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Finishes the field-confusion fix from #143 in the client-side modules, which still searched the whole event JSON for tags. A decoy member added to a validly signed event could substitute:

• NIP-57: the zap receipt description (sender, comment, amount) and a zap split's relay and weight.
• NIP-17: the gift wrap recipient, reply target, subject, file metadata and the DM relay list (so a client could be pointed at an attacker's relay).
• NIP-28: the channel reference, reply target and mute targets.

These now read only the top-level tags member through TagIterator, and fail closed on malformed tags (TagIterator.initStrict). NWC Response.parseJson and CLINK OffersResponse.parse treated a duplicated error or result as absent and could report a failed payment as successful; they now reject malformed or duplicated members. utils.findStringEnd scans byte-wise like skipJsonValue instead of skipping 2 to 4 bytes after a non-ASCII byte, which could jump over a closing quote.

Breaking API changes are listed in the changelog. Each module has decoy and malformed-tag tests, and each fails on the previous code.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • NIP-17, NIP-28, and NIP-57 tag parsing now reads tags from the top-level tag list and rejects malformed values, including invalid public-key and event-ID hex strings.
  • NIP-17 relay values must be nonempty.
  • NWC and CLINK response parsing now rejects duplicate or malformed fields and invalid response structures.
  • Zap request and receipt validation now reports malformed tags, and zap split parsing handles malformed tag lists safely.

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Walkthrough

The changes add strict tag iteration and top-level tag parsing for NIP-17, NIP-28, and NIP-57. They also tighten CLINK and NWC response parsing, update string-end scanning, and document these changes in the changelog.

Changes

Top-Level Tag Parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Strict tag iterator src/utils.zig, CHANGELOG.md	TagIterator.Tag now includes the raw tag-array text, and initStrict rejects malformed tags. findStringEnd scans byte by byte. The changelog records the parsing changes.
NIP-17 and NIP-28 tag parsing src/nip17.zig, src/nip28.zig	NIP-17 and NIP-28 helpers and iterators read top-level tags. They validate tag values and ignore tag-like text outside the tags member.
NIP-57 tag validation src/nip57.zig	Request, receipt, and split parsing use parsed tags and reject malformed tag arrays. Server validation returns InvalidTags for malformed tags or failed tag initialization.

Response Parsing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CLINK and NWC response validation src/clink.zig, src/nwc.zig	The parsers locate response fields at the top level and reject duplicate or malformed members. Tests cover invalid field values and malformed JSON.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 04c0e

Malformed zap tags can appear to parse successfully, although later validation rejects them. Fix the parser returns before merging, or accept this bounded risk.

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Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 04c0e

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Changed systems: src, CHANGELOG.md

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Systems and components

• observed — src (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — CHANGELOG.md (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in CHANGELOG.md: Adds Unreleased Changed and Security notes covering NIP iterator and validation changes, top-level tag parsing and malformed-tag rejection, stricter NWC/CLINK response parsing, byte-wise string scanning, and new TagIterator capabilities.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/clink.zig: OffersResponse.parse now requires successful top-level field discovery for error, bolt11, and preimage; it rejects a present error unless its JSON value is exactly null. This replaces the prior check that rejected only when extractJsonString returned a string.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/clink.zig: Adds OffersResponse.parse tests accepting a response with error: null and rejecting duplicate error or bolt11 keys, non-null or object-valued errors, a GFY error response, and malformed error values.
• observed — Modified behavior in src/nip17.zig: ReceiverIterator replaces JSON substring scanning and its cursor with a strict tag iterator. It returns only p tags whose values are exactly 64 hexadecimal characters, and takes a nonempty third tag string as the optional relay.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject failed tag iterator initialization in both parsers. The new malformed checks run only after TagIterator.init succeeds. A non-array "tags" member therefore still produces a non-null request or receipt.

• src/nip57.zig#L51-L51: change ZapRequest.fromEvent to return null when iterator initialization fails.
• src/nip57.zig#L172-L172: make the same change in ZapReceipt.fromEvent.

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Review comment at @src/nip57.zig at line 51:
Update ZapRequest.fromEvent at src/nip57.zig:51-51 and ZapReceipt.fromEvent at
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