Verify the graph-node API schema snapshot in CI

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Closes #297.

crates/metaboard/src/schema/metaboard.graphql is the full graph-node API
schema, and cynic_codegen in crates/metaboard/build.rs registers it as
truth for the generated client. Nothing in this repo produced it and nothing
checked it, so a wrong hand-edit compiled fine and only surfaced against a live
endpoint at runtime.

It cannot be regenerated offline the way copy-artifacts regenerates the ABIs
— reproducing it means running graph-node's own schema derivation. So this runs
graph-node.

The job

schema-snapshot, a second job in MetaBoard Subgraph CI:

• anvil from the flake on the runner host, reached by graph-node over the
  docker host gateway. graph-node will not accept a deployment naming a chain
  it has no adapter for.
• postgres + ipfs + graph-node from subgraph/docker-compose.graph-node.yml,
  a SEPARATE compose file: subgraph-test runs docker compose up --abort-on-container-exit over the default file, so these services must not
  land in it.
• subgraph/check-api-schema.sh copies subgraph/ and the ABIs its manifest
  names into a temp tree, writes a throwaway networks.json there built from
  the manifest's own dataSources[].name, then graph codegen, graph build --network anvil, graph create, graph deploy.
• subgraph/print-api-schema.js introspects the deployed endpoint and prints
  the SDL through lexicographicSortSchema, so the snapshot does not encode
  graph-node's internal type ordering. It retries: graph-node answers
  Subgraph ... has not started syncing yet for the first second or two after
  a deploy.
• diff -u against the committed snapshot, with the derived schema uploaded as
  an artifact so a mismatch is fixed by copying the artifact over the file.

The build and deploy happen in a temp copy because graph build --network
writes that network's address and startBlock back into the manifest it
builds, and the source manifest is the template that carries neither (#149).
The job asserts git diff --exit-code -- subgraph/ after, so residue in the
source tree fails the job rather than being committed by accident.

What it found immediately

The committed snapshot was wrong. It is replaced here, verbatim from the job's
own artifact. It had been missing Transaction_filter, Transaction_orderBy,
every transaction* entry in MetaV1_filter and MetaV1_orderBy, the
transaction/transactions fields on Query and Subscription,
_Block_.parentHash, the Timestamp and Aggregation_interval types and
graph-node's directive definitions — the generated surface nobody hand-wrote
when the Transaction entity was added in #58.

Also here

MetaBoard Subgraph CI now substitutes the rainix shells from Cachix. Every
rainix shell carries rainix-static, a rust build, and crates.io is answering
403 to the runners; without this the lane cannot build a shell at all and both
jobs die at Install soldeer dependencies. Every other lane in this repo
already gets this from the rainix reusable workflows' shared preamble
(rainlanguage/rainix#196); this hand-rolled one did not.

Out of scope, per the issue: rain-metadata schema-check, which asks the
different question of whether a deployed subgraph matches what the consumer
expects. Untouched.

QA

• Discriminating tests: the schema-snapshot job itself — it is the test. It fails on base: at 2090670, with main's hand-maintained snapshot in the tree and this job already wired up, run 33035676649 went red at Deploy the subgraph and diff the committed API schema, diffing the committed file against what graph-node v0.35.1 derived. With the snapshot corrected it is green: run 33035981703.
• Mutations applied: crates/metaboard/src/schema/metaboard.graphql:96 sender: Bytes! → sender: String!, pushed as commit 9d8e59d on branch 2026-08-27-issue-297-mutation (left in place as the audit trail; it is not for merge) → killed by schema-snapshot, run 33036001137, red at the diff step reporting exactly - sender: String! / + sender: Bytes! and nothing else. The deploy and introspection steps before it passed, so the red is the assertion firing and not the harness falling over.
• Oracle: graph-node itself. The expected schema is introspected out of a graph-node that was handed subgraph/schema.graphql; it is not derived from the committed file, nor from anything else in this repo. The 292-line correction it forced on the committed snapshot is the oracle disagreeing with the artifact on first contact.
• Category check: the issue asks for (a) a CI job that deploys the subgraph to a throwaway graph-node, introspects it and fails on a difference, (b) the compose services it needs, (c) whatever normalisation makes the introspection output comparable to the committed file. Covered: (a) the schema-snapshot job, (b) subgraph/docker-compose.graph-node.yml plus host anvil, (c) lexicographicSortSchema + printSchema, with the committed file replaced by that canonical form so the comparison is a plain diff. The stated out-of-scope item (rain-metadata schema-check) is not touched.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added transaction querying, filtering, sorting, and metadata support to the GraphQL API.
  • Added block parent-hash information and timestamp support.

• Bug Fixes

  • Added automated validation to ensure the published API schema stays synchronized with the subgraph schema.

• Tests

  • Added end-to-end schema checks using a local blockchain and Graph Node environment.
  • Added generated schema artifacts for easier inspection.

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Walkthrough

The change adds graph-node metadata and transaction support to the committed GraphQL schema. It adds local graph-node deployment and introspection scripts, then runs schema comparison and residue checks in a new CI job.

Changes

Schema snapshot validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Graph-node schema contract crates/metaboard/src/schema/metaboard.graphql, .gitignore	The schema adds graph-node directives, transaction queries, filters, ordering, metadata fields, and generated scalar definitions. The generated schema file is ignored.
Local graph-node schema validation subgraph/docker-compose.graph-node.yml, subgraph/print-api-schema.js, subgraph/check-api-schema.sh	The tooling builds and deploys the subgraph from a temporary copy, introspects graph-node, sorts the result, and compares it with the committed schema.
CI schema snapshot job .github/workflows/subgraph-test.yaml	CI starts Anvil and graph-node, runs the schema comparison, uploads the generated schema, reports graph-node logs on failure, and checks for build residue.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 67d0c

This PR adds schema deployment and verification to CI, but the current workflow still uses mutable action references, relies on an undeclared direct GraphQL dependency, and can hang while waiting for an introspection response; these issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CI as GitHub Actions
  participant Anvil
  participant GraphNode as graph-node
  participant CheckScript as check-api-schema.sh
  participant SchemaPrinter as print-api-schema.js
  CI->>Anvil: start local chain
  CI->>GraphNode: start indexing services
  CheckScript->>GraphNode: build and deploy subgraph
  SchemaPrinter->>GraphNode: request introspection schema
  SchemaPrinter-->>CheckScript: return sorted schema
  CheckScript-->>CI: compare schema snapshot and residue

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The changes satisfy issue #297. They add a CI job that runs Anvil and the required graph-node stack, builds and deploys from a temporary copy, introspects and normalizes the API schema, compares it with the committed snapshot, uploads the generated schema, and detects source-tree residue. The PR does not add the explicitly out-of-scope rain-metadata schema check.

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The changes are within scope for issue #297. The CI workflow, graph-node Compose stack, schema introspection tools, schema snapshot, ignore rule, and Cachix configuration all support the stated objectives. No unrelated schema-check implementation is present.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/subgraph-test.yaml:
- Line 25: Update every GitHub Action reference in the schema-snapshot job,
including the cachix-action step and the actions at the identified workflow
steps, to use a full immutable commit SHA instead of a mutable tag; retain each
action’s release version in an adjacent comment.

In `@crates/metaboard/src/schema/metaboard.graphql`:
- Around line 1-4: Add DCL-1.0 SPDX headers to
crates/metaboard/src/schema/metaboard.graphql (lines 1-4) and ensure
print-api-schema.js emits the identical header before printed SDL; add headers
at .gitignore (line 11), subgraph/docker-compose.graph-node.yml (lines 1-3),
subgraph/print-api-schema.js (lines 1-6), immediately after the shebang in
subgraph/check-api-schema.sh (lines 1-2), and at
.github/workflows/subgraph-test.yaml (lines 58-60), preserving the bytewise
schema comparison.

In `@subgraph/print-api-schema.js`:
- Around line 1-6: Add graphql as a direct devDependency in
subgraph/package.json for the imports used by print-api-schema.js, then
regenerate the corresponding lockfile entries using the repository’s package
manager.
- Around line 13-17: Add a bounded timeout to the introspection request in the
fetch flow, using an AbortController or equivalent signal and ensuring it also
covers response.json() completion. Abort each attempt independently so a stalled
operation exits and the existing retry loop can continue.

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