fix: CommitmentTreeInsert under-costed in estimated-cost paths (issue #812)

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Fixes #812.

What this fixes

CommitmentTreeInsert was under-costed in the estimated-cost paths in two independent ways. Downstream this is an admission-control bypass: Dash Platform admits a transaction on the estimated cost, then re-meters with the real cost during execution — when actual exceeds estimated, the transaction is admitted and fails mid-execution (the trigger for the two mainnet chain stalls on 2026-08-14/15).

Defect 1 — keyless ops were dropped before cost dispatch

BatchStructure::continue_from_ops skipped every keyless append-only op (CommitmentTreeInsert, MmrTreeAppend, BulkAppend, DenseTreeInsert) with a bare continue, so the cost arms that already exist for these ops in average_case_costs.rs / worst_case_costs.rs were unreachable during estimation — the append contributed zero to the estimate.

Keyless ops now have the tree key split off their path (it is the path's last segment by construction) and flow to the cost dispatch. Each op gets a unique synthetic MaxKeySize key — sized with the real tree-key length, carrying the real key bytes recoverably — so several appends to the same tree don't collapse into one BTreeMap entry: every append is charged individually.

Behavior notes:

• The apply path is unchanged: preprocessing still rewrites these ops into keyed ReplaceNonMerkTreeRoot ops before from_ops runs.
• If a keyless op ever does reach real execution (e.g. via the partial-apply add-on callback), it now fails loudly with "should have been preprocessed" instead of being silently dropped — a silent drop from a cost model is indistinguishable from an op that is genuinely free, which is exactly the bug class here.
• Estimation callers must now provide layer information for the tree's parent path (same requirement as every other op type). Previously a batch of only append ops estimated as free with no layer info at all.

Defect 2 — average-case constants where an upper bound is required

The append cost is position-dependent and the position is adversary-chosen:

• the Sinsemilla ommer cascade 32 + trailing_ones(position) is maximal (64) exactly at positions 2^k − 1;
• epoch compaction — which rewrites the entire chunk blob (2^chunk_power × entry_size bytes) in one append — fires exactly every 2^chunk_power-th append.

Both are deterministic and cheaply reachable, not a rare tail, so an average is not a meaningful bound. Both estimators now share one upper-bound model, commitment_tree_insert_op_cost in batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs, with all constants derived from Orchard's NOTE_COMMITMENT_TREE_DEPTH (a depth change cannot silently reintroduce the gap):

• MAX_SINSEMILLA_HASHES_PER_APPEND = 2 × FRONTIER_DEPTH = 64 (was 33 avg / 64 worst)
• MAX_FRONTIER_SIZE = 1 + 8 + 32 + 1 + FRONTIER_DEPTH × 32 = 1066 (was 554 avg / 1066 worst)

Empirical measurement (single-op applies across positions) also showed cost components the old model missed entirely, in dimensions the issue's shortfall was measured in:

• the frontier save is attributed to added bytes (not replaced, as the old model assumed), and grows toward 1066;
• the dense buffer's per-append root recompute costs 2 × buffer_fill blake3 hashes (old model: 1);
• the compaction append writes the whole epoch's chunk blob plus the MMR merge cascade (old model: nothing).

Epoch scale (updated after review feedback)

The dense-buffer and compaction terms scale with 2^chunk_power, which the op does not carry. No policy constant is involved; the epoch scale is resolved as follows:

• The average-case estimator REQUIRES the tree's own layer declared with TreeType::CommitmentTree(chunk_power) in the estimation paths — the declare-your-layers contract every other estimated op follows, and the shape Dash Platform already registers in add_estimation_costs_for_shielded_pool_operations — and errors loudly when it is missing.
• The worst-case estimator charges the physical ceiling PHYSICAL_MAX_CHUNK_POWER = 16 (the dense buffer's u16 count limit — no tree beyond it can function; a structural invariant, not policy), since WorstCaseLayerInformation carries no tree type to declare through.
• The element constructors are untouched (chunk_power <= 31 as before); both cost arms are implemented as versioned functions ({average,worst}_case_commitment_tree_insert with _v0/_v1 variants) following the average_case_merk_replace_tree dispatch pattern.

Judgment call flagged for maintainers: per the issue, the average-case arm is also an upper bound — admission control consumes the average-case path, and making the two arms differ silently would be a consensus fault for the caller. With the declared layer (as Platform supplies), a single estimated append reserves the tree's true worst case: the full compaction of one epoch (~680 KB added bytes at chunk_power 11 with 312-byte notes) where typical actuals are ~500 bytes. Actual charged fees are unaffected (Platform re-meters), but the up-front funding requirement rises accordingly; the fee-table regeneration on the platform side (mentioned in the issue) is where this lands.

Property tests (issue fix #3)

grovedb/src/tests/commitment_tree_cost_bound_tests.rs pins estimated ≥ actual per cost dimension, for both estimators, against real apply_batch costs (apply success asserted before each comparison):

• position sweep 0..36 plus 2^k − 1 / 2^k pairs up to 256 at chunk_power 4 (crosses several compaction boundaries that coincide with maximal ommer cascades);
• the epoch boundary at the cap: positions 2046 (max dense-root recompute), 2047 (full 2048-entry compaction — the most expensive append a creatable tree can produce, and the mainnet pool's shape), 2048 — for the fallback, declared-layer, and worst-case estimates;
• a declared-layer test showing a declared small chunk power tightens the estimate ~100× while still dominating the actual compaction append;
• a multi-op batch spanning a compaction boundary (the shape of the mainnet failure);
• N-op batches charge every append individually (guards the dedup pitfall in defect 1);
• MMR / bulk-append / dense-tree keyless appends now reach their cost arms (non-zero estimates).

Version gating (updated after review)

Both halves are gated behind GROVE_V4 (GroveVersion::latest()), per review: the estimate is the admission bound in validate_fees_of_event, and a syncing platform node re-executes historical blocks through full validation — raising the estimate ungated would make already-committed shield-family transitions re-validate as under-funded and brick sync.

• apply_batch.keyless_op_cost_dispatch (0 on V1..V3, 1 on V4): old versions keep the silent keyless-op skip (append estimates as free, exactly as historical admission decisions saw); V4 routes them to the cost arms.
• operations.average_case.average_case_commitment_tree_insert / operations.worst_case.worst_case_commitment_tree_insert (0 on V1..V3, 1 on V4): old versions keep the legacy constants byte-for-byte (33/554 average, 64/1066 worst, no compaction); V4 uses the upper-bound model.

Companion tests pin the replay guarantee: under GROVE_V3 keyless append ops estimate as exactly OperationCost::default(), and direct dispatch of both CommitmentTreeInsert arms reproduces the legacy outputs byte-for-byte. The apply path is byte-identical on every version. With the gate, the platform pin bump decouples from activation — the new estimator stays dormant until the protocol version selects GROVE_V4.

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• New Features

  • V4 introduces cost estimation for previously uncharged keyless append operations.
  • Commitment-tree insertion estimates now account for tree depth, chunk configuration, storage work, and flag loading.
  • Missing tree configuration is reported as an estimation error.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved batch cost estimates across tree positions, boundaries, and multi-operation batches.
  • Legacy versions retain their previous costing behavior.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive cost-bound, error-handling, and compatibility coverage for commitment-tree and keyless append operations.

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GroveDB now version-dispatches keyless append and commitment-tree insertion costs. V1–V3 retain legacy estimates. V4 uses synthetic keys and depth-derived upper-bound models. Tests validate cost bounds, replay behavior, tree positions, compaction, and parent flags.

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Commitment tree cost estimation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Version-gated dispatch and wiring grovedb/src/batch/batch_structure.rs, grovedb/src/batch/mod.rs, grovedb-version/src/version/*	Batch construction now receives GroveVersion. Enabled versions validate tree-key segments and charge keyless appends through synthetic keys. V1–V3 preserve skip behavior, while V4 enables the new gates.
Shared commitment-tree cost model grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs, grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/average_case_costs.rs, grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/worst_case_costs.rs	Average- and worst-case estimators dispatch by version. V4 uses declared chunk power and shared upper-bound costing for frontier, buffer, compaction, MMR, storage, Blake3, and Sinsemilla work.
Cost-bound and replay validation grovedb/src/tests/commitment_tree_cost_bound_tests.rs, grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/*, grovedb/src/tests/mod.rs	Tests verify estimates cover actual costs across tree positions, batches, boundaries, append modes, missing metadata, legacy replay, and large parent flags.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 2d5ea

The PR changes commitment-tree admission estimates, but unresolved edge cases can still leave actual append costs above the estimate or overflow the calculation for large payloads, causing failed execution or runtime failures. The PR is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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  participant BatchStructure
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  participant CostModel
  BatchStructure->>GroveVersion: read feature gates
  BatchStructure->>BatchStructure: validate path and create synthetic key
  BatchStructure->>CostEstimator: estimate commitment-tree operation
  CostEstimator->>CostModel: calculate versioned operation cost
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In `@grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs`:
- Around line 76-83: Enforce MAX_ESTIMATED_CHUNK_POWER when creating commitment
trees so chunk_power values above 10 cannot bypass the estimator’s bound. Update
Element::empty_commitment_tree and the batch reconstruction path using
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169-171: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Bound commitment-tree flags before using a fixed load estimate.

Line 171 charges 512 bytes for the stored CommitmentTree element. Element::empty_commitment_tree_with_flags accepts an unbounded Vec<u8> at grovedb-element/src/element/constructor.rs Lines 430-437. A tree with flags larger than this allowance makes the element read exceed the estimate. This breaks the required estimate >= actual contract.

Include the target flag length in estimation metadata, or enforce a compatible flag-size limit. Add a cost-bound test for a flagged commitment tree with flags larger than 512 bytes.

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In `@grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs` around lines 169 - 171, The fixed
512-byte CommitmentTree load allowance in the estimated-cost calculation can
underestimate elements created with larger flags. Update the relevant estimation
metadata and flow around storage_loaded_bytes and
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This is Claude. The follow-up Major finding on estimated_costs/mod.rs (element flags exceeding the fixed 512-byte load allowance, from review 4950020458 — posted outside the diff so it has no inline thread) is addressed in 09711ae:

• commitment_tree_insert_op_cost now takes an element-flags load bound instead of the fixed allowance.
• The average-case estimator derives it from the parent layer's declared flags size (layered_flags_size()) — the same metadata the parent-node replace already uses, so an undeclared flags size undercounts both consistently, matching the existing estimation contract for every element type.
• The worst-case estimator charges MERK_BIGGEST_VALUE_SIZE, consistent with the rest of the worst-case machinery.
• New property test: appends to a commitment tree carrying 2000-byte flags (well past the old allowance) and asserts both estimates still dominate the actual apply cost per dimension.

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The substance here is exactly right — both defects from #812 are fixed the way the issue asked, and the derived-bound constants plus the cost-bound test suite are better than what was requested. But please gate both behavior changes behind a new GroveVersion before merge. Ungated, this cannot be safely pinned by Dash Platform, for a reason stronger than the usual mixed-fleet concern:

The replay problem

The estimated cost is not just a fee quote — downstream it is the admission bound in validate_fees_of_event, and a syncing platform node re-executes every historical block through full validation using the binary's current cost model. This PR raises the estimate for every commitment-tree-appending transition (deliberately — the new numbers are upper bounds, sitting above actual metered cost).

Now take any shield-family transition already committed on mainnet or testnet: it was admitted under the old (under-counting) estimate and executed successfully, so its funding covered actual. If that funding falls below the new upper bound, a fresh node running the new pin will re-validate the historical block, reject the transition as under-funded, fail the block — and permanently brick its sync at that height. The exposure set is every committed Shield, ShieldFromAssetLock, ShieldedTransfer, ShieldedWithdrawal, and IdentityCreateFromShieldedPool on every network, and the safety argument "none of them happens to land in the gap" is not one to bet chain sync on.

Historical blocks must evaluate identically under every future binary. That is what a version gate is for, and the cost paths already thread grove_version, so the dispatch points exist.

What to gate

Both halves, independently reachable from the estimation paths:

1. Keyless-op reachability (batch_structure.rs synthetic keys): old grove version → keep the current skip (continue), new version → file under the synthetic key so the cost arms run.
2. The bound constants (average_case_costs.rs / worst_case_costs.rs CommitmentTreeInsert arms): old version → current averages (AVG_SINSEMILLA_HASHES = 33, AVG_FRONTIER_SIZE = 554), new version → the derived bounds from this PR.

The new cost-bound tests should run against the new version; a small companion test pinning the old version's outputs unchanged would lock the replay guarantee down.

The payoff

Once gated, the platform pin bump decouples from activation: platform can bump immediately and ship in 4.2, with the new estimator dormant until protocol v14 selects the new grove version — instead of the pin bump itself being a consensus event that has to be scheduled. Platform context: dashpay/platform#4408 (v14-gated rollback fix) and dashpay/platform#4409 (4.1.1 proposer-side hotfix) — this PR closes the trigger those close the consequence of.

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This is Claude. The version gating requested in the review is done in cbbb5f3 — both halves, landed in GROVE_V4 (which GroveVersion::latest() resolves to, so the cost-bound property tests exercise the new model unchanged):

1. Keyless-op reachability — new slot apply_batch.keyless_op_cost_dispatch (0 on V1..V3, 1 on V4). Old versions keep the exact silent skip (continue) in BatchStructure::continue_from_ops, so a keyless append still contributes zero to the estimate, precisely what historical admission decisions saw; V4 files them under the synthetic keys so every append reaches the cost arms. from_ops/continue_from_ops now take grove_version (threaded from all three callers).

2. The bound constants — new slots operations.average_case.average_case_commitment_tree_insert and operations.worst_case.worst_case_commitment_tree_insert (0 on V1..V3, 1 on V4). The legacy blocks are restored byte-for-byte behind version 0: average-case AVG_SINSEMILLA_HASHES = 33 / AVG_FRONTIER_SIZE = 554, worst-case 64 / 1066 with no compaction and the frontier charged as replaced bytes. The V4-only inputs (declared chunk power, flags load bound) don't influence the legacy blocks.

Companion tests pin the replay guarantee exactly as requested:

• test_keyless_append_ops_still_estimate_as_free_before_v4 — under GROVE_V3, batch estimation of every keyless op type (CT/MMR/bulk/dense) is exactly OperationCost::default().
• test_commitment_tree_insert_{average,worst}_case_cost_pinned_before_v4 — direct dispatch under GROVE_V3 must equal the replace-tree part plus the pinned legacy flat constants byte-for-byte (the average-case one also asserts a declared chunk power is ignored on V3).

The apply path remains byte-identical on every version. Slot docs in grovedb_versions.rs and the V4 module doc spell out the replay rationale. All 2717 grovedb + 47 grovedb-version tests pass.

One consequence now explicit for the platform side: with the gate in place, the pin bump is decoupled from activation as described — the new estimator stays dormant until the protocol version selects GROVE_V4, alongside the other V4 gates.

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This is Claude. Two follow-ups from maintainer feedback, pushed in 582d8a7:

1. The chunk-power creation cap is gone. empty_commitment_tree{,_with_flags} accept chunk_power <= 31 again and MAX_COMMITMENT_TREE_CHUNK_POWER is removed. Instead, the V4 average-case model requires the commitment tree's own layer declared with TreeType::CommitmentTree(chunk_power) in the estimation paths — the declare-your-layers contract every other estimated op already follows, and exactly the shape add_estimation_costs_for_shielded_pool_operations registers — with a loud PathNotFoundInCacheForEstimatedCosts error when it's missing. The worst-case model, which has no declaration channel, charges the physical ceiling (PHYSICAL_MAX_CHUNK_POWER = 16, the dense buffer's u16 count limit — a structural invariant rather than policy). No policy constant remains anywhere.

2. The version-gated arms are now proper versioned functions. Both CommitmentTreeInsert arms delegate to {average,worst}_case_commitment_tree_insert dispatchers that match on the version slot and route to _v0 (legacy model, byte-for-byte) / _v1 (upper-bound model), returning UnknownVersionMismatch for unrecognized versions — the same shape as average_case_merk_replace_tree.

Tests: all dominance sweeps now declare the tree's layer (as Platform does); a new test pins that undeclared estimation fails loudly; the V3 replay-pinning tests are unchanged and pass. Full suite: 2717 passed.

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127-168: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent u32 overflow in the epoch estimate.

When chunk_power is 16 and payload_len is at least 65,424, the epoch term reaches 2^32. GroveOp::CommitmentTreeInsert is public, and estimation uses payload.len() before append_raw rejects non-216-byte DashMemo payloads. Invalid inputs can therefore panic in debug builds or wrap added_bytes in release builds. Reject invalid payload lengths before this calculation, or use checked/saturating arithmetic with a boundary test.

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In `@grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs` around lines 127 - 168, Prevent
overflow in commitment_tree_insert_op_cost by validating payload_len before
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grovedb/src/tests/commitment_tree_cost_bound_tests.rs (1)

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Consider adding a large-payload case to the bound tests.

The suite covers positions, compaction boundaries, batch width, replay, and large parent flags. It does not cover a large payload. The worst-case model multiplies the epoch size by the per-entry size, so payload length is the one input that scales the estimate multiplicatively. A case with a multi-kilobyte payload would pin that term and would catch the arithmetic risk raised on commitment_tree_insert_op_cost.

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In `@grovedb/src/tests/commitment_tree_cost_bound_tests.rs` around lines 509 -
575, Add a commitment-tree cost-bound test alongside
test_commitment_tree_insert_estimated_covers_actual_with_large_flags using a
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Outside diff comments:
In `@grovedb/src/batch/estimated_costs/mod.rs`:
- Around line 127-168: Prevent overflow in commitment_tree_insert_op_cost by
validating payload_len before calculating the epoch-sized term, or by using
checked/saturating arithmetic that preserves safe estimates for oversized
inputs. Ensure invalid payload lengths such as chunk_power 16 with payload_len
at least 65,424 cannot panic or wrap added_bytes, and add a boundary test
covering this case.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@grovedb/src/tests/commitment_tree_cost_bound_tests.rs`:
- Around line 509-575: Add a commitment-tree cost-bound test alongside
test_commitment_tree_insert_estimated_covers_actual_with_large_flags using a
multi-kilobyte payload. Insert the tree, construct the corresponding operation,
compute average and worst-case estimates, apply the batch, and assert both
estimates dominate actual storage_loaded_bytes. Ensure the test exercises the
payload-size multiplier in commitment_tree_insert_op_cost.

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[QuantumExplorer]

This is Claude. The u32-overflow finding on commitment_tree_insert_op_cost (review 4954109420, posted outside the diff so no inline thread) is addressed in 2d5eacb: the byte sum is computed in u64 and saturated at u32::MAX — a wrapped added_bytes would silently under-estimate, the exact failure the model exists to prevent, while saturation merely over-reserves for an op the apply path would reject anyway. A boundary test (test_commitment_tree_insert_worst_case_cost_oversized_payload_saturates, 70,000-byte payload at the 2^16 physical ceiling) pins the saturation; a debug build previously panicked there.

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