing served) leaves the
                    // count; a fault of the count is fail-safe (no failure).
                    // Only with a per-graph budget: without one nothing is
                    // deferred and #302's rule is unchanged.
                    if ran
                        && self.graph_budget.is_some()
                        && (yielded || sync.graphs_attempted() > 0)
                    {
                        match self
                            .storage
                            .record_peer_sync_yield(&health_key, topic, yielded)
                            .await
                        {
                            Ok(streak)
                                if !yielded
                                    && crate::gasp::yieldless_sync_failed(&streak)
                                    && outcome_success =>
                            {
                                outcome_success = false;
                                let msg = format!(
                                    "{peer_url}: {} consecutive syncs over {} s finalized no graph and moved no cursor (past {} and {} s; bsv-low #555)",
                                    streak.yieldless_syncs,
                                    streak.secs_since_first.unwrap_or(0),
                                    crate::gasp::PEER_YIELDLESS_SYNCS_ALLOWED,
                                    crate::gasp::PEER_YIELDLESS_SECS_ALLOWED
                                );
                                warn!("[GASP SYNC] {msg}");
                                errors.push(msg);
                            }
                            Ok(_) => {}
                            Err(e) => warn!(
                                "[GASP SYNC] failed to record the yield of {peer_url}/{topic}: {e}"
                            ),
                        }
                    }
                    // Quiet success controls polling cadence, never peer health. Faults
                    // retain #302's attempt cadence; retained work keeps its resume slice.
                    let quiet = outcome_success
                        && !yielded
                        && !sync.did_work()
                        && sync.faulted_roots().is_empty()
                        && sync.deferral_stats().stalled == 0;
                    let quiet_syncs = if quiet && !filter.explicit() {
                        if reset_cadence {
                            1
                        } else {
                            cadence.quiet_syncs.saturating_add(1)
                        }
                    } else {
                        0
                    };
                    let next = crate::sync_load::PeerCadence {
                        quiet_syncs,
                        retry_after_secs: crate::sync_load::quiet_retry_secs(quiet_syncs),
                        advertisement,
                    };
                    if !route_excused {
                        if let Err(e) = self
                            .storage
                            .set_peer_cadence(&health_key, topic, &next)
                            .await
                        {
                            warn!(
                                "[GASP SYNC] failed to record cadence for {peer_url}/{topic}: {e}"
                            );
                        }
                    }
                    if !advanced_cursor {
                        if let Some(outpoint) = sync.cursor_held_by() {
                            cursor_held_by.push(outpoint);
                        }
                    }
                    finalized_graphs += peer_finalized.get();
                    let deferral = sync.deferral_stats();
                    root_bounds.extend(deferral.root_bounds.iter().cloned().map(|mut bound| {
                        bound.peer.clone_from(peer_url);
                        bound
                    }));
                    deferred_graphs += deferral.deferred;
                    resumed_graphs += deferral.resumed;
                    converged_graphs += deferral.converged;
                    stalled_graphs += deferral.stalled;
                    held_back_graphs += deferral.held_back;
                    backed_off_graphs += deferral.backed_off;
                    waiting_graphs += deferral.waiting;
                    idle_counted += deferral.idle_counted;
                    dropped_graphs.extend(deferral.dropped.into_iter().map(|d| DroppedDeferral {
                        peer: peer_url.clone(),
                        outpoint: d.outpoint,
                        reason: d.reason.as_str().to_string(),
                    }));
                    // Engine 0.1.9: the roots dropped, each with why.
                    dead_graphs += sync.dead_recorded();
                    expired_swept += sync.expired_swept();
                    memo_folded += sync.memo_folded();
                    unanchorable_graphs += sync.unanchorable_recorded();
                    unanchorable_cleared += sync.unanchorable_cleared();
                    absent_struck += sync.absent_struck();
                    // Engine 0.1.10: a strike not written is a fact.
                    strikes_refused += sync.strikes_refused();
                    faulted_roots.extend(sync.faulted_roots().into_iter().map(|mut f| {
                        f.peer.clone_from(peer_url);
                        f
                    }));

                    // bsv-low#302: record the attempt outcome (success resets
                    // the consecutive-failure count; timeout/error increments
                    // it). Best-effort — a bookkeeping fault must never fail
                    // the sync pass itself.
                    //
                    // bsv-low #555, the delta-4 fold's D4-L2: with a
                    // per-graph budget, a peer that was at the quarantine
                    // threshold when this sync began is re-admitted only by
                    // a YIELD (a graph finalized, the cursor moved). A sync
                    // that did not fail and yielded nothing (an empty
                    // listing at its probe, a walk that only progressed) is
                    // NOT RECORDED: the failures stay, and so does the
                    // last-attempt stamp, so the peer is attended again on
                    // the next tick and its next failure re-arms the
                    // quarantine at once. Recorded as a success, a hostile
                    // peer's empty listing at each probe reset its failures
                    // and (the decay being for a peer that is not failed)
                    // its yieldless streak: 100 of 200 ticks. A health read
                    // that faulted read 0 failures: the old rule, fail-safe.
                    if route_excused {
                        // Nothing recorded: see `route_excused` above.
                    } else if outcome_success
                        && !yielded
                        && self.graph_budget.is_some()
                        && health.consecutive_failures >= crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD
                    {
                        info!(
                            "[GASP SYNC] {peer_url} for {topic}: a sync with no yield does not lift its quarantine ({} consecutive failed syncs kept; bsv-low #555)",
                            health.consecutive_failures
                        );
                    } else if let Err(e) = self
                        .storage
                        .record_peer_sync_outcome(&health_key, topic, outcome_success)
                        .await
                    {
                        warn!(
                            "[GASP SYNC] failed to record peer sync outcome for {peer_url}/{topic}: {e}"
                        );
                    }
                    let cursor = self.storage.get_last_interaction(peer_url, topic).await?;
                    let cost = crate::meter::snapshot().since(peer_cost_before);
                    peer_results.insert(
                        peer_url.clone(),
                        crate::backfill::PeerSyncResult {
                            slices: u64::from(sync.page_advanced() || cost.outputs_walked > 0),
                            pages: sync.pages(),
                            reached_tip: sync.reached_tip() && cursor >= sync.completed_cursor(),
                            cursor,
                            cost,
                        },
                    );
                }
            }

            topics_synced.insert(
                topic.clone(),
                TopicSyncResult {
                    cost: crate::meter::snapshot().since(cost_before),
                    root_bounds,
                    peers_skipped,
                    peers_filtered,
                    roots_proven,
                    roots_unproven,
                    cursor_held_by,
                    expired_refused,
                    peers,
                    sync_type,
                    errors,
                    pruned_inputs,
                    discarded_graphs,
                    anchor_walk_held_graphs,
                    finalized_graphs,
                    deadline_dropped_graphs,
                    cursor_moves,
                    deferred_graphs,
                    resumed_graphs,
                    converged_graphs,
                    dropped_graphs,
                    stalled_graphs,
                    held_back_graphs,
                    backed_off_graphs,
                    waiting_graphs,
                    idle_counted,
                    peer_results,
                    dead_graphs,
                    expired_swept,
                    memo_folded,
                    unanchorable_graphs,
                    unanchorable_cleared,
                    absent_struck,
                    route_faults,
                    strikes_refused,
                    faulted_roots,
                },
            );
        }

        info!(
            "[GASP SYNC] Peer discovery complete for {} topic(s)",
            topics_synced.len()
        );

        let expired: u64 = topics_synced.values().map(|r| r.expired_refused).sum();
        if expired > 0 {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] gaspExpiredRefused={expired}");
        }
        let unanchorable: u64 = topics_synced.values().map(|r| r.unanchorable_graphs).sum();
        if unanchorable > 0 {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] gaspUnanchorable={unanchorable}");
        }
        let absent: u64 = topics_synced.values().map(|r| r.absent_struck).sum();
        if absent > 0 {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] gaspAbsentStruck={absent}");
        }
        let routes: usize = topics_synced.values().map(|r| r.route_faults.len()).sum();
        if routes > 0 {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] gaspRouteFaults={routes}");
        }
        let refused: u64 = topics_synced.values().map(|r| r.strikes_refused).sum();
        if refused > 0 {
            info!("[GASP SYNC] gaspStrikesRefused={refused}");
        }
        Ok(GASPSyncResult {
            cost: crate::meter::snapshot(),
            topics_synced,
            filter: filter.clone(),
            topics_filtered,
        })
    }

    /// Drain `sink` and submit every finalized graph in it, ancestors first
    /// (`historical-tx-no-spv`: the anchor check already verified them).
    /// Each graph is added to `submitted` as its first submit starts. Returns
    /// whether EVERY transaction of every graph landed.
    ///
    /// Each graph here passed the anchor check: its root verified and the
    /// replay admitted it, so these submits rest on a checked premise and are
    /// not expected to fail. If one does not LAND, the REST OF THAT GRAPH is
    /// not submitted: the reference's `finalizeGraph` awaits each submit in
    /// order and its throw ends the loop (the BEEFs already submitted stay,
    /// it has no rollback either). A later BEEF would otherwise be judged
    /// without the coin its ancestor failed to leave, admit nothing and be
    /// recorded as applied, a dupe for good. "Landed" is read from the
    /// durability report, not from `Ok`: `submit` answers `Ok` when a storage
    /// write faulted and when the topic manager failed, and in both it
    /// records no applied row. A transaction landed when its topic is applied
    /// or was already applied (a dupe). Other graphs carry on, and the caller
    /// keeps the cursor from passing a graph that did not land.
    ///
    /// Each transaction's submit is one write section of the engine's gate
    /// ([`Engine::finalize_submit_gate`]) and the gate is asked between two:
    /// a deadline that is due stops the sequence there (this future is
    /// dropped at that await, between two whole transactions).
    async fn submit_finalized_graphs(
        &self,
        sink: &crate::gasp_overlay::FinalizedGraphSink,
        peer_url: &str,
        topic: &str,
        submitted: &std::cell::Cell<u64>,
    ) -> bool {
        let finalized: Vec<_> = sink
            .lock()
            .unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner)
            .drain(..)
            .collect();

        let mut all_landed = true;
        for graph in &finalized {
            for (position, beef_bytes) in graph.beefs.iter().enumerate() {
                self.finalize_gate.stop_if_due().await;
                if position == 0 {
                    submitted.set(submitted.get() + 1);
                }
                let tagged = TaggedBEEF::new(beef_bytes.clone(), vec![graph.topic.clone()]);
                // No deadline drops a write section, and the section does
                // not drop ITSELF either (bsv-low #559, the delta lens's
                // DELTA-3 and the lens fold of 2026-10-07, F2,
                // `set_finalize_submit_budget`): the submit always runs to
                // its end. What is bounded is each storage call and hook
                // inside it ([`CallBound`]): one that never answers is that
                // call's FAULT, the submit handles it as any fault (nothing
                // of the transaction held, or all of it), the transaction
                // did not land, its UTXO fails and the cursor stays.
                let outcome = {
                    let _writing = self.finalize_gate.write_section();
                    let bound = self
                        .finalize_submit_budget
                        .as_ref()
                        .map(|(sleep, budget_ms)| CallBound::new(sleep, *budget_ms));
                    self.submit_bounded(
                        &tagged,
                        SubmitMode::HistoricalTxNoSpv,
                        bound.as_ref(),
                        true,
                        WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow,
                    )
                    .await
                };
                let not_landed = match outcome {
                    Ok((_, report)) => {
                        let landed = report.is_durable()
                            && (report.applied_topics.contains(&graph.topic)
                                || report.deduped_topics.contains(&graph.topic));
                        (!landed).then(|| {
                            if report.is_durable() {
                                "the topic manager failed on it".to_string()
                            } else {
                                format!("not durable: {}", report.summary())
                            }
                        })
                    }
                    Err(e) => Some(e.to_string()),
                };
                if let Some(why) = not_landed {
                    warn!(
                        "[GASP SYNC] A finalize submit for topic {} did not land ({why}); the rest of its graph is not submitted",
                        graph.topic
                    );
                    all_landed = false;
                    break;
                }
            }
        }

        if !finalized.is_empty() {
            info!(
                "[GASP SYNC] Submitted {} finalized graph(s) for {topic} from {peer_url}",
                finalized.len()
            );
        }
        all_landed
    }

    /// Union local records, tracker answers, SLAP-named providers and bootstrap.
    /// Reference: overlay-services@480d77a src/Engine.ts:839-876 and
    /// ts-stack@edf6e03 packages/sdk/src/overlay-tools/LookupResolver.ts:1976.
    /// Ask the configured topic peers for held outputs, using the same SHIP
    /// discovery as sync. Only a header-verified proof can change stored bytes.
    pub async fn rerequest_held_proofs(
        &self,
        candidates: &[crate::proof_window::HeldOutput],
        progress: &std::cell::Cell<crate::proof_window::PeerProofSummary>,
    ) {
        use crate::proof_window::{PEER_PROOF_REQUEST_MS, PEER_PROOF_ROW_LIMIT};
        let Some(factory) = &self.gasp_remote_factory else {
            return;
        };
        let Some(tracker) = self.chain_tracker.as_deref() else {
            return;
        };
        let mut lookup_hosts = None;
        let mut topic_peers = HashMap::new();
        let mut landed = HashSet::new();
        for candidate in candidates.iter().take(PEER_PROOF_ROW_LIMIT) {
            if !self.managers.contains_key(&candidate.topic) {
                continue;
            }
            if let std::collections::hash_map::Entry::Vacant(entry) =
                topic_peers.entry(candidate.topic.clone())
            {
                let peers = match self.config.sync_configuration.get(&candidate.topic) {
                    Some(SyncTarget::Ship) => {
                        self.discover_ship_peers(&candidate.topic, &mut lookup_hosts)
                            .await
                    }
                    Some(SyncTarget::Peers(peers)) => self.ship_peers_excluding_self(peers.clone()),
                    _ => Vec::new(),
                };
                entry.insert(peers);
            }
            for peer in &topic_peers[&candidate.topic] {
                let remote = factory.create_remote(peer, &candidate.topic);
                let graph_id = format!("{}.{}", candidate.txid, candidate.output_index);
                let mut summary = progress.get();
                summary.requests += 1;
                progress.set(summary);
                let ask =
                    remote.request_node(&graph_id, &candidate.txid, candidate.output_index, false);
                let response = if let Some((sleep, _)) = &self.peer_sync_budget {
                    crate::gasp::race_or_deadline(ask, sleep(PEER_PROOF_REQUEST_MS)).await
                } else {
                    Some(ask.await)
                };
                let Some(Ok(node)) = response else {
                    let mut summary = progress.get();
                    summary.faults += 1;
                    progress.set(summary);
                    continue;
                };
                if landed.contains(&candidate.txid) {
                    continue;
                }
                let Some(proof_hex) = node.proof else {
                    continue;
                };
                let Ok(mut proof) = beef_limits::merkle_path_from_hex(
                    &proof_hex,
                    beef_limits::COURIER_PROOF_MAX_BYTES,
                ) else {
                    let mut summary = progress.get();
                    summary.refused += 1;
                    progress.set(summary);
                    continue;
                };
                let valid = match proof.compute_root(Some(&candidate.txid)) {
                    Ok(root) => tracker
                        .is_valid_root_for_height(&root, proof.block_height)
                        .await
                        .unwrap_or(false),
                    Err(_) => false,
                };
                if !valid {
                    let mut summary = progress.get();
                    summary.refused += 1;
                    progress.set(summary);
                    continue;
                }
                // Root verification accepts a hash leaf too. Mark the verified
                // subject so BEEF attaches the path before its proof flag moves.
                for leaf in &mut proof.path[0] {
                    if leaf.hash.as_deref() == Some(&candidate.txid) {
                        leaf.txid = true;
                    }
                }
                match self.land_peer_proof(candidate, &proof).await {
                    Ok(()) => {
                        landed.insert(candidate.txid.clone());
                        let mut summary = progress.get();
                        summary.landed += 1;
                        progress.set(summary);
                    }
                    Err(error) => {
                        warn!(%error, "[proof window] verified proof could not be stored");
                        let mut summary = progress.get();
                        summary.faults += 1;
                        progress.set(summary);
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }

    async fn land_peer_proof(
        &self,
        candidate: &crate::proof_window::HeldOutput,
        proof: &bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath,
    ) -> Result<(), EngineError> {
        let output = self
            .storage
            .find_output(
                &candidate.txid,
                candidate.output_index,
                Some(&candidate.topic),
                None,
                true,
            )
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?
            .ok_or(EngineError::NodeNotFound)?;
        let beef = output
            .beef
            .ok_or_else(|| EngineError::BeefParseError("missing stored BEEF".into()))?;
        let stitched = Self::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(&beef, &candidate.txid, proof)
            .ok_or_else(|| {
                EngineError::BeefParseError("proof does not stitch into stored subject".into())
            })?;
        self.storage
            .update_transaction_beef(&candidate.txid, &stitched)
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))?;
        self.storage
            .mark_transaction_proven_at(&candidate.txid, Some(u64::from(proof.block_height)))
            .await
            .map_err(|e| EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string()))
    }

    /// Read our admitted advertisement set, not a foreign history. A changed
    /// SLAP outpoint wakes its origin; SHIP scopes that wake to its topic.
    async fn peer_advertisement_versions(&self, topic: &str) -> HashMap<String, String> {
        let mut versions: HashMap<String, Vec<String>> = HashMap::new();
        for (ad_topic, protocol, scope) in [
            ("tm_slap", &b"SLAP"[..], None),
            ("tm_ship", &b"SHIP"[..], Some(topic)),
        ] {
            let rows = self
                .storage
                .find_utxos_for_topic(ad_topic, None, None, false)
                .await
                .unwrap_or_default();
            for row in rows {
                if let Some(domain) =
                    parse_advertisement_domain_from_script(&row.output_script, protocol, scope)
                {
                    versions
                        .entry(crate::gasp::peer_origin(&domain))
                        .or_default()
                        .push(format!("{}:{}", row.txid, row.output_index));
                }
            }
        }
        versions
            .into_iter()
            .map(|(peer, mut keys)| {
                keys.sort();
                (peer, keys.join(","))
            })
            .collect()
    }

    async fn discover_ship_peers(
        &self,
        topic: &str,
        lookup_hosts: &mut Option<Vec<String>>,
    ) -> Vec<String> {
        let mut domains = self.local_ship_peers(topic).await;
        if let Some(bootstrap) = self.ship_bootstrap_peers.get(topic) {
            domains.extend(bootstrap.iter().cloned());
        }
        if let Some(client) = &self.ship_lookup_client {
            if lookup_hosts.is_none() {
                *lookup_hosts = Some(self.discover_ship_lookup_hosts(client.as_ref()).await);
            }
            let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_ship", serde_json::json!({"topics": [topic]}));
            for host in lookup_hosts.as_ref().into_iter().flatten() {
                crate::meter::peer_request();
                match client.lookup(host, &question).await {
                    Ok(outputs) => {
                        domains.extend(outputs.iter().filter_map(|output| {
                            parse_lookup_advertisement(output, b"SHIP", topic)
                        }));
                    }
                    Err(e) => warn!("[GASP SYNC] SHIP lookup at {host} for {topic} failed: {e}"),
                }
            }
        }
        self.ship_peers_excluding_self(domains)
    }

    async fn discover_ship_lookup_hosts(
        &self,
        client: &dyn crate::ship_lookup::ShipLookupClient,
    ) -> Vec<String> {
        use crate::ship_lookup::SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK;
        let trackers = self.ship_peers_excluding_self(self.config.slap_trackers.clone());
        let tracker_origins: HashSet<_> = trackers
            .iter()
            .map(|host| crate::gasp::peer_origin(host))
            .collect();
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_slap", serde_json::json!({"service": "ls_ship"}));
        let mut advertised = Vec::new();
        for tracker in &trackers {
            crate::meter::peer_request();
            match client.lookup(tracker, &question).await {
                Ok(outputs) => {
                    advertised.extend(outputs.iter().filter_map(|output| {
                        parse_lookup_advertisement(output, b"SLAP", "ls_ship")
                    }));
                }
                Err(e) => warn!("[GASP SYNC] SLAP lookup at {tracker} failed: {e}"),
            }
        }
        let providers = self
            .ship_peers_excluding_self(advertised)
            .into_iter()
            .filter(|host| !tracker_origins.contains(&crate::gasp::peer_origin(host)))
            .take(SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK);
        trackers.into_iter().chain(providers).collect()
    }

    fn ship_peers_excluding_self(&self, domains: impl IntoIterator<Item = String>) -> Vec<String> {
        crate::gasp::ship_peers_by_origin(domains.into_iter().filter(|domain| {
            self.config.hosting_url.as_ref().is_none_or(|our_url| {
                crate::gasp::peer_origin(domain) != crate::gasp::peer_origin(our_url)
            })
        }))
    }

    /// Read local SHIP records independently of network discovery failures.
    async fn local_ship_peers(&self, topic: &str) -> Vec<String> {
        let Some(ship_ls) = self.lookup_services.get("ls_ship") else {
            warn!("[GASP SYNC] No local ls_ship; retaining network and bootstrap discovery");
            return Vec::new();
        };

        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_ship", serde_json::json!({ "topics": [topic] }));

        let refs = match ship_ls.lookup(&question).await {
            Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(refs)) => refs,
            Ok(LookupResult::Answer(_)) => {
                error!(
                    "[GASP SYNC] SHIP lookup for topic {topic} returned a pre-formed \
                     LookupAnswer; expected OutputList. Skipping."
                );
                return Vec::new();
            }
            Err(e) => {
                error!("[GASP SYNC] SHIP lookup for topic {topic} failed: {e}");
                return Vec::new();
            }
        };

        let mut domains = HashSet::new();
        for reference in &refs {
            if let Ok(Some(output)) = self
                .storage
                .find_output(&reference.txid, reference.output_index, None, None, false)
                .await
            {
                if let Some(domain) = parse_ship_domain_from_script(&output.output_script) {
                    // Every spelling of our own origin is ourselves (the
                    // delta-2 fold's D2-M2: `https://us/?x` passed the
                    // string compare).
                    if let Some(ref our_url) = self.config.hosting_url {
                        if domain.trim_end_matches('/') == our_url.trim_end_matches('/')
                            || crate::gasp::peer_origin(&domain)
                                == crate::gasp::peer_origin(our_url)
                        {
                            continue;
                        }
                    }
                    domains.insert(domain);
                }
            }
        }

        // One peer per normalized origin (bsv-low #555, the delta-2 fold's
        // D2-M2, restored by the delta-4 fold's D4-M1): eight spellings of
        // one server are one peer, the one its health row is keyed by.
        crate::gasp::ship_peers_by_origin(domains)
    }

    // ========================================================================
    // Helpers
    // ========================================================================

    /// Get a reference to the storage backend.
    pub fn storage(&self) -> &dyn Storage {
        self.storage.as_ref()
    }

    /// Get the engine configuration.
    pub fn config(&self) -> &EngineConfig {
        &self.config
    }
}

/// The SPV check of [`Engine::submit`], as one function over a BORROWED
/// tracker: the reference's `tx.verify(chainTracker)` (roots against the
/// tracker, every unproven input's script executed, the value rule), its
/// `tx.verify('scripts only')` when `chain_tracker` is `None` (roots accepted
/// unchecked, scripts still run), and the pre-2026-09-08 structural check when
/// `verify_scripts` is `false` ([`Engine::set_script_verification`]'s escape
/// hatch).
///
/// There is ONE verifier. `Engine::submit` calls this with its own tracker,
/// switch and walk budget; the GASP anchor check
/// (`OverlayGASPStorage::validate_graph_anchor`, bsv-low #551) calls it with
/// the same three, handed over by `Engine::start_gasp_sync`.
///
/// `Ok(Some(_))` is a walk that COULD NOT RUN within `budget` (bsv-low #592):
/// not a verdict on the transaction. The caller goes on as it would without a
/// walk and says so.
pub(crate) async fn verify_spv_like_the_reference(
    chain_tracker: Option<&dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>,
    verify_scripts: bool,
    beef_bytes: &[u8],
    subject_txid: &str,
    budget: DoorBudget,
) -> Result<Option<WalkCouldNotRun>, EngineError> {
    verify_spv_trusting(
        chain_tracker,
        verify_scripts,
        beef_bytes,
        subject_txid,
        &HashSet::new(),
        budget,
    )
    .await
}

/// [`verify_spv_like_the_reference`] trusting the transactions an earlier
/// walk of the same submit passed over (a predecessor the door lands first,
/// the E1D delta fold, L4): the script walk neither checks nor descends
/// them. The structural escape hatch checks the whole BEEF it is given.
async fn verify_spv_trusting(
    chain_tracker: Option<&dyn bsv_rs::transaction::ChainTracker>,
    verify_scripts: bool,
    beef_bytes: &[u8],
    subject_txid: &str,
    trusted: &HashSet<String>,
    budget: DoorBudget,
) -> Result<Option<WalkCouldNotRun>, EngineError> {
    if verify_scripts {
        Engine::verify_beef_linear(chain_tracker, beef_bytes, subject_txid, trusted, budget).await
    } else {
        Engine::verify_spv_structurally(chain_tracker, beef_bytes)
            .await
            .map(|()| None)
    }
}

/// The BUMP that proves each txid of `beef`: the first BUMP whose level 0
/// carries it, as `Beef::find_bump` picks, built in one pass over the BUMPs'
/// leaves (NL-6e; `find_bump` per transaction scans them all each time).
fn proven_index(beef: &Beef) -> HashMap<&str, usize> {
    let mut proven: HashMap<&str, usize> = HashMap::new();
    for (at, bump) in beef.bumps.iter().enumerate() {
        for leaf in bump.path.first().into_iter().flatten() {
            if let Some(hash) = leaf.hash.as_deref() {
                proven.entry(hash).or_insert(at);
            }
        }
    }
    proven
}

/// The transactions the SPV walk of `from` passes over in `beef`
/// ([`Engine::verify_beef_linear_with`]'s traversal, nothing checked): `from`
/// and every source the BEEF carries, a proven transaction included and not
/// descended. The E1D delta fold, L4: what a landing need not walk again.
fn walk_cover(beef: &Beef, from: &str) -> HashSet<String> {
    let bodies: HashMap<String, &Transaction> = beef
        .txs
        .iter()
        .filter_map(|btx| btx.tx().map(|tx| (btx.txid(), tx)))
        .collect();
    let proven = proven_index(beef);
    let mut cover = HashSet::new();
    let mut queue = vec![from.to_string()];
    while let Some(txid) = queue.pop() {
        if !cover.insert(txid.clone()) || proven.contains_key(txid.as_str()) {
            continue;
        }
        if let Some(tx) = bodies.get(&txid) {
            queue.extend(tx.inputs.iter().filter_map(|i| i.source_txid.clone()));
        }
    }
    cover
}

/// The engine's [`crate::gasp::FinalizedGraphHook`] (bsv-low #552): submit
/// what a peer's sync just finalized, before its next UTXO is asked for.
struct SubmitAsFinalized<'e> {
    engine: &'e Engine,
    sink: crate::gasp_overlay::FinalizedGraphSink,
    peer_url: &'e str,
    topic: &'e str,
    submitted: &'e std::cell::Cell<u64>,
}

#[async_trait::async_trait(?Send)]
impl crate::gasp::FinalizedGraphHook for SubmitAsFinalized<'_> {
    async fn graph_completed(&self) -> Result<(), crate::gasp::GASPError> {
        // A graph is counted as its first submit starts, and the deadline
        // cannot land inside a submit: a sync dropped in here has written at
        // least that transaction whole (an ancestors-first prefix).
        let landed = self
            .engine
            .submit_finalized_graphs(&self.sink, self.peer_url, self.topic, self.submitted)
            .await;
        if landed {
            Ok(())
        } else {
            // Fails this UTXO: the cursor stays below it and the next sync
            // asks for it again (the lens fold's MEDIUM-1).
            Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::StorageError(
                "a finalize submit did not land".to_string(),
            ))
        }
    }
}

/// Result of a GASP sync operation.
///
/// Returned by `Engine::start_gasp_sync()` to summarize what happened.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct GASPSyncResult {
    #[serde(default, flatten)]
    pub cost: crate::meter::SyncCost,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub filter: crate::sync_load::SyncFilter,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub topics_filtered: Vec<String>,
    /// Per-topic sync results.
    pub topics_synced: HashMap<String, TopicSyncResult>,
}

/// Sync result for a single topic.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct TopicSyncResult {
    #[serde(default)]
    pub peer_results: HashMap<String, crate::backfill::PeerSyncResult>,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub dead_graphs: u64,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub expired_swept: u64,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub memo_folded: u64,
    #[serde(default, flatten)]
    pub cost: crate::meter::SyncCost,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub root_bounds: Vec<crate::sync_load::RootBound>,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub peers_skipped: Vec<crate::sync_load::SkippedPeer>,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub peers_filtered: Vec<String>,
    /// Root proof status after successful anchor validation and finalization.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub roots_proven: u64,
    #[serde(default)]
    pub roots_unproven: u64,
    /// Outstanding outpoints on peers whose cursor did not advance.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub cursor_held_by: Vec<String>,
    /// Distinct expired advert roots skipped before any proof request.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub expired_refused: u64,
    /// Peer URLs discovered or configured for this topic.
    pub peers: Vec<String>,
    /// How peers were determined: "ship" or "peers".
    pub sync_type: String,
    /// Any errors encountered during sync (peer URL -> error message): a
    /// peer whose sync failed or ran over its budget. A single UTXO whose
    /// graph ingest failed is NOT listed here: it is warned (`Error ingesting
    /// UTXO`), held back by the cursor gap guard and asked for again by the
    /// next sync.
    pub errors: Vec<String>,
    /// Manager-named inputs pruned because a peer answered that it does not
    /// hold them (the D8 decoy rule, `GASPSync::pruned_inputs`). Counted per
    /// distinct outpoint PER PEER per sync and summed over this topic's
    /// peers: one decoy seen through two peers reads 2. Not errors: the
    /// graphs completed without those branches.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub pruned_inputs: u64,
    /// Graphs the anchor check REFUSED and discarded whole (bsv-low #551,
    /// `GASPSync::discarded_graphs`): a root whose BEEF does not verify, or
    /// one the topic manager does not admit at the end of the replay. Summed
    /// over this topic's peers. Not errors, and nothing of them was admitted.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub discarded_graphs: u64,
    /// Graphs HELD because their anchor's script walk could not run within
    /// the engine's walk budget (bsv-low #592; the E592 lens fold, H1 and
    /// L3; `GASPSync::anchor_walk_held`), summed over this topic's peers.
    /// Nothing of them was finalized; each UTXO stays below its cursor until
    /// the peer serves its root proven. Not errors and not discarded.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub anchor_walk_held_graphs: u64,
    /// Graphs that passed the anchor check and were handed to submit, summed
    /// over this topic's peers (bsv-low #552). Under a per-peer budget a
    /// graph is counted, and submitted, the moment it finalizes, so the
    /// count includes those of a peer the deadline then dropped. A counted
    /// graph had its first transaction submitted whole (the deadline never
    /// lands inside a submit); one whose later submit did not land is still
    /// counted, and its UTXO stays below the cursor.
    /// A graph is counted as its first submit STARTS; a first submit that FAULTS
    /// still counts here, so this is not a delivered count (bsv-low #559).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub finalized_graphs: u64,
    /// Graphs that were mid-walk when a peer's sync was dropped at its
    /// budget (bsv-low #552): at most one per peer per sync. NOTHING of such
    /// a graph was admitted; the next sync walks it again. The same root
    /// counted tick after tick with no `finalized_graphs` and no
    /// `cursor_moves` is ONE graph whose walk outlasts the budget (with a
    /// per-graph budget it is also counted in `deferred_graphs` and resumed,
    /// bsv-low #555).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub deadline_dropped_graphs: u64,
    /// Every persisted cursor that moved in this sync (bsv-low #552), one
    /// entry per peer. After a completed sync `to` is the peer's highest
    /// score seen (less the gap guard); after a deadline it is
    /// `GASPSync::completed_cursor`: past completed UTXOs only.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub cursor_moves: Vec<CursorMove>,
    /// Graphs DEFERRED in this sync, summed over peers (bsv-low #555,
    /// `Engine::set_graph_budget`): a new record, or a resumed graph
    /// deferred again. Their UTXOs are held below the cursor.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub deferred_graphs: u64,
    /// Graphs RESUMED from a record in this sync.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub resumed_graphs: u64,
    /// Resumed graphs that completed and landed in this sync (their record
    /// deleted).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub converged_graphs: u64,
    /// Records deleted without converging, with their reason.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub dropped_graphs: Vec<DroppedDeferral>,
    /// Walks the per-graph budget (or the per-peer deadline) cut having
    /// fetched NOTHING in their pass (bsv-low #555, the lens fold's H1). A
    /// peer's sync whose only outcome was these is a failed attempt for the
    /// quarantine count.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub stalled_graphs: u64,
    /// Records NOT resumed in this sync: the resumes of a peer's pass share
    /// ONE per-graph budget and had spent it (the lens fold's M1). Held for
    /// the next sync, untouched.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub held_back_graphs: u64,
    /// Held records this sync sent to the long backoff (engine 0.1.10,
    /// `gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF`): resumed that many passes in a
    /// row with no node appended, not resumed again for
    /// `gasp::IDLE_RESUME_RETRY_SECS`.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub backed_off_graphs: u64,
    /// Held records this sync did not resume because they wait out that
    /// backoff: no request, the cursor passes them (engine 0.1.10).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub waiting_graphs: u64,
    /// Held records whose resumed pass this sync counted one idle resume
    /// on (engine 0.1.11, `gasp::DeferralStats::idle_counted`): the pass
    /// asked the peer and appended nothing it kept, whether it ended in a
    /// save, a drop or an error. A captain reads the idle rule firing here.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub idle_counted: u64,
    /// Roots recorded UNANCHORABLE in this sync (engine 0.1.9,
    /// `GASPSync::unanchorable_recorded`): their walk faulted in
    /// `gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS` consecutive runs; the cursor
    /// passes them, and each is walked again after
    /// `gasp::UNANCHORABLE_RETRY_SECS`. Nothing of them is admitted.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub unanchorable_graphs: u64,
    /// Roots struck `unanchorable:not_found` in this sync (engine 0.1.15,
    /// `GASPSync::absent_struck`): the advertising peer said it does not
    /// hold the root, or a transaction an unproven node of its graph needs,
    /// on `gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS` runs at least
    /// `gasp::ABSENCE_GAP_SECS` apart. Counted in `unanchorable_graphs` too.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub absent_struck: u64,
    /// Syncs a ROUTE FAULT ended (engine 0.2.0, bsv-overlay-cloudflare #57;
    /// [`crate::route_fault`]): the platform answered before the peer was
    /// reached. Each names its peer and class; none counted against the
    /// peer's health unless the peer had served work before it.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub route_faults: Vec<crate::route_fault::RouteFaultSeen>,
    /// Roots with a fault record that this sync walked again and admitted,
    /// or refused on a verdict: their record cleared (engine 0.1.9).
    #[serde(default)]
    pub unanchorable_cleared: u64,
    /// Strikes this sync could not write (engine 0.1.10,
    /// `GASPSync::strikes_refused`):
    /// at the storage's ceiling or on its fault. Each root is named in
    /// `faulted_roots` with its `refused` reason.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub strikes_refused: u64,
    /// Every root a peer's sync dropped in this run, once per (peer, root),
    /// named with its fault class, its faulted runs and whether it is now
    /// unanchorable (engine 0.1.9, `GASPSync::faulted_roots`). With
    /// `cursor_held_by` (what is neither finished nor held) the captain
    /// reads why the cursor stopped or moved.
    #[serde(default)]
    pub faulted_roots: Vec<crate::gasp::FaultedRoot>,
}

/// A deferred graph's record deleted without converging (bsv-low #555,
/// [`TopicSyncResult::dropped_graphs`]).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct DroppedDeferral {
    /// The peer URL.
    pub peer: String,
    /// The graph's root outpoint.
    pub outpoint: String,
    /// [`crate::gasp::DropReason::as_str`].
    pub reason: String,
}

/// One peer's persisted `last_interaction` cursor moving `from` -> `to` in a
/// sync ([`TopicSyncResult::cursor_moves`]).
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
pub struct CursorMove {
    /// The peer URL.
    pub peer: String,
    /// The cursor the sync entered with.
    pub from: u64,
    /// The cursor it persisted.
    pub to: u64,
}

/// Get current time in milliseconds (for output scores).
///
/// Uses `js_sys::Date::now()` on wasm32 (Cloudflare Workers) since
/// `std::time::SystemTime` is not available on that platform.
pub(crate) fn current_timestamp_ms() -> f64 {
    #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
    {
        js_sys::Date::now()
    }
    #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
    {
        std::time::SystemTime::now()
            .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
            .map_or(0.0, |d| d.as_millis() as f64)
    }
}

/// Extract the domain field from a SHIP PushDrop locking script.
///
/// SHIP PushDrop format: field[0] = "SHIP", field[1] = identity_key,
/// field[2] = domain (UTF-8), field[3] = topic.
/// Returns `None` if the script cannot be parsed or is not a SHIP advertisement.
fn parse_ship_domain_from_script(output_script: &[u8]) -> Option<String> {
    parse_advertisement_domain_from_script(output_script, b"SHIP", None)
}

fn parse_lookup_advertisement(
    output: &OutputListItem,
    protocol: &[u8],
    scope: &str,
) -> Option<String> {
    let tx = beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(&output.beef, None, &beef_limits::PEER_BEEF_LIMITS)
        .ok()?;
    let script = tx
        .outputs
        .get(output.output_index as usize)?
        .locking_script
        .to_binary();
    parse_advertisement_domain_from_script(&script, protocol, Some(scope))
}

fn parse_advertisement_domain_from_script(
    output_script: &[u8],
    protocol: &[u8],
    scope: Option<&str>,
) -> Option<String> {
    use bsv_rs::script::templates::PushDrop;

    let script = bsv_rs::script::Script::from_binary(output_script).ok()?;
    let pushdrop = PushDrop::decode(&script.into()).ok()?;

    if pushdrop.fields.len() < 3 {
        return None;
    }

    if pushdrop.fields[0] != protocol {
        return None;
    }

    if scope.is_some_and(|expected| {
        pushdrop
            .fields
            .get(3)
            .is_none_or(|actual| actual != expected.as_bytes())
    }) {
        return None;
    }

    let domain = String::from_utf8_lossy(&pushdrop.fields[2]).to_string();
    if domain.is_empty() {
        return None;
    }

    Some(domain)
}

// ============================================================================
// Submit-time spend verification helpers (reference parity, 2026-09-08)
// ============================================================================

// ============================================================================
// Error type
// ============================================================================

#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
pub enum EngineError {
    #[error("This server does not support this topic: {0}")]
    UnsupportedTopic(String),

    #[error("Lookup service not found for provider: {0}")]
    LookupServiceNotFound(String),

    /// GASP: `/requestForeignGASPNode` asked for a graph/txid we don't
    /// have locally. Matches mainline's 400-class "not found" response.
    #[error("No matching output found!")]
    NodeNotFound,

    #[error("lookup failed: {0}")]
    LookupFailed(String),

    /// The CALLER's query was malformed — a bad identity key, a gameId that is
    /// not 32 bytes of hex, a missing required field. Distinct from
    /// `LookupFailed`, which means WE failed: without the distinction every
    /// caller mistake was reported as a server fault (HTTP 500), so a malformed
    /// query and a genuine outage were indistinguishable in logs and alerts on
    /// an unauthenticated endpoint anyone can hit.
    #[error("invalid query: {0}")]
    InvalidQuery(String),

    #[error("storage error: {0}")]
    StorageError(String),

    #[error("broadcast error: {0}")]
    BroadcastError(String),

    #[error("SPV verification failed: {0}")]
    SpvError(String),

    #[error("BEEF parsing failed: {0}")]
    BeefParseError(String),

    /// A spend in the submitted BEEF does not satisfy its source output's
    /// locking script: the input's unlocking script was EXECUTED (reference
    /// parity, 2026-09-08) and the interpreter refused it. Distinct from
    /// [`EngineError::SpvError`] (a bad or unverifiable PROOF, a missing
    /// source, a chain-tracker fault) so an operator can tell a bad spend from
    /// a bad proof. `input_index` is the failing input's position in the
    /// transaction whose script failed (the subject, or an unproven
    /// ancestor of it in the same BEEF); `reason` is the interpreter's own
    /// message.
    #[error("script verification failed (subject {subject_txid}): input {input_index}: {reason}")]
    ScriptVerificationFailed {
        subject_txid: String,
        input_index: u32,
        reason: String,
    },

    /// The DOOR walk ([`Engine::verify_scripts_only`]) hit a STRUCTURAL fault
    /// before reaching a verdict on `at_txid` (a source the BEEF lacks, a
    /// parse fault, the value rule): not the interpreter's verdict, so not a
    /// refusal for a caller whose bar is the network. `subject_judged` says
    /// whether the subject's own inputs had all executed before the fault
    /// (an ancestor faulted) or not (the subject itself is unjudged).
    #[error("script walk inconclusive at {at_txid} (subject judged: {subject_judged}): {reason}")]
    ScriptWalkInconclusive {
        at_txid: String,
        subject_judged: bool,
        reason: String,
    },

    /// The DOOR walk exceeded its own bound ([`DoorBudget`]: the static work
    /// estimate, the interpreter's memory limit tripping, or the estimate of
    /// the door's own memory; `limb` says which): the door's verdict, never
    /// the network's — the request proceeds to the network.
    #[error("script walk over budget at {at_txid} (subject judged: {subject_judged}): {what}")]
    ScriptWalkOverBudget {
        at_txid: String,
        subject_judged: bool,
        limb: DoorLimb,
        what: String,
    },

    /// The submit's own script walk COULD NOT RUN within the engine's
    /// [`DoorBudget`] (bsv-low #592) and nothing on record stands in for it
    /// ([`WalkBreachPolicy::NotNow`], every door but the queue replay of a
    /// gated submission; the E592 lens fold, H1). NOT NOW: nothing was
    /// judged, nothing written, and it is NOT a refusal either: the budget
    /// says nothing about the transaction. The way out is the subject
    /// PROVEN: a proven transaction is not walked, so an honest body too
    /// big to walk unmined lands once its block is mined (a client retries
    /// after the block, not at once).
    #[error(
        "the script walk could not run within the budget ({}: {}); not now: present the subject proven, after its block",
        .0.limb.as_str(),
        .0.what
    )]
    WalkCouldNotRun(WalkCouldNotRun),

    #[error("{0}")]
    Other(String),
}

impl From<StorageError> for EngineError {
    fn from(e: StorageError) -> Self {
        EngineError::StorageError(e.to_string())
    }
}

impl From<TopicManagerError> for EngineError {
    fn from(e: TopicManagerError) -> Self {
        EngineError::Other(e.to_string())
    }
}

impl From<LookupServiceError> for EngineError {
    fn from(e: LookupServiceError) -> Self {
        EngineError::LookupFailed(e.to_string())
    }
}

impl From<AdvertiserError> for EngineError {
    fn from(e: AdvertiserError) -> Self {
        EngineError::Other(e.to_string())
    }
}

// ============================================================================
// Tests
// ============================================================================

/// Baseline sync order: configured peer topics before SHIP discovery topics,
/// each by name (bsv-low #555, D-M1). `start_gasp_sync` advances SHIP topics
/// with explicit bootstrap peers ahead of this order so their sync can run
/// without importing tracker records. Deferred-graph reservations still use
/// each topic's configured target.
pub(crate) fn sync_order(config: &SyncConfiguration) -> Vec<(&String, &SyncTarget)> {
    let mut order: Vec<(&String, &SyncTarget)> = config.iter().collect();
    order.sort_by_key(|(topic, target)| (!matches!(target, SyncTarget::Peers(_)), topic.as_str()));
    order
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;
    use crate::lookup_service::LookupService as LookupServiceTrait;
    use crate::storage::memory::MemoryStorage;
    use crate::topic_manager::TopicManager as TopicManagerTrait;
    use async_trait::async_trait;
    use std::sync::Mutex;

    // bsv-low #555, the delta fold's D-M1: the configured peers' topics are
    // synced before the ls_ship-discovered ones, each class by name; the map's
    // order was arbitrary.
    #[test]
    fn delta555_m1_configured_peers_are_synced_before_discovered_ones() {
        let peers = |p: &str| SyncTarget::Peers(vec![p.to_string()]);
        let config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::from([
            ("tm_a".to_string(), SyncTarget::Ship),
            ("tm_z".to_string(), peers("https://z")),
            ("tm_b".to_string(), SyncTarget::Ship),
            ("tm_m".to_string(), peers("https://m")),
            ("tm_off".to_string(), SyncTarget::Disabled),
        ]);
        let order: Vec<&str> = sync_order(&config)
            .iter()
            .map(|(t, _)| t.as_str())
            .collect();
        assert_eq!(order, vec!["tm_m", "tm_z", "tm_a", "tm_b", "tm_off"]);
    }

    // ── Mock TopicManager ──────────────────────────────────────────────

    struct MockTopicManager {
        admit_indices: Vec<u32>,
    }

    impl MockTopicManager {
        fn admitting(indices: Vec<u32>) -> Self {
            Self {
                admit_indices: indices,
            }
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl TopicManagerTrait for MockTopicManager {
        async fn identify_admissible_outputs(
            &self,
            _tx: &Transaction,
            _previous_coins: &[u8],
            _off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
            _mode: SubmitMode,
            _context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
        ) -> Result<AdmittanceInstructions, TopicManagerError> {
            Ok(AdmittanceInstructions {
                outputs_to_admit: self.admit_indices.clone(),
                coins_to_retain: vec![],
                coins_removed: None,
            })
        }

        async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
            "Mock topic manager".to_string()
        }

        async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
            ServiceMetadata {
                name: "mock-tm".to_string(),
                description: Some("Mock for testing".to_string()),
                ..Default::default()
            }
        }
    }

    // ── Mock LookupService ─────────────────────────────────────────────

    struct MockLookupService {
        records: Mutex<Vec<UTXOReference>>,
    }

    impl MockLookupService {
        fn new() -> Self {
            Self {
                records: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
            }
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl LookupServiceTrait for MockLookupService {
        fn admission_mode(&self) -> AdmissionMode {
            AdmissionMode::LockingScript
        }

        fn spend_notification_mode(&self) -> SpendNotificationMode {
            SpendNotificationMode::None
        }

        async fn output_admitted_by_topic(
            &self,
            payload: &OutputAdmittedByTopic,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            let (txid, oi) = match payload {
                OutputAdmittedByTopic::LockingScript {
                    txid, output_index, ..
                } => (txid.clone(), *output_index),
                OutputAdmittedByTopic::WholeTx { output_index, .. } => {
                    ("whole".into(), *output_index)
                }
            };
            self.records.lock().unwrap().push(UTXOReference {
                txid,
                output_index: oi,
            });
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn output_evicted(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            self.records
                .lock()
                .unwrap()
                .retain(|r| !(r.txid == txid && r.output_index == output_index));
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn lookup(
            &self,
            _question: &LookupQuestion,
        ) -> Result<LookupResult, LookupServiceError> {
            Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(
                self.records.lock().unwrap().clone(),
            ))
        }

        async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
            "Mock lookup service".to_string()
        }

        async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
            ServiceMetadata {
                name: "mock-ls".to_string(),
                ..Default::default()
            }
        }
    }

    // ── Test BEEF data ──────────────────────────────────────────────────

    /// Real BRC-62 BEEF from TS overlay-services test suite.
    const TEST_BEEF_HEX: &str = "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";
    const TEST_TXID: &str = "157428aee67d11123203735e4c540fa1bdab3b36d5882c6f8c5ff79f07d20d1c";

    fn decode_hex(hex: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
        (0..hex.len())
            .step_by(2)
            .map(|i| u8::from_str_radix(&hex[i..i + 2], 16).unwrap())
            .collect()
    }

    fn test_beef() -> Vec<u8> {
        decode_hex(TEST_BEEF_HEX)
    }

    fn test_tagged_beef(topics: Vec<&str>) -> TaggedBEEF {
        TaggedBEEF::new(
            test_beef(),
            topics.into_iter().map(str::to_string).collect(),
        )
    }

    // ── Helpers ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

    fn make_engine(admit_indices: Vec<u32>) -> Engine {
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(admit_indices)),
        );

        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert("ls_test".to_string(), Box::new(MockLookupService::new()));

        let storage = Box::new(MemoryStorage::new());

        Engine::new(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage,
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        )
    }

    // ── Tests ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

    /// bsv-low#289 parse-once + zanaadu#284 subject discipline: the tx handed
    /// to every topic manager must be the ATOMIC SUBJECT of the submitted
    /// BEEF, not whatever sits last in wire order. bsv-rs < 0.3.20's
    /// `from_beef(_, None)` picked `txs.last()`; wallet serializers do not all
    /// place the subject last, so a TM could be handed a PARENT to validate.
    /// This pins the engine on the fixed rule (`txid ?? atomicTxid ?? last`).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn parse_once_hands_tms_the_atomic_subject_not_wire_order() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::beef_tx::ATOMIC_BEEF;
        use std::cell::RefCell;
        use std::rc::Rc;

        // Rebuild the fixture chain SUBJECT-FIRST via to_writer (to_binary
        // re-sorts parents-first and would hide the trigger).
        let parsed = Beef::from_binary(&test_beef()).unwrap();
        let parent = parsed.txs[0].tx().unwrap().clone();
        let child = parsed.txs[1].tx().unwrap().clone();
        let child_id = child.id();
        let parent_id = parent.id();
        let mut beef = Beef::new();
        // The parent's BUMP rides along: the reference-parity walk
        // (2026-09-08) executes the subject's script against the parent and
        // then trusts the parent on its proof; without the BUMP it would
        // demand the parent's own ancestry ("Input 0 has no source
        // transaction"), which this fixture does not carry.
        for bump in &parsed.bumps {
            beef.merge_bump(bump.clone());
        }
        beef.merge_transaction(child);
        beef.merge_transaction(parent);
        let mut w = bsv_rs::primitives::encoding::Writer::new();
        w.write_u32_le(ATOMIC_BEEF);
        let mut le = hex::decode(&child_id).unwrap();
        le.reverse();
        w.write_bytes(&le);
        beef.to_writer(&mut w);
        let atomic_wire_order = w.into_bytes();

        // A TM that records the txid it is handed.
        struct RecordingTm(Rc<RefCell<Option<String>>>);
        #[async_trait(?Send)]
        impl TopicManagerTrait for RecordingTm {
            async fn identify_admissible_outputs(
                &self,
                tx: &Transaction,
                _previous_coins: &[u8],
                _off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
                _mode: SubmitMode,
                _context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
            ) -> Result<AdmittanceInstructions, TopicManagerError> {
                *self.0.borrow_mut() = Some(tx.id());
                Ok(AdmittanceInstructions {
                    outputs_to_admit: vec![0],
                    coins_to_retain: vec![],
                    coins_removed: None,
                })
            }
            async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
                String::new()
            }
            async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
                ServiceMetadata {
                    name: "tm_test".to_string(),
                    ..Default::default()
                }
            }
        }

        let seen: Rc<RefCell<Option<String>>> = Rc::new(RefCell::new(None));
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(RecordingTm(Rc::clone(&seen))),
        );
        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );

        let tagged = TaggedBEEF::new(atomic_wire_order, vec!["tm_test".to_string()]);
        let _ = engine.submit(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        let handed = seen.borrow().clone().expect("TM was not invoked");
        assert_eq!(
            handed, child_id,
            "TM must be handed the atomic subject, got the wire-order pick"
        );
        assert_ne!(handed, parent_id);
    }

    /// #4 REGRESSION: history hydration must never DOWNGRADE provenance.
    ///
    /// `get_utxo_history` used to `Transaction::from_beef(beef, None)` and then
    /// `tx.to_beef(true)`, which keeps only the subject and DROPS the stored
    /// BUMPs. Measured on prod before the fix: `ls_low` byGameId `73de6e48…`
    /// returned 1,172 B / 1 tx / 1 bump (PROVEN) with no header, and 676 B /
    /// 1 tx / 0 bumps with `x-history-depth: 3`. A caller asking for MORE
    /// provenance got a BEEF no wallet can verify — silently, behind a 200.
    ///
    /// There was NO test on this function at all, which is exactly how that
    /// shipped. This one asserts the invariant that matters: whatever else
    /// hydration does, a proof that went in comes back out.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn history_hydration_preserves_the_stored_proof() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::Beef;

        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let stored = test_beef();
        let bumps_before = Beef::from_binary(&stored)
            .expect("fixture BEEF parses")
            .bumps
            .len();
        assert!(
            bumps_before > 0,
            "fixture must actually carry a proof, or this cell proves nothing"
        );

        let output = Output {
            txid: TEST_TXID.to_string(),
            output_index: 0,
            output_script: vec![0x76, 0xa9],
            satoshis: 1000,
            topic: "tm_test".to_string(),
            spent: false,
            // No admitted parents: hydration has nothing to add, so anything
            // it REMOVES is pure loss — the cleanest form of the bug.
            outputs_consumed: vec![],
            consumed_by: vec![],
            beef: Some(stored.clone()),
            block_height: None,
            score: Some(1000.0),
        };

        let hydrated = engine
            .get_utxo_history(&output, Some(HistorySelector::Depth(3)))
            .await
            .expect("hydration must not error")
            .expect("hydration must return the output");
        let beef = Beef::from_binary(&hydrated.beef.expect("hydrated BEEF present"))
            .expect("hydrated BEEF parses");

        assert_eq!(
            beef.bumps.len(),
            bumps_before,
            "asking for history must not strip the merkle proof (issue #4)"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_submit_unsupported_topic_errors() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_nonexistent"]);

        let result = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await;
        assert!(result.is_err());
        assert!(matches!(
            result.unwrap_err(),
            EngineError::UnsupportedTopic(_)
        ));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_submit_admits_outputs() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0, 1]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);

        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // STEAK should have tm_test with outputs 0 and 1 admitted
        let instructions = steak.get("tm_test").unwrap();
        assert_eq!(instructions.outputs_to_admit, vec![0, 1]);

        // Outputs should be in storage with real data
        let txid = TEST_TXID;
        let found = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .expect("Output 0 should be in storage");

        assert_eq!(found.txid, TEST_TXID);
        assert_eq!(found.satoshis, 26172); // Real value from BRC62 BEEF
        assert!(
            !found.output_script.is_empty(),
            "Script should be populated"
        );
        assert!(found.beef.is_some(), "BEEF should be stored");
        assert!(!found.spent);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_submit_duplicate_is_skipped() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);

        // First submit
        let steak1 = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(steak1["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);

        // Second submit — should be a dupe, no new outputs admitted
        let steak2 = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();
        assert!(steak2["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_submit_notifies_lookup_service() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);

        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Lookup service should have the output
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        let answer = engine.lookup(&question, None).await.unwrap();

        match answer {
            LookupAnswer::OutputList { outputs } => {
                assert_eq!(outputs.len(), 1);
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected OutputList"),
        }
    }

    /// #289: `lookup_with_txids` returns the storage txid per hydrated
    /// output, aligned with the OutputList — the aggregated serializer
    /// writes it instead of re-hashing the BEEF.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_lookup_with_txids_aligns_txids_with_outputs() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        let (answer, txids) = engine.lookup_with_txids(&question, None).await.unwrap();
        match answer {
            LookupAnswer::OutputList { outputs } => {
                assert_eq!(outputs.len(), 1);
                assert_eq!(txids.len(), outputs.len(), "one txid per output");
                assert_eq!(txids[0], TEST_TXID, "the storage primary key, verbatim");
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected OutputList"),
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proof_window_holds_an_aged_child_with_a_proven_parent() {
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let storage = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(storage.clone());
        engine
            .submit(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(beef_limits::own_proof(&test_beef(), TEST_TXID)
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        storage.advance_clock((crate::proof_window::PROOFLESS_FLAG_MS / 1000) as u64);
        assert_eq!(
            engine
                .lookup_with_txids(&question, None)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .1
                .len(),
            1
        );
        storage.advance_clock(1);
        assert!(
            engine
                .lookup_with_txids(&question, None)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .1
                .is_empty(),
            "an aged unproven child must be held even when its parent is proven"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proof_window_peer_proof_verifies_then_restores_lookup() {
        use crate::proof_window::{HeldOutput, PeerProofSummary, PROOFLESS_FLAG_MS};
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let storage = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(storage.clone());
        engine
            .submit(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        storage.advance_clock((PROOFLESS_FLAG_MS / 1000) as u64 + 1);
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        let candidate = HeldOutput {
            txid: TEST_TXID.into(),
            output_index: 0,
            topic: "tm_test".into(),
        };
        let (_, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        remote.nodes = std::rc::Rc::new(HashMap::from([(
            TEST_TXID.into(),
            crate::types::GASPNode {
                graph_id: String::new(),
                raw_tx: String::new(),
                output_index: 0,
                proof: Some(single_leaf_bump_hex(TEST_TXID, 800_000)),
                tx_metadata: None,
                output_metadata: None,
                inputs: None,
            },
        )]));
        engine
            .config
            .sync_configuration
            .insert("tm_test".into(), SyncTarget::Ship);
        engine.ship_bootstrap_peers.insert(
            "tm_test".into(),
            vec!["https://a.example".into(), "https://b.example".into()],
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let progress = std::cell::Cell::new(PeerProofSummary::default());
        engine.chain_tracker = Some(Box::new(bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(
            800_001,
        )));
        engine
            .rerequest_held_proofs(std::slice::from_ref(&candidate), &progress)
            .await;
        assert_eq!(progress.get().requests, 2, "ask every topic peer");
        assert_eq!(progress.get().landed, 0);
        assert_eq!(progress.get().refused, 2);
        assert!(engine
            .lookup_with_txids(&question, None)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .1
            .is_empty());
        let mut tracker = bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(800_001);
        tracker.add_root(800_000, TEST_TXID.into());
        engine.chain_tracker = Some(Box::new(tracker));
        engine.rerequest_held_proofs(&[candidate], &progress).await;
        assert_eq!(progress.get().requests, 4);
        assert_eq!(
            progress.get().landed,
            1,
            "count durable proofs, not peer answers"
        );
        let (_, txids) = engine.lookup_with_txids(&question, None).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(txids, vec![TEST_TXID]);
        let stored = storage
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, None, None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            beef_limits::own_proof(stored.beef.as_ref().unwrap(), TEST_TXID)
                .unwrap()
                .is_some()
        );
        assert_eq!(storage.proven_at_height(TEST_TXID), Some(Some(800_000)));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proof_window_peer_hash_leaf_is_stored_as_own_proof() {
        use crate::proof_window::{HeldOutput, PeerProofSummary, PROOFLESS_FLAG_MS};
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let storage = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(storage.clone());
        engine
            .submit(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        storage.advance_clock((PROOFLESS_FLAG_MS / 1000) as u64 + 1);
        let mut proof =
            bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath::from_hex(&single_leaf_bump_hex(TEST_TXID, 800_000))
                .unwrap();
        proof.path[0][0].txid = false;
        let mut tracker = bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(800_001);
        tracker.add_root(800_000, proof.compute_root(Some(TEST_TXID)).unwrap());
        engine.chain_tracker = Some(Box::new(tracker));
        let (_, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        remote.nodes = std::rc::Rc::new(HashMap::from([(
            TEST_TXID.into(),
            crate::types::GASPNode {
                graph_id: String::new(),
                raw_tx: String::new(),
                output_index: 0,
                proof: Some(proof.to_hex()),
                tx_metadata: None,
                output_metadata: None,
                inputs: None,
            },
        )]));
        engine.config.sync_configuration.insert(
            "tm_test".into(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://peer.example".into()]),
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let progress = std::cell::Cell::new(PeerProofSummary::default());
        engine
            .rerequest_held_proofs(
                &[HeldOutput {
                    txid: TEST_TXID.into(),
                    output_index: 0,
                    topic: "tm_test".into(),
                }],
                &progress,
            )
            .await;
        assert_eq!(progress.get().landed, 1);
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        let (answer, txids) = engine.lookup_with_txids(&question, None).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(txids, vec![TEST_TXID]);
        let LookupAnswer::OutputList { outputs } = answer else {
            panic!("expected outputs")
        };
        assert!(
            beef_limits::own_proof(&outputs[0].beef, TEST_TXID)
                .unwrap()
                .is_some(),
            "a proven flag must have the child's own path in the served BEEF"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proof_window_silent_peers_yield_at_the_request_budget() {
        use crate::proof_window::{HeldOutput, PeerProofSummary, PEER_PROOF_REQUEST_MS};
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        engine.config.sync_configuration.insert(
            "tm_test".into(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://a.example".into(), "https://b.example".into()]),
        );
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
                assert_eq!(ms, PEER_PROOF_REQUEST_MS);
                let deadline = elapsed.get() + ms;
                let elapsed = elapsed.clone();
                Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                    if elapsed.get() >= deadline {
                        std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                    } else {
                        std::task::Poll::Pending
                    }
                }))
            }),
            30_000,
        );
        let candidate = HeldOutput {
            txid: remote.outputs[0].txid.clone(),
            output_index: 0,
            topic: "tm_test".into(),
        };
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let progress = std::cell::Cell::new(PeerProofSummary::default());
        engine.rerequest_held_proofs(&[candidate], &progress).await;
        assert_eq!(progress.get().requests, 2);
        assert_eq!(progress.get().faults, 2);
        assert_eq!(progress.get().landed, 0);
    }

    /// #291: the public sync-response page size is always bounded.
    #[test]
    fn sync_limit_clamp() {
        assert_eq!(
            Engine::clamp_sync_limit(None),
            Engine::SYNC_RESPONSE_DEFAULT_LIMIT,
            "absent limit gets the default page, never unbounded"
        );
        assert_eq!(Engine::clamp_sync_limit(Some(7)), 7);
        assert_eq!(
            Engine::clamp_sync_limit(Some(u64::MAX)),
            Engine::SYNC_RESPONSE_MAX_LIMIT,
            "a huge caller-supplied limit is capped"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_lookup_unknown_service_errors() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_nonexistent", serde_json::json!({}));

        let result = engine.lookup(&question, None).await;
        assert!(result.is_err());
        assert!(matches!(
            result.unwrap_err(),
            EngineError::LookupServiceNotFound(_)
        ));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_list_topic_managers() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        let managers = engine.list_topic_managers().await;

        assert_eq!(managers.len(), 1);
        assert!(managers.contains_key("tm_test"));
        assert_eq!(managers["tm_test"].name, "mock-tm");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_list_lookup_service_providers() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        let services = engine.list_lookup_service_providers().await;

        assert_eq!(services.len(), 1);
        assert!(services.contains_key("ls_test"));
        assert_eq!(services["ls_test"].name, "mock-ls");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_get_documentation() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);

        let tm_docs = engine.get_documentation_for_topic_manager("tm_test").await;
        assert_eq!(tm_docs, "Mock topic manager");

        let ls_docs = engine.get_documentation_for_lookup_service("ls_test").await;
        assert_eq!(ls_docs, "Mock lookup service");

        let missing = engine
            .get_documentation_for_topic_manager("tm_missing")
            .await;
        assert_eq!(missing, "No documentation found!");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_provide_foreign_sync_response() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);

        // Submit data
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Query GASP sync
        let request = GASPInitialRequest {
            version: 1,
            since: 0,
            limit: Some(100),
        };
        let response = engine
            .provide_foreign_sync_response(&request, "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();

        // One tx admitted with output index 0
        assert_eq!(response.utxo_list.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(response.utxo_list[0].txid, TEST_TXID);
        assert_eq!(response.since, 0);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_delete_utxo_deep_simple() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);

        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        let txid = TEST_TXID;
        let output = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();

        // Delete it
        engine.delete_utxo_deep(&output, None).await.unwrap();

        // Should be gone
        let found = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(found.is_none());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_sync_config_defaults_to_ship() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        let sync = &engine.config.sync_configuration;

        // tm_test should default to SHIP sync
        assert!(sync.contains_key("tm_test"));
        assert!(matches!(sync["tm_test"], SyncTarget::Ship));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_multiple_topics_in_single_submit() {
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_alpha".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        managers.insert(
            "tm_beta".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![1])),
        );

        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_alpha", "tm_beta"]);

        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(steak["tm_alpha"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);
        assert_eq!(steak["tm_beta"].outputs_to_admit, vec![1]);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_evict_output_with_topic() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Output should exist
        let found = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(found.is_some(), "Output should exist before eviction");

        // Evict with topic
        engine
            .evict_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        // Output should be gone from storage
        let found = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(found.is_none(), "Output should be gone after eviction");

        // Lookup service should also have been notified (output evicted)
        let question = LookupQuestion::new("ls_test", serde_json::json!({}));
        let answer = engine.lookup(&question, None).await.unwrap();
        match answer {
            LookupAnswer::OutputList { outputs } => {
                assert!(
                    outputs.is_empty(),
                    "Lookup should return empty after eviction"
                );
            }
            _ => panic!("Expected OutputList"),
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_evict_output_without_topic() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Evict without topic — should find and remove across all topics
        engine.evict_output(TEST_TXID, 0, None).await.unwrap();

        let found = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            found.is_none(),
            "Output should be gone after topic-less eviction"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_evict_nonexistent_output_is_ok() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);

        // Evicting something that doesn't exist should not error
        let result = engine
            .evict_output("nonexistent_txid", 99, Some("tm_test"))
            .await;
        assert!(result.is_ok(), "Evicting nonexistent output should succeed");
    }

    // ── Mock Broadcaster ──────────────────────────────────────────────

    use crate::broadcaster::Broadcaster;
    use std::sync::Arc;

    type BroadcastCallLog = Arc<Mutex<Vec<(String, Vec<String>)>>>;

    struct MockBroadcaster {
        calls: BroadcastCallLog,
    }

    impl MockBroadcaster {
        fn new() -> Self {
            Self {
                calls: Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new())),
            }
        }

        #[allow(dead_code, reason = "kept for future test extension")]
        fn call_count(&self) -> usize {
            self.calls.lock().unwrap().len()
        }

        #[allow(dead_code, reason = "kept for future test extension")]
        fn calls(&self) -> Vec<(String, Vec<String>)> {
            self.calls.lock().unwrap().clone()
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl Broadcaster for MockBroadcaster {
        async fn broadcast_to_host(
            &self,
            host_url: &str,
            tagged_beef: &TaggedBEEF,
        ) -> Result<(), String> {
            self.calls
                .lock()
                .unwrap()
                .push((host_url.to_string(), tagged_beef.topics.clone()));
            Ok(())
        }
    }

    // ── Mock SHIP LookupService ─────────────────────────────────────

    /// A mock "ls_ship" lookup service that returns pre-configured UTXOReferences
    /// when queried. Used to test SHIP propagation without depending on
    /// overlay-discovery in the engine crate's unit tests.
    struct MockSHIPLookupService {
        /// Maps topic -> list of (txid, output_index) references
        records: Mutex<HashMap<String, Vec<UTXOReference>>>,
    }

    impl MockSHIPLookupService {
        fn with_records(records: HashMap<String, Vec<UTXOReference>>) -> Self {
            Self {
                records: Mutex::new(records),
            }
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl LookupServiceTrait for MockSHIPLookupService {
        fn admission_mode(&self) -> AdmissionMode {
            AdmissionMode::LockingScript
        }

        fn spend_notification_mode(&self) -> SpendNotificationMode {
            SpendNotificationMode::None
        }

        async fn output_admitted_by_topic(
            &self,
            _payload: &OutputAdmittedByTopic,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn output_evicted(
            &self,
            _txid: &str,
            _output_index: u32,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn lookup(
            &self,
            question: &LookupQuestion,
        ) -> Result<LookupResult, LookupServiceError> {
            // Parse the topics from the query
            if let Some(topics) = question.query.get("topics").and_then(|v| v.as_array()) {
                let records = self.records.lock().unwrap();
                let mut results = Vec::new();
                for topic_val in topics {
                    if let Some(topic) = topic_val.as_str() {
                        if let Some(refs) = records.get(topic) {
                            results.extend(refs.iter().cloned());
                        }
                    }
                }
                return Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(results));
            }
            Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(vec![]))
        }

        async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
            "Mock SHIP lookup service".to_string()
        }

        async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
            ServiceMetadata {
                name: "mock-ls-ship".to_string(),
                ..Default::default()
            }
        }
    }

    /// Build a minimal PushDrop locking script for a SHIP advertisement.
    fn build_ship_pushdrop_script(domain: &str, topic: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
        use bsv_rs::script::templates::PushDrop;
        use bsv_rs::PublicKey;

        let fields = vec![
            b"SHIP".to_vec(),
            vec![0x02; 33], // fake compressed pubkey bytes for identity_key field
            domain.as_bytes().to_vec(),
            topic.as_bytes().to_vec(),
        ];

        // PushDrop requires a real compressed public key for the locking script
        // Use a well-known test key (generator point G)
        let pubkey = PublicKey::from_hex(
            "0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798",
        )
        .expect("valid test pubkey");

        let pd = PushDrop::new(pubkey, fields);
        pd.lock().to_binary()
    }

    /// Create engine with a broadcaster and a mock SHIP lookup service.
    /// The `ship_domains` parameter provides (domain, topic) pairs to pre-populate.
    async fn make_engine_with_broadcaster(
        admit_indices: Vec<u32>,
        broadcaster: MockBroadcaster,
        ship_domains: Vec<(&str, &str)>,
        hosting_url: Option<&str>,
    ) -> (Engine, Arc<Mutex<Vec<(String, Vec<String>)>>>) {
        let calls = broadcaster.calls.clone();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(admit_indices)),
        );

        let storage = Box::new(MemoryStorage::new());

        // Build SHIP records: map each topic to its UTXO references and
        // store outputs in storage with PushDrop scripts so the engine can
        // parse the domain when broadcasting.
        let mut ship_records: HashMap<String, Vec<UTXOReference>> = HashMap::new();

        for (domain, topic) in &ship_domains {
            // Deterministic fake txid per domain+topic
            let fake_txid = format!("{:064x}", {
                let mut h: u64 = 0;
                for b in domain.bytes().chain(topic.bytes()) {
                    h = h.wrapping_mul(31).wrapping_add(u64::from(b));
                }
                h
            });

            // Add to SHIP records for the mock lookup service
            ship_records
                .entry(topic.to_string())
                .or_default()
                .push(UTXOReference {
                    txid: fake_txid.clone(),
                    output_index: 0,
                });

            // Build PushDrop SHIP script and store as an output in main storage
            let script = build_ship_pushdrop_script(domain, topic);

            let output = Output {
                txid: fake_txid,
                output_index: 0,
                output_script: script,
                satoshis: 1,
                topic: "tm_ship".to_string(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: None,
                block_height: None,
                score: None,
            };

            storage.insert_output(&output).await.unwrap();
        }

        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert("ls_test".to_string(), Box::new(MockLookupService::new()));
        lookup_services.insert(
            "ls_ship".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockSHIPLookupService::with_records(ship_records)),
        );

        let config = EngineConfig {
            hosting_url: hosting_url.map(str::to_string),
            ..Default::default()
        };

        let engine = Engine::with_chain_tracker(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage,
            None,
            Some(Box::new(broadcaster)),
            None,
            config,
        );

        (engine, calls)
    }

    // ── Broadcaster Tests ─────────────────────────────────────────────

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_called_on_current_tx_with_ship_peers() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")],
            Some("https://self.example.com"),
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Submit should succeed
        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        // Broadcaster should have been called for peer1
        let recorded = calls.lock().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            recorded.len(),
            1,
            "Broadcaster should be called once for the one SHIP peer"
        );
        assert_eq!(recorded[0].0, "https://peer1.example.com");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_not_called_on_historical_tx() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")],
            None,
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine
            .submit(&beef, SubmitMode::HistoricalTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();

        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        // Broadcaster should NOT have been called
        assert_eq!(
            calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "Broadcaster should not be called for historical TX"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_not_called_on_historical_tx_no_spv() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")],
            None,
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine
            .submit(&beef, SubmitMode::HistoricalTxNoSpv)
            .await
            .unwrap();

        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        assert_eq!(
            calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "Broadcaster should not be called for historical-tx-no-spv"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_skips_self_hosting_url() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![
                ("https://self.example.com", "tm_test"),
                ("https://peer2.example.com", "tm_test"),
            ],
            Some("https://self.example.com"),
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // Should only broadcast to peer2, not to self
        let recorded = calls.lock().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            recorded.len(),
            1,
            "Should broadcast to peer2 only, skipping self"
        );
        assert_eq!(recorded[0].0, "https://peer2.example.com");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_not_called_when_no_outputs_admitted() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        // Topic manager admits nothing
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![],
            broadcaster,
            vec![("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")],
            None,
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        // No outputs admitted -> no broadcast
        assert_eq!(
            calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "Broadcaster should not be called when no outputs are admitted"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_broadcaster_not_called_when_no_ship_peers() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        // No SHIP peers registered
        let (engine, calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![], // no SHIP peers
            None,
        )
        .await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "Broadcaster should not be called when no SHIP peers exist"
        );
    }

    // ── Configurable SpendNotification mock ─────────────────────────────

    /// A mock lookup service whose SpendNotificationMode can be configured.
    /// Uses a shared Arc<Mutex<Vec<OutputSpent>>> so the caller can inspect
    /// captured payloads after submit().
    struct SpendModeLookupService {
        mode: SpendNotificationMode,
        records: Mutex<Vec<UTXOReference>>,
        spent_payloads: Arc<Mutex<Vec<OutputSpent>>>,
    }

    impl SpendModeLookupService {
        fn with_mode(mode: SpendNotificationMode, capture: Arc<Mutex<Vec<OutputSpent>>>) -> Self {
            Self {
                mode,
                records: Mutex::new(Vec::new()),
                spent_payloads: capture,
            }
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl LookupServiceTrait for SpendModeLookupService {
        fn admission_mode(&self) -> AdmissionMode {
            AdmissionMode::LockingScript
        }

        fn spend_notification_mode(&self) -> SpendNotificationMode {
            self.mode
        }

        async fn output_admitted_by_topic(
            &self,
            payload: &OutputAdmittedByTopic,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            let (txid, oi) = match payload {
                OutputAdmittedByTopic::LockingScript {
                    txid, output_index, ..
                } => (txid.clone(), *output_index),
                OutputAdmittedByTopic::WholeTx { output_index, .. } => {
                    ("whole".into(), *output_index)
                }
            };
            self.records.lock().unwrap().push(UTXOReference {
                txid,
                output_index: oi,
            });
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn output_spent(&self, payload: &OutputSpent) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            self.spent_payloads.lock().unwrap().push(payload.clone());
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn output_evicted(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
        ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
            self.records
                .lock()
                .unwrap()
                .retain(|r| !(r.txid == txid && r.output_index == output_index));
            Ok(())
        }

        async fn lookup(
            &self,
            _question: &LookupQuestion,
        ) -> Result<LookupResult, LookupServiceError> {
            Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(
                self.records.lock().unwrap().clone(),
            ))
        }

        async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
            "SpendMode mock lookup service".to_string()
        }

        async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
            ServiceMetadata {
                name: "spend-mode-ls".to_string(),
                ..Default::default()
            }
        }
    }

    /// TXID of the input's source transaction in TEST_BEEF_HEX (the "previous coin").
    const PREVIOUS_TXID: &str = "3ecead27a44d013ad1aae40038acbb1883ac9242406808bb4667c15b4f164eac";

    /// Build an engine with a pre-populated previous output and a SpendModeLookupService.
    /// Returns the engine and the shared capture vec for inspecting OutputSpent payloads.
    async fn make_spend_mode_engine(
        mode: SpendNotificationMode,
    ) -> (Engine, Arc<Mutex<Vec<OutputSpent>>>) {
        let storage = MemoryStorage::new();

        // Pre-populate storage with the previous output that TEST_BEEF_HEX's input spends.
        let prev_output = Output {
            txid: PREVIOUS_TXID.to_string(),
            output_index: 0,
            output_script: vec![0x76, 0xa9],
            satoshis: 26174,
            topic: "tm_test".to_string(),
            spent: false,
            outputs_consumed: vec![],
            consumed_by: vec![],
            beef: Some(test_beef()),
            block_height: None,
            score: Some(1000.0),
        };
        storage.insert_output(&prev_output).await.unwrap();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );

        let capture: Arc<Mutex<Vec<OutputSpent>>> = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));
        let ls = SpendModeLookupService::with_mode(mode, capture.clone());
        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert("ls_test".to_string(), Box::new(ls));

        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            Box::new(storage),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );

        (engine, capture)
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_spend_notification_mode_script() {
        let (engine, capture) = make_spend_mode_engine(SpendNotificationMode::Script).await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        // The new output should be admitted
        assert_eq!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);

        // The lookup service should have received a Script spend notification
        let payloads = capture.lock().unwrap().clone();
        assert_eq!(payloads.len(), 1, "Expected exactly one spend notification");

        match &payloads[0] {
            OutputSpent::Script {
                txid,
                output_index,
                topic,
                spending_txid,
                input_index,
                unlocking_script,
                sequence_number,
                ..
            } => {
                assert_eq!(txid, PREVIOUS_TXID);
                assert_eq!(*output_index, 0);
                assert_eq!(topic, "tm_test");
                assert_eq!(spending_txid, TEST_TXID);
                // The BEEF has a single input at index 0 that spends PREVIOUS_TXID:0
                assert_eq!(*input_index, 0);
                // The unlocking script should be non-empty (it's a P2PKH scriptSig)
                assert!(
                    !unlocking_script.is_empty(),
                    "Unlocking script should be non-empty"
                );
                // Standard final sequence number
                assert_eq!(*sequence_number, 0xffff_ffff);
            }
            other => panic!("Expected OutputSpent::Script, got: {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_spend_notification_mode_whole_tx() {
        let (engine, capture) = make_spend_mode_engine(SpendNotificationMode::WholeTx).await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);

        let payloads = capture.lock().unwrap().clone();
        assert_eq!(payloads.len(), 1, "Expected exactly one spend notification");

        match &payloads[0] {
            OutputSpent::WholeTx {
                txid,
                output_index,
                topic,
                spending_atomic_beef,
                ..
            } => {
                assert_eq!(txid, PREVIOUS_TXID);
                assert_eq!(*output_index, 0);
                assert_eq!(topic, "tm_test");
                // The spending BEEF is the entire BEEF we submitted, NAMED
                // (atomic prefix) for the lookup service's own re-parse.
                let mut named =
                    bsv_rs::transaction::Beef::from_binary(spending_atomic_beef).unwrap();
                assert!(named.is_atomic());
                let submitted = bsv_rs::transaction::Beef::from_binary(&test_beef()).unwrap();
                assert_eq!(
                    named.txs.len(),
                    submitted.txs.len(),
                    "the whole body, never pruned"
                );
                let tip = crate::subject::subject_txid_of(&mut named).unwrap();
                assert_eq!(named.atomic_txid.as_deref(), Some(tip.as_str()));
            }
            other => panic!("Expected OutputSpent::WholeTx, got: {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_spend_notification_mode_txid() {
        let (engine, capture) = make_spend_mode_engine(SpendNotificationMode::Txid).await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);

        let payloads = capture.lock().unwrap().clone();
        assert_eq!(payloads.len(), 1, "Expected exactly one spend notification");

        match &payloads[0] {
            OutputSpent::Txid {
                txid,
                output_index,
                topic,
                spending_txid,
            } => {
                assert_eq!(txid, PREVIOUS_TXID);
                assert_eq!(*output_index, 0);
                assert_eq!(topic, "tm_test");
                assert_eq!(spending_txid, TEST_TXID);
            }
            other => panic!("Expected OutputSpent::Txid, got: {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_spend_notification_mode_none() {
        let (engine, capture) = make_spend_mode_engine(SpendNotificationMode::None).await;

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert_eq!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);

        let payloads = capture.lock().unwrap().clone();
        assert_eq!(payloads.len(), 1, "Expected exactly one spend notification");

        match &payloads[0] {
            OutputSpent::None {
                txid,
                output_index,
                topic,
            } => {
                assert_eq!(txid, PREVIOUS_TXID);
                assert_eq!(*output_index, 0);
                assert_eq!(topic, "tm_test");
            }
            other => panic!("Expected OutputSpent::None, got: {other:?}"),
        }
    }

    // ── GASP Sync Tests ───────────────────────────────────────────────

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_empty_config() {
        let engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: HashMap::new(),
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(
            result.topics_synced.is_empty(),
            "No topics should be synced with empty config"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_disabled_topic_skipped() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert("tm_test".to_string(), SyncTarget::Disabled);

        let engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(
            result.topics_synced.is_empty(),
            "Disabled topics should not appear in results"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_peers_config() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec![
                "https://peer1.example.com".to_string(),
                "https://peer2.example.com".to_string(),
            ]),
        );

        let engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 1);

        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers.len(), 2);
        assert_eq!(topic_result.sync_type, "peers");
        assert!(topic_result.errors.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_peers_filters_self() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec![
                "https://self.example.com".to_string(),
                "https://peer2.example.com".to_string(),
            ]),
        );

        let engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some("https://self.example.com".to_string()),
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(
            topic_result.peers.len(),
            1,
            "Self URL should be filtered out"
        );
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers[0], "https://peer2.example.com");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_quiet_peer_costs_no_request_during_backoff() {
        let calls = std::rc::Rc::default();
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(store.clone()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: HashMap::from([(
                    "tm_test".into(),
                    SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://quiet.example".into()]),
                )]),
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
            calls: std::rc::Rc::clone(&calls),
        }));
        for _ in 0..4 {
            engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        }
        assert_eq!(calls.borrow().len(), 3);
        assert_eq!(
            store
                .get_peer_sync_health("quiet.example", "tm_test")
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .consecutive_failures,
            0
        );
        store.advance_clock(60);
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.borrow().len(), 4);
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.borrow().len(), 4);
        engine
            .start_gasp_sync_filtered(&crate::sync_load::SyncFilter {
                topics: Some(vec!["tm_test".into()]),
                peers: None,
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.borrow().len(), 5);
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            calls.borrow().len(),
            6,
            "explicit selection reset the quiet streak"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_yield_and_advertisement_reset_cadence() {
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        engine
            .storage
            .set_peer_cadence(
                "budget.example",
                "tm_test",
                &crate::sync_load::PeerCadence {
                    quiet_syncs: 8,
                    retry_after_secs: 0,
                    advertisement: String::new(),
                },
            )
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(
            engine
                .storage
                .get_peer_cadence("budget.example", "tm_test")
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .quiet_syncs,
            0
        );
        engine
            .storage
            .set_peer_cadence(
                "budget.example",
                "tm_test",
                &crate::sync_load::PeerCadence {
                    quiet_syncs: 8,
                    retry_after_secs: 3_600,
                    advertisement: "previous-advertisement".into(),
                },
            )
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers_skipped.is_empty());
        assert!(
            engine
                .storage
                .get_peer_cadence("budget.example", "tm_test")
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .quiet_syncs
                <= 1
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_an_admitted_slap_change_wakes_its_peer() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(0);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        for _ in 0..3 {
            engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        }
        let skipped = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            skipped.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers_skipped[0].reason,
            "no_yield"
        );
        let count = remote.requests.borrow().len();
        let ad = discovery_output("SLAP", "https://budget.example", "ls_ship");
        let tx = beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(&ad.beef, None, &beef_limits::PEER_BEEF_LIMITS)
            .unwrap();
        engine
            .storage
            .insert_output(&Output {
                txid: tx.id(),
                output_index: 0,
                output_script: tx.outputs[0].locking_script.to_binary(),
                satoshis: 1,
                topic: "tm_slap".into(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: None,
                block_height: None,
                score: Some(1.0),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers_skipped.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(remote.requests.borrow().len(), count + 1);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_filter_selects_only_named_topic_and_peer() {
        let calls = std::rc::Rc::default();
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: ["tm_alpha", "tm_beta"]
                    .into_iter()
                    .map(|t| {
                        (
                            t.to_string(),
                            SyncTarget::Peers(vec![
                                "https://a.example".into(),
                                "https://b.example".into(),
                            ]),
                        )
                    })
                    .collect(),
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
            calls: std::rc::Rc::clone(&calls),
        }));
        let filter = crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::parse(
            r#"{"topics":["tm_beta"],"peers":["https://b.example"]}"#,
        )
        .unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync_filtered(&filter).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            *calls.borrow(),
            vec![("https://b.example".into(), "tm_beta".into())]
        );
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 1);
        calls.borrow_mut().clear();
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.borrow().len(), 4);
        calls.borrow_mut().clear();
        engine
            .start_gasp_sync_filtered(&crate::sync_load::SyncFilter {
                topics: Some(vec![]),
                peers: None,
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(calls.borrow().is_empty());
        assert!(crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::parse(r#"{"peers":"bad"}"#).is_err());
        assert!(crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::parse("null").is_err());
        assert_eq!(
            crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::parse("  ").unwrap(),
            crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::default()
        );
    }

    #[derive(Clone, Default)]
    struct MockShipLookupClient {
        records: HashMap<(String, String), Vec<OutputListItem>>,
        failures: HashSet<String>,
        calls: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Vec<(String, LookupQuestion)>>>,
    }

    struct RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
        calls: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Vec<(String, String)>>>,
    }

    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory for RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
        fn create_remote(&self, peer: &str, topic: &str) -> Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemote> {
            self.calls
                .borrow_mut()
                .push((peer.to_string(), topic.to_string()));
            Box::new(MockSyncRemote { utxos: Vec::new() })
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl crate::ship_lookup::ShipLookupClient for MockShipLookupClient {
        async fn lookup(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            question: &LookupQuestion,
        ) -> Result<Vec<OutputListItem>, String> {
            self.calls
                .borrow_mut()
                .push((host.to_string(), question.clone()));
            if self.failures.contains(host) {
                return Err("mock tracker unavailable".to_string());
            }
            Ok(self
                .records
                .get(&(host.to_string(), question.service.clone()))
                .cloned()
                .unwrap_or_default())
        }
    }

    fn discovery_output(protocol: &str, domain: &str, scope: &str) -> OutputListItem {
        use bsv_rs::script::templates::PushDrop;
        let pubkey = bsv_rs::PublicKey::from_hex(
            "0279be667ef9dcbbac55a06295ce870b07029bfcdb2dce28d959f2815b16f81798",
        )
        .unwrap();
        let script = PushDrop::new(
            pubkey,
            vec![
                protocol.as_bytes().to_vec(),
                vec![0x02; 33],
                domain.as_bytes().to_vec(),
                scope.as_bytes().to_vec(),
            ],
        )
        .lock();
        let mut tx = Transaction::from_beef(&test_beef(), None).unwrap();
        tx.outputs[0].locking_script = script;
        tx.merkle_path = None;
        tx.invalidate_caches();
        let beef = tx.to_atomic_beef(true).unwrap();
        let parsed =
            beef_limits::transaction_from_beef(&beef, None, &beef_limits::PEER_BEEF_LIMITS)
                .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            parsed.outputs[0].locking_script,
            tx.outputs[0].locking_script
        );
        OutputListItem {
            beef,
            output_index: 0,
            context: None,
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_unions_local_trackers_and_slap_hosts_by_origin() {
        let (mut engine, _) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            MockBroadcaster::new(),
            vec![
                ("https://local.example", "tm_test"),
                ("https://shared.example/?local", "tm_test"),
            ],
            Some("https://self.example"),
        )
        .await;
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec!["https://tracker.example".to_string()];
        engine.set_ship_bootstrap_peers("tm_test", vec!["https://bootstrap.example".to_string()]);
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://tracker.example".to_string(), "ls_ship".to_string()),
            vec![
                discovery_output("SHIP", "https://direct.example", "tm_test"),
                discovery_output("SHIP", "https://SHARED.example:443/path", "tm_test"),
                discovery_output("SHIP", "http://SELF.example.:8443/?x#y", "tm_test"),
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://wrong-protocol.example", "tm_test"),
                discovery_output("SHIP", "https://wrong-topic.example", "tm_other"),
                OutputListItem {
                    beef: vec![1, 2, 3],
                    output_index: 0,
                    context: None,
                },
            ],
        );
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://tracker.example".to_string(), "ls_slap".to_string()),
            vec![
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://lookup.example", "ls_ship"),
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://LOOKUP.example:443/path", "ls_ship"),
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://self.example/?slap", "ls_ship"),
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://tracker.example/path", "ls_ship"),
                discovery_output("SLAP", "https://other-service.example", "ls_other"),
            ],
        );
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://lookup.example".to_string(), "ls_ship".to_string()),
            vec![
                discovery_output("SHIP", "https://indirect.example", "tm_test"),
                discovery_output("SHIP", "https://self.example:443/#ship", "tm_test"),
            ],
        );
        let calls = client.calls.clone();
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers,
            vec![
                "https://bootstrap.example",
                "https://direct.example",
                "https://indirect.example",
                "https://local.example",
                "https://shared.example",
            ]
        );
        let calls = calls.borrow();
        assert_eq!(calls.len(), 3);
        for (_, question) in calls.iter() {
            let expected = if question.service == "ls_slap" {
                serde_json::json!({"service": "ls_ship"})
            } else {
                serde_json::json!({"topics": ["tm_test"]})
            };
            assert_eq!(question.query, expected);
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_empty_local_finds_all_advertised_peers() {
        let (mut engine, _) =
            make_engine_with_broadcaster(vec![0], MockBroadcaster::new(), vec![], None).await;
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec!["https://tracker.example".to_string()];
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        let outputs = (0..9)
            .map(|n| discovery_output("SHIP", &format!("https://peer{n}.example"), "tm_test"))
            .collect();
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://tracker.example".to_string(), "ls_ship".to_string()),
            outputs,
        );
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        let sync_calls = std::rc::Rc::new(std::cell::RefCell::new(Vec::new()));
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
            calls: sync_calls.clone(),
        }));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.sync_type, "ship");
        assert_eq!(
            topic.peers.len(),
            9,
            "the lookup-host cap must not truncate sync peers"
        );
        assert!(topic.errors.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(sync_calls.borrow().len(), 9);
        for peer in &topic.peers {
            assert!(sync_calls
                .borrow()
                .contains(&(peer.clone(), "tm_test".to_string())));
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_tracker_failure_preserves_other_answers() {
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec![
            "https://dead.example".to_string(),
            "https://live.example".to_string(),
        ];
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        client.failures.insert("https://dead.example".to_string());
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://live.example".to_string(), "ls_ship".to_string()),
            vec![discovery_output("SHIP", "https://peer.example", "tm_test")],
        );
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers,
            vec!["https://peer.example"]
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_provider_cap_is_shared_across_topics() {
        use crate::ship_lookup::SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK;
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        engine
            .config
            .sync_configuration
            .insert("tm_other".to_string(), SyncTarget::Ship);
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec!["https://tracker.example".to_string()];
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        let mut providers = Vec::new();
        for n in 0..SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK + 3 {
            let host = format!("https://lookup{n}.example");
            providers.push(discovery_output("SLAP", &host, "ls_ship"));
            client.records.insert(
                (host, "ls_ship".to_string()),
                vec![
                    discovery_output("SHIP", &format!("https://peer{n}.example"), "tm_test"),
                    discovery_output("SHIP", &format!("https://other{n}.example"), "tm_other"),
                ],
            );
        }
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://tracker.example".to_string(), "ls_slap".to_string()),
            providers,
        );
        let calls = client.calls.clone();
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers.len(),
            SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK
        );
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_other"].peers.len(),
            SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK
        );
        let calls = calls.borrow();
        assert_eq!(
            calls.iter().filter(|(_, q)| q.service == "ls_slap").count(),
            1
        );
        let providers: HashSet<_> = calls
            .iter()
            .filter(|(h, q)| h != "https://tracker.example" && q.service == "ls_ship")
            .map(|(h, _)| h)
            .collect();
        assert_eq!(providers.len(), SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK);
        assert_eq!(calls.len(), 1 + 2 * (1 + SHIP_DISCOVERY_MAX_HOSTS_PER_TICK));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_outage_keeps_bootstrap_and_excludes_self() {
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        engine.config.hosting_url = Some("https://self.example".to_string());
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec!["https://dead.example".to_string()];
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        client.failures.insert("https://dead.example".to_string());
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        engine.set_ship_bootstrap_peers(
            "tm_test",
            vec![
                "https://bootstrap.example".to_string(),
                "https://BOOTSTRAP.example.:443/?x".to_string(),
                "http://SELF.example.:8443/path".to_string(),
            ],
        );
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers,
            vec!["https://bootstrap.example"]
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn ship_network_discovery_bootstrap_topic_runs_before_tracker_import() {
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        for topic in ["tm_ship", "tm_slap"] {
            engine.config.sync_configuration.insert(
                topic.to_string(),
                SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://tracker.example".to_string()]),
            );
        }
        engine.config.slap_trackers = vec!["https://tracker.example".to_string()];
        let mut client = MockShipLookupClient::default();
        client.records.insert(
            ("https://tracker.example".to_string(), "ls_ship".to_string()),
            vec![discovery_output(
                "SHIP",
                "https://discovered.example",
                "tm_test",
            )],
        );
        let lookups = client.calls.clone();
        engine.set_ship_lookup_client(Box::new(client));
        engine.set_ship_bootstrap_peers("tm_test", vec!["https://bootstrap.example".to_string()]);
        let calls = std::rc::Rc::new(std::cell::RefCell::new(Vec::new()));
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(RecordingDiscoverySyncFactory {
            calls: calls.clone(),
        }));
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            calls
                .borrow()
                .iter()
                .map(|(_, topic)| topic.as_str())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["tm_test", "tm_test", "tm_ship", "tm_slap"]
        );
        assert_eq!(lookups.borrow().len(), 2);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_ship_discovers_peers() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, _calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![
                ("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test"),
                ("https://peer2.example.com", "tm_test"),
            ],
            Some("https://self.example.com"),
        )
        .await;

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(
            result.topics_synced.contains_key("tm_test"),
            "tm_test should be in sync results"
        );

        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic_result.sync_type, "ship");
        assert_eq!(
            topic_result.peers.len(),
            2,
            "Should discover both SHIP peers"
        );
        assert!(topic_result
            .peers
            .contains(&"https://peer1.example.com".to_string()));
        assert!(topic_result
            .peers
            .contains(&"https://peer2.example.com".to_string()));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_ship_filters_self() {
        let broadcaster = MockBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, _calls) = make_engine_with_broadcaster(
            vec![0],
            broadcaster,
            vec![
                ("https://self.example.com", "tm_test"),
                ("https://peer2.example.com", "tm_test"),
            ],
            Some("https://self.example.com"),
        )
        .await;

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(
            topic_result.peers.len(),
            1,
            "Self URL should be filtered out from SHIP discovery"
        );
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers[0], "https://peer2.example.com");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_ship_no_ls_ship_returns_empty() {
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_custom".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])),
        );

        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert("tm_custom".to_string(), SyncTarget::Ship);

        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_custom"];
        assert!(
            topic_result.peers.is_empty(),
            "Without ls_ship, SHIP discovery should return no peers"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_mixed_config() {
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_peers".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])),
        );
        managers.insert(
            "tm_disabled".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])),
        );
        managers.insert(
            "tm_ship_topic".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])),
        );

        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_peers".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://peer.com".to_string()]),
        );
        sync_config.insert("tm_disabled".to_string(), SyncTarget::Disabled);
        sync_config.insert("tm_ship_topic".to_string(), SyncTarget::Ship);

        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 2);
        assert!(result.topics_synced.contains_key("tm_peers"));
        assert!(result.topics_synced.contains_key("tm_ship_topic"));
        assert!(!result.topics_synced.contains_key("tm_disabled"));

        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_peers"].peers.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_peers"].sync_type, "peers");
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_ship_topic"].sync_type, "ship");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_gasp_sync_result_serialization() {
        let mut topics_synced = HashMap::new();
        topics_synced.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            super::TopicSyncResult {
                cost: crate::meter::SyncCost::default(),
                root_bounds: Vec::new(),
                peers_skipped: Vec::new(),
                peers_filtered: Vec::new(),
                roots_proven: 0,
                roots_unproven: 0,
                cursor_held_by: Vec::new(),
                expired_refused: 0,
                peers: vec!["https://peer.com".to_string()],
                sync_type: "ship".to_string(),
                errors: vec![],
                pruned_inputs: 0,
                discarded_graphs: 0,
                anchor_walk_held_graphs: 0,
                finalized_graphs: 0,
                deadline_dropped_graphs: 0,
                cursor_moves: Vec::new(),
                deferred_graphs: 0,
                resumed_graphs: 0,
                converged_graphs: 0,
                dropped_graphs: Vec::new(),
                stalled_graphs: 0,
                held_back_graphs: 0,
                backed_off_graphs: 0,
                waiting_graphs: 0,
                idle_counted: 0,
                peer_results: HashMap::new(),
                dead_graphs: 0,
                expired_swept: 0,
                memo_folded: 0,
                unanchorable_graphs: 0,
                unanchorable_cleared: 0,
                absent_struck: 0,
                route_faults: Vec::new(),
                strikes_refused: 0,
                faulted_roots: Vec::new(),
            },
        );

        let result = super::GASPSyncResult {
            cost: crate::meter::SyncCost::default(),
            topics_synced,
            filter: crate::sync_load::SyncFilter::default(),
            topics_filtered: Vec::new(),
        };
        let json = serde_json::to_string(&result).unwrap();
        let back: super::GASPSyncResult = serde_json::from_str(&json).unwrap();

        assert_eq!(back.topics_synced.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(back.topics_synced["tm_test"].peers.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(back.topics_synced["tm_test"].sync_type, "ship");
    }

    // ── GASP Sync With Factory Tests ─────────────────────────────────

    /// Mock GASPRemote for factory tests
    struct MockSyncRemote {
        utxos: Vec<crate::types::GASPOutput>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemote for MockSyncRemote {
        async fn get_initial_response(
            &self,
            request: &crate::types::GASPInitialRequest,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialResponse, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            let utxos: Vec<crate::types::GASPOutput> = self
                .utxos
                .iter()
                .filter(|u| u.score as u64 >= request.since)
                .cloned()
                .collect();
            Ok(crate::types::GASPInitialResponse {
                utxo_list: utxos,
                since: request.since,
            })
        }
        async fn get_initial_reply(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPInitialResponse,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialReply, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            Ok(crate::types::GASPInitialReply {
                utxo_list: Vec::new(),
            })
        }
        async fn request_node(
            &self,
            graph_id: &str,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
            _: bool,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPNode, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            Ok(crate::types::GASPNode {
                graph_id: graph_id.to_string(),
                raw_tx: format!("rawtx_{txid}"),
                output_index,
                proof: None,
                tx_metadata: None,
                output_metadata: None,
                inputs: None,
            })
        }
        async fn submit_node(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPNode,
        ) -> Result<Option<crate::types::GASPNodeResponse>, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            Ok(None)
        }
    }

    /// Mock factory that creates MockSyncRemote instances
    struct MockGASPRemoteFactory;

    #[derive(Clone)]
    struct BudgetPageRemote {
        outputs: std::rc::Rc<Vec<crate::types::GASPOutput>>,
        nodes: std::rc::Rc<HashMap<String, crate::types::GASPNode>>,
        elapsed: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
        requests: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Vec<crate::types::GASPInitialRequest>>>,
        clamp: Option<usize>,
        node_cost_ms: u64,
        /// One request of this txid costs this much more, once.
        slow_once: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Option<(String, u64)>>>,
        /// Node requests answered, by txid.
        asked: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Vec<String>>>,
        /// Txids answered with a transport fault (a 503), not `NodeNotFound`.
        faults_for: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<std::collections::HashSet<String>>>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemote for BudgetPageRemote {
        async fn get_initial_response(
            &self,
            request: &crate::types::GASPInitialRequest,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialResponse, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            self.requests.borrow_mut().push(request.clone());
            let page = self
                .outputs
                .iter()
                .filter(|u| u.score as u64 >= request.since);
            let limit = self.clamp.map_or(usize::MAX, |cap| {
                cap.min(request.limit.unwrap_or(u64::MAX) as usize)
            });
            Ok(crate::types::GASPInitialResponse {
                utxo_list: page.take(limit).cloned().collect(),
                since: request.since,
            })
        }

        async fn get_initial_reply(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPInitialResponse,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialReply, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            unreachable!()
        }

        async fn request_node(
            &self,
            graph_id: &str,
            txid: &str,
            _: u32,
            _: bool,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPNode, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            self.asked.borrow_mut().push(txid.to_string());
            self.elapsed.set(self.elapsed.get() + self.node_cost_ms);
            let slow = {
                let mut slow = self.slow_once.borrow_mut();
                match slow.as_ref() {
                    Some((t, _)) if t == txid => slow.take().map(|(_, ms)| ms),
                    _ => None,
                }
            };
            if let Some(ms) = slow {
                self.elapsed.set(self.elapsed.get() + ms);
            }
            if self.faults_for.borrow().contains(txid) {
                return Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::RemoteError("HTTP 503".into()));
            }
            if self.node_cost_ms > 0 {
                let mut yielded = false;
                std::future::poll_fn(|cx| {
                    if yielded {
                        std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                    } else {
                        yielded = true;
                        cx.waker().wake_by_ref();
                        std::task::Poll::Pending
                    }
                })
                .await;
            }
            let mut node = self
                .nodes
                .get(txid)
                .cloned()
                .ok_or_else(|| crate::gasp::GASPError::NodeNotFound(format!("{txid}.0")))?;
            node.graph_id = graph_id.to_string();
            Ok(node)
        }

        async fn submit_node(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPNode,
        ) -> Result<Option<crate::types::GASPNodeResponse>, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            unreachable!()
        }
    }

    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory for BudgetPageRemote {
        fn create_remote(&self, _: &str, _: &str) -> Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemote> {
            Box::new(self.clone())
        }
    }

    fn budget_page_engine(count: u32) -> (Engine, BudgetPageRemote) {
        let mut engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let mut tracker = bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(1000);
        let mut outputs = Vec::new();
        let mut nodes = HashMap::new();
        for n in 1..=count {
            let tx = child_of(&format!("{n:064x}"), 0);
            let txid = tx.id();
            tracker.add_root(n, txid.clone());
            outputs.push(crate::types::GASPOutput {
                txid: txid.clone(),
                output_index: 0,
                score: f64::from(n * 10),
            });
            nodes.insert(
                txid.clone(),
                crate::types::GASPNode {
                    graph_id: String::new(),
                    raw_tx: tx.to_hex(),
                    output_index: 0,
                    proof: Some(single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, n)),
                    tx_metadata: None,
                    output_metadata: None,
                    inputs: None,
                },
            );
        }
        engine.chain_tracker = Some(Box::new(tracker));
        engine.config.sync_configuration.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://budget.example".to_string()]),
        );
        let remote = BudgetPageRemote {
            outputs: std::rc::Rc::new(outputs),
            nodes: std::rc::Rc::new(nodes),
            elapsed: std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0)),
            requests: std::rc::Rc::default(),
            clamp: None,
            node_cost_ms: 5000,
            slow_once: std::rc::Rc::default(),
            asked: std::rc::Rc::default(),
            faults_for: std::rc::Rc::default(),
        };
        (engine, remote)
    }

    fn virtual_peer_budget(engine: &mut Engine, remote: &BudgetPageRemote) {
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
                assert_eq!(ms, 30_000);
                let elapsed = elapsed.clone();
                let until = elapsed.get() + ms;
                Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                    if elapsed.get() >= until {
                        std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                    } else {
                        std::task::Poll::Pending
                    }
                }))
            }),
            30_000,
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_large_page_persists_a_finalized_score_and_resumes() {
        // This responder ignores the limit: the initiator must safely handle
        // a 3,000-output page under a virtual 30-second peer budget.
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(3000);
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        for round in 1..=2 {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 5);
            assert_eq!(topic.deadline_dropped_graphs, 1);
            assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves.len(), 1);
            let expected = round * 50;
            assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, expected);
            assert_eq!(
                engine
                    .storage
                    .get_last_interaction("https://budget.example", "tm_test")
                    .await
                    .unwrap(),
                expected
            );
            {
                let requests = remote.requests.borrow();
                assert_eq!(requests[(round - 1) as usize].since, (round - 1) * 50);
            }
            for output in remote.outputs.iter().take((round * 5) as usize) {
                assert!(engine
                    .storage
                    .find_output(&output.txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
                    .await
                    .unwrap()
                    .is_some());
            }
            let unfinished = &remote.outputs[(round * 5) as usize];
            assert!(engine
                .storage
                .find_output(&unfinished.txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .is_none());
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_requests_bounded_pages_and_accepts_responder_clamping() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(7);
        remote.clamp = Some(3);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 7);
        let requests = remote.requests.borrow();
        assert_eq!(requests.len(), 4);
        assert!(requests.iter().all(|request| request.limit == Some(100)));
        assert_eq!(
            requests.iter().map(|r| r.since).collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec![0, 30, 50, 70]
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_unordered_page_keeps_the_completed_score_below_a_gap() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(3000);
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.outputs).swap(0, 9);
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 5);
        // Score 100 landed, but score 10 is still ahead in this unordered
        // page. The unfinished lower score must hold the cursor at entry.
        assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_tied_scores_do_not_skip_an_unfinished_output() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(3);
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.outputs)[2].score = 20.0;
        remote.node_cost_ms = 10_000;
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 2);
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 10);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_failed_graph_holds_the_cursor_below_later_finalizations() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(3000);
        let failed = remote.outputs[2].txid.clone();
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes).remove(&failed);
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 4);
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 20);
    }

    struct ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
        proofs: HashMap<String, String>,
        requested: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl AncestorFetcher for ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
        async fn fetch_ancestor(&self, _: &str) -> Result<FetchedAncestor, GASPError> {
            assert!(
                self.requested.get() > 0,
                "root proof request must precede ancestry"
            );
            Err(GASPError::RemoteError("raw source unavailable".to_string()))
        }
        async fn verified_proof_for(&self, txid: &str) -> Option<String> {
            self.requested.set(self.requested.get() + 1);
            self.proofs.get(txid).cloned()
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn copy_sync_leaves_completion_courier_untouched() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        let txid = remote.outputs[0].txid.clone();
        let proof = std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes)
            .get_mut(&txid)
            .unwrap()
            .proof
            .take()
            .unwrap();
        let completion_asks = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        let sync_asks = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
            proofs: HashMap::new(),
            requested: completion_asks.clone(),
        }));
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
            proofs: HashMap::from([(txid.clone(), proof.clone())]),
            requested: sync_asks.clone(),
        }));
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].roots_proven, 1);
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].roots_unproven, 0);
        let stored = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            crate::beef_limits::own_proof(stored.beef.as_ref().unwrap(), &txid)
                .unwrap()
                .is_some()
        );
        assert_eq!(completion_asks.get(), 0);
        assert_eq!(sync_asks.get(), 1);
        let served = engine
            .provide_foreign_gasp_node(&format!("{txid}.0"), &txid, 0)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(served.proof, Some(proof));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_proofless_root_uses_own_proof_source_without_raw_refetch() {
        for proven in [true, false] {
            let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
            let txid = remote.outputs[0].txid.clone();
            let proof = remote.nodes[&txid].proof.clone().unwrap();
            std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes)
                .get_mut(&txid)
                .unwrap()
                .proof = None;
            let requested = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
            engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
                proofs: if proven {
                    HashMap::from([(txid.clone(), proof)])
                } else {
                    HashMap::new()
                },
                requested: requested.clone(),
            }));
            virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
            engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            assert!(requested.get() > 0);
            assert_eq!(
                result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs,
                u64::from(proven)
            );
            assert_eq!(
                engine
                    .storage
                    .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
                    .await
                    .unwrap()
                    .is_some(),
                proven
            );
            if !proven {
                assert!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].cursor_moves.is_empty());
            }
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_deferred_root_resumes_when_own_proof_becomes_available() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        let txid = remote.outputs[0].txid.clone();
        // Engine 0.1.15: the peer is asked for the parent the fetcher cannot
        // serve. This witness's subject is a paid walk kept as a deferral,
        // so the peer answers that parent with a transport fault (#56).
        let parent = bsv_rs::transaction::Transaction::from_hex(&remote.nodes[&txid].raw_tx)
            .unwrap()
            .inputs[0]
            .source_txid
            .clone()
            .unwrap();
        remote.faults_for.borrow_mut().insert(parent);
        let proof = remote.nodes[&txid].proof.clone().unwrap();
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes)
            .get_mut(&txid)
            .unwrap()
            .proof = None;
        let requested = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
            proofs: HashMap::new(),
            requested: requested.clone(),
        }));
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            5,
            5000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let held = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(held.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 0);
        assert_eq!(held.topics_synced["tm_test"].deferred_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(held.topics_synced["tm_test"].cursor_moves[0].to, 10);
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
            proofs: HashMap::from([(txid.clone(), proof)]),
            requested,
        }));
        engine
            .storage()
            .update_last_interaction("https://budget.example", "tm_test", 20)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let landed = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(landed.topics_synced["tm_test"].resumed_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(landed.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 1);
        assert!(landed.topics_synced["tm_test"].cursor_moves.is_empty());
        assert!(engine
            .storage
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_some());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proofs_deadline_stalls_become_durable_after_three_runs() {
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        let root = format!("{}.0", remote.outputs[0].txid);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
                let until = elapsed.get() + ms;
                let elapsed = elapsed.clone();
                Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                    if elapsed.get() >= until {
                        std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                    } else {
                        std::task::Poll::Pending
                    }
                }))
            }),
            10,
            1_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        for round in 1..=crate::gasp::DEADLINE_STALL_DEFERRAL_RUNS {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            if round < crate::gasp::DEADLINE_STALL_DEFERRAL_RUNS {
                assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty());
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_held_by, vec![root.clone()]);
            } else {
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 10);
                assert_eq!(topic.deferred_graphs, 1);
            }
        }
        let held = engine
            .storage()
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(held.cursor_passable);
        assert!(held.nodes.is_empty());
    }

    /// 0.1.8 (the cursor): a graph the per-PEER deadline cuts before its
    /// root comes back is held at once (`peer_deadline`), the cursor passes
    /// it to the page's last finished score, and the next run resumes it
    /// ahead of the pages until it converges. On 0.1.7 the cut was a retry
    /// for three runs, the cursor stayed at 20 and `cursor_held_by` named it.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cursor_018_the_graph_in_flight_at_the_peer_deadline_is_held_and_passed() {
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(6);
        let slow = remote.outputs[2].txid.clone();
        let root = format!("{slow}.0");
        *remote.slow_once.borrow_mut() = Some((slow.clone(), 60_000));
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 2);
        assert_eq!(topic.deadline_dropped_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.deferred_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 30, "past the held graph");
        assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
        let held = engine
            .storage()
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(held.cursor_passable);
        assert_eq!(held.reason, "peer_deadline");
        assert!(held.nodes.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(held.score, 30);

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.converged_graphs, 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 4, "the held graph and 40, 50, 60");
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 60);
        assert!(engine
            .storage()
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
        for output in remote.outputs.iter() {
            assert!(engine
                .storage
                .find_output(&output.txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .is_some());
        }
    }

    /// Every root's advert expired (the walk refuses each after its node).
    struct ExpiredRoots(MockTopicManager);

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl TopicManagerTrait for ExpiredRoots {
        async fn identify_admissible_outputs(
            &self,
            tx: &Transaction,
            previous_coins: &[u8],
            off_chain_values: Option<&[u8]>,
            mode: SubmitMode,
            context: &TopicAdmittanceContext,
        ) -> Result<AdmittanceInstructions, TopicManagerError> {
            self.0
                .identify_admissible_outputs(tx, previous_coins, off_chain_values, mode, context)
                .await
        }
        async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
            self.0.get_documentation().await
        }
        async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
            self.0.get_metadata().await
        }
        fn sync_expiry(&self, _: &bsv_rs::script::LockingScript) -> Option<u64> {
            Some(1)
        }
    }

    /// A page of dead adverts above one root the peer cannot serve (a gap
    /// the cursor holds below), on a shared store.
    fn dead_page_engine(count: u32) -> (Engine, BudgetPageRemote, std::rc::Rc<MemoryStorage>) {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(count);
        let gap = remote.outputs[0].txid.clone();
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes).remove(&gap);
        engine.managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(ExpiredRoots(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0]))),
        );
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        (engine, remote, store)
    }

    /// 0.1.8: a sync that only refused expired adverts (the cursor held by
    /// a gap below them) did work: a yield, never a step of the yieldless
    /// streak. On 0.1.7 it was yieldless.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cursor_018_a_sync_that_only_refuses_the_dead_is_a_yield() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote, store) = dead_page_engine(3);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.expired_refused, 2);
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 0);
        assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty());
        let host = crate::gasp::peer_origin("https://budget.example");
        assert_eq!(store.peer_yieldless_syncs(&host, "tm_test"), 0);
        let health = store.get_peer_sync_health(&host, "tm_test").await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(health.consecutive_failures, 0);
    }

    /// 0.1.8: a peer that served every page and every node, whose slice
    /// the per-peer deadline ended in each of nine runs in a row while it
    /// refused dead adverts (the cursor held by a gap below them), is never
    /// quarantined: each run did work. On 0.1.7 each was a failed attempt
    /// and the ninth was skipped.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn cursor_018_deadline_drops_in_a_row_do_not_quarantine_a_serving_peer() {
        let (mut engine, remote, store) = dead_page_engine(200);
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let host = crate::gasp::peer_origin("https://budget.example");
        let runs = crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD + 1;
        let gap = format!("{}.0", remote.outputs[0].txid);
        for run in 1..=runs {
            // Engine 0.1.15: the gap root is absence (`not_found`), counted
            // on runs at least ABSENCE_GAP_SECS apart; these runs follow at
            // once, so the gap is passed by hand (#56).
            if let Some(mut record) = store
                .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &gap)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .filter(|r| r.reason.starts_with("retry:fault:"))
            {
                record.retry_at = 0;
                store.put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
            }
            let asked = remote.asked.borrow().len();
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert!(remote.asked.borrow().len() > asked, "run {run}: attempted");
            assert_eq!(topic.deadline_dropped_graphs, 1, "run {run}");
            assert!(topic.expired_refused > 0, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            // 0.1.9: the gap is a root the peer lists and does not serve
            // (`not_found` since 0.1.15, `not_served` before); its third
            // faulted run records it unanchorable and the cursor passes it.
            if run < u64::from(crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS) {
                assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "run {run}: the gap holds");
            } else if run == u64::from(crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS) {
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 1, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
                assert!(!topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "run {run}: passed");
            }
            let health = store.get_peer_sync_health(&host, "tm_test").await.unwrap();
            assert_eq!(health.consecutive_failures, 0, "run {run}");
        }
        // A refused root is never fetched again. The one root fetched twice
        // per cut is the graph in flight: its answer was lost with the slice
        // and its hold is resumed (and refused) by the next run.
        let asked = remote.asked.borrow();
        let mut dead: Vec<&String> = asked
            .iter()
            .filter(|t| **t != remote.outputs[0].txid)
            .collect();
        let fetched = dead.len();
        dead.sort();
        dead.dedup();
        assert_eq!(
            fetched - dead.len(),
            (runs - 1) as usize,
            "one per resumed cut"
        );
        assert_eq!(store.expired_outpoints("tm_test").len(), dead.len() - 1);
    }

    /// A courier that serves ONE ancestor, and only once told to (engine
    /// 0.1.9): before, every rung "could not serve" it.
    struct GatedCourier {
        txid: String,
        raw_tx: String,
        proof: String,
        serve: std::rc::Rc<Cell<bool>>,
        asked: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl AncestorFetcher for GatedCourier {
        async fn fetch_ancestor(&self, txid: &str) -> Result<FetchedAncestor, GASPError> {
            self.asked.set(self.asked.get() + 1);
            if self.serve.get() && txid == self.txid {
                Ok(FetchedAncestor {
                    raw_tx: self.raw_tx.clone(),
                    proof: Some(self.proof.clone()),
                })
            } else {
                Err(GASPError::RemoteError(format!(
                    "no rung served the raw of {txid}"
                )))
            }
        }
        async fn verified_proof_for(&self, _: &str) -> Option<String> {
            None
        }
    }

    /// The fixture of 0.1.9: a page of three (scores 10, 20, 30) whose
    /// lowest root is served UNPROVEN, so its walk needs its parent, which
    /// only the courier can serve (a mined parent, proven at height 900).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_definitive_absence_strikes_a_resumed_obligation() {
        let mut fixture = obligation_fixture(1, 1, 0).await;
        fixture
            .engine
            .set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(LoadCourier {
                calls: std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0)),
                bounded: false,
            }));
        // Engine 0.1.15 (#56): the rungs' absence counts one run, never a
        // strike by itself (it struck at once on 0.1.12 to 0.1.14); three
        // runs with a gap strike it. The obligation stays passable.
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        let runs = crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS;
        for run in 1..=runs {
            let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            let record = fixture
                .store
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &fixture.obligations[0])
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap();
            assert_eq!(record.faults, run);
            assert!(record.cursor_passable);
            if run == 1 {
                assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 1);
            }
            if run < runs {
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 0);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "retry:fault:not_found");
                let mut record = record;
                record.retry_at = 0;
                fixture.store.put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
            } else {
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 1);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "unanchorable:not_found");
            }
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_root_time_is_clamped_and_named() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 16_000;
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        let sleep: SleepFactory = std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
            let clock = elapsed.clone();
            let due = clock.get() + ms;
            Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                if clock.get() >= due {
                    std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                } else {
                    std::task::Poll::Pending
                }
            }))
        });
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(sleep.clone(), 30_000);
        engine.set_graph_budget(sleep, 100, 60_000);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 0);
        assert_eq!(topic.root_bounds[0].reason, "time");
        assert!(!topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty() || topic.deferred_graphs > 0);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_storage_counts_are_attempts_at_the_boundary() {
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);
        let meter = crate::meter::LoadMeter::default();
        meter
            .scope(async {
                assert_eq!(
                    engine
                        .storage
                        .get_last_interaction("peer", "topic")
                        .await
                        .unwrap(),
                    0
                );
                engine
                    .storage
                    .update_last_interaction("peer", "topic", 12)
                    .await
                    .unwrap();
                assert_eq!(
                    engine
                        .storage
                        .get_last_interaction("peer", "topic")
                        .await
                        .unwrap(),
                    12
                );
            })
            .await;
        assert_eq!(
            (
                meter.snapshot().storage_reads,
                meter.snapshot().storage_writes
            ),
            (2, 1)
        );
        engine
            .storage
            .get_last_interaction("peer", "topic")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(meter.snapshot().storage_reads, 2);
    }

    struct LoadCourier {
        calls: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
        bounded: bool,
    }
    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl crate::gasp::AncestorFetcher for LoadCourier {
        async fn fetch_ancestor(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
        ) -> Result<crate::gasp::FetchedAncestor, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            self.calls.set(self.calls.get() + 1);
            if self.bounded {
                for _ in 0..13 {
                    crate::meter::courier_request()
                        .map_err(|e| crate::gasp::GASPError::Other(e.into()))?;
                }
                Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::RemoteError(
                    "still missing a proof".into(),
                ))
            } else {
                for _ in 0..3 {
                    crate::meter::courier_request().unwrap();
                }
                Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::DefinitiveNotFound(txid.into()))
            }
        }
        async fn verified_proof_for(&self, _: &str) -> Option<String> {
            None
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_definitive_absence_is_shared_across_peers_and_topics() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            mut engine,
            remote,
            root,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        let calls = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(LoadCourier {
            calls: calls.clone(),
            bounded: false,
        }));
        engine.managers.insert(
            "tm_other".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        for topic in ["tm_test", "tm_other"] {
            engine.config.sync_configuration.insert(
                topic.into(),
                SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://a.example".into(), "https://b.example".into()]),
            );
        }
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.get(), 1, "one ladder per missing ancestor per run");
        assert_eq!(result.cost.courier_not_found_memo_hits, 3);
        assert_eq!(result.cost.courier_rungs, 3);
        for (topic, res) in &result.topics_synced {
            // Engine 0.1.15 (#56): the rungs' absence counts one run on each
            // (peer, topic), not a strike (2 unanchorable on 0.1.12 to 0.1.14).
            assert_eq!(res.unanchorable_graphs, 0, "{res:?}");
            assert_eq!(
                res.cost.courier_rungs + res.cost.peer_requests,
                res.cost.calls_out
            );
            for host in ["https://a.example", "https://b.example"] {
                let mut record = engine
                    .storage
                    .get_deferred_graph(host, topic, &root)
                    .await
                    .unwrap()
                    .unwrap();
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "retry:fault:not_found");
                assert_eq!(record.faults, 1);
                assert!(!record.cursor_passable);
                record.retry_at = 0;
                engine.storage.put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
            }
        }
        assert!(!remote.asked.borrow().is_empty());
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(calls.get(), 2, "another run can retry absence");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_courier_bound_defers_the_root_and_names_it() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            mut engine, root, ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(LoadCourier {
            calls: std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0)),
            bounded: true,
        }));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let record = engine
            .storage
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .expect("bounded root must be retained");
        assert_eq!(record.reason, "courier_rungs");
        assert!(!record.nodes.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(result.cost.courier_rungs, 12);
        assert_eq!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].root_bounds[0].reason,
            "courier_rungs"
        );
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 2);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_refused_save_does_not_restart_a_bounded_root() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            mut engine,
            store,
            root,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        store.set_deferred_graph_ceiling(Some(0));
        let calls = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(LoadCourier {
            calls: calls.clone(),
            bounded: true,
        }));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(calls.get(), 1, "no retry after a hard root cut");
        assert_eq!(topic.root_bounds.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(result.cost.courier_rungs, 12);
        assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.contains(&root));
        assert_eq!(
            topic.strikes_refused, 0,
            "a budget cut is not a fault strike"
        );
        assert!(topic.dropped_graphs.iter().any(|g| g.reason == "too_many"));
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 2);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_refused_save_does_not_extend_root_time() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 16_000;
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        let sleep: SleepFactory = std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
            let clock = elapsed.clone();
            let due = clock.get() + ms;
            Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                if clock.get() >= due {
                    std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                } else {
                    std::task::Poll::Pending
                }
            }))
        });
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        store.set_deferred_graph_ceiling(Some(0));
        engine.storage = Box::new(store);
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(sleep.clone(), 30_000);
        engine.set_graph_budget(sleep, 100, 60_000);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(
            remote.asked.borrow().len(),
            1,
            "no request after the time cut"
        );
        assert_eq!(topic.root_bounds.len(), 1);
        assert_eq!(topic.root_bounds[0].reason, "time");
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 0);
        assert!(!topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_call_limit_fallback_keeps_the_root_deadline() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            mut engine,
            mut remote,
            store,
            root,
            serve,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        store.set_deferred_graph_ceiling(Some(0));
        serve.set(true);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 8_000;
        struct DelayedCourier {
            inner: std::rc::Rc<dyn AncestorFetcher>,
            clock: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
        }
        #[async_trait(?Send)]
        impl AncestorFetcher for DelayedCourier {
            async fn fetch_ancestor(&self, txid: &str) -> Result<FetchedAncestor, GASPError> {
                self.clock.set(self.clock.get() + 8_000);
                tokio::task::yield_now().await;
                self.inner.fetch_ancestor(txid).await
            }
            async fn verified_proof_for(&self, txid: &str) -> Option<String> {
                self.inner.verified_proof_for(txid).await
            }
        }
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(DelayedCourier {
            inner: engine.gasp_ancestor_fetcher.as_ref().unwrap().clone(),
            clock: remote.elapsed.clone(),
        }));
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        let sleep: SleepFactory = std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
            let clock = elapsed.clone();
            let due = clock.get() + ms;
            Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                if clock.get() >= due {
                    std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                } else {
                    std::task::Poll::Pending
                }
            }))
        });
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(sleep.clone(), 30_000);
        engine.set_graph_budget(sleep, 1, 60_000);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert!(
            topic
                .root_bounds
                .iter()
                .any(|b| b.outpoint == root && b.reason == "time"),
            "{topic:?}"
        );
        assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.contains(&root));
        assert!(topic.dropped_graphs.iter().any(|g| g.reason == "too_many"));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn load_0112_cost_matches_the_remote_call_log() {
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(2);
        remote.elapsed.set(0);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let actual_calls = (remote.requests.borrow().len() + remote.asked.borrow().len()) as u64;
        assert_eq!(result.cost.peer_requests, actual_calls);
        assert_eq!(result.cost.calls_out, actual_calls);
        assert!(result.cost.storage_reads > 0);
        assert!(result.cost.storage_writes > 0);
        assert_eq!(
            result.cost.storage_reads,
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].cost.storage_reads
        );
        assert_eq!(
            result.cost.storage_writes,
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].cost.storage_writes
        );
    }

    struct UnanchorableFixture {
        engine: Engine,
        remote: BudgetPageRemote,
        store: std::rc::Rc<MemoryStorage>,
        root: String,
        serve: std::rc::Rc<Cell<bool>>,
        asked: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
    }

    fn unanchorable_fixture() -> UnanchorableFixture {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(3);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        let parent = child_of(&format!("{:064x}", 0xab), 0);
        let child = child_of(&parent.id(), 0);
        let mut tracker = bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(1000);
        for n in 1..=3u32 {
            tracker.add_root(n, child_of(&format!("{n:064x}"), 0).id());
        }
        tracker.add_root(900, parent.id());
        engine.chain_tracker = Some(Box::new(tracker));
        let replaced = std::mem::replace(
            &mut std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.outputs)[0].txid,
            child.id(),
        );
        let nodes = std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes);
        nodes.remove(&replaced);
        nodes.insert(
            child.id(),
            crate::types::GASPNode {
                graph_id: String::new(),
                raw_tx: child.to_hex(),
                output_index: 0,
                proof: None,
                tx_metadata: None,
                output_metadata: None,
                inputs: None,
            },
        );
        // Engine 0.1.15: the peer is asked for an input the courier cannot
        // serve. This fixture's subject is the courier's fault, so its peer
        // answers that input with a transport fault, which counts nothing
        // (#56); the absence witnesses clear it to hear the peer's word.
        remote.faults_for.borrow_mut().insert(parent.id());
        let serve = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(false));
        let asked = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(GatedCourier {
            txid: parent.id(),
            raw_tx: parent.to_hex(),
            proof: single_leaf_bump_hex(&parent.id(), 900),
            serve: serve.clone(),
            asked: asked.clone(),
        }));
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        UnanchorableFixture {
            engine,
            remote,
            store,
            root: format!("{}.0", child.id()),
            serve,
            asked,
        }
    }

    /// 0.1.9 (unanchorable): a root whose ancestor the courier cannot serve
    /// faults three runs in a row; each run names it with its class
    /// (`courier`) and holds the cursor below it until the third, which
    /// records it `unanchorable:courier` and passes the cursor to the page's
    /// last finished score. Inside its backoff it costs no request. A later
    /// run in which the courier serves the ancestor admits it and clears the
    /// record. On 0.1.8 the cursor stayed at 0 on every run (fact 2: the
    /// keeper's hand).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn unanchorable_019_a_root_faulted_three_runs_is_recorded_passed_and_admitted_later() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            engine,
            remote,
            store,
            root,
            serve,
            asked,
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        let runs = crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS;
        for run in 1..=runs {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert_eq!(topic.faulted_roots.len(), 1, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            let named = &topic.faulted_roots[0];
            assert_eq!(
                (named.peer.as_str(), named.outpoint.as_str()),
                (host, root.as_str())
            );
            assert_eq!(named.class, crate::gasp::fault_class::COURIER);
            assert_eq!(named.faults, run, "run {run}");
            assert!(named.error.contains("no rung served"), "{named:?}");
            let record = engine
                .storage()
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &root)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap();
            assert_eq!(record.faults, run);
            assert!(record.nodes.is_empty(), "the root alone, asked again");
            if run < runs {
                assert!(!named.unanchorable);
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 0);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "retry:fault:courier");
                assert!(!record.cursor_passable);
                assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "run {run}: the gap holds");
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_held_by, vec![root.clone()]);
            } else {
                assert!(named.unanchorable);
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 1);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "unanchorable:courier");
                assert!(record.cursor_passable);
                assert!(record.retry_at > (current_timestamp_ms() / 1000.0) as u64);
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves.len(), 1);
                assert_eq!(
                    topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 30,
                    "the page's last finished score"
                );
                assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
            }
            if run == 1 {
                assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 2, "20 and 30");
            }
        }

        // Inside the backoff: the root is not asked of the peer or the
        // courier, nothing is named, and the quiet run is no attempt.
        let (courier_asks, node_asks) = (asked.get(), remote.asked.borrow().len());
        let streak = store.peer_yieldless_syncs(&crate::gasp::peer_origin(host), "tm_test");
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert!(topic.faulted_roots.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
        assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 0);
        assert_eq!(asked.get(), courier_asks);
        assert_eq!(remote.asked.borrow().len(), node_asks);
        assert_eq!(
            store.peer_yieldless_syncs(&crate::gasp::peer_origin(host), "tm_test"),
            streak
        );

        // The backoff runs out and the courier serves the ancestor: the
        // root is admitted as any root and its record is cleared.
        let mut record = engine
            .storage()
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        record.retry_at = 1;
        engine.storage().put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
        serve.set(true);
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_cleared, 1);
        assert!(topic.faulted_roots.is_empty());
        assert!(engine
            .storage()
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
        let (txid, _) = crate::gasp::parse_outpoint(&root).unwrap();
        assert!(engine
            .storage
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_some());
    }

    /// 0.1.9: only the run's LOWEST faulted root starts a fault record (the
    /// delta fold's D-M1: a peer that faults every node earns one record a
    /// run, not one per root); the others are named, class and all, and
    /// stay gaps above it.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn unanchorable_019_only_the_lowest_faulted_root_is_recorded_and_all_are_named() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(4);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 0;
        // Engine 0.1.15 (#56): a root the peer does not hold is absence,
        // which counts on every root of a run (the 0.1.12 rule of the
        // rungs' absence, now the peers'). This witness's subject is D-M1
        // for the other striking classes, so its two faulting roots are
        // served unproven over a parent the courier cannot serve and the
        // peer answers with a transport fault (`courier`); on 0.1.9 to
        // 0.1.14 the peer did not hold them (`not_served`).
        for idx in [1usize, 3] {
            let parent = child_of(&format!("{:064x}", 0xdead_0000 + idx), 0);
            let child = child_of(&parent.id(), 0);
            let old = std::mem::replace(
                &mut std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.outputs)[idx].txid,
                child.id(),
            );
            let nodes = std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes);
            nodes.remove(&old);
            nodes.insert(
                child.id(),
                crate::types::GASPNode {
                    graph_id: String::new(),
                    raw_tx: child.to_hex(),
                    output_index: 0,
                    proof: None,
                    tx_metadata: None,
                    output_metadata: None,
                    inputs: None,
                },
            );
            remote.faults_for.borrow_mut().insert(parent.id());
        }
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ExhaustedCourier {
            asked: std::rc::Rc::default(),
            transient: std::rc::Rc::default(),
        }));
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        let named: Vec<(&str, &str, u32)> = topic
            .faulted_roots
            .iter()
            .map(|f| (f.outpoint.as_str(), f.class.as_str(), f.faults))
            .collect();
        let low = format!("{}.0", remote.outputs[1].txid);
        let high = format!("{}.0", remote.outputs[3].txid);
        assert_eq!(
            named,
            vec![
                (low.as_str(), crate::gasp::fault_class::COURIER, 1),
                (high.as_str(), crate::gasp::fault_class::COURIER, 0),
            ]
        );
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 10, "below the lower gap");
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        assert!(store
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &high)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
        assert_eq!(
            store
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &low)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap()
                .reason,
            "retry:fault:courier"
        );
    }

    /// A record of the budget page's peer and topic, holding nothing but
    /// its root (engine 0.1.10 tests).
    fn bare_record(n: u32, score: u64, reason: &str, passable: bool) -> crate::gasp::DeferredGraph {
        let outpoint = format!("{:064x}.0", 0xdead_0000 + n);
        crate::gasp::DeferredGraph {
            peer: "https://budget.example".into(),
            topic: "tm_test".into(),
            outpoint: outpoint.clone(),
            score,
            nodes: Vec::new(),
            pending: vec![crate::gasp::PendingInput {
                outpoint: outpoint.clone(),
                graph_id: outpoint,
                metadata: true,
                spent_by: None,
                parent_proven: false,
            }],
            calls: 0,
            passes: 0,
            reason: reason.into(),
            configured: true,
            idle_faults: 0,
            cursor_passable: passable,
            faults: 0,
            retry_at: 0,
            idle_resumes: 0,
            unanchorable_retries: 0,
            expiry: None,
        }
    }

    /// Fill the budget page's (peer, topic) with `count` root retry
    /// obligations the peer does not serve (fact 3 of the 0.1.10 brief:
    /// `held:retry`, nodes 0, below the cursor), returning their roots.
    async fn hold_obligations(engine: &Engine, count: usize) -> Vec<String> {
        let mut roots = Vec::new();
        for n in 0..count {
            let record = bare_record(n as u32, 1 + n as u64, "retry", true);
            roots.push(record.outpoint.clone());
            engine.storage().put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
        }
        roots
    }

    /// 0.1.10 (room): a (peer, topic) whose deferred slots are all held by
    /// root retry obligations that never progress still records the root
    /// that holds its cursor: a fault record is bounded on its own
    /// (the separate compact memo), so the strike is written on each
    /// faulted run and the third passes the cursor. On 0.1.9 every strike
    /// found "no room" (`gasp.rs:1717`), the root was named with no run and
    /// the cursor stayed at 0 for ever (fact 2: the keeper's eighth hand).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn room_0110_a_full_store_still_records_the_cursors_holder_and_passes_it() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            engine,
            store,
            root,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        let obligations =
            hold_obligations(&engine, crate::gasp::DEFERRED_GRAPHS_PER_PEER_TOPIC).await;
        let runs = crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS;
        for run in 1..=runs {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert_eq!(topic.strikes_refused, 0, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            let named = topic
                .faulted_roots
                .iter()
                .find(|f| f.outpoint == root)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("run {run}: {topic:?}"));
            assert_eq!(named.class, crate::gasp::fault_class::COURIER);
            assert_eq!(named.faults, run, "run {run}: the strike was written");
            assert!(named.refused.is_empty(), "{named:?}");
            if run < runs {
                assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "run {run}: the gap holds");
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_held_by, vec![root.clone()]);
            } else {
                assert!(named.unanchorable);
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 1);
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves.len(), 1, "{topic:?}");
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 30, "passed");
                assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
            }
        }
        // The obligations are all still held beside the fault record.
        let held: Vec<String> = store
            .deferred_graphs()
            .into_iter()
            .map(|r| r.outpoint)
            .collect();
        // 0.1.14: the fault fact no longer consumes a partial-graph row.
        assert_eq!(held.len(), obligations.len(), "{held:?}");
        assert_eq!(store.fault_memos().len(), 1);
        assert!(obligations.iter().all(|o| held.contains(o)));
        let record = store
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(record.reason, "unanchorable:courier");
    }

    /// 0.1.10 (the reason, readable): a strike the bound or the storage
    /// refuses is counted (`strikes_refused`) and named on the root
    /// (`refused`): `no_room` at the storage's own ceiling, `store_fault`
    /// on its fault. The compact memo replaces the old 32-fact limit.
    /// The root stays a gap the cursor holds below, as on 0.1.9, where the
    /// refusal was a `warn!` alone.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn room_0110_a_refused_strike_is_counted_and_named() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            engine,
            store,
            root,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        // 0.1.14: only an actual storage ceiling refuses a compact fact.
        store.set_fault_memo_ceiling(Some(0));
        let refused_as = |result: &super::GASPSyncResult, why: &str| {
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert_eq!(topic.strikes_refused, 1, "{topic:?}");
            let named = topic
                .faulted_roots
                .iter()
                .find(|f| f.outpoint == root)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("{topic:?}"));
            assert_eq!(named.refused, why, "{named:?}");
            assert_eq!(named.faults, 0, "no record holds the count");
            assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "the gap holds");
            assert_eq!(topic.cursor_held_by, vec![root.clone()]);
        };
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        refused_as(&result, crate::gasp::strike_refused::NO_ROOM);
        assert!(store
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());

        // The storage faults.
        store.set_fault_memo_ceiling(None);
        store.set_deferred_graph_put_fault(true);
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        refused_as(&result, crate::gasp::strike_refused::STORE_FAULT);

        // The storage serves again: the strike is written.
        store.set_deferred_graph_put_fault(false);
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.strikes_refused, 0, "{topic:?}");
        assert!(store
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_some());
    }

    /// 0.1.10 (the churn bounded): sixteen root retry obligations the peer
    /// no longer serves (fact 3: `held:retry`, nodes 0) took every run's
    /// slice on 0.1.9, resumed ahead of the page, appending nothing, so the
    /// page's fresh roots were never walked. Each now goes to the long
    /// backoff after `IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF` idle resumes, is asked
    /// nothing while it waits, and stays held; the page is walked.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn room_0110_idle_obligations_back_off_and_the_page_is_walked() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(3);
        remote.node_cost_ms = 2000;
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let obligations =
            hold_obligations(&engine, crate::gasp::DEFERRED_GRAPHS_PER_PEER_TOPIC).await;
        let idle = crate::gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF;
        // The witness of 0.1.9: each run's slice goes to the obligations
        // (15 resumed, nothing appended, the last of them cut in flight by
        // the per-peer deadline) and the page is never reached.
        for run in 1..=idle {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 0, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            assert!(topic.cursor_moves.is_empty(), "run {run}");
            assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 15, "run {run}");
            assert_eq!(topic.waiting_graphs, 0, "run {run}");
            let expect = if run == idle { 15 } else { 0 };
            assert_eq!(topic.backed_off_graphs, expect, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
        }
        // The fifteen wait; the slice reaches the page.
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.waiting_graphs, 15, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 3, "the page's fresh roots");
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves.len(), 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 30);
        // The last one follows; then every obligation waits, asked nothing.
        let mut backed_off = 15;
        for _ in 0..idle {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            backed_off += result.topics_synced["tm_test"].backed_off_graphs;
        }
        assert_eq!(backed_off, obligations.len() as u64);
        let asked = remote.asked.borrow().len();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.waiting_graphs, obligations.len() as u64, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 0);
        assert!(topic.dropped_graphs.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(remote.asked.borrow().len(), asked, "no request");
        // Kept, not deleted (bsv-low #555's resume), each on its backoff.
        let now = (current_timestamp_ms() / 1000.0) as u64;
        let held = store.deferred_graphs();
        assert_eq!(held.len(), obligations.len());
        for record in &held {
            assert!(obligations.contains(&record.outpoint));
            assert!(record.cursor_passable);
            assert!(record.idle_resumes >= idle, "{record:?}");
            assert!(record.retry_at > now, "{record:?}");
        }
    }

    /// 0.1.10: a record waiting out its idle backoff whose root is
    /// remembered expired (0.1.8's memo, keyed by topic: any peer's walk that
    /// refused it) is swept at the next sync ahead of the backoff gate, with
    /// no request: refused and deleted, counted in `dropped_graphs`
    /// (`refused`). A record that holds its root node is refused the same
    /// way from that node; one holding nothing is refused at its next
    /// resume, when its root is fetched.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn room_0110_a_waiting_record_whose_root_expired_is_swept() {
        let (mut engine, remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        let now = (current_timestamp_ms() / 1000.0) as u64;
        let mut waiting = bare_record(0, 1, "retry", true);
        waiting.idle_resumes = crate::gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF;
        waiting.retry_at = now + 3600;
        let dead = bare_record(1, 2, "retry", true);
        let mut dead_waiting = dead.clone();
        dead_waiting.idle_resumes = crate::gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF;
        dead_waiting.retry_at = now + 3600;
        for record in [&waiting, &dead_waiting] {
            engine.storage().put_deferred_graph(record).await.unwrap();
        }
        engine
            .storage()
            .remember_expired_outpoint("tm_test", &dead.outpoint, 1)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.waiting_graphs, 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(
            topic
                .dropped_graphs
                .iter()
                .map(|d| (d.outpoint.as_str(), d.reason.as_str()))
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec![(dead.outpoint.as_str(), "refused")]
        );
        let held: Vec<String> = store
            .deferred_graphs()
            .into_iter()
            .map(|r| r.outpoint)
            .collect();
        assert_eq!(held, vec![waiting.outpoint.clone()]);
        let asked = remote.asked.borrow();
        assert!(!asked.iter().any(|t| dead.outpoint.starts_with(t.as_str())));
        assert!(!asked
            .iter()
            .any(|t| waiting.outpoint.starts_with(t.as_str())));
    }

    /// 0.1.10: a resume that appends a node resets the idle resumes (and
    /// any backoff), so a record that progresses is never backed off.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn room_0110_a_resume_that_appends_a_node_resets_the_count() {
        let UnanchorableFixture {
            mut engine,
            remote,
            store,
            root,
            ..
        } = unanchorable_fixture();
        // One node a pass: the root is appended and its walk deferred.
        engine.set_graph_budget_limbs(u64::MAX, 1);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let mut record = bare_record(0, 10, "retry", true);
        record.outpoint.clone_from(&root);
        record.pending[0].outpoint.clone_from(&root);
        record.pending[0].graph_id.clone_from(&root);
        record.idle_resumes = crate::gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF - 1;
        engine.storage().put_deferred_graph(&record).await.unwrap();
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.backed_off_graphs, 0);
        let held = store
            .get_deferred_graph("https://budget.example", "tm_test", &root)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(held.nodes.len(), 1, "{held:?}");
        assert_eq!(held.reason, "nodes");
        assert_eq!(held.idle_resumes, 0);
        assert_eq!(held.retry_at, 0);
    }

    /// The courier of the 0.1.11 brief's fact 3: every rung exhausted, the
    /// answer `NodeNotFound` ("no raw tx for <txid> (bitails + woc +
    /// bananablocks exhausted)", `proof_fetcher.rs`), no proof for a root.
    struct ExhaustedCourier {
        asked: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
        /// Answer a fault of the moment instead (a rung's rate limit).
        transient: std::rc::Rc<Cell<bool>>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl AncestorFetcher for ExhaustedCourier {
        async fn fetch_ancestor(&self, txid: &str) -> Result<FetchedAncestor, GASPError> {
            self.asked.set(self.asked.get() + 1);
            if self.transient.get() {
                return Err(GASPError::RemoteError(format!(
                    "rung rate limited for {txid}"
                )));
            }
            Err(GASPError::NodeNotFound(format!(
                "no raw tx for {txid} (bitails + woc + bananablocks exhausted)"
            )))
        }
        async fn verified_proof_for(&self, _: &str) -> Option<String> {
            None
        }
    }

    /// The production shape of the 0.1.11 brief (facts 2 and 3): a budget
    /// page of `page` proven roots (scores 10, 20, ...) and `count` root
    /// retry obligations written by 0.1.8 and 0.1.9 (`reason "retry"`,
    /// passable, nodes 0, no `idleResumes`) at scores 1, 2, ..., each a root
    /// the peer serves UNPROVEN whose parent no rung serves.
    struct ObligationFixture {
        engine: Engine,
        remote: BudgetPageRemote,
        store: std::rc::Rc<MemoryStorage>,
        obligations: Vec<String>,
        courier: std::rc::Rc<Cell<u64>>,
        transient: std::rc::Rc<Cell<bool>>,
    }

    async fn obligation_fixture(page: u32, count: u32, node_cost_ms: u64) -> ObligationFixture {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(page);
        remote.node_cost_ms = node_cost_ms;
        let mut obligations = Vec::new();
        let nodes = std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes);
        let mut records = Vec::new();
        for n in 0..count {
            let parent = child_of(&format!("{:064x}", 0xbeef_0000 + n), 0);
            let child = child_of(&parent.id(), 0);
            // Engine 0.1.15: the peer is asked for an input the courier
            // cannot serve. This fixture's subject is the courier, so its
            // peer answers the parent with a transport fault, which counts
            // nothing (#56).
            remote.faults_for.borrow_mut().insert(parent.id());
            nodes.insert(
                child.id(),
                crate::types::GASPNode {
                    graph_id: String::new(),
                    raw_tx: child.to_hex(),
                    output_index: 0,
                    proof: None,
                    tx_metadata: None,
                    output_metadata: None,
                    inputs: None,
                },
            );
            let mut record = bare_record(n, 1 + u64::from(n), "retry", true);
            let outpoint = format!("{}.0", child.id());
            record.outpoint.clone_from(&outpoint);
            record.pending[0].outpoint.clone_from(&outpoint);
            record.pending[0].graph_id.clone_from(&outpoint);
            obligations.push(outpoint);
            records.push(record);
        }
        let courier = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(0));
        let transient = std::rc::Rc::new(Cell::new(false));
        engine.set_gasp_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ExhaustedCourier {
            asked: courier.clone(),
            transient: transient.clone(),
        }));
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        engine.storage = Box::new(store.clone());
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(|_| Box::pin(std::future::pending())),
            100,
            60_000,
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote.clone()));
        for record in &records {
            // The JSON 0.1.8 and 0.1.9 wrote: no `idleResumes`, no `faults`.
            let json = serde_json::to_value(record).unwrap();
            assert!(json.get("idleResumes").is_none() && json.get("faults").is_none());
            engine.storage().put_deferred_graph(record).await.unwrap();
        }
        ObligationFixture {
            engine,
            remote,
            store,
            obligations,
            courier,
            transient,
        }
    }

    /// 0.1.11 (a faulted resume is a strike): a held root retry obligation
    /// whose root the peer serves and whose parent the courier cannot serve
    /// (facts 2 and 3: `retry`, nodes 0, `courier`, `faults 0` on every run
    /// of 0.1.10, never struck, never backed off) is struck on its own slot
    /// on each run, recorded `unanchorable:courier` at the third, and not
    /// resumed inside its backoff; the page's roots behind it are walked in
    /// the same run, every run. The obligation stays passable throughout:
    /// its cursor had passed it, and a strike never takes that back.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn obligations_0111_a_faulted_resume_is_struck_and_the_page_is_walked() {
        let ObligationFixture {
            engine,
            remote,
            store,
            obligations,
            courier,
            ..
        } = obligation_fixture(3, 1, 0).await;
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        let held = &obligations[0];
        let runs = crate::gasp::UNANCHORABLE_AFTER_FAULTED_RUNS;
        for run in 1..=runs {
            let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            let named = topic
                .faulted_roots
                .iter()
                .find(|f| &f.outpoint == held)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("run {run}: {topic:?}"));
            assert_eq!(named.class, crate::gasp::fault_class::COURIER);
            assert!(named.error.contains("exhausted"), "{named:?}");
            assert_eq!(named.faults, run, "run {run}: struck on its own slot");
            assert!(named.refused.is_empty(), "{named:?}");
            assert_eq!(topic.strikes_refused, 0);
            assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty(), "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            if run == 1 {
                assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 3, "the page, the same run");
                assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 30);
            }
            let record = store
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", held)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap();
            assert_eq!(record.faults, run, "{record:?}");
            assert!(record.cursor_passable, "run {run}: never holds the cursor");
            assert!(record.nodes.is_empty());
            if run < runs {
                assert!(!named.unanchorable);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "retry:fault:courier");
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 0);
            } else {
                assert!(named.unanchorable);
                assert_eq!(record.reason, "unanchorable:courier");
                assert!(record.retry_at > (current_timestamp_ms() / 1000.0) as u64);
                assert_eq!(topic.unanchorable_graphs, 1, "{topic:?}");
            }
        }
        // Inside its backoff: not resumed, nothing asked of the peer or the
        // courier, nothing named, held.
        let (asked, couriered) = (remote.asked.borrow().len(), courier.get());
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert!(topic.faulted_roots.is_empty(), "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 0);
        assert_eq!(remote.asked.borrow().len(), asked);
        assert_eq!(courier.get(), couriered);
        // 0.1.14: the obligation's fault fact lives outside partial graphs.
        assert!(store.deferred_graphs().is_empty());
        assert_eq!(store.fault_memos().len(), 1);
    }

    /// 0.1.11 (the idle count fires): a resumed pass of a held record that
    /// asked and appended nothing it kept counts one idle resume whatever
    /// its ending, and the sync's accounting says how many records counted
    /// (`idle_counted`). Three endings: (a) the pass's own save (a rung's
    /// fault of the moment: the record is kept, reason `fault`); (b) a drop
    /// whose record is saved again as an obligation (the peer no longer
    /// serves the root, `not_held`); (c) the production shape of fact 3 (the
    /// root served, appended and thrown away with the drop, the courier
    /// exhausted) when its strike is refused at the fault bound, so the drop
    /// stands: on 0.1.10 the post-pass count read the sync's appended nodes,
    /// which the thrown-away root had raised, and never fired.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn obligations_0111_a_resume_that_appends_nothing_counts_on_every_ending() {
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        // 0.1.14: exercise the same refusal ending through a real storage
        // ceiling, because the old per-peer fault bound no longer exists.
        let fixture = obligation_fixture(1, 1, 0).await;
        fixture.store.set_fault_memo_ceiling(Some(0));
        let held = &fixture.obligations[0];
        let idle = crate::gasp::IDLE_RESUMES_BEFORE_BACKOFF;
        for run in 1..=idle {
            let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
            let record = fixture
                .store
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", held)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap();
            assert_eq!(record.idle_resumes, run, "run {run}: {record:?} {topic:?}");
            assert_eq!(record.reason, "retry", "the drop stands");
            assert!(record.cursor_passable && record.nodes.is_empty());
            assert_eq!(topic.idle_counted, 1, "run {run}: {topic:?}");
            let named = topic
                .faulted_roots
                .iter()
                .find(|f| &f.outpoint == held)
                .unwrap_or_else(|| panic!("run {run}: {topic:?}"));
            assert_eq!(named.refused, crate::gasp::strike_refused::NO_ROOM);
            assert_eq!(named.faults, 0);
            assert_eq!(topic.strikes_refused, 1);
            assert_eq!(topic.backed_off_graphs, u64::from(run == idle));
        }
        let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.waiting_graphs, 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.idle_counted, 0);

        // (b) A drop: the peer no longer serves the root.
        let mut fixture = obligation_fixture(1, 1, 0).await;
        let gone = fixture.obligations[0].clone();
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut fixture.remote.nodes).remove(gone.strip_suffix(".0").unwrap());
        fixture
            .engine
            .set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(fixture.remote.clone()));
        let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.idle_counted, 1, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(
            topic
                .dropped_graphs
                .iter()
                .map(|d| d.reason.as_str())
                .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
            vec!["not_held"]
        );
        let record = fixture
            .store
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", &gone)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!((record.idle_resumes, record.faults), (1, 0), "{record:?}");

        // (a) The pass's own save: a rung's fault of the moment. The pass
        // that appends the root progresses; the next asks and appends
        // nothing, and its save counts it.
        let fixture = obligation_fixture(1, 1, 0).await;
        fixture.transient.set(true);
        let kept = &fixture.obligations[0];
        let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].idle_counted, 0, "progress");
        let result = fixture.engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic.idle_counted, 1, "{topic:?}");
        let record = fixture
            .store
            .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", kept)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(record.reason, "fault");
        assert_eq!(
            (record.nodes.len(), record.idle_resumes),
            (1, 1),
            "{record:?}"
        );
    }

    /// 0.1.11 (the page's share): fourteen obligations of fact 3's shape
    /// ahead of a page of twelve fresh roots, every request 1,500 ms of a
    /// virtual 30,000 ms per-peer slice and a 15,000 ms graph budget. The
    /// resumes take at most `resume_share_ms(30_000, 15_000)` = 9,900 ms
    /// together; those reached after it are held back (not resumed, not a
    /// failure, not stalled, not idle, their records as they were) and the
    /// page's twelve roots are all walked and finalized in the same run.
    /// On 0.1.10 the resumes shared one graph budget (15,000 ms): ten of
    /// them ran, and the per-peer deadline dropped the sync at nine of the
    /// page's twelve roots (fact 4: the page got what the resumes left).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn obligations_0111_fourteen_obligations_leave_the_page_its_share() {
        let ObligationFixture {
            mut engine,
            remote,
            store,
            obligations,
            ..
        } = obligation_fixture(12, 14, 1500).await;
        let elapsed = remote.elapsed.clone();
        engine.set_graph_budget(
            std::rc::Rc::new(move |ms| {
                let elapsed = elapsed.clone();
                let until = elapsed.get() + ms;
                Box::pin(std::future::poll_fn(move |_| {
                    if elapsed.get() >= until {
                        std::task::Poll::Ready(())
                    } else {
                        std::task::Poll::Pending
                    }
                }))
            }),
            100,
            15_000,
        );
        assert_eq!(crate::gasp::resume_share_ms(30_000, 15_000), 9_900);
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert!(topic.errors.is_empty(), "inside the slice: {topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.finalized_graphs, 12, "the page's share: {topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.cursor_moves[0].to, 120);
        // Three resumes struck; the fourth cut in flight by the share, having
        // asked and appended nothing (counted idle and stalled, as 0.1.10
        // counts a deadline's cut); the other ten held back. Engine 0.1.15:
        // each resume asks the peer for the parent the courier cannot serve
        // (#56), two requests of 1,500 ms, so the 9,900 ms share holds three
        // (six on 0.1.11 to 0.1.14, one request each).
        assert_eq!(topic.resumed_graphs, 4, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.held_back_graphs, 10, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!(topic.faulted_roots.len(), 3, "{topic:?}");
        assert_eq!((topic.stalled_graphs, topic.idle_counted), (1, 1));
        assert!(topic.cursor_held_by.is_empty());
        let host = "https://budget.example";
        let mut reasons = std::collections::BTreeMap::new();
        for outpoint in &obligations {
            let record = store
                .get_deferred_graph(host, "tm_test", outpoint)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .unwrap();
            assert!(record.cursor_passable, "{record:?}");
            if record.reason == "retry" {
                // Held back: as it was, not counted idle.
                assert_eq!((record.idle_resumes, record.retry_at), (0, 0));
                assert_eq!((record.faults, record.passes), (0, 0));
            }
            *reasons.entry(record.reason).or_insert(0) += 1;
        }
        assert_eq!(
            reasons,
            std::collections::BTreeMap::from([
                ("retry".to_string(), 10),
                ("retry:fault:courier".to_string(), 3),
                ("time".to_string(), 1),
            ])
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_budget_own_proof_without_a_valid_header_is_never_admitted() {
        let (mut engine, mut remote) = budget_page_engine(1);
        let txid = remote.outputs[0].txid.clone();
        std::rc::Rc::make_mut(&mut remote.nodes)
            .get_mut(&txid)
            .unwrap()
            .proof = None;
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(std::rc::Rc::new(ProofOnlyRootFetcher {
            proofs: HashMap::from([(txid.clone(), single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, 999))]),
            requested: std::rc::Rc::default(),
        }));
        virtual_peer_budget(&mut engine, &remote);
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(remote));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].finalized_graphs, 0);
        assert!(engine
            .storage
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
    }

    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory for MockGASPRemoteFactory {
        fn create_remote(&self, _peer_url: &str, _topic: &str) -> Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemote> {
            Box::new(MockSyncRemote {
                utxos: vec![
                    crate::types::GASPOutput {
                        txid: "remote_tx1".to_string(),
                        output_index: 0,
                        score: 100.0,
                    },
                    crate::types::GASPOutput {
                        txid: "remote_tx2".to_string(),
                        output_index: 0,
                        score: 200.0,
                    },
                ],
            })
        }
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_with_factory_runs_sync() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://peer1.example.com".to_string()]),
        );

        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(MockGASPRemoteFactory));

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 1);

        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers.len(), 1);
        assert!(
            topic_result.errors.is_empty(),
            "Sync should succeed with mock remote"
        );

        // Verify last_interaction was persisted
        let last = engine
            .storage()
            .get_last_interaction("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        // Synthetic nodes cannot assemble into BEEF. No score completed,
        // so the entry cursor stays and the next sync re-requests both.
        assert_eq!(
            last, 0,
            "cursor must remain at entry when no output completed"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_with_factory_handles_error() {
        struct FailingFactory;

        impl crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory for FailingFactory {
            fn create_remote(
                &self,
                _peer_url: &str,
                _topic: &str,
            ) -> Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemote> {
                struct FailingRemote;
                #[async_trait(?Send)]
                impl crate::gasp::GASPRemote for FailingRemote {
                    async fn get_initial_response(
                        &self,
                        _: &crate::types::GASPInitialRequest,
                    ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialResponse, crate::gasp::GASPError>
                    {
                        Err(crate::gasp::GASPError::RemoteError(
                            "connection refused".into(),
                        ))
                    }
                    async fn get_initial_reply(
                        &self,
                        _: &crate::types::GASPInitialResponse,
                    ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialReply, crate::gasp::GASPError>
                    {
                        unreachable!()
                    }
                    async fn request_node(
                        &self,
                        _: &str,
                        _: &str,
                        _: u32,
                        _: bool,
                    ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPNode, crate::gasp::GASPError>
                    {
                        unreachable!()
                    }
                    async fn submit_node(
                        &self,
                        _: &crate::types::GASPNode,
                    ) -> Result<Option<crate::types::GASPNodeResponse>, crate::gasp::GASPError>
                    {
                        unreachable!()
                    }
                }
                Box::new(FailingRemote)
            }
        }

        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://bad-peer.example.com".to_string()]),
        );

        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(FailingFactory));

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 1);

        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(
            topic_result.errors.len(),
            1,
            "Should have one error for the failing peer"
        );
        assert!(topic_result.errors[0].contains("connection refused"));
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_without_factory_still_discovers_peers() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://peer.example.com".to_string()]),
        );

        // No factory set — should still work (just peer discovery, no sync)
        let engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(result.topics_synced.len(), 1);

        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers.len(), 1);
        assert!(topic_result.errors.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_start_gasp_sync_with_factory_multiple_peers() {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec![
                "https://peer1.example.com".to_string(),
                "https://peer2.example.com".to_string(),
            ]),
        );

        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(MockGASPRemoteFactory));

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];
        assert_eq!(topic_result.peers.len(), 2);
        assert!(topic_result.errors.is_empty());

        // Neither peer completed its synthetic graphs.
        let last1 = engine
            .storage()
            .get_last_interaction("https://peer1.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        let last2 = engine
            .storage()
            .get_last_interaction("https://peer2.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(last1, 0);
        assert_eq!(last2, 0);
    }

    // ── Per-peer budget + dead-peer quarantine (bsv-low#302) ──────────

    /// A remote whose initial request HANGS forever — models the dead
    /// ephemeral peers (ngrok tunnels) whose fetch never returns, the #257
    /// root cause the per-peer budget exists for.
    struct HangingRemote;

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemote for HangingRemote {
        async fn get_initial_response(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPInitialRequest,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialResponse, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            std::future::pending::<()>().await;
            unreachable!()
        }
        async fn get_initial_reply(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPInitialResponse,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPInitialReply, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            unreachable!()
        }
        async fn request_node(
            &self,
            _: &str,
            _: &str,
            _: u32,
            _: bool,
        ) -> Result<crate::types::GASPNode, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            unreachable!()
        }
        async fn submit_node(
            &self,
            _: &crate::types::GASPNode,
        ) -> Result<Option<crate::types::GASPNodeResponse>, crate::gasp::GASPError> {
            unreachable!()
        }
    }

    /// Factory that HANGS for `hang.example.com` peers and serves the normal
    /// mock sync remote for everyone else, counting `create_remote` calls
    /// (a quarantine-skipped peer never reaches the factory).
    struct SelectiveHangFactory {
        created: std::rc::Rc<std::cell::RefCell<Vec<String>>>,
    }

    impl crate::gasp::GASPRemoteFactory for SelectiveHangFactory {
        fn create_remote(&self, peer_url: &str, _topic: &str) -> Box<dyn crate::gasp::GASPRemote> {
            self.created.borrow_mut().push(peer_url.to_string());
            if peer_url.contains("hang.example.com") {
                Box::new(HangingRemote)
            } else {
                Box::new(MockSyncRemote {
                    utxos: vec![crate::types::GASPOutput {
                        txid: "remote_tx1".to_string(),
                        output_index: 0,
                        score: 100.0,
                    }],
                })
            }
        }
    }

    /// The deterministic "instant deadline" sleep factory: `race_or_deadline`
    /// polls the sync future FIRST, so an in-memory sync that never yields
    /// still completes; only a future that actually returns Pending (the
    /// hanging remote) loses the race.
    fn instant_deadline() -> crate::engine::SleepFactory {
        std::rc::Rc::new(|_ms| Box::pin(std::future::ready(())))
    }

    fn two_peer_engine(store: std::rc::Rc<MemoryStorage>) -> Engine {
        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec![
                "https://hang.example.com".to_string(),
                "https://good.example.com".to_string(),
            ]),
        );
        Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(store),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        )
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn peer_budget_timeout_skips_dead_peer_continues_loop_and_never_advances_cursor() {
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        let created = std::rc::Rc::new(std::cell::RefCell::new(Vec::new()));
        let mut engine = two_peer_engine(store.clone());
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(SelectiveHangFactory {
            created: created.clone(),
        }));
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(instant_deadline(), 1);

        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        let topic_result = &result.topics_synced["tm_test"];

        // The hanging peer was dropped LOUDLY (an error entry) and the loop
        // CONTINUED: the good peer was still attempted and completed.
        assert_eq!(topic_result.errors.len(), 1, "one budget-exceeded error");
        assert!(
            topic_result.errors[0].contains("budget"),
            "{:?}",
            topic_result.errors
        );
        assert_eq!(
            created.borrow().as_slice(),
            ["https://hang.example.com", "https://good.example.com"],
            "both peers attempted this tick"
        );

        // A timed-out peer stays at entry. The other peer was reached but
        // served synthetic graphs that cannot complete, so its cursor stays too.
        let hang_cursor = store
            .get_last_interaction("https://hang.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(hang_cursor, 0, "timeout must not advance the sync cursor");
        let good_cursor = store
            .get_last_interaction("https://good.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(good_cursor, 0, "no synthetic graph completed");

        // Health bookkeeping: timeout = failure, completion = success.
        let hang_health = store
            .get_peer_sync_health("hang.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(hang_health.consecutive_failures, 1);
        let good_health = store
            .get_peer_sync_health("good.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(good_health.consecutive_failures, 0);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn peer_quarantined_after_threshold_reprobed_after_window_readmitted_on_success() {
        let store = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        let created = std::rc::Rc::new(std::cell::RefCell::new(Vec::new()));

        let mut sync_config: SyncConfiguration = HashMap::new();
        sync_config.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            SyncTarget::Peers(vec!["https://hang.example.com".to_string()]),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            HashMap::new(),
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(store.clone()),
            None,
            EngineConfig {
                sync_configuration: sync_config,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(SelectiveHangFactory {
            created: created.clone(),
        }));
        engine.set_peer_sync_budget(instant_deadline(), 1);

        // Fail the peer up to (but not past) the quarantine threshold — every
        // tick attempts it (advance the clock between ticks so the attempts
        // are distinguishable in age).
        for i in 0..crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD {
            engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
            store.advance_clock(900);
            assert_eq!(
                created.borrow().len() as u64,
                i + 1,
                "peer attempted while below the threshold"
            );
        }
        let health = store
            .get_peer_sync_health("hang.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            health.consecutive_failures,
            crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD
        );

        // Next tick: QUARANTINED — the factory is never consulted, no error
        // is emitted, and the attempt count does not grow (a skip is not an
        // attempt, so the re-probe window keeps aging).
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].errors.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(
            created.borrow().len() as u64,
            crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD,
            "quarantined peer must be skipped"
        );

        // Age past the re-probe window: exactly one fresh probe is allowed.
        store.advance_clock(crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_REPROBE_SECS);
        engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            created.borrow().len() as u64,
            crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD + 1,
            "re-probe attempted after the window"
        );
        // The probe failed again → failure count kept growing → re-armed.
        let health = store
            .get_peer_sync_health("hang.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            health.consecutive_failures,
            crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_THRESHOLD + 1
        );
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(
            result.topics_synced["tm_test"].errors.is_empty(),
            "re-quarantined"
        );

        // The peer comes back to life: age to the next re-probe, then answer
        // like a healthy peer → SUCCESS resets the count to 0 (full
        // re-admission — quarantine is never a deletion).
        store.advance_clock(crate::gasp::PEER_QUARANTINE_REPROBE_SECS);
        // Swap the factory for one that serves the healthy mock for this URL.
        engine.set_gasp_remote_factory(Box::new(MockGASPRemoteFactory));
        let result = engine.start_gasp_sync().await.unwrap();
        assert!(result.topics_synced["tm_test"].errors.is_empty());
        let health = store
            .get_peer_sync_health("hang.example.com", "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(health.consecutive_failures, 0, "success fully re-admits");
    }

    // ── Mock ARC Broadcaster ─────────────────────────────────────────

    use crate::broadcaster::ArcBroadcaster;

    struct MockArcBroadcaster {
        calls: Arc<Mutex<Vec<String>>>,
        should_fail: bool,
    }

    impl MockArcBroadcaster {
        fn new() -> Self {
            Self {
                calls: Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new())),
                should_fail: false,
            }
        }

        fn failing() -> Self {
            Self {
                calls: Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new())),
                should_fail: true,
            }
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl ArcBroadcaster for MockArcBroadcaster {
        async fn broadcast(&self, raw_tx_hex: &str) -> Result<String, String> {
            self.calls.lock().unwrap().push(raw_tx_hex.to_string());
            if self.should_fail {
                Err("mock ARC failure".to_string())
            } else {
                Ok("mock_txid_from_arc".to_string())
            }
        }
    }

    /// Create engine with an ARC broadcaster (and optionally a SHIP broadcaster).
    fn make_engine_with_arc(
        admit_indices: Vec<u32>,
        arc: MockArcBroadcaster,
    ) -> (Engine, Arc<Mutex<Vec<String>>>) {
        let arc_calls = arc.calls.clone();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(admit_indices)),
        );

        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert("ls_test".to_string(), Box::new(MockLookupService::new()));

        let storage = Box::new(MemoryStorage::new());

        let engine = Engine::with_all(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            storage,
            None,
            None,
            Some(Box::new(arc)),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );

        (engine, arc_calls)
    }

    // ── ARC Broadcaster Tests ────────────────────────────────────────

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_arc_broadcaster_called_on_current_tx() {
        let arc = MockArcBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, arc_calls) = make_engine_with_arc(vec![0], arc);

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        let calls = arc_calls.lock().unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            calls.len(),
            1,
            "ARC broadcaster should be called once for CurrentTx"
        );
        assert!(
            !calls[0].is_empty(),
            "ARC should receive non-empty raw tx hex"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_arc_broadcaster_not_called_on_historical_tx() {
        let arc = MockArcBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, arc_calls) = make_engine_with_arc(vec![0], arc);

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine
            .submit(&beef, SubmitMode::HistoricalTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            arc_calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "ARC broadcaster should NOT be called for HistoricalTx"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_arc_broadcaster_not_called_on_historical_tx_no_spv() {
        let arc = MockArcBroadcaster::new();
        let (engine, arc_calls) = make_engine_with_arc(vec![0], arc);

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine
            .submit(&beef, SubmitMode::HistoricalTxNoSpv)
            .await
            .unwrap();

        assert_eq!(
            arc_calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            0,
            "ARC broadcaster should NOT be called for HistoricalTxNoSpv"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_arc_broadcast_failure_does_not_fail_submit() {
        let arc = MockArcBroadcaster::failing();
        let (engine, arc_calls) = make_engine_with_arc(vec![0], arc);

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        // submit should succeed even when ARC fails
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());

        // ARC was called (and failed), but submit still succeeded
        assert_eq!(
            arc_calls.lock().unwrap().len(),
            1,
            "ARC broadcaster should be attempted even if it will fail"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_arc_broadcaster_not_present_still_works() {
        // Engine without ARC broadcaster — should work fine
        let engine = make_engine(vec![0]);

        let beef = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let steak = engine.submit(&beef, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();

        assert!(!steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty());
    }

    // ── Sync advertisements URL validation ─────────────────────────────

    /// Mock Advertiser that tracks created advertisements via shared state.
    struct TrackingAdvertiser {
        created: Arc<Mutex<Vec<AdvertisementData>>>,
        existing_ship: Vec<Advertisement>,
        existing_slap: Vec<Advertisement>,
        /// Topics the returned TaggedBEEF is tagged with — a topic with no
        /// registered manager forces the LOCAL submit to fail (#320 3a);
        /// several topics exercise independent per-topic admission (D1).
        tag_topics: Vec<String>,
        /// Simulate a create_advertisements failure (#320 3a).
        create_fails: bool,
        /// Simulate a find_all_advertisements failure (#320 M2).
        find_fails: bool,
        /// Return the v1 no-op EMPTY TaggedBEEF from revoke (#320 L2).
        revoke_empty: bool,
    }

    impl TrackingAdvertiser {
        fn new() -> (Self, Arc<Mutex<Vec<AdvertisementData>>>) {
            let created = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));
            (
                Self {
                    created: created.clone(),
                    existing_ship: vec![],
                    existing_slap: vec![],
                    tag_topics: vec!["tm_test".to_string()],
                    create_fails: false,
                    find_fails: false,
                    revoke_empty: false,
                },
                created,
            )
        }
    }

    use crate::advertiser::{Advertiser, AdvertiserError};

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl Advertiser for TrackingAdvertiser {
        async fn create_advertisements(
            &self,
            ads: &[AdvertisementData],
        ) -> Result<TaggedBEEF, AdvertiserError> {
            if self.create_fails {
                return Err(AdvertiserError::CreationFailed(
                    "mock create refused".into(),
                ));
            }
            self.created.lock().unwrap().extend(ads.iter().cloned());
            Ok(TaggedBEEF::new(test_beef(), self.tag_topics.clone()))
        }

        async fn find_all_advertisements(
            &self,
            protocol: Protocol,
        ) -> Result<Vec<Advertisement>, AdvertiserError> {
            if self.find_fails {
                return Err(AdvertiserError::LookupFailed("mock lookup refused".into()));
            }
            match protocol {
                Protocol::Ship => Ok(self.existing_ship.clone()),
                Protocol::Slap => Ok(self.existing_slap.clone()),
            }
        }

        async fn revoke_advertisements(
            &self,
            _ads: &[Advertisement],
        ) -> Result<TaggedBEEF, AdvertiserError> {
            if self.revoke_empty {
                return Ok(TaggedBEEF::new(vec![], vec![]));
            }
            Ok(TaggedBEEF::new(test_beef(), vec!["tm_test".to_string()]))
        }

        fn parse_advertisement(&self, _script: &[u8]) -> Option<Advertisement> {
            None
        }
    }

    /// TS: "Sync advertisements URL validation"
    /// sync_advertisements should be a no-op when hosting_url is empty string,
    /// and should skip suppressed topics (tm_ship/tm_slap) when configured.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn test_sync_advertisements_url_validation() {
        // Case 1: Empty hosting URL — should return early without creating ads
        let (adv, created) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );

        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            Some(Box::new(adv)),
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some(String::new()), // empty string — invalid
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        engine.sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(
            created.lock().unwrap().is_empty(),
            "Empty hosting URL should skip advertisement creation"
        );

        // Case 2: Valid hosting URL — should create SHIP advertisements for non-suppressed topics
        let (adv2, created2) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();

        let mut managers2: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers2.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        // Also register tm_ship to verify it gets suppressed
        managers2.insert(
            "tm_ship".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])),
        );

        let engine2 = Engine::new(
            managers2,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            Some(Box::new(adv2)),
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some("https://valid.example.com".to_string()),
                suppress_default_sync_advertisements: true,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );

        engine2.sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        let ads = created2.lock().unwrap();
        // tm_ship should be suppressed, only tm_test should get an advertisement
        assert!(
            ads.iter().all(|a| a.topic_or_service_name != "tm_ship"),
            "tm_ship should be suppressed when suppress_default_sync_advertisements is true"
        );
        assert!(
            ads.iter().any(|a| a.topic_or_service_name == "tm_test"),
            "tm_test should get a SHIP advertisement"
        );
    }

    // ── sync_advertisements report (bsv-low #320 defect 3a) ────────────
    //
    // Pre-#320 the engine returned `Ok(())` unconditionally: a failed
    // create or a failed LOCAL submit was `error!`-logged and invisible to
    // the caller — the admin route said `success` while the node's own
    // ls_ship/ls_slap never gained its ads, so every cycle re-created the
    // whole set. These cells pin the report contract.

    fn sync_test_engine(adv: TrackingAdvertiser) -> Engine {
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            Some(Box::new(adv)),
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some("https://valid.example.com".to_string()),
                suppress_default_sync_advertisements: true,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        )
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_counts_admitted_outputs_on_success() {
        let (adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(report.ok(), "clean run must report ok: {report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 1, "tm_test was missing");
        assert_eq!(
            report.admitted.get("tm_test"),
            Some(&1),
            "the STEAK's admitted count must be surfaced: {report:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_surfaces_local_submit_failure() {
        // The TaggedBEEF comes back tagged for a topic with no registered
        // manager → the LOCAL submit fails. That failure must be in the
        // report, not swallowed (the live silent-failure shape).
        let (mut adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.tag_topics = vec!["tm_unregistered".to_string()];
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(!report.ok(), "a failed local submit must not report ok");
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 1);
        let submit_error = report.submit_error.as_deref().unwrap_or_default();
        assert!(
            submit_error.contains("tm_unregistered"),
            "verbatim engine error expected, got: {submit_error}"
        );
        assert!(report.admitted.is_empty());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_surfaces_create_failure() {
        let (mut adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.create_fails = true;
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(!report.ok());
        assert!(
            report
                .create_error
                .as_deref()
                .unwrap_or_default()
                .contains("mock create refused"),
            "{report:?}"
        );
        assert!(report.submit_error.is_none(), "create failed before submit");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_converged_noop_is_ok_and_creates_nothing() {
        // A node whose own storage already lists its ads must attempt ZERO
        // creates — the convergence direction of #320 defect 3 (live, the
        // missing self-admission made every cycle re-create all 17 ads).
        let (mut adv, created) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.existing_ship = vec![Advertisement {
            protocol: Protocol::Ship,
            identity_key: "02aa".to_string(),
            domain: "https://valid.example.com".to_string(),
            topic_or_service: "tm_test".to_string(),
            beef: None,
            output_index: None,
        }];
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(report.ok(), "{report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 0, "converged ⇒ nothing to create");
        assert!(created.lock().unwrap().is_empty());
        assert!(
            report.effective(),
            "converged-noop is the one zero-admit shape that IS success"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_zero_admit_is_ok_but_not_effective() {
        // #320 M1: the local submit SUCCEEDS but the topic manager admits
        // ZERO outputs — a non-error refusal. The ads never enter our own
        // ls_ship/ls_slap, so the diff re-creates (re-pays) the full set
        // next cycle. `ok()` (errors-only) stays true; `effective()` must
        // refuse, and the route keys success on `effective()`.
        let (adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])), // refuses everything
        );
        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            Some(Box::new(adv)),
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some("https://valid.example.com".to_string()),
                suppress_default_sync_advertisements: true,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );
        let report = engine.sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(report.ok(), "no ERROR occurred: {report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 1);
        assert_eq!(report.admitted_total(), 0, "{report:?}");
        assert!(
            !report.effective(),
            "zero admitted on a non-empty create must not read as success: {report:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_partial_admit_is_not_effective() {
        // Delta D1: TWO topics in one submitted tx, per-topic admission
        // independent — tm_test admits its output, tm_refuse refuses all.
        // admitted_total (1) > 0 but < to_create (2): the refused ads
        // would be re-created (re-paid) every cycle, so this must NOT
        // read as success.
        let (mut adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.tag_topics = vec!["tm_test".to_string(), "tm_refuse".to_string()];
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        managers.insert(
            "tm_refuse".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![])), // refuses everything
        );
        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            Some(Box::new(adv)),
            EngineConfig {
                hosting_url: Some("https://valid.example.com".to_string()),
                suppress_default_sync_advertisements: true,
                ..Default::default()
            },
        );
        let report = engine.sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(report.ok(), "no ERROR occurred: {report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 2, "{report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.admitted_total(), 1, "{report:?}");
        assert!(
            !report.effective(),
            "a partial admit must not read as success: {report:?}"
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_lookup_failure_refuses_creation() {
        // #320 M2: a transient read failure must never become "current ads
        // = none" and re-create (re-pay) the whole set — creation is
        // REFUSED and the failure lands in the report.
        let (mut adv, created) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.find_fails = true;
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(!report.ok(), "{report:?}");
        assert!(!report.effective());
        assert!(
            report
                .lookup_error
                .as_deref()
                .unwrap_or_default()
                .contains("mock lookup refused"),
            "{report:?}"
        );
        assert_eq!(report.to_create, 0, "creation refused, not attempted");
        assert!(
            created.lock().unwrap().is_empty(),
            "no create call on a blind read"
        );
        assert!(report.submit_error.is_none());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn sync_report_counts_skipped_revocations() {
        // #320 L2: `to_revoke: N` with a v1 no-op advertiser must be
        // distinguishable from a revoke that actually ran.
        let (mut adv, _) = TrackingAdvertiser::new();
        adv.revoke_empty = true;
        adv.existing_ship = vec![
            Advertisement {
                protocol: Protocol::Ship,
                identity_key: "02aa".to_string(),
                domain: "https://valid.example.com".to_string(),
                topic_or_service: "tm_test".to_string(),
                beef: None,
                output_index: None,
            },
            Advertisement {
                protocol: Protocol::Ship,
                identity_key: "02aa".to_string(),
                domain: "https://valid.example.com".to_string(),
                topic_or_service: "tm_stale".to_string(), // no longer configured
                beef: None,
                output_index: None,
            },
        ];
        let report = sync_test_engine(adv).sync_advertisements().await.unwrap();
        assert!(report.ok(), "{report:?}");
        assert_eq!(report.to_revoke, 1, "tm_stale is stale");
        assert_eq!(
            report.revoke_skipped, 1,
            "the v1 no-op must be visible, not silent: {report:?}"
        );
        assert!(report.revoke_error.is_none());
        assert!(report.revoke_submit_error.is_none());
    }

    // ── complete_missing_proofs (#130) ─────────────────────────────────

    use crate::gasp::{AncestorFetcher, FetchedAncestor, GASPError};
    use std::cell::Cell;

    /// A single raw mainnet tx (no proof) — used to build a proofless BEEF.
    const PROOFLESS_RAW_TX: &str = "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";

    /// Build a proofless single-tx BEEF + return `(beef_bytes, txid)`.
    fn proofless_beef() -> (Vec<u8>, String) {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, Transaction};
        let tx = Transaction::from_hex(PROOFLESS_RAW_TX).unwrap();
        let txid = tx.id();
        let mut beef = Beef::new();
        beef.merge_transaction(tx);
        (beef.to_binary(), txid)
    }

    // ── #284: stitching a proof must never rebuild the stored BEEF ─────────

    /// The corruption shape observed live on rust-beta: a stored BEEF whose
    /// SUBJECT is not the last tx in wire order. The old rewrite went through
    /// `Transaction::from_beef(bytes, None)`, whose None arm picks
    /// `txs.last()` — the PARENT here — and `to_beef(true)` then serialized the
    /// parent's world, dropping the subject from its own row. TEST_BEEF_HEX is
    /// exactly a two-tx chain (parent + child spending it), so re-encoding it
    /// child-first reproduces the trigger byte-for-byte.
    fn subject_not_last_beef() -> (Vec<u8>, String, String) {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::Beef;
        let parsed = Beef::from_binary(&test_beef()).unwrap();
        let parent = parsed.txs[0].tx().unwrap().clone();
        let child = parsed.txs[1].tx().unwrap().clone();
        let (parent_id, child_id) = (parent.id(), child.id());
        assert_ne!(parent_id, child_id);

        // Serialize via to_writer, NOT to_binary: to_binary re-sorts
        // parents-first (subject last), which is precisely why bsv_rs's own
        // output never triggers the bug. The corrupt rows held WALLET
        // serialized bytes stored verbatim at admit time, whose wire order is
        // whatever the wallet emitted — model that by writing the child first.
        let mut beef = Beef::new();
        beef.merge_transaction(child); // subject FIRST — the trigger
        beef.merge_transaction(parent);
        let mut w = bsv_rs::primitives::encoding::Writer::new();
        beef.to_writer(&mut w);
        let bytes = w.into_bytes();

        // The premise the whole test rests on: wire order preserved, subject
        // genuinely not last.
        let reread = Beef::from_binary(&bytes).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(reread.txs.last().unwrap().txid(), parent_id);
        (bytes, child_id, parent_id)
    }

    #[test]
    fn stitch_preserves_the_subject_when_it_is_not_last() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, MerklePath};
        let (stored, child_id, parent_id) = subject_not_last_beef();
        let proof = MerklePath::from_hex(&single_leaf_bump_hex(&child_id, 900_000)).unwrap();

        let out = Engine::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(&stored, &child_id, &proof)
            .expect("stitch must succeed on a beef that contains the txid");

        let after = Beef::from_binary(&out).unwrap();
        assert!(
            after.find_txid(&child_id).is_some(),
            "the SUBJECT must survive its own proof-completion"
        );
        assert!(
            after.find_txid(&parent_id).is_some(),
            "the ancestry must survive too"
        );
        assert!(
            after.find_bump(&child_id).is_some(),
            "the stitched bump must prove the subject"
        );
        assert!(
            after.find_bump(&parent_id).is_none(),
            "the parent must NOT be claimed by the child's bump"
        );
    }

    /// The old path, reproduced against the same input, to pin WHY the new one
    /// exists: it demonstrably drops the subject. If bsv_rs ever changes
    /// `from_beef(_, None)` to honor the subject, this starts failing and the
    /// comment trail can be revisited — until then it documents the hazard.
    #[test]
    fn the_old_round_trip_demonstrably_dropped_the_subject() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, Transaction};
        let (stored, child_id, _parent_id) = subject_not_last_beef();
        let tx = Transaction::from_beef(&stored, None).unwrap();
        assert_ne!(
            tx.id(),
            child_id,
            "from_beef(None) picks txs.last(), not the subject — the trigger"
        );
        let rebuilt = tx.to_beef(true).unwrap();
        let reparsed = Beef::from_binary(&rebuilt).unwrap();
        assert!(
            reparsed.find_txid(&child_id).is_none(),
            "the rebuild loses the subject — exactly the #284 artifact"
        );
    }

    /// bsv-low M19 R2 round 3 (review HIGH-1): a stored BEEF whose SUBJECT
    /// sits on a stale (orphan) bump at height H, re-stitched with a
    /// same-height DIFFERENT-root proof, must serialize with the subject on
    /// the NEW bump and the orphan bump dropped — otherwise the hop leg
    /// churns and re-latches the orphan proof forever.
    #[test]
    fn stitch_reanchors_a_subject_off_a_same_height_orphan_bump() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, BeefTx, MerklePath, MerklePathLeaf, Transaction};
        // subject spends a real parent; both are raw in the BEEF
        let parent = Transaction::from_hex(RAW_PARENT).unwrap();
        let parent_id = parent.id();
        let subject = child_of(&parent_id, 0);
        let subject_id = subject.id();
        // the ORPHAN bump: a two-leaf block at H so its root is NOT the txid,
        // and it differs from the canonical block's root
        let orphan = MerklePath::new_unchecked(
            965_771,
            vec![vec![
                MerklePathLeaf::new_txid(0, subject_id.clone()),
                MerklePathLeaf::new(1, "aa".repeat(32)),
            ]],
        )
        .unwrap();
        let mut beef = Beef::new();
        let bi = beef.merge_bump(orphan.clone());
        beef.merge_raw_tx(parent.to_binary(), None);
        beef.merge_raw_tx(subject.to_binary(), Some(bi));
        let orphan_root = orphan.compute_root(Some(&subject_id)).unwrap();
        let stored = beef.to_binary();
        assert_eq!(
            Beef::from_binary(&stored)
                .unwrap()
                .find_bump(&subject_id)
                .map(|b| b.compute_root(Some(&subject_id)).unwrap()),
            Some(orphan_root.clone())
        );
        // the canonical proof at the SAME height, a DIFFERENT root
        let canonical = MerklePath::new_unchecked(
            965_771,
            vec![vec![
                MerklePathLeaf::new_txid(0, subject_id.clone()),
                MerklePathLeaf::new(1, "bb".repeat(32)),
            ]],
        )
        .unwrap();
        let canonical_root = canonical.compute_root(Some(&subject_id)).unwrap();
        assert_ne!(
            canonical_root, orphan_root,
            "the reorg shape: same height, new root"
        );
        let out = Engine::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(&stored, &subject_id, &canonical).unwrap();
        let after = Beef::from_binary(&out).unwrap();
        // the subject's OWN bump is the canonical one
        let own = after
            .find_txid(&subject_id)
            .and_then(BeefTx::bump_index)
            .and_then(|bi| after.bumps.get(bi))
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            own.compute_root(Some(&subject_id)).unwrap(),
            canonical_root,
            "the subject re-anchored to the new bump"
        );
        // the orphan bump is gone (only the canonical one remains)
        assert_eq!(
            after.bumps.len(),
            1,
            "the unreferenced orphan bump was dropped"
        );
        // and a reader that uses the tx's OWN bump sees canonical, never orphan
        assert!(after.find_txid(&parent_id).is_some(), "ancestry preserved");
    }

    #[test]
    fn stitch_refuses_a_beef_that_lacks_the_txid() {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath;
        let (stored, _c, _p) = subject_not_last_beef();
        let foreign = "aa".repeat(32);
        let proof = MerklePath::from_hex(&single_leaf_bump_hex(&foreign, 900_000)).unwrap();
        assert!(
            Engine::stitch_proof_into_stored_beef(&stored, &foreign, &proof).is_none(),
            "no txid in the beef -> no write, never garbage"
        );
    }

    /// A real mainnet raw tx, the unproven parent for the re-anchor pin.
    const RAW_PARENT: &str = "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";

    /// A minimal raw tx spending `source:vout` with one OP_TRUE output.
    fn child_of(source_txid: &str, vout: u32) -> bsv_rs::transaction::Transaction {
        let mut sx = String::from("0100000001");
        let mut prev = hex::decode(source_txid).unwrap();
        prev.reverse();
        sx.push_str(&hex::encode(prev));
        sx.push_str(&hex::encode(vout.to_le_bytes()));
        sx.push_str("00ffffffff01");
        sx.push_str(&hex::encode(1000u64.to_le_bytes()));
        sx.push_str("015100000000");
        bsv_rs::transaction::Transaction::from_hex(&sx).unwrap()
    }

    /// A minimal valid single-leaf BUMP hex proving `txid` at `height`.
    fn single_leaf_bump_hex(txid: &str, height: u32) -> String {
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{MerklePath, MerklePathLeaf};
        let leaf = MerklePathLeaf::new_txid(0, txid.to_string());
        MerklePath::new_unchecked(height, vec![vec![leaf]])
            .unwrap()
            .to_hex()
    }

    /// Mock fetcher: returns a configured proof (or none) for any txid, and
    /// counts how many times it was asked.
    struct StubFetcher {
        proof: Option<String>,
        calls: Cell<u32>,
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl AncestorFetcher for StubFetcher {
        async fn fetch_ancestor(&self, _txid: &str) -> Result<FetchedAncestor, GASPError> {
            self.calls.set(self.calls.get() + 1);
            Ok(FetchedAncestor {
                raw_tx: PROOFLESS_RAW_TX.to_string(),
                proof: self.proof.clone(),
            })
        }

        /// Models a fetcher whose header source CONFIRMS a stored bump — so the
        /// already-structurally-proven re-verify gate (the window-clog path)
        /// latches without a re-fetch, exactly as before the #192/#193 hardening.
        /// (`verified_proof_for` is left at its default: it delegates to
        /// `fetch_ancestor` above, so the `calls` counter still tracks fetches.)
        async fn verify_proof(&self, _txid: &str, _bump_hex: &str) -> bool {
            true
        }
    }

    /// Build an engine over a storage holding one proofless output, with an
    /// optional ancestor fetcher.
    async fn engine_with_proofless_output(
        fetcher: Option<std::rc::Rc<StubFetcher>>,
    ) -> (Engine, String) {
        let (beef, txid) = proofless_beef();
        let storage = MemoryStorage::new();
        storage
            .insert_output(&Output {
                txid: txid.clone(),
                output_index: 0,
                output_script: vec![0x76],
                satoshis: 1_000_000_000,
                topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: Some(beef),
                block_height: None,
                score: Some(1.0),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "Hello".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(storage),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        if let Some(f) = fetcher {
            engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(f);
        }
        (engine, txid)
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn proofs_completion_uses_dedicated_courier() {
        let (_, txid) = proofless_beef();
        let shared = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: None,
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let dedicated = StubFetcher {
            proof: Some(single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, 850_000)),
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        };
        let (engine, _) = engine_with_proofless_output(Some(shared.clone())).await;
        assert_eq!(
            engine
                .complete_missing_proofs(1, 0)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .completed,
            0
        );
        assert_eq!(
            engine
                .complete_missing_proofs_with(&dedicated, 1, 0)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .completed,
            1
        );
        assert_eq!(shared.calls.get(), 1);
        assert_eq!(dedicated.calls.get(), 1);
        let output = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("Hello"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            crate::beef_limits::own_proof(output.beef.as_ref().unwrap(), &txid)
                .unwrap()
                .is_some()
        );
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_noop_without_fetcher() {
        // No ancestor fetcher configured → pure no-op (production default).
        let (engine, _txid) = engine_with_proofless_output(None).await;
        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary, ProofCompletionSummary::default());
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_stitches_when_fetcher_returns_proof() {
        let (_beef, txid) = proofless_beef();
        let proof_hex = single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, 850_000);
        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: Some(proof_hex),
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let (engine, txid) = engine_with_proofless_output(Some(fetcher.clone())).await;

        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, 1);
        assert_eq!(summary.proofless, 1);
        assert_eq!(
            summary.completed, 1,
            "the proofless BEEF should be completed"
        );
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 1);

        // The stored BEEF now carries a proof for the target tx + the output
        // got its block height.
        let out = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(&txid, 0, Some("Hello"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(out.block_height, Some(850_000));
        let beef = bsv_rs::transaction::Beef::from_binary(out.beef.as_ref().unwrap()).unwrap();
        assert!(
            beef.find_txid(&txid)
                .is_some_and(bsv_rs::transaction::BeefTx::has_proof),
            "completed BEEF must prove the target tx"
        );

        // A second pass is a no-op: the tx is now proven, so it is not counted
        // proofless and the fetcher is not asked again.
        let summary2 = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary2.proofless, 0);
        assert_eq!(summary2.completed, 0);
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 1, "no re-fetch once proven");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_skips_unconfirmed() {
        // Fetcher reachable but the tx is unmined (no BUMP) → skipped, not
        // errored, and counted still_unconfirmed for retry.
        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: None,
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let (engine, _txid) = engine_with_proofless_output(Some(fetcher.clone())).await;
        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.proofless, 1);
        assert_eq!(summary.completed, 0);
        assert_eq!(summary.still_unconfirmed, 1);
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 1);
    }

    /// Build an engine like [`engine_with_proofless_output`] but keep a shared
    /// handle to the `MemoryStorage` (via the `Rc<T: Storage>` delegation) so
    /// the test can advance its deterministic clock — the push-primary
    /// backstop age-gate tests (#228) need to age rows without sleeping.
    async fn engine_with_proofless_output_shared(
        fetcher: Option<std::rc::Rc<StubFetcher>>,
    ) -> (Engine, String, std::rc::Rc<MemoryStorage>) {
        let (beef, txid) = proofless_beef();
        let storage = std::rc::Rc::new(MemoryStorage::new());
        storage
            .insert_output(&Output {
                txid: txid.clone(),
                output_index: 0,
                output_script: vec![0x76],
                satoshis: 1_000_000_000,
                topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: Some(beef),
                block_height: None,
                score: Some(1.0),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "Hello".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(storage.clone()),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        if let Some(f) = fetcher {
            engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(f);
        }
        (engine, txid, storage)
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_age_gate_young_rows_wait_for_the_push() {
        // Push-primary backstop (#228): a FRESHLY stored proofless tx must NOT
        // be polled — its proof is expected via /arc-ingest at push speed. The
        // gated pass scans nothing and never asks the fetcher.
        let proof_hex = {
            let (_beef, txid) = proofless_beef();
            single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, 850_000)
        };
        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: Some(proof_hex),
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let (engine, _txid, storage) =
            engine_with_proofless_output_shared(Some(fetcher.clone())).await;

        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 1800).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, 0, "a young row is skipped entirely");
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 0, "no courier fetch for a young row");

        // WEBHOOK-OUTAGE DEGRADATION: no push ever arrives. Once the row is
        // older than the gate, the SAME backstop pass polls and completes it
        // exactly as the pre-#228 behaviour — degradation is to polling,
        // never to nothing.
        storage.advance_clock(1800);
        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 1800).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, 1, "an old-enough row is always polled");
        assert_eq!(summary.completed, 1, "the backstop completes the proof");
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 1);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_skips_tx_whose_proof_was_pushed() {
        // Pushed-proof-then-chaser-skips (#228): a proof arriving via the real
        // /arc-ingest producer path (`handle_new_merkle_proof` → the
        // `update_transaction_beef` stitch, which latches `has_proof`) drops
        // the tx out of the poll candidate set entirely — even after the age
        // gate opens, the chaser never asks the fetcher about it.
        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: None,
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let (engine, txid, storage) =
            engine_with_proofless_output_shared(Some(fetcher.clone())).await;

        // The push lands (arc-ingest calls exactly this after its own
        // chaintracks verify).
        let proof_hex = single_leaf_bump_hex(&txid, 850_000);
        engine
            .handle_new_merkle_proof(&txid, &proof_hex, Some(850_000))
            .await
            .unwrap();

        // Age the row well past the backstop gate: still skipped — the pushed
        // proof, not the age, is what removes it from the chaser's world.
        storage.advance_clock(1_000_000);
        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 1800).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, 0, "a pushed-proof tx is never re-polled");
        assert_eq!(summary.completed, 0);
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 0, "the chaser must skip it entirely");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_respects_limit() {
        // Two proofless txs, limit 1 → only one row is scanned this tick.
        let (beef1, txid1) = proofless_beef();
        // A second distinct proofless tx (different raw tx → different txid).
        let raw2 = "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2803dc7e0e0499170e6a0003cf341b017e0000152f476f72696c6c61506f6f6c2e696f20f09fa68d2f0000000003000000000000000032006a0547504f4f4c08dc7e0e0000000000200158a2360a03939451e72c3a9302f5d48712bf54a5b2edf8f3c69aed35a668e312236000000000001976a914068a58835bb93b152c901ffb18f6578824f9d5b788ac6eb66612000000001976a91402fd5a91155231d5799e2d22c490d1664cde62cb88ac00000000";
        let (beef2, txid2) = {
            use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, Transaction};
            let tx = Transaction::from_hex(raw2).unwrap();
            let id = tx.id();
            let mut b = Beef::new();
            b.merge_transaction(tx);
            (b.to_binary(), id)
        };

        let storage = MemoryStorage::new();
        for (txid, beef) in [(&txid1, beef1), (&txid2, beef2)] {
            storage
                .insert_output(&Output {
                    txid: txid.clone(),
                    output_index: 0,
                    output_script: vec![0x76],
                    satoshis: 1000,
                    topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                    spent: false,
                    outputs_consumed: vec![],
                    consumed_by: vec![],
                    beef: Some(beef),
                    block_height: None,
                    score: Some(1.0),
                })
                .await
                .unwrap();
        }

        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: None,
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "Hello".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(storage),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(fetcher.clone());

        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(1, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, 1, "limit 1 → only one row scanned");
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_marks_already_proven_rows_so_window_advances() {
        // Window-clog regression (#130): migration 0010 defaulted EVERY
        // existing `transactions` row to has_proof = 0, including rows whose
        // stored BEEF already carries a proof (e.g. GASP-synced txs). The
        // candidate query (`WHERE has_proof = 0 LIMIT n`) returns those rows
        // every tick; the engine skips them but — before this fix — never
        // flipped the flag, so they lingered in the bounded window forever and
        // starved genuinely-proofless rows behind them. The fix marks each
        // already-proven scanned row so it drops out of the NEXT pass.
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{Beef, MerklePath, Transaction};

        let storage = MemoryStorage::new();

        // Seed several ALREADY-PROVEN rows. They are inserted via
        // `insert_output`, which (modeling migration 0010's default) does NOT
        // set the proof flag — so despite carrying a valid proof they show up
        // as has_proof = 0 candidates: the exact clog.
        let proven_raws = [
            "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2803dc7e0e0499170e6a0003cf341b017e0000152f476f72696c6c61506f6f6c2e696f20f09fa68d2f0000000003000000000000000032006a0547504f4f4c08dc7e0e0000000000200158a2360a03939451e72c3a9302f5d48712bf54a5b2edf8f3c69aed35a668e312236000000000001976a914068a58835bb93b152c901ffb18f6578824f9d5b788ac6eb66612000000001976a91402fd5a91155231d5799e2d22c490d1664cde62cb88ac00000000",
            "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",
        ];
        let mut proven_ids = Vec::new();
        for raw in proven_raws {
            let mut tx = Transaction::from_hex(raw).unwrap();
            let id = tx.id();
            tx.merkle_path =
                Some(MerklePath::from_hex(&single_leaf_bump_hex(&id, 800_000)).unwrap());
            // to_beef(true) carries the merkle proof into the BEEF, so the row
            // genuinely IS proven — yet its flag stays 0 (insert path).
            let proven_beef = tx.to_beef(true).unwrap();
            assert_eq!(
                Beef::from_binary(&proven_beef)
                    .unwrap()
                    .find_txid(&id)
                    .map(bsv_rs::transaction::BeefTx::has_proof),
                Some(true),
                "proven fixture row must carry its proof"
            );
            proven_ids.push(id.clone());
            storage
                .insert_output(&Output {
                    txid: id,
                    output_index: 0,
                    output_script: vec![0x76],
                    satoshis: 1000,
                    topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                    spent: false,
                    outputs_consumed: vec![],
                    consumed_by: vec![],
                    beef: Some(proven_beef),
                    block_height: Some(800_000),
                    score: Some(1.0),
                })
                .await
                .unwrap();
        }

        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: None,
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "Hello".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(storage),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(fetcher.clone());

        // First pass over a window covering both proven rows: each is detected
        // already-proven and marked. Nothing proofless, nothing fetched.
        let summary = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary.scanned, proven_ids.len());
        assert_eq!(summary.proofless, 0);
        assert_eq!(summary.completed, 0);
        assert_eq!(
            summary.already_proven,
            proven_ids.len(),
            "every already-proven row is marked this pass"
        );
        assert_eq!(fetcher.calls.get(), 0, "no fetch for already-proven rows");

        // Window has advanced: the NEXT candidate query no longer returns the
        // marked rows, so the pass scans nothing.
        let summary2 = engine.complete_missing_proofs(50, 0).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(summary2.scanned, 0, "marked rows dropped out of the window");
        assert_eq!(summary2.already_proven, 0);
    }

    #[tokio::test]
    async fn complete_missing_proofs_reaches_proofless_tx_behind_clogging_proven_rows() {
        // The window-clog in action with a small limit: a genuinely-proofless
        // backlog row sits behind already-proven (stale-flag) rows. Each tick
        // marks the proven rows it scans (dropping them out), so over a few
        // bounded ticks the window advances until the proofless tx is reached
        // + completed — instead of being starved forever.
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{MerklePath, Transaction};

        let storage = MemoryStorage::new();

        let proven_raws = [
            "01000000010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ffffffff2803dc7e0e0499170e6a0003cf341b017e0000152f476f72696c6c61506f6f6c2e696f20f09fa68d2f0000000003000000000000000032006a0547504f4f4c08dc7e0e0000000000200158a2360a03939451e72c3a9302f5d48712bf54a5b2edf8f3c69aed35a668e312236000000000001976a914068a58835bb93b152c901ffb18f6578824f9d5b788ac6eb66612000000001976a91402fd5a91155231d5799e2d22c490d1664cde62cb88ac00000000",
        ];
        for raw in proven_raws {
            let mut tx = Transaction::from_hex(raw).unwrap();
            let id = tx.id();
            tx.merkle_path =
                Some(MerklePath::from_hex(&single_leaf_bump_hex(&id, 800_000)).unwrap());
            let proven_beef = tx.to_beef(true).unwrap();
            storage
                .insert_output(&Output {
                    txid: id,
                    output_index: 0,
                    output_script: vec![0x76],
                    satoshis: 1000,
                    topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                    spent: false,
                    outputs_consumed: vec![],
                    consumed_by: vec![],
                    beef: Some(proven_beef),
                    block_height: Some(800_000),
                    score: Some(1.0),
                })
                .await
                .unwrap();
        }

        // The historical proofless tx (the f584f846-style backlog row).
        let (proofless, proofless_txid) = proofless_beef();
        storage
            .insert_output(&Output {
                txid: proofless_txid.clone(),
                output_index: 0,
                output_script: vec![0x76],
                satoshis: 1000,
                topic: "Hello".to_string(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: Some(proofless),
                block_height: None,
                score: Some(1.0),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();

        let proof_hex = single_leaf_bump_hex(&proofless_txid, 850_000);
        let fetcher = std::rc::Rc::new(StubFetcher {
            proof: Some(proof_hex),
            calls: Cell::new(0),
        });
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManager>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "Hello".into(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let mut engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            HashMap::new(),
            Box::new(storage),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        engine.set_ancestor_fetcher(fetcher.clone());

        // Run bounded ticks (limit 1) until the proofless tx is completed. With
        // 2 rows total a couple of ticks suffice; cap iterations defensively.
        let mut completed_total = 0;
        for _ in 0..5 {
            let s = engine.complete_missing_proofs(1, 0).await.unwrap();
            completed_total += s.completed;
            if completed_total > 0 {
                break;
            }
        }
        assert_eq!(
            completed_total, 1,
            "the proofless backlog tx is reached + completed once the proven rows are marked out of the window"
        );

        let out = engine
            .storage()
            .find_output(&proofless_txid, 0, Some("Hello"), None, true)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .unwrap();
        let beef = bsv_rs::transaction::Beef::from_binary(out.beef.as_ref().unwrap()).unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            beef.find_txid(&proofless_txid)
                .map(bsv_rs::transaction::BeefTx::has_proof),
            Some(true),
            "the old proofless tx now carries its proof"
        );
    }

    // ── S2 queue-durable admission (bsv-low 2026-08-29): Phase-3 faults ──
    //
    // The phantom class: under a D1 storm `submit` returned Ok(steak) while
    // its writes failed — the ack outlived the admission. These pins hold
    // the new contract: a fault is REPORTED, the faulted topic is NOT
    // recorded as applied, and a replay of the same bytes re-applies.

    use crate::storage::StorageError;
    use std::rc::Rc;

    /// `MemoryStorage` behind two fault switches. Every method delegates;
    /// the two the tests flip model a D1 write fault (`insert_output`) and
    /// a D1 read fault (`find_output` — the validation's previous-coin scan
    /// AND Phase 3's stale/consumed lookups).
    struct FaultingStorage {
        inner: MemoryStorage,
        fail_insert_output: Cell<bool>,
        fail_find_output: Cell<bool>,
    }

    impl FaultingStorage {
        fn new() -> Rc<Self> {
            Rc::new(Self {
                inner: MemoryStorage::new(),
                fail_insert_output: Cell::new(false),
                fail_find_output: Cell::new(false),
            })
        }
    }

    #[async_trait(?Send)]
    impl Storage for FaultingStorage {
        async fn insert_output_with_origin(
            &self,
            output: &Output,
            gasp: bool,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            if self.fail_insert_output.get() {
                return Err(StorageError::Database(
                    "D1_ERROR: storage overloaded".into(),
                ));
            }
            self.inner.insert_output_with_origin(output, gasp).await
        }
        async fn read_fault_memos(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            outpoints: Option<&[String]>,
        ) -> Result<crate::fault_memo::FaultMemoBatch, StorageError> {
            self.inner.read_fault_memos(host, topic, outpoints).await
        }

        async fn put_deferred_graph(
            &self,
            record: &crate::gasp::DeferredGraph,
        ) -> Result<crate::gasp::DeferredGraphSave, StorageError> {
            self.inner.put_deferred_graph(record).await
        }
        async fn reserve_unanchorable_retry(
            &self,
            record: &crate::gasp::DeferredGraph,
        ) -> Result<bool, StorageError> {
            self.inner.reserve_unanchorable_retry(record).await
        }
        async fn find_deferred_graphs(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
        ) -> Result<Vec<crate::gasp::DeferredGraphKey>, StorageError> {
            self.inner.find_deferred_graphs(host, topic).await
        }
        async fn get_deferred_graph(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            outpoint: &str,
        ) -> Result<Option<crate::gasp::DeferredGraph>, StorageError> {
            self.inner.get_deferred_graph(host, topic, outpoint).await
        }
        async fn delete_deferred_graph(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            outpoint: &str,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .delete_deferred_graph(host, topic, outpoint)
                .await
        }
        async fn record_peer_sync_outcome(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            success: bool,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .record_peer_sync_outcome(host, topic, success)
                .await
        }
        async fn get_peer_sync_health(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
        ) -> Result<crate::storage::PeerSyncHealth, StorageError> {
            self.inner.get_peer_sync_health(host, topic).await
        }
        async fn record_peer_sync_yield(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            yielded: bool,
        ) -> Result<crate::storage::PeerYieldStreak, StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .record_peer_sync_yield(host, topic, yielded)
                .await
        }
        async fn insert_output(&self, output: &Output) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.insert_output_with_origin(output, false).await
        }
        async fn delete_output(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
            topic: &str,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner.delete_output(txid, output_index, topic).await
        }
        async fn mark_utxo_as_spent(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
            topic: &str,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .mark_utxo_as_spent(txid, output_index, topic)
                .await
        }
        async fn update_consumed_by(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
            topic: &str,
            consumed_by: &[Outpoint],
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .update_consumed_by(txid, output_index, topic, consumed_by)
                .await
        }
        async fn update_transaction_beef(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            beef: &[u8],
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner.update_transaction_beef(txid, beef).await
        }
        async fn insert_applied_transaction(
            &self,
            tx: &AppliedTransaction,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner.insert_applied_transaction(tx).await
        }
        async fn does_applied_transaction_exist(
            &self,
            tx: &AppliedTransaction,
        ) -> Result<bool, StorageError> {
            self.inner.does_applied_transaction_exist(tx).await
        }
        async fn delete_applied_transaction(
            &self,
            tx: &AppliedTransaction,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner.delete_applied_transaction(tx).await
        }
        async fn find_output(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            output_index: u32,
            topic: Option<&str>,
            spent: Option<bool>,
            include_beef: bool,
        ) -> Result<Option<Output>, StorageError> {
            if self.fail_find_output.get() {
                return Err(StorageError::Database("D1_ERROR: read timed out".into()));
            }
            self.inner
                .find_output(txid, output_index, topic, spent, include_beef)
                .await
        }
        async fn find_outputs_for_transaction(
            &self,
            txid: &str,
            include_beef: bool,
        ) -> Result<Vec<Output>, StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .find_outputs_for_transaction(txid, include_beef)
                .await
        }
        async fn find_utxos_for_topic(
            &self,
            topic: &str,
            since: Option<f64>,
            limit: Option<u64>,
            include_beef: bool,
        ) -> Result<Vec<Output>, StorageError> {
            self.inner
                .find_utxos_for_topic(topic, since, limit, include_beef)
                .await
        }
        async fn update_last_interaction(
            &self,
            host: &str,
            topic: &str,
            since: u64,
        ) -> Result<(), StorageError> {
            self.inner.update_last_interaction(host, topic, since).await
        }
        async fn get_last_interaction(&self, host: &str, topic: &str) -> Result<u64, StorageError> {
            self.inner.get_last_interaction(host, topic).await
        }
    }

    fn make_faulting_engine(admit_indices: Vec<u32>) -> (Engine, Rc<FaultingStorage>) {
        let storage = FaultingStorage::new();
        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(admit_indices)),
        );
        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert("ls_test".to_string(), Box::new(MockLookupService::new()));
        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            Box::new(Rc::clone(&storage)),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );
        (engine, storage)
    }

    async fn applied(storage: &FaultingStorage) -> bool {
        storage
            .does_applied_transaction_exist(&AppliedTransaction {
                txid: TEST_TXID.to_string(),
                topic: "tm_test".to_string(),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap()
    }

    /// The old behaviour, pinned: a clean submit is durable, records the
    /// topic as applied, and the output is in storage.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn clean_submit_is_durable_and_records_applied() {
        let (engine, storage) = make_faulting_engine(vec![0]);
        let (steak, report) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit, vec![0]);
        assert!(report.is_durable(), "{}", report.summary());
        assert_eq!(report.applied_topics, vec!["tm_test".to_string()]);
        assert!(applied(&storage).await);
        assert!(storage
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_some());
    }

    /// THE PHANTOM, red→green: the insert fails, the steak still says
    /// "admitted" (the decision stands), but the report says NOT DURABLE and
    /// names the site — and the topic is NOT recorded as applied, so nothing
    /// downstream can treat the loss as final.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn phase3_write_fault_is_reported_and_blocks_the_applied_record() {
        let (engine, storage) = make_faulting_engine(vec![0]);
        storage.fail_insert_output.set(true);
        let (steak, report) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit,
            vec![0],
            "the admission DECISION is unchanged by a write fault"
        );
        assert!(!report.is_durable());
        assert_eq!(report.faults.len(), 1, "{}", report.summary());
        assert_eq!(report.faults[0].topic, "tm_test");
        assert_eq!(report.faults[0].site, "insert_output");
        assert!(report.faults[0].error.contains("D1_ERROR"));
        assert!(report.applied_topics.is_empty());
        assert!(
            !applied(&storage).await,
            "a faulted topic must not be recorded as applied — the replay would be a dupe"
        );
        assert!(storage
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_none());
    }

    /// The replay: same bytes, storage healthy again → re-validated (not a
    /// dupe), re-written, recorded. A THIRD submit is then the dupe it
    /// should be: nothing admitted, nothing to write, durable.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn replay_after_a_fault_reapplies_and_records_applied() {
        let (engine, storage) = make_faulting_engine(vec![0]);
        storage.fail_insert_output.set(true);
        let (_, first) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(!first.is_durable());

        storage.fail_insert_output.set(false);
        let (steak, replay) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit,
            vec![0],
            "re-validated, not deduped"
        );
        assert!(replay.is_durable(), "{}", replay.summary());
        assert_eq!(replay.applied_topics, vec!["tm_test".to_string()]);
        assert!(applied(&storage).await);
        assert!(storage
            .find_output(TEST_TXID, 0, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
            .await
            .unwrap()
            .is_some());

        let (steak, third) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            steak["tm_test"].outputs_to_admit.is_empty(),
            "now a genuine dupe: nothing admitted"
        );
        assert!(third.is_durable() && third.applied_topics.is_empty());
    }

    /// The SPEND half of the phantom: a `find_output` fault during
    /// validation made a settle look like it consumed nothing, so the spend
    /// pointer was never written and the ack stood. Now the read fault is
    /// reported, the topic stays unrecorded, the previously-admitted coin
    /// is untouched — and the healthy replay consumes it.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn validation_read_fault_is_reported_and_the_replay_consumes_the_coin() {
        let (engine, storage) = make_faulting_engine(vec![0]);
        // The subject's own input: seed the coin it spends as a previously
        // admitted tm_test output.
        let tx = Transaction::from_beef(&test_beef(), None).unwrap();
        let source_txid = tx.inputs[0].get_source_txid().unwrap();
        let source_vout = tx.inputs[0].source_output_index;
        storage
            .insert_output(&Output {
                txid: source_txid.clone(),
                output_index: source_vout,
                output_script: vec![0x51],
                satoshis: 1,
                topic: "tm_test".to_string(),
                spent: false,
                outputs_consumed: vec![],
                consumed_by: vec![],
                beef: None,
                block_height: None,
                score: Some(1.0),
            })
            .await
            .unwrap();

        storage.fail_find_output.set(true);
        let (_, faulted) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(!faulted.is_durable());
        assert!(
            faulted.faults.iter().any(|f| f.site == "find_output"),
            "{}",
            faulted.summary()
        );
        assert!(
            !applied(&storage).await,
            "unrecorded: the replay must re-read"
        );
        storage.fail_find_output.set(false);
        assert!(
            storage
                .find_output(&source_txid, source_vout, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .is_some(),
            "the coin the faulted pass could not see is still there, untouched"
        );

        let (_, replay) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]), SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(replay.is_durable(), "{}", replay.summary());
        assert!(applied(&storage).await);
        // The mock manager retains no coins, so the consumed coin is stale
        // and deleted — the observable proof the spend was PROCESSED.
        assert!(
            storage
                .find_output(&source_txid, source_vout, Some("tm_test"), None, false)
                .await
                .unwrap()
                .is_none(),
            "the healthy replay consumed the coin the faulted pass missed"
        );
    }

    /// bsv-low PLAN-PRE-LOOP4 §H4 (2026-09-06): a lookup service that missed
    /// its admit notification is told AGAIN from the engine's own stored
    /// outputs — one call per admitted output per service, the WholeTx body
    /// naming the subject — while `/submit` of the same bytes is deduped and
    /// tells nobody (the premise, RED-verified in the same test); a topic the
    /// engine never admitted this txid on yields 0 (the caller re-submits).
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn renotify_admitted_replays_the_admit_from_stored_outputs() {
        use std::cell::RefCell;
        use std::rc::Rc;

        struct CountingLs(Rc<RefCell<Vec<(String, u32, String)>>>, AdmissionMode);
        #[async_trait(?Send)]
        impl LookupServiceTrait for CountingLs {
            fn admission_mode(&self) -> AdmissionMode {
                self.1
            }
            fn spend_notification_mode(&self) -> SpendNotificationMode {
                SpendNotificationMode::None
            }
            async fn output_admitted_by_topic(
                &self,
                payload: &OutputAdmittedByTopic,
            ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
                let rec = match payload {
                    OutputAdmittedByTopic::LockingScript {
                        txid,
                        output_index,
                        topic,
                        ..
                    } => (txid.clone(), *output_index, topic.clone()),
                    OutputAdmittedByTopic::WholeTx {
                        atomic_beef,
                        output_index,
                        topic,
                        ..
                    } => {
                        let beef = Beef::from_binary(atomic_beef).expect("the WholeTx body parses");
                        (
                            beef.atomic_txid
                                .clone()
                                .expect("the WholeTx body NAMES its subject"),
                            *output_index,
                            topic.clone(),
                        )
                    }
                };
                self.0.borrow_mut().push(rec);
                Ok(())
            }
            async fn output_evicted(
                &self,
                _txid: &str,
                _output_index: u32,
            ) -> Result<(), LookupServiceError> {
                Ok(())
            }
            async fn lookup(
                &self,
                _question: &LookupQuestion,
            ) -> Result<LookupResult, LookupServiceError> {
                Ok(LookupResult::OutputList(Vec::new()))
            }
            async fn get_documentation(&self) -> String {
                "counting".to_string()
            }
            async fn get_metadata(&self) -> ServiceMetadata {
                ServiceMetadata {
                    name: "counting-ls".to_string(),
                    ..Default::default()
                }
            }
        }

        let mut managers: HashMap<String, Box<dyn TopicManagerTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        managers.insert(
            "tm_test".to_string(),
            Box::new(MockTopicManager::admitting(vec![0])),
        );
        let seen = Rc::new(RefCell::new(Vec::new()));
        let mut lookup_services: HashMap<String, Box<dyn LookupServiceTrait>> = HashMap::new();
        lookup_services.insert(
            "ls_whole".to_string(),
            Box::new(CountingLs(seen.clone(), AdmissionMode::WholeTx)),
        );
        lookup_services.insert(
            "ls_script".to_string(),
            Box::new(CountingLs(seen.clone(), AdmissionMode::LockingScript)),
        );
        let engine = Engine::new(
            managers,
            lookup_services,
            Box::new(MemoryStorage::new()),
            None,
            EngineConfig::default(),
        );

        let tagged = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        engine.submit(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!(seen.borrow().len(), 2, "one admit per service");
        let (txid, vout, _) = seen.borrow()[0].clone();
        assert_eq!(txid, TEST_TXID);

        // the premise, RED-verified: the same bytes again are DEDUPED — /submit can never re-notify
        let (_, report) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(report.deduped_topics, vec!["tm_test".to_string()]);
        assert_eq!(seen.borrow().len(), 2, "dedup told nobody");

        // the verb: told again from the stored outputs, the WholeTx body naming the subject
        let r = engine.renotify_admitted(&txid, "tm_test").await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!((r.outputs, r.notified, r.faults.len()), (1, 2, 0));
        assert_eq!(r.vouts, vec![vout]);
        assert_eq!(seen.borrow().len(), 4);
        assert!(seen.borrow()[2..]
            .iter()
            .all(|(t, v, topic)| *t == txid && *v == vout && topic == "tm_test"));

        // a topic the engine never admitted this txid on: nothing to re-notify (re-submit instead)
        let r0 = engine.renotify_admitted(&txid, "tm_other").await.unwrap();
        assert_eq!((r0.outputs, r0.notified), (0, 0));
        assert_eq!(seen.borrow().len(), 4);

        // idempotent: a second re-notify tells everyone again, faults nothing
        let r2 = engine
            .renotify_admitted(&txid.to_ascii_uppercase(), "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!((r2.outputs, r2.notified, r2.faults.len()), (1, 2, 0));
        assert_eq!(seen.borrow().len(), 6);
    }

    /// bsv-low PLAN-PRE-LOOP4 §H4: a PHANTOM applied row (the topic admitted
    /// NOTHING) dedups every re-submit of those bytes; forgetting it lets the
    /// same bytes be judged again — while a REAL admission's row is never
    /// forgotten and a missing row is nothing to forget.
    #[tokio::test]
    async fn forget_phantom_applied_unblocks_a_resubmit_but_never_a_real_admission() {
        // phantom: a TM that admits nothing still records the topic as applied
        let engine = make_engine(vec![]);
        let tagged = test_tagged_beef(vec!["tm_test"]);
        let (steak, r1) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(steak.get("tm_test").unwrap().outputs_to_admit.is_empty());
        assert_eq!(r1.applied_topics, vec!["tm_test".to_string()]);
        let (_, r2) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            r2.deduped_topics,
            vec!["tm_test".to_string()],
            "the phantom row dedups the re-submit"
        );
        assert!(engine
            .forget_phantom_applied(TEST_TXID, "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap());
        let (_, r3) = engine
            .submit_with_report(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert!(
            r3.deduped_topics.is_empty(),
            "judged again after the forget"
        );
        assert!(
            !engine
                .forget_phantom_applied(TEST_TXID, "tm_other")
                .await
                .unwrap(),
            "no row: nothing to forget"
        );

        // real: a TM that admits output 0 — its row is a real admission, never forgotten
        let real = make_engine(vec![0]);
        real.submit(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx).await.unwrap();
        assert!(!real
            .forget_phantom_applied(TEST_TXID, "tm_test")
            .await
            .unwrap());
        let (_, r4) = real
            .submit_with_report(&tagged, SubmitMode::CurrentTx)
            .await
            .unwrap();
        assert_eq!(
            r4.deduped_topics,
            vec!["tm_test".to_string()],
            "a real admission still dedups"
        );
    }

    // ── NL-6e: the SPV walk is linear in a BUMP's leaves (NL-8 W1) ─────

    /// Named and generous (a debug build on a loaded machine): the walk at
    /// bsv-rs 0.4.0 took 30 to 36 s at 4,096 leaves in release and gave no
    /// answer in 120 s at 8,192 (NL-8 W1).
    const WIDE_BUMP_WALK_BOUND: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(10);

    /// The wide BUMP's height (NL-8's `wide k` row).
    const WIDE_HEIGHT: u32 = 800_001;

    /// `2^k` txids, display hex: the double SHA-256 of `i` (NL-8's probe).
    fn wide_leaves(k: u32) -> Vec<String> {
        (0..1u32 << k)
            .map(|i| {
                let mut id = bsv_rs::primitives::sha256d(&i.to_le_bytes()).to_vec();
                id.reverse();
                hex::encode(id)
            })
            .collect()
    }

    /// One BUMP at [`WIDE_HEIGHT`] whose level 0 carries `txids` as hashed
    /// leaves and whose `k - 1` upper levels are empty: every node above
    /// level 0 is computed from it. Its root, by one walk.
    fn wide_bump(txids: &[String]) -> (bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath, String) {
        let k = txids.len().trailing_zeros() as usize;
        let mut levels = vec![Vec::new(); k];
        levels[0] = txids
            .iter()
            .enumerate()
            .map(|(i, id)| bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePathLeaf::new_txid(i as u64, id.clone()))
            .collect();
        let bump = bsv_rs::transaction::MerklePath::new(WIDE_HEIGHT, levels).unwrap();
        let root = bump.compute_root(None).unwrap();
        (bump, root)
    }

    /// NL-8 W1's bytes: a V1 BEEF of the one wide BUMP and no transaction
    /// (`wide_14` at `2^k` leaves, byte for byte the runner's probe).
    fn w1_bytes(k: u32) -> (Vec<u8>, String) {
        let (bump, root) = wide_bump(&wide_leaves(k));
        let mut beef = vec![0x01, 0x00, 0xbe, 0xef, 0x01];
        beef.extend_from_slice(&bump.to_binary());
        beef.push(0x00);
        (beef, root)
    }

    /// The entry, [`verify_spv_like_the_reference`], on its own thread under
    /// a tracker that carries `root` at [`WIDE_HEIGHT`]: its answer and its
    /// time, or a panic naming the bound.
    fn walk_within_bound(
        bytes: Vec<u8>,
        root: String,
        verify_scripts: bool,
        subject: String,
        what: &str,
    ) -> (Result<(), String>, std::time::Duration) {
        let (tx, rx) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
        std::thread::spawn(move || {
            let mut tracker = bsv_rs::transaction::MockChainTracker::new(WIDE_HEIGHT + 10);
            tracker.add_root(WIDE_HEIGHT, root);
            let runtime = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
                .build()
                .unwrap();
            let started = std::time::Instant::now();
            let verdict = runtime.block_on(verify_spv_like_the_reference(
                Some(&tracker),
                verify_scripts,
                &bytes,
                &subject,
                DoorBudget::DEFAULT,
            ));
            let verdict = match verdict {
                Ok(None) => Ok(()),
                Ok(Some(stop)) => Err(format!("the walk could not run: {stop:?}")),
                Err(e) => Err(e.to_string()),
            };
            let _ = tx.send((verdict, started.elapsed()));
        });
        rx.recv_timeout(WIDE_BUMP_WALK_BOUND).unwrap_or_else(|_| {
            panic!("{what}: no answer from the walk within {WIDE_BUMP_WALK_BOUND:?}")
        })
    }

    /// The escape hatch's structural walk (`verify_scripts` false) on NL-8
    /// W1's bytes, 4,096 and 8,192 leaves: accepted, the one root asked of
    /// the tracker, well inside the bound.
    #[test]
    fn nl6e_the_structural_walk_is_linear_in_a_bump_s_leaves() {
        for k in [12u32, 13] {
            let (bytes, root) = w1_bytes(k);
            let what = format!("2^{k} leaves, {} bytes, structural", bytes.len());
            let (verdict, took) = walk_within_bound(bytes, root, false, String::new(), &what);
            println!(
                "NL-6e W1 {what}: {verdict:?} in {:.3} s",
                took.as_secs_f64()
            );
            assert_eq!(verdict, Ok(()), "{what}");
        }
    }

    /// The default walk (scripts run, `verify_scripts` true) over `2^k`
    /// proven parents in the one wide BUMP, each spent by a binary tree of
    /// two-input transactions whose root is the subject: every parent's
    /// root is the BUMP's, asked of the tracker, the inputs `2^(k+1) - 2`.
    fn proven_fan_in(k: u32) -> (Vec<u8>, String, String) {
        use bsv_rs::script::{LockingScript, UnlockingScript};
        use bsv_rs::transaction::{TransactionInput, TransactionOutput};
        let op_true = || LockingScript::from_binary(&[0x51]).unwrap();
        let spending = |txid: &str| {
            let mut input = TransactionInput::new(txid.to_string(), 0);
            input.unlocking_script = Some(UnlockingScript::from_binary(&[]).unwrap());
            input
        };
        let parents: Vec<Transaction> = (0..1u32 << k)
            .map(|i| {
                let mut tx = Transaction::new();
                // A coinbase's null outpoint, a distinct index each.
                let mut input = TransactionInput::new("00".repeat(32), u32::MAX - i);
                input.unlocking_script = Some(UnlockingScript::from_binary(&[0x51]).unwrap());
                tx.inputs.push(input);
                tx.outputs.push(TransactionOutput::new(1, op_true()));
                tx
            })
            .collect();
        let ids: Vec<String> = parents.iter().map(Transaction::id).collect();
        let (bump, root) = wide_bump(&ids);
        let mut beef = Beef::new();
        let at = beef.merge_bump(bump);
        for parent in &parents {
            beef.merge_raw_tx(parent.to_binary(), Some(at));
        }
        let mut layer = ids;
        while layer.len() > 1 {
            layer = layer
                .chunks(2)
                .map(|pair| {
                    let mut tx = Transaction::new();
                    tx.inputs.push(spending(&pair[0]));
                    tx.inputs.push(spending(&pair[1]));
                    tx.outputs.push(TransactionOutput::new(0, op_true()));
                    beef.merge_raw_tx(tx.to_binary(), None);
                    tx.id()
                })
                .collect();
        }
        (beef.to_binary(), root, layer.remove(0))
    }

    #[test]
    fn nl6e_the_script_walk_is_linear_in_a_bump_s_leaves() {
        for k in [12u32, 13] {
            let (bytes, root, subject) = proven_fan_in(k);
            let what = format!("2^{k} proven parents, {} bytes, scripts", bytes.len());
            let (verdict, took) = walk_within_bound(bytes, root, true, subject, &what);
            println!(
                "NL-6e fan-in {what}: {verdict:?} in {:.3} s",
                took.as_secs_f64()
            );
            assert_eq!(verdict, Ok(()), "{what}");
        }
    }
    include!("minutes_tests.rs");
    include!("memo_tests.rs");
    include!("absence_tests.rs");
    include!("route_fault_tests.rs");
    include!("batch_tests.rs");
    include!("page_batch_tests.rs");
}