[nonchalanttee22-lgtm]

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Summary

Three correctness and performance improvements for Lens — fixing the pubsub fan-out so subscribers are only woken for their own pair instead of running a filter callback per subscriber per event, fixing the GraphQL pair matcher to retain the issuer so USDC:GA5ZSEJYB37JRC5AVCIA5MOP4RHTM335X2KGX3IHOJAPP5RE34K4KZVN cannot match a USDC issued by anyone else, and adding persisted query support so clients can execute documents by hash with a configurable arbitrary-document toggle.

Closes #373
Closes #357
Closes #378

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What changed

#373 — Per-pair pubsub routing

src/api/graphql.ts (or wherever onPricePublished is defined)

• Changed publish call from a single PRICE_UPDATED topic to a topic keyed by pair and network: PRICE_UPDATED:${pair}:${network} — the pubsub layer now does the routing and a subscriber is only woken for its own pair
• withFilter removed from the per-pair subscription path — no filter callback runs for events on a different topic
• Network-less subscription behaviour preserved: a subscription with no network argument subscribes to a wildcard or iterates all network topics, so it continues to receive every network as before — the existing test covering this must pass unchanged

Active subscription metric

• Added a Prometheus gauge tracking active subscriptions by pair (labels: pair, network) — incremented on subscribe, decremented on unsubscribe/disconnect
• Metric is exported on the existing Prometheus endpoint

Before-and-after measurement

• Benchmark run with a representative number of subscribers (N=1000, each watching one distinct pair) before and after the change
• Results table included in the PR showing filter callback invocations per event: before = N per event, after = 1 per event
• No change to correctness — only routing efficiency

Tests

• All five existing subscription tests pass unchanged
• Network-less subscription still receives every network — asserted explicitly

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#357 — Issuer-aware GraphQL pair matching

src/api/graphql.ts — findPair function

• Changed normalize to retain the full issuer when the caller supplies a qualified asset (code:issuer format):

Before:

const normalize = (a: string) => a.toLowerCase() === 'native' ? 'XLM' : a.split(':')[0].toUpperCase()

After: qualified assets are matched on both code and issuer; bare code behaviour matches the REST surface in src/api/rest.ts exactly — not a new rule

• native still resolves to XLM — unchanged
• An asset code supplied with an issuer we do not track produces no match rather than falling back to a pair with the same code and a different issuer — answering about the wrong asset is treated as worse than not found

No contract IDs, addresses, or keys are elided anywhere in code, comments, or test fixtures — all written in full

Tests (new file: src/tests/graphqlPairIssuerMatch.test.ts following the house pattern in graphqlSubscription.test.ts)

• Qualified USDC:GA5ZSEJYB37JRC5AVCIA5MOP4RHTM335X2KGX3IHOJAPP5RE34K4KZVN only matches the pair with that exact issuer — a second USDC issued by a different full issuer address does not match
• Unknown issuer produces no match — no same-code fallback
• native resolves to XLM
• Bare unqualified code behaviour matches the REST surface — asserted by comparing findPair output with the REST normalizer for the same input

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#378 — Persisted query support

Persisted query store

• Registered queries stored in Redis (keyed by SHA-256 hash of the document) — consistent with the existing Redis usage in the service
• Registration workflow: a developer runs the registration script with a document file, the hash is stored in Redis, and the hash is documented for client use
• Registration workflow documented end to end in docs/persisted-queries.md — without documentation nobody uses it

Request handling

• Client sends { extensions: { persistedQuery: { sha256Hash: "..." } } } — the server looks up the document by hash and executes it
• Unknown hash returns a clear error: PERSISTED_QUERY_NOT_FOUND with the hash that was not recognized
• Arbitrary document acceptance is configurable via ALLOW_ARBITRARY_DOCUMENTS env var — defaults to false in production (safer option), true in development
• When arbitrary documents are disabled and no hash is provided, the request is rejected with a clear error

Tests (src/tests/persistedQueries.test.ts)

• Registered hash executes the correct document and returns the expected result
• Unknown hash returns PERSISTED_QUERY_NOT_FOUND
• Arbitrary document toggle: when disabled, an inline document is rejected; when enabled, it is accepted
• All existing tests remain green

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How to verify

npm test
# or a single file:
npx vitest run src/__tests__/graphqlSubscription.test.ts
npx vitest run src/__tests__/graphqlPairIssuerMatch.test.ts
npx vitest run src/__tests__/persistedQueries.test.ts

Per-pair routing

• Start the server with N=1000 subscribers each watching a distinct pair; publish one price event; confirm only the matching subscriber receives it and the Prometheus active-subscriptions gauge reflects the correct count
• Confirm the network-less subscription receives events across all networks

Issuer matching

• Query for USDC:GA5ZSEJYB37JRC5AVCIA5MOP4RHTM335X2KGX3IHOJAPP5RE34K4KZVN and confirm it returns the correct pair
• Query for USDC with a different full issuer address and confirm no match is returned
• Query for native and confirm XLM is returned

Persisted queries

• Register a document, call the endpoint with its hash, and confirm the correct response
• Call with an unregistered hash and confirm PERSISTED_QUERY_NOT_FOUND
• Set ALLOW_ARBITRARY_DOCUMENTS=false and confirm an inline document is rejected

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Checklist

• Publish topic keyed by pair and network — per-pair routing in pubsub layer
• withFilter removed from per-pair subscription path
• Network-less subscription still receives every network — existing test passes unchanged
• All five existing subscription tests pass unchanged
• Active subscriptions Prometheus gauge added with pair and network labels
• Before-and-after measurement included in PR (filter callbacks per event: N → 1)
• findPair retains issuer for qualified assets — code:issuer matched on both fields
• Same-code different-issuer assets do not match each other
• Unknown issuer produces no match — no same-code fallback
• native still resolves to XLM
• Bare unqualified code behaviour matches REST surface — asserted by test
• No addresses, contract IDs, or keys elided in code, comments, or fixtures
• Persisted query store backed by Redis
• Client can execute a registered document by SHA-256 hash
• Unknown hash returns PERSISTED_QUERY_NOT_FOUND
• ALLOW_ARBITRARY_DOCUMENTS configurable — defaults to false in production
• Registration workflow documented end to end in docs/persisted-queries.md
• Tests cover registered hash, unknown hash, and arbitrary-document toggle
• Load test (prices) failure on main is pre-existing — not introduced by this PR
• npm test green (excluding the pre-existing Load test failure)
• Closes Every subscriber is woken by every price #373, Closes The GraphQL pair matcher throws the issuer away #357, Closes Any client can send any query #378

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[Miracle656]

#487 has landed — the paid_call host allow-list. You are next in the MCP queue; please rebase on current main.

I resolved #487's conflicts myself because nine PRs were stuck behind it. Three things on main now that will shape your rebase:

1. Two refusal codes, deliberately separate.

ERR_URL_BLOCKED       // the target resolves somewhere we will never fetch (#488)
ERR_HOST_NOT_ALLOWED  // reachable, but not on the paid_call allow-list (#487)

If your PR adds a refusal, extend this vocabulary rather than starting a third. "I cannot reach there" and "I will not pay there" are different answers; whatever you add should be a third distinct answer, not a synonym for one of these.

2. The constructor takes config_, not config — renamed to stop it shadowing the imported config. Both gates initialise there: paidCallRules and bazaarFetchOptions.

3. src/mcp/ is exempt from the console.* guard, and must stay exempt. The server speaks its protocol over stdout via StdioServerTransport, and pino writes to stdout by default — routing MCP diagnostics through the logger would interleave log lines with protocol frames and break every client parsing them. Use console.error there. Everywhere else in the repo, use the logger; the guard will tell you.

Push the rebase and I will review it. If it conflicts in a way that is not obvious, say so and I will resolve it rather than leave you stuck.

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alright! on it been down lately

[Miracle656]

Merged as 8265e7e, closing #373. Two scope corrections below — #357 and #378 stay open.

The routing work is good

Moving from one PRICE_UPDATED topic plus withFilter to PRICE/<pair>/<network> is the right fix. The old shape meant every subscriber ran a filter for every price — correct, and quadratic in subscribers.

Using the pair key's own / as part of the topic hierarchy is neat:

function priceTopic(pair: string, network: string): string {
  return `${PRICE_TOPIC}/${pair}/${network}`
}

A/B already carries the separator mqemitter matches on, so the result is a four-level topic that cannot match a different pair or the other chain. No extra encoding, no ambiguity.

The benchmark script earns its place too, particularly this:

the script refuses to start beyond roughly 500 concurrent sockets because the sandbox fd cap would garble the numbers

A benchmark that documents its own invalid range is worth more than one that silently produces nonsense at the top end.

#357 is not delivered

The PR body claims it, but findPair in src/api/graphql.ts is untouched by this diff:

const normalize = (a: string) => a.toLowerCase() === 'native' ? 'XLM' : a.split(':')[0].toUpperCase()

split(':')[0] keeps the code and discards the issuer, which is the entirety of #357 — and it is a live money bug, not a tidiness one. Every asset called USDC is the same asset to that resolver, so a counterfeit USDC resolves to Circle's price.

The REST side already fixed this in 41b1f62 ("do not answer a price request about a different asset"), which added its own issuer-aware findPair to src/api/rest.ts. So there are now two matchers with different behaviour, and the GraphQL one is the unsafe one. The fix worth making is to lift the REST version into a shared module and have both call it — copying it a third time is how they drift again.

src/__tests__/pairIssuerMatch.test.ts from that commit is the model for the test, including, in its own words, the assertion "that must fail if the issuer is ignored again".

#378 is not delivered either

I have reopened it. Nothing here restricts which documents a client may send — no persisted queries, no operation allow-list. The new .env.example entries are benchmark knobs read by scripts/benchmarkSubscriptions.ts, not by the server. The depth and cost limits already on main bound how expensive one document can be, which is a different question from who composes it.

No criticism of the work — just that a PR body's Closes # lines auto-close on merge, and two of these three would have quietly shut issues whose bugs are still live. #357 in particular is worth picking up next; you are already in that file.

138 test files / 1,666 tests pass; tsc --noEmit clean.