Month: 2026-07 — Agoric/agoric-sdk Key features delivered and major improvements: - Internal Hex Handling Enhancements: optimized hex decoding init and added hex tests; Node mode hex validation tightened. (Commits: 8b9a80dbdd5d1145ffd3fc4039d5928451a923d7; 94c070d0f2220b1139581d08cec08b6b39f8f2ce; 6e8b14654f818f92a9f85e11285ece406aa23e9b) - CI reliability improvements: fixed flaky CI job detection and added failure notifications. (Commits: 4f5a895ca23523e1e603fab9f364257aa4fe4521; c6a9f2c543c1089da97e658e75acb59cd24e3962) - Portfolio Deploy and upgrade workflows: hardened authz/upgrade flows with end-to-end automation and validation. - Single input for authz grantee; fetch logs for authz upgrades; include authz pubkey in unsigned tx; fix authz control address; confirm lookup health blocks. Commits: f33e2772a8e3b4c9d4d5e1f05377930f44d6cba1; 021acb0f64e178e94744910702f6dc30c1be2e22; 804aa682bbdea1b3db6dec9abf34a7fa7c54db00; 126f8f5873b0905d33b4597da0c0532dbd115a99; dff014d5be6a05f0c569dc1e3c72e0a2ef07a9ca; e587eb3644d92ae223bc5a18b0cad0ecc9b282b0. - AGD sign command and multisig signing improvements: bracketed sign flow with GitHub steps; fix formatting for multisig grantees; rebuild AGD sign command on every generate rerun. Commits: 53ac88fe4769d2be8731dfbc744cb845a46f67cf; b734f0c72c811e0e9a690b304efd566f30684bfd; 4802bf9521e033bde1f284b74c9ee875a3b19bd5 - Upgrade budgeting and execution costs: raised gas/fees for authz upgrade; increased execution budget to handle MsgExec size. Commits: 0bc0ad460231847294cbb7f93066c02da53edfd0; 3ac74a9f111ccb06eb0c4073a4585fac62c73d02 - VAT option updates: apply host-injected VAT option updates; promote a running vat to critical at upgrade. Commits: c1e0a875644613ec352f63e951c621de976b91ca; 141856f982bc76434e97c5311e013ea38f19767b - Ymax1 persistence deployment and upgrade readiness: refactor A3P to deploy ymax1 persistently; mark ymax1 vat critical in tests. Commits: 36e70346d75ec1a31d998f2094ae899c4075a8e4; 00677c5655079db08e0d06fdb83d90bbdfcae37e - Quality and coverage: lock files synced; planner tests coverage for portfolio-contract; next action exposed as workflow annotation. Commits: 5b18f2ca868d75b96fcb22f00541aef6045a4c23; 53e42b89089a7cc2e7a7d4bec60ad44d5c258b35; bea834c8f9f4dafa644e2b247c0a4f79d0284486; 94720c237255c601d30c4e094738d9203a3d9be5; f1a4f4a8ec9d27a523eeff079feeb0fa77fa4a2a Overall impact: Strengthened deployment reliability, security, and developer productivity in the SDK by hardening upgrade flows, improving signing workflows, and enhancing CI and testing coverage. These changes reduce operational risk in production upgrades and enable faster, safer rollouts.

June 2026 monthly summary focused on strengthening the Portfolio feature set in Agoric-sdk, improving type safety and API ergonomics, advancing planner-driven automation, and stabilizing flows. Delivery emphasized business value: safer contracts, clearer delegation semantics, and automated features that reduce manual steps while expanding interoperability and observability.

April 2026 monthly summary focused on delivering modular, secure EVM-related capabilities in Agoric/sdk, improving reliability of Permit2 and EIP-712 flows, and enhancing documentation for long-term maintainability. Key outcomes include better reusability of Viem utilities, strengthened validation and signer handling, and clearer design guidance across portfolios.

2026-03 Monthly Summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk. Focused on delivering portfolio routing and cross-chain account provisioning improvements, EVM testing improvements with portfolio API type safety, and devnet/testing environment compatibility updates, alongside a critical fix to depositFromEVM spender validation. These changes strengthen cross-chain portfolio support, improve test coverage and API clarity, and reduce risk in asset deposits. Business value includes improved deployment confidence, safer deposits, and a better developer experience through clearer APIs and test infrastructure.

February 2026 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focusing on delivering foundational GMP flows, expanding on-chain/off-chain state visibility, and enhancing domain security and deployment flexibility. The month combined substantial feature work with critical stability fixes and test infrastructure improvements to accelerate business value delivery and reduce risk in mainnet deployments.

January 2026 — Agoric-sdk: Key outcomes and business value Key features delivered: - EVM handler vstorage types and Viem utilities, including isHex export, enabling consistent EVM state handling and tooling. - Permit2 integration in orchestration: helpers and ABI definitions to support secure, permissioned portfolio orchestration. - Portfolio API enhancements: permit details extraction logic and default ymax operation type names, improving correctness and UX. - EVM wallet interactions: added EVM wallet message helpers, EVM Wallet handleMessage, and openPortfolioFromEVM flow. - EVM handleOperation refactor to named arguments for clarity and maintainability; publish deadline in EIPMessageUpdate. Major bugs fixed: - Ensure EVM message deadline hasn't passed to prevent late processing. - Enforce deposit of USDC on EVM open to guarantee funded opens. - Enforce EVM withdraw of USDC token for correct asset flows. - Register GMP makeAccount transaction before sending to improve reliability of account creation. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Strengthened reliability and security of EVM-enabled workflows, enabling more robust portfolio operations and governance flows. - Improved interoperability via Permit2 and GMP integrations, with clearer operation semantics and improved testing coverage. - Enhanced production-readiness with more deterministic messaging deadlines and asset flow protections. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - EVM integration patterns, Viem tooling, and vstorage types; isHex export usage. - Permit2 integration theory and ABI handling; GMP-based deposit/create flows. - EIP-712 domain handling, named-args refactor, and test modernization (snapshot tests). - TypeScript/SDK engineering for orchestration, portfolios, and EVM facets.

Month: 2025-12 — concise monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focusing on Viem integration and portfolio management improvements. Delivered two main features with test coverage, with no major bugs fixed reported in this data. Overall impact includes improved maintainability, compatibility with external dependencies, and strengthened portfolio deployment workflows. Demonstrates strong capability in integrating typed data handling and testing for complex multi-party interactions.

November 2025 focused on delivering robust Smart Wallet capabilities, strengthening reliability through targeted bug fixes, and laying groundwork for future wallet flows, while improving code quality and maintainability across the agoric-sdk repo. Key work delivered in Agoric/agoric-sdk advanced wallet testing, invocations, storage, and typing/test infrastructure, aligning with product goals of reliability, backward compatibility, and developer productivity.

October 2025 delivered core platform capabilities and reliability enhancements across the SDK, 3-proposals, and endo. Notable features include Portfolio Deploy core enhancements (standalone core proposal for deliverContractControl, privateArgs handling, contract-name support, getUpgradeKit integration), Boot: combineProposals tool, A3P ymax1 beta test, and major type/marshaller work. A modernization wave introduced EMarshaller, remoteMarshaller with a caching layer, and a RemoteMarshaller caching wrapper, paired with extensive test coverage improvements (inter-protocol and kmarshal tests). Significant repo refactors and a TypeScript upgrade improved maintainability, along with ESLint rule updates. Major bug fixes targeted build/runtime reliability: publish bundle errors are now throwables; synthetic payloads and publish bundle info are confirmed passable. Additional fixes in Endo/Bundle-source ESLint coverage further reduce risk in production.

September 2025 monthly summary: Across Agoric and Endo projects, delivered high-impact features, reliability improvements, and stronger type safety. Key achievements include Synthetic-chain CLI enhancements, Dockerfile and image build optimization, CI/CD workflow enhancements, robust ContractControl lifecycle and upgrade enhancements in agoric-sdk, and remotable type system cleanup in endo. These efforts reduced release risk, cut pipeline times, and improved contract governance and developer experience.

In August 2025, delivered targeted feature work, reliability improvements, and maintainability improvements across two core repos (agoric-sdk and agoric-3-proposals). Focused on governance messaging interoperability with Cosmos Amino, CI pipeline robustness, and build/tooling stability, resulting in stronger production readiness and faster governance cycles.

July 2025 monthly summary focusing on strengthening transcript management and archiver reliability in the Agoric SDK. Delivered synchronous transcript export and span rollover completion guarantees to prevent data loss and inconsistencies. Refactored archiver temporary file cleanup to be asynchronous with correctly wired dependencies, and expanded test coverage to validate synchronous span closure, logging, and rollover data integrity. These changes improve end-to-end data integrity, operational reliability, and observability for transcript handling in the swing-store layer.

June 2025 performance and capability enhancements across Agoric/agoric-sdk and endojs/endo focused on reliability, type safety, and developer productivity. Delivered caching-based performance improvements for remote marshalling, standardized remote object representations across packages, and strengthened type safety in daemon and transport layers. Expanded and stabilized test coverage and mocks to reflect evolving remote interfaces, enabling safer API evolution and easier maintenance. The combined work reduces latency in critical remote paths, mitigates runtime errors due to uncertain promise lifecycles, and positions the SDKs for scalable, future-proof growth.

May 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focusing on key features delivered, critical bug fixes, and overall impact. Highlights include: (1) Build system optimization and internal marshalling improvements: consolidated build and internal refactorings to boost Docker build efficiency, type safety, and marshalling performance. Notable changes include Dockerignore refinements, Dockerfile cleanup, internal type def refinements, and marshalling helpers. Commit highlights: 1624efa52e582603f97e942d1af240b6a19f68ec; 616d2640b744075c6cf1039585b2abfa0d3f8f66; 0de50d5a1a26678905bc1909340f7c4bb2e3db3f; a180b08d3b62aff85149705068b6897f868452c5; 3d52812cb4cbdbbc2ad169e99bea1c7c0d107b02. (2) Telemetry flight recorder reliability and performance enhancements: addressed IO bottlenecks, enabled asynchronous reads, ensured data flush to disk, and corrected byte counts during reads. Commit highlights: b7a19dd9c106d9b31e6f9188f5d4df0bbb5132bf; d2702028d77c06f3b4de91ca711a3c45c685a477; bfbacb2b9f8de36f8f66b8cba8a88603fb7225e2. (3) Overall impact: improved build reliability and deployment efficiency, enhanced observability through a more reliable telemetry path, and stronger type safety and modularity in the SDK. (4) Technologies/skills demonstrated: Docker tooling, build pipeline optimization, TypeScript/internal marshal refactoring, asynchronous IO, disk flush semantics, and telemetry subsystem reliability.

April 2025 (2025-04) focused on reliability, upgrade readiness, and build stability across the Agoric SDK. Delivered targeted improvements across SwingSet tests, acceptance/state-sync, build tooling, and upgrade-path scenarios, with emphasis on business value: safer deployments, faster feedback, and robust upgrade paths. Key delivered items include: SwingSet testing improvements (reap-all and reload) with commits 3eaf4cea8b44cf00c4b172581b274018917b8132; 7302873074f3487a0683be5d5dacf5c53944631c; Acceptance tests and state-sync stabilization (sync with latest blocks and removal of stale snapshots) with commits 76e79966d8da412f82b3669d758642dcc29808f8; eb623e99e9ed792332e5e78b15d8e15ecb9b0f5a; 52e851d366fee163e85ddf972e4fd96c5547d2fa; Flight recorder post-shutdown protection (prevent writes after shutdown) with commit 3d2bcb3c56ac24a0f991200b223e6af8514dc5b8; Cosmos SDK orchestration/vat upgrades and upgrade-path tests to address memory leaks and robust upgrade scenarios (d031c6f899917a35b57cadfdc4113b08cb00ea09; 8727b79cf7b9e520630b793ea963a9f375d9707a; 1be509835abede6408100cf05745a9f835b4c933); Build tooling and dependency management updates for consistent environments (232ef3b26609464924acee0fc2263aa494314c49; 04914539938a9a1e892cc0bac9d9ef5bfcc94a0b; 4f7574f9ec350170b13710123da3e19808e23833; 4ba7e12a88dcd9df67e2fe8c5678f4151bc6f18f); Remove obsolete null upgrade test to prevent drift (e27076d22d93b9c9312c1a9929a1967e4841df5d).

March 2025 monthly summary for Agoric/agoric-sdk focused on stability, performance, and developer experience. Delivered explicit documentation alignment for Go version, memory-management improvements in Liveslots, and enhanced observation and GC capabilities in SwingSet, complemented by a refined test harness. These work items reduce production risk, improve test reliability, and provide clearer diagnostics across vats and swingsets.

February 2025 monthly summary focusing on key accomplishments, major fixes, and business impact across two core repositories. Highlighted work includes test reliability improvements in the Agoric SDK, enhanced observability for block processing in Cosmic Swingset, and robustness fixes for async iteration in the ECMAScript spec project. The work aligns with reducing risk, improving diagnostics, and enabling faster iteration on performance and reliability improvements.

October 2024 (2024-10) monthly summary for Agoric SDK: Delivered measurable improvements in observability, upgrade reliability, and deployment flexibility. Key outcomes include telemetry ingestion and monitoring enhancements with improved error handling, stdout/stderr routing, stdin support, and per-block throttling; a robust upgrade process that skips proposals with empty variants and clearly expresses dependencies to ensure critical updates apply in the correct order; script configuration capabilities for custom JSON configurations to tailor price feed updates and committee parameters; and core I/O reliability improvements for filesystem streams and stdout handling, plus formatting cleanups. These deliverables improve data quality, safer upgrades, configurable deployments, and reduced operational toil, enabling faster, more reliable product iterations.