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Summary

Consolidates NatSpec follow-ups from a series of external reports on ERC7786OpenBridge whose disposition depended on already-in-code but undocumented design intent. No behavior change.

  • sendMessage: aligns with AxelarGatewayAdapter.sendMessage on the source-side non-validation of the recipient's address component (chain-only ERC-7930 recipients, non-contract targets), and states that the per-gateway `try`/`catch` isolates gateway reverts — not interface non-compliance from gateways that return EVM success with malformed returndata.
  • receiveMessage: documents that the public retry path only performs work once the threshold has already been reached from gateway deliveries (a non-gateway caller against a fresh or rolled-back tracker returns the magic value without executing anything), and frames the wrong-return-value revert as a deliberate signal treating a non-conforming recipient as the interface-violating party rather than the bridge.
  • _addGateway: states that registering a gateway trusts it to implement the ERC-7786 interface correctly (non-conformance is the operator's responsibility to rotate out via `removeGateway`), and clarifies that the `code.length > 0` check is a fat-finger guard against plain EOAs — not an interface attestation, and in particular passing for EIP-7702 delegated EOAs.

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  • NatSpec-only, no behavior change.
  • Compiles cleanly on the current `solc 0.8.27` target.
  • No CHANGELOG entry (repo convention: docs-only PRs are not user-visible).

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded developer documentation for cross-chain message sending, receiving, and gateway registration.
    • Clarified validation responsibilities, malformed gateway responses, retry and counting behavior, invalid recipient handling, and gateway contract-address check limitations.

Consolidates NatSpec follow-ups from a series of external reports on
`ERC7786OpenBridge` whose disposition depended on already-in-code but
undocumented design intent:

- `sendMessage`: aligns with `AxelarGatewayAdapter.sendMessage` on the
  source-side non-validation of the recipient's address component, and
  states explicitly that the per-gateway `try`/`catch` isolates gateway
  reverts (not interface non-compliance from gateways returning
  EVM-successful but malformed data).
- `receiveMessage`: documents that the public retry path only performs
  work once the threshold has been reached from gateway deliveries, and
  frames the wrong-return-value revert as a deliberate signal treating
  the recipient as the interface-violating party rather than the bridge.
- `_addGateway`: states that registering a gateway trusts it to implement
  the ERC-7786 interface, and that the `code.length > 0` check is a
  fat-finger guard against plain EOAs (not an interface attestation, and
  in particular passing for EIP-7702 delegated EOAs).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The pull request expands ERC7786 bridge documentation for message validation, gateway failures, retry execution, recipient return values, and gateway contract checks.

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ERC7786 bridge documentation

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Bridge behavior and gateway contract documentation
contracts/crosschain/ERC7786OpenBridge.sol
Documents caller validation responsibilities, gateway revert isolation, threshold-based retries, invalid recipient return handling, and the limits of gateway contract-address checks.

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Bridge execution is unaffected, but integrators would receive inaccurate guidance for observable gateway and recipient failure paths. Correct these descriptions before merge.

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In `@contracts/crosschain/ERC7786OpenBridge.sol`:
- Around line 107-112: Update the documentation comment in the aggregate
gateway-send logic to remove “oversized returndata” as an ABI-decoding failure
example, while retaining truncated or otherwise undecodable returndata as valid
examples. Do not change the gateway call behavior or surrounding error-isolation
semantics.
- Around line 189-191: Update the NatSpec around receiveMessage and its invalid
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ERC7786OpenBridgeInvalidExecutionReturnValue() as the observable revert. Replace
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- Drop the "undeliverable messages" trailer and the try/catch-scope prose
  from `sendMessage` NatSpec (implied by the "not enforced" note and by
  the general trust-in-gateways statement).
- Move the try/catch rationale into an inline comment at the call site,
  where the choice actually lives.
- Drop the "This is deliberate…" justification from `receiveMessage`
  NatSpec and instead name `ERC7786OpenBridgeInvalidExecutionReturnValue`
  as the observable revert on wrong magic value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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