feat(primitives): add Dijkstra era ledger primitives

[geofflittle]

What?

This PR adds pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra, the ledger primitives for the Dijkstra era. The module compiles only when the crate's new unstable feature is enabled, and the pallas crate enables it through its own unstable feature. Every type whose CDDL rule is the same in Conway and Dijkstra is re-exported from conway. The module defines the rules that changed in Dijkstra: the block body, the block transaction of four elements, the header body of twelve fields, the new transaction body keys, the fields added at the end of the protocol parameter update, the PlutusV4 additions, and the set types. Each set type stores a field recording whether the bytes it decoded were wrapped in CBOR tag 258, and encodes the same form it decoded.

This PR also adds fourteen blocks from the Musashi testnet as fixtures, records where each block came from in test_data/dijkstra-fixtures.md, and adds a CI step that runs this crate's tests with the feature enabled.

Why?

pallas has no type for a Dijkstra block. Every block the Musashi testnet has produced since its hard fork is encoded with wrapper tag 8, and MultiEraBlock::decode returns UnknownCbor for each one. The Conway types cannot be reused, because the Conway CDDL rule for a block and the Dijkstra rule differ. This PR does not change pallas-traverse, so after it is merged MultiEraBlock::decode still returns an error for a Dijkstra block. A later pull request will change pallas-traverse to decode the new types.

The module requires the feature because the era's CDDL is still being changed in cardano-ledger. A build that does not enable the unstable feature does not compile these types.

Testing done

Added tests. All fourteen fixtures decode and re-encode to the same bytes, and so does each transaction body, witness set and auxiliary data on its own. Each fixture's header hash matches the hash the node recorded for that block. The Dijkstra block type returns an error for the last Conway block before the hard fork. Each hand written codec is tested in both directions, and every CDDL rule a doc comment names is checked to exist in the vendored file.

$ cargo test -p pallas-primitives --features unstable dijkstra
running 20 tests
test dijkstra::tests::a_block_carrying_both_leios_fields_reads_both ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_mempool_transaction_re_encodes_both_accepted_shapes ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_block_transaction_is_not_a_mempool_transaction ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_proposal_keeps_the_dijkstra_parameter_keys ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_certificate_travels_without_an_announcement ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_vote_delegation_certificate_is_read_from_the_chain ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::an_empty_guards_array_is_refused ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_ttl_and_both_output_forms_are_read_from_one_block ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::conway_header_is_refused_as_dijkstra ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::dijkstra_header_is_not_a_babbage_header ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_pool_registration_re_encodes_each_bls_key_state ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::a_set_re_encodes_the_arm_it_was_read_from ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::block_isomorphic_decoding_encoding ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::pre_fork_blocks_are_refused_as_dijkstra_blocks ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::the_array_form_of_auxiliary_data_carries_this_eras_native_scripts ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::the_array_form_still_carries_a_clause_every_era_has ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::header_isomorphic_decoding_encoding ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::every_fixture_hashes_to_its_recorded_header_hash ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::transaction_payloads_reencode_to_their_wire_bytes ... ok
test dijkstra::tests::every_cited_rule_matches_the_vendored_cddl ... ok
test result: ok. 20 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 101 filtered out; finished in 0.03s

Notes

• The fixtures are blocks produced by the ouroboros-leios release prototype-2026w36, which builds on cardano-ledger commit 1587f21a. defs.cddl is that commit's Dijkstra CDDL with a comment at the top recording where it came from. The testnet is reset every few weeks, so a later chain may encode blocks differently.
• The CDDL defines two transaction encodings, block_transaction for a block body and mempool_transaction for submission. The module has one type for each. The transaction id is the same under both.
• The fixtures contain a Leios certificate, an endorser block announcement, both output forms, an indefinite length container, body key 3, certificate tag 9, and both set encodings. Nothing on this chain yet uses guards, sub_transactions, body keys 24 to 27, a Peras certificate, a datum option, a script reference or a script witness, so those are implemented from the CDDL alone.
• The node encodes a set either with CBOR tag 258 or as an untagged array, and both occur on this chain. The shared pallas_codec::utils::Set always encodes the tagged form, so a body decoded from the untagged form re-encodes to different bytes and a different transaction id. This module uses its own set types that encode the form they decoded. The shared type is unchanged.
• pallas/unstable now also enables this crate's unstable feature. The all features CI job only type checks, so a test step is added for the feature.
• Draft #709 adds pallas-primitives/src/leios under its own feature, with different types, and is not changed here.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added experimental support for parsing and encoding Cardano’s Dijkstra-era blocks, transactions, certificates, scripts, governance data, and related structures.
  • Added support for Plutus V4, guarding scripts, Leios and Peras certificates, and new Dijkstra transaction fields.
  • Exposed Dijkstra functionality behind an unstable feature flag.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive validation, compatibility, round-trip, and fixture coverage for Dijkstra data.

• Chores

  • CI now tests the unstable feature configuration.

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Adds feature-gated Dijkstra-era primitives with CDDL definitions, CBOR codecs, block fixtures, round-trip tests, and CI execution for the unstable feature.

Changes

Dijkstra era support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Feature and module wiring pallas-primitives/Cargo.toml, pallas-primitives/src/lib.rs, pallas/Cargo.toml, .github/workflows/ci.yml	Adds the unstable feature, exposes pallas_primitives::dijkstra, enables it through pallas, documents its unstable status, and tests it in CI.
Dijkstra CDDL schema pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/defs.cddl	Defines Dijkstra block, transaction, certificate, script, governance, guard, balance, and Leios serialization rules.
Primitive and governance codecs pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs	Implements tag-preserving sets, Dijkstra headers, certificates, Plutus V4, protocol parameters, guards, balance intervals, and sub-transactions.
Block and transaction codecs pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs, pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/mod.rs	Adds transaction, witness, auxiliary-data, block, block-transaction, and mempool-transaction codecs with Dijkstra-specific validation.
Fixture validation pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/tests.rs, test_data/dijkstra-fixtures.md, test_data/*.block, test_data/conway5.block	Adds thirteen Dijkstra fixtures and tests for round trips, hashes, fork boundaries, transaction forms, certificates, sets, auxiliary data, and CDDL citations.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Fixture as Dijkstra fixture
  participant Decoder as Dijkstra decoder
  participant Model as Dijkstra model
  participant Encoder as CBOR encoder
  Fixture->>Decoder: provide serialized block
  Decoder->>Model: decode block and transaction fields
  Model->>Encoder: encode decoded values
  Encoder-->>Fixture: reproduce wire bytes

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pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs (1)

46-48: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Rename to_vec to into_vec.

The macro defines to_vec(self) for non-Copy Set<T> and NonEmptySet<T> values. Clippy flags this naming pattern, and CI denies warnings with cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings. No in-repository caller requires an update.

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-            pub fn to_vec(self) -> Vec<T> {
+            pub fn into_vec(self) -> Vec<T> {
                 self.items
             }

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In `@pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs` around lines 46 - 48, Rename the
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In `@pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs`:
- Around line 927-943: Update the account_balance_interval decoding logic around
d.array() to retain and validate the returned length, accepting definite-length
arrays only when the length is two and rejecting other definite lengths before
decoding lower and upper. Preserve support for the allowed bare coin
representation if handled by the surrounding decoder, and ensure the decoder
does not consume elements beyond the validated array.
- Around line 98-101: Update the NonEmptySet decoder around the Self
construction to reject decoded item arrays with fewer than one element, matching
NonEmptySet::from_vec and TryFrom<Vec<T>>. Extend the shared decoder macro to
accept and enforce a minimum length after decoding, pass the one-element minimum
for NonEmptySet, and preserve the existing validation behavior for other
collection types.
- Around line 638-639: Implement manual CBOR Encode logic for
dijkstra::CostModels, replacing the derived behavior that skips the unknown
field. Encode every present named cost-model field plus all entries in unknown,
and set the map length to the total number of emitted entries; apply the same
preservation fix to the corresponding Conway CostModels type.

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In `@pallas-primitives/src/dijkstra/model.rs`:
- Around line 46-48: Rename the consuming method to_vec to into_vec in the
macro-generated non-Copy Set<T> and NonEmptySet<T> implementations, preserving
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