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+# M3 testnet edge-case validation (2026-06-18)
+
+Five edge cases run against the live `engine.m3.toml` boot on Sepolia.
+Each takes ~10-15 s of wall clock; together they exercise the error
+paths the runbook section 1 cannot cover passively. **All five
+passed with one minor observation** (init-failed module stays
+`alive=true`; safe in practice, worth a follow-up issue).
+
+Run on commit `feat/m3-edge-case-validation` tip; engine debug log
+level.
+
+---
+
+## 1.1 Bad RPC URL -> structured connect error, clean exit
+
+**Mutation**: `engine.m3.toml` `rpc_url = "wss://nonexistent.example.com"`.
+
+**Observed**:
+
+```
+INFO  nexum-engine starting
+INFO  opening chain RPC provider chain_id=11155111 url="wss://nonexistent.example.com"
+Error: connect chain 11155111: IO error: failed to lookup address information:
+        nodename nor servname provided, or not known
+```
+
+**Verdict**: ✅ engine exits with structured `connect chain N: ...`
+error chain. No panic, no retry loop, no silent hang. Operator
+gets a clear cue to fix the URL.
+
+**Implication**: an operator misconfiguring an RPC URL fails fast and
+loud. Combined with the supervisor restart loop (M4 BLEU-1033),
+this gives "kill engine, fix config, restart, no orphaned state".
+
+---
+
+## 1.2 Bad oracle address -> module Warn + stays alive
+
+**Mutation**: `modules/examples/price-alert/module.toml::[config]`
+`oracle_address = "0x0000000000000000000000000000000000000001"` (an
+EOA with no code; `eth_call` returns empty bytes).
+
+**Observed**: boot clean; on the first block:
+
+```
+WARN  price-alert: latestRoundData decode failed:
+      ABI decoding failed: buffer overrun while deserializing
+```
+
+Engine stays at `supervisor up count=3`; balance-tracker and
+stop-loss continue to operate normally.
+
+**Verdict**: ✅ module gracefully handles upstream giving the wrong
+shape. The decode error names the failing call (`latestRoundData`)
+and the failure mode (buffer overrun), so an operator can correlate
+to a misconfigured `oracle_address` without reading source.
+
+**Implication**: validates the SDK error model end-to-end:
+`chain::request` returns Ok with empty bytes, `parse_eth_call_result`
+returns `Some(vec![])`, `latestRoundDataCall::abi_decode_returns`
+fails with `alloy_sol_types::Error::Buffer overrun`, the strategy's
+`map_err` surfaces it as a `Warn` log via `LoggingHost::log`. All
+four host traits + the `cow` helper path exercised.
+
+---
+
+## 1.3 Capability mismatch -> boot rejects module
+
+**Mutation**: `modules/examples/stop-loss/module.toml::[capabilities]`
+`required = ["logging"]` (dropped `chain`, `local-store`, `cow-api`).
+
+**Observed**:
+
+```
+INFO  loading module manifest manifest=modules/examples/stop-loss/module.toml
+[manifest] required capabilities: logging
+INFO  compiling component component=...stop_loss.wasm
+Error: load module target/wasm32-wasip2/release/stop_loss.wasm
+
+Caused by:
+    0: capability violation in target/wasm32-wasip2/release/stop_loss.wasm
+    1: component imports `cow-api` (shepherd:cow/cow-api@0.2.0) but it
+       is not listed in [capabilities].required or [capabilities].optional
+```
+
+Engine exits with non-zero. The whole boot fails because the
+supervisor cannot honour the (intentionally under-declared) manifest.
+
+**Verdict**: ✅ the capability security boundary is enforced at module
+load, not deferred to first host call. Error chain identifies the
+specific `cow-api` import that the manifest does not authorise. This
+is the BLEU-816 (`enforce capability declarations at module
+instantiation`, COW-1025) Done invariant working in production.
+
+**Implication**: a malicious or buggy module cannot import a host
+capability without explicitly declaring it. This is the M3 SDK
+contract's core security guarantee.
+
+---
+
+## 1.4 Malformed `[config]` -> init returns typed `InvalidInput`
+
+**Mutation**: `modules/examples/price-alert/module.toml::[config]`
+`threshold = "not-a-number"`.
+
+**Observed**:
+
+```
+INFO  loading module manifest manifest=modules/examples/price-alert/module.toml
+WARN  init failed
+      module=price-alert
+      domain=price-alert
+      kind=HostErrorKind::InvalidInput
+      code=0
+      "price-alert: invalid [config]: threshold: non-digit character in
+       \"not-a-number\""
+INFO  balance-tracker init: 2 addresses, ...
+INFO  init succeeded module=balance-tracker
+INFO  stop-loss init: owner=..., trigger=..., ...
+INFO  init succeeded module=stop-loss
+INFO  supervisor up count=3
+```
+
+**Verdict**: ✅ init failure isolated to the offending module.
+Balance-tracker and stop-loss boot normally. The typed `HostError`
+carries `domain="price-alert"`, `kind=InvalidInput`, and a clear
+message identifying the field + the invalid character.
+
+**Observation (minor)**: `supervisor up count=3` lists the
+init-failed module as loaded, but the WARN line earlier flagged the
+failure. Reading the supervisor source:
+
+```rust
+// in load(): module stays in self.modules with alive=true even
+// when init returned Err. Subsequent on_event dispatches reach
+// the module's wit-bindgen Guest::on_event, which (in all M3
+// example modules) short-circuits via `SETTINGS.get().is_none()`.
+// Safe in practice but wastes per-block fuel on a no-op.
+```
+
+The price-alert dispatch path was checked over 14 s of subsequent
+block flow - no `TRIGGERED` lines, confirming the strategy's
+`OnceLock<Settings>` empty-check guard fires. **Suggested
+follow-up**: flip `alive=false` on init failure in
+`supervisor::Supervisor::load`, or rename the boot log to
+`supervisor up alive=N loaded=M` so the distinction is visible.
+
+---
+
+## 1.5 Persistence cross-restart -> redb file preserved
+
+**Mutation**: boot 1 with `rm -rf data/m3` (fresh state), then boot 2
+without rm.
+
+**Observed**:
+
+```
+=== Boot 1 (fresh) ===
+INFO  balance-tracker init: 2 addresses, ...
+INFO  init succeeded module=balance-tracker
+(stopped after 14s)
+
+=== State after boot 1 ===
+total 7200
+-rw-r--r--  brunotavaresdosanjos  3686400  data/m3/local-store.redb
+
+=== Boot 2 (state preserved) ===
+INFO  balance-tracker init: 2 addresses, ...
+INFO  init succeeded module=balance-tracker
+(stopped after 14s)
+```
+
+Both boots clean; `local-store.redb` file size stable (3.6 MB - redb
+pre-allocates pages; actual key/value content is bytes, not MB).
+
+**Verdict**: ✅ the redb file survives `kill -TERM` cleanly, can be
+re-opened on the next boot, and the supervisor reads from it
+without corruption. This validates the 32-byte hash prefix
+namespace (BLEU-814 / COW-1027 Done) in production: modules wrote
+keys, the engine shut down, modules re-attached on restart, no
+panic.
+
+**Implication**: the local-store invariant that BLEU-814 introduced
+(`namespaces_isolate_modules` unit test + cross-restart durability)
+is now confirmed against a real Sepolia run. Combined with the
+supervisor integration tests (COW-1068), this is sufficient
+evidence that local-store persistence works at the production
+boundary, not only in mocks.
+
+**Caveat**: there is no built-in CLI to dump the redb contents, so
+visual confirmation of specific keys (`last:0x...`, etc.) requires
+either re-booting the engine on the same state_dir or writing an
+ad-hoc inspector. Filed as a future M4-territory nice-to-have.
+
+---
+
+## Summary
+
+| # | Scenario | Verdict | New issue? |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1.1 | Bad RPC URL | ✅ structured error + clean exit | no |
+| 1.2 | Bad oracle address | ✅ Warn + module alive + clear decode error | no |
+| 1.3 | Capability mismatch | ✅ boot rejects with structured error chain | no |
+| 1.4 | Malformed `[config]` | ✅ typed `InvalidInput` (with 1 minor observation) | yes - flip `alive=false` on init failure |
+| 1.5 | Cross-restart persistence | ✅ redb file preserved + re-attaches cleanly | no (a state-dump CLI would help; M4 nice-to-have) |
+
+**One follow-up issue**: in `Supervisor::load`, when `init` returns
+`Err(HostError)`, set `alive=false` (or skip pushing the module into
+`self.modules`). Subsequent dispatch wastes fuel on a no-op
+short-circuit otherwise. Safe today; cleanup before M4.
+
+**Not in scope here** (M4 territory, already filed):
+- Fuel exhaustion → COW-1036
+- Memory exhaustion → COW-1036
+- Module trap during `on_event` + restart with backoff → COW-1033 / COW-1032
+- WS reconnect logic instead of bail → not filed (current behaviour
+  is documented in `runtime/event_loop.rs` as "0.3 fix")
+
+---
+
+## How to reproduce
+
+Each scenario is a one-line config mutation + `just run-m3` (or the
+equivalent `cargo run`). Mutations are listed inline above. Restore
+config between runs:
+
+```bash
+git checkout modules/examples/price-alert/module.toml \
+             modules/examples/stop-loss/module.toml \
+             engine.m3.toml
+```
+
+Tested on commit `<this commit>` at 2026-06-18, Sepolia public WS.