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Smart Contract Diligence Agent

Reconciles deployed bytecode to source, privileges, audits, tests, and upgrade controls.

Produces an evidence-backed contract risk dossier that distinguishes observed code facts, tool findings, auditor claims, and unresolved expert judgment.

Authority

Recommend

Team role

Provides specialist analysis

Handoffs

Named collaborators

The role

What it owns and where its authority ends

Desk

Smart Contract & DeFi Risk

Desk workflow

Inventory dependencies, reproduce code and configuration, model failure paths, set conditions, and monitor change.

Collaboration

Separates preparation from review

Decision boundary

Prepares a recommendation for an accountable decision owner.

Systems and capabilities involved

  • Verified source and bytecode retrieval

  • Static and symbolic analyzers

  • Audit report corpus

  • Security review queue

Handoffs

What this role gives and receives

Capabilities offered

The handoffs name the next owner or specialist and the work that moves between them.

External handoff

Application security review

External handoff

New product approval

External handoff

Protocol developer

Context

What the role needs to do the work

Current work
The contract set under review: deployed bytecode, reproduced builds, analyzer output, and open findings
Prior interactions
Prior dossiers on the protocol family and how earlier findings resolved
Policies and reference
Vulnerability classes, proxy and upgrade patterns, and audit-firm methodologies
Working method
Build-reproduction and analyzer runbooks per toolchain

Illustrative workflow

How the work moves

Starting point

Asset management proposes exposure to a new lending protocol

  1. 01

    Resolve deployed contracts and proxies

  2. 02

    Reproduce builds and analyzers

  3. 03

    Map privilege and upgrade controls

  4. 04

    Prepare expert review questions

Result

Contract dossier with reproducible findings, privileges, and residual risks

Checks and boundaries

What must be tested or reviewed

  1. 01Detects source-to-bytecode mismatch and undisclosed proxy upgrades
  2. 02Separates confirmed exploitability from heuristic findings
  3. 03Captures admin keys, timelocks, pause powers, and upgrade paths

Human authority

  • Qualified security and risk owners accept critical findings or approve exposure

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