archy/docs/paid-content-recovery-followup.md

# Paid content: recovery before response headers

Status: OPEN, identified during IndeeHub rental integration on 2026-10-06.
This is a source-confirmed gap. No new real-money failure was induced.

## Confirmed boundaries

`api/rpc/content.rs::handle_content_download_peer_paid` checks the existing
purchase index and FIPS route before calling a wallet. It persists ownership
through `content_owned::record_purchase_stream` only after successful response
headers. Thus the previously qualified interrupted cached-body/seek cases do
not establish recovery during wallet preparation or after seller settlement but
before headers reach the buyer.

Cashu `send_token_at` may swap inputs remotely before saving the local wallet
and returning the prepared token. Its deterministic output derivation supports
wallet restoration, but is not a correlated purchase operation journal.
Concurrent mutations also need an operation-wide wallet reservation/commit
boundary, beyond the existing atomic file writer. Fedimint operation IDs and
out-of-band note recovery must be handled using that backend's actual semantics.

The seller currently redeems a presented token in `content_server::serve_content`
after preparing readable media. It does not persist a Cashu purchase receipt
that can authorize subsequent delivery without attempting redemption again.
A token hash alone is not evidence that redemption settled.

## Immediate correction being qualified

Choose the ecash backend before either wallet operation begins. An explicit
choice remains pinned; automatic selection reads the home-mint spendable Cashu
balance and selects Fedimint only when that balance is insufficient. Never fall
through to another wallet after an attempted operation returns an error: the
remote mint may already have consumed inputs. Reject unknown method names.
This prevents a second backend operation in the same RPC; it does **not** solve
crash recovery or make a fresh user retry safe.

## Required implementation and acceptance

1. Persist an unpredictable purchase ID and immutable seller/buyer/content/hash,
   terms, amount, method and protocol capability before any mint/spend. A damaged
   or ambiguous journal must block a second payment, preserving original data.
2. Journal wallet input reservations and recoverable output derivation/operation
   IDs before a remote mutation. Commit wallet change, prepared token and operation
   result durably. Serialize all competing wallet mutations, including receives,
   melts and restores, without deadlocking nested operations.
3. Persist the seller's receipt/settlement transition. Recover ambiguous receipt
   writes through correlated wallet operation results, not balance changes or
   acceptance of the client's claimed outcome. Repeated delivery requests for
   the same settled purchase must not redeem/pay again.
4. Bind delivery authorization to authenticated buyer and immutable content/terms,
   with an unpredictable capability. Never turn a public on-chain address into
   a bearer authorization credential. Negotiate updated peer capability; do not
   assume old nodes implement this receipt protocol.
5. Retain prepared tokens privately until delivery or confirmed refund settles.
   Record actual refunded amounts/fees. A failed refund is not proof of payment
   failure and must not clear an ambiguous purchase for another charge.
6. Exercise interruption at every write/send/receipt boundary, duplicate requests,
   process reconstruction, full restart, corrupt journal, disk-full, changed
   offers, wrong buyer, incompatible peer, and mint/federation rejection. Prove
   wallet conservation and one settlement with disposable deterministic fixtures
   before bounded live payments. Keep rented cache authorization separate from
   permanent paid-file ownership.

The existing two-node 1-sat purchases and cached-delivery tests remain valid for
their documented scope. They must not be relabeled as acceptance of these open
initial-payment/recovery requirements. No additional real payment is needed to
prove the immediate backend-selection regression.

## Backend-selection qualification

The immediate correction passes **12 focused content RPC tests**, including
injected ambiguous Cashu/Fedimint failures proving the unselected wallet future
is never polled, explicit-choice preservation and unknown-method rejection.
The full isolated suite passes **1,749 tests, zero failures, five existing
ignored tests**. Logs: `/tmp/archy-peer-payment-selection-tests.log` and
`/tmp/archy-peer-payment-selection-full-tests.log`. Only the required isolated
runner was used. No live wallet data or real payments were involved. This is
source/test qualification; production build and deployment are separate.

## Recovery-metadata prerequisite qualified (2026-10-06)

Seed reads now distinguish genuine absence from I/O failure. Loading a damaged
recovery source returns an error instead of silently enabling random outputs.
A configured recovery source must reserve/derive outputs successfully before a
mint request; derivation/counter failures no longer fall back to random secrets.
Legacy wallets which genuinely have no seed retain their existing output path.

Counter reservations reject empty/corrupt/unreadable existing files rather than
resetting to zero. Updates use an owner-only sibling temporary file, file flush,
atomic replacement and directory flush before returning a usable reservation.
Invalid derivation is rejected before reserving counters. Existing counter
serialization within the management process is preserved; this is not a claim
that a new cross-process wallet lock or the purchase journal has been implemented.

Six new regressions cover damaged seed/counter reads, preserved damaged files,
concurrent reservations/reload/private permissions/temp cleanup, invalid keysets,
no silent random-output fallback and explicit legacy behavior. Wallet-focused
isolated result:150passed,0failed,1existing ignored. Full isolated result:
**1,755passed,0failed,5existing ignored**. Evidence:
`/tmp/archy-wallet-recovery-prerequisites-tests.log` and
`/tmp/archy-wallet-recovery-prerequisites-full-tests.log`.

Read-only checks found well-shaped seed/counter JSON on dev and Yaya; no secret
values were printed and no wallet files were changed by those checks. Production
build/deployment of this prerequisite remains pending. Durable initial purchase
intent, mint-operation recovery, seller receipt and refund recovery remain open.

Strict-schema follow-up: an existing counter document must actually contain its
counter map. Empty JSON objects and null maps are rejected without modification,
not deserialized as a fresh zero state. The full isolated suite again passes
1,755tests,0failures,5existing ignored in
`/tmp/archy-wallet-recovery-strict-schema-full-tests.log`. No live deployment or
claim of complete initial-payment recovery is implied.

## Additional wallet boundaries found during review (6 October)

Source review of `ecash::melt_tokens`, `swap_between_mints` and
`MintClient::melt_tokens` found further work required before full recovery can
be accepted. The melt path does not currently submit or retain fee-change
outputs, and the caller does not require a PAID response before proceeding.
Cross-mint recovery records are written after the remote operation, leaving an
interruption window. These are source findings, not newly induced live losses.

The implementation must account for NUT-05 quote states and NUT-08 change using
the mint's advertised support, preserve uncertain operations, and verify amount
conservation. Reference specifications:
https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/blob/main/05.md and
https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/blob/main/08.md .

Wallet-wide serialization must also include network changes and streaming
revenue writes; a load/save outside the operation lock can overwrite another
mutation. Current empty-wallet-file handling, file permissions and directory
fsync require review as part of durable storage. Counter fail-closed tests do
not establish that this larger transaction journal has been implemented.

### Wallet storage durability follow-up

Existing empty/whitespace wallet files now fail closed instead of reporting zero;
only a missing file creates fresh state. Atomic saves use unique0600 temporary
files, file and directory fsync, and cleanup on failure. Concurrency tests prove
whole-file replacement (not read-modify-write serialization), private permissions
and retained targets on rename failure. Wallet tests:57passed. Full backend
qualification passes in `/tmp/archy-wallet-storage-tls-full-tests.log`. No live
wallet was altered. Operation serialization and recovery journal remain open.

### Serialized wallet mutations and seed durability

The wallet now serializes public mutations by canonical node data directory,
including network changes and seed establishment/import. Independent node
fixtures retain separate locks; nested send/swap paths use private implementations
under the outer lock. Streaming revenue records use the same boundary, and direct
wallet saves are restricted to the wallet module. This is in-process serialization,
not a cross-process transaction journal or a claim that an entire payment RPC is
recoverable.

Damaged network configuration now errors instead of silently choosing mainnet;
only an absent configuration retains the historical mainnet default. The previous
seed is durably copied to a unique private backup before atomic replacement,
rather than moved away before the replacement write succeeds.

Final isolated suite: **1,764 tests pass, zero failures, five existing skips**.
Log: /tmp/archy-wallet-mutation-seed-final-tests.log. Regressions include eight
simultaneous real HTTP/curve-signed fixture receipts plus sixteen history writes,
preserving255sats and24entries; canonical/symlink lock identity; damaged network
configuration; and simultaneous seed establishment/unique retained backups.
No live wallet data or additional real payments were used.

Still required: correlated purchase and mint-operation journal, recoverable
prepared outputs, quote/change handling and seller receipts, interrupted-operation
recovery and complete timed-playback integration. Higher-level Minibits claim and
purchase flows must pin their network/terms across their entire business operation;
serializing individual wallet calls alone does not provide that contract.

### Recoverable prepared Cashu swaps

MintClient now separates preparation from execution. Prepared requests contain
the exact outputs and private unblinding material, can survive serialization, and
validate their mint, commitments, values and keyset before execution. Debug output
omits bearer secrets. Recovery uses the original outputs, matches returned curve
points independently of response ordering/hex case, and rejects partial,
duplicate, unknown or mismatched signatures. An empty restore response remains
uncertain; it is never interpreted as permission to spend again.

Real HTTP/curve fixtures simulate a mint consuming inputs and returning500instead
of its successful response. A reconstructed client recovers the original valid
proofs without a second swap. Negative tests cover changed preparation and
malformed recovery. The first run failed an overly strict test comparing JSON
bytes with unordered map keys; the corrected test compares semantic contents.
Original log: /tmp/archy-prepared-swap-tests.log. Final complete isolated backend
suite: **1,767 pass, zero failures, five existing skips**, in
/tmp/archy-prepared-swap-final-full-tests.log.

This introduces the request/recovery primitive. Existing swap callers still
execute immediately; durable wallet reservations and the correlated purchase
journal are not wired yet. No live money, wallet state or app deployment changed.

### Operation journal qualification in progress

A separate private write-ahead store now records immutable operation ID, network,
mint, amount and purchase-context hash alongside the exact request material.
Records advance from prepared to saved result to committed; they cannot skip the
saved-result boundary. Retries retain the original request, changed terms are
rejected, and damaged/unsupported/oversized records block a fresh operation.
Files use0600, the journal directory0700, atomic replacement and file/directory
flushes. A wallet mutation guard scopes writes to the canonical node directory.
The checksum detects accidental corruption; it is not authorization against a
process able to edit the node's private state.

The initial full isolated run passed1,773tests with zero failures and five existing
skips (`/tmp/archy-send-journal-full-tests.log`). Review subsequently added explicit
sat-unit validation and a negative regression. The final full isolated run also
passed1,773tests, zero failures and five existing skips
(`/tmp/archy-send-journal-final-tests.log`).
This storage module is not yet connected to wallet reservation/commit or paid-file
purchase/receipt handling and has not been deployed. Do not infer complete
payment recovery from the storage tests.

The next integration must reserve selected inputs with an operation owner before
any remote request, recover the exact prepared outputs, and commit change/history
once. A restored result must match all outputs; absence is not proof of failure.
An input-state response must account for every requested proof without foreign or
duplicate entries. Pending/spent/unknown states must never authorize a new payment.
See the current [NUT-07](https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/blob/main/07.md) and
[NUT-09](https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/blob/main/09.md) specifications. Wallet
integration still needs crash-boundary fixtures, followed by purchase-context and
seller-receipt integration before any new paid-content acceptance claim.

### Additional restore checks retained for the next batch

Review of seed restore found that the current NUT-07 consumer verifies response
length but not each returned proof identifier. Match every response to the exact
requested curve point and reject unknown state values before crediting proofs.
Do not treat a same-length response as sufficient. Also prevent a seed scan from
making reserved outgoing operation outputs available before that operation's
result/commit is recovered. These are source findings; no live restore was run.

### Wallet reservation/commit boundaries qualified

The journal can now durably reserve its exact inputs with an operation owner,
refuse another operation's reservation, and commit its saved token/change/history
once. Recovery after purse-save but before journal-phase-save uses the same stable
transaction ID. Changing the selected network cannot redirect that commit into
the other purse. Outgoing swap proofs are retained as locally spent, alongside
spendable change, so they are not immediately rediscovered as wallet funds.

Four additional regressions cover local restart boundaries, competing operations,
network switching and a real HTTP/curve-signature lost-response scenario. The
latter reconstructs the journal, restores the original swap outputs, commits twice,
and verifies one mint swap, one history entry,4sats sent and4sats change from8.
Full isolated qualification:1,777passed, zero failures, five existing skips,
`/tmp/archy-journal-wallet-commit-tests.log`. No real sats or live wallet data used.

These methods are not yet wired into the purchase RPC or a remote-operation
executor. Seller receipts, delivery capabilities, ambiguous refunds, melt/change
and seed-restore interaction remain open. A passing commit primitive is not full
paid-content recovery acceptance.

### Seed-restore interaction qualified

NUT-07 responses now require one correctly identified state per requested proof
in protocol order, with only defined states accepted. Duplicate requests, foreign
or duplicated response identifiers, omissions, reordered entries and unknown
states fail closed. Hexadecimal case differences remain accepted.

Seed restore inspects the private send journal before contacting the mint: it
blocks unresolved operations for the selected network/mint and excludes committed
outgoing token secrets even after legacy purse pruning/removal. Damaged journal
records block restoration rather than disappearing from the decision. Other
network/mint operations do not block an unrelated valid restore. Prepared swap
requests also must cover the bound payment amount before being recorded.

Full isolated qualification:1,779passed, zero failures, five existing skips,
`/tmp/archy-journal-restore-boundary-tests.log`. These source changes remain
undeployed. The higher-level purchase/receipt executor remains open.

### Recoverable send executor qualified locally

The caller-owned operation now reserves inputs before remote spending, restores
the original saved swap after an ambiguous response, and commits its original
token/change/history once. Changed payment terms reject reuse. A spent input with
no recoverable output blocks another swap. Exact sends support compact v2 wire
keyset IDs while retaining the full wallet ID. Seed restoration canonicalizes
curve points, rejects foreign or duplicate metadata, and requires durable counter
advancement before crediting recovered funds.

The first test run exposed compact-ID comparison and uppercase restore-point
matching defects; both were fixed. The final isolated run passed1,783tests with
zero failures and five existing skips:
`/tmp/archy-recoverable-send-executor-final-tests.log`.
No real payment or deployment was performed. Purchase RPC integration, durable
seller settlement/receipt recovery and the end-to-end acceptance remain open.

Recovery preflight now rejects malformed or unsupported restore responses before
reserving or spending inputs, and refuses already-issued newly derived outputs.
Required restore fields cannot silently default to empty. The malformed-response
regression verifies unchanged spendable balance/no swap, then successful retry
when the mint responds correctly. Full isolated1,784passed initially; combined
catalog-route qualification1,785passed, zero failures/five existing skips.

### Recoverable incoming settlement — implementation under qualification

A separate private receive journal now binds a caller-owned UUID to its original
network, canonical mint, token hash, agreed minimum net price and purchase-context
hash. Incoming proofs are claimed outside the spendable purse. Claims use their
mint and secrets, so another operation cannot redeem a differently encoded token
or an overlapping subset. The legacy receive entry point also checks these claims.

Preparation verifies recovery support and mint fees before any swap. The exact
prepared outputs are then saved before POST. An ambiguous response resumes the
same outputs with NUT-09; empty restoration requires every original input to be
strictly UNSPENT before the identical request can be retried. No automatic refund
is inferred from a missing response. Mixed-mint and non-sat tokens are outside this
primitive's deliberately narrow contract.

Commit order is Result → Committing → atomic purse save → Committed. Committing
stores a hash of the exact pre-save purse bytes (absence differs from an empty
file). The purse contains an independent `received:<UUID>` commitment marker,
separate from prunable history; it contains no bearer proofs. A retry either finds
that marker or requires the exact unchanged pre-save purse. A changed purse whose
marker is missing causes a manual-recovery hold. In particular, an older wallet
writer dropping markers is not treated as permission to re-credit the receipt.
Markers must not be compacted with ordinary history. A completed journal receipt
returns its original net amount even if the wallet/history was subsequently
pruned; it never reconstructs funds merely because its caller retries.

Pending settlement blocks seed restoration for the bound network/mint. Committed
incoming outputs remain ordinary wallet funds, subject to the existing mint-state
checks during seed restoration; they are not outgoing-token exclusions.

This is a source implementation under test, not a deployed seller receipt or
purchase protocol. No real payments were made. Purchase authorization, delivery
capabilities, transport correlation, refunds, and Fedimint/melt remain separate
open requirements. Test results will be recorded after the isolated runner exits.

### Resumed settlement qualification — 6 October

The interrupted session's receive journal, executor and four regression tests
were recovered intact from the existing worktree. The old focused log stopped
at compilation; it does not establish a test pass. No wallet data was restored,
replaced or modified to resume this source work.

Review also found that `verify_and_receive_payment`, used by the legacy content
server, needed the same incoming-proof claim check as ordinary `receive_token`.
It now refuses to redeem another settlement's claimed proofs, including when the
mint still considers those proofs unspent. An additional HTTP/curve regression
covers a rejected first POST, legacy redemption refusal, a malformed state reply
blocking a second POST, and then verified-unspent retry using the exact original
request. The new regression must pass before qualification is claimed.

Next integration boundary remains buyer purchase intent → recoverable sender →
correlated seller settlement → durable delivery receipt/capability. The current
`handle_content_download_peer_paid` still calls the legacy sender and records
ownership after headers; `content_server::verify_payment_token` still calls the
legacy payment verifier. These call sites are not yet the new purchase protocol.
Do not deploy these primitives as a claim that pre-header paid-file recovery is
complete. Keep the original payment/receipt context for retries and do not send
another payment to recover delivery.

Resumption compile checkpoint: `/tmp/archy-resumed-receive-tests.log` finished
compilation successfully in 10m20s, but the requested `wallet::payment_tests`
filter matched zero tests (1,794 filtered out). This is compilation evidence only,
not a focused test pass. The module is `wallet::ecash::payment_tests`. Final-source
qualification must include the later legacy-claim guard and fifth receive test;
its build is queued behind coordinated IndeeHub/browser/image checks to avoid
competing heavy jobs on the development node.

#### Next implementation batch: purchase/receipt contract

The next source batch should introduce `content_purchase` journals and protocol
fixtures before switching the live RPC entry points. Bind a versioned UUID,
verified buyer/seller DIDs, content SHA256/size, immutable terms hash, Cashu
network/mint, gross token amount and minimum seller net amount. Account for mint
fees explicitly; sending the displayed net price is not sufficient when the
seller pays an input fee. `ContentItem` currently has no content hash, so obtain
a stable readable content snapshot and authenticated offer before spending.

The existing `content_auth` v1 signature covers GET/path/range/time, not payment
headers or request bodies. Add a separately domain-separated signed-body proof
for purchase requests covering method/path/audience/body hash; do not treat plain
`X-Federation-DID` or appended unsigned purchase headers as authentication.
`PeerRequest::send_json` already provides the transport operation.

Persist the seller contract before calling recoverable receive with its UUID and
context hash; persist receipt/capability after settlement. Authenticated status
lookup by the same buyer must recover a lost receipt without another redemption.
Buyer intent precedes recoverable send and retains its original token privately;
retries resume that purchase and retrieve the receipt, rather than refunding or
creating another payment after an ambiguous response. Reject unsupported protocol
versions before spending. Cover changed content/terms, wrong buyer, duplicate
requests, expired offers, interrupted writes and lost settlement/receipt replies
with deterministic fixtures before any live purchase acceptance.

The next batch now exists as the initially unreferenced
`core/archipelago/src/content_purchase.rs`: strict versioned contracts/context
hashes, private original buyer tokens, seller settlement and durable random
receipts, buyer receipt/delivery states, and cross-process journal locking with
flushed atomic private records. Six temporary-directory tests cover restart,
exact replay, changed terms/results, expired new offers versus existing recovery,
foreign receipts, corrupt/nonregular records and invalid state transitions.
It performs no wallet or network operations. Root integration will declare the
module for combined qualification; passing tests are still pending. Callers must
authenticate offer/receipt provenance and discover/reuse an existing purchase
UUID before generating another one; this primitive does not yet supply that
business-level lookup or the transport/serving integration.


Review caught a cancellation ordering issue in the asynchronous rename commit
point. Purchase journals and the existing purse/send/receive writers now perform
rename plus directory flush synchronously while their guard is held, so cancelled
async work cannot later overwrite a newer writer. A deterministic purchase test
pauses after flushing the temporary file but before commit, cancels the writer,
then verifies that a subsequent token commit survives and the stale temporary
file is removed. This is a source correction awaiting the combined isolated run.

Next RPC/UI batch acceptance must also include node-side discovery of an existing
pending purchase by authenticated buyer/seller/content before minting a fresh
UUID. Caller-only UUID retention is insufficient after lost browser/client state.
The current journal's UUID binding does not yet implement this lookup. The UI
must show reserved/pending funds separately from spendable funds; a spendable
balance of zero must not be presented as zero total owned funds while an operation
still holds them. Neither requirement is satisfied by the wallet primitive tests.

Transport integration detail: the new v2 peer proof hashes the exact request body.
`PeerRequest::send_json` currently serializes independently inside its FIPS/Tor
helpers. Add a serialize-once POST-bytes transport before wiring purchase routes;
sign and send those exact bytes, rather than signing a separately serialized JSON
value then allowing another `.json()` call to choose the wire bytes. Existing
content dispatch currently routes GET reads only, so POST purchase routes remain
a separate integration step. Existing v1 GET authentication must remain compatible.

### Combined resumed qualification passed — 6 October

The full isolated runner passed **1,808 tests, zero failures, five existing
ignored tests**, with no filter. Compilation took 9m07s; isolated execution took
15.01s. This includes all five recoverable-receive regressions, six purchase
journal tests (including cancellation ordering), eleven media-registration tests,
and the independently coordinated v2 request-authentication coverage. Only
`scripts/test-backend-isolated.sh` executed backend tests.

Evidence: `/tmp/archy-resumed-combined-backend-tests.log`.
The exact tested coordinated tree was HEAD
`1c6daab92a4e7c9fa70b81489c355a35163369b5` plus `git diff HEAD --binary`, SHA256
`e9a8d75a81a966904d0929a1a1869adb892d266ef1b6b59580b7543a6b0ca7a4`, saved privately
at `/tmp/archy-resumed-combined-tested-source.patch`. New source SHA256 values:

- `content_purchase.rs`: `5d597f48c24ab96d4a7ee348ef641cc1f2d98c411574c46f14c579bea9930e84`
- `wallet/receive_journal.rs`: `43333ec21a6b1f7613078083d8114ef934bd44af69c9e93138e58a419cb919ac`
- `media_registration.rs`: `45450e99b50eff3d1115c2b9787e7235e9772209151a06fd09d62c47d0bd93a5`
- Its `fixtures/v1.json`: `8fbfcbc3beb0b4758fadf677c39c688d55a89ed200d8a7cd8741de0da569feb3`

All captured source hashes were rechecked unchanged at test completion before
this evidence update. Machine-readable provenance is in
`/tmp/archy-resumed-combined-source-provenance.json`. The test suite's isolated
subprocess case also prints a one-test result; it is not a second full run.

No real payment, wallet replacement, deployment or release occurred. The current
purchase module is a qualified local journal primitive, not a wired purchase RPC,
authenticated seller offer/receipt transport, or serving capability. Scratch
acceptance/deadline/executor work in `/tmp/archy-purchase-executor-next` is separate
and is NOT included in these test results. Explicit seller acceptance before
buyer spending and retained late-settlement eligibility are the next batch.

### New live report: failed Lightning blocks the other payment methods

The 6 October operator test reproduced a distinct payment-choice dead end. Yaya's
outgoing LND record at 23:23:41 UTC is a 2-sat terminal `FAILED` payment with
`FAILURE_REASON_INSUFFICIENT_BALANCE`. The old backend turned that state into an
RPC exception; PeerFiles retained its invoice as unresolved and hid ecash forever.
The generic frontend Lightning helper also treated unknown returned statuses as
success. Both source paths now distinguish failed, pending and succeeded.

The frontend keeps the failed attempt's receipt/history, but permits another
method only after an explicit returned failure or read-only `lnd.paymentstatus`
confirmation for that saved hash. It supports old deployed backends that throw
for terminal failures. An existing saved attempt can be checked without asking
for another invoice or sending another payment. Unknown, unavailable, possibly
settled and corrupt saved attempts remain blocked from a second payment; delivery
recovery remains available. This does not cancel the seller's invoice or claim
that an externally displayed invoice cannot subsequently be paid.

Focused qualification passed 108 tests across PeerFilesLightning and rpc-client:
`/tmp/archy-payment-switch-ui-tests.log`. Coverage includes returned terminal
failure, old-backend exceptions, persisted failed-attempt recovery, ambiguous
status retaining its block, and unknown status never becoming success. The new
Rust LND status test is awaiting the coordinated combined isolated backend run.
These changes are not yet claimed deployed or accepted on the three real nodes.

Separate live evidence must remain open: Yaya's 100-sat ecash request to Archi
Dev Box at 23:25:16 UTC encountered an unavailable FIPS route/connection timeout;
the existing backend logged reclaim at 23:25:33. Investigation did not initiate
that reclaim or any payment. Dev's FIPS/backend services and listeners were active,
but the journals show repeated control-socket/seed/peer connection timeouts.
Framework access was restored and actual hostname `framework-pt` verified. At
23:24:58 its seller catalog pruned `Photos/web54321-balanced-2.mp4` because its
backing file was missing; neither supported source path exists. This is separate
from the closed historical Framework LND-startup incident. Raw node journals and
sanitized payment summaries are retained privately under
`/tmp/archy-payment-switch-incident/` (mode 0600).

Acceptance still requires real-node no-charge checks of failed-Lightning method
switching, unknown/settled delivery recovery, reconnect and cross-method state,
seller missing-file/changed-catalog feedback, and FIPS delivery between Yaya,
Framework and dev. No new real payment, proof mutation, data deletion, or pending
state reset was performed during this investigation.

Further review separated three remaining cases from that targeted fix. An old
failed local receipt must not be reused automatically for a newly displayed QR;
request a fresh seller invoice. Known in-flight Lightning recovery should return
promptly with retained receipt and a check-later action, instead of locking the
UI behind a long delivery request. Spending RPCs must use a single network
attempt: automatic timeout/502 retries of legacy ecash purchase or on-chain send
can otherwise repeat a mutation. These frontend refinements and two additional
regressions are prepared; their focused rerun is queued behind backend isolation.

The larger payment-flow followup remains required: persist per-item on-chain
address/amount before broadcast, preserve txid and uncertain send state on close
and reload, and resume seller/status/cache lookup rather than issue another send.
Persist ecash dispatch intent and recover through authoritative backend purchase
state rather than call a potentially spending legacy endpoint as a status check.
Unpaid/failed/ambiguous/settled states must stay distinct across method changes;
externally exposed QR invoices/addresses remain payable until their actual expiry
or cancellation, and local attempt failure is not evidence of their cancellation.
Browser storage is supplemental only: server-owned pending lookup must survive
lost client state and another browser. This cannot be called fully fixed by the
current Lightning-only recovery improvements.

Current no-payment route check: Yaya's FIPS request to dev's `/health` timed out
before TCP connection after four seconds; the same FIPS endpoint on dev returns
200 locally. The target matches dev's live fips0 address, backend is listening,
and nft accepts TCP 5679 on fips0. Both mesh daemons report connected common peers,
but no direct link between those two nodes. Further mesh routing diagnosis is
required; no firewall or daemon state was changed. Framework's live FileBrowser
bind mounts point to `filebrowser` and `filebrowser-data`; both were searched for
the stale filename, with no match. The persistent ext4 mount is present and its
Photos/Videos directories exist. This establishes absence from the current Cloud
roots, not deletion everywhere or a justification to rebuild any buyer receipt.

The final focused frontend rerun passed **110 tests across two files** in 8.52s
(`/tmp/archy-payment-switch-ui-tests-final.log`), including the fresh-QR and prompt
pending-status cases. The combined isolated backend batch passed the LND status
regression and all purchase-executor tests, but was **not an overall pass**:
1,821 passed, one failed, five ignored. Its failure is in the separately owned
FIPS duplicate-identity transport assertion; follow-up is underway. The urgent
frontend source is frozen for the coordinated production build.

Subsequent read-only route checks by the coordinating agent returned Yaya→dev
health 200 twice (2.57s and 0.49s total), with no restart or configuration change.
The earlier four-second connect timeout remains valid evidence of an intermittent
mesh route problem, not a claim of permanent loss of connectivity.

### Resumed live qualification and incremental UI deployment

The `d94ff097` compatibility fix passed 110 focused frontend tests and the
production UI build. Yaya now serves UI index SHA256
`df53b2cae3e8c26c5899fa34a688d1a09dbb250cc7922020301250195cd54a83`.
Deployment verified the backend binary, session key and every app container's
identity/start time remained unchanged. Evidence:
`/tmp/archy-payment-switch-yaya-deploy.log`; rollback:
`/var/lib/archipelago/support/payment-switch-ui-20261007T000429Z-3702073/rollback.sh`.
This is the failed-Lightning compatibility fix, not acceptance of every payment
method or deployment of the new durable purchase backend. No payment was sent by
these checks.

Yaya-to-dev FIPS health probes subsequently recovered without a configuration
change or restart. Five further requests returned HTTP 200, taking 0.49–1.14
seconds (`/tmp/archy-payment-route-health-samples.json`). Earlier 4-second
connection timeouts and the delivery failure remain valid evidence of an
intermittent path; this does not establish sustained media-route reliability.

The next combined isolated backend run passed 1,821 tests with one failure and
five ignored tests. All 377 captured source/build inputs were unchanged. The
failure exposed a purchase binding check using a federation display loader that
deduplicates onion records. The correction reads the original records under the
store lock and rejects ambiguous bindings or mismatched DID/public-key pairs;
its rerun is pending. Installer, settlement executor and LND status tests passed
within this failed combined run; the full batch is not qualified yet.

Dev subsequently completed the same UI deployment with matching served index,
unchanged backend/session/app containers and rollback at
`/var/lib/archipelago/support/payment-switch-ui-20261007T000454Z-2324163/rollback.sh`.
Evidence: `/tmp/archy-payment-switch-dev-deploy.log`. Framework is reachable and
healthy but runs a different backend/UI revision; this incremental deployment
has not changed it.

Read-only real-attempt validation: Yaya's existing `lnd.paymentstatus` RPC returns
`failed`, `Insufficient channel balance`, and 2 sats for the operator's reported
Lightning attempt. This verifies the deployed compatibility UI's recovery lookup
against the actual existing backend, rather than only fixtures. Private evidence:
`/tmp/archy-payment-switch-incident/yaya-failed-lightning-rpc-result.private.json`.
The check did not pay, retry a payment, change a receipt, or infer seller invoice
cancellation. Browser interaction with the operator's own saved attempt remains
separate from this read-only RPC verification.

## Combined qualification after resumed integration

The full isolated backend rerun passed 1,848 tests with zero failures and five
existing skips. All 385 recorded source, build and fixture hashes remained
unchanged. Evidence: `/tmp/archy-qualified-candidate-backend-rerun-tests.log` and
`/tmp/archy-qualified-candidate-backend-rerun-provenance.json`. Earlier failed
runs remain recorded. This qualifies the current backend primitives and Browse
path repair locally; production build and live deployment checks are next.
Complete purchase callers, app registration/publication and timed playback
acceptance remain open. No real payment or public publication was performed.

## Qualified backend deployed to all three working nodes

Local commit `b52214f7` passed 1,848 isolated backend tests (zero failures, five
existing skips); all 385 source/build/fixture hashes stayed unchanged. The release
build completed successfully. Backend SHA256:
`697f71af4eb1d7160f16ce97bb21d2238a4adf477990888d9877ba943691d1e4`.

The same binary is now installed on dev, Yaya and the actual Framework node.
Each deployment preserved node identity, session key, signed node catalog, UI,
stopped/uninstalled choices and all app container IDs/start times. Health passed
on all three; authenticated owner RPC passed on dev/Yaya. Framework's password
was accepted, but its normal dashboard login still requires the operator's TOTP
code, so that authenticated dashboard check remains open. Rollback scripts and
receipts are retained under each node's support directory and locally in
`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/backend-b52214f7/`.

Yaya now advertises the installed V4V `/browse` route. Real mobile (390px) and
desktop (1440px) checks passed Browse, native Nostr login, same-frame playback,
previous/next/shuffle and decoded artwork. Evidence is in the native-player
follow-up. The native private app image/catalog were not changed.

This deployment includes file availability and minimum on-chain amount checks
and the tested recovery primitives. The complete new purchase caller and
IndeeHub publication/playback integration remain under development; these are
not claimed accepted. No new real payment or public publication was performed.

## Payment dialog ownership fixes deployed to all three nodes

Source `47cd915e` passed 31 focused UI tests and the production typecheck/build;
all 492 recorded inputs remained unchanged. The identical UI is deployed on dev,
Yaya and Framework (index SHA256
`ad690dba7744ae1c70489576a2f9ff91ad73a993533d72107e59933fd24da485`).
Each rollout preserved the qualified backend, session key and app containers;
served-index and health checks passed. Per-node rollback scripts are recorded in
the deployment receipts. Artifacts, test logs and receipts are preserved under
`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/ui-47cd915e/`.

The changes bind asynchronous results to their original payment screen, guard
late clipboard/timer callbacks, prevent a new send after navigation before
dispatch, and preserve an already-dispatched Lightning receipt. The minimum
on-chain amount matches the backend. These checks do not establish complete
durable recovery for every payment method. Full purchase integration and live
acceptance remain open; Framework dashboard verification still needs normal TOTP.
No new real payment was made.

## Next integrated caller batch — qualification in progress

The owner Cloud purchase RPC, registered video rental RPC and FIPS seller routes
are now connected to the durable purchase journal. Fresh spending requires the
original operation UUID, envelope hash and exact wallet debit returned for owner
confirmation. Reopening a title checks its existing operation first. Cancellation
must obtain the seller's unspent acknowledgement before a replacement quote.
External Lightning QR invoices expose authoritative lifecycle state; a local timer
alone cannot authorize another payment method.

The native IndeeHub rental broker and player are now implemented in source. The
browser receives a session-bound local playback handle, not the seller receipt
capability. Handle creation/status do not start the viewing period; the actual
video GET does. The app uses `preload="none"` and no autoplay. Closing or changing
content invalidates asynchronous UI results, and status polling cannot initiate
a purchase. Native origin, app lifecycle and HTTP/HTTPS route review are ongoing.

This is **not deployed or accepted**. The combined Rust source is undergoing its
isolated compile/test run. Focused registration tests passed 54 backend, seven
app caller and six host bridge tests; the app rental player passed eight mounted
lifecycle/status cases and frontend typecheck. Host rental tests initially passed
five cases before cancellation/status additions and further independent review;
final host qualification remains pending. Two preexisting backend test/mock type
omissions remain recorded separately from the passing production typecheck.

The original Framework paid-file recovery, real Yaya↔Framework/dev method-switch
acceptance, app image deployment, complete published-title playback and physical
companion checks remain open. No new real payment or public announcement was made.

### Integrated purchase qualification and seller policy correction

The integrated caller, immutable offers, durable acceptance/cancellation, fee-plan
execution, retained Cloud delivery and registered rental plumbing are now in the
candidate source. These are not yet accepted as a live payment flow. The first
combined compile failed before tests; subsequent isolated runs reported 1,884
passed/3 failed/5 ignored, then 1,886 passed/1 failed/5 ignored. The latter run
verified all 406 captured source inputs unchanged. Logs are retained at
`/tmp/archy-purchase-integrated-backend-rerun.log` and
`/tmp/archy-purchase-integrated-backend-final.log`.

The remaining caller test exposed missing explicit mint acceptance in its seller
fixture. Production review also found that a configured default mint could be
quoted without checking the seller's redemption allowlist. The candidate now
checks network and mint policy before new offers/acceptance and before reporting
an unresolved accepted operation ready for fresh buyer spending. Wallet policy
changes cannot remove a mint or switch networks while an accepted seller
liability remains unresolved. Acceptance and policy updates use the same wallet
then purchase lock order. Settlement and cancellation release that policy pin;
already-settled receipts remain recoverable after policy changes. No generic
redemption allowlist bypass was added. New tests cover these transitions and the
original lost acceptance/settlement sequence; this correction awaits the next
isolated run.

Confirmation responses additionally carry the original saved offer's Cashu
network and mint for display. They are not derived from later wallet settings.
No new real payments were made for these checks.

Remaining protocol work is explicit: authenticated server-owned creation and
cancellation of external Lightning invoices across browser-state loss; durable
on-chain address/dispatch/transaction recovery; and explicit rental renewal only
after seller-authoritative expiry evidence. Existing paid receipts and ambiguous
legacy attempts must retain recovery access. A local timeout, missing browser
record or clock expiry must never authorize a second payment.

Qualification update: the corrected combined isolated backend run passed **1,889
tests, zero failures, five existing skips**. Compilation took 4m22s; isolated
execution took 14.60s. All 406 captured inputs remained unchanged. Evidence:
`/tmp/archy-purchase-policy-backend-tests.log` and
`/tmp/archy-purchase-policy-green-provenance.json`. This includes the complete
caller lost-acceptance/lost-settlement regression, seller policy transitions,
immutable-content first-use integrity, and explicit application license metadata.
Production build, deployment and live payment acceptance are separate gates.

### Integrated native purchase dashboard qualification — 7 October

The matching dashboard passed 1,375 tests across 170 files, the actual project
TypeScript check, and its production build with 500 source/build inputs unchanged.
Twenty-one local browser cases passed at 320, 390 and 1440px, including long mint
URLs, Cashu network labels, busy/error states and reachable mobile actions. These
are local fixtures, not live payment acceptance. The earlier full-suite loading
notice timeout is retained in its log; its unchanged-timeout focused rerun and
the subsequent complete suite passed.

The deployable UI and evidence are preserved under
`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/ui-purchase-6fd81faf0d05/`.
Its index SHA256 is `6fd81faf0d057b1c689610ebfbd04193071e282d85e27ec07b34f927525be1f5`.
It requires the matching purchase backend and is not yet deployed. The prior
qualified backend and dashboard remain live on dev, Yaya and Framework.

### Integrated purchase candidate deployed — 7 October UTC

Local source commit `49703d7e` passed 1,889 isolated backend tests with zero
failures and five existing skips; 406 inputs remained unchanged through the
22m24s production build. Binary SHA256:
`f150ffd6007639a672844a8d450c9564dc41d820440655319d67d3df2a332250`.
The matching dashboard's 1,375 tests, typecheck, build and 21 local responsive
cases are recorded above.

Both layers are now deployed to dev, Yaya and the actual Framework. Health,
node identity, remembered session key, private node catalog, app container IDs
and start times, and stopped/uninstalled decisions were preserved on all three.
Each layer has its own rollback receipt. The new route returns 401 to anonymous
GET and 405 to HEAD/POST on all three nodes. Owner RPC passed on dev/Yaya;
Framework's normal authenticated browser acceptance still needs TOTP.

Actual Apps screens passed at 390px and 1440px on dev and Yaya, with no JavaScript
page errors or horizontal overflow. Initial smoke failures were harness selectors
for hidden responsive tabs/images; screenshots showed the rendered app grid.
Visible selectors were corrected without extending timeouts; earlier logs remain.
Dev also required the pre-existing nginx/Tailscale listener correction documented
in `https-app-gate-followup-20261006.md`. Yaya's V4V remained running and its
private signed catalog was byte-for-byte preserved.

All deployment scripts, receipts and browser/endpoint evidence are retained at
`~/.local/state/archipelago/release-qualification/deployed-purchase-49703d7e/`.
No new real payment, OTA, public catalog or source publication occurred.

This is incremental deployment, not complete payment/rental acceptance. Durable
external-invoice and on-chain recovery remain unfinished. Large-film rental
activation remains off: the current integrity guard can scan the whole film on
every range request, exceed the header deadline and commit a lease after timeout.
The separate readiness/index work must remove those scans from request paths,
verify chunks and start the original clock only after explicit ready/start.
IndeeHub private app packaging, distributed announcement delivery and actual
registration/payment/playback acceptance remain open.

### Separate rental readiness candidate — not yet qualified or deployed

The `work/rental-readiness` checkout builds on `49703d7e`; it does not change the
qualified ordinary-purchase deployment. Large-film rental activation remains
blocked by the documented full-file hashing and first-lease timeout problem.

The draft separates bounded background verification from explicit Start. A
completed scan must match the original producer receipt's full SHA before the
node signs a 64 KiB chunk index. Signed indexes bind the receipt, full hash, size,
content identity and chunk hashes. At most two verification jobs run; index
memory and cached jobs are bounded. Preparation can finish after a disconnected
request but cannot start a lease. New registered purchase requests return
preparation progress before allocating an offer UUID or spending funds.

Authenticated Start commits the original viewing window once. A lost response
is recovered using the same purchase, even if its ephemeral readiness ID was
lost. Metadata and range reads do not initiate whole-file verification or leases.
Each returned range slice is taken from a complete chunk whose hash was checked
immediately before delivery. A changed chunk stops delivery; it does not renew
the window or authorize another payment. Existing signed indexes avoid a full
scan after restart, but do not establish that every current media byte is still
present: subsequent corruption remains a recoverable delivery failure.

The added tests cover preparation without a buyer intent or mint request,
settlement/preparation without a lease, GET refusal before Start, original-window
replay, repeated range reads with a full-scan counter, signature/index alteration
and changed chunk rejection. These changes have only passed formatting and diff
checks so far. Isolated compilation, regression tests, actual large-file timing,
installed-app consent/Start flows and recovery acceptance are still outstanding.

The matching host draft advertises read-only `archipelagoRental.playbackProtocol`
2 and requires `request(offer, {playbackProtocol: 2, signal?})`. Paid replies expose
only protocol, opaque handle, operation ID and known expiry. Separate installed-
frame `prepare`, `start` and `status` actions revalidate the native app context.
Only a successful explicit Start returns a playback URL. Preparation progress is
visible in overlay, app-session and tab-signer consent surfaces. Polling is capped;
closing, aborting or timing out cancels only its own pending prompt. A payment
already dispatched remains journaled and is recovered using its original ID.
The host rejects malformed states, changed observed windows and playback URLs in
non-started replies. The focused host/provider run passed 29 tests across two files; actual `vue-tsc -b` passed, with all 542 captured host inputs unchanged. Logs are `/tmp/archy-rental-protocol2-host-tests.log` and `/tmp/archy-rental-protocol2-host-typecheck.log`; provenance is `/tmp/archy-rental-protocol2-host-provenance.json`. The rental Rust remains uncompiled pending the combined backend candidate.

### Isolated on-chain attribution and Fedimint fallback correction

Next candidate, based on `fba3273c`; not yet compiled or deployed. On-chain
verification counts only confirmed output values for the original address, with
integer satoshi arithmetic and transaction/outpoint deduplication. It no longer
uses the wallet-wide transaction amount or mere address presence. Malformed or
missing output evidence cannot authorize delivery. Read-only inspection of the
dev node's LND `0.21.2-beta` confirmed `output_details`, with string `amount` and
`output_index` fields and integer confirmation counts; no private wallet rows
were included in the schema receipt. Field meanings were checked against the
[LND protocol schema](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/v0.21.2-beta/lnrpc/lightning.proto).

Fedimint balance selection may skip insufficient/unavailable federations, but
once a spend is attempted its error cannot trigger a spend in another federation.
Loopback mock cases cover lost body, malformed response, missing notes and server
failure after the mock records a debit. Ark is removed from peer-file payment
choices because this endpoint supports only Cashu/Fedimint; stale unsupported
selections also fail before an RPC.

These changes do **not** complete on-chain or legacy token recovery. A durable
buyer-bound address/transaction operation, cross-rail admission for these older
paths, seller snapshot/receipt retention, and original Fedimint spend lookup are
still required. A Bitcoin address already shown to an external payer remains
payable; a timeout or empty transaction lookup cannot cancel it. Legacy token
redemption followed by lost delivery still needs a durable seller receipt.

Missing output evidence or an unavailable wallet now propagates as an explicit
unknown verification result with a retain-address/no-repayment message. The
buyer also preserves unknown status on transport/HTTP failure and displays it
while read-only polling continues. This does not add cancellation or method
switching authority to a Bitcoin address.

Written regression coverage: four output-attribution cases, two mocked sidecar
spend cases, and two mounted UI cases (unsupported Ark and unknown on-chain
verification). No test execution is claimed until the queued isolated backend
and focused UI runs complete.