fix: preserve and bound orphan governance votes

[PastaPastaPasta]

Issue being fixed or feature implemented

The governance vote comparator treated every vote as equivalent, so the orphan cache retained only the first vote for a missing parent. Distinct registered voters and valid proposal funding votes could be omitted until retransmission or synchronization. Correcting that ordering also exposes timestamp backlogs: one authenticated signer can queue many versions of one vote, then replay them as separate accepted updates when the parent arrives.

What was done?

Three commits:

1. fix: look up the cache multimap entry after pruning: CacheMultiMap::Insert held a reference to the key's index entry across PruneLast(). When a full cache evicted the sole value of the same key, the insert wrote through a dangling reference and left the new item unindexed. The comparator fix in the next commit makes this path reachable from peer-relayed orphan votes, so it lands first.
2. fix: preserve distinct orphan governance votes: CGovernanceVote::operator< has returned false for every pair since 2016, so the orphan cache kept one vote per parent. Order votes lexicographically by their existing signed identity fields.
3. fix: bound authenticated orphan governance backlogs: retain only the newest authenticated orphan per parent, collateral, signal, outcome, and signing role. Voting-key and operator-key candidates remain separate, including when their signed fields and timestamps match; distinct registered voters remain independent. A cached candidate must validate against the current key before its timestamp can suppress a newly authenticated vote, so a stale-key high timestamp cannot hide a current-key vote. Intake queries only the matching group in the existing cache index, and captures the deterministic tip list after taking the cache lock.

No reconciliation pass runs on caches loaded from disk. Under the old comparator a released node could only persist one orphan per parent, caches written with this change are already bounded at intake, and orphans expire after 10 minutes.

The vote hash, signature verification rules, wire/disk format, and block-validation rules are unchanged. The existing global orphan capacity and expiration remain in effect.

How Has This Been Tested?

Built dashd, dash-cli, dash-wallet, and test_dash on macOS arm64. The governance_vote_processing_tests, governance_vote_sync_tests, governance_vote_wire_tests, governance_inv_tests, governance_validators_tests, governance_superblock_tests, and cachemultimap_tests suites pass, as do feature_governance.py, feature_governance_cl.py, feature_llmq_data_recovery.py, and feature_fee_estimation.py. Whitespace and include lints pass.

Each regression observes accepted vote notifications, the final current votes, or the tally. Mutation checks run against the final head:

• Restoring the old CacheMultiMap::Insert: cachemultimap_insert_evicts_sole_value_of_same_key fails with a memory-access violation.
• Restoring the old comparator: orphan_funding_votes_from_multiple_masternodes_are_applied (yes tally 1 instead of 2), operator_signed_orphan_does_not_hide_proposal_funding_vote, and newer_operator_orphan_does_not_replace_voting_key_orphan fail.
• Replacing intake bounding with a plain cache insert: orphan_timestamp_variants_replay_only_the_newest_vote fails. The equal-time, newer wrong-role, and voting-key-rotation cases guard the bounding logic against suppressing the wrong vote and pass either way.

Sanitizer runs and real-network throughput or exhaustion thresholds were not tested.

Breaking Changes

No serialization, signed/hash identity, signer-scheme, RPC-option, or block-validation changes. Redundant authenticated timestamp history is intentionally replaced by its newest valid candidate. Previously discarded votes still require synchronization or retransmission to recover.

Checklist:

• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (no user-facing options changed)
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Walkthrough

CacheMultiMap rechecks its key index after pruning and adds an inclusive value-range lookup. Governance vote validation reports which key validated an unknown-parent vote. Governance removes invalid orphan variants and deduplicates valid variants by key type and timestamp. New tests cover cache behavior and orphan-vote replay.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CGovernanceManager
  participant CDeterministicMNList
  participant CGovernanceVote
  participant OrphanVoteCache
  CGovernanceManager->>CDeterministicMNList: Obtain tip masternode list
  CGovernanceManager->>CGovernanceVote: Validate vote and capture key type
  CGovernanceManager->>OrphanVoteCache: Remove invalid variants and insert or replace vote

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fc96a

The change is mergeable with a bounded test follow-up: assert notification count so duplicate vote replay cannot silently regress.

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✅ Final review complete — no blockers (commit fc96a74) · triage: normal

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Final validation — Phase 2 only (queue backlog)

At head a59f22a, the comparator correctly distinguishes unsigned vote identities, and the added regressions check actual funding tallies. However, retaining distinct votes for an existing parent newly exposes a use-after-free during bounded-cache eviction. Verification was static: the supplied CI snapshot shows successful container builds and formatting checks, queued manifest jobs, and no governance-test results.

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• Triage: low by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff makes a small, straightforward lexicographic comparator repair with focused regression tests, without changing authentication, consensus rules, or payout logic.
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In `src/governance/vote.cpp`:
- [BLOCKING] src/governance/vote.cpp:267-268: Repair cache eviction before allowing distinct votes for an existing parent
  The repaired comparator exposes a use-after-free in the governance orphan cache. `CacheMultiMap::Insert` binds `mapIt` to the destination parent's inner map before calling `PruneLast()` (src/cachemultimap.h:89–104). If the cache is full and its oldest entry is that parent's only vote, pruning erases the empty outer-map entry (lines 217–220), destroying the map referenced by `mapIt`. The subsequent `mapIt.emplace(...)` accesses freed memory and can crash or corrupt the node. For example, a capacity-two cache containing one vote for parent A followed by one for parent B reaches this path when inserting a distinct vote for A. Before this PR, the broken comparator treated the new vote as a duplicate and returned before pruning, so this path was unreachable through governance vote insertion. The production cache permits 1,000,000 entries, and `ProcessVote` accepts authenticated votes for arbitrary unknown parent hashes without a per-signer orphan quota; authentication does not eliminate the saturation case. Reacquire or create the destination map after pruning, and add a small-capacity cache regression covering eviction of the destination parent's sole entry.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Resolved at 9720cdad; see the replies below.

🔴 Blocking: Repair cache eviction before allowing distinct votes for an existing parent

The repaired comparator exposes a use-after-free in the governance orphan cache. CacheMultiMap::Insert binds mapIt to the destination parent's inner map before calling PruneLast() (src/cachemultimap.h:89–104). If the cache is full and its oldest entry is that parent's only vote, pruning erases the empty outer-map entry (lines 217–220), destroying the map referenced by mapIt. The subsequent mapIt.emplace(...) accesses freed memory and can crash or corrupt the node. For example, a capacity-two cache containing one vote for parent A followed by one for parent B reaches this path when inserting a distinct vote for A. Before this PR, the broken comparator treated the new vote as a duplicate and returned before pruning, so this path was unreachable through governance vote insertion. The production cache permits 1,000,000 entries, and ProcessVote accepts authenticated votes for arbitrary unknown parent hashes without a per-signer orphan quota; authentication does not eliminate the saturation case. Reacquire or create the destination map after pruning, and add a small-capacity cache regression covering eviction of the destination parent's sole entry.

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[PastaPastaPasta]

Confirmed and fixed in 9720cda. CacheMultiMap::Insert now does the duplicate check without creating an index entry, prunes, and only then looks up or creates the key's inner map (mapIndex[key]). That way a PruneLast() that erases the same key can no longer leave a dangling reference.

The new cachemultimap_insert_evicts_sole_value_of_same_key case uses a capacity-2 cache holding (1,10) then (2,20) and inserts (1,11). On the previous header it aborts with a memory access violation (exit 201). With the fix it passes, and the new item is indexed and erasable. test_dash --run_test=cachemultimap_tests,governance* passes (31 cases), and dashd builds.

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[thepastaclaw]

Resolved (re-reviewed at 9720cdad): Your change in 9720cda removes the inner-map reference across PruneLast() and looks up the destination only afterwards, so eviction of that same key no longer leaves a dangling reference. I also inspected the capacity-two regression and confirmed that it covers the reported insertion sequence and replacement indexing/erasure; I did not rerun the reported builds or tests in this static verification lane.

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Verified the complete diff at 9720cda: the comparator correctly orders vote identities, and the cache repair resolves the previously reported dangling reference. One nonblocking concern remains: distinct timestamp variants from one signer can now accumulate for a single parent and produce a concentrated replay batch. This was static verification only; the supplied CI snapshot shows checks queued or running and conflict-prediction checks cancelled, not completed build/test validation.

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In `src/governance/vote.cpp`:
- [SUGGESTION] src/governance/vote.cpp:267-268: Bound same-signer orphan backlogs before replay
  The repaired ordering retains timestamp variants from the same signer for the same parent, signal, and outcome. A registered masternode can submit many authenticated variants with increasing positive timestamps below the accepted upper bound; the unknown-parent path has no per-signer limit, only the shared 1,000,000-entry cap. When that parent arrives, CheckOrphanVotes materializes the entire parent's backlog and disables rate checks while holding cs_store; AddGovernanceObjectInternal also holds cs_main. Because these variants are returned in increasing timestamp order, they pass the obsolete-vote check and each accepted vote performs updates, notifications, and relay work. NotifyGovernanceVote additionally copies the tip masternode list for each accepted variant. Before this change, only one orphan per parent reached replay, so this concentrated batch is newly exposed. Signature memos are copied with votes, so same-key replay does not necessarily repeat cryptographic verification, and global cache saturation was already possible using distinct parents; neither is the basis of this finding. Add a bounded same-signer backlog policy that preserves distinct voters and the alternate-key scenario covered by the new regression, with coverage for excessive timestamp variants.

[thepastaclaw]

✅ Resolved at 2339cf7a; see the replies below.

🟡 Suggestion: Bound same-signer orphan backlogs before replay

The repaired ordering retains timestamp variants from the same signer for the same parent, signal, and outcome. A registered masternode can submit many authenticated variants with increasing positive timestamps below the accepted upper bound; the unknown-parent path has no per-signer limit, only the shared 1,000,000-entry cap. When that parent arrives, CheckOrphanVotes materializes the entire parent's backlog and disables rate checks while holding cs_store; AddGovernanceObjectInternal also holds cs_main. Because these variants are returned in increasing timestamp order, they pass the obsolete-vote check and each accepted vote performs updates, notifications, and relay work. NotifyGovernanceVote additionally copies the tip masternode list for each accepted variant. Before this change, only one orphan per parent reached replay, so this concentrated batch is newly exposed. Signature memos are copied with votes, so same-key replay does not necessarily repeat cryptographic verification, and global cache saturation was already possible using distinct parents; neither is the basis of this finding. Add a bounded same-signer backlog policy that preserves distinct voters and the alternate-key scenario covered by the new regression, with coverage for excessive timestamp variants.

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[PastaPastaPasta]

Confirmed the authenticated backlog path and added a bounded admission policy. The orphan cache now keeps only the newest currently authenticated candidate per parent, collateral, signal, outcome, and signing role. Voting/operator roles and distinct voters remain independent, including equal-time alternate-role votes. A stale-key high timestamp cannot suppress a current-key candidate because the incumbent is revalidated before comparison.

Normal intake uses a targeted range lookup in the existing cache index, rather than scanning or copying the parent backlog. Serialized caches are reauthenticated and compacted before use once the deterministic tip keys are available, preserving the retained arrival order for global eviction. Signature requirements, vote hashes, and serialization remain unchanged.

The new chain-backed regressions check bounded cache cardinality, actual accepted notifications, and final current votes/tallies for excess timestamp variants, persisted backlogs, alternate roles, and key rotation. At the previous published head the notification/equal-time regressions fail with four assertions; all 38 final cache/governance cases pass, along with the local production builds and targeted lints. A four-record regression also checks retained arrival order and fails when the rebuild direction is reverted. The one-time loaded-cache pass still authenticates every unexpired persisted entry while holding the cache lock; its cost was not benchmarked. Independent review found no blocking issue. No real-network load threshold or sanitizer claim is made.

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Resolved (re-reviewed at 2339cf7a): Your admission helper now retains only the newest currently authenticated candidate per parent, collateral, signal, outcome, and signing role, revalidating incumbents before timestamp comparison. I also confirmed that deserialized backlogs are compacted before intake or replay, that rebuilding preserves retained arrival order, and that the added regressions observe accepted notifications and final votes; this verification was static, not an independent test or performance run.

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Replay orphan votes for objects admitted before the tip is ready.

For proposals, IsValidLocally validates proposal data and collateral without using tip_mn_list, so a valid proposal can pass while the tip height is -1. AddGovernanceObjectInternal inserts it before calling CheckOrphanVotes. If pending reconciliation then returns because the tip is unavailable, cached votes are not applied. When the tip becomes available, the inspected retry paths do not replay votes for objects already in mapObjects; those votes can remain unapplied. Retry orphan-vote processing for admitted objects when tip readiness is restored.

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Update the orphan-vote retry flow around GetListAtChainTip and
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The complete diff fixes the cache eviction defect and bounds authenticated orphan timestamp backlogs while preserving distinct voters, signing roles, and retained arrival order. No in-scope correctness blockers remain; one non-blocking suggestion concerns documenting the hardening policy in its commit message. Validation was static only: the supplied CI snapshot still has build, formatting, and other checks queued or pending, so it does not establish a passing CI result.

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🟡 Suggestion: Record the orphan-backlog policy rationale in the commit body
<commit:2339cf7a1f>:1

Commit 2339cf7 has an accurate subject but no body. It introduces a non-obvious retention policy: correcting vote ordering exposes authenticated timestamp backlogs, voting/operator candidates must remain independent, and incumbents must authenticate against current keys before their timestamps can suppress replacements. The PR description explains these choices, but readers investigating the implementation through git log or blame would miss that reasoning. Add a commit body preserving this rationale and briefly describing reconciliation of persisted entries, retained arrival order, and unchanged serialization. The hardening change can remain a separate commit.

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• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate orphan-cache lifecycle changes in src/governance/governance.cpp, particularly InsertOrphanVote and ReconcileOrphanVotes, alter current-key authentication and voting-key versus operator-key handling when suppressing or replaying votes.
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In `<commit:2339cf7a1f>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:2339cf7a1f>:1: Record the orphan-backlog policy rationale in the commit body
  Commit 2339cf7a1f has an accurate subject but no body. It introduces a non-obvious retention policy: correcting vote ordering exposes authenticated timestamp backlogs, voting/operator candidates must remain independent, and incumbents must authenticate against current keys before their timestamps can suppress replacements. The PR description explains these choices, but readers investigating the implementation through git log or blame would miss that reasoning. Add a commit body preserving this rationale and briefly describing reconciliation of persisted entries, retained arrival order, and unchanged serialization. The hardening change can remain a separate commit.

[PastaPastaPasta]

Fixed the new cppcheck shadowFunction warning in 1b1158c94c87: the range-lookup boundary is now named range_end. Targeted cppcheck reproduces the warning on the prior header and passes after the rename. The serial production build, 38 cache/governance unit cases, and whitespace/format checks pass.

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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

Static verification of the complete diff at 1b1158c confirms that the cache-eviction defect and authenticated timestamp-backlog issue are fixed; no remaining blocking defect was identified. Two nonblocking history suggestions remain: preserve the backlog policy rationale in its commit message and fold the warning-only rename into its introducing commit. No builds or tests were run in this lane; the supplied CI snapshot shows ClangFormat passing, build/main/merge checks queued, and conflict prediction cancelled.

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🟡 Suggestion: Record the orphan-backlog policy rationale in the commit body
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Commit 2339cf7 still contains only its subject, although it introduces a non-obvious admission and persisted-cache reconciliation policy. The PR description explains why the cache retains the newest authenticated candidate per parent/collateral/signal/outcome/signing role, why incumbents must authenticate against current keys before suppressing another vote, and why loaded backlogs are compacted while preserving retained arrival order. Add a concise explanation of that failure mode and those policy choices to this commit's body, including that signed identity and serialization remain unchanged, so future git log and blame readers retain the reasoning without needing the PR discussion.

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🟡 Suggestion: Fold the range-lookup rename into its introducing commit
<commit:1b1158c94c>:1

Commit 1b1158c only renames the range boundary from end to range_end and updates its use in the overload introduced by 2339cf7. This is a warning correction to code added in the same PR, rather than an independent behavior change. Before an unsquashed merge, fold it into 2339cf7 so the backlog-hardening commit contains the warning-clean implementation, while preserving the comparator repair and cache-eviction repair as separate substantive commits.

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• Triage: critical by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The intricate orphan-cache changes in src/governance/governance.cpp directly alter signing-role and current-key authentication handling when suppressing and replaying votes, meeting the critical-surface bar despite unchanged signature algorithms and serialization.
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In `<commit:2339cf7a1f>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:2339cf7a1f>:1: Record the orphan-backlog policy rationale in the commit body
  Commit 2339cf7a1f still contains only its subject, although it introduces a non-obvious admission and persisted-cache reconciliation policy. The PR description explains why the cache retains the newest authenticated candidate per parent/collateral/signal/outcome/signing role, why incumbents must authenticate against current keys before suppressing another vote, and why loaded backlogs are compacted while preserving retained arrival order. Add a concise explanation of that failure mode and those policy choices to this commit's body, including that signed identity and serialization remain unchanged, so future git log and blame readers retain the reasoning without needing the PR discussion.

In `<commit:1b1158c94c>`:
- [SUGGESTION] <commit:1b1158c94c>:1: Fold the range-lookup rename into its introducing commit
  Commit 1b1158c94c only renames the range boundary from end to range_end and updates its use in the overload introduced by 2339cf7a1f. This is a warning correction to code added in the same PR, rather than an independent behavior change. Before an unsquashed merge, fold it into 2339cf7a1f so the backlog-hardening commit contains the warning-clean implementation, while preserving the comparator repair and cache-eviction repair as separate substantive commits.

[PastaPastaPasta]

The final review covers the current 1b1158c94c87 head and reports no blocking defects. I have recorded both commit-history suggestions: add the backlog policy rationale to 2339cf7a1f and fold the warning-only range_end rename into that commit, preserving the comparator and cache-eviction repairs as separate substantive commits. I will handle these at the next required restack or before an unsquashed merge. A history-only cleanup must preserve the exact final tree; if the base also changes, I will verify that rebase separately with range-diff. Current-head CI is still queued, so I am retaining this head while those checks run.

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Potential PR merge conflicts

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If this PR merges first

These open PRs will likely need a rebase:

• #7526: fix: fetch orphan-vote parents via the request tracker instead of broadcasting Changed files: src/cachemultimap.h, src/governance/governance.cpp, src/governance/governance.h, src/test/governance_vote_processing_tests.cpp.

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src/test/governance_vote_processing_tests.cpp (1)

299-371: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert notification cardinality in the multi-masternode replay test.

The stored vote count can remain two if the duplicate second_vote is processed twice, because the second vote overwrites the same masternode/signal entry. NotifyGovernanceVote would still record both accepted calls. Synchronize the callback queue and assert that exactly two notifications were recorded.

Suggested fix

     govman.AddGovernanceObject(proposal, /*peer_str=*/"");
+    SyncWithValidationInterfaceQueue();
+    BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL(vote_notifications->GetHashes().size(), 2U);
     const auto stored{govman.FindConstGovernanceObject(parent_hash)};

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Review comment at @src/test/governance_vote_processing_tests.cpp around lines
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In orphan_funding_votes_from_multiple_masternodes_are_applied, synchronize the
validation-interface callback queue after adding the proposal, then assert that
vote_notifications recorded exactly two hashes; retain the existing stored-vote
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Review comments at @src/test/governance_vote_processing_tests.cpp:
- Around line 299-371: In
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Re-review — Final validation — Phase 1 + Phase 2

The complete three-commit diff at fc96a74 has no verified in-scope defects, and all four prior findings are fixed. The unused observation concerns a pre-existing include, not a change introduced by this PR. Verification was static only; the supplied CI snapshot at 2026-10-07T18:09:13Z shows successful formatting and preliminary checks, but container-build prerequisites remain queued, so current-head build and test validation is not established by that snapshot.

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Review provenance

Source: reviewer 1: muse-spark-1.3-contributor (agent: phase1-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 2: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 3: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); reviewer 4: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: general); reviewer 5: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: phase2-reviewer, role: dash-core-commit-history); final verifier: gpt-6.1-sol (agent: sol-verifier, role: final-verifier)

• Triage: normal by gpt-6.1-sol (effort low) — The diff adds moderately intricate orphan-cache ordering and authenticated-candidate retention logic, but does not change consensus rules, signature verification, key handling, network deserialization, or storage formats.
• Phase 1 reviewers: muse-spark-1.3-contributor — general (completed, effort xhigh); agent phase1-reviewer
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• Fresh final gate: an independent Phase-2 review ran after iterative findings were reconciled
• Fresh verifier: gpt-6.1-sol — final-verifier; agent sol-verifier
• Phase 2 reviewers: gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — general (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer, gpt-6.1-sol — dash-core-commit-history (completed, effort high); agent phase2-reviewer

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This pull request has conflicts, please rebase.