Prepare the external security audit scope and readiness checklist

[joelpeace48-cell]

Problem

No serious counterparty will escrow funds in unaudited contracts, and most
grant programmes ask about audit status. Audits are also expensive and slow, and
arriving unprepared wastes a large fraction of the engagement on things the team
could have supplied.

What to do

• Write docs/AUDIT_SCOPE.md: which contracts, which commit, what is in and
  out of scope, and the trust assumptions the auditor should take as given.
• Assemble the readiness package: threat model, invariants, architecture notes,
  known issues, and full test coverage figures.
• Freeze the interface before the engagement — auditing a moving target wastes
  the budget.
• Budget for a fix-and-review round; the first report is not the end.
• Plan to publish the report, including unresolved findings and why they were
  accepted.

Acceptance criteria

• Audit scope document with an explicit commit
• Readiness package assembled
• Interface freeze policy agreed
• Remediation round budgeted
• Commitment to publish the report, including accepted risks

Notes

Publishing the report including unfixed findings builds more trust than a clean
summary. Reviewers who have read a few audits know there is no such thing as
zero findings.

[guptakumarranjeet150]

Hi everyone,

I can tackle Prepare the external security audit scope and readiness checklist. Proposed implementation roadmap:

• Analysis: Inspect current behavior and edge cases in FinesseStudioLab/modeltrace-contract
• Implementation: Implement Prepare the external security audit scope and readiness checklist with explicit require_auth checks, clean storage layouts, and robust Soroban contract logic.
• Testing: Add comprehensive unit tests verifying both happy-path invocations and unauthorized revert scenarios.
• PR: Atomic commit with clean git hygiene and passing CI

Ready to deliver a clean, tested PR within 12–24 hours. Please assign!