BitGate read standard events but published a private vocabulary, making it an
island. NIP-32 (kind 1985) is the shared moderation vocabulary; BitGate now
reads and writes it. See ADR 0007.
The design keeps flexibility central, since the goal is a reusable building
block. A label is (namespace, value, target) and carries no built-in meaning —
"deny", "nsfw", and "MIT" are the same kind of object. What a label means is a
policy decision an application supplies via labelMapping { namespace,
denyValues, allowValues }. The codec itself is vocabulary-free; decodeLabels
returns every label regardless of namespace for generic use.
A matching label becomes a contribution authored by the labeller, gated
identically: it denies someone only if the labeller holds the capability in the
roster, exactly like a community source. An untrusted labeller's deny does
nothing, and labels fail closed without verification like any administrative
event.
- consume: ingestEvent maps kind 1985; loadLabels(labellers) fetches them
- emit: commands.publishLabel(target, value), gated by the same capability as
denying, so the shared form is no weaker than the private one
- the widget bundle re-exports the label API for the drop-in path
Validated against 40 real kind:1985 events from public relays (ISO-639-1
language labels among them): all decoded with targets and namespaces, zero
throws. 897 tests; cold gates green; audit clean.
Closes the gap the audit left open: administrative state fails closed without a
verifier, and BitGate shipped none.
@bitgate/verify is a separate package so core, nostr, and runtime keep no crypto
dependency and can be audited without one. The widget bundles it, so the
drop-in path is verified with no extra step; verify="off" disables it, sets
data-unverified on the element, and emits bitgate:unverified — meant for local
development, and meant to be visible.
Verification recomputes the event id before checking the signature. Checking
only the signature would let a forged event pass by reusing a genuine signature
over an unrelated id, which is the failure mode that matters here.
createVerifier also rejects events dated far in the future. A far-future
created_at wins replaceable-event selection indefinitely and pins stale state in
place; the signature is perfectly valid, so only a clock check catches it.
Found while testing: #adminIngestAllowed checked that a verifier *exists*, not
that this event was verified — so the public ingestEvent path, which
"bring your own relays" integrations use, bypassed verification entirely.
Verification now runs inside ingestEvent, with an already-verified flag for the
loaders. An async verifier cannot be awaited there and is treated as
unverified; ingestVerified() awaits properly.
Conformance validated against 120 live events from a public relay across kinds
0, 1, 3 and 10002 — 59 with non-ASCII content and 71 containing quotes,
newlines or tabs, which is where a serialization mismatch would surface. All
120 verified, zero id mismatches.
Bundle grows 72K -> 120K. 855 tests; audit clean.
Closes the four spec gaps from the audit, verified against the NIPs repo.
NIP-65 (kind 10002) — the one that was actually breaking things. Mute lists are
published by each contact to their own write relays, so querying a fixed relay
set finds only the subset who happen to write where this deployment reads. The
trust graph was silently under-fed and counts came out low, which looks like
"nobody muted them" rather than like a bug. Adds a relay-list codec, per-author
grouping with a fallback for accounts that have published no list, and
on-demand relay connections in the transport so an outbox query can reach
relays that were never configured.
NIP-51 private entries — the viewer's own private mutes are now decrypted
through their signer (NIP-44) and applied as viewer mutes. Someone who mutes
privately previously got no effect at all. The privacy boundary is asymmetric
and enforced at the codec: another account's private list is never decoded,
and the check lives there rather than in the caller's discipline.
NIP-02 (kind 3) — the runtime can build the trust graph itself, so
<bitgate-provider> no longer needs a host to supply a follow list. Set
trust="manual" to opt out.
NIP-56 vocabulary — SOCIAL_POLICY declared thresholds for "harassment", which
is not a NIP-56 type, so no standard client could ever trigger it. Replaced
with the defined vocabulary and asserted in tests. Commerce keeps its
marketplace-specific categories, now documented as deliberate, with defaults so
unclassified reports are never silently dropped.
Two bugs found by the new tests:
- checkout had no default threshold, so a flood of "other" reports did nothing
at the one place money changes hands. Now earns review, never auto-denial.
- describe() spread diagnostics after a derived field, so a stale zero shadowed
the live relay-list count.
Adds docs/nips.md recording coverage, deliberate choices, and remaining gaps —
NIP-32 labelling being the largest.
811 tests.
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