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cork: give the cork authority a working CLI for the cellar wind-down - #341

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v10 replaces the validator-supermajority cork path with a single
cork_authority param. Both cork modules enforce it:

if params.CorkAuthority == "" || signer.String() != params.CorkAuthority {
    return nil, ErrUnauthorized "signer %s is not the cork authority"
}

That is correct — but it left no working client for scheduling a cork, which
is the operation the release exists to enable. Found while preparing the v10
cellar wind-down.

What was broken

x/cork had no direct command at all. GetTxCmd() registered no subcommands
(// todo(mvid): figure out what is useful, implement), and the only
schedule-cork was a governance proposal command — the mechanism v10 exists
to replace. MsgScheduleCorkRequest was constructed nowhere in x/cork/client.

steward, which scheduled corks in production, is now rejected. It sends
signer: get_delegate_address(), so every cork it submits fails with
ErrUnauthorized after the upgrade. It also cannot be repointed at the
authority: it loads its key from an on-disk FsKeyStore and so cannot sign for an
authority held on a hardware wallet, which is the deployed configuration.
(Companion change in steward makes that failure self-explanatory rather than
reporting "this may be a steward configuration problem".)

schedule-axelar-cork never worked. It built an AxelarCork without
Deadline, which ValidateBasic requires to be non-zero, so every invocation
failed before broadcasting. I had assumed this path was fine because its signer
handling looked right; it isn't, and it needed running to find that.

Both commands mis-encoded the contract call. []byte(args[3]), under a
todo: how are contract calls submitted? comment, passes the ASCII of the hex
string instead of the ABI-encoded call. This is the nastiest of the four: the
Sommelier transaction succeeds, the call then reverts on the destination
chain, and nothing locally indicates why. In axelarcork the deadline defect
masked it.

What this does

  • Adds tx cork schedule-cork [cellar] [block-height] [hex-call]
  • Adds a required --deadline flag to schedule-axelar-cork (unix timestamp
    enforced by the destination proxy contract)
  • Decodes the contract call from hex in both, with 0x optional
  • Splits buildScheduleCorkMsg / buildScheduleAxelarCorkMsg out of the cobra
    commands so the encoding rules are testable without a client context

Tests cover hex decoding, both prefix forms, and rejection of non-hex calls,
empty calls, invalid addresses, and a zero deadline — plus that --deadline is
actually wired to the command, since an unwired flag silently reintroduces the
original defect.

Also adds TestMain calling params.SetAddressPrefixes in both CLI test
packages: the SDK config defaults to the cosmos prefix, so without it every
somm1... address fails ValidateBasic with a misleading "expected cosmos,
got somm".

Verification

Unit suite 23 ok / 0 FAIL. Both commands confirmed present and correctly
documented in a built binary.

Not yet exercised against a live chain. These are unit-tested only; no
schedule-cork has been signed by a real authority key and executed end to end.
Worth doing on a rehearsal chain before driving real vault recovery.

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  • New Features

    • Added commands for scheduling Cork and Axelar Cork transactions.
    • Added support for hexadecimal contract call data, including optional 0x prefixes.
    • Added a required deadline option for scheduled Axelar Cork transactions.
    • Added validation for target addresses, call data, block heights, and deadlines.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid, empty, or malformed transaction inputs are now rejected before broadcasting.
    • Corrected formatting in a v10 upgrade error message.

zmanian and others added 2 commits August 23, 2026 19:04
v10 retires the validator-delegate path: the cork msg server now requires
signer == params.CorkAuthority. That left no way to schedule an Ethereum cork.

  - x/cork's GetTxCmd registered no subcommands at all ("todo(mvid): figure out
    what is useful"); its only schedule-cork was a GOVERNANCE PROPOSAL command,
    which is the mechanism v10 exists to replace.
  - steward, the tool that actually scheduled corks in production, sends
    signer: get_delegate_address() (somm_send.rs:86), so every cork it submits
    is rejected with ErrUnauthorized after the upgrade.

Net effect: the cellar wind-down that motivates this release had no working
client for Ethereum cellars. x/axelarcork was unaffected -- its direct
schedule-axelar-cork already signs with --from -- so only the Ethereum path was
stranded.

The encoded call is taken as hex and DECODED to bytes. x/axelarcork's command
does []byte(args[3]) under a "todo: how are contract calls submitted?" comment,
which hands the cellar the ASCII of the hex string; that reverts on Ethereum
with nothing locally to explain why. Tests pin the decoding, both prefix forms,
and rejection of non-hex, empty calls, and bad addresses.

buildScheduleCorkMsg is split from the cobra command so the encoding rules are
testable without a client context.

Also adds TestMain calling params.SetAddressPrefixes: the SDK config defaults to
the "cosmos" prefix, so without it every somm1... address fails ValidateBasic
with a misleading "expected cosmos, got somm".

Unit suite: 23 ok, 0 FAIL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two defects, either of which alone made the command unusable. Both matter now
because this is a path for the v10 cellar wind-down.

1. It never worked at all. The command built an AxelarCork without Deadline,
   and AxelarCork.ValidateBasic requires it to be non-zero, so every invocation
   failed with "deadline must be non-zero" before broadcasting anything. The
   deadline is a unix timestamp enforced by the destination proxy contract; it
   is now a required --deadline flag. A flag rather than a fifth positional
   because a bare timestamp among four other positionals is unreadable, and
   there is no working prior usage to stay compatible with.

2. The contract call was passed as []byte(args[3]) under a "todo: how are
   contract calls submitted?" comment -- the ASCII of the hex string rather
   than the ABI-encoded call. Had the deadline defect not masked it, this would
   have been the worse failure: the Sommelier transaction succeeds, the relayed
   call reverts on the destination chain, and nothing locally indicates why.
   The call is now decoded from hex, with the 0x prefix optional.

buildScheduleAxelarCorkMsg is split from the cobra command so the encoding rules
are testable without a client context, mirroring x/cork. Tests cover hex
decoding, both prefix forms, and rejection of non-hex calls, empty calls, bad
addresses, and a zero deadline, plus that the flag is wired to the command --
an unwired flag silently reintroduces defect 1.

Unit suite: 23 ok, 0 FAIL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The CLI changes add validated hexadecimal calldata handling for Axelar cork messages, require scheduling deadlines, and add a registered schedule-cork transaction command. Tests cover command wiring, calldata decoding, address validation, deadline validation, and test setup corrections.

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Cork scheduling commands

Layer / File(s) Summary
Axelar cork scheduling validation and deadline
x/axelarcork/client/cli/tx.go, x/axelarcork/client/cli/tx_test.go
The Axelar command decodes hexadecimal calldata, validates target addresses and non-empty calls, requires --deadline, and validates the constructed message.
Cork scheduling command and registration
x/cork/client/cli/tx.go, x/cork/client/cli/tx_test.go
The cork module registers schedule-cork, parses block height and transaction arguments, constructs validated messages, and generates or broadcasts transactions.
Test and upgrade corrections
app/upgrades/v10/upgrades.go, x/axelarcork/keeper/msg_server_authority_test.go, x/poa/keeper/abci_test.go, x/poa/types/params_test.go
The upgrade error text is adjusted, table tests capture loop-local cases, and the fake validator helper no longer returns a value.

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This PR adds the missing cork scheduling CLI paths, validates deadlines and contract-call decoding, and includes focused unit coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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x/axelarcork/client/cli/tx.go (1)

46-62: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the helper doc comment next to the function.

The comment block describes buildScheduleAxelarCorkMsg, but the FlagDeadline const now sits between the comment and the function. Godoc attaches the whole block to FlagDeadline, so the function is undocumented and the const documentation is wrong.

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+// FlagDeadline names the required deadline flag on schedule-axelar-cork.
+const FlagDeadline = "deadline"
+
 // buildScheduleAxelarCorkMsg assembles a MsgScheduleAxelarCorkRequest from CLI
 // input.
 //
 // The encoded call is taken as hex and DECODED to bytes. This previously did
 // []byte(args[3]), which handed the cellar the ASCII of the hex string: the
 // Sommelier transaction succeeds, the relayed call then reverts on the
 // destination chain, and nothing locally indicates why.
 //
 // deadline is a unix timestamp enforced by the destination proxy contract. It
 // was never set by this command before, so ValidateBasic rejected every
 // invocation with "deadline must be non-zero" -- schedule-axelar-cork has never
 // worked. It is now a required --deadline flag.
 //
 // Split out from the cobra command so the encoding rules are testable without a
 // client context.
-// FlagDeadline names the required deadline flag on schedule-axelar-cork.
-const FlagDeadline = "deadline"
-
 func buildScheduleAxelarCorkMsg(signer string, chainID uint64, contractAddr string, blockHeight, deadline uint64, encodedCall string) (*types.MsgScheduleAxelarCorkRequest, error) {
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In `@x/axelarcork/client/cli/tx.go` around lines 46 - 62, Move the
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zmanian and others added 2 commits August 23, 2026 19:36
The lint job had not run for a long time because it requested the retired
ubuntu-20.04 runner and queued forever. Fixing the runner (0cdd912) made it
run again, which surfaced six findings that entered with #340 and were invisible
when that PR was merged.

None are behavioural:

  - upgrades.go: ST1005, error string ended with a period
  - abci_test.go: unparam, addValidatorWithPubkey returned a Validator no caller
    used; dropped the return (and the now-unused stakingtypes import)
  - params_test.go, msg_server_authority_test.go: scopelint, subtests closed
    over the `tc` range variable; capture it per iteration

Unit suite: 23 ok, 0 FAIL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
staticcheck SA1019: sdk.Int is deprecated in favour of cosmossdk.io/math. The
finding only surfaced after the unparam fix on the same line stopped masking it.

Matches the sibling helper addValidator, which already takes math.Int.

Unit suite: 23 ok, 0 FAIL.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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