deps: @solana/kit 5.5.1 → 8.2.0 (takes the content-length fix from upstream)

[VickyXAI]

Fixes the content-length defect #352 targets, by taking the fix upstream already shipped instead of patching it out of the bundle.

The defect

@solana/rpc-transport-http@5.5.1 (dist/index.node.mjs:73,81):

const body = toJson ? toJson(payload) : JSON.stringify(payload);
...
"content-length": body.length.toString(),

body is a string, so .length is UTF-16 code units, not UTF-8 bytes. Measured against a local server: a 1-emoji body is 53 units / 55 bytes, and the request fails with Unexpected end of JSON input, then the connection desyncs. The library's own DISALLOWED_HEADERS and FORBIDDEN_HEADERS tables (lines 8, 17) list content-length as a header callers must not set — it then sets it anyway.

Why upstream, not a build-time patch

Upstream deleted the line: present in 5.5.1, 6.3.1, 6.5.0, 6.7.0; gone from 6.10.0 on. 8.2.0's createHttpTransport is byte-identical to 5.5.1's minus that header. undici then computes content-length itself, correctly and in bytes — verified on Node 22.23.2 and 24.19.0, with no fallback to Transfer-Encoding: chunked (some RPC providers reject chunked).

#352's build-time strip actively blocks this upgrade. With kit 8 installed, its esbuild plugin hard-fails the build:

✘ [ERROR] strip-solana-rpc-content-length matched nothing in .../index.node.mjs
  — @solana/rpc-transport-http changed shape. Update the pattern; do not ship.

Its fail-closed condition is "a replacement occurred", so the build breaks precisely when the dependency becomes correct.

Why this needs overrides

@x402/svm@2.25.0 (latest) still pins @solana-program/token ^0.9.0, token-2022 ^0.6.1, compute-budget ^0.11.0 — all peering on @solana/kit ^5.0. Their current releases (0.16.1, 0.16.1, 0.18.1) have moved to ^8.0.0. So the clean bump is gated on the x402 SDK, not on this repo.

The overrides are merged into the existing block, not replacing it — the 13 entries already there are security pins (ws, tar, postcss, basic-ftp, ip-address, brace-expansion, jayson/uuid, …), all still enforced.

Forcing x402's transitive deps forward is safe because @x402/svm uses exactly four things from them — findAssociatedTokenPda, getTransferCheckedInstruction, getSetComputeUnitLimitInstruction, and the two program-address constants. Driven with identical inputs on both trees, every byte matches:

	old (token 0.9.0 / cb 0.11.0)	new (token 0.16.1 / cb 0.18.1)
ATA (bump)	FGETo8T8…ra8B (254)	identical
transferChecked data	0c87d612000000000006	identical
transferChecked accounts	4 accounts, roles 1,0,1,0	identical
computeBudget data	02400d0300	identical
TOKEN / TOKEN_2022 program	unchanged	unchanged

npm resolves one deduped @solana/kit@8.2.0 — no second copy, which matters because noExternal: [/.*/] would bundle both.

Verified

• tsc --noEmit clean
• 1088 passed / 1 skipped
• npm run build + dist smoke green
• built bundles carry zero manual content-length lines, with no patching of any kind

NOT verified — needs a human before this ships

A live Solana payment. The only tests touching the signing path mock @x402/svm wholesale (src/proxy.solana-rpc-override.test.ts:22,32), and nothing in src/ calls the token builders directly — they live inside x402's compiled code. Green tests say nothing about the real money path. One real Solana-rail paid request should gate the merge.

dist/ is deliberately not regenerated here to keep the diff reviewable; publish.yml rebuilds from source anyway (npm ci → build → publish). Note main's committed dist/ is separately stale.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated underlying Solana components to newer compatible versions.
  • No direct user-facing feature or behavior changes are included in this release.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The package manifest upgrades @solana/kit from version 5 to version 8 and adds pinned overrides for @solana/kit and three Solana program packages.

Changes

Solana dependency alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manifest dependency updates package.json	The manifest upgrades @solana/kit to ^8.0.0 and adds overrides for @solana-program/compute-budget, @solana-program/token, and @solana-program/token-2022.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 93399

This updates the Solana payment stack to Kit 8, including its HTTP transport behavior. Successful funded Solana payments have not been demonstrated with the upgraded dependency, so payment availability should be verified before merge.

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98-98: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial

Run a funded Solana payment before merge.

test/test-solana-e2e.ts only checks @solana/kit signer creation. Its BLOCKRUN_WALLET_KEY path selects "base"; its fallback uses a new Solana key, skips balance checks, and accepts an expected payment failure. Exercise the production Solana x402 signing path with a funded wallet and assert a successful response.

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In `@package.json` at line 98, Update the Solana end-to-end coverage in
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[VickyXAI]

Reviewed with a built comparison of both trees, not just the diff. The signing risk is not real; the bundle cost is. My recommendation is to hold this, and I've landed the guard that makes it safe to revisit.

The ^5.0.0 invariant does not apply here

It was written after 2026-03-06, where @solana/kit and @x402/svm resolved to different majors and left two runtime copies of @solana/signers / @solana/transactions disagreeing about signature state. That does not recur:

• In the PR-built bundle there is exactly one copy of @solana/signers, @solana/transactions, @solana/transaction-messages and @solana/kit.
• Driving @x402/svm's real client path (ExactSvmScheme.createPaymentPayload and the V1 scheme) with a fixed keypair, fixed blockhash and fixed memo against a stubbed RPC produces byte-identical signed wire transactions under kit 5.5.1 and 8.2.0.
• All 32 symbols @x402/svm and ClawRouter import from kit / @solana-program/* exist in 8.2.0. Zero removed, zero renamed.
• Peers are clean. @x402/svm@2.21.0 peers on @solana/kit: ">=5.1.0", not ^5.0, so kit 8 satisfies it unmodified. The three @solana-program overrides are required, not incidental — 0.9.0/0.6.1/0.11.0 each peer on kit ^5.0. npm ls reports zero invalid and zero unmet non-optional peers.
• The overrides block really is a merge: all 13 security pins survive with identical values, pure 4-key append.

The duplicated packages (20 copies of @solana/errors, 9 of codecs-core, …) are all stateless — @solana/errors identifies by e.name === "SolanaError", never instanceof; nothing anywhere does instanceof SolanaError.

What it costs

dist/cli.js 8.00 MB → 10.11 MB (+26.4%, +2,211,641 bytes). Both refs built from git archive under the same toolchain; the main build reproduced the committed dist byte-for-byte, so the comparison is sound. That leaves 1.88 MiB under MAX_BUNDLE_BYTES, a canary written to catch "a whole extra copy of something" — after this it can barely see one. Two fixes were tried and both failed: pinning all 20 @solana/* subpackages via overrides changed nothing, and an esbuild onResolve canonicaliser made it worse (11.36 MB).

What it buys

On this repo, today: nothing I can demonstrate. #352's own body describes the header as leaving the path "sensitive to … if … non-byte-length-safe content enters that path" — a hardening claim, not a reproduced failure; the Solana fetch failed that was reproduced was an unreachable RPC endpoint, fixed separately in v0.12.271. body.length under-states only for non-ASCII, and every Solana RPC body on this path is ASCII (base58 addresses, base64 transactions, ASCII method names), where String.length equals the byte length and undici accepts the header. Verified across Node 18/20/22/24: a correct manual content-length is accepted; only an over-stated one throws.

So this trades 26% of the bundle and most of the duplicate-detection margin for a defect that cannot currently fire.

Also

dist/ is committed here and this PR does not rebuild it, so the tracked bundle still inlines kit 5.5.1 — including the header the title says it removes. And the lockfile now conflicts with main, so every number in the PR body was measured against a lockfile that won't be the one that lands.

Suggested path

Hold until @x402/svm ships a release whose own @solana-program deps are on ^0.16/^0.18 — that removes the override-driven nesting, and the bump becomes a one-line version change with no bundle cost. @solana/kit@8.2.0 on its own resolves to a single @solana/errors; the duplication only appears when kit 8 meets @x402/svm's older pins.

Meanwhile guard/solana-single-copy (5b2f848) rewrites the invariant as the property that actually held — @solana/signers, @solana/transactions and @solana/transaction-messages must each be inlined exactly once — and enforces it in smoke-dist, counting distinct install paths rather than marker lines, with a self-check so a rotted matcher can't report a clean bundle. It passes on main, passes on this PR's tree, and rejects a synthetic v5/v6 split. That is the thing that was missing: the old rule was a version pin nobody enforced.

Remaining gap either way: no live settlement was performed. The byte-identical result proves construction and signing agree between kit versions; it does not prove the facilitator accepts the transaction. One real paid Solana call through the built bundle before any release.

[VickyXAI]

Converting to draft — blocked on upstream, not on anything in this branch. Tracked as #378, which records the exact unblock condition (@x402/svm shipping @solana-program deps on ^0.16/^0.18), the two mitigations already tried and failed, and everything now settled so none of it gets re-derived: byte-identical signing across 5.5.1 and 8.2.0, all 32 imported symbols present, clean peers, and the 2026-03-06 failure mode proven absent.

That last one is now a build guard rather than a memory — #375 asserts single-copy @solana/signers / @solana/transactions / @solana/transaction-messages in smoke-dist, so when this does land, the thing the old ^5.0.0 pin was really protecting is checked mechanically.

Reopen for review when @x402/svm moves; at that point the overrides come out and this is a one-line bump with no bundle cost.