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This PR vendors the decode-bounds.json protocol test vectors from cachekit-io/protocol and wires them into the CI test suite to enforce MessagePack decode-bounds safety guarantees across all untrusted decode entry points (LAB-2737).

What Changed

New protocol test suite (decode-bounds.protocol.test.ts):

  • Executes the vendored decode-bounds vectors against three untrusted MessagePack decode sites:
    • MessagePackSerializer.decode (auto-mode serializer)
    • decodeInteropValue (interop/v1 value decoder)
    • deserializeEvent (invalidation-event decoder)
  • Fixture integrity check: pins the fixture to a sha256 hash (FIXTURE_SHA256) and asserts the expected vector counts (13 reject, 2 accept), so any drift from the upstream protocol revision fails loudly.
  • Construction check: verifies each vector's repeat_hex * count + suffix_hex construction reproduces its input_hex.
  • Reject vectors: confirms deeply-nested inputs are rejected as SerializationError before any allocation, matching the message from the decode pre-scan (assertDecodeDepth, LAB-2487) — proving the rejection happens at the pre-scan rather than later during decode.
  • Accept vectors: confirms valid inputs decode without error, while deserializeEvent fails closed (never aborts) when a vector nests deeper than MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_DEPTH.

Byte-integrity safeguards for vendored fixtures:

  • .gitattributes: marks the fixtures directory as binary (-text) to prevent CRLF rewrites under core.autocrlf, keeping bytes identical across platforms for sha256 pinning.
  • .prettierignore: excludes the fixtures directory so Prettier never reformats the vendored files.

Why

These changes ensure the TypeScript decoders correctly enforce the shared protocol's decode-bounds specification (spec/interop-mode.md#decode-bounds), guarding against a MessagePack nesting/allocation-amplification vulnerability. Vendoring the vectors with strict byte-pinning keeps the TS implementation verifiably in sync with the upstream protocol, while the ByteStorage envelope decode is verified separately in Rust (LAB-3479).

Notes

The file comments document the re-vendoring process: copy test-vectors/decode-bounds.json byte-for-byte from protocol main, then update FIXTURE_SHA256 and the vector counts in the first test.


Summary

This PR strengthens the test assertions for decode-bounds.json protocol vectors by verifying decoded values rather than merely confirming that decoding does not throw.

Changes

  • Added an EXPECTED value map that pins each accept vector to the exact value it should decode to:

    • nested_fixarray_depth_32: a 32-level deeply nested array
    • array16_256_backed_nils: an array of 256 null values
  • Upgraded accept-vector assertions in both the MessagePackSerializer.decode and decodeInteropValue test paths. Previously these only checked that decoding did not throw (not.toThrow()); they now assert the decoded output deep-equals the pinned expected value (toEqual(EXPECTED[v.name])).

  • Added a coverage guard in the manifest test that asserts the accept vector names match the keys in EXPECTED. This ensures that any newly vendored accept vector must have a corresponding expected value defined, or the test will fail.

Purpose

These changes prevent a "false green" scenario where the decoder throws or produces incorrect output but the test still passes because it only checked for the absence of an exception. By pinning expected values and enforcing that every accept vector is accounted for, the tests now validate correctness of decode behavior and stay in sync when vectors are re-vendored.


Summary

This PR vendors the upstream decode-bounds.json protocol test vectors from cachekit-io/protocol and wires them into CI so that the TypeScript package's MessagePack decode boundaries are validated against the shared cross-language conformance suite (LAB-2737).

What Changed

New protocol conformance test (decode-bounds.protocol.test.ts)

  • Executes the vendored decode-bounds.json vectors (13 reject vectors, 2 accept vectors) against every untrusted MessagePack decode entry point in the package:
    • MessagePackSerializer.decode (auto-mode serializer)
    • decodeInteropValue (interop/v1 value decoder)
    • deserializeEvent (invalidation-event decoder)
  • Pins the fixture to a specific upstream revision via a FIXTURE_SHA256 hash, failing the test if the file drifts from the pinned protocol version.
  • Verifies each vector's construction fields reproduce its input_hex, confirming the vectors were vendored intact.
  • Asserts that reject vectors are refused during the pre-scan (before any allocation), proving the depth-bounds check (assertDecodeDepth, LAB-2487) prevents memory-amplification attacks rather than merely erroring out after allocating.
  • Confirms accept vectors decode to their expected values, and that the tighter invalidation-event depth cap (MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_DEPTH) always fails closed with a SerializationError rather than crashing.

Fixture integrity guards

  • .gitattributes: marks the vendored fixtures directory as binary (-text) to prevent CRLF rewriting, keeping bytes identical across platforms so the sha256 pin holds.
  • .prettierignore: excludes the fixtures directory from prettier so vendored files stay byte-identical to upstream.

Why

These changes ensure the TypeScript decode paths enforce the same decode-bounds guarantees defined in the shared protocol spec (interop-mode.md#decode-bounds), catching any regression that would weaken protection against maliciously nested MessagePack input. The sha256 pin plus byte-preservation guards make re-vendoring an explicit, auditable step.

Note: The ByteStorage envelope decode happens in Rust (cachekit-core) and is verified there separately (LAB-3479), not in this test.


Summary

This PR strengthens the protocol decode-bounds test suite that validates untrusted MessagePack decoding against vendored decode-bounds.json vectors from cachekit-io/protocol.

Key Changes

Per-vector, exact guard assertions (replacing broad regex matching)

  • Previously each decode site matched rejections against a single fixed regex (e.g., /(decode pre-scan)$/). Now expectedRejection() computes the exact error each vector must produce at each site — a size-cap error, a depth-exceeded error, or a truncation error — based on the vector's actual size and nesting depth.
  • This closes a false-green gap where a blanket regex would still pass even if a specific guard (like the depth check) were removed, because over-claiming vectors would be caught later by the structural walk instead.

New guardrail tests

  • Added a test asserting each decode site's bounds satisfy the protocol's rules.depth constraints and remain least-privilege (e.g., MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_DEPTH pinned to 3, DEFAULT_MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_SIZE to 4096).
  • Added a test verifying every reject vector actually exhibits the rule it's tagged with (depth, overclaim), plus a check ensuring at least one depth-only vector remains so the depth bound stays meaningfully pinned after any re-vendor.

Tightened accept-vector event behavior

  • The deserializeEvent accept-vector test now asserts precise outcomes: deep vectors must throw the exact expected rejection, while shallow ones must return an inert all-undefined event (reflecting that deserializeEvent has no shape check today, tracked as LAB-3477), rather than tolerating either throw-or-decode.

Fixture integrity / vendoring hardening

  • Extended .gitattributes glob (fixtures/**) and added pre-commit excludes for trailing-whitespace and end-of-file-fixer so byte-pinned vendored fixtures are never mutated (which would corrupt the sha256 pin).
  • Expanded the re-vendor documentation to note cross-SDK sha256 coupling with cachekit-py and list all four coupled edits required when re-vendoring.

Summary

Strengthens validation in the decode-bounds protocol vector test suite (packages/cachekit/test/protocol/decode-bounds.protocol.test.ts).

Changes

  • Reject reasons are now mandatory: each reject vector must declare at least one reject_reasons entry. Previously, a vector with an empty or absent list would pass the assertion loop vacuously, silently bypassing rule verification.
  • Unknown reasons now fail loudly: the sequence of if checks was replaced with a switch that throws on any reason other than depth or overclaim. Previously, an unrecognized or misspelled tag was ignored, allowing a vector to be accepted without any of its constraints being checked.

Impact

Test-only change; no public API or runtime behavior is affected. The suite now fails if vendored decode-bounds.json vectors are untagged or carry reason tags the test does not know how to verify, preventing coverage gaps from going undetected as the vector set evolves.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved protocol decoding reliability for deeply nested, truncated, oversized and malformed data.
    • Added safeguards to fail closed when encoded values exceed supported bounds.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive interoperability coverage for accepted boundary values and invalid encoded inputs.
    • Added cross-platform protections to preserve protocol fixture bytes exactly.
    • Prevented formatting and whitespace checks from altering protocol fixtures.

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The change adds MessagePack decode-bound fixtures and tests for serializer, interop, and invalidation-event decoding. Repository rules prevent byte normalisation and formatting changes for protocol fixtures.

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Decode-bound protocol coverage

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Decode-bound fixture contract
.gitattributes, .prettierignore, .pre-commit-config.yaml, packages/cachekit/test/protocol/fixtures/decode-bounds.json
The fixture defines accepted and rejected decode-bound vectors. Repository tooling preserves its bytes and formatting.
Decode-bound protocol validation
packages/cachekit/test/protocol/decode-bounds.protocol.test.ts
Tests validate fixture construction, rejection behaviour, accepted boundary values, event limits, and fail-closed SerializationError handling across decode entry points.

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In `@packages/cachekit/test/protocol/decode-bounds.protocol.test.ts`:
- Around line 109-114: Update the accept-vector tests for
MessagePackSerializer.decode and decodeInteropValue to assert decoded values,
not only that decoding does not throw. Add expectations for
nested_fixarray_depth_32 to produce a 32-level nested array ending in null and
for array16_256_backed_nils to produce an array of 256 null elements, covering
both decoder paths.
- Around line 133-137: Update deserializeEvent to validate the decoded payload’s
required CompactEvent shape before casting or returning an InvalidationEvent,
throwing SerializationError for malformed values such as
array16_256_backed_nils. Adjust the tests so the generic vector remains a bounds
test while separately asserting malformed event rejection and checking the
returned event rather than ignoring it.

In `@packages/cachekit/test/protocol/fixtures/decode-bounds.json`:
- Line 74: Update the depth-only reject vector in the decode-bounds fixtures to
use repeat_hex "91", count 1025, and suffix_hex "c0", creating a structurally
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CodeRabbit on #121: a truncated or wrong decode of nested_fixarray_depth_32 / array16_256_backed_nils passed the value-path tests because their results were discarded. Pin the expected values (32-deep [[...[null]...]], 256 nils) for MessagePackSerializer.decode and decodeInteropValue, and tie the table to the fixture's accept-vector names so a re-vendored vector cannot slip past unasserted.
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Vendor cachekit-io/protocol test-vectors/decode-bounds.json (protocol#59 @
b75adac4: 13 reject + 2 accept, sha256 75c1204e…) and run every vector
against all three untrusted MessagePack decode sites — MessagePackSerializer
.decode, decodeInteropValue, deserializeEvent — under the default vitest run.

Reject vectors must throw SerializationError *from the pre-scan* at every
site: the class alone is a false green, because without assertDecodeDepth the
decoder still throws at EOF (wrapped) after allocating ~33 MB for the
nested_array16_depth_2048 vector — the LAB-2487 amplification this gate
exists to catch. Accept vectors must decode on the value paths; on the event
path (depth cap MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_DEPTH) a deeper accept vector must be
rejected with SerializationError only, a shallower one may decode or be
rejected, again only with SerializationError.

The fixture is sha256- and count-pinned so a silent edit fails; the fixtures
dir is prettier-ignored and marked -text so neither the hook nor a CRLF
checkout can break byte-identity with upstream.
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Mutation testing showed the suite was weaker than it read. Three bound
constants could be widened with all 47 tests still green: DEFAULT_MAX_DEPTH
100 -> 2000, MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_DEPTH 3 -> 2047, and
DEFAULT_MAX_INVALIDATION_EVENT_SIZE 4096 -> 10 MB. rules.depth caps the bound
at 1024, but every depth-tagged vector nests >= 1100, so no vector can reach
the ceiling; assert the constants directly instead.

The blanket "any pre-scan message" regex was the other hole. Of the four
depth-tagged vectors only nested_fixarray_depth_2048_complete violates depth
alone -- the rest also over-claim, so the structural walk catches them as
truncated and the regex stayed green. Deleting the depth throw failed only
4 of 47; naming the expected guard per vector takes that to 10 of 49.

The accept-vector event case asserted nothing when decode succeeded: it ran
inside a bare try and only asserted in catch, so it would have stayed green
against a gutted deserializeEvent. Assert the inert all-undefined event it
actually returns (no shape check yet, LAB-3477).

Byte-stability: the -text attribute used a single-segment glob that stops at
the fixtures dir itself, and end-of-file-fixer had no exclude at all while
trailing-whitespace skipped only markdown. Today's fixture already ends 0a
with no trailing whitespace so nothing was mutated, but an upstream file
without a trailing newline would be rewritten at commit time -- and the
header tells the next maintainer to re-pin against those mutated bytes.
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A reject vector with a missing or misspelt reject_reasons entry used to pass
the fixture-classification test silently: the loop iterated an empty list and
ignored any tag it did not recognise, so a re-vendor that swapped in an
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