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   "goal": [
    "Implement the OP_CAT opcode in Tapscript according to BIP-347 without miner activation logic",
    "Add verification and standardness policy flags to discourage OP_CAT spends prior to soft fork activation"
   ],
   "reviewability": [
    "Author has been silent for over 120 days",
    "Maintained as draft pending broad community consensus"
   ],
   "agreement": [
    "No consensus to merge a soft fork implementation into Bitcoin Core (achow101)",
    "Design concerns raised about open-ended transaction introspection effects on the stack (moonsettler)",
    "Technical flag semantics discussed and agreed upon (ajtowns, rot13maxi)"
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   "categories": [
    {
     "name": "validation",
     "why": [
      "P2 because soft-fork opcode proposals require an audited implementation to evaluate consensus readiness",
      "Unblocks decision-making around covenants and advanced script contracts under BIP-347"
     ]
    }
   ]
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  "summary": "This pull request implements the OP_CAT opcode for Tapscript according to BIP-347 by redefining OP_SUCCESS126. It adds execution logic enforcing stack limits up to 520 bytes, defines SCRIPT_VERIFY_OP_CAT and SCRIPT_VERIFY_DISCOURAGE_OP_CAT verification flags, and adds unit and functional test coverage. It intentionally omits miner activation logic.",
  "problem": "Tapscript currently treats opcode 126 as an OP_SUCCESS, preventing scripts from concatenating stack elements to build advanced covenant or contract constructions. Protocol developers and users seeking to evaluate BIP-347 on signet or testnets need a reference implementation in Bitcoin Core.",
  "discussion": {
   "open_concerns": [
    "Lack of project and community consensus on adopting the OP_CAT soft fork",
    "Unintended introspection capabilities and covenant implications if output sizes are not limited"
   ],
   "resolved_concerns": [
    "Ensuring comprehensive script verify flag combinations are tested for DISCOURAGE_OP_CAT and OP_SUCCESS"
   ],
   "author_status": "silent since May 2026 force push; co-author noted temporary shift in focus in April 2026"
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  "reviewability": {
   "state": "Stale",
   "label": "Author silent",
   "reason": "The author has been silent for over 120 days, exceeding the project inactivity threshold, and maintainers converted the PR to draft pending community consensus."
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  "agreement": {
   "state": "Disputed",
   "summary": "Drafted because concept consensus for the soft fork is absent (achow101); covenants discussed (moonsettler).",
   "reason": "Maintainers converted the PR to draft following discussions indicating that there is no consensus to activate or merge OP_CAT. Architectural concerns were also raised regarding unintended covenant capabilities.",
   "evidence": [
    "achow101 converted to draft: 'there does not appear to be consensus for the concept of OP_CAT in TapScript yet, so this PR cannot be merged even if the code is okay'",
    "moonsettler raised concerns that standard OP_CAT allows open-ended introspection and proposed restricting output sizes to 80 bytes",
    "EthanHeilman acknowledged the need to wait for consensus and noted shifting attention temporarily"
   ]
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   "depends_on": [],
   "enables": [
    "BIP-347"
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   {
    "name": "validation",
    "member": true,
    "evidence": "Modifies script interpreter execution logic and consensus script verification flags in src/script/interpreter.cpp.",
    "band": "P2",
    "reason_tag": "decision needed",
    "score": 0.65,
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     "security_stability": 1,
     "bug_severity": 0,
     "performance": 0,
     "user_value": 2,
     "leverage": 2
    },
    "rationale": "Proposed soft forks belong to validation because having a reliable implementation is necessary for evaluation and reaching a decision. While the PR lacks activation logic, resolving opcode semantics and edge cases is critical to deciding whether to progress BIP-347."
   },
   {
    "name": "mempool",
    "member": false,
    "evidence": "The addition of SCRIPT_VERIFY_DISCOURAGE_OP_CAT to STANDARD_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS in src/policy/policy.h is standard bookkeeping that follows the script verify flag addition, rather than a substantive mempool or policy redesign.",
    "band": "Unranked",
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   {
    "name": "tests",
    "member": false,
    "evidence": "The new functional and unit tests in test/functional/feature_opcat.py and src/test/script_tests.cpp test OP_CAT behavior specifically, which falls under validation rather than generic test framework infrastructure.",
    "band": "Unranked",
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  "card": "This pull request implements the OP_CAT opcode for Tapscript per BIP-347, without including miner activation logic. It defines SCRIPT_VERIFY_OP_CAT and SCRIPT_VERIFY_DISCOURAGE_OP_CAT to govern script execution and relay policy. While the patch has received testing and inquisition deployment, maintainers converted it to draft because concept consensus for activating OP_CAT does not exist. Review is currently stale as the author has been inactive for several months."
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