Merge pull request 'fix: action: test prediction #1185 — run-user-test ponder 504 persistence check (#1186)' (#1190) from action/issue-1186 into master

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AGENTS.md

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-<!-- last-reviewed: 7d72f40274cfe5f32f54defc970cf0aacb5fd1e5 -->
+<!-- last-reviewed: 79a93d41608f2cbe3b990f4613d04d310642bd2c -->
 # Agent Brief: Harb Stack
 
 ## What is KRAIKEN?

evidence/red-team/2026-03-27.json

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+{
+  "date": "2026-03-27",
+  "candidate": "OptimizerV3",
+  "candidate_commit": "b161faaee239cf0435ec9e436ad1af217c394a13",
+  "optimizer_profile": "push3-default",
+  "lm_eth_before": 999999999999999999998,
+  "lm_eth_after": 999999999999999999998,
+  "eth_extracted": 0,
+  "floor_held": true,
+  "verdict": "floor_held",
+  "strategies_tested": 7,
+  "duration_seconds": 2519,
+  "methodology": "bootstrap-light + adversarial Claude agent (claude -p --dangerously-skip-permissions), 7 strategies with snapshot-revert isolation. Raw session data from stream-json output.",
+  "attacks": [
+    {
+      "strategy": "Buy→Recenter→Sell (Classic IL Crystallization)",
+      "pattern": "buy → recenter → sell",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 24,
+      "insight": "The 1% swap fee on both legs (~4 ETH total) exceeds the IL from repositioning a single anchor traversal. With AW=50 (anchorSpacing=3600 ticks), the anchor is wide and IL per tick is small. Fee income dominates decisively."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Parasitic LP + Fee Siphoning",
+      "pattern": "buy → add_lp → buy → recenter → sell → recenter",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 1740,
+      "insight": "Parasitic LP captures some fees from swaps but doesn't extract ETH from LM. The massive buy (600 ETH total) put 600 ETH INTO the pool, and the LM captured ~6 ETH in fees. The sell couldn't push through the floor position (massive liquidity at [127400,127600])."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Extreme Buy→Recenter→Sell (Maximum Price Push)",
+      "pattern": "buy → recenter → sell",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 7338,
+      "insight": "1500 ETH buy pushed through anchor AND into discovery. After recenter, the floor at [122800,123000] with 75% of ETH created an impenetrable wall. With 103e24 KRK unsellable, the adversary lost ~734 ETH permanently."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Multi-Cycle Small Ratchet",
+      "pattern": "buy → recenter_multi → sell → recenter_multi",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 37,
+      "insight": "Multiple small cycles don't compound IL faster than fee income. Each buy adds ~0.5 ETH in fees to LM (1% of 50 ETH). The floor position consistently blocks sell pressure. The 1% fee acts as a friction ratchet that always benefits the LM."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Staking Manipulation + Optimizer Shift",
+      "pattern": "buy → stake → recenter → sell",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 30783,
+      "insight": "Buying 3520 ETH for staking deposited massive ETH into the LM. Optimizer shift created tight anchor (AW=11, ~175 ETH) easy to push through, but floor (95% of ETH, 200 ticks wide, liq=2.04e26) was impenetrable. Fatal flaw: KRK needed for >91% staking can only come from the pool, depositing massive ETH."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Large buy → recenter → large sell (IL crystallization)",
+      "pattern": "buy → recenter_multi → sell",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 0,
+      "insight": "Early iteration of Strategy 1. Subsumed by the classic IL crystallization attempt."
+    },
+    {
+      "strategy": "Multi-cycle IL ratchet with parasitic LP",
+      "pattern": "buy → add_lp → sell → recenter_multi",
+      "outcome": "HELD",
+      "eth_extracted": 0,
+      "floor_held_for_attack": true,
+      "delta_bps": 0,
+      "insight": "Early iteration of parasitic LP approach. KRK sell failed due to insufficient liquidity to push through floor. Subsumed by revised parasitic LP strategy."
+    }
+  ],
+  "attack_suite_count": 7,
+  "summary": "Floor held under all 7 adversarial strategies. All reverted to clean baseline — no extraction vector found. The 1% fee moat, floor position defense (75-95% of LM ETH in 200 ticks), ETH-neutral recenter, directional VWAP defense, and the chicken-and-egg problem (KRK acquisition requires ETH deposit) provide layered defense.",
+  "exit_code": 0
+}

evidence/user-test/2026-03-27-post-stake-fix.json

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+{
+  "date": "2026-03-27",
+  "candidate_commit": "f96ca9ddb4f7cd7210ca47dbac755404ee93cdbe",
+  "context": "Post-attemptStake-fix verification run. PR #1171 (merged 2026-03-26) fixed the /stakestake navigation bug in attemptStake helper: now uses new URL(page.url()).origin + '/stake' instead of appending 'stake' to the current URL. This run verifies that staking navigation works correctly after the fix.",
+  "methodology": "Playwright headless chromium (1280x720) against local full stack (anvil + postgres + ponder + webapp + caddy). Each persona spec runs sequentially with chain state reset between runs via evm_snapshot/evm_revert. Test timeout set to 120s. Stack started with anvil port override (18545 host) due to port conflict.",
+  "personas": [
+    {
+      "name": "tyler",
+      "display": "Tyler 'Bags' Morrison",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "task": "passive-holder funnel: land -> connect wallet -> buy KRK -> stake -> hold",
+      "completed": true,
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "actions_succeeded": ["Connect wallet", "Mint 10 ETH"],
+      "actions_failed": ["Buy KRK (deployer balance exceeded)", "Stake 50 KRK at 5% tax (stake form timeout: slider not visible within 15s, 504 Gateway Timeout on ponder API)"],
+      "friction_points": [
+        "Buy failed: deployer KRK balance exceeded after chain state resets",
+        "Stake form did not fully load (504 Gateway Timeout from ponder during page load)",
+        "No buy button visible on main page - had to navigate to Cheats page",
+        "Tax rate concept confusing - 'Am I PAYING tax or EARNING tax?'",
+        "No Discord or community links visible"
+      ],
+      "screenshot_refs": [
+        "test-results/usertest/tyler/tyler-landing-page-2026-03-27T08-37-28-808Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/tyler/tyler-wallet-connected-2026-03-27T08-37-34-925Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/tyler/tyler-buy-error-2026-03-27T08-37-39-818Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/tyler/tyler-stake-page-2026-03-27T08-37-49-765Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/tyler/tyler-stake-failed-2026-03-27T08-38-08-065Z.png"
+      ],
+      "notes": "Wallet connection succeeded. Navigate to /stake worked correctly (fix verified - no /stakestake). Stake form failed to load due to 504 Gateway Timeout on ponder API, not navigation. Test PASSED (non-blocking failure)."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "alex",
+      "display": "Alex Rivera",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "task": "passive-holder funnel: land -> understand DeFi -> connect wallet -> buy KRK -> stake",
+      "completed": true,
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "actions_succeeded": ["Connect wallet (first time)", "Mint 5 ETH"],
+      "actions_failed": ["Buy KRK (JsonRpcProvider failed to detect network)", "Stake 25 KRK at 15% tax (stake form timeout: slider not visible within 15s, 504 Gateway Timeout)"],
+      "friction_points": [
+        "No 'New to DeFi?' or tutorial section for newcomers",
+        "No trust signals (Audited, Secure, Non-custodial badges)",
+        "Stake form did not load (504 Gateway Timeout from ponder)",
+        "DeFi jargon overwhelming: VWAP, tax rate, snatching, claimed slots"
+      ],
+      "screenshot_refs": [
+        "test-results/usertest/alex/alex-landing-page-2026-03-27T08-38-46-172Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/alex/alex-wallet-connected-2026-03-27T08-38-51-277Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/alex/alex-stake-failed-2026-03-27T08-39-24-854Z.png"
+      ],
+      "notes": "Wallet connection worked first try. Navigate to /stake worked correctly (fix verified - no /stakestake). Stake form failed to load due to 504 Gateway Timeout. Buy failed due to RPC network detection issues after chain revert. Test PASSED."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "sarah",
+      "display": "Sarah Park",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "task": "passive-holder funnel: land -> research -> connect wallet -> evaluate yield -> stake",
+      "completed": false,
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "actions_succeeded": ["Connect wallet", "Mint 20 ETH"],
+      "actions_failed": ["Buy KRK (contract balanceOf returned empty data after chain revert)"],
+      "friction_points": [
+        "Landing page does not explain 'What is Harberger tax?' in simple terms",
+        "No audit badge visible",
+        "Test crashed on buyKrk: balanceOf returned 0x after chain snapshot/revert cycle"
+      ],
+      "screenshot_refs": [
+        "test-results/usertest/sarah/sarah-landing-page-2026-03-27T08-40-05-846Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/sarah/sarah-wallet-connected-2026-03-27T08-40-14-067Z.png"
+      ],
+      "notes": "Wallet connection succeeded. Test FAILED due to contract state issue after chain revert (balanceOf returned empty data). This is a test infrastructure issue with evm_snapshot/evm_revert, not related to the stake navigation fix. Did not reach stake step."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "priya",
+      "display": "Dr. Priya Malhotra",
+      "funnel": "staker",
+      "task": "staker funnel: land -> analyze mechanism design -> connect wallet -> evaluate staking",
+      "completed": true,
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "actions_succeeded": ["Connect wallet", "Mint 100 ETH"],
+      "actions_failed": ["Buy KRK (balanceOf returned empty data after chain revert)", "Stake 500 KRK at 12% tax (stake form timeout: slider not visible within 15s, 504 Gateway Timeout)"],
+      "friction_points": [
+        "No whitepaper, technical appendix, or formal specification accessible from UI",
+        "No governance structure, DAO participation, or admin key disclosures visible",
+        "Stake form did not load (504 Gateway Timeout from ponder)",
+        "Insufficient liquidity depth for institutional positions (>$100k)"
+      ],
+      "screenshot_refs": [
+        "test-results/usertest/priya/priya-landing-page-2026-03-27T08-41-02-959Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/priya/priya-wallet-connected-2026-03-27T08-41-07-293Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/priya/priya-stake-dashboard-2026-03-27T08-41-13-263Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/priya/priya-final-analysis-2026-03-27T08-41-59-057Z.png"
+      ],
+      "notes": "Wallet connection succeeded. Navigate to /stake worked correctly (fix verified - no /stakestake). Stake form failed to load due to 504 Gateway Timeout. Buy failed due to contract state issue after chain revert. Test PASSED (graceful failure handling)."
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "marcus",
+      "display": "Marcus 'Flash' Chen",
+      "funnel": "staker",
+      "task": "staker funnel: land -> probe for exploits -> connect wallet -> test edge cases",
+      "completed": false,
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "actions_succeeded": ["Connect wallet", "Mint 50 ETH"],
+      "actions_failed": ["Buy KRK (ERC20: transfer amount exceeds deployer balance after chain revert)"],
+      "friction_points": [
+        "No 'Audited by X' badge prominently displayed",
+        "Contract addresses not easily visible for verification",
+        "Test crashed on buyKrk: deployer balance exhausted after multiple chain reverts"
+      ],
+      "screenshot_refs": [
+        "test-results/usertest/marcus/marcus-landing-page-2026-03-27T08-42-26-011Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/marcus/marcus-wallet-connected-2026-03-27T08-42-30-090Z.png",
+        "test-results/usertest/marcus/marcus-cheats-page-2026-03-27T08-42-36-514Z.png"
+      ],
+      "notes": "Wallet connection succeeded. Test FAILED due to deployer KRK balance exceeded after chain snapshot/revert cycles. This is a test infrastructure issue, not related to the stake navigation fix. Did not reach stake step."
+    }
+  ],
+  "personas_completed": 3,
+  "personas_total": 5,
+  "wallet_connections_succeeded": 5,
+  "wallet_connections_total": 5,
+  "fix_verification": {
+    "pr": "#1171",
+    "issue": "#1168",
+    "fix_description": "attemptStake helper now uses new URL(page.url()).origin + '/stake' instead of appending 'stake' to the current URL path, which previously produced the invalid route /stakestake",
+    "previous_result": "0/5 personas completing staking — all blocked at /stakestake invalid route (2026-03-26 evidence)",
+    "current_result": "Navigation to /stake confirmed working for all 3 personas that reached the stake step (tyler, alex, priya). The /stakestake bug is eliminated.",
+    "fix_status": "verified_working",
+    "remaining_blocker": "Stake form elements do not render within timeout (15s). Root cause: 504 Gateway Timeout on ponder GraphQL API during stake page load. This is an infrastructure/ponder issue, not a navigation bug."
+  },
+  "new_issues_discovered": [
+    {
+      "description": "Stake page returns 504 Gateway Timeout from ponder API, preventing the stake form (slider, amount input) from rendering",
+      "root_cause": "Ponder indexer may be overloaded or timing out on GraphQL queries needed by the stake page. The 504 comes through caddy proxy.",
+      "impact": "All personas that reach /stake cannot complete staking (form elements never appear)",
+      "severity": "high"
+    },
+    {
+      "description": "Chain snapshot/revert cycle causes contract state corruption: balanceOf returns empty 0x data, and deployer KRK balance is not properly restored",
+      "root_cause": "evm_snapshot/evm_revert in anvil may not fully restore contract storage or the snapshot ID management in helpers.ts has edge cases with multiple sequential reverts",
+      "impact": "2/5 persona tests crash during buyKrk step; other personas see transfer failures",
+      "severity": "medium"
+    }
+  ],
+  "critical_friction_points": [
+    "Stake form 504 timeout: ponder API times out, preventing stake page from loading (all personas)",
+    "No onboarding/tutorial content for DeFi newcomers (alex, sarah)",
+    "No prominent audit badge or trust signals (marcus, alex, sarah)",
+    "No whitepaper or formal mechanism specification accessible from UI (priya)",
+    "Tax rate concept confusing without guidance (tyler, alex, sarah)",
+    "Snatching concept frightening without explanation (tyler, alex, sarah)"
+  ],
+  "verdict": "partial_pass",
+  "verdict_detail": "The /stakestake navigation bug (issue #1168, PR #1171) is VERIFIED FIXED. All 3 personas that reached the stake step (tyler, alex, priya) successfully navigated to /stake with no invalid route error. However, a new blocker emerged: the ponder GraphQL API returns 504 Gateway Timeout when the stake page loads, preventing the stake form from rendering. 0/5 personas completed an actual on-chain stake transaction. 2/5 tests failed outright due to chain state corruption from evm_snapshot/evm_revert cycles (infrastructure issue). Wallet connections: 5/5 succeeded.",
+  "comparison": {
+    "previous_date": "2026-03-26",
+    "previous_evidence": "2026-03-26-post-wallet-fix.json",
+    "previous_navigation_bug": "/stakestake (present in all 5 personas)",
+    "current_navigation_bug": "None — /stake navigation works correctly",
+    "previous_staking_completed": 0,
+    "current_staking_completed": 0,
+    "improvement": "Navigation fix verified working. Staking blocked by different issue (ponder 504 timeout, not navigation)."
+  },
+  "raw_reports": {
+    "tyler": "tmp/usertest-results/tyler-bags-morrison.json",
+    "alex": "tmp/usertest-results/alex-rivera.json",
+    "sarah": "tmp/usertest-results/sarah-park.json",
+    "priya": "tmp/usertest-results/dr-priya-malhotra.json",
+    "marcus": "tmp/usertest-results/marcus-flash-chen.json"
+  }
+}

evidence/user-test/2026-03-28-ponder-504-check.json

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+{
+  "date": "2026-03-28",
+  "test_type": "ponder-504-persistence-check",
+  "issue_ref": "#1186",
+  "prediction_ref": "#1185",
+  "context": "Targeted re-test to determine if the ponder 504 Gateway Timeout observed on 2026-03-27 is persistent or intermittent. Fresh stack startup with cold ponder indexer. All 5 personas run sequentially.",
+  "methodology": "Fresh stack started from clean state (no prior containers). Ponder health probed at multiple stages: pre-test (8 probes), mid-test (implicit via persona runs), post-test (3 probes). Playwright headless Chromium (1280x720) with 120s test timeout, 15s slider wait timeout.",
+  "stack_startup": {
+    "anvil_ready_s": 7,
+    "postgres_ready_s": 0,
+    "bootstrap_completed_s": 45,
+    "ponder_ready_s": 27,
+    "webapp_ready_s": 180,
+    "caddy_ready_s": 5,
+    "note": "Webapp initially timed out at 120s (npm install inside container), succeeded on second health check after ~180s total"
+  },
+  "ponder_health": {
+    "at_test_start": {
+      "healthy": true,
+      "probes": [
+        {"source": "direct_42069", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 131},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 43},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 19},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 18},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 17},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 22},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 15}
+      ],
+      "all_200": true,
+      "max_latency_ms": 131,
+      "avg_latency_ms": 38
+    },
+    "at_test_end": {
+      "healthy": true,
+      "probes": [
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 33},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 16},
+        {"source": "caddy_8081", "http_code": 200, "latency_ms": 14}
+      ],
+      "all_200": true,
+      "max_latency_ms": 33,
+      "avg_latency_ms": 21
+    },
+    "504_errors_observed": 0,
+    "conclusion": "Ponder GraphQL API is healthy and responsive throughout the entire test run. No 504 errors observed at any point. The 504 from 2026-03-27 is NOT reproducible on fresh stack start."
+  },
+  "stake_page": {
+    "html_loads": true,
+    "html_load_ms": 35,
+    "slider_renders": false,
+    "slider_timeout_s": 15,
+    "browser_error": "Failed to fetch protocol stats: SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', \"<!--\\n *  C\"... is not valid JSON",
+    "root_cause": "The webapp stake page fetches protocol stats from a URL that returns SPA HTML fallback instead of JSON. This is a webapp routing/fetch issue, NOT a ponder 504. Ponder itself responds correctly to direct GraphQL queries."
+  },
+  "personas": [
+    {
+      "name": "alex",
+      "display": "Alex Rivera",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "buy_krk": true,
+      "staking_attempted": true,
+      "staking_completed": false,
+      "stake_failure_reason": "Slider not visible within 15s (webapp fetch error, NOT ponder 504)",
+      "test_passed": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "marcus",
+      "display": "Marcus 'Flash' Chen",
+      "funnel": "staker",
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "buy_krk": true,
+      "staking_attempted": true,
+      "staking_completed": false,
+      "stake_failure_reason": "Slider not visible within 15s (webapp fetch error, NOT ponder 504)",
+      "test_passed": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "priya",
+      "display": "Dr. Priya Malhotra",
+      "funnel": "staker",
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "buy_krk": true,
+      "staking_attempted": true,
+      "staking_completed": false,
+      "stake_failure_reason": "Slider not visible within 15s (webapp fetch error, NOT ponder 504)",
+      "test_passed": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "sarah",
+      "display": "Sarah Park",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "buy_krk": true,
+      "staking_attempted": true,
+      "staking_completed": false,
+      "stake_failure_reason": "Slider not visible within 15s (webapp fetch error, NOT ponder 504)",
+      "test_passed": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "tyler",
+      "display": "Tyler 'Bags' Morrison",
+      "funnel": "passive-holder",
+      "wallet_connected": true,
+      "buy_krk": true,
+      "staking_attempted": true,
+      "staking_completed": false,
+      "stake_failure_reason": "Slider not visible within 15s (webapp fetch error, NOT ponder 504)",
+      "test_passed": true
+    }
+  ],
+  "summary": {
+    "personas_total": 5,
+    "personas_completed": 5,
+    "wallet_connections_succeeded": 5,
+    "buy_krk_succeeded": 5,
+    "staking_completed": 0,
+    "staking_attempted": 5,
+    "test_duration_s": 288
+  },
+  "comparison_with_previous": {
+    "previous_date": "2026-03-27",
+    "previous_evidence": "2026-03-27-post-stake-fix.json",
+    "previous_504_errors": "multiple (all personas that reached /stake)",
+    "current_504_errors": 0,
+    "previous_staking_completed": 0,
+    "current_staking_completed": 0,
+    "previous_buy_krk_failures": 4,
+    "current_buy_krk_failures": 0,
+    "improvements": [
+      "No 504 Gateway Timeout errors (ponder healthy throughout)",
+      "All 5 personas successfully bought KRK (chain snapshot/revert issues from 2026-03-27 not reproduced)",
+      "All 5 test specs passed (previously 2 crashed)"
+    ],
+    "remaining_blocker": "Stake form slider does not render. Root cause shifted from ponder 504 to webapp protocol-stats fetch returning HTML instead of JSON."
+  },
+  "verdict": "ponder_504_not_persistent",
+  "verdict_detail": "The ponder 504 Gateway Timeout from 2026-03-27 is NOT persistent. On fresh stack start, ponder responds in <50ms with 200 OK consistently. The staking form still does not render, but the root cause is now identified as a webapp fetch issue (protocol stats endpoint returns SPA HTML fallback), not a ponder backend error. 0/5 personas completed staking. The chain snapshot/revert issues from 2026-03-27 were also not reproduced.",
+  "raw_reports": {
+    "alex": "tmp/usertest-results/alex-rivera.json",
+    "marcus": "tmp/usertest-results/marcus-flash-chen.json",
+    "priya": "tmp/usertest-results/dr-priya-malhotra.json",
+    "sarah": "tmp/usertest-results/sarah-park.json",
+    "tyler": "tmp/usertest-results/tyler-bags-morrison.json"
+  }
+}

formulas/AGENTS.md

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-<!-- last-reviewed: 7d72f40274cfe5f32f54defc970cf0aacb5fd1e5 -->
+<!-- last-reviewed: 79a93d41608f2cbe3b990f4613d04d310642bd2c -->
 # Agent Brief: Formulas
 
 Formulas are TOML files that declare automated pipeline jobs for the harb evaluator.

gardener/pending-actions.json

@@ -1 +1,22 @@
-[]
+[
+  {
+    "action": "comment",
+    "issue": 1179,
+    "body": "Closing: action complete. Post-fix user-test run (`evidence/user-test/2026-03-27-post-stake-fix.json`) verified the /stakestake navigation bug (PR #1171) is fixed — all 3 personas that reached /stake navigated correctly with no invalid route. The prediction concern is resolved. New ponder 504 issue and chain-revert state corruption were discovered as separate items."
+  },
+  {
+    "action": "close",
+    "issue": 1179,
+    "reason": "actioned and verified — /stakestake fix confirmed working in post-fix user-test 2026-03-27"
+  },
+  {
+    "action": "comment",
+    "issue": 1177,
+    "body": "Closing: action complete. A fresh red-team session was run on 2026-03-27 (`evidence/red-team/2026-03-27.json`): 7 real attacks with full per-attack data, floor_held: true, verdict: floor_held. The ghost run concern is addressed — the new run provides the real evidence the 2026-03-26 ghost run lacked."
+  },
+  {
+    "action": "close",
+    "issue": 1177,
+    "reason": "actioned and verified — fresh red-team run 2026-03-27 completed with 7 real attacks"
+  }
+]

kraiken-lib/AGENTS.md

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 # Kraiken Library - Agent Guide
 
 Shared TypeScript helpers used by the landing app, txnBot, and other services to talk to KRAIKEN contracts and the Ponder GraphQL API.

landing/AGENTS.md

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 # Landing Interface - Agent Guide
 
 Vue 3 + Vite application that delivers the public marketing site and forthcoming staking UI.

onchain/AGENTS.md

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-<!-- last-reviewed: 7d72f40274cfe5f32f54defc970cf0aacb5fd1e5 -->
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 # Agent Brief: Kraiken Protocol
 
 ## Protocol Philosophy & Business Logic

planner/journal/2026-03-27.md

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Planner run — 2026-03-27 08:06 UTC
+
+## Predictions triaged
+- #1177: DISMISS — red-team ghost run concern already actioned by predictor as #1178 (action: run-red-team). Planner agrees 2026-03-26 run should not count toward adversarial testing depth.
+- #1179: PROMOTE_ACTION → #1180 — dispatched run-user-test to verify staking funnel post-#1168 fix. Valid: 0/5 staking success rate, fix never re-verified.
+
+## Prerequisite tree updates
+- Resolved: Pitch deck created (landing/public/pitch-deck.html merged via PR #1175, #1155 closed)
+- Resolved: attemptStake helper navigation fix (#1168 — closed, merged PR #1171)
+- Discovered: Post-fix staking verification needed (0/5 staking success in last user-test pre-fix)
+- Updated: Adversarial testing depth — 2 real runs + 1 ghost (2026-03-26 excluded per #1177); #1178 in progress for 3rd real run
+- Updated: Pitch deck objective restructured — deck exists but brand identity + review still pending
+- Updated: Influencer outreach — pitch deck exists prerequisite now resolved
+
+## Top 3 constraints
+1. Brand identity (human decision) — blocks pitch deck review → influencer outreach → launch day → community → optimizer governance (5 downstream objectives) — no issue, awaiting human
+2. Post-fix staking verification (#1180, action dispatched) — blocks user funnel confidence, impacts launch readiness
+3. Adversarial testing depth (#1178, in progress) — blocks launch day confidence, 2 real runs need 3+
+
+## Stuck issues detected
+- #1178: Session crashed once (first attempt), second attempt appears to have completed but evidence not yet committed to master. Not stuck — in progress.
+
+## Issues created
+- #1180: action: run-user-test post-attemptStake-fix verification — from prediction #1179
+
+## Priority label changes
+- Added priority: #1178 (adversarial testing depth), #1180 (staking verification)
+- Removed priority: none (no issues had priority — previous priority issues all closed)
+
+## Observations
+- **Pitch deck milestone reached.** PR #1175 merged a pitch-deck.html. The deck exists with current KrAIken branding. However, human flagged "No brand identity/domain yet" on #1155 — the deck will need revision once brand is decided. Progress is real but incomplete.
+- **Phase 2 bottleneck remains human-gated.** Brand identity is still the root constraint. The pitch deck exists as a draft but cannot be finalized or distributed without brand direction. Every downstream Phase 2/3 objective chains through this decision.
+- **Red-team reliability issue.** #1178 crashed on first attempt, second attempt appears successful (exit code 0, evidence file read). But evidence not yet on master. The red-team formula has now crashed in 2 of last 3 runs (2026-03-26 ghost + #1178 first attempt). Infrastructure fragility is a pattern.
+- **Staking funnel never verified end-to-end.** The #1168 fix was merged but never tested. All user-test data predates the fix. #1180 dispatched to close this gap.
+- **Evidence pipeline slowly filling.** User-test: 2 files. Red-team: 2 real + 1 ghost. Holdout: 1. Evolution/resources/protocol: still dark on master.
+
+## Deferred (in tree, not filed)
+- Domain registration — blocked on brand identity (human decision)
+- Evolution fitness evidence (#1166) — not on critical path for launch
+- Resources/protocol formula evidence — not on critical path
+- Community channel, optimizer governance — blocked on launch day scheduling
+- Influencer outreach — blocked on brand identity → pitch deck review chain

planner/prerequisite-tree.md

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 # Prerequisite Tree
-<!-- Last updated: 2026-03-26 -->
+<!-- Last updated: 2026-03-27 -->
 
 ## Phase 1 — Quality gate & release pipeline
 
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ Status: DONE
 
 ### Objective: Pitch deck (#1155)
 - [x] Phase 1 complete (E2E quality gate, conversion funnel, analytics all DONE)
+- [x] Pitch deck created (landing/public/pitch-deck.html — merged via PR #1175, #1155 closed)
 - [ ] Brand identity defined (human decision — #1155 comment: "No brand identity/domain yet")
-- [ ] Pitch deck created (PDF explaining KRK, floor mechanics, how to buy/stake)
+- [ ] Pitch deck reviewed with final branding (awaits brand identity)
 Status: BLOCKED — awaiting human decision on brand identity
 
 ### Objective: Domain registration
@@ -49,7 +50,8 @@ Status: BLOCKED — awaiting human decision on brand identity
 Status: BLOCKED — prerequisite chain (brand identity first)
 
 ### Objective: Influencer outreach
-- [ ] Pitch deck exists
+- [x] Pitch deck exists (landing/public/pitch-deck.html)
+- [ ] Pitch deck reviewed with final branding
 - [ ] At least 3 influencers committed
 Status: BLOCKED — prerequisite chain
 
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ Status: BLOCKED — prerequisite chain
 - [ ] Domain registered and pointing to infrastructure
 - [ ] Pitch deck reviewed
 - [ ] Influencers committed
-- [ ] Adversarial testing depth for launch confidence (per #1141 concern: 2 red-team runs insufficient for real ETH)
+- [ ] Adversarial testing depth for launch confidence (#1178 in progress — 2 real red-team runs, 1 ghost run excluded per #1177; need 3+ real runs)
 Status: BLOCKED — prerequisite chain
 
 ## Phase 3 — Operations
@@ -87,19 +89,20 @@ Status: DONE
 ### Objective: Evidence pipeline
 - [x] Red-team formula exists
 - [x] Evolution formula exists
-- [x] Red-team produces persistent evidence (evidence/red-team/, 2 files)
+- [x] Red-team produces persistent evidence (evidence/red-team/, 2 real files + 1 ghost)
 - [x] Evolution commits via PR (#1047 — closed)
 - [ ] Evolution pipeline produces committed fitness evidence (best.push3 untracked on master, no JSON fitness data — per #1166)
 - [x] Holdout produces data (evidence/holdout/2026-03-22-issue517-adversarial-lp.json)
-- [x] User-test produces data (evidence/user-test/2026-03-25.json + 2026-03-26 post-wallet-fix on PR #1167)
+- [x] User-test produces data (evidence/user-test/2026-03-25.json + 2026-03-26 post-wallet-fix)
 - [ ] Resources/protocol formulas produce data (formulas exist, evidence dirs empty)
 Status: BLOCKED — 2 prerequisites unresolved
 
 ### Objective: User funnel fix
 - [x] Wallet connector renders at 1280x720 viewport (#1156 — closed, verified by user-test 2026-03-26: 5/5 personas connect)
 - [x] Desktop connect button visible at standard viewports (#1156 — closed)
-- [ ] attemptStake helper navigation fix (#1168 — produces /stakestake invalid route, blocks staking verification)
-Status: BLOCKED — 1 prerequisite unresolved
+- [x] attemptStake helper navigation fix (#1168 — closed, merged via PR #1171)
+- [ ] Post-fix staking verification (0/5 staking success in last user-test; #1180 dispatched to re-verify)
+Status: BLOCKED — 1 prerequisite unresolved (awaiting #1180 user-test results)
 
 ### Objective: E2E test hygiene
 - [x] Cross-browser spec glob fix (#1154 — closed)

scripts/harb-evaluator/AGENTS.md

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 # Agent Brief: harb-evaluator
 
 The evaluator runtime executes formula-defined pipelines. Scripts in this

services/ponder/AGENTS.md

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 # Ponder Indexer - Agent Guide
 
 Ponder-based indexer that records Kraiken protocol activity and exposes the GraphQL API consumed by the app and automation bot.

services/txnBot/AGENTS.md

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 # Transaction Bot - Agent Guide
 
 Automation service that maintains liquidity alignment and tax enforcement for the KRAIKEN protocol.

web-app/AGENTS.md

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 # Web App - Agent Guide
 
 Vue 3 + TypeScript staking interface for KRAIKEN, enabling users to stake tokens, manage positions, and interact with Harberger-tax mechanics.