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The session continued hardening the vast-manager platform by improving benchmark error log shipping, adding persistent deploy settings and multi-select bulk actions to the web UI, and refining the backend to keep the highest benchmark score per machine, clean stale instances, and reject known-bad hosts on deploy. Operational monitoring deployed new instances for performance data while several existing ones failed min_rate thresholds. The focus then shifted to a critical production bug where PSProve tasks fail for PoRep challenges when processed through CuZK, while Snap tasks work correctly. The assistant meticulously compared the PSProve code path (task_prove.go) with the normal CuZK path (cuzk_funcs.go), discovering that the PSProve path defines a local C1OutputWrapper struct instead of using the shared wrapC1Output function, re-marshaling the C1 output from Go rather than passing raw Rust JSON bytes. This identified a potential JSON serialization round-trip issue where custom MarshalJSON methods lack UnmarshalJSON, combined with a SectorNum type mismatch (int64 vs u64), causing the Rust CuZK engine to deserialize the VanillaProof bytes incorrectly.

harden vast-manager benchmark error reportingenhance web UI with persistent deploy settings and bulk actionsrefine backend to keep highest benchmark score and reject bad hostsinvestigate PoRep PSProve CuZK failure modecompare PSProve and normal CuZK code paths for structural differencesidentify JSON serialization round-trip bug with custom marshalersanalyze Rust CuZK VanillaProof deserializationidentify SectorNum type mismatch in C1OutputWrapper

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