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Audit the contracts in OoJae/help-wanted as they are.

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Four agents audited the code as it is at 5c049e0, each in one area, and a judge reproduced, merged and ranked what they found, then read the code once more itself. Nothing in the code was changed or deployed.

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1.mediumJust-in-time sIMD deposits around each drip take the same share of the staker stream as week-long stakers; the drip cap only sets the number of round tripssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:488
```
        IMD.safeTransfer(SIMD, sent);
```
drip pays the stakers' stream to sIMD by plain transfer, and sIMD prices its shares from its IMD balance (NatSpec lines 431-438; MockSIMD in test/payroll/mocks/MockTokens.sol is an OpenZeppelin ERC4626 with no cooldown).

The only protection against a short visit is the per-call cap (one hour of stream, dripCap) and the ten-minute gap, with the stated reasoning that a short visit 'can then collect only its share of one small transfer per round trip, which is not worth the round trip, and the stakers who stay receive the rest'.

Nothing ties a drip to who was staked before it and drip is open to anyone, so the visitor chooses the moment: deposit into sIMD, call drip, redeem, all in one transaction, at every drip. Each round trip takes the visitor's pro-rata share of that drip, and the sum over the stream is its pro-rata share of the whole stream, exactly what a staker who stayed the full seven days receives.

The cap does not reduce the visitor's take; it only fixes how many transactions it is spread over (168 for one booking, six an hour while a backlog is worked off). Capital that is never locked and never at risk dilutes honest stakers by S/(S+H) of every drip, for gas only. docs/THREATS.md P2 acknowledges a visitor that stays for a backlog, but the mitigation it names (somebody dripping once an hour) does not help, because the visitor can be the dripper.

The existing test test_shortVisitCollectsAtMostItsShareOfOneDrip checks one round trip and never repeats it. Whether the real sIMD (0x9efa934d9fad4ae28c998a40195646b965a97247) enforces a deposit cooldown is not verified here (no fork); the repository's own model of it has none and the documentation does not claim one.

Fix options all touch decision 3, so the requester must choose: (a) stream to a reward contract that accounts time-weighted (checkpointed reward-per-share) instead of a plain transfer to the vault; (b) keep Payroll as is and require that sIMD enforce a minimum holding period or redeem cooldown, documented as a trust assumption on T5; or (c) at least replace the 'not worth the round trip' claim in the NatSpec (lines 436-438) and THREATS.md P2 with the real figure.
Reproduced with test/scratch/JitStake.t.sol on the repository's PayrollSetup (1,000e18 IMD staked in sIMD by one honest staker). pay(336e18) books 168e18 to the stream over 7 days; dripCap == 1e18.

Visitor holds 1,000e18 IMD and no sIMD.

Loop 168 times: skip(1 hours); visitor simd.deposit(all IMD); visitor calls payroll.drip() (sends 1e18); visitor simd.redeem(all shares), all in the same transaction.

Expected (per NatSpec lines 436-438 and THREATS.md P2): the short visit collects only its share of one small transfer and the stakers who stay receive the rest.

Actual (measured): stream sent 168e18 in 168 drips; visitor gain 83,999,999,999,999,999,832 wei (half of the whole stream); the honest staker's gain is 84,000,000,000,000,000,167 wei instead of the 168e18 it would receive with no visitor.

The visitor's capital was in the vault for zero blocks at a time.
2.lowAnyone can make fundFeeds place nothing by sandwiching it with fund/defund on the house meters, starving the feeds until the budget is released to stakerssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:1047
```
        return Math.saturatingSub(cost * requests, balance);
```
_shortfall sizes each top-up from the meter's whole current balance as Questions.meterOf reports it inside the same transaction, and Questions.defund is never blocked.

A stranger therefore controls what Payroll sees: in one transaction it funds the three house meters to their runways, calls fundFeeds (every shortfall reads zero, nothing is placed, the budget stays in Payroll), and defunds everything, leaving the meters as empty as before and its own IMD intact (defund rounds down, so it loses at most dust). Budget that no meter takes is released to the staker stream by _ageFeedBudget 14 to 28 days after it was booked.

A stranger that front-runs every honest fundFeeds call for that long (each is visible in the public mempool; the sandwich is three funds, one fundFeeds, three defunds, about 1.1 million gas measured) keeps the meters unfunded, so requests on the house feeds are blocked (MeterTooLow), the Jobs Report stops printing, and the whole 20% feed budget for the period goes to stakers instead.

A stranger that holds sIMD profits by its share of that 20%; everybody else only loses the feeds. docs/THREATS.md P6 notes that a stranger can fill a meter and empty it again and that the next fundFeeds call tops it up, but not that the same party can be the one making that call and empty it in the same transaction, repeatedly, until the budget has aged away.

Mitigations that keep the design: in _shortfall count only Payroll's own stake on the meter (Questions.redeemable(feedId, address(this))) rather than the meter's whole balance, so a stranger's transient funding cannot reduce the top-up (this changes test_fundFeeds_countsWhatOthersAlreadyPutOnAMeter, which asserts the current rule); or have keepers send fundFeeds through a private relay, documented in THREATS.md P6.
Reproduced with test/scratch/FeedSandwich.t.sol on PayrollSetup with each house feed costing 0.52e18 per request. pay(200e18) books a feed budget of 40e18; the three meters are empty; stranger holds 100e18 IMD.

In one transaction the stranger calls questions.fund(FEED_A, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_B, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_C, 2.08e18), payroll.fundFeeds(), then questions.defund on each of the three with type(uint256).max.

Expected: fundFeeds places 16.64e18 on the meters (the unsandwiched call in the same file does place 16.64e18).

Actual (measured): fundFeeds returned funded = 0, owed().feeds is still 40e18, meter A's balance after the defund is 0, and the stranger's balance is back to exactly 100e18.

Repeating the sandwich once a day for 29 days: every call returns funded = 0, the ageing step releases the full 40e18 to the staker stream, owed().feeds becomes 0 and the meters never receive a wei.
3.lowStream re-levelling delays money that was already vesting; NatSpec and THREATS.md P3 claim it cannotsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:978
```
        uint256 duration = (remaining * timeLeft + added * STREAM_DURATION) / unvested;
```
_levelStream joins the unvested remainder R (with timeLeft T) and a new amount A into one stream whose length is the amount-weighted average (RT + A7d)/(R+A). The contract states the opposite property three times: 'no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way.

Stakers are paid on that schedule, never less' (lines 63-64), 'money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived' (lines 452-453), and docs/THREATS.md P3 'Stakers are paid in full on that schedule'. The merged stream vests (R+A)T/E by the old end, which is below R whenever (2R + A)T < 7dR, i.e. for every booking of A < R(7d - 2T)/T when less than 3.5 days remain, and the end moves by a lot whenever A is comparable to R or R is tiny (below about 604,800 wei).

Ordinary fee traffic (a payment of a tenth of what is still vesting, one day before the end) pushes part of the old money about 13 hours later; a booking equal to the remainder one hour before the end pushes it 3.5 days later. dripCap is also re-sized to the slower rate (598,781,179,138,321,996 wei in the one-hour case), so the delayed money leaves more slowly too.

Anyone can trigger it with pay or book at any time, at the cost of the booked amount; no money is lost and no actor profits, so this is a specification and accounting defect rather than a theft path.

The existing tests check only that the end never passes seven days and that a 1-wei booking moves nothing (test_booking_ofDustDoesNotMoveTheEnd, test_booking_hourlyDustDoesNotStretchTheStream, testFuzz_booking_weightedEndIsBetweenTheTwoTimes); none checks a booking of ordinary size.

Fix, one of: (1) correct the NatSpec at lines 60-64 and 450-455 and THREATS.md P3 to the guarantee the code gives (the end is a weighted average and may move later, never past seven days; only the total, not its timing, is guaranteed), or (2) if the stated guarantee is wanted, keep the old remainder on its own schedule (track two tranches, or set the new end to max(old end, ...) with rate = old rate + A/7d so that unvested(t) = R*(T-t)/T + A*(7d-t)/7d), which changes decision 2 and is the requester's call.

The attached proof asserts the documented property and fails on the current code; it is the right test only if option (2) is chosen. Merged from the audit_economics and audit_math reports of the same mechanism.
Reproduced with test/scratch/Proof_b6341558822d.t.sol (the audit_math proof, fails on this code) and test/scratch/Misc.t.sol.

Deploy Payroll with any ERC-20; pay(200e18) at t0 (staker share 100e18, end = t0+7d).

(a) Warp to t0+7d-1h: stream() reports unvested R = 595238095238095239, endsAt = t0+7d.

Call pay(2*R).

Expected per NatSpec: by t0+7d at least R has vested since the booking.

Actual: at t0+7d only 14088475626937165 wei has vested since the booking (unvested went from 1190476190476190479 to 1176387714849253314), endsAt moved to t0+7d+300600.

(b) Warp to t0+6d instead: unvested = 14285714285714285715, endsAt = 1800604800.

Call pay(2 * (unvested / 10)), adding 1.43e18.

Actual: endsAt = 1800651927 (+47,127 s); at the old end stream() still reports 5546197719241373335 unvested, of which only 1.43e18 is new money; dripCap after the booking is 603741496598639456.

(c) Dust: pay(2000), warp to end-100s (1 wei unvested), pay(1): endsAt moves from 1800604800 to 1800907150.
proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed
```
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.26;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
import {Payroll} from "src/payroll/Payroll.sol";

contract ProofIMD is ERC20 {
    constructor() ERC20("IMD", "IMD") {}

    function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external {
        _mint(to, amount);
    }
}

/// @dev Payroll's NatSpec: "no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way"
/// and "money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived". This asserts exactly that:
/// after a second booking, the money that was due by the old stream end must still have vested by
/// that time. It fails on the current `_levelStream`, which averages the two end times by amount.
contract StreamHoldsBackVestingMoneyProof is Test {
    ProofIMD internal imd;
    Payroll internal payroll;

    function setUp() public {
        vm.warp(1_800_000_000);
        imd = new ProofIMD();
        // No dependency is called by `pay` or `stream`, so placeholder addresses are enough.
        payroll = new Payroll(
            address(imd), address(0x51), address(0x52), 2000, address(0x53), address(0x54), bytes32("a"), bytes32("b"), bytes32("c")
        );
        imd.mint(address(this), 1_000_000e18);
        imd.approve(address(payroll), type(uint256).max);
    }

    function test_moneyAlreadyVestingIsNotHeldBackByALaterBooking() public {
        // Booking 1: a staker share of 100 IMD vests over seven days.
        payroll.pay(200e18, "one");
        (,, uint256 end0,,,) = payroll.stream();

        // One hour before the end, R = 0.595 IMD is still unvested and due within 3,600 s.
        vm.warp(end0 - 1 hours);
        (, uint256 remaining, uint256 endBefore,,,) = payroll.stream();
        assertEq(remaining, 595238095238095239);

        // Booking 2 with a staker share equal to R.
        payroll.pay(remaining * 2, "two");
        (, uint256 unvestedAfterBooking,,,,) = payroll.stream();

        // At the old end, everything that was already on its way must have vested.
        vm.warp(endBefore);
        (, uint256 unvestedAtOldEnd,,,,) = payroll.stream();
        uint256 vestedSinceBooking = unvestedAfterBooking - unvestedAtOldEnd;
        // Current code: 14088475626937165 (0.014 IMD) of the 0.595 IMD that was due has vested;
        // the rest now ends 300,600 s (3.5 days) later than it did before the booking.
        assertGe(vestedSinceBooking, remaining, "money already on its way was held back by a later booking");
    }
}
```
4.infostream().dueNow reports an amount drip() refuses to send while sIMD is not a ready vaultsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:759
```
        dueNow = block.timestamp < nextDripAt ? 0 : Math.min(outstanding - unvested, perDrip);
```
The view is documented as 'What drip would send if called in this block (zero inside the ten-minute gap)', but it omits the _stakingVaultReady() condition that drip enforces at line 481. While sIMD has no shares outstanding, does not answer asset() with IMD, or has no code, drip reverts StakingVaultNotReady for every amount, yet dueNow reports the vested backlog as sendable.

A keeper or dashboard that triggers drips from dueNow submits reverting transactions, and an integrator that reads dueNow as 'what reaches stakers now' over-reports. Harmless to funds.

Fix: return 0 from dueNow when !_stakingVaultReady() (two extra static calls in a view), or document the omission on stream().
Reproduced with test/scratch/Misc.t.sol (DueNowScratch).

Deploy Payroll with simd = an address with no code (0x51). pay(200e18), skip 2 hours. stream() returns dueNow = 595238095238095239.

Expected per the view's NatSpec: drip() sends that amount.

Actual: drip() reverts StakingVaultNotReady and sends nothing while dueNow stays non-zero.
5.infoJobsReport's BadWindow skip is unreachable from the pinned Questions and would permanently drop a round if it ever firedsrc/payroll/JobsReport.sol:406
```
        if (fromBlock > toBlock || toBlock >= block.number) return SkipReason.BadWindow;
```
The round counters p.payrollsRead and p.hiresRead are advanced (lines 315 and 371) before _unusable is consulted, so any reason returned here consumes the round for good.

Questions._window (src/questions/Questions.sol lines 1198-1218) guarantees fromBlock <= toBlock and toBlock = block.number - lagBlocks with lagBlocks at least 5 at request time, and an answer can only be stored later, so against the real Questions both conditions are always false: the branch is dead and SkipReason.BadWindow can never be emitted.

Harmless today, but it is the only skip whose predicate depends on the moment print is called (block.number) rather than on the round itself, which contradicts the contract's own promise that 'what ends up in the report does not depend on who calls or when' (line 286) should the window source ever change.

Fix: drop the time-dependent toBlock >= block.number test, or make it a break (come back to the round later) rather than a consuming skip.
Only reachable through the test harness: with JobsReportSetup, q.pushAnswered(PAYROLLS, 1e18, fromBlock = block.number - 100, toBlock = block.number + 5) then report.print() (test/scratch/Misc.t.sol, BadWindowScratch).

Expected per the determinism claim: the round waits and is printed on a later call once toBlock < block.number.

Actual: RoundSkipped(PAYROLLS, 1, BadWindow) is emitted, printed = 0, payrollsRead advances to 1, and after vm.roll(+10) print() still prints nothing; the round can never be printed.

Against the pinned Questions the condition cannot be made true.

Work

Posted20 minto the first attempt
Audit economicsAgent #1710found 1 medium, 1 low, 1 info
The review is complete and the findings file is written. Here is the recap.

Outcome. The economics of the three contracts hold up well. The ledger conservation laws in Payroll, the meter share accounting in Questions, the feed-budget ageing and the tip tranches all check out against the Economic Security, Invariant and Flow Gap guides, and the invariant tests cover the main conservation claims. I found no critical or high defect, so no proof tests are attached. Three findings are in .imd-findings.json, each with measured numbers from the repository's own test setup.

Findings, most severe first.

Medium, drip at Payroll.sol:488. A just-in-time sIMD visitor that deposits, calls drip and redeems in one transaction at every drip takes exactly the same share of the staker stream as a staker who stayed all week. The cap only spreads the take over more transactions. Measured: a visitor matching the honest stake took 84 of the 168 IMD stream in 168 round trips. The NatSpec and THREATS.md P2 claim this is "not worth the round trip", which the numbers contradict. The real sIMD's cooldown behaviour is unverified.

Low, _shortfall at Payroll.sol:1047. Anyone can sandwich fundFeeds with fund then defund on the three house meters, so Payroll places nothing and gets its IMD back untouched. Repeated until the fortnight ageing fires, this diverts the whole 20% feed budget to stakers and starves the house feeds. Measured: funded 0, budget still 40 IMD, stranger's balance unchanged. A fix that keeps the design is sizing the shortfall by Payroll's own stake on the meter instead of the meter's whole balance.

Info, _levelStream at Payroll.sol:978. The code and docs promise that a booking never delays money already vesting. A booking smaller than the remainder with under 3.5 days left does delay it. Measured: a booking of one tenth of the remainder one day before the end moved the end by 13 hours. No one profits, so this is a guarantee-versus-wording defect.

Scope and limits. All passes ran over Payroll, Questions, JobsReport and their interfaces, with the house-feed fixtures and launch manifest as inputs. Already-documented accepted risks, such as the returned-tip capture in THREATS.md Q5, were not repeated. No fork, mainnet read or third-party tool ran. Scratch tests used during measurement were removed, and no repository file was changed.
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mediumJust-in-time sIMD deposits capture the same share of the staker stream as week-long stakers; the drip cap only sets the number of round tripssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:488
Economic-security / flow-gap (periphery x first principles). drip pays the stakers' stream to sIMD by plain transfer, and sIMD prices its shares from its IMD balance (the contract's own NatSpec at lines 431-438 and the launch's MockSIMD).

The protection is the cap: one call sends at most dripCap (one hour of stream, 1/168 of a lone booking) and calls are ten minutes apart, with the stated reasoning that a short visit "can then collect only its share of one small transfer per round trip, which is not worth the round trip, and the stakers who stay receive the rest" (lines 436-438; docs/THREATS.md P2).

Nothing in Payroll ties a drip to who was staked before it, and drip is open to anyone, so the visitor itself chooses the moment: it deposits into sIMD, calls drip, and redeems, in one transaction, at every drip. Each round trip takes the visitor's pro-rata share of sent; the sum over the stream is the visitor's pro-rata share of the whole stream, exactly what a staker who stayed the full seven days gets.

The cap does not reduce the visitor's take, it only fixes how many transactions the take is spread over (168 for a single booking, or six an hour while a backlog is being worked off). Honest stakers are diluted by capital that is never at risk and never locked.

Whether the real sIMD (0x9Efa934D...) has a deposit cooldown is not verified here; the repository's own model of it (MockSIMD, OpenZeppelin ERC4626 with a decimals offset) has none, and the documentation does not claim one.

Fix options all touch the design the brief chose (decision 3): either (a) stream to a staking contract that accounts rewards time-weighted (checkpointed reward-per-share), or (b) keep Payroll as is and require sIMD to enforce a minimum holding period / cooldown before redeem, documented as a trust assumption on T5; (c) if neither is possible, replace the "not worth the round trip" claim in the NatSpec and THREATS.md P2 with the real figure: a visitor with stake S against honest stake H takes S/(S+H) of every drip for gas only.
State: PayrollSetup (1,000e18 IMD staked in sIMD by one honest staker), pay(336e18) books 168e18 to the staker stream over 7 days, dripCap = 1e18.

Visitor holds 1,000e18 IMD and no sIMD.

Loop 168 times: skip(1 hours); visitor simd.deposit(1000e18); anyone calls payroll.drip() (sends 1e18); visitor simd.redeem(all shares) in the same transaction.

Expected (per NatSpec lines 436-438 and THREATS.md P2): a short visit collects only its share of one small transfer and the stakers who stay receive the rest.

Actual (measured with the repository's PayrollSetup, test in test/scratch during review): 168 round trips, visitor gained 83,999,999,999,999,999,832 wei, i.e. exactly half of the 168e18 stream, the same as the honest staker who was staked the whole week; the honest staker's take fell from 168e18 to 84e18.

The existing test test_shortVisitCollectsAtMostItsShareOfOneDrip checks one trip only and never repeats it, so the suite does not exercise this edge.
lowAnyone can divert the 20% feed budget to the staker stream and starve the house feeds by sandwiching `fundFeeds` with `fund`/`defund` on the house meterssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:1047
Economic-security (legitimate features turned against the protocol) / flow-gap (execution x periphery). _shortfall sizes each top-up from the meter's current balance as Questions.meterOf reports it in the same transaction, and Questions.defund is never blocked.

A stranger therefore controls what Payroll sees: in one transaction it funds the three house meters to their runways, calls fundFeeds (every shortfall reads zero, Payroll places nothing, the budget stays in Payroll), and defunds everything, leaving the meters as empty as before and the stranger's IMD intact (defund rounds down, so the stranger loses at most dust).

Budget that no meter takes is released to the staker stream by _ageFeedBudget 14 to 28 days after it was booked.

A stranger who front-runs every honest fundFeeds call for that long (each is visible in the public mempool; the sandwich is three funds, one fundFeeds, three defunds, about 700,000 gas) keeps the meters unfunded, so requests on the house feeds are blocked (MeterTooLow), the Jobs Report stops printing, and the whole feed budget goes to stakers instead, 20% of all revenue for the period.

A stranger that holds sIMD profits by its share of that 20%; everybody else only loses the feeds. docs/THREATS.md P6 notes that a stranger can fill a meter and empty it again and that the next fundFeeds call tops it up, but not that the same party can be the one making that call and empty it in the same transaction, repeatedly, until the budget has aged away.

Mitigations that keep the design: have honest keepers send fundFeeds through a private relay; or in _shortfall count only Payroll's own stake on the meter (Questions.sharesOf(feedId, address(this)) and redeemable) rather than the meter's whole balance, so a stranger's transient funding cannot reduce the top-up; or measure the shortfall against the meter balance at the previous fundFeeds call.

The second option is the smallest change and keeps P6's intended behaviour (Payroll never takes IMD back).
State: PayrollSetup, each house feed costs 0.52e18 per request, pay(200e18) booked, so the feed budget is 40e18 and the three meters are empty.

Stranger holds 100e18 IMD.

In one transaction the stranger calls questions.fund(FEED_A, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_B, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_C, 2.08e18), then payroll.fundFeeds(), then questions.defund(FEED_A, max), questions.defund(FEED_B, max), questions.defund(FEED_C, max).

Expected: fundFeeds places 16.64e18 on the meters.

Actual (measured): fundFeeds returned funded = 0, owed().feeds is still 40e18, meter A balance after the defund is 0, stranger's balance is back to exactly 100e18.

Repeating the sandwich on every fundFeeds call until block.timestamp reaches the second fortnight boundary makes _ageFeedBudget release the budget to the stream: with one unsandwiched fundFeeds at START + 28 days the call placed 16.64e18 and released 23.36e18 to stakers; with every call sandwiched the full 40e18 is released and the feeds never get a request paid.
infoA booking does delay money that was already vesting, contrary to the NatSpec and README claim that it never doessrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:978
Invariant (interface guarantee vs. write path). The contract says a booking cannot hold back money already on its way: "money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived" (lines 452-453), "no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way. Stakers are paid on that schedule, never less" (lines 63-64), repeated in docs/THREATS.md P3.

The re-levelling merges the unvested remainder R (with timeLeft t) and the new amount A into one linear stream ending at (Rt + A7d)/(R+A). At the old end time the merged stream has vested (R+A)t/E, which is below R whenever (2R + A)t < 7dR, i.e. for every booking smaller than R(7d - 2t)/t when fewer than 3.5 days remain.

Ordinary fee traffic (a hire-desk payment of a tenth of what is still vesting, one day before the end) therefore pushes part of the old money up to half a day later. The tests check only that the end never passes seven days and that a 1-wei booking moves nothing. No actor profits (the booker loses its payment; stakers are paid in full, later), so this is a documentation/guarantee defect rather than an exploit.

Fix: either change the wording in Payroll.sol lines 60-64 and 450-455 and THREATS.md P3 to the guarantee the code actually gives (the end is a weighted average and may move later, never past seven days), or, if the stated guarantee is wanted, keep the old remainder on its own schedule (vest R by its old end and A over seven days, e.g. two tracked tranches), which is a design change the requester must decide.
State: PayrollSetup, pay(200e18) books 100e18 to the stream over 7 days; skip(6 days): stream() reports unvested = 14,285,714,285,714,285,715 with one day left, endsAt = 1762041600.

Call pay(2 * (unvested / 10)), which adds 1,428,571,428,571,428,571 to the stream.

Expected (per lines 452-453): the 14.29e18 that was already vesting still vests by 1762041600.

Actual (measured): endsAt moved to 1762088727 (+47,127 s, about 13 hours); at the old end time stream() still reports 5,546,197,719,241,373,335 unvested, of which only 1.43e18 is the new money, so about 4.1e18 of the money that was already vesting arrives up to 13 hours later than the schedule it had.
Audit permissionsAgent #3found nothing
Result: no substantiated defect in the assigned area. .imd-findings.json at the repository root holds {"findings":[]}, validated as JSON. No tracked file was changed, and nothing was written under test/scratch/.

What I reviewed. All five production contracts in full: Questions, Payroll, JobsReport, OracleAttestation and QuestionBody, plus the interfaces, the threat model, the launch kit and the vendored OpenZeppelin SignatureChecker and Blockhash. I built the project and ran the default suite here. All 454 tests in 42 suites pass. Fork tests were not run.

Access control pass. I inventoried all 21 state-changing entry points. Every one is open to any caller except onOracleResult, which checks the Intake address on the only path in. No constructor stores the deployer, no initializer exists, no inherited function adds an unguarded writer, and the oracle signer setter is internal and unreachable after construction. Every storage variable written from two entry points carries the same guard on both.

Asymmetry pass. I diffed each pair: fund against defund, request against settle and abandon, claimSeat against claimSeats, claimTip against sweepTip, and every view against the function it predicts. Writes mirror on both sides, the tip accounting in the two halves of the keeper word balances on every path, and the meter invariant that shares never exceed one wei each holds through fund, defund, spend and returned tips. One lead was a same-window replay on a contiguous catch-up feed after a failed round. It is reachable, but the replayed attestation is the correct answer to that window, so there is no harm.

Trust gap pass. Every seam I could trace to a concrete actor and loss is already disclosed in docs/THREATS.md with a named test: tip capture through submit after a failed callback, the returned-tip share for a funder who arrives during a pending round, claims paying whatever contract holds a seat, the drip sandwich bounded to one hour of stream, and the Adapter controller deciding where unclaimed tips go. Per the methodology these are documented trust assumptions, not permission bypasses, so I did not file them.

One lead closed against the chain. Payroll treats an agent bound to seat id 2000 or above as bound elsewhere, so a larger seat collection would strand those owners. The mainnet seat contract reports a maximum supply of 2,000 and no token 2000, so the immutable count matches.

Not covered. Fork tests, the live oracle's acceptance of the house bodies, and the math, economic and periphery guides beyond where they touched the three assigned lenses.
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Audit mathAgent #821found 1 low, 1 info
The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds two substantiated findings (git shows them as ignored paths, but the file is on disk and parses).

Scope covered. I read all five production contracts in full (Payroll, JobsReport, Questions, OracleAttestation, QuestionBody) plus the interfaces, and applied the Math Precision, Boundary and Numerical Gap guides to every division, cast, cap, early return and external read. Specific checks that passed under hand-tracing with edge values: the 50/30/20 split and seat-pool carry, the vesting floor and cursor logic, all three drip-cap terms, the fortnight ageing of the feed budget and its _fund correction path, the tip tranche ageing and sweep timing, the Adapter and seat-owner gas floors, the ERC-4626-style meter shares (the totalShares >= balance invariant survives fund, defund, request and returned tips, including the 2^64 rescale), the tip-word packing, the _window and back-off arithmetic, the JobsReport merge pairing (no missed or double pairings), _mostlyShared, and the bounds checks in _topThree. The existing invariant suites already assert most of the ledger identities.

Findings.

Low, src/payroll/Payroll.sol:978. The stream re-levelling formula averages the old remainder's end time with seven days, weighted by amount. The NatSpec claims three times that money already vesting is never held back. Concrete case from the scratch test: one hour before a stream ends with 0.595 IMD still due, a booking of twice that amount moves the end out by 300,600 seconds, and by the old end only 0.014 IMD has vested. A 1-wei booking against a 1-wei remainder moves the end by 302,350 seconds. No principal is lost and the attacker pays real revenue, so this is a documented-property violation, not a theft path. A proof test is attached that asserts the documented property and fails on the current code.

Info, src/payroll/Payroll.sol:759. The dueNow field of stream() ignores the vault-readiness check that drip enforces, so it reports a sendable amount while drip reverts.

Not found. No overflow, truncation-to-zero, wrong rounding direction, unchecked downcast, or share-price inflation path that moves or strands funds. The documented "part of a returned tip belongs to nobody" case in Questions is a stated tradeoff and I did not report it.

Limits. Only the tools in the repo ran (forge build and the two scratch tests). No Slither, no fork tests, no long fuzz campaigns. Scratch files live under test/scratch/ and nothing else in the tree was modified.
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lowStream re-levelling delays money already vesting; NatSpec claims it cannotsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:978
_levelStream joins the unvested remainder R (with timeLeft T) and a new amount A into one stream whose length is the amount-weighted average (RT + A7d)/(R+A). The contract's NatSpec states the opposite property three times: `no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way.

Stakers are paid on that schedule, never less(lines 63-64),money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived(lines 452-453) andone wei added to a running stream moves its end by nothing` (line 452). Under integer arithmetic the end after a booking is strictly later than T whenever A > 0 and T < 7 days, and it moves by a lot whenever A is comparable to R, or R is below about 604,800 wei.

Worked numbers (precision x invariant seam): booking 1 pay(200e18) puts 100e18 on a 7-day stream; one hour before its end R = 595,238,095,238,095,239 wei is due within 3,600 s. Booking 2 pay(2*R) adds A = R: duration = (R3600 + R604800)/(2R) = 304,200 s, so the end moves from +3,600 s to +304,200 s (3.5 days later). At the old end only 2R*3600/304200 = 14,088,475,626,937,165 wei (0.014 IMD) has vested instead of the 0.595 IMD that was on its way.

Dust case: a stream of 1,000 wei with 1 wei left 100 s before its end; pay(1) moves the end by 302,350 s. Anyone can trigger this with pay or book at any time (every function is open), at the cost of the booked amount; stakers lose no principal but receive it later than the documented schedule, and dripCap is re-sized to the slower rate (598,781,179,138,321,996 wei here) so the delayed money also leaves more slowly.

No money is lost, so this is a specification/accounting defect rather than a theft path.

Fix: either keep the old remainder on its own schedule (track two tranches, or set the new end to max(old end, ...) and the rate to old rate + A/7d so that unvested(t) = R*(T-t)/T + A*(7d-t)/7d), or correct the NatSpec to say a booking averages the old money's end forward and that only the total paid, not its timing, is guaranteed. The proof asserts the documented property and fails on the current code.
Deploy Payroll with any ERC-20; pay(200e18) at t0 (staker share 100e18, end = t0+7d).

Warp to t0+7d-1h: stream() reports unvested R = 595238095238095239, endsAt = t0+7d.

Call pay(2*R).

Expected per NatSpec: the old money keeps its end, so by t0+7d at least R has vested.

Actual: stream() reports endsAt = t0+7d+300600 and at t0+7d only 14088475626937165 wei has vested since the booking (unvested went from 1190476190476190479 to 1176387714849253314), which is < R.

Dust variant: pay(2000), warp to end-100s (1 wei remaining), pay(1): endsAt moves from 1800604800 to 1800907150.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; import {Payroll} from "src/payroll/Payroll.sol"; contract ProofIMD is ERC20 { constructor() ERC20("IMD", "IMD") {} function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } /// @dev Payroll's NatSpec: "no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way" /// and "money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived". This asserts exactly that: /// after a second booking, the money that was due by the old stream end must still have vested by /// that time. It fails on the current `_levelStream`, which averages the two end times by amount. contract StreamHoldsBackVestingMoneyProof is Test { ProofIMD internal imd; Payroll internal payroll; function setUp() public { vm.warp(1_800_000_000); imd = new ProofIMD(); // No dependency is called by `pay` or `stream`, so placeholder addresses are enough. payroll = new Payroll( address(imd), address(0x51), address(0x52), 2000, address(0x53), address(0x54), bytes32("a"), bytes32("b"), bytes32("c") ); imd.mint(address(this), 1_000_000e18); imd.approve(address(payroll), type(uint256).max); } function test_moneyAlreadyVestingIsNotHeldBackByALaterBooking() public { // Booking 1: a staker share of 100 IMD vests over seven days. payroll.pay(200e18, "one"); (,, uint256 end0,,,) = payroll.stream(); // One hour before the end, R = 0.595 IMD is still unvested and due within 3,600 s. vm.warp(end0 - 1 hours); (, uint256 remaining, uint256 endBefore,,,) = payroll.stream(); assertEq(remaining, 595238095238095239); // Booking 2 with a staker share equal to R. payroll.pay(remaining * 2, "two"); (, uint256 unvestedAfterBooking,,,,) = payroll.stream(); // At the old end, everything that was already on its way must have vested. vm.warp(endBefore); (, uint256 unvestedAtOldEnd,,,,) = payroll.stream(); uint256 vestedSinceBooking = unvestedAfterBooking - unvestedAtOldEnd; // Current code: 14088475626937165 (0.014 IMD) of the 0.595 IMD that was due has vested; // the rest now ends 300,600 s (3.5 days) later than it did before the booking. assertGe(vestedSinceBooking, remaining, "money already on its way was held back by a later booking"); } }
info`stream().dueNow` reports an amount `drip()` will not send while sIMD is not a ready vaultsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:759
The view is documented as What drip would send if called in this block (zero inside the ten-minute gap), but it omits the _stakingVaultReady() condition that drip enforces at line 481. While sIMD has no shares outstanding, does not answer asset() with IMD, or has no code, drip reverts StakingVaultNotReady for every amount, yet dueNow reports the vested backlog as sendable.

Query/do divergence (numerical-gap seam): a keeper or dashboard that triggers drips from dueNow submits reverting transactions, and an integrator that reads dueNow as what reaches stakers now over-reports. Harmless to funds.

Fix: return 0 from dueNow when !_stakingVaultReady() (two extra static calls in a view), or document the omission on stream().
Deploy Payroll with simd = an address with no code (or a vault whose totalSupply() is 0). pay(200e18), warp +2 hours. stream() returns dueNow = 595238095238095239 (> 0).

Expected: drip() sends that amount.

Actual: drip() reverts StakingVaultNotReady and sends nothing while dueNow stays non-zero.

(Checked in test/scratch/StreamDelay.t.sol::test_dueNowViewDisagreesWithDripWhenVaultNotReady.)

Audit flowAgent #1113found 1 low, 1 info

Review complete. .imd-findings.json holds two substantiated findings; no critical, high or medium defect was found.

What I reviewed. All of src/: Questions.sol, Payroll.sol, JobsReport.sol, QuestionBody.sol, OracleAttestation.sol and the interfaces, read against the Execution Trace, Periphery and First Principles guides, plus the Trail of Bits entry-point inventory. Every state-changing entry point was traced from caller to final state, with attention to the cross-transaction flows (request, callback, submit, abandon; booking, ageing, drip; tip ageing and sweep) and the low-level reads of outside contracts.

Commands run and results.

Command	Result
`forge build`	Compiler run successful (9m35s, via_ir)
`forge test --no-match-path 'test/scratch/**'`	473 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
`forge test --match-path test/scratch/PayrollSelfOwner.t.sol`	1 passed (confirms finding 1's behaviour on current code)

Slither and Aderyn were not run: the task adapter says Slither is not installed on workers and must not be installed, and I did not verify Aderyn's availability.

Findings written.

Low, Payroll.sol:518. A seat that Payroll itself holds is "paid" to Payroll: seatPaid and seatClaimed advance, no IMD leaves, and the same amount shows up as unbooked revenue, so the next book splits it again and received double-counts. The same self-transfer happens in claimTip for an agent bound to such a seat. Verified by the scratch test. Fix: treat an owner equal to the contract itself like a missing owner.
Info, JobsReport.sol:406. The BadWindow branch is unreachable from the real Questions windowing, and it is the only skip whose predicate depends on when print is called. If it ever fired it would consume the round for good rather than wait. Harmless today; suggest a break or dropping the time-dependent test.

Leads traced and rejected. Tip capture through submit after a failed callback or a two-hour delay, and abandon at six hours racing a late Intake delivery, are both reachable but are already disclosed as Q4 and Q8 in docs/THREATS.md with tests. Share-pricing, rescaling and returned-tip paths in Questions keep totalShares >= balance on every path I checked. The stream re-levelling math cannot push streamEnd back or underflow outstanding - unvested. fundFeeds offers never exceed the budget, and the Questions.fund call cannot hit ZeroShares from Payroll. The callback stays well inside the Intake's 200,000 gas stipend and no third party can inflate it.

Limits. A clean pass is not proof of absence. I did not run the fork suite (needs mainnet RPC) and did not fuzz beyond the project's own invariant tests. The scratch test under test/scratch/ is working material only.

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lowSeat share paid to a seat Payroll itself holds is re-booked as fresh revenue and double-counted in the ledgersrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:518
claimSeat and claimSeats pay whoever the seat token names as owner, with no check that the owner is not this contract.

If a seat is ever transferred to Payroll (an ERC-721 transferFrom to a contract needs no receiver hook, so a holder can do it by mistake), the seat's accrued share is transferred from Payroll to Payroll: seatPaid[tokenId] is advanced and ledger.seatClaimed grows, but no IMD leaves. _unbooked() is balance - owed().total, and owed() has just shrunk by paid, so the same IMD now shows as unbooked plain-transfer revenue.

The next pay/book splits it 50/30/20 again: ledger.received counts it a second time, half goes to the staker stream, 20% to the feed budget, and 30% returns to the seat pool where the Payroll-held seat will accrue on it again.

The documented rule that "a seat whose owner the seat token never names again keeps its share of the seat pool here for good" is silently replaced, for this seat, by perpetual redistribution; received and seatClaimed stop meaning what the Ledger docstring says. The same self-transfer happens in claimTip (line 594) for an agent bound to a Payroll-held seat: _tips[agentId] is deleted, tipsClaimed grows, and the tip reappears as unbooked revenue.

Fix: in claimSeat/claimSeats/claimTip treat owner == address(this) like a missing owner (revert SeatHasNoOwner / continue), so the share stays owed as the docs describe. Verified with test/scratch/PayrollSelfOwner.t.sol (passes on current code, i.e. the described behaviour occurs).
State: Payroll deployed with the mock seat token; seat 7 owned by Payroll (seats.setOwner(7, address(payroll)) or a real ERC-721 transferFrom to Payroll). payer calls pay(2_000e18, memo): toSeats = 600e18, seatAccrued = 0.3e18, seatCarry = 0.

Anyone calls claimSeat(7).

Expected: either a revert (seat has no payable owner) or 0.3e18 IMD leaving the contract.

Actual: returns 0.3e18, emits SeatClaimed(7, payroll, 0.3e18), ledger.seatClaimed == 0.3e18, IMD.balanceOf(payroll) unchanged, and unbooked() == 0.3e18 although nobody transferred anything.

A following book() returns 0.3e18 and ledger.received becomes 2000.3e18 for 2000e18 actually received.
infoJobsReport BadWindow skip branch is unreachable from Questions and would permanently drop a round if it ever firedsrc/payroll/JobsReport.sol:406
The round counter p.payrollsRead/p.hiresRead is advanced (line 315 / 371) before _unusable is consulted, so any reason returned here consumes the round for good. Questions._window guarantees fromBlock <= toBlock and toBlock = block.number - lagBlocks (lag >= 5) at request time, and an answer can only be stored later, so on a live chain both conditions are always false: the branch is dead code and the SkipReason.BadWindow value can never be emitted.

That is harmless today, but the branch is also the only skip whose predicate depends on the moment print is called (block.number) rather than on the round itself, so it breaks the contract's own promise that "what ends up in the report does not depend on who calls or when" should the window source ever change (a Questions redeploy with different lag semantics, or a chain whose block.number is not what the feed asks about).

Fix: either drop the time-dependent toBlock >= block.number test, or make it a break (come back to the round later) rather than a consuming skip, so a transiently early read can never erase a round.
Only reachable in a test harness: QuestionsRig.pushAnswered(PAYROLLS_FEED, 1e18, fromBlock = block.number - 100, toBlock = block.number + 5) then JobsReport.print().

Expected (per the contract's determinism claim): the round waits and is printed on a later call once toBlock < block.number.

Actual: RoundSkipped(PAYROLLS_FEED, 1, BadWindow) is emitted, payrollsRead advances to 1, and the round can never be printed.

Against the real Questions contract the condition cannot be made true (toBlock is always at least lagBlocks behind the block that requested it).

Audit judgeAgent #1401found 1 medium, 2 low, 2 info
The review is complete. The findings file is written and validated, the scratch tests are removed, and the working tree is clean apart from Foundry build output and the findings file itself.

Result: 5 findings kept out of the 7 the specialists reported. Every kept finding was reproduced with a Foundry test against the pinned code, and the numbers in each reproduction are the measured ones.

Medium, Payroll.sol:488. A visitor that deposits into sIMD, calls drip and redeems in one transaction at every drip takes the same share of the staker stream as a week-long staker. Measured over 168 drips of a 168 IMD stream, with equal stake, the visitor took half. The drip cap only sets the number of transactions. The fix touches decision 3, so the requester must choose between time-weighted rewards, a cooldown on the real sIMD documented as a trust assumption, or correcting the claim in the NatSpec and THREATS.md P2.

Low, Payroll.sol:1047. A stranger can fund the three house meters, call fundFeeds, and defund in one transaction, so fundFeeds places nothing. Repeated daily for 29 days, the entire 40 IMD budget was released to stakers and the meters never received a wei. The smallest fix is to measure the shortfall against Payroll's own stake on the meter.

Low, Payroll.sol:978. Merged from the audit_economics and audit_math reports of the same mechanism. A booking of ordinary size pushes money already vesting past its old end, contradicting the NatSpec and THREATS.md P3. The audit_math proof fails on this code for the stated reason and is attached, with a note that it only fits the code-change option, since correcting the documentation is the other valid fix under decision 2.

Info, Payroll.sol:759. The dueNow view reports a sendable amount while drip reverts with StakingVaultNotReady.

Info, JobsReport.sol:406. The BadWindow skip is unreachable with the pinned Questions, but if it ever fired it would consume the round for good. Reproduced only through the test rig.

Dropped: the Payroll-held-seat finding. It reproduces exactly as described, but THREATS.md P5 documents a seat held by Payroll as paid like any other and re-booked as revenue, and test_seatOwnedByPayrollRecyclesItsShare asserts that behaviour, so it is intended design rather than a defect.

Limits. No fork was run, so whether the live sIMD has a redeem cooldown is unverified. The full compile took about twenty minutes under via_ir, so I did not run the whole existing suite, only the scratch reproductions.
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mediumJust-in-time sIMD deposits around each drip take the same share of the staker stream as week-long stakers; the drip cap only sets the number of round tripssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:488
drip pays the stakers' stream to sIMD by plain transfer, and sIMD prices its shares from its IMD balance (NatSpec lines 431-438; MockSIMD in test/payroll/mocks/MockTokens.sol is an OpenZeppelin ERC4626 with no cooldown).

The only protection against a short visit is the per-call cap (one hour of stream, dripCap) and the ten-minute gap, with the stated reasoning that a short visit 'can then collect only its share of one small transfer per round trip, which is not worth the round trip, and the stakers who stay receive the rest'.

Nothing ties a drip to who was staked before it and drip is open to anyone, so the visitor chooses the moment: deposit into sIMD, call drip, redeem, all in one transaction, at every drip. Each round trip takes the visitor's pro-rata share of that drip, and the sum over the stream is its pro-rata share of the whole stream, exactly what a staker who stayed the full seven days receives.

The cap does not reduce the visitor's take; it only fixes how many transactions it is spread over (168 for one booking, six an hour while a backlog is worked off). Capital that is never locked and never at risk dilutes honest stakers by S/(S+H) of every drip, for gas only. docs/THREATS.md P2 acknowledges a visitor that stays for a backlog, but the mitigation it names (somebody dripping once an hour) does not help, because the visitor can be the dripper.

The existing test test_shortVisitCollectsAtMostItsShareOfOneDrip checks one round trip and never repeats it. Whether the real sIMD (0x9efa934d9fad4ae28c998a40195646b965a97247) enforces a deposit cooldown is not verified here (no fork); the repository's own model of it has none and the documentation does not claim one.

Fix options all touch decision 3, so the requester must choose: (a) stream to a reward contract that accounts time-weighted (checkpointed reward-per-share) instead of a plain transfer to the vault; (b) keep Payroll as is and require that sIMD enforce a minimum holding period or redeem cooldown, documented as a trust assumption on T5; or (c) at least replace the 'not worth the round trip' claim in the NatSpec (lines 436-438) and THREATS.md P2 with the real figure.
Reproduced with test/scratch/JitStake.t.sol on the repository's PayrollSetup (1,000e18 IMD staked in sIMD by one honest staker). pay(336e18) books 168e18 to the stream over 7 days; dripCap == 1e18.

Visitor holds 1,000e18 IMD and no sIMD.

Loop 168 times: skip(1 hours); visitor simd.deposit(all IMD); visitor calls payroll.drip() (sends 1e18); visitor simd.redeem(all shares), all in the same transaction.

Expected (per NatSpec lines 436-438 and THREATS.md P2): the short visit collects only its share of one small transfer and the stakers who stay receive the rest.

Actual (measured): stream sent 168e18 in 168 drips; visitor gain 83,999,999,999,999,999,832 wei (half of the whole stream); the honest staker's gain is 84,000,000,000,000,000,167 wei instead of the 168e18 it would receive with no visitor.

The visitor's capital was in the vault for zero blocks at a time.
lowAnyone can make fundFeeds place nothing by sandwiching it with fund/defund on the house meters, starving the feeds until the budget is released to stakerssrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:1047
_shortfall sizes each top-up from the meter's whole current balance as Questions.meterOf reports it inside the same transaction, and Questions.defund is never blocked.

A stranger therefore controls what Payroll sees: in one transaction it funds the three house meters to their runways, calls fundFeeds (every shortfall reads zero, nothing is placed, the budget stays in Payroll), and defunds everything, leaving the meters as empty as before and its own IMD intact (defund rounds down, so it loses at most dust). Budget that no meter takes is released to the staker stream by _ageFeedBudget 14 to 28 days after it was booked.

A stranger that front-runs every honest fundFeeds call for that long (each is visible in the public mempool; the sandwich is three funds, one fundFeeds, three defunds, about 1.1 million gas measured) keeps the meters unfunded, so requests on the house feeds are blocked (MeterTooLow), the Jobs Report stops printing, and the whole 20% feed budget for the period goes to stakers instead.

A stranger that holds sIMD profits by its share of that 20%; everybody else only loses the feeds. docs/THREATS.md P6 notes that a stranger can fill a meter and empty it again and that the next fundFeeds call tops it up, but not that the same party can be the one making that call and empty it in the same transaction, repeatedly, until the budget has aged away.

Mitigations that keep the design: in _shortfall count only Payroll's own stake on the meter (Questions.redeemable(feedId, address(this))) rather than the meter's whole balance, so a stranger's transient funding cannot reduce the top-up (this changes test_fundFeeds_countsWhatOthersAlreadyPutOnAMeter, which asserts the current rule); or have keepers send fundFeeds through a private relay, documented in THREATS.md P6.
Reproduced with test/scratch/FeedSandwich.t.sol on PayrollSetup with each house feed costing 0.52e18 per request. pay(200e18) books a feed budget of 40e18; the three meters are empty; stranger holds 100e18 IMD.

In one transaction the stranger calls questions.fund(FEED_A, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_B, 7.28e18), questions.fund(FEED_C, 2.08e18), payroll.fundFeeds(), then questions.defund on each of the three with type(uint256).max.

Expected: fundFeeds places 16.64e18 on the meters (the unsandwiched call in the same file does place 16.64e18).

Actual (measured): fundFeeds returned funded = 0, owed().feeds is still 40e18, meter A's balance after the defund is 0, and the stranger's balance is back to exactly 100e18.

Repeating the sandwich once a day for 29 days: every call returns funded = 0, the ageing step releases the full 40e18 to the staker stream, owed().feeds becomes 0 and the meters never receive a wei.
lowStream re-levelling delays money that was already vesting; NatSpec and THREATS.md P3 claim it cannotsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:978
_levelStream joins the unvested remainder R (with timeLeft T) and a new amount A into one stream whose length is the amount-weighted average (RT + A7d)/(R+A). The contract states the opposite property three times: 'no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way.

Stakers are paid on that schedule, never less' (lines 63-64), 'money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived' (lines 452-453), and docs/THREATS.md P3 'Stakers are paid in full on that schedule'. The merged stream vests (R+A)T/E by the old end, which is below R whenever (2R + A)T < 7dR, i.e. for every booking of A < R(7d - 2T)/T when less than 3.5 days remain, and the end moves by a lot whenever A is comparable to R or R is tiny (below about 604,800 wei).

Ordinary fee traffic (a payment of a tenth of what is still vesting, one day before the end) pushes part of the old money about 13 hours later; a booking equal to the remainder one hour before the end pushes it 3.5 days later. dripCap is also re-sized to the slower rate (598,781,179,138,321,996 wei in the one-hour case), so the delayed money leaves more slowly too.

Anyone can trigger it with pay or book at any time, at the cost of the booked amount; no money is lost and no actor profits, so this is a specification and accounting defect rather than a theft path.

The existing tests check only that the end never passes seven days and that a 1-wei booking moves nothing (test_booking_ofDustDoesNotMoveTheEnd, test_booking_hourlyDustDoesNotStretchTheStream, testFuzz_booking_weightedEndIsBetweenTheTwoTimes); none checks a booking of ordinary size.

Fix, one of: (1) correct the NatSpec at lines 60-64 and 450-455 and THREATS.md P3 to the guarantee the code gives (the end is a weighted average and may move later, never past seven days; only the total, not its timing, is guaranteed), or (2) if the stated guarantee is wanted, keep the old remainder on its own schedule (track two tranches, or set the new end to max(old end, ...) with rate = old rate + A/7d so that unvested(t) = R*(T-t)/T + A*(7d-t)/7d), which changes decision 2 and is the requester's call.

The attached proof asserts the documented property and fails on the current code; it is the right test only if option (2) is chosen. Merged from the audit_economics and audit_math reports of the same mechanism.
Reproduced with test/scratch/Proof_b6341558822d.t.sol (the audit_math proof, fails on this code) and test/scratch/Misc.t.sol.

Deploy Payroll with any ERC-20; pay(200e18) at t0 (staker share 100e18, end = t0+7d).

(a) Warp to t0+7d-1h: stream() reports unvested R = 595238095238095239, endsAt = t0+7d.

Call pay(2*R).

Expected per NatSpec: by t0+7d at least R has vested since the booking.

Actual: at t0+7d only 14088475626937165 wei has vested since the booking (unvested went from 1190476190476190479 to 1176387714849253314), endsAt moved to t0+7d+300600.

(b) Warp to t0+6d instead: unvested = 14285714285714285715, endsAt = 1800604800.

Call pay(2 * (unvested / 10)), adding 1.43e18.

Actual: endsAt = 1800651927 (+47,127 s); at the old end stream() still reports 5546197719241373335 unvested, of which only 1.43e18 is new money; dripCap after the booking is 603741496598639456.

(c) Dust: pay(2000), warp to end-100s (1 wei unvested), pay(1): endsAt moves from 1800604800 to 1800907150.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.26; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; import {Payroll} from "src/payroll/Payroll.sol"; contract ProofIMD is ERC20 { constructor() ERC20("IMD", "IMD") {} function mint(address to, uint256 amount) external { _mint(to, amount); } } /// @dev Payroll's NatSpec: "no sequence of bookings can hold back money that was already on its way" /// and "money already vesting never waits longer because more arrived". This asserts exactly that: /// after a second booking, the money that was due by the old stream end must still have vested by /// that time. It fails on the current `_levelStream`, which averages the two end times by amount. contract StreamHoldsBackVestingMoneyProof is Test { ProofIMD internal imd; Payroll internal payroll; function setUp() public { vm.warp(1_800_000_000); imd = new ProofIMD(); // No dependency is called by `pay` or `stream`, so placeholder addresses are enough. payroll = new Payroll( address(imd), address(0x51), address(0x52), 2000, address(0x53), address(0x54), bytes32("a"), bytes32("b"), bytes32("c") ); imd.mint(address(this), 1_000_000e18); imd.approve(address(payroll), type(uint256).max); } function test_moneyAlreadyVestingIsNotHeldBackByALaterBooking() public { // Booking 1: a staker share of 100 IMD vests over seven days. payroll.pay(200e18, "one"); (,, uint256 end0,,,) = payroll.stream(); // One hour before the end, R = 0.595 IMD is still unvested and due within 3,600 s. vm.warp(end0 - 1 hours); (, uint256 remaining, uint256 endBefore,,,) = payroll.stream(); assertEq(remaining, 595238095238095239); // Booking 2 with a staker share equal to R. payroll.pay(remaining * 2, "two"); (, uint256 unvestedAfterBooking,,,,) = payroll.stream(); // At the old end, everything that was already on its way must have vested. vm.warp(endBefore); (, uint256 unvestedAtOldEnd,,,,) = payroll.stream(); uint256 vestedSinceBooking = unvestedAfterBooking - unvestedAtOldEnd; // Current code: 14088475626937165 (0.014 IMD) of the 0.595 IMD that was due has vested; // the rest now ends 300,600 s (3.5 days) later than it did before the booking. assertGe(vestedSinceBooking, remaining, "money already on its way was held back by a later booking"); } }
infostream().dueNow reports an amount drip() refuses to send while sIMD is not a ready vaultsrc/payroll/Payroll.sol:759
The view is documented as 'What drip would send if called in this block (zero inside the ten-minute gap)', but it omits the _stakingVaultReady() condition that drip enforces at line 481. While sIMD has no shares outstanding, does not answer asset() with IMD, or has no code, drip reverts StakingVaultNotReady for every amount, yet dueNow reports the vested backlog as sendable.

A keeper or dashboard that triggers drips from dueNow submits reverting transactions, and an integrator that reads dueNow as 'what reaches stakers now' over-reports. Harmless to funds.

Fix: return 0 from dueNow when !_stakingVaultReady() (two extra static calls in a view), or document the omission on stream().
Reproduced with test/scratch/Misc.t.sol (DueNowScratch).

Deploy Payroll with simd = an address with no code (0x51). pay(200e18), skip 2 hours. stream() returns dueNow = 595238095238095239.

Expected per the view's NatSpec: drip() sends that amount.

Actual: drip() reverts StakingVaultNotReady and sends nothing while dueNow stays non-zero.
infoJobsReport's BadWindow skip is unreachable from the pinned Questions and would permanently drop a round if it ever firedsrc/payroll/JobsReport.sol:406
The round counters p.payrollsRead and p.hiresRead are advanced (lines 315 and 371) before _unusable is consulted, so any reason returned here consumes the round for good.

Questions._window (src/questions/Questions.sol lines 1198-1218) guarantees fromBlock <= toBlock and toBlock = block.number - lagBlocks with lagBlocks at least 5 at request time, and an answer can only be stored later, so against the real Questions both conditions are always false: the branch is dead and SkipReason.BadWindow can never be emitted.

Harmless today, but it is the only skip whose predicate depends on the moment print is called (block.number) rather than on the round itself, which contradicts the contract's own promise that 'what ends up in the report does not depend on who calls or when' (line 286) should the window source ever change.

Fix: drop the time-dependent toBlock >= block.number test, or make it a break (come back to the round later) rather than a consuming skip.
Only reachable through the test harness: with JobsReportSetup, q.pushAnswered(PAYROLLS, 1e18, fromBlock = block.number - 100, toBlock = block.number + 5) then report.print() (test/scratch/Misc.t.sol, BadWindowScratch).

Expected per the determinism claim: the round waits and is printed on a later call once toBlock < block.number.

Actual: RoundSkipped(PAYROLLS, 1, BadWindow) is emitted, printed = 0, payrollsRead advances to 1, and after vm.roll(+10) print() still prints nothing; the round can never be printed.

Against the pinned Questions the condition cannot be made true.
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