ci(frost): compile + test the frost_roast_retry activation path in CI (#4130)

## Why

This closes the **sole production-activation blocker** found in the deep
production-readiness review of the ROAST retry work (stacked on #3866).

The interactive FROST + ROAST retry coordinator flow — `BeginAttempt` /
`RecordEvidence` / `AggregateBundle` / `VerifyBundle` / `NextAttempt`,
i.e. liveness plus slashing/blame — lives behind the `frost_roast_retry`
Go build tag (~50 files). **No CI job ever set that tag:**

- `client.yml` (~line 138) and `release.yml` (~line 56) run untagged `go
build/test ./...`, which compiles only the `!frost_roast_retry` no-op
stubs.
- `frost-cgo-integration.yml` (~line 111) built only `-tags
"frost_native frost_tbtc_signer"` and `-run`-filtered to the
`TestRealCgoInteractiveSigning*` family.

Net effect: the entire ROAST retry state machine and ~30 `frost_native`
unit tests never compiled or ran anywhere in CI, and `make build` (the
release/Docker path) shipped the ROAST-retry-noop default build. The
rollout doc also **falsely** claimed CI already exercised the tag.

## What this changes

**`.github/workflows/client.yml` — new `client-frost-roast-retry` job**
(plain Go, cgo off, no Docker; runs on every PR touching Go):
- `go build -tags "frost_roast_retry" ./...` and `go build -tags
"frost_native frost_roast_retry" ./...` (mock-FFI, no Rust lib).
- `go test` under the **three non-cgo tag sets that cover the whole
matrix** — `frost_native`, `frost_roast_retry`, `frost_native
frost_roast_retry` — over `./pkg/frost/...` and `./pkg/tbtc/...`.

**`.github/workflows/frost-cgo-integration.yml`:**
- Adds `frost_roast_retry` to the real-crypto cgo tag set (`frost_native
frost_tbtc_signer frost_roast_retry`).
- **Drops the narrow `-run` filter** so the whole tagged
`./pkg/frost/signing/` suite runs against the linked `libfrost_tbtc`,
with skips still forbidden (`KEEP_CORE_FROST_REQUIRE_CGO=true`). Safe by
construction: the heavy multiproc e2e tests already ran (matched by the
old substring regex) and spawn their worker subprocesses with anchored
`-test.run`, so dropping the outer filter only *adds* lighter tagged
unit tests.
- New step smoke-builds the activation artifact via `make build-frost`
using the lib built earlier in the job.
- Adds `Makefile` to the path triggers.

**`Makefile` — new `build-frost` target:** produces the ROAST-retry
activation binary (tags `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer
frost_roast_retry`, cgo-linked to `libfrost_tbtc` with the same
`CGO_LDFLAGS` as the cgo workflow). The default `make build` still ships
the `!frost_roast_retry` stubs; adopting the tagged artifact in the
release/Docker path is gated on the readiness-manifest flip and is
intentionally left to that decision (the Rust lib currently lives on a
separate branch — see `ci/frost-signer-pin.env`), so this PR makes the
artifact *producible + CI-validated* rather than silently flipping the
default release image.

**`docs/development/frost-roast-retry-rollout.adoc`:** replaces the
false "CI already exercises the tag" claim with an accurate description
of the coverage above.

## Validated locally (system Go, cgo disabled)

| Check | Result |
| --- | --- |
| `go build -tags "frost_roast_retry" ./...` | compiles clean |
| `go build -tags "frost_native frost_roast_retry" ./...` | compiles
clean |
| `go test -tags "frost_native" ./pkg/frost/... ./pkg/tbtc/...` | pass |
| `go test -tags "frost_roast_retry" ./pkg/frost/... ./pkg/tbtc/...` |
pass |
| `go test -tags "frost_native frost_roast_retry" ./pkg/frost/...
./pkg/tbtc/...` | pass |
| `make -n build-frost` | expands correctly |

The tagged builds compiled clean and every newly-run non-cgo tagged test
**passed** — no failures were surfaced, and no assertion was weakened.

**Deferred to CI:** the cgo-linked full build/tests and the `make
build-frost` smoke — these require building the Rust `libfrost_tbtc`,
which cannot be done locally without the pinned signer source. The cgo
job already builds that lib, so those steps are correct by construction
(they reuse the same lib + `CGO_LDFLAGS`).

## Follow-ups / known gaps

- **cgo path is CI-only-validated.** The `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer
frost_roast_retry` real-crypto suite and `make build-frost` link
`libfrost_tbtc`; they were not run on this machine. First green run of
`frost-cgo-integration.yml` on this branch is the confirmation.
- **Release/Docker still ship the stub build by design.** `make build`
(Dockerfile `build-docker` stage) is unchanged; wiring `build-frost`
into the release image is deferred to the readiness-manifest flip and to
the branch merge that brings the signer crate in-tree (per
`ci/frost-signer-pin.env`).
- **pkg/tbtc cgo-tagged tests** (the 1–2 `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer
cgo` files, e.g. real taproot-tx build) are not yet in the cgo gate; the
cgo job keeps its `pkg/frost/signing` scope. Adding `./pkg/tbtc/` to the
cgo run is a reasonable next step but pulls the heavy tbtc suite under
real-crypto linking, so it is left as a follow-up.

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Author: mswilkison

.github/workflows/client.yml

@@ -310,6 +310,55 @@ jobs:
           install-go: false
           checks: "-SA1019"
 
+  # Compiles and unit-tests the interactive FROST + ROAST retry coordinator path,
+  # which lives behind the `frost_roast_retry` (and `frost_native`) build tags. The
+  # default untagged build the other jobs run compiles only the `!frost_roast_retry`
+  # no-op stubs, so without this job the entire ROAST retry state machine (liveness +
+  # evidence/blame) and the ~30 `frost_native` unit tests never compile or run in CI.
+  #
+  # This is the mock-FFI path: it exercises the Go coordinator flow with cgo DISABLED,
+  # so it needs neither libfrost_tbtc (the Rust signer lib) nor Docker. The real-crypto
+  # cgo variant of these tags is gated separately by frost-cgo-integration.yml.
+  client-frost-roast-retry:
+    needs: client-detect-changes
+    if: |
+      github.event_name == 'push'
+        || needs.client-detect-changes.outputs.path-filter == 'true'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      CGO_ENABLED: "0"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - uses: actions/setup-go@v5
+        with:
+          go-version-file: "go.mod"
+
+      - name: Build the ROAST retry coordinator path (mock FFI, no cgo)
+        run: |
+          # `frost_roast_retry` alone compiles the coordinator registry / evidence /
+          # blame flow against mock producers; adding `frost_native` also compiles the
+          # native-engine <-> retry integration files (mock FFI engine, still no lib).
+          go build -tags "frost_roast_retry" ./...
+          go build -tags "frost_native frost_roast_retry" ./...
+
+      - name: Unit-test the tagged path (mock FFI, no cgo)
+        run: |
+          # These three tag sets cover every non-cgo tagged test file in pkg/frost and
+          # pkg/tbtc:
+          #   frost_native                    -> frost_native (and && !frost_roast_retry)
+          #   frost_roast_retry               -> frost_roast_retry (and && !frost_native)
+          #   frost_native frost_roast_retry  -> the intersection integration tests
+          # The `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer cgo` real-crypto tests are NOT run here;
+          # they are covered by frost-cgo-integration.yml.
+          for tags in \
+            "frost_native" \
+            "frost_roast_retry" \
+            "frost_native frost_roast_retry"; do
+            echo "::group::go test -tags \"$tags\""
+            go test -tags "$tags" -count=1 -timeout 25m ./pkg/frost/... ./pkg/tbtc/...
+            echo "::endgroup::"
+          done
+
   client-integration-test:
     needs: [client-detect-changes, electrum-integration-detect-changes, client-build-test-publish]
     if: |

.github/workflows/frost-cgo-integration.yml

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ name: FROST cgo integration
 # against it with skips FORBIDDEN (KEEP_CORE_FROST_REQUIRE_CGO=true), so a stale/missing/
 # unloadable lib fails the job instead of quietly dropping coverage.
 #
+# The tag set also includes `frost_roast_retry`, so the ROAST retry coordinator flow is
+# compiled and tested against real crypto here (the mock-FFI variant runs in client.yml),
+# and the job smoke-builds the full activation artifact via `make build-frost`. The
+# non-cgo tagged build/test coverage lives in the client.yml `client-frost-roast-retry`
+# job; together they cover the tag matrix that the default untagged CI never touches.
+#
 # The Go interactive code and the signer crate currently live on separate branches, so
 # this checks the pinned mirror commit out into a side path and builds from there. After
 # the branches merge, replace the cross-branch checkout with an in-tree cargo build and
@@ -22,6 +28,7 @@ on:
       - "pkg/net/**"
       - "go.mod"
       - "go.sum"
+      - "Makefile"
       - "ci/frost-signer-pin.env"
       - ".github/workflows/frost-cgo-integration.yml"
   workflow_dispatch: {}
@@ -104,10 +111,28 @@ jobs:
           # references its symbols only via dlsym (no direct references), so the loader
           # makes them resolvable at runtime; rpath lets the test binary find the .so.
           export CGO_LDFLAGS="-L${FROST_LIB_DIR} -Wl,--no-as-needed -lfrost_tbtc -Wl,-rpath,${FROST_LIB_DIR}"
-          # The real-crypto suite (exercises the engine + the ABI preflight against the
-          # linked lib) plus the ABI fail-closed test (proves a present-but-incompatible
-          # lib refuses to fall back to legacy signing; uses the seam, so it does not need
-          # an actually-incompatible lib). This gate is the only CI that builds these tags.
-          go test -tags "frost_native frost_tbtc_signer" -count=1 \
-            -run 'TestRealCgoInteractiveSigning|TestBuildTaggedLegacyCompatibleNativeExecutionFFISigningPrimitive_Sign_TBTCSignerPath_ABIIncompatible_DoesNotFallback' \
+          # Run the WHOLE tagged pkg/frost/signing suite against the linked lib, not a
+          # narrow -run subset. `frost_roast_retry` is added to the tag set so the ROAST
+          # retry coordinator flow (liveness + evidence/blame) is compiled and tested
+          # against real crypto here too, not only in the mock-FFI job (client.yml).
+          # With KEEP_CORE_FROST_REQUIRE_CGO=true a lib-unavailable would-be skip becomes
+          # a hard failure, so a stale/missing symbol fails the gate instead of silently
+          # dropping coverage. This gate is the only CI that builds the cgo tag set.
+          go test -tags "frost_native frost_tbtc_signer frost_roast_retry" -count=1 \
+            -timeout 20m \
             ./pkg/frost/signing/
+
+      - name: Smoke-build the FROST activation artifact (make build-frost)
+        env:
+          CGO_ENABLED: "1"
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          # Proves the release/activation binary - the keep-client built with
+          # `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer frost_roast_retry` and linked against
+          # libfrost_tbtc - actually compiles and links. The default `make build` the
+          # release/Docker path runs ships the `!frost_roast_retry` no-op stubs; this is
+          # the target that produces the ROAST-retry-enabled artifact once the readiness
+          # manifest flips. Reuses the same lib built above (frost_lib_dir=FROST_LIB_DIR).
+          make build-frost frost_lib_dir="${FROST_LIB_DIR}"
+          test -x ./keep-client || { echo "keep-client activation binary was not produced"; exit 1; }
+          ./keep-client --version

Makefile

@@ -129,6 +129,39 @@ build:
 	$(info Building Go code)
 	$(call go_build_cmd,.,$(app_name))
 
+# FROST activation build.
+#
+# Produces the keep-client binary with the interactive FROST + ROAST retry
+# coordinator path compiled in (build tags `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer
+# frost_roast_retry`). The default `build` target above compiles the
+# `!frost_roast_retry` no-op stubs, so the released image ships with the ROAST
+# retry coordinator disabled; this target is the artifact that actually enables
+# it once the readiness manifest flips (see
+# docs/development/frost-roast-retry-rollout.adoc).
+#
+# Unlike `build` this is a cgo build that links libfrost_tbtc (the Rust signer
+# lib built from the tbtc-signer crate). Point `frost_lib_dir` at the directory
+# holding the built `libfrost_tbtc.{so,dylib}`. The CGO_LDFLAGS mirror the
+# frost-cgo-integration CI workflow: `--no-as-needed` keeps the DT_NEEDED entry
+# even though the cgo bridge resolves the frost_tbtc_* symbols via dlsym (no
+# direct references), and the rpath lets the binary find the lib at runtime.
+# These are GNU-ld flags; the target is meant for the Linux CI/release toolchain.
+frost_build_tags := frost_native frost_tbtc_signer frost_roast_retry
+
+ifndef frost_lib_dir
+override frost_lib_dir = $(CURDIR)/_frost-target/debug
+endif
+
+build-frost:
+	$(info Building Go code with the FROST activation tags [$(frost_build_tags)])
+	CGO_ENABLED=1 \
+	CGO_LDFLAGS="-L$(frost_lib_dir) -Wl,--no-as-needed -lfrost_tbtc -Wl,-rpath,$(frost_lib_dir)" \
+	go build \
+		-tags "$(frost_build_tags)" \
+		-ldflags "-X github.com/keep-network/keep-core/build.Version=$(version) -X github.com/keep-network/keep-core/build.Revision=$(revision) -checklinkname=0" \
+		-o $(app_name) \
+		.
+
 platforms := linux/amd64 \
 	darwin/amd64
 
@@ -150,4 +183,4 @@ cmd-help: build
 	@echo '$$ $(app_name) start --help' > docs/resources/client-start-help
 	./$(app_name) start --help >> docs/resources/client-start-help
 
-.PHONY: all development sepolia download_artifacts generate gen_proto build cmd-help release build_multi
+.PHONY: all development sepolia download_artifacts generate gen_proto build build-frost cmd-help release build_multi

docs/development/frost-roast-retry-rollout.adoc

@@ -88,10 +88,32 @@ RFC-21 design and is enforced in
 
 == Production rollout sequencing
 
-. *Build the binary with the tag.* Internal builds and CI
-  pipelines already exercise the tag via
-  `go test -tags 'frost_roast_retry' ./pkg/frost/... ./pkg/tbtc/...`.
-  Production binaries adopt the tag once the readiness manifest at
+. *Build the binary with the tag.* CI exercises the tagged path on
+  every pull request that touches Go, so the ROAST retry flow cannot
+  silently rot:
++
+--
+* The `client-frost-roast-retry` job in `.github/workflows/client.yml`
+  compiles the coordinator flow with cgo disabled
+  (`go build -tags "frost_roast_retry" ./...` and
+  `go build -tags "frost_native frost_roast_retry" ./...`) and runs the
+  tagged unit tests under the three non-cgo tag sets that cover the
+  matrix — `frost_native`, `frost_roast_retry`, and
+  `frost_native frost_roast_retry` — via
+  `go test -tags "<set>" ./pkg/frost/... ./pkg/tbtc/...` against the
+  mock FFI (no `libfrost_tbtc` required).
+* `.github/workflows/frost-cgo-integration.yml` adds `frost_roast_retry`
+  to its real-crypto cgo tag set, runs the whole tagged
+  `./pkg/frost/signing/` suite against the linked `libfrost_tbtc` with
+  skips forbidden, and smoke-builds the activation artifact via
+  `make build-frost`.
+--
++
+Production binaries are produced with `make build-frost` (tags
+  `frost_native frost_tbtc_signer frost_roast_retry`, cgo-linked against
+  `libfrost_tbtc`); the default `make build` still ships the
+  `!frost_roast_retry` no-op stubs. Production adopts the tagged build
+  once the readiness manifest at
   `docs/development/frost-readiness-manifest.adoc` flips to
   `present`. (The manifest was originally planned for the tBTC
   monorepo's `docs/operations/` directory; the monorepo signer is

pkg/frost/signing/native_frost_engine_tbtc_signer_registration_frost_native_test.go

@@ -44,6 +44,29 @@ func TestRegisterBuildTaggedTBTCSignerEngine(t *testing.T) {
 		)
 	}
 
+	// The fail-closed contract asserted below - every engine operation returns
+	// ErrNativeCryptographyUnavailable - only holds when libfrost_tbtc is NOT linked:
+	// the cgo bridge is compiled (this file's build tag) but the frost_tbtc_* symbols
+	// are not resolvable via dlsym. Under the frost-cgo-integration gate the lib IS
+	// linked, so native crypto is available and StartSignRound instead reaches the real
+	// signer (and its provenance gate); asserting an unavailable error there would be a
+	// false failure. Probe the linked lib with the same check the ABI preflight uses -
+	// it keeps ErrNativeCryptographyUnavailable in the chain iff the lib is absent - and
+	// skip the fail-closed assertions with a reason when the lib is present. The
+	// registration wiring above still runs under both builds, and the linked-lib crypto
+	// path is covered by TestBuildTaggedTBTCSignerInteractiveFROSTBridge_WithLinkedSigner
+	// and the TestRealCgoInteractiveSigning* suite.
+	if abiErr := assertTBTCSignerABICompatible(); !errors.Is(
+		abiErr, ErrNativeCryptographyUnavailable,
+	) {
+		t.Skipf(
+			"libfrost_tbtc linked (native crypto available; ABI probe: %v); the "+
+				"fail-closed-unavailable path this test asserts is not exercisable with "+
+				"the lib present",
+			abiErr,
+		)
+	}
+
 	_, err = engine.StartSignRound(
 		"session-1",
 		1,