fix(timelock): pre-check the fleet over one MongoDB connection, stop silently skipping networks (EXSC-841)

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Fixes EXSC-841

Why did I implement it this way?

A single bun execute-timelock run produced 28 errors from three independent causes. The first is a correctness problem, not noise.

The prefetch silently skipped 27 networks. fetchPendingForNetwork was fanned out over all 71 active networks with a bare Promise.all, and every call opened its own MongoClient and closed it again. With a mongodb+srv:// URI each client resolves its own SRV and TXT record before connecting, so a run fired ~142 DNS queries in the same second at the local resolver. It rate-limited them, 27 timed out (querySrv ETIMEOUT / queryTxt ETIMEOUT), and those networks — mainnet, base and bsc among them — were never checked for ready operations. The run's headline ("2 have pending timelock tx(s)") was only true of the 44 that resolved; a ready op on mainnet would have gone unexecuted behind a single warn line.

The fix is one connection and one $in query for the whole fleet, so the per-network DNS resolution disappears rather than being retried. I deliberately did not build this on EXSC-794 / #2218: that helper retries via public DNS on a malformed SRV answer, which is a different failure. It would not have saved this run — it gates on syscall === 'querySrv' so the queryTxt timeouts rethrow untouched, its fallbackApplied latch is once-per-process so the 26 concurrent failures after the first skip the retry entirely, and 142 simultaneous queries would likely time out against a public resolver too. The two changes are complementary and touch disjoint files: after this lands, #2218's helper covers the single remaining connect instead of 71.

Rejected alternative: a concurrency limiter around the existing per-network client. It would have reduced the DNS burst without removing it, and left the connect-per-network cost in place for what is a read-only count.

The prefetch logic now lives in timelock-prefetch.ts. execute-pending-timelock-tx.ts calls runMain at module scope and so cannot be imported by a test. The import.meta.main guard used by siblings in that directory is not an option: the CLI runs under bunx tsx, where import.meta.main is undefined — I verified this, and adding the guard would silently turn the command into a no-op. Extracting the logic was the only way to get it under test. The two near-identical prefetch blocks in the --executeAll and interactive branches also collapse into one helper, so the fix cannot land in one branch and be missed in the other.

tronshasta was an expected skip reported as a failure. It is status: active but has no deployments/tronshasta.json (the only active testnet without one), so getDeployments threw and the prefetch logged a stack trace and counted it among the failures. A missing deployments file now classifies as a skip, distinct in both the output and the counts from a genuine fetch failure. The summary line reports "Checked N of M" so every network is accounted for.

The skip requires the file to be genuinely absent, which is why getDeploymentsFilePath is now exported: getDeployments reports a corrupt or unreadable file as not-found too, so treating every throw as a skip would silently drop a network that does have a timelock — the same bug class this PR exists to fix, in a narrower form. Anything other than an absent file is recorded as a per-network fetch error instead.

Init calldata failed to decode when arguments contain nested bigints. formatDecodedArg handled a top-level bigint but fell through to a plain JSON.stringify for tuples and arrays, which throws on nested bigints; both call sites swallow the throw. Hit on the FraxFacet cut on worldchain — initFrax carries (chainId, eid) pairs, so the cut was approved at the interactive prompt with its init arguments never displayed. That is a review-safety gap in the confirmation path, which is why it is fixed here rather than deferred.

Verification

Run against the real fleet and the production timelock queue, before and after:

	before	after
networks reported on	44 of 71	71 of 71
prefetch failures	27	0
Mongo connections	71	1
tronshasta	error + stack trace	skip (no-deployment-log)

A full-fleet dry run reports Checked 66 of 71 network(s); 1 have pending timelock tx(s): tron with 5 skips itemised and no failures. Skips resolve correctly against real deployment logs: 4 testnets no-timelock-deployed, tronshasta no-deployment-log. Dry-runs also cover the single-network skip path, the missing-log path and the reached-but-empty path, and tron's queued op was confirmed untouched afterwards.

Every fix here was negative-controlled — each was reverted in turn and the corresponding test observed to fail (BigInt replacer: 2 tests; missing-deployments skip: 1; absent-vs-unreadable guard: 1) — so none of them pass vacuously.

The exit-1 path for "0 pending but some networks unreachable" is covered by unit test rather than by a live outage.

Review round 2

Six findings from @melianessa, all answered in the threads; five changed code (2cd33583f).

• A prefetch failure now fails the run even when other networks had work. mustExitWithError only fires at zero pending, so a network that was never checked was passed over silently the moment any other chain had a queued op — the reporting half of the same silent skip this PR exists to close. prefetchNetworksWithPendingOps returns failedCount; both branches exit non-zero on it, after processing the reachable networks rather than instead of.
• A rejecting client.close() no longer discards an already-computed tally. Pre-PR that cost one network; with one connection for the fleet it would have turned a teardown hiccup into "every network failed to prefetch" — and, given the change above, an exit-1.
• getDeploymentsFilePath refuses a chain name that resolves outside deployments/, matching getContractAddress and the four proposeAll*ChainIdMappings.ts copies, and takes the environment explicitly rather than defaulting to staging.
• getDeployments keeps the underlying import error as cause instead of flattening it into "not found". The existsSync probe stays: classifying off the loader's error taxonomy is runtime-specific, and this CLI, the tests and the propose tasks run under three different ones.
• Nested strings in a decoded arg get the same per-network address rendering as top-level ones — a Tron address inside a tuple showed as raw hex at the approval prompt, which the round-1 JSDoc had already (correctly) promised it would not.
• Skip resolution runs over Promise.all per [CONV:PARALLEL-WORK]; it reads local files only, so there is no fan-out to bound. prefetchNetworksWithPendingOps returns the networks its callers actually use. The queue re-read in processNetwork is unchanged and deliberate: a queued row is not an executable operation, and on-chain isOperationReady remains the authority.

New behaviour is negative-controlled as before — reverting each fix in turn fails its test and only its test (close-rejection guard: 1; traversal guard: 1; nested address: 1). The exit-code change cannot be unit-tested (the exit sits in the module that calls runMain at scope), so it was driven against the real functions with a genuinely corrupt deployments/tronshasta.json plus a network carrying a queued op, reproducing the exact previously-green case; output is in the thread.

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Walkthrough

The change centralizes timelock prefetching across execution modes, classifies skipped and failed network checks, and adds bigint-safe formatting for decoded arguments.

Changes

Timelock prefetch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Prefetch contracts and data resolution script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts, script/utils/deploymentHelpers.ts, script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.test.ts	Adds prefetch result types, production deployment-path resolution, case-insensitive queue tallying, ordered result assembly, and deployment-resolution tests.
Fleet prefetch and outcome classification script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts, script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.test.ts	Fetches eligible networks in one MongoDB query, records failures, and classifies pending, skipped, and failed results.
Execution mode integration script/deploy/safe/execute-pending-timelock-tx.ts	Auto-execute, auto-reject, and interactive modes use shared fleet prefetching and handle incomplete checks and empty pending results.

Decoded argument formatting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bigint-safe decoded arguments script/deploy/safe/safe-decode-utils.ts, script/deploy/safe/safe-decode-utils.test.ts	formatDecodedArg converts nested bigint values to strings. Tests cover tuple arrays, deeply nested structures, and top-level bigint values.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 35cf9

The change improves fleet-wide timelock checking, but a localized error-classification bug can still make certain unreachable networks appear successfully checked and allow an incorrect success result. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up to align failure detection with result recording.

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In `@script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts`:
- Around line 238-249: Update classifyPrefetchResults to identify failed entries
using r.fetchError !== undefined, matching the failure-recording condition in
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• script/deploy/safe/execute-pending-timelock-tx.ts
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• script/deploy/safe/safe-decode-utils.ts
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• script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts
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🔍 QA Review — EXSC-841

PR: #2264 — fix(timelock): pre-check the fleet over one MongoDB connection, stop silently skipping networks
Ticket: EXSC-841
Reviewed at: 2cd33583f1b7
Verdict: ✅ Pass

⚠️ Post-approval re-review — new commits pushed after the initial QA approval (4ee8f2259088). This review covers only the post-approval commit 2cd33583f1b7 (2026-08-25T12:07:32Z), which addresses 7 inline code-review findings raised by @melianessa. The prior Pass verdict remains valid for all previously reviewed code; this review scopes solely to the new changes.

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Post-Approval Changes — Fix Verification

The commit message states: "close the review findings on the fleet prefetch (EXSC-841) — Addresses the six inline review comments from melianessa." Below is a line-by-line confirmation of each fix.

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Fix 1 — Path-traversal guard in getDeploymentsFilePath (script/utils/deploymentHelpers.ts)

Finding (melianessa): getDeploymentsFilePath lacked a containment check unlike the equivalent getContractAddress and proposeAll*ChainIdMappings.ts helpers.

Fix verified:

const relativePath = path.relative(base, filePath)
if (relativePath.startsWith('..') || path.isAbsolute(relativePath))
  throw new Error(`Invalid network name: ${chain}`)

✅ Correct — prevents a crafted chain value from escaping the deployments/ directory. The guard covers both relative (../) and absolute path edge cases, matching the pattern used in getContractAddress.

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Fix 2 — Error cause preserved in getDeployments (script/utils/deploymentHelpers.ts)

Finding (implicit, from Fix 4 context): getDeployments discarded the original error, preventing callers from distinguishing absent vs. corrupt files.

Fix verified:

throw new Error(`Deployments file not found for ${chain} (${environment}): ${filePath}`, { cause: err })

✅ The original import error is now preserved as err.cause, enabling resolveTimelockSkipReason's dual-path classification to be based on actual cause rather than side-channel re-probing.

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Fix 3 — formatDecodedArg object branch now passes network to nested strings (script/deploy/safe/safe-decode-utils.ts)

Finding (melianessa): The JSDoc promised network-formatted addresses, but the object branch ignored the network parameter — nested Tron addresses shown as raw hex at the approval prompt.

Fix verified:

if (typeof arg === 'object')
  return JSON.stringify(arg, (_key, value: unknown) => {
    if (typeof value === 'bigint') return value.toString()
    if (typeof value === 'string') return formatDecodedArg(value, network)  // ← added
    return value
  })

✅ Nested strings now recursively call formatDecodedArg(value, network), which routes through formatAddressForNetworkCliDisplay + tronHexSuffix for matching addresses. The replacer pattern is correct: JSON.stringify will apply the returned string value to the key, and since formatDecodedArg always returns a string, this is well-typed throughout.

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Fix 4 — Fragile existsSync classification improved at root (script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts)

Finding (melianessa): Re-probing the filesystem with existsSync was a fragile way to recover a cause that getDeployments deliberately discarded; the fix belongs in getDeployments.

Developer response: Root-cause fix taken (Fix 2 above). existsSync retained for classification — reasoning: getDeployments now rethrows with { cause: err }, so the file-presence check is just a guard for the unreadable-file safety invariant (present → don't silently skip).

Fix verified in resolveTimelockSkipReason:

} catch (err) {
  if (existsSync(getDeploymentsFilePath(chain, EnvironmentEnum.production)))
    throw err   // file present but corrupt → fetchError, not a skip
  return 'no-deployment-log'  // file absent → expected skip
}

✅ Now that getDeployments preserves the cause, callers can inspect err.cause if needed. The existsSync dual-path is the right classification gate here: absent file → skip (expected), present-but-corrupt → error (safety). The TOCTOU window (file deleted between import fail and existsSync) is negligible for deployment artefacts. The second getDeploymentsFilePath call in the catch block also has the path-traversal guard (Fix 1), so no new risk.

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Fix 5 — Sequential for…await replaced with Promise.all (script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts)

Finding (melianessa): Sequential loop violates [CONV:PARALLEL-WORK] and ignores the repo's mapWithConcurrency helper.

Fix verified:

const resolved = await Promise.all(
  networks.map(async (network) => {
    try {
      return { network, skipReason: await resolveTimelockSkipReason(network) }
    } catch (err) {
      consola.error(`[${network.name}] Could not read the production deployments file:`, err)
      return { network, err }
    }
  })
)

✅ Parallel with isolated per-network error handling. One unreadable deployments file no longer blocks the batch — it is caught and returned as { network, err }, collected into errorsByNetwork for the caller. The post-resolution aggregation loop is still sequential (cheap), consistent with the prior design.

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Fix 6 — client.close() rejection now caught (script/deploy/safe/timelock-prefetch.ts)

Finding (melianessa): finally { await client.close() } let a close rejection escape, overwriting a successful count — and the single-connection design amplified this to a whole-fleet failure.

Fix verified:

finally {
  await client
    .close()
    .catch((err: unknown) =>
      consola.warn('Failed to close the MongoDB connection:', err)
    )
}

✅ Close rejections are now degraded to a warning. The computed tally is preserved. The JSDoc on countQueuedOpsByNetwork correctly documents this rationale.

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Fix 7 — prefetchNetworksWithPendingOps returns failedCount; both callers fail on it (script/deploy/safe/execute-pending-timelock-tx.ts)

Finding (melianessa): mustExitWithError only fired when NOTHING was pending — a prefetch failure was silently tolerated when any other network had queued ops (the exact silent-skip this PR exists to fix).

Fix verified:

interface IPrefetchedWork {
  networks: INetworksObject[string][]
  failedCount: number
}
// ...
const { networks: networksWithPending, failedCount: prefetchFailures } =
  await prefetchNetworksWithPendingOps(networksToProcess)
// ...
if (mustExitWithError) { ... }  // still handles zero-pending + any-failed
// ...
failedNetworks > 0 || prefetchFailures > 0  // ← both branches now fail on prefetch failures

✅ Both call sites now receive failedCount and propagate it. The "half-fix" note from 0xDEnYO (Mongo re-read for processNetwork is intentional) is correctly scoped — the re-read verifies on-chain readiness, which is separate from the prefetch filter purpose. The design is documented and deliberate.

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No New Issues Introduced

The post-approval commit is tightly scoped to the 7 inline findings. No behavioural regressions observed:

• The assemblePrefetchResults → classifyPrefetchResults fetchError !== undefined invariant is fully consistent (Fix 6 in the prior review, now also enforced at the caller side via failedCount).
• The deploymentsCache.delete on error in getDeployments (pre-existing) continues to prevent caching rejected promises and interacts correctly with resolveTimelockSkipReason's retry path.
• The path-traversal guard (Fix 1) is defensive-only and doesn't alter the normal code path for valid chain names.

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Summary

All 7 post-approval inline findings are resolved. Each fix has been verified from the current file content on the branch. The changes collectively close real correctness gaps — path traversal, silent failure tolerance, and Tron address display — without introducing regressions. The overall PR (original + post-approval commit) meets all 3 acceptance criteria from EXSC-841 and the additional correctness requirements surfaced by the review team.

🤖 QA review by Zeus — LI.FI SmartContract QA Agent

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✅ QA Pass — single MongoDB connection prefetch, skip classification, and nested-BigInt fix all verified. CodeRabbit finding (falsy fetchError) confirmed fixed in HEAD. Full review in PR comments.

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✅ QA Pass (re-review 2cd3358) — all 7 post-approval inline findings verified: path-traversal guard, error cause, Promise.all, close() catch, formatDecodedArg network recursion, failedCount propagation. No regressions.