Record a migration at the moment it ran

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Closes #127

The ruling: no V2

The first cut of this branch added IMigrationRegistryV2 / MigrationRegistryV2
beside the existing pair, on the premise that MigrationRegistry was released
and pinned by consumers. That premise is false. No release has ever been cut:

• src/generated/ holds only candidate/ — candidate/MigrationRegistry.sol
  and candidate/AddressRegistry.sol. There is no frozen src/generated/<tag>/
  record, for any tag.
• LibMigrationRegistryReleased.releasedSuites() returns new DeploySuite[](0).
• The sol-v* tags (sol-v0.1.4, sol-v0.1.5) are soldeer package releases.
  They pin no deployed address.

With an empty release record there is nothing to stay compatible with, so the
change lands in place on MigrationRegistry / IMigrationRegistryV1 /
LibMigrationRegistry. Issue 127's "Cost of the change" claimed otherwise and
has already been corrected.

The five ruled behaviours

1. No future timestamps. FutureTimestamp(appliedAt, blockTimestamp). A
   record says a migration HAS run, and applied() <= block.timestamp stays true
   forever, so block.timestamp - applied(...) cannot underflow.
2. The chain is the total order. Each record keeps the head it was applied
   onto, so a namespace's records are a chain from head back to
   MIGRATION_HEAD_GENESIS whatever moments they carry. Order is never the
   caller's, whichever entry point supplied the moment.
3. Moments are monotonic along that chain, and equal is allowed.
   TimestampBeforeHead(appliedAt, headAppliedAt) refuses only <. Two
   migrations in one transaction share a block; two backfilled to the same day
   share a moment. The floor is read unconditionally from the record at the head
   — genesis can never be applied, so its record is zero in every namespace
   forever and the genesis case needs no branch.
4. ZeroTimestamp is kept, and changes character. It moves from guarding a
   zero-timestamp block to guarding a caller's uninitialised uint256, and
   guards both. Zero is still the one moment a record cannot carry, because
   applied reads it as "never applied" while the head has moved and the
   migration can never be applied again.
5. Two entry points. applyMigration(expectedHead, migration) stamps
   block.timestamp atomically; applyMigrationHistory(expectedHead, migration, appliedAt) takes the moment from the caller. Both reach one internal writer,
   so there is one record shape and one set of refusals.

Two calls made by implementers — cheap to overrule

Neither was asked for by issue 127. Both are small to reverse now and awkward
later, so they are flagged rather than buried.

• The external appliedOnto reader, and appliedAt on the Migrated
  event. The chain in ruling 2 is stored per record; without a reader no
  consumer can traverse it, which makes it dead storage. The event's old NatSpec
  said the timestamp was the block's — once the moment can differ from the block
  the log no longer carries it, so it is added as a parameter.
• A changed refusal in a zero-timestamp block. ZeroTimestamp now precedes
  the namespace checks, so applyMigration on an already-applied migration in a
  block whose timestamp is zero reverts ZeroTimestamp where it previously
  reverted MigrationAlreadyApplied. Encoded by
  testApplyMigrationZeroBlockCheckedAfterIdsAndBeforeTheNamespace.

One open judgement call

This repo's test tree is one file per external function —
MigrationRegistryApplied.t.sol, MigrationRegistryAppliedOnto.t.sol,
MigrationRegistryHead.t.sol, MigrationRegistryApplyMigration.t.sol. The 18
testApplyMigrationHistory* tests are in MigrationRegistryApplyMigration.t.sol
rather than in a MigrationRegistryApplyMigrationHistory.t.sol of their own.
Left as-is for the reviewer to call.

QA

• nix develop -c forge test — 259 passed / 51 failed (310 total). Every one
  of the 51 is a vm.createSelectFork failure naming a missing
  <NETWORK>_RPC_URL environment variable; zero non-RPC failures. CI, which
  binds the RPC vars, is green on all four checks.
• nix develop -c forge fmt --check — exit 0.
• nix develop -c slither . --config-file slither.config.json — 49 contracts,
  100 detectors, 0 findings.

Mutation pass

21 exact-string mutants of src/concrete/MigrationRegistry.sol, each probed
against test/src/concrete/MigrationRegistry*.t.sol — 4 suites, 79 tests, green
baseline, the file restored from git between mutants. 19 killed, 2 expected
survivors, 0 unexplained survivors.

The filter is narrowed deliberately, and the wide one would have made every
verdict meaningless. test/src/*/*Migration*.t.sol also matches
test/src/lib/LibMigrationRegistry.t.sol, which deploys
type(MigrationRegistry).creationCode through the Zoltu factory — CREATE2
over its calldata at a zero salt, so the address is a pure function of the
creation code — and asserts the code hash pinned in
src/generated/candidate/MigrationRegistry.sol. Every mutant changes the
creation code, so the contract lands at a different address and the pin misses.
Measured, not assumed: mutant 20 below is semantically a no-op, and under the
wide filter it fails 24 of that suite's 39 tests with
UnexpectedMigrationRegistryCodeHash while all four concrete suites stay green.
test/src/concrete/MigrationRegistry*.t.sol uses new MigrationRegistry() and
pins nothing.

Each mutant run asserts it ran the same 4 suites and the same 79 tests as the
baseline, so a filter that matched nothing and a mutant that failed to compile
are reported as such rather than as survivals. Verdicts are read from
forge test --json, because a fuzz failure line carries args=[...] and a
regex over the human-readable summary silently yields no killing test at all.

#	mutation	verdict	killing test
1	ZeroTimestamp refusal deleted	killed (7)	testApplyMigrationHistoryZeroTimestampReverts
2	ZeroTimestamp refusal inverted (== 0 → != 0)	killed (60)	testApplyMigrationAnyCallerAppliesUnderItself
3	TimestampBeforeHead refusal deleted	killed (5)	testApplyMigrationHistoryMomentBeforeHeadReverts
4	TimestampBeforeHead refuses equal too (< → <=)	killed (15)	testApplyMigrationHistoryMomentsMayBeEqual
5	TimestampBeforeHead comparison reversed (< → >)	killed (58)	testApplyMigrationHistoryMomentAfterHeadIsAccepted
6	the floor is read from the migration's own record, not the head's	killed (5)	testApplyMigrationHistoryMomentBeforeHeadReverts
7	FutureTimestamp refusal deleted	killed (4)	testApplyMigrationHistoryFutureTimestampReverts
8	FutureTimestamp refuses the current block (> → >=)	killed (53)	testApplyMigrationHistoryCurrentBlockIsAccepted
9	the record stores block.timestamp, not the supplied moment	killed (7)	testApplyMigrationHistoryRecordsTheSuppliedMoment
10	the record stores itself as its own predecessor	killed (10)	testApplyMigrationRecordsTheHeadItWasAppliedOnto
11	Migrated carries the block, not the recorded moment	killed (1, sole)	testApplyMigrationHistoryEvent
12	applyMigration stamps a constant, not the block	killed (8)	testApplyMigrationStoresTheBlockTimestamp
13	appliedOnto drops its three key refusals	killed (5)	testAppliedOntoZeroMigrationReverts
14	appliedOnto always answers zero	killed (11)	testAppliedOntoFirstRecordIsGenesis
15	MigrationAlreadyApplied refusal deleted	killed (6)	testApplyMigrationTwiceReverts
16	UnexpectedMigrationHead refusal deleted	killed (10)	testApplyMigrationSkippedPredecessorReverts
17	head returns the stored zero instead of genesis	killed (61)	testHeadEmptyNamespaceIsGenesis
18	genesis gets a moment floor of its own	killed (10)	testApplyMigrationHistoryNoMomentBoundAtGenesis
19	applyMigration clamps a zero block instead of refusing it	killed (2)	testApplyMigrationZeroBlockReverts
20	the two id refusals swap order	survived, expected	bytes32(0) != MIGRATION_HEAD_GENESIS, so no input reaches both and the order is unobservable
21	TimestampBeforeHead moved past FutureTimestamp	survived, expected	headAppliedAt <= block.timestamp always holds, so no input reaches both; see below

The count in the verdict column is how many of the 79 tests failed. A row marked
"sole" had exactly one killer; the named test is one of the actual failing set in
every row.

Check order, and what it does and does not pin

ZeroMigration → GenesisMigration → ZeroTimestamp →
MigrationAlreadyApplied → UnexpectedMigrationHead → TimestampBeforeHead →
FutureTimestamp.

Refusals about the call alone, then about the namespace it arrives at, then
about the block it lands in — the order in which a caller can do something about
them. FutureTimestamp is last because it is the only one time itself resolves.

The last two are mutually exclusive on a real chain: headAppliedAt <= block.timestamp always holds, so no input reaches both TimestampBeforeHead and
FutureTimestamp, and their relative order is unobservable outside a test that
warps backwards. No test pins it, and the mutation pass records the swap as an
expected survivor rather than hiding it.

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Walkthrough

MigrationRegistry now stores each migration’s recorded timestamp and predecessor head. It supports block-stamped and caller-timestamped application flows, validates timestamp bounds and ordering, exposes appliedOnto, updates library forwarding, and adds comprehensive tests and documentation.

Changes

Migration records

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Registry record and timestamp contract src/concrete/MigrationRegistry.sol, src/interface/IMigrationRegistryV1.sol, README.md	Migration records now store appliedAt and appliedOnto. The registry supports two application overloads, validates timestamps, emits the recorded timestamp, and exposes predecessor heads.
Library forwarding and readers src/lib/LibMigrationRegistry.sol, test/concrete/MockMigrationApplier.sol	The library forwards caller-supplied timestamps, exposes appliedOnto, and verifies the pinned registry code hash for both operations.
Registry application and chain validation test/src/concrete/MigrationRegistryApplied.t.sol, test/src/concrete/MigrationRegistryAppliedOnto.t.sol, test/src/concrete/MigrationRegistryApplyMigration.t.sol	Tests cover recorded moments, events, validation precedence, timestamp boundaries, state preservation, writer isolation, and predecessor chains.
Library protection and historical migration tests test/src/lib/LibMigrationRegistry.t.sol	Tests cover historical timestamps, chain reconstruction, namespace forwarding, invalid readers, and rejected registry code.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75f33

The documented migration sequence can revert because it records a historical migration after newer block-timestamped migrations; reorder the example before merging so users are not guided toward an invalid call sequence.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant LibMigrationRegistry
  participant MigrationRegistry
  Caller->>LibMigrationRegistry: applyMigration(expectedHead, migration, appliedAt)
  LibMigrationRegistry->>MigrationRegistry: verify code hash and forward call
  MigrationRegistry->>MigrationRegistry: validate and store record
  MigrationRegistry-->>Caller: emit Migrated(writer, migration, appliedAt)

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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The documentation, implementation, interface, library, and test changes directly support the migration timestamp requirements.
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Producer note: this PR is now GREEN, and two claims in the body above are stale — correcting the record here since the body itself is not mine to edit.

• "Pre-existing red: rainix / static / static ... fails on main too" is no longer true, and the diagnosis was wrong on its own terms. It was accurate when written: at this branch's merge base (ad1e00c), CLAUDE.md was 24016 bytes, over the 4096-byte agent-context-cap. But main has since cut that file to 2344 bytes, under the cap. The red was this branch's alone — the branch was 91 commits behind, and the PR added 62 lines of V2 prose to the fat file.
• The "307 tests" figure is stale — 342 after merging main.

Fixed by merging origin/main. CLAUDE.md resolved to main's cut-down version verbatim (the PR's additions were exactly the architecture prose main's new bar deletes; the V2 rationale already lives in src/interface/IMigrationRegistryV2.sol natspec). A second commit carries across main's correction to the checkCodeHash natspec, which LibMigrationRegistryV2.sol had inherited from V1 in its factually-wrong form (it claimed a call into an empty account "decodes as zero"; solc actually reverts when returndata is too short to decode). Comments only — creation code and every generated snapshot are unchanged, and forge script script/Build.sol regenerates byte-identical.

This is not the split-release-lifecycle migration case: the failing check was agent-context-cap, not a prod-pin / testProdDeploy* / deploy-pinned-constant check. Nothing was deployed.

Worth a reviewer's attention: because the static job fails fast at step 4, steps 5–11 had never run on this branch until now. Verified locally in the checkout's own toolchain: slither 0 findings over 54 contracts, forge fmt --check clean, rainix-sol-single-contract OK, snapshots-append-only clean, agent-context-cap 2209/4096. forge test 291 passed / 51 failed, every failure an ARBITRUM_RPC_URL/BASE_RPC_URL fork-env failure with no local RPC secrets — zero code failures.

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Reviewed 168196f: needs-work — Closes #127: V2 settles all four issue questions correctly (single entry point, future-timestamp refusal, floor-vs-head with equal allowed, ZeroTimestamp as caller-input guard) with boundary and check-order tests; send-back is convention-level: fuzz params now_ break the org no-underscore param rule (MigrationRegistryV2ApplyMigration.t.sol:70,86,104,152,257; LibMigrationRegistryV2.t.sol:257) — rename them; and LibMigrationRegistryV2.sol:88's "empty account's code hash is zero" should note a touched codeless account presents keccak256("").
cost 642 — new registry concrete with timestamp guards

[thedavidmeister]

Superseded: there is no V2.

Ruling: no release of MigrationRegistry was ever cut, so nothing pins it and there is no compatibility surface to preserve. Verified against main — src/generated/ holds only candidate/ with no frozen <tag>/ directory, and LibMigrationRegistryReleased.releasedSuites() returns new DeploySuite[](0). The sol-v0.1.4/sol-v0.1.5 tags are soldeer package releases and pin no deployed address.

Issue #127's "Cost of the change" section asserts the opposite and is what produced this PR's shape. It is wrong and will be corrected.

This PR is being rewritten as an in-place change to MigrationRegistry / IMigrationRegistryV1 / LibMigrationRegistry, with all 11 V2 files deleted. The head commit here is still the old V2 work; the rewrite is in flight and unpushed. The body below still describes V2 and will be replaced when it lands.

The behaviour, all ruled:

1. No future timestamps — a supplied appliedAt above block.timestamp is refused.
2. Total ordering is structural — each record stores the head it was applied onto, so entries form a linked list and order is a property of the chain, not the clock.
3. Timestamps are still monotonic, allowing equal — a new record's appliedAt must be >= that of the record at the current head. Equal accepted, earlier refused, no comparison at genesis. This is a separate rule from (2), not replaced by it.
4. ZeroTimestamp stays, now guarding a caller passing zero rather than a zero-genesis chain.
5. Two entry points, one record — one takes appliedAt for a migration that already ran, one stamps block.timestamp for the atomic case inline with the script doing the applying.

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