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State the contract for counting a spend before one is wired to it - #1069

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record_policy_transaction counts a spend against the daily and weekly limits. It has no caller yet, only the generated binding and two tests, so the contract it needs is still free to state, and stating it now is cheaper than inferring it from whatever the first caller happens to do.

Two things a caller has to know, neither of which the signature says.

It must be called before the spend completes, and the spend must not complete when it returns an error. A spend that happened without being counted is one the limits will never see, so they under-count from then on. No ordering inside this function can prevent that, because by the time it runs the spend has already been decided; refusing the spend is the only thing that keeps the counters and reality in agreement.

The count lands in memory first and is persisted second, which is the opposite of what the policy record does, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. On a failed write this process counts a spend that storage does not hold, so it enforces too strictly, and only a restart under-counts. Committing to storage first would mean a failed write counted nothing anywhere, so the live process would under-count immediately. The same mechanical shape as the policy ordering fixed in #1065 runs the opposite way here, because there the in-memory state was the more permissive one and here it is the more restrictive one.

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    • Clarified that spends should be counted before completion and refused if counting fails.
    • Explained that counting is recorded in memory before persistence, and described what happens if persistence fails.

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The record_policy_transaction documentation now tells callers to count a spend before completing it and refuse the spend if counting fails. It also describes the ordering and consequences of persistence failure.

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keep-mobile/src/lib.rs
The documentation for record_policy_transaction explains that callers should count a spend before completing it and refuse it if counting fails. It also states that persistence failure leaves in-memory counters updated and stored counters unchanged.

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The spend-refusal wording is misleading because a failed persistence step can leave a count for an uncompleted spend. Clarify the contract before callers rely on it.

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Comment on lines +1938 to +1940
/// from then on; refusing the spend is the only thing that keeps the
/// counters and reality in agreement. There is no caller yet, so the
/// contract is stated here before one exists rather than inferred later.

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clarify what refusing the spend guarantees.

record_transaction updates the in-memory tracker before persist_velocity runs (keep-mobile/src/policy.rs:746-760; keep-mobile/src/persistence.rs:153-167). If persistence fails and the caller refuses the spend, the tracker still counts a spend that did not complete. Replace “keeps the counters and reality in agreement” with a narrower claim: refusing prevents a completed spend from going uncounted.

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Review comment at @keep-mobile/src/lib.rs around lines 1938 - 1940:
Update the documentation comment near record_transaction to state that refusing
the spend prevents a completed spend from going uncounted; remove the claim that
refusal keeps the counters and reality in agreement.

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