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Plan

plans/pallas-phase1-validation-quint-derisk.md (Brain/txpipe) — phase 0b of the phase-1 validation umbrella. This PR delivers experiment evidence, not product code; the pass/fail ruling on the experiment (and whether this directory merges, is archived, or is discarded) belongs to the plan's owner at review time.

What this is

A de-risk experiment measuring whether a Quint executable spec, replayed against Rust via quint-connect, can serve as the living spec and test oracle for the phase-1 ledger rules.

Everything lives under experimental/quint-derisk/, a standalone cargo workspace excluded from the pallas workspace, its CI, and its publish surface:

  • spec/conway_utxo.qnt — Quint model of a Conway UTXO slice (fee floor, preservation of value, size bounds, collateral bounds) with one trace-generator action per rule outcome
  • src/lib.rs — the same checks in Rust behind a caller-supplied UtxoContext boundary (design tenet 1), plus four mutate-* features seeding deliberate defects
  • tests/mbt.rs — quint-connect driver replaying generated traces against the spike with a full-state diff every step
  • EVIDENCE.md — the experiment record: modelability workarounds, rule coverage, mutation matrix, effort measurement and extrapolation

Verification

  • cargo test (with bin/quint on PATH): 6 unit tests + the MBT replay — 30 traces × 8 steps, all 9 generator actions exercised 19–34 times, model and spike agree on every step (seed 0x2077).
  • Each of the four mutations makes the MBT test fail on a state diff within the first trace (matrix in EVIDENCE.md).
  • cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets clean inside the spike crate.
  • cargo metadata at the repo root confirms the pallas workspace is untouched (24 packages, spike absent), so repo CI is unaffected.

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  • New Features

    • Added an experimental Conway UTxO validation implementation covering fees, transaction size, value conservation, inputs, collateral, and UTxO updates.
    • Added Quint model-based testing to compare validation behavior and detect seeded rule defects.
    • Added commands for model checks, integration tests, and mutation-testing scenarios.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the experiment’s scope, limitations, setup, workflow, evidence, and findings.
    • Added a pinned command-line shim for the Quint tool.

…TXO slice

Phase 0b of the phase-1 validation effort: a de-risk experiment measuring
whether a Quint executable spec replayed via quint-connect can serve as the
living spec and test oracle for the phase-1 rules.

- spec/conway_utxo.qnt: Quint model of a Conway UTXO slice (fee floor,
  preservation of value, size bounds, collateral bounds) with per-rule
  trace generators
- src/lib.rs: the same checks behind a caller-supplied UtxoContext
  boundary, with four mutate-* features seeding deliberate defects
- tests/mbt.rs: quint-connect driver replaying model traces against the
  spike, full-state diff every step
- EVIDENCE.md: modelability notes, rule coverage, mutation matrix, effort
  record and extrapolation

The crate is its own workspace root: excluded from the pallas workspace,
its CI, and its publish surface. It is experiment evidence, not the
phase-1 implementation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013akZUCHm87no6x9Utvh8eP
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Walkthrough

This change adds an isolated Conway UTxO experiment. It includes a Rust validation spike, seeded defect features, unit tests, and a model-based Quint trace harness with documented results.

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Conway UTxO de-risk experiment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Experiment setup and tooling
experimental/quint-derisk/Cargo.toml, experimental/quint-derisk/.gitignore, experimental/quint-derisk/bin/quint, experimental/quint-derisk/README.md
Adds an isolated non-published crate, pinned Quint CLI wrapper, mutation features, development dependencies, ignore rules, and execution instructions.
Quint model presentation
experimental/quint-derisk/spec/conway_utxo.qnt
Removes non-functional section headers from the existing Quint model. Model declarations and behavior remain unchanged.
Rust validation and application
experimental/quint-derisk/src/lib.rs
Adds Rust transaction contracts, context resolution, ordered validation, feature-gated defects, UTxO updates, and unit tests.
Model-based trace harness and evidence
experimental/quint-derisk/tests/mbt.rs, experimental/quint-derisk/EVIDENCE.md
Maps Quint traces to Rust transactions, tracks ledger state, compares verdicts and UTxOs, runs seeded traces, and records experiment results.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

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The PR adds an isolated validation experiment, but unchecked arithmetic can panic or wrap on boundary values and make the Rust replay disagree with the Quint model, weakening the experiment’s evidence. This is a bounded merge-readiness risk requiring owner awareness or a follow-up fix.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant QuintRunner
  participant LedgerDriver
  participant RustValidate
  participant RustUtxo
  QuintRunner->>LedgerDriver: Dispatch model action
  LedgerDriver->>RustValidate: Validate converted transaction
  RustValidate->>RustUtxo: Resolve inputs
  RustValidate-->>LedgerDriver: Return validation result
  LedgerDriver->>RustUtxo: Apply accepted transaction
  LedgerDriver-->>QuintRunner: Compare verdict and ledger state
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Note on the red CI: the Clippy and Test failures are pre-existing on main-equivalent code, not introduced by this PR (which only adds a workspace-excluded directory — cargo metadata at the root is unchanged, 24 packages):

  • Clippy: 4 × iter_over_hash_type-family lints ("you seem to want to iterate on a map's keys") in pallas-validate (untouched by this PR). Reproduces locally on this branch and on main with current stable clippy; main's last CI run predates the toolchain moving (2026-07-01).
  • Test (all 3 OSes): pallas-network2 blueprint CDDL conformance tests (block_txs_conforms, block_txs_request_conforms) fail with msgLeiosBlockTxs does not conform to CDDL — dependency drift (no committed Cargo.lock), also untouched by this PR.

The spike crate itself: cargo test (6 unit + MBT replay), cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets all green. The pre-existing failures are reported as findings for the repo maintainers; fixing them is outside this experiment's scope.

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experimental/quint-derisk/Cargo.toml (1)

21-25: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Track the standalone lockfile and use locked test commands.

The root .gitignore ignores Cargo.lock, and no lockfiles are tracked. Add an exception for experimental/quint-derisk/Cargo.lock, commit it, and add --locked to each documented Cargo command.

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In `@experimental/quint-derisk/Cargo.toml` around lines 21 - 25, Track the
standalone Cargo.lock for the experimental quint-derisk project by adding the
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In `@experimental/quint-derisk/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 74-75: Update min_fee and the validation arithmetic in the
affected input, output, and collateral comparison paths to use u128
intermediates before multiplication, addition, or cross-product comparisons,
preventing u64 overflow and preserving the Quint model’s unbounded-integer
behavior. Ensure the mutation branch handles a computed zero fee floor safely
without division or invalid adjustment.

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- Around line 21-25: Track the standalone Cargo.lock for the experimental
quint-derisk project by adding the appropriate root gitignore exception and
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Comment thread experimental/quint-derisk/src/lib.rs
scarmuega and others added 2 commits August 21, 2026 17:35
…spec

Comment-only sweep to the TxPipe comment standard: the four bare
section labels named nothing their following items don't name
themselves. Prose-carrying headers stay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X15KSXtdC7jqv1QmV9dYC2
The spike is its own workspace root, so its lockfile pins the
quint-connect/serde dependency tree the evidence was produced with —
the same drift the root workspace's CI currently suffers from. A
gitignore negation keeps the exception local to the experiment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X15KSXtdC7jqv1QmV9dYC2
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CodeRabbit's lockfile nitpick (review body): fixed in 446e8df — the spike's Cargo.lock is now tracked via a gitignore negation local to experimental/quint-derisk/, and the documented commands use --locked. The overflow comment is answered on its thread. Also in this QA pass: 7ac1a13, a comment-only sweep of the Quint spec to the TxPipe comment standard. Full check set re-run at the branch tip: quint typecheck, cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --locked --all-targets, cargo test --locked (6 unit + MBT replay) all green, and the mutate-fee-floor seeded defect still fails the MBT as evidence requires.

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