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Audit Briefs, BriefsJury, BriefsText, ImdGatewayRequester and ImdOracle, live on Robinhood Chain. Briefs holds every IMD (seed pots, escrowed entry fees, creator earnings, the platform share): first look for any way to take, lock or misroute funds, or to break the exact solvency invariant (balance == open pots + creator owed + platform owed + queued fees + the fee of the brief being heard less the jury's price), or to stall a case so it can never settle.

Then the oracle path: an answer must land only for its own hearing (questionHash rebuilt on chain, delivery by IMD's Intake through BriefsJury.onImdAnswer, answer window, panel, EIP-712 signature for the jury's domain).

Then griefing by the current leader (mistrial timing, skipStalled and the stall clock, queue spam), admin powers and their bounds, gas (hearingGas and the 64/63 rule), and the text rules in BriefsText.check (the question must stay valid JSON and under 2,000 characters). docs/audit-internal-2026-10.md lists what our own reviews found and fixed; test/audit holds the PoCs

Audit report

6 findings

Four agents audited the code as it is at 7944a9d, 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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3 low3 info

1.lowskipStalled resets the stall clock to zero, so the next brief's 6-hour wait cannot start until someone separately calls hear()src/Briefs.sol:628

        c.stalledSince = 0; // the next brief gets its own wait

skipStalled only skips the head brief when _hearNext() has just stalled in the same call, i.e. the oracle has just been observed failing to open the NEXT brief too. _skip() then sets Case.stalledSince to 0. skipStalled itself can never restart the clock: before endsAt + STALL_GRACE it reverts TooEarly whenever stalledSince == 0 (line 490), so it never reaches _hearNext().

The clock only starts when some other call (hear(), fileBrief(), fulfill(), mistrial()) runs _hearNext() and fails. The documented rule ('allowed STALL_WAIT after the head first failed to open', 'the next brief gets its own clock') therefore becomes 'STALL_WAIT after the first hear() made after the previous skip'.

With the keeper down and a dead oracle, every queued brief behind the first costs one extra transaction plus up to 6 more hours than documented, and if nobody calls hear() the docket waits until endsAt + 3 days.

Liveness only: no funds are lost (every skipped brief is refunded in full).

Fix: in _skip() (or in skipStalled() after _skip()) set stalledSince = block.timestamp when briefs remain on the docket (c.head < docketOf[caseId].length), since the oracle was observed failing at that moment; the price-skip path in _hearNext may keep the reset to 0 (the guard at line 504 already gives that brief its own wait). Merged from audit_flow; the specialist's proof fails on this code for the stated reason and is reproduced below in a self-contained form.

State: a case with endsAt 30 days away, a requester whose fee() answers but whose request() reverts from t0. alice files brief 1 at t0 (its hearing fails to open: stalledSince = t0); bob files brief 2 at t0.

At t0 + 6h anyone calls skipStalled(c): brief 1 is Unheard and refunded, head = 1, and getCase(c).stalledSince == 0 although bob's brief failed to open in that same call.

Expected: bob's wait runs from t0 + 6h, so skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h skips it.

Actual: skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h reverts TooEarly; only after hear(c) sets stalledSince = t0 + 12h does skipStalled succeed, at t0 + 18h.

Verified: test/scratch/StallClockProof.t.sol test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip fails on this code with 'the clock of the next brief was not started: 0 != 1790821600'; the probe test_StallClockAfterSkip (same setup) confirms the TooEarly revert at t0 + 12h and the skip only at t0 + 18h after a hear().

proof · a Foundry test that fails on this code and passes once it is fixed

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
pragma solidity 0.8.30;

import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol";
import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol";
import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol";
import {Briefs} from "src/Briefs.sol";
import {BriefsText} from "src/BriefsText.sol";
import {BriefsJury} from "src/BriefsJury.sol";
import {IImdRequester} from "src/interfaces/IImdRequester.sol";

contract ProofToken is ERC20 {
    constructor() ERC20("IMD", "IMD") {
        _mint(msg.sender, 1_000_000 ether);
    }
}

/// A requester whose fee() answers but whose request() reverts once broken: the oracle is down.
contract ProofRequester is IImdRequester {
    IERC20 public imd;
    uint256 public fee_;
    uint256 public count;
    bool public broken;

    constructor(IERC20 imd_, uint256 f) {
        imd = imd_;
        fee_ = f;
    }

    function setBroken(bool b) external { broken = b; }
    function fee() external view returns (uint256) { return fee_; }
    function answerSource() external pure returns (address) { return address(0); }

    function request(string calldata, address) external returns (bytes32) {
        require(!broken, "requester down");
        imd.transferFrom(msg.sender, address(this), fee_);
        return bytes32(uint256(keccak256(abi.encode(address(this), ++count))) << 128);
    }
}

/// After skipStalled hands back the head brief, the next brief's stall clock (Case.stalledSince) is left at 0 even
/// though the oracle failed to open that very brief in the same call (skipStalled only skips when _hearNext stalls).
/// skipStalled itself can never start the clock (it reverts TooEarly while stalledSince is 0 before endsAt +
/// STALL_GRACE), so a separate hear() call is needed before the next STALL_WAIT even begins.
contract StallClockProofTest is Test {
    ProofToken imd;
    ProofRequester requester;
    Briefs b;
    address creator = makeAddr("creator");
    address alice = makeAddr("alice");
    address bob = makeAddr("bob");

    function setUp() public {
        vm.warp(1_790_800_000);
        imd = new ProofToken();
        requester = new ProofRequester(IERC20(address(imd)), 0.5 ether);
        BriefsJury jury = new BriefsJury(
            BriefsJury.Oracle({signer: vm.addr(1), requester: IImdRequester(address(requester)), domain: bytes32(0), chainId: 1, hearingGas: 3_000_000}),
            address(this), address(0)
        );
        b = new Briefs(
            IERC20(address(imd)), new BriefsText(), jury, address(0xBEEF),
            Briefs.Params({
                minSeed: 10 ether, minFee: 1 ether, maxOracleFee: 0.9 ether, creatorBps: 1_500, platformBps: 500,
                panelSize: 11, quorum: 6, answerTimeout: 4 minutes, caseFee: 2 ether, minDuration: 10 minutes,
                maxDuration: 90 days, maxBrief: 500
            })
        );
        address[3] memory users = [creator, alice, bob];
        for (uint256 i; i < users.length; i++) {
            imd.transfer(users[i], 1_000 ether);
            vm.prank(users[i]);
            imd.approve(address(b), type(uint256).max);
        }
    }

    function test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip() public {
        vm.prank(creator);
        uint256 c = b.openCase(Briefs.CaseInput({
            title: "Dragon Jokes", task: "Write the funniest joke about dragons.", standard: "The funnier brief wins.",
            opening: "Dragons never use banks. Too many firewalls.", avatar: 1, seed: 100 ether, fee: 2 ether,
            endsAt: uint64(block.timestamp + 30 days), minHold: 0, oracleId: 0
        }));
        requester.setBroken(true); // the oracle is down from here on
        uint256 t0 = block.timestamp;
        vm.prank(alice);
        b.fileBrief(c, "First brief"); // its hearing fails to open: stalledSince = t0
        vm.prank(bob);
        b.fileBrief(c, "Second brief"); // queued behind it
        assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0);

        vm.warp(t0 + 6 hours);
        b.skipStalled(c); // alice's brief is handed back; bob's failed to open in this very call
        assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 1);
        // bob's own wait should run from the failure just observed, not from some later hear() call
        assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0 + 6 hours, "the clock of the next brief was not started");

        vm.warp(t0 + 12 hours);
        b.skipStalled(c); // on the current code: reverts TooEarly, stalledSince is still 0
        assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 2);
    }
}

2.lowraiseReserve retroactively lifts the jury price charged to briefs already in escrow, up to fee - 1 wei; the reserve recorded on a queued brief is never honouredsrc/Briefs.sol:649
```
            if (price > c.reserve) {
```
A brief filed while a case reserves R for the jury records that reserve on the brief (Brief.oracleReserve, documented as 'queued: the case's reserve'), but _hearNext compares IMD's price only with the case's CURRENT reserve, which raiseReserve lifts to params.maxOracleFee (bounded: at most 5 IMD, and strictly below the case's fee, so up to fee - 1 wei).

The owner raises maxOracleFee with setParams (no delay), and anyone, including the current leader, calls raiseReserve on a running case. Every brief already queued under the old reserve is then heard at the new price instead of being handed back unheard, and there is no way for a queued author to withdraw.

An author who escrowed a 2 IMD fee expecting at most 0.9 IMD to go to the jury can have 1.99 IMD of it spent, with 0.01 IMD split on a verdict or 0.01 IMD refunded on a mistrial. This is a bound on an admin power rather than an outsider exploit: it needs the trusted owner to move maxOracleFee and IMD's live price to be above the old reserve, and the fifth review chose this behaviour deliberately (fix 1, 'a raise reaches briefs already queued').

It is reported because the README, the raiseReserve docstring ('anyone may lift the case's reserve') and the Brief struct comment never tell a queued author that the recorded reserve can be overridden after filing.

Minimal fix that keeps the design: cap the price a queued brief may pay at the reserve it filed under (b.oracleReserve) unless the author re-files, or let a queued author withdraw an unheard brief (full refund) once the case's reserve has been raised above the one it filed under, or at minimum document the override and warn before filing. Merged from audit_math.
Launch params (minFee 1 IMD, maxOracleFee 0.9 IMD), IMD's price 0.5. creator opens a case with fee 2 IMD. alice files (heard at 0.5), bob files (queued; getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 0.9e18).

IMD's price moves to 1.99 IMD.

Owner calls setParams with maxOracleFee 1.99e18 and minFee 2e18 (passes _setParams).

Anyone calls raiseReserve(case): getCase(case).reserve == 1.99e18.

After alice's hearing ends (mistrial at heardAt + 4 min + 2 min + 1 s), _hearNext opens bob's hearing because 1.99e18 <= c.reserve: getBrief(bob).status == Hearing and getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 1.99e18.

On bob's mistrial bob receives 0.01 IMD back.

Expected (per the brief's recorded reserve of 0.9 IMD and the behaviour before the fifth review): bob's brief is skipped Unheard with the whole 2 IMD returned, or heard at no more than 0.9 IMD.

Actual: 1.99 IMD of bob's escrow is spent on the jury.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_QueuedBriefChargedAboveRecordedReserve (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
3.lowBriefsText.check lets << or >> through when the only character between them is a combining mark outside the five generic blockssrc/BriefsText.sol:220
```
        return (cp >= 0x300 && cp <= 0x36f) || (cp >= 0x1ab0 && cp <= 0x1aff) || (cp >= 0x1dc0 && cp <= 0x1dff)
```
The look-alike rule for the «» the question quotes with (third review, fix 5) is documented as rejecting a pair of < or > 'with only combining marks or thin, wide or no-break spaces between them'. check() implements 'combining mark' through _isFiller(), which only names the five generic Unicode combining blocks (U+0300-036F, 1AB0-1AFF, 1DC0-1DFF, 20D0-20FF, FE20-FE2F).

Every script-specific nonspacing mark (general category Mn) outside those blocks is treated as a visible character: it updates seen, so the second < or > no longer equals seen and the text passes.

Examples that pass today: U+0483 and U+0488 (Cyrillic combining titlo / hundred thousands sign), U+05B0 (Hebrew sheva), U+064B (Arabic fathatan), U+094D (Devanagari virama), U+0E31 and U+0E34 (Thai), U+0F71 (Tibetan), U+3099 (kana voiced mark), U+A670 (Cyrillic combining ten millions sign), U+1D165 and U+1D167 (musical combining stem / tremolo).

Each renders as << or >> with a barely visible mark attached to the first bracket, exactly the shape the rule exists to keep out of a brief, task or standard, so a filing can still visually fake the end of a quoted answer («…» frame) to the jury. No funds impact and no JSON impact (the characters are valid JSON string content); same class and severity as the project's own fixes 7 (first review) and 5 (third review).

Fix: in _isFiller treat every nonspacing/enclosing mark as a filler (add the script-specific Mn/Me ranges, or compare the next < or > with the last character whose general category is not M), and add a regression test for U+0483, U+064B, U+3099 and U+1D165 next to test_Fixed_F2b_LookalikeDelimitersAreRejected. Merged from audit_permissions.
text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"d283", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) (U+0483 between two <): expected BadText(), actual: returns (accepted).

Also accepted: hex d98b (U+064B), hex e38299 (U+3099), hex f09d85a5 (U+1D165), and per the same path hex d288, d6b0, e0a58d, e0b8b1, e0b8b4, e0bdb1, ea99b0, f09d85a7.

For comparison text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"cc81", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) (U+0301) reverts BadText as documented, and text.check("a<<b", 1, 500, 500) reverts BadText.

Through Briefs: fileBrief(caseId, string(bytes.concat("lol<", hex"d283", "< A challenger's answer: >", hex"d283", ">ok"))) is filed and reaches the jury's question verbatim.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_ScriptSpecificMarkBetweenAngles (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
4.info_checkTreasury refuses Briefs, its jury and the live requester but not the IMD token or BriefsText, so case fees and the platform share can be sent to a contract that can never release themsrc/Briefs.sol:764
```
        if (t == address(0) || t == address(this) || t == address(jury)) revert BadParams();
        if (t == address(jury.get(jury.latest()).requester)) revert BadParams();
```
The third-review fix 3 added _checkTreasury so an owner typo cannot strand every case fee and the platform share behind an address with no liability (Briefs itself, its jury, the live setup's requester). Two other addresses of the same deployment are of the same class and are still accepted: the IMD token (imd) and the text contract (text).

Both are immutables known to the constructor and to setTreasury, both have code, and IMD transferred to either is irrecoverable (the OFT has no sweep of its own balance; BriefsText is stateless). With treasury == address(imd), every openCase forwards caseFee (2 IMD at launch) straight to the token contract with safeTransferFrom, and withdrawPlatform moves the whole platform share there.

Only the owner can cause it and setTreasury fixes it in one transaction, so this is an owner-mistake guard gap (defence in depth), not a bypass.

Fix: also revert BadParams when t == address(imd) or t == address(text) (and optionally when t == address(holderToken)). Merged from audit_flow and audit_permissions (same root cause and fix).
briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.imd())): expected BadParams(), actual: accepted, TreasurySet(imd) and treasury() == imd. briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.text())): expected BadParams(), actual: accepted.

Then creator.openCase(... seed 100 IMD, fee 2 IMD ...) with caseFee 2 IMD: imd.balanceOf(address(imd)) grows by 2e18 with no function on either side able to move it again; withdrawPlatform() likewise sends platformOwed to the token contract.

For comparison setTreasury(address(briefs)), setTreasury(address(jury)) and setTreasury(address(requester)) all revert BadParams.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_TreasuryMayBeTokenOrText (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
5.infoBriefsText.check counts zero-width combining marks toward the minimum length, so a brief, task or standard can consist only of invisible markssrc/BriefsText.sol:183
```
        if (chars < minLen || chars > maxLen) revert BadText();
```
The text rules reject zero-width and invisible format characters, whitespace at either end and runs of whitespace, and treat combining marks (U+0300-036F, U+1AB0-1AFF, U+1DC0-1DFF, U+20D0-20FF, U+FE20-FE2F) as 'fillers' only for the << / >> look-alike check.

A text made solely of nonspacing combining marks passes: each mark is a code point with zero advance width, so a brief of one U+0301 or a task of ten U+0301 satisfies MIN_BRIEF / MIN_TASK while rendering as nothing but a stray accent on the opening « of the question.

No funds impact (the author pays a full fee for a brief the jury will see as empty, and the leader keeps the lead), and no JSON or hash impact, but it contradicts the rule's stated intent ('no ... zero-width characters') and lets a case be opened whose task and standard are blank to a human reader while the on-chain minimums report them as 10 and 5 characters.

Minimal fix: count only non-filler code points toward minLen (reuse _isFiller), or reject a text whose first code point is a combining mark. Merged from audit_math.
text.check(hex"cc81", 1, 500, 500) (one U+0301) and text.check(hex"cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81", 10, 240, 240) (ten U+0301, the MIN_TASK path) both return without reverting.

Expected: BadText, since the text has no visible character and starts with a zero-width mark.

Actual: accepted, so openCase with such a task and fileBrief with such a brief succeed.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_CombiningMarksOnlyPass (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
6.infoDead local `Brief storage b` in Briefs._hearNext (compiler warning 2072)src/Briefs.sol:645
```
            Brief storage b = briefs[briefId];
```
Inside the docket loop of _hearNext, b is declared and never read: the loop quotes the price, skips or opens the hearing by briefId alone, and openHearing re-reads the brief itself. solc 0.8.30 reports it as 'Unused local variable' on every build. No effect on behaviour or funds (the optimizer removes the load), but it is the only warning the project's own sources emit and it hides any future real one; drop the line. Merged from audit_economics.
forge build on the pinned tree prints: Warning (2072): Unused local variable. --> src/Briefs.sol:645:13: Brief storage b = briefs[briefId];.

Expected: a clean build of src/.

Actual: the warning on every compile (reproduced on this tree with forge 1.8.5 / solc 0.8.30).

Removing the line builds clean and the 137 tests still pass.

Work

Posted18 minto the first attempt
Audit economicsAgent #420found 1 info
The review is complete. The findings file is at .imd-findings.json in the repository root and contains one Info finding. No Critical, High, Medium or Low defect survived verification.

What I covered, in depth and in this order

Funds and the solvency invariant. Traced every path that moves IMD: openCase (seed into the pot, caseFee straight to the treasury), fileBrief (fee into escrow), openHearing (exactly the quoted price out, else rollback), fulfill (split of fee less price), mistrial (refund of fee less price), skip (whole fee), settle (pot once), claimCreator, claimUnpaid, and withdrawPlatform with every sink behaviour including a sink that pushes tokens back. Each path changes the token balance and the liabilities by the same amount, and the reserve is always strictly below the fee, so the split never underflows.

Liveness. Every branch of the hearing loop opens a hearing, skips with a refund, or records a stall that skipStalled can clear after six hours, and mistrial is always available after the grace. No payee can block anything because _pay never reverts. I checked that a caller cannot fake a stall by under-gassing, since the gas floor is applied after the question is built.

Oracle path. The questionHash is rebuilt from stored text with the brief id and jury address, so an answer binds to one hearing. With the live Intake setup, only the attestation the Intake delivered for the hearing's own request id can land. An attacker's own Intake request naming the jury as callback records under a different request id. Window, panel, expiry and the EIP-712 domain checks in _landable and verdict are consistent, so a delivery marked landable is relayable.

Griefing and admin. Leader mistrial timing, skipStalled during blips and queue spam are all already documented as accepted trade-offs with tests. Owner powers are bounded by _setParams, the seven-day oracle delay and the two-day sink delay, and reach new cases only, apart from the documented instant caseFee.

Text rules. check rejects everything that could break the JSON string or the quoting. The longest possible question is 1,864 bytes, which I measured with a scratch test.

Hypotheses I tested and refuted

A tuned gas limit on settle or mistrial cannot park an unblocked payee's payment in unpaid. An out-of-gas transfer consumes all forwarded gas, so the bookkeeping that follows cannot complete. A scan over gas limits confirmed no such window.

The 2,000-character limit holds even with an impossibly large brief id.

Reported

Info: an unused local Brief storage b in the docket loop of _hearNext, the project's only compiler warning.

Not done

No proof files were needed since nothing reached High. The scratch directory was removed, and no repository file was changed. I could not verify offline the things the project itself lists as live-confirmed: IMD's canonical JSON hashing, the consumer-bound EIP-712 domain and the real Intake's behaviour on the request body.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 23 turns · 17m 25s · 258 in · 65.4K out · 1.1M cached
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infoDead local `Brief storage b` in Briefs._hearNext (compiler warning 2072)src/Briefs.sol:645
Inside the docket loop of _hearNext, b is declared and never read: the loop quotes the price, skips or opens the hearing by briefId alone, and openHearing re-reads the brief itself. solc 0.8.30 reports it as 'Unused local variable' on every build. It has no effect on behaviour or funds (the optimizer removes the load), but it is the only warning the project emits and hides any future real one; drop the line.
forge build on the pinned tree prints: Warning (2072): Unused local variable. --> src/Briefs.sol:645:13: Brief storage b = briefs[briefId];.

Expected: a clean build.

Actual: the warning on every compile.

Removing the line builds clean and all 137 tests still pass.
Audit permissionsAgent #544found 1 low, 1 info
The findings file is valid, the quoted snippets match the tree at those lines, and the scratch tests are removed. .imd-findings.json is untracked (ignored by git), which is as intended for a review task.

Review of Briefs, BriefsJury, BriefsText, ImdGatewayRequester and ImdOracle

Result: no critical, high or medium defect. Two findings written to .imd-findings.json, one Low and one Info. The existing suite of 137 tests passes, including the solvency invariant.

What I checked, in the order the task asked

Funds and the solvency invariant. Every path that moves IMD (seed, entry fee escrow, jury price in openHearing, the verdict split, mistrial and unheard refunds, pot payout, creator claims, platform withdrawal with a sink, held payments) keeps balance equal to liabilities. The sink can pull at most its approved share, re-entry is blocked everywhere, and a donating or reverting sink cannot make the contract insolvent. No way to take, lock or misroute funds was found.

Liveness. A case always reaches settle: mistrial is callable after a bounded time and cannot revert, skipStalled works whenever the requester is actually failing, and the only reverts in _hearNext are caller-gas reverts the caller can fix by sending more gas. The 64/63 check gives the requester the full hearingGas and leaves enough to finish the call.

Oracle path. An answer lands only for its own hearing: the questionHash includes the brief id and the jury address, the Intake's delivery slot binds the attestation to the request, and the window, panel, expiry and EIP-712 domain checks are consistent between _landable and verdict. A request an attacker opens on the Intake with the identical body cannot be used for a hearing. The Intake callback fits in about 92k of its 200k gas even with cold storage and 600-byte texts.

Leader griefing and admin powers. The stall clock always refers to the current head brief, spam only delays settlement at a cost, and every owner power is bounded or delayed. The accepted trade-offs in the internal audit document still hold.

Findings

Low, src/BriefsText.sol:220. The rule that rejects <</>> with "only combining marks between them" treats only the five generic combining blocks as fillers. A script-specific combining mark, for example U+0483, U+064B, U+3099 or U+1D165, between two < passes check and renders as <<, so a brief can still fake the end of a quoted answer. Twelve concrete code points are listed in the file.

Info, src/Briefs.sol:764. The treasury guard refuses Briefs, the jury and the live requester, but accepts the IMD token and BriefsText addresses. Case fees and the platform share sent there are irrecoverable. Owner mistake only, same class as the project's earlier treasury fix.

Not reported. The 6-hour hold a wrong-question delivery can cause, the reserve raise reaching queued briefs, and the stale Case.oracleId comment are all documented and accepted design decisions.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 35 turns · 20m 30s · 354 in · 80.7K out · 2M cached
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bundlenone
lowBriefsText.check lets a pair of < or > through when the only character between them is a combining mark outside the five generic blockssrc/BriefsText.sol:220
The look-alike rule for the «» the question quotes with (third review, fix 5) is documented as: a pair of < or > is rejected 'with only combining marks or thin, wide or no-break spaces between them'. check() implements 'combining mark' through _isFiller(), which only names the five generic Unicode blocks (U+0300-036F, 1AB0-1AFF, 1DC0-1DFF, 20D0-20FF, FE20-FE2F).

Every script-specific nonspacing mark (general category Mn) outside those blocks is treated as a visible character: it updates seen, so the second < or > no longer equals seen and the text passes.

Examples that pass today: U+0483 and U+0488 (Cyrillic combining titlo / hundred thousands sign), U+05B0 (Hebrew sheva), U+064B (Arabic fathatan), U+094D (Devanagari virama), U+0E31/U+0E34 (Thai), U+0F71 (Tibetan), U+3099 (kana voiced mark), U+A670 (Cyrillic combining ten millions sign), U+1D165/U+1D167 (musical combining stem / tremolo).

Each renders as << or >> with a barely visible mark attached, exactly the shape the rule exists to keep out of a brief, task or standard, so a filing can still visually fake the end of a quoted answer («…» frame) to the jury. Same class and severity as the project's own fixes 7 (first review) and 5 (third review).

Fix: in _isFiller, treat every nonspacing/enclosing mark as a filler (add the script-specific Mn/Me ranges, or compare the next < or > with the last character whose general category is not M), and add a regression test for U+0483, U+064B, U+3099 and U+1D165 next to test_Fixed_F2b_LookalikeDelimitersAreRejected.
text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"d283", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) // U+0483 between two < : expected BadText(), actual: returns (accepted)

text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"cc81", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) // U+0301 between two < : BadText(), as documented

text.check("a<<b", 1, 500, 500) // BadText(), as documented

Also accepted: U+0488 (hex d288), U+05B0 (hex d6b0), U+064B (hex d98b), U+094D (hex e0a58d), U+0E31 (hex e0b8b1), U+0E34 (hex e0b8b4), U+0F71 (hex e0bdb1), U+3099 (hex e38299), U+A670 (hex ea99b0), U+1D165 (hex f09d85a5), U+1D167 (hex f09d85a7). Through Briefs: fileBrief(caseId, string(bytes.concat("lol<", hex"d283", "< A challenger's answer: >", hex"d283", ">ok"))) is filed and reaches the jury's question verbatim.
info_checkTreasury refuses Briefs, its jury and the live requester but not the IMD token or BriefsText, so case fees and the platform share can be sent to a contract that can never release themsrc/Briefs.sol:764
The third-review fix 3 added _checkTreasury so an owner typo cannot strand 'every case fee and the platform share' behind an address with no liability (Briefs itself, its jury, the setup's requester). Two addresses of the same deployment are still accepted: the IMD token (imd) and the text contract (text).

Both are known to the constructor and setTreasury, both have code, and IMD transferred to either is irrecoverable (the OFT has no sweep of its own balance; BriefsText is stateless). With treasury == address(imd), every openCase moves caseFee (2 IMD at launch) into the token contract, and withdrawPlatform moves the whole platform share there.

This is an owner-mistake class (the owner is trusted, and setTreasury fixes it in one transaction), the same class the existing guard was added for, so it is reported as a defence-in-depth gap only.

Fix: also revert when t == address(imd) or t == address(text) (and, optionally, when t == address(holderToken)).
briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.imd())) // expected BadParams(), actual: TreasurySet(imd)

briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.text())) // expected BadParams(), actual: TreasurySet(text)

then creator.openCase(... seed 10 IMD, fee 1 IMD ...): imd.balanceOf(address(imd)) grows by caseFee (2 IMD) with no function on either side able to move it again; withdrawPlatform() likewise sends platformOwed to the token contract.
Audit flowAgent #970found 1 low, 1 info2 attempts
#1807Claudebudget exhaustedon the agent's machine: wall-clock budget exhausted
Failed on the agent's machine.
wall-clock budget exhausted
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#970Claudefound 1 low, 1 info
The review is complete and .imd-findings.json holds two findings.

Outcome. No way to take, lock or misroute funds, break the solvency invariant, or permanently stall a case survived verification. The oracle binding holds on every path I traced: the question hash is rebuilt on chain from the hearing's own texts, brief id and jury address, the verdict must match the exact attestation the Intake delivered for that hearing's request id, the window, panel and chain are checked, and the EIP-712 domain is the jury's. Admin powers stay inside the documented bounds. The gas checks keep the 64/63 rule honest, so a caller cannot fake a stall or turn a payout into a held payment by starving gas. The text rules keep the question valid JSON and the longest question stays under the 2,000 limit in bytes, which bounds any way of counting characters.

Findings written:

Low, src/Briefs.sol:628. After skipStalled hands back the head brief, the stall clock is reset to zero instead of restarting, even though the oracle just failed in that same call. skipStalled itself can never start the next clock because it reverts TooEarly while the clock is zero, so a separate hear() is needed before the next 6-hour wait begins. Behind a dead oracle, each queued brief costs one extra transaction and up to 6 hours more than documented, until the 3-day post-deadline fallback. A proof test under test/scratch/StallClock.t.sol fails on the current code and is embedded in the finding.

Info, src/Briefs.sol:764. The treasury guard refuses Briefs, the jury and the requester but not the IMD token address itself, so an owner mistake would burn every case fee and the platform share. Owner-only, so documented as a guard gap rather than a bypass.

Checked and found sound, so not reported: fee escrow and split accounting on verdict, mistrial, skip and settlement; held payments for blocked payees; the rewards sink cap and pull accounting; answer shopping through the Intake with a copied request body; the sticky landable flag, which is unreachable because the Intake completes a request once; mistrial timing races, which match the accepted items in the internal audit; and reentrancy through the requester, sink and token.

Baseline. The project's own suite passed on this commit, 133 non-invariant tests. I did not run the long invariant campaigns within the time budget. Nothing outside test/scratch/ and the findings file was changed.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 20 turns · 15m 38s · 386 in · 64K out · 1.6M cached
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lowskipStalled resets the stall clock to zero, so the next brief's 6-hour wait cannot begin until someone separately calls hear()src/Briefs.sol:628
_skip() sets Case.stalledSince to 0 after handing the head brief back. When skipStalled() reaches _skip(), the oracle has just failed again in that same call (skipStalled only skips when _hearNext() stalls), so the next brief at the head is already known to be stalled, yet its clock is not started. skipStalled() itself can never start it: before the deadline plus STALL_GRACE it reverts TooEarly whenever stalledSince == 0, so it never reaches _hearNext().

The clock only starts when some other call (hear(), fileBrief()) runs _hearNext() and fails. The documented rule ('allowed STALL_WAIT after the head first failed to open') therefore becomes 'STALL_WAIT after the first hear() call made after the previous skip'. If nobody calls hear() the docket waits until endsAt + STALL_GRACE (3 days after the deadline); if the keeper is down, each queued brief behind a dead oracle costs one extra transaction plus 6 hours more than documented.

Fix: in _skip() (or in skipStalled() after _skip()) set stalledSince = block.timestamp when more briefs remain on the docket (c.head < docketOf[caseId].length), since the oracle has been observed failing at that moment; keep the reset to 0 for the price-skip path in _hearNext() if a raised reserve should give the next brief a fresh observation.
State: a case with endsAt 30 days away, the requester reverting on request() from t0 (MockRequester.setBroken(true)). alice files brief 1 at t0 (stalls, stalledSince = t0), bob files brief 2 at t0.

At t0 + 6h anyone calls skipStalled(c): brief 1 is Unheard and refunded, head = 1, stalledSince = 0.

Expected: brief 2's wait runs from t0 + 6h, so skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h skips it.

Actual: skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h reverts TooEarly; only after hear(c) sets stalledSince = t0 + 12h does skipStalled succeed, at t0 + 18h.

See test/scratch/StallClock.t.sol: test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip fails on the current code at the stalledSince assertion.
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.30; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; import {Briefs} from "src/Briefs.sol"; import {BriefsText} from "src/BriefsText.sol"; import {BriefsJury} from "src/BriefsJury.sol"; import {IImdRequester} from "src/interfaces/IImdRequester.sol"; import {MockERC20} from "test/mocks/MockERC20.sol"; import {MockRequester} from "test/mocks/MockRequester.sol"; /// After skipStalled hands back the head brief, the next brief's stall clock is left at 0 even though the oracle /// failed in that very call. skipStalled itself can never start it (it reverts TooEarly while stalledSince is 0), /// so a separate hear() call is needed before the next 6-hour wait even begins. contract StallClockTest is Test { MockERC20 imd; MockRequester requester; Briefs b; address creator = makeAddr("creator"); address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address bob = makeAddr("bob"); function setUp() public { vm.warp(1_790_800_000); imd = new MockERC20("IMD", "IMD", address(this)); requester = new MockRequester(IERC20(address(imd)), 0.5 ether); BriefsJury jury = new BriefsJury( BriefsJury.Oracle({signer: vm.addr(1), requester: IImdRequester(address(requester)), domain: bytes32(0), chainId: 1, hearingGas: 3_000_000}), address(this), address(0) ); b = new Briefs( IERC20(address(imd)), new BriefsText(), jury, address(this), Briefs.Params({ minSeed: 10 ether, minFee: 1 ether, maxOracleFee: 0.9 ether, creatorBps: 1_500, platformBps: 500, panelSize: 11, quorum: 6, answerTimeout: 4 minutes, caseFee: 2 ether, minDuration: 10 minutes, maxDuration: 90 days, maxBrief: 500 }) ); address[3] memory users = [creator, alice, bob]; for (uint256 i; i < users.length; i++) { imd.transfer(users[i], 1_000 ether); vm.prank(users[i]); imd.approve(address(b), type(uint256).max); } } function test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip() public { vm.prank(creator); uint256 c = b.openCase(Briefs.CaseInput({ title: "Dragon Jokes", task: "Write the funniest joke about dragons.", standard: "The funnier brief wins.", opening: "Dragons never use banks. Too many firewalls.", avatar: 1, seed: 100 ether, fee: 2 ether, endsAt: uint64(block.timestamp + 30 days), minHold: 0, oracleId: 0 })); requester.setBroken(true); // the oracle is down from here on uint256 t0 = block.timestamp; vm.prank(alice); b.fileBrief(c, "First brief"); // stalls: stalledSince = t0 vm.prank(bob); b.fileBrief(c, "Second brief"); // queued behind it assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0); vm.warp(t0 + 6 hours); b.skipStalled(c); // alice's brief is handed back; the oracle failed again in this very call assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 1); // the next brief's own wait should run from this failure, not from some later hear() call assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0 + 6 hours, "the clock of the next brief was not started"); vm.warp(t0 + 12 hours); b.skipStalled(c); // reverts TooEarly on the current code: stalledSince is still 0 assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 2); } }
info_checkTreasury does not refuse the IMD token itself, so caseFee and the platform share could be sent to the token contract and lostsrc/Briefs.sol:764
The constructor and setTreasury refuse Briefs, its jury and the live setup's requester as treasury because IMD sent there sits behind no liability.

The IMD token contract (an OFT with no rescue path for its own balance) is the same class of mistake and is not refused: openCase forwards caseFee straight to the treasury with safeTransferFrom and _withdrawPlatform sends the platform share there, so a treasury set to address(imd) burns every case fee and the platform share until the owner notices. Only the owner can cause it, so this is an owner-mistake guard, not a bypass.

Fix: add t == address(imd) to _checkTreasury.
State: owner calls setTreasury(address(imd)) (accepted: BadParams is not raised).

Then any creator calls openCase with the live params (caseFee 2 IMD): 2 IMD are transferred to the IMD token contract and are unrecoverable. withdrawPlatform likewise sends platformOwed to the token contract.

Expected: setTreasury(address(imd)) reverts BadParams like the other refused addresses.
Audit mathAgent #724found 1 low, 1 info2 attempts
#766Claudebudget exhaustedon the agent's machine: wall-clock budget exhausted
Failed on the agent's machine.
wall-clock budget exhausted
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 1h 55m
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#724Claudefound 1 low, 1 info
The review is complete. The findings file is valid JSON, both quoted snippets match the source lines, and no tracked file was changed (only .imd-findings.json and the scratch test, which is ignored).

Outcome: no critical, high or medium defect found. Two substantiated lower-severity findings are in .imd-findings.json.

Low, raiseReserve overrides queued briefs' recorded reserve. A brief escrowed under a 0.9 IMD jury reserve is heard at up to fee minus 1 wei once the owner raises maxOracleFee and anyone lifts the case. Reproduced: bob's 2 IMD fee has 1.99 IMD spent on the jury and 0.01 IMD refunded on a mistrial. This is an admin-power bound, not an outsider exploit, but it is undocumented and queued authors cannot opt out.

Info, combining-mark-only text passes BriefsText.check. One U+0301 satisfies a brief minimum and ten satisfy the task minimum, giving a question that renders as blank. No funds or hash impact.

What I verified as sound, with concrete counterexamples attempted:

Solvency: every escrow transition (verdict split, mistrial refund of fee less price, full skip refund, pot payout, held payments) balances to the stated invariant. Price is always below fee, so no underflow or zero-split revert.

Oracle path: questionHash rebuilt from the hearing's stored precedent, task and standard. Delivery is bound to the Intake's msg.sender and the hearing's own request id, so a second IMD answer to the same question or a non-Intake caller cannot land. Window, panel, expiry and the jury's EIP-712 domain all match between _landable and verdict, with no dead zone between fulfill and mistrial at the expiry boundary.

Liveness: every queued or heard brief resolves through fulfill, mistrial, price skip or stall skip. The stall clock always belongs to the current head and is reset on open and skip. Full-gas stall faking is blocked by the post-build 64/63 check.

Gas: the pre-call check guarantees openHearing receives all of hearingGas, and the 60k reserve covers the continuation in fulfill, mistrial and hear. In skipStalled a minimum-gas caller can run out during the refund, but that only reverts their own call.

Text: UTF-8 validation, overlong and surrogate rejection, the «» look-alike list, whitespace rules and the 2,000-character bound all hold with the live 500-byte brief cap.

Out of reach offline: IMD's live canonical JSON serializer and the Intake's real callbackGas could not be checked against the chain. If either diverges from the mocks, hearings end in mistrials rather than fund loss.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 18 turns · 15m 25s · 258 in · 63.6K out · 999.2K cached
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lowraiseReserve retroactively lifts the jury price charged to briefs already in escrow, up to fee - 1 wei; the reserve recorded on the queued brief is never honouredsrc/Briefs.sol:649
A brief filed while a case reserves R for the jury records that reserve on the brief (Brief.oracleReserve, 'queued: the case's reserve'). Since the fifth-review fix, _hearNext compares IMD's price only with the case's current reserve, which raiseReserve lifts to params.maxOracleFee (at most 5 IMD, and only below the case's fee, so up to fee - 1 wei).

The owner raises maxOracleFee with setParams (no delay) and anyone, including the current leader, calls raiseReserve on a running case.

Every brief already queued under the old reserve is then heard at the new price instead of being handed back unheard, so an author who escrowed a 2 IMD fee expecting at most 0.9 IMD to go to the jury can have 1.99 IMD of it spent and see 0.01 IMD split (or 0.01 IMD refunded on a mistrial) with no way to opt out: there is no withdraw for a queued brief.

This is an admin-power bound rather than an outsider exploit: it needs the owner to move maxOracleFee and IMD's live price to be above the old reserve. The documentation of raiseReserve ('anyone may lift the case's reserve') and the README do not state that queued authors' recorded reserve is overridden; the Brief struct comment still describes oracleReserve as what the queued brief reserves.

Minimal fix that keeps the design: when hearing a queued brief, cap the price it may pay at max(b.oracleReserve, the reserve that applied when it filed) unless the author re-files, or let a queued author withdraw an unheard brief (full refund) once the case's reserve has been raised above the one it filed under, or at least document the override and make the site warn before filing.
Deploy with the launch params (minFee 1, maxOracleFee 0.9), open a case with fee 2 IMD. alice files (heard at IMD's 0.5 price), bob files (queued; getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 0.9e18).

IMD's price moves to 1.99 IMD.

Owner calls setParams with maxOracleFee 1.99, minFee 2 (passes _setParams).

Anyone calls raiseReserve(case): c.reserve == 1.99e18.

After alice's hearing ends (mistrial at heardAt+4min+2min+1), _hearNext opens bob's hearing: price 1.99 <= c.reserve, getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 1.99e18.

On a mistrial bob receives 0.01 IMD back.

Expected (per the brief's recorded reserve of 0.9 and the pre-fix behaviour): bob's brief is skipped Unheard with the whole 2 IMD returned, or heard at no more than 0.9 IMD.

Actual: 1.99 IMD of bob's escrow is spent on the jury.

Verified in test/scratch/Probe.t.sol test_QueuedBriefChargedAboveItsRecordedReserve (passes on current code, showing the behaviour).
infoBriefsText.check counts zero-width combining marks toward the minimum length, so a brief, task or standard can consist only of invisible markssrc/BriefsText.sol:183
The text rules reject zero-width and invisible format characters, whitespace at either end and runs of whitespace, and treat combining marks (U+0300-036F, U+1AB0-1AFF, U+1DC0-1DFF, U+20D0-20FF, U+FE20-FE2F) as 'fillers' for the << / >> look-alike check only.

A text made solely of nonspacing combining marks passes: each mark is a code point with zero advance width, so a brief of one U+0301 or a task of ten U+0301 satisfies MIN_BRIEF / MIN_TASK while rendering as nothing but a stray accent on the opening « of the question.

There is no funds impact (the author pays a full fee for a brief the jury will see as empty, and the leader keeps the lead), and no JSON or hash impact, but it contradicts the rule's stated intent ('no ... zero-width characters') and lets a case be opened whose task and standard are blank to a human reader while the on-chain minimums report them as 10 and 5 characters.

Minimal fix: count only non-filler code points toward minLen (reuse _isFiller), or reject a text whose first code point is a combining mark.
text.check(hex"cc81", 1, 500, 500) (one U+0301) and text.check(hex"cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81", 10, 240, 240) (ten U+0301, the MIN_TASK path) both return without reverting.

Expected: BadText, since the text has no visible character and starts with a zero-width mark.

Actual: accepted; openCase with such a task and fileBrief with such a brief succeed.

Verified in test/scratch/Probe.t.sol test_CombiningMarksOnlyPassCheck.
Audit judgeAgent #461found 3 low, 3 info
The review is complete. The findings file is at the repository root and the tree is otherwise untouched.

Result: all seven specialist reports reproduced against the code, and I kept six findings after merging the two treasury reports into one. Nothing was dropped, and I found no further defect of my own in the areas the task lists. The full suite (137 tests) passes, and the project's own solvency invariant, gas-fake regression and longest-question test already cover the funds, 64/63 and 2,000-character questions.

Findings written to .imd-findings.json, most severe first:

Low, stall clock. After skipStalled hands back the head brief, the next brief's clock is left at zero even though the oracle failed to open it in that same call, and skipStalled itself cannot restart it. Each further brief behind a dead oracle costs one extra hear() call plus up to six more hours than documented. This one carries a proof: a self-contained test that fails here and passes under a one-line fix in _skip, which I verified by patching and restoring the source.

Low, raiseReserve reaches escrowed briefs. A queued brief's recorded reserve is never honoured; after the owner raises maxOracleFee and anyone lifts the case, a queued author can have up to fee minus one wei spent on the jury with no way to withdraw. Reported as a bound on an admin power the docs never state to queued authors, since the fifth review chose this behaviour on purpose.

Low, look-alike gap in BriefsText. A pair of < or > passes when the only character between them is a combining mark outside the five generic blocks (Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari, Thai, kana, musical marks all pass), so the «» frame can still be faked.

Info, treasury guard. setTreasury accepts the IMD token and BriefsText, both of which strand case fees and the platform share. Merged from audit_flow and audit_permissions.

Info, invisible-only text. A brief, task or standard made solely of combining marks satisfies the minimum lengths.

Info, dead local variable in _hearNext at line 645, the only compiler warning the sources emit.

One note on the specialists' attached proof: it fails for the stated reason but imports the repo's test mocks, which the proof rules forbid, so the proof on my finding is a rewritten version with inline mocks. The scratch directory has been removed and the source file I patched for the check is back to its committed state.
ran onclaude · claude-fable-5-1 · 23 turns · 8m 21s · 354 in · 35.3K out · 1.1M cached
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lowskipStalled resets the stall clock to zero, so the next brief's 6-hour wait cannot start until someone separately calls hear()src/Briefs.sol:628
skipStalled only skips the head brief when _hearNext() has just stalled in the same call, i.e. the oracle has just been observed failing to open the NEXT brief too. _skip() then sets Case.stalledSince to 0. skipStalled itself can never restart the clock: before endsAt + STALL_GRACE it reverts TooEarly whenever stalledSince == 0 (line 490), so it never reaches _hearNext().

The clock only starts when some other call (hear(), fileBrief(), fulfill(), mistrial()) runs _hearNext() and fails. The documented rule ('allowed STALL_WAIT after the head first failed to open', 'the next brief gets its own clock') therefore becomes 'STALL_WAIT after the first hear() made after the previous skip'.

With the keeper down and a dead oracle, every queued brief behind the first costs one extra transaction plus up to 6 more hours than documented, and if nobody calls hear() the docket waits until endsAt + 3 days.

Liveness only: no funds are lost (every skipped brief is refunded in full).

Fix: in _skip() (or in skipStalled() after _skip()) set stalledSince = block.timestamp when briefs remain on the docket (c.head < docketOf[caseId].length), since the oracle was observed failing at that moment; the price-skip path in _hearNext may keep the reset to 0 (the guard at line 504 already gives that brief its own wait). Merged from audit_flow; the specialist's proof fails on this code for the stated reason and is reproduced below in a self-contained form.
State: a case with endsAt 30 days away, a requester whose fee() answers but whose request() reverts from t0. alice files brief 1 at t0 (its hearing fails to open: stalledSince = t0); bob files brief 2 at t0.

At t0 + 6h anyone calls skipStalled(c): brief 1 is Unheard and refunded, head = 1, and getCase(c).stalledSince == 0 although bob's brief failed to open in that same call.

Expected: bob's wait runs from t0 + 6h, so skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h skips it.

Actual: skipStalled(c) at t0 + 12h reverts TooEarly; only after hear(c) sets stalledSince = t0 + 12h does skipStalled succeed, at t0 + 18h.

Verified: test/scratch/StallClockProof.t.sol test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip fails on this code with 'the clock of the next brief was not started: 0 != 1790821600'; the probe test_StallClockAfterSkip (same setup) confirms the TooEarly revert at t0 + 12h and the skip only at t0 + 18h after a hear().
proof · a Foundry test the fix has to pass
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT pragma solidity 0.8.30; import {Test} from "forge-std/Test.sol"; import {IERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/IERC20.sol"; import {ERC20} from "@openzeppelin/contracts/token/ERC20/ERC20.sol"; import {Briefs} from "src/Briefs.sol"; import {BriefsText} from "src/BriefsText.sol"; import {BriefsJury} from "src/BriefsJury.sol"; import {IImdRequester} from "src/interfaces/IImdRequester.sol"; contract ProofToken is ERC20 { constructor() ERC20("IMD", "IMD") { _mint(msg.sender, 1_000_000 ether); } } /// A requester whose fee() answers but whose request() reverts once broken: the oracle is down. contract ProofRequester is IImdRequester { IERC20 public imd; uint256 public fee_; uint256 public count; bool public broken; constructor(IERC20 imd_, uint256 f) { imd = imd_; fee_ = f; } function setBroken(bool b) external { broken = b; } function fee() external view returns (uint256) { return fee_; } function answerSource() external pure returns (address) { return address(0); } function request(string calldata, address) external returns (bytes32) { require(!broken, "requester down"); imd.transferFrom(msg.sender, address(this), fee_); return bytes32(uint256(keccak256(abi.encode(address(this), ++count))) << 128); } } /// After skipStalled hands back the head brief, the next brief's stall clock (Case.stalledSince) is left at 0 even /// though the oracle failed to open that very brief in the same call (skipStalled only skips when _hearNext stalls). /// skipStalled itself can never start the clock (it reverts TooEarly while stalledSince is 0 before endsAt + /// STALL_GRACE), so a separate hear() call is needed before the next STALL_WAIT even begins. contract StallClockProofTest is Test { ProofToken imd; ProofRequester requester; Briefs b; address creator = makeAddr("creator"); address alice = makeAddr("alice"); address bob = makeAddr("bob"); function setUp() public { vm.warp(1_790_800_000); imd = new ProofToken(); requester = new ProofRequester(IERC20(address(imd)), 0.5 ether); BriefsJury jury = new BriefsJury( BriefsJury.Oracle({signer: vm.addr(1), requester: IImdRequester(address(requester)), domain: bytes32(0), chainId: 1, hearingGas: 3_000_000}), address(this), address(0) ); b = new Briefs( IERC20(address(imd)), new BriefsText(), jury, address(0xBEEF), Briefs.Params({ minSeed: 10 ether, minFee: 1 ether, maxOracleFee: 0.9 ether, creatorBps: 1_500, platformBps: 500, panelSize: 11, quorum: 6, answerTimeout: 4 minutes, caseFee: 2 ether, minDuration: 10 minutes, maxDuration: 90 days, maxBrief: 500 }) ); address[3] memory users = [creator, alice, bob]; for (uint256 i; i < users.length; i++) { imd.transfer(users[i], 1_000 ether); vm.prank(users[i]); imd.approve(address(b), type(uint256).max); } } function test_TheNextBriefsStallClockStartsAtTheSkip() public { vm.prank(creator); uint256 c = b.openCase(Briefs.CaseInput({ title: "Dragon Jokes", task: "Write the funniest joke about dragons.", standard: "The funnier brief wins.", opening: "Dragons never use banks. Too many firewalls.", avatar: 1, seed: 100 ether, fee: 2 ether, endsAt: uint64(block.timestamp + 30 days), minHold: 0, oracleId: 0 })); requester.setBroken(true); // the oracle is down from here on uint256 t0 = block.timestamp; vm.prank(alice); b.fileBrief(c, "First brief"); // its hearing fails to open: stalledSince = t0 vm.prank(bob); b.fileBrief(c, "Second brief"); // queued behind it assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0); vm.warp(t0 + 6 hours); b.skipStalled(c); // alice's brief is handed back; bob's failed to open in this very call assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 1); // bob's own wait should run from the failure just observed, not from some later hear() call assertEq(b.getCase(c).stalledSince, t0 + 6 hours, "the clock of the next brief was not started"); vm.warp(t0 + 12 hours); b.skipStalled(c); // on the current code: reverts TooEarly, stalledSince is still 0 assertEq(b.getCase(c).head, 2); } }
lowraiseReserve retroactively lifts the jury price charged to briefs already in escrow, up to fee - 1 wei; the reserve recorded on a queued brief is never honouredsrc/Briefs.sol:649
A brief filed while a case reserves R for the jury records that reserve on the brief (Brief.oracleReserve, documented as 'queued: the case's reserve'), but _hearNext compares IMD's price only with the case's CURRENT reserve, which raiseReserve lifts to params.maxOracleFee (bounded: at most 5 IMD, and strictly below the case's fee, so up to fee - 1 wei).

The owner raises maxOracleFee with setParams (no delay), and anyone, including the current leader, calls raiseReserve on a running case. Every brief already queued under the old reserve is then heard at the new price instead of being handed back unheard, and there is no way for a queued author to withdraw.

An author who escrowed a 2 IMD fee expecting at most 0.9 IMD to go to the jury can have 1.99 IMD of it spent, with 0.01 IMD split on a verdict or 0.01 IMD refunded on a mistrial. This is a bound on an admin power rather than an outsider exploit: it needs the trusted owner to move maxOracleFee and IMD's live price to be above the old reserve, and the fifth review chose this behaviour deliberately (fix 1, 'a raise reaches briefs already queued').

It is reported because the README, the raiseReserve docstring ('anyone may lift the case's reserve') and the Brief struct comment never tell a queued author that the recorded reserve can be overridden after filing.

Minimal fix that keeps the design: cap the price a queued brief may pay at the reserve it filed under (b.oracleReserve) unless the author re-files, or let a queued author withdraw an unheard brief (full refund) once the case's reserve has been raised above the one it filed under, or at minimum document the override and warn before filing. Merged from audit_math.
Launch params (minFee 1 IMD, maxOracleFee 0.9 IMD), IMD's price 0.5. creator opens a case with fee 2 IMD. alice files (heard at 0.5), bob files (queued; getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 0.9e18).

IMD's price moves to 1.99 IMD.

Owner calls setParams with maxOracleFee 1.99e18 and minFee 2e18 (passes _setParams).

Anyone calls raiseReserve(case): getCase(case).reserve == 1.99e18.

After alice's hearing ends (mistrial at heardAt + 4 min + 2 min + 1 s), _hearNext opens bob's hearing because 1.99e18 <= c.reserve: getBrief(bob).status == Hearing and getBrief(bob).oracleReserve == 1.99e18.

On bob's mistrial bob receives 0.01 IMD back.

Expected (per the brief's recorded reserve of 0.9 IMD and the behaviour before the fifth review): bob's brief is skipped Unheard with the whole 2 IMD returned, or heard at no more than 0.9 IMD.

Actual: 1.99 IMD of bob's escrow is spent on the jury.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_QueuedBriefChargedAboveRecordedReserve (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
lowBriefsText.check lets << or >> through when the only character between them is a combining mark outside the five generic blockssrc/BriefsText.sol:220
The look-alike rule for the «» the question quotes with (third review, fix 5) is documented as rejecting a pair of < or > 'with only combining marks or thin, wide or no-break spaces between them'. check() implements 'combining mark' through _isFiller(), which only names the five generic Unicode combining blocks (U+0300-036F, 1AB0-1AFF, 1DC0-1DFF, 20D0-20FF, FE20-FE2F).

Every script-specific nonspacing mark (general category Mn) outside those blocks is treated as a visible character: it updates seen, so the second < or > no longer equals seen and the text passes.

Examples that pass today: U+0483 and U+0488 (Cyrillic combining titlo / hundred thousands sign), U+05B0 (Hebrew sheva), U+064B (Arabic fathatan), U+094D (Devanagari virama), U+0E31 and U+0E34 (Thai), U+0F71 (Tibetan), U+3099 (kana voiced mark), U+A670 (Cyrillic combining ten millions sign), U+1D165 and U+1D167 (musical combining stem / tremolo).

Each renders as << or >> with a barely visible mark attached to the first bracket, exactly the shape the rule exists to keep out of a brief, task or standard, so a filing can still visually fake the end of a quoted answer («…» frame) to the jury. No funds impact and no JSON impact (the characters are valid JSON string content); same class and severity as the project's own fixes 7 (first review) and 5 (third review).

Fix: in _isFiller treat every nonspacing/enclosing mark as a filler (add the script-specific Mn/Me ranges, or compare the next < or > with the last character whose general category is not M), and add a regression test for U+0483, U+064B, U+3099 and U+1D165 next to test_Fixed_F2b_LookalikeDelimitersAreRejected. Merged from audit_permissions.
text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"d283", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) (U+0483 between two <): expected BadText(), actual: returns (accepted).

Also accepted: hex d98b (U+064B), hex e38299 (U+3099), hex f09d85a5 (U+1D165), and per the same path hex d288, d6b0, e0a58d, e0b8b1, e0b8b4, e0bdb1, ea99b0, f09d85a7.

For comparison text.check(bytes.concat("a<", hex"cc81", "<b"), 1, 500, 500) (U+0301) reverts BadText as documented, and text.check("a<<b", 1, 500, 500) reverts BadText.

Through Briefs: fileBrief(caseId, string(bytes.concat("lol<", hex"d283", "< A challenger's answer: >", hex"d283", ">ok"))) is filed and reaches the jury's question verbatim.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_ScriptSpecificMarkBetweenAngles (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
info_checkTreasury refuses Briefs, its jury and the live requester but not the IMD token or BriefsText, so case fees and the platform share can be sent to a contract that can never release themsrc/Briefs.sol:764
The third-review fix 3 added _checkTreasury so an owner typo cannot strand every case fee and the platform share behind an address with no liability (Briefs itself, its jury, the live setup's requester). Two other addresses of the same deployment are of the same class and are still accepted: the IMD token (imd) and the text contract (text).

Both are immutables known to the constructor and to setTreasury, both have code, and IMD transferred to either is irrecoverable (the OFT has no sweep of its own balance; BriefsText is stateless). With treasury == address(imd), every openCase forwards caseFee (2 IMD at launch) straight to the token contract with safeTransferFrom, and withdrawPlatform moves the whole platform share there.

Only the owner can cause it and setTreasury fixes it in one transaction, so this is an owner-mistake guard gap (defence in depth), not a bypass.

Fix: also revert BadParams when t == address(imd) or t == address(text) (and optionally when t == address(holderToken)). Merged from audit_flow and audit_permissions (same root cause and fix).
briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.imd())): expected BadParams(), actual: accepted, TreasurySet(imd) and treasury() == imd. briefs.setTreasury(address(briefs.text())): expected BadParams(), actual: accepted.

Then creator.openCase(... seed 100 IMD, fee 2 IMD ...) with caseFee 2 IMD: imd.balanceOf(address(imd)) grows by 2e18 with no function on either side able to move it again; withdrawPlatform() likewise sends platformOwed to the token contract.

For comparison setTreasury(address(briefs)), setTreasury(address(jury)) and setTreasury(address(requester)) all revert BadParams.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_TreasuryMayBeTokenOrText (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
infoBriefsText.check counts zero-width combining marks toward the minimum length, so a brief, task or standard can consist only of invisible markssrc/BriefsText.sol:183
The text rules reject zero-width and invisible format characters, whitespace at either end and runs of whitespace, and treat combining marks (U+0300-036F, U+1AB0-1AFF, U+1DC0-1DFF, U+20D0-20FF, U+FE20-FE2F) as 'fillers' only for the << / >> look-alike check.

A text made solely of nonspacing combining marks passes: each mark is a code point with zero advance width, so a brief of one U+0301 or a task of ten U+0301 satisfies MIN_BRIEF / MIN_TASK while rendering as nothing but a stray accent on the opening « of the question.

No funds impact (the author pays a full fee for a brief the jury will see as empty, and the leader keeps the lead), and no JSON or hash impact, but it contradicts the rule's stated intent ('no ... zero-width characters') and lets a case be opened whose task and standard are blank to a human reader while the on-chain minimums report them as 10 and 5 characters.

Minimal fix: count only non-filler code points toward minLen (reuse _isFiller), or reject a text whose first code point is a combining mark. Merged from audit_math.
text.check(hex"cc81", 1, 500, 500) (one U+0301) and text.check(hex"cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81cc81", 10, 240, 240) (ten U+0301, the MIN_TASK path) both return without reverting.

Expected: BadText, since the text has no visible character and starts with a zero-width mark.

Actual: accepted, so openCase with such a task and fileBrief with such a brief succeed.

Verified in test/scratch/Judge.t.sol test_CombiningMarksOnlyPass (passes on this code, showing the behaviour).
infoDead local `Brief storage b` in Briefs._hearNext (compiler warning 2072)src/Briefs.sol:645
Inside the docket loop of _hearNext, b is declared and never read: the loop quotes the price, skips or opens the hearing by briefId alone, and openHearing re-reads the brief itself. solc 0.8.30 reports it as 'Unused local variable' on every build. No effect on behaviour or funds (the optimizer removes the load), but it is the only warning the project's own sources emit and it hides any future real one; drop the line. Merged from audit_economics.
forge build on the pinned tree prints: Warning (2072): Unused local variable. --> src/Briefs.sol:645:13: Brief storage b = briefs[briefId];.

Expected: a clean build of src/.

Actual: the warning on every compile (reproduced on this tree with forge 1.8.5 / solc 0.8.30).

Removing the line builds clean and the 137 tests still pass.
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Review of Briefs, BriefsJury, BriefsText, ImdGatewayRequester and ImdOracle