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Kgothatso Ngako
dbdff55ee0 feat: open the proposal a transcript line is about, not the room's latest
Tapping a signing line in the transcript opened whichever session the room was
running, resolved by `liveSessionForChatRoom` -- the newest one not yet finished,
or failing that the newest one at all. That is a guess, and it was a good one
exactly as long as a room had one proposal to guess at. With a chapter and its
translation open together, half the lines in the transcript led to the other
proposal.

The line now says which session it belongs to, so there is nothing left to guess:
it carries `frostSigningSessionId` through to the route. A line written before
that column opens the room's proposal list instead, which is the honest answer to
a line that cannot say what it meant -- every proposal with its own state, and
the reader picks -- rather than a guess dressed as an answer.

That empties `FrostSigningRoute.sessionId` of its reason to be optional, so it is
required, and `liveSessionForChatRoom` goes with it from the interface, the
implementation and the no-op. `FrostSigningViewModel` loses its resolution step
and the "This group is not signing anything right now" error underneath it --
which was never the right thing to say to somebody who had just tapped a line
about a specific session.

The transcript keeps doing the one job it is good at: showing a proposal as it
happens, and saying whether it is still asking something of you. What it stops
doing is standing in for a list of them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 12:43:00 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
4de87edf12 fix: tell one proposal's transcript lines from another's
A room with two proposals open showed "Review" on both, and then dropped it from
both the moment either one was decided. The second proposal was still waiting on
the reader, still had a decision in it, and had nowhere left to be reached from.

Two proposals at once is not a corner case any more: a chapter and the
translation scaffolding beside it are proposed as separate sessions, on purpose,
and they run at the same time. Both write the same line types into the same
stretch of transcript.

`answeredRequests` matched a request against any later line of the fulfilling
type, and `settledRequests` against any later ending. That reads a room signing
one thing at a time exactly right -- the nonce after the request is the answer to
it, because there is nothing else it could be an answer to -- and a room signing
two things at once exactly wrong. Nothing else on the row could separate them:
same type, same room, same minute, and `ChatMessage` carried no session.

So the session goes on the row. `ChatMessage.frostSigningSessionId` is nullable,
added as schema v11 through `AutoMigration(10, 11)`, and stamped by
`FrostSigningManager.announce` -- the one place every FROST line is written, so
there is no line that can be forgotten. Both rules read it when both rows have
one and fall back to the clock when either does not.

The fallback is not a compromise, it is the right reading of the rows it applies
to. A line written before this column has no session and never will, and the
rooms that wrote those lines could not run two sessions at once, so the clock is
the whole truth there. A ceremony line falls back too and always will: a room
runs one ritual at a time, and a DKG step is either taken or still waited on.

**This reverses a call `FrostSigningRoute` argued for.** Its note said a chat row
carrying a session id was "a poor trade for a lookup the screen can do". That was
right when the lookup could only be wrong about which of one session it meant.
The batch work made two sessions ordinary, and the lookup and the rules both
became guesses at the same moment. A column on the table every message uses is
the cost; two proposals, one of them unreachable, was the alternative.

**Tests.** Three in TranscriptRequestStateTest for what the column buys: a nonce
answers its own session's request and not the other's, one session completing
settles nothing in the other, and a line naming no session is still read by the
clock. TranslationBatchProposalJvmTest proves the other half against a real
two-session proposal -- every FROST line the manager writes names its own
session, and neither session's lines are attributed to the other. The rule is
tested on rows and the stamping is tested on a database, because a rule that is
right about rows nothing writes correctly is worth nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 12:41:01 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
2e133dd337 feat: sign a chapter and every chunk of it in one session
A chapter proposal now carries the chapter and a chunk per paragraph, and the
group signs the lot at once. Every row a member ends up with is signed: a
translation is of a chunk, and a chunk that carries the group's signature over
its own words can be checked by anybody holding it, rather than only by
re-deriving it from the chapter it came out of.

This replaces the derivation two commits ago, which split the chunks out of the
signed chapter's text on each device and left them as rumors. That was the
right shape when a chunk could only have its own signature by having its own
quorum. Batch signing removed that, and this is the other side of the trade
`MantraChunk.chunksOf` was weighed against.

**A batch whose items name each other.** A chunk carries its chapter's id, and
that id is a hash over the group's key at the room's derivation path -- neither
resolved until the proposal runs. A caller computing it would be recomputing
`signingPath`, the one input in this protocol that must never come from a
proposer, since the path decides which key the group signs as. So
`proposeSigningBatch` gains a second form: a `lead` template, and a
`dependents` builder handed the lead *after* it is authored, returning the
events that reference it. Every id still comes out of `unsignedEventOf`, which
makes an item naming a chapter nobody signed something that cannot be built
rather than something to be tested for. `AddChapterViewModel` passes
`ChunkEvent::splitOf` and nothing else.

The lead is item 0. Items apply in `itemIndex` order and a chunk row whose
chapter does not exist yet is a foreign key violation, so what is referenced is
signed first as well as named first.

**The cost, in front of whoever is typing.** `MAX_BATCH_SIZE` is 64 and the
chapter takes one place, so a chapter is capped at 63 paragraphs and a longer
one has to be split in two. That is a real limit on real prose. The form counts
chunks against the cap as the text is typed, colours the count when it is past,
says what to do about it, and will not propose -- because the alternative is an
IllegalArgumentException after the fact. The manager still refuses
independently; the screen is not what enforces it.

**What went away.** `MantraChunk.chunksOf` and the derivation it did inside
`ChatMessage.applyInnerEvent`. Chunks arrive as their own signed events now and
go through the `ChunkEvent.KIND` branch that was always there. `ChapterEvent`
still carries the whole text beside chunks that hold the same words: chunk
boundaries are a decision about how to divide the work, and a chapter that kept
only the pieces could never be divided differently again.

**Tests.** `ChapterChunkSplitTest` covers the split as a pure function -- what
each chunk names, counts and carries. `SignedChapterTest` signs a real batch,
one FROST instance per item, and checks every chunk row is authored by the room
and carries a signature over its own id. `ChapterBatchProposalJvmTest` runs the
real proposal against a real database, which is where the sharp edge is: item
order, the chunks naming the chapter as the group will author it, and both ends
of the cap -- 63 paragraphs proposes, 64 is refused and leaves no session
behind. Checked against broken implementations: putting the lead last, naming
the wrong chapter, and stamping the chunks off the clock are each caught, in
both suites.

`jvmTest` runs on linux again as of the merge, which is what made the
database-backed test possible.

Dropped a nonce-reuse test that was in the first draft of this: it asserted
over its own fixture, and `FrostSigningRoundTest` and `SignedGroupKeyStateTest`
already hold the manager to giving every item its own nonce.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 10:34:12 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
e081d14f37 refactor: weigh the chapter's chunks against batch signing, and keep deriving
Batch signing landed on mantra while this branch was open, and it makes the
argument this change was built on obsolete as written. MantraChunk.chunksOf
said the chunks "cannot be events proposed on their own -- that would cost a
quorum per paragraph". They can now: proposeSigningBatch would carry the
chapter and a chunk per paragraph through one quorum, and every row would hold
a signature of its own.

Weighed and declined, and the KDoc now says so rather than leaning on a reason
that stopped being true. MAX_BATCH_SIZE is 64, which caps a batched chapter at
63 paragraphs and fails an ordinary one outright; the text would go on the wire
twice, whole on the chapter and again split across the chunks, and the proposal
is the term that cap is sized against; and all-or-nothing over k items would
make a long chapter less likely to be signed than a short one, for no reason a
member could see. The signature it would buy is redundant besides -- the
appendix rejects the manifest shape because an item then needs a lookup to be
checked, and here that lookup is a foreign key: a chunk is a pure function of
its chapter and cannot be stored without it.

docs/frost-batch-signing.md records this under the slot Phase 7 leaves open --
"deciding *what* to batch" -- because the next caller will reach for the same
shape. The rule it leaves behind: batch siblings, not derivations. Events that
could each have been authored separately are worth a batch; events that are a
function of another event in the same batch are worth deriving instead.

**The merge.** Only SignedChapterTest broke: the five per-item columns moved
off FrostSigningSession onto FrostSigningItem, so it builds an item and calls
signedEvent(item, sig), which is how SignedArtifactTest was ported in the same
commit. Nothing in the flow itself moved -- proposeSigning kept its signature
as the one-event form, and complete() applies each signed event through
ChatMessage.applyInnerEvent, so the chapter's chunk derivation works the same
whether the chapter arrives alone or as one item of somebody else's batch.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 10:13:09 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
1448ed5ad8 docs(frost): record batch signing as built, and what rollout needs
Phase 7 of docs/frost-batch-signing.md, which is the phase with no code in it.

Nothing needs a feature flag. k=1 is the entire behaviour of the app as shipped
-- no caller batches anything yet -- and at k=1 every message is byte-identical
to the app before Phase 1: encodeProposal returns the bare event object,
joinPayload of one value is that value, and every plural branch in the
transcript is only taken above one. The doc now tabulates that rather than
asserting it in prose, since it is the claim the whole rollout rests on.

The one rollout constraint stands: before a caller batches, the group has to be
on a build that understands array proposals. There is no negotiation for it and
adding one is not worth it -- an old device refuses an array proposal outright,
so the failure mode is a batch that never reaches threshold and is abandoned,
visible in the transcript and costing a retry.

Also records what is left, which is nothing in the protocol: deciding what to
batch is a product question, bounded only by "a batch is only as available as
its worst item" and "GroupKeyStateManager.propose must never batch".

The phases are kept as written rather than rewritten into a description of the
result -- the code reads better against the argument it came from -- with the
two places the implementation chose differently (itemIndex over index,
DROP COLUMN over a table rebuild) marked in their own sections.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 05:00:21 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
2309879153 test(frost): cover the batch's failure modes and its crypto without a database
Phase 6 of docs/frost-batch-signing.md. 361 jvmTest and 227 testDebugUnitTest
pass.

## Inbound path (SignedGroupKeyStateTest)

Both drive the manager with a hand-built inner event rather than one the other
device queued, which is the only way to be a faulty or dishonest member in this
harness.

- A one-value nonce offered for a three-item batch does not count towards the
  threshold: the coordinator never reaches a signer set. The length check is all
  that stands between a batch and a signer whose contribution lines up against
  the wrong messages, so truncating or padding would produce partial signatures
  aggregated against events nobody agreed to. The test then pumps the real nonce
  and the batch completes -- it is a stall, not damage, which is
  FrostSignerMessage's composite key doing its job.
- A second proposal under the session's own id changes neither its event ids nor
  its seeds. Every seed is already committed to its item's message; a different
  batch under the same id would have those seeds produce a second partial
  signature over a second message, which is how a share is extracted.

## Real FROST, no database (FrostSigningRoundTest)

- A k=3 batch from one signer set, all three verifying against the room's key --
  the manager's shape with the database taken out of the way.
- Item 0's signature does not verify against item 1. Signing three events in
  lockstep must not make any of them interchangeable.
- Both halves of the no-shared-nonce property, because either alone is enough to
  be relied on by accident: SecretNonce.generate mixes the message in, so one
  seed under two messages already gives two nonces -- and the manager mints
  distinct seeds regardless.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 04:58:48 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
59c34263b3 feat(frost): let one signing session carry a batch of events
Phase 3 of docs/frost-batch-signing.md. A session can now be proposed over
several events, and the whole batch is signed in one round of four group
events with one approval. 356 jvmTest and 224 testDebugUnitTest pass.

## The wire, and the compatibility rule that shapes it

FrostSigningEvents.encodeProposal serialises a batch of one as the bare event
object it always was, and only a genuine batch as a JSON array. That is not
tidiness. A build predating this reads an array with Event.fromJsonOrNull, gets
null, and drops the proposal -- so an old device refuses a batch outright
rather than signing part of one, while single signing keeps working right
through a mixed-version rollout. Emitting an array unconditionally would break
every one-event session for those devices and buy nothing.

decodeProposal accepts both forms permanently: proposals in the old shape do
not stop arriving because this build stopped writing them. It is
all-or-nothing -- an array with one unreadable element is refused rather than
silently shortened, because the batch's length is what every later payload is
checked against, and a proposal that quietly lost an event would have every
signer's contribution rejected for being the wrong size: a stall with nothing
to blame.

## MAX_BATCH_SIZE, checked twice

64, enforced in proposeSigningBatch and again, independently, in
acceptProposal. The second check is the one that matters. A proposal is the
only place in this protocol where a remote party decides how much work everyone
else does -- k native key generations, k signatures, and a group event carrying
k payloads, from a single message -- and until batching that was bounded only
by never being more than one.

## acceptProposal over a list

Each element is rebuilt from its own fields under this device's own reading of
the room's path and checked against the id it claims, exactly as before but per
item, and the whole proposal is dropped if any one fails. The write-once rule
widens from "the event this session signs" to "the ordered list of events this
session signs": a second proposal under the same id whose list differs anywhere
is logged and ignored.

## The API

FrostSigningManager.proposeSigningBatch(events: List<EventTemplate<*>>) is
public here rather than in Phase 4, because without it there is no way to
produce a k>1 session and everything above would ship untested. proposeSigning
keeps its signature as the one-event form, so no caller moves. Each template
carries its own createdAt.

## Tests

- FrostProposalCodecTest (new, commonTest): a batch of one is byte-for-byte the
  old JSON object -- the assertion that stands in for the old build nobody can
  run here -- plus order preservation, old-form decoding, and refusal of empty,
  malformed and partly-unreadable arrays.
- SignedGroupKeyStateTest: a k=3 batch between two devices over two databases.
  Three signatures verifying against the room, three dialects applied on both
  devices in order, five messages from the coordinator and two from the other
  signer, and one approval line rather than three.
- The negative test that matters: no two items of a batch share an aggregated
  nonce or a seed, and the two devices' seeds do not intersect. Every positive
  test still passes if two items share a nonce -- the signatures verify fine;
  what sharing costs is the secret share.
- The cap is refused when proposed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 04:48:24 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
935a8fe37a refactor(frost): run a signing session as k FROST instances in lockstep
Phase 2 of docs/frost-batch-signing.md. Pure refactor: proposals still carry
one event, the wire is byte-identical, and every test passes unchanged --
344 jvmTest and 217 testDebugUnitTest, none of them edited in this commit.

advance() now loops over FrostSigningItem rows rather than reading the first
one. One nonce per item, one aggregate per item, one Session.create per item,
one partial signature per item, one signature per item. The signer set, the
public shares, the tweak cache and the approval stay shared, because they are
the terms that do not enter e = H(R‖P‖m).

The coordinator's aggregation is the place where that distinction bites: it
builds one AggregatedNonce per item, each from that item's nonce from each
chosen signer. Reusing one across two items would be reusing R across two
messages.

## The payload codec, early

joinPayload/splitPayload land here rather than with the wire change, because at
a batch of one a comma join is the identity -- the payload is the bare value it
has always been. That leaves Phase 3 to the proposal encoding alone.

splitPayload is strict: a payload that is not exactly the batch's length is
dropped rather than truncated or padded. It runs in orderedNonces,
orderedPartialSignatures and splitForSession -- never in record(), which stores
payloads without parsing them so that a nonce can arrive before the proposal
that would give it a length to check against.

## Two short-circuits, and one trap in the first

advance() runs on every arriving message, so at a batch of k it was k native
key generations, k Session.creates and k signs each time, usually to discover
there was nothing left to do.

- Nonces are generated by `lazy`. The obvious version -- a guard computing
  `ownNonce == null || (isSigner() && ownPartial == null)` -- is wrong, and
  wrong in a way that reads fine and fails every signing test: the coordinator
  settles the signer set further down the same pass, so isSigner() at the top
  is false on exactly the pass where the coordinator goes on to sign, and the
  nonces are never generated. Reproduced as IndexOutOfBounds before switching
  to lazy, which has no prediction to make.
- A device that is neither signing nor aggregating leaves before building any
  FROST session, rather than building k of them to do nothing with.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 04:40:22 +02:00
Kgothatso Ngako
dff41d417d feat(frost): move a signing session's per-event columns onto FrostSigningItem
Phase 1 of docs/frost-batch-signing.md, which is added here as the plan the
next phases follow. Schema only: a session still signs exactly one event, the
wire is byte-identical, and every existing test passes on the moved columns.

## What moved, and why it had to

A batch of k events is k independent FROST instances sharing a signer set, not
one signature over k messages. That is forced rather than chosen: a Schnorr
partial signature is `s = k + e·x` with `e = H(R‖P‖m)`, so two messages under
one nonce R give two equations in one unknown and the secret share falls out.

So the five columns that enter that equation -- unsignedEventJson, eventId,
nonceRandom, aggregatedNonce, signature -- move to a child table keyed
(sessionId, itemIndex). What stays on FrostSigningSession is everything outside
it: the ceremony, the threshold, the derivation path, the signer set, and the
one approval.

itemIndex is protocol rather than presentation -- nonces and partial signatures
are joined positionally against it -- so getItems() orders by it and nothing
re-sorts. Spelled itemIndex rather than index to keep hand-written queries free
of backticks.

No itemCount column. The count is a COUNT(*), for the same reason signerIds is
derived from the ceremony's participant order rather than stored: a
denormalised count is one more thing that can disagree with the rows.

## Migration 9 -> 10

Manual, not auto: Room can create the table and drop the columns but cannot
copy between them, and the copy is the whole point. A session in flight at
upgrade holds its nonce seed and the aggregate it is already signing against,
and neither can be regenerated -- losing either makes the next pass derive a
different nonce for the same message and publish a second partial signature
over it, which is the extraction case. Both are copied verbatim into item 0, so
an in-flight session resumes as though nothing happened.

Removing the columns uses ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN rather than the usual
create-copy-drop-rename rebuild. FrostSignerMessage and FrostSigningItem both
reference FrostSigningSession(id) ON DELETE CASCADE, and DROP TABLE fires
cascades -- with foreign keys enforced the rebuild would delete every signer
message and every item just written. Whether it does depends on Room disabling
foreign keys around migrations, which is not worth depending on when
DROP COLUMN cannot go wrong. It needs SQLite 3.35 and unindexed,
unconstrained columns; these five qualify, and getRoomDatabase pins
BundledSQLiteDriver on every platform.

## Invariants established here for the phases that follow

- signerIds and every item's aggregatedNonce are one write-once unit, applied
  by applyAggregate() -- items first in one transaction, then the session, so
  "some items aggregated" is unreachable and signerIds != null stays the gate.
- Signatures likewise, via applySignatures(); isSigned() counts rows instead of
  reading a flag.
- complete() verifies every signature before applying any event, so a batch is
  all-or-nothing rather than half-filed.
- itemsOver() gives each item its own 32 bytes of seed. Independent seeds mean
  an off-by-one in index handling produces a session that fails to aggregate
  rather than one that signs two messages under a single nonce.

signedEvent() and isAwaitingApproval() now take the item(s) rather than the
session, which propagates to the repository, the view model and the screen.
advance() reads items.first() and Phase 2 turns that into a loop.

## Tests

- FrostSigningSessionDaoJvmTest: index ordering, single-item read, upsert
  replacing rather than accumulating, signed-item counting, cascade delete.
- FrostSigningItemMigrationJvmTest (new): the backfill against a real v9
  database, asserting the seed and aggregate values survive -- not merely that
  a row appeared -- plus the exact column lists Room will check at open time.
- 338 jvmTest and 217 testDebugUnitTest pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-06 04:33:46 +02:00