1. Background

DAO Vault is a decentralized autonomous organization platform providing on-chain multisig vaults for fund management. Their requirements included rigorous security guarantees, rapid iteration for grant-funded hackathons, and seamless Devnet testing. Prior workflows involved manual contract generation, external audits, and custom test suites—a process that often spanned days.

2. Challenges

• Boilerplate Overhead: Writing and configuring multisig patterns in Anchor consumed 30+ minutes of manual coding.

• Security Vetting: External audits for multisig contracts took 4–6 days, stalling launches.

• Test Complexity: Designing edge-case tests for signature aggregation and recovery logic required extensive manual effort (~3 hours).

• Workflow Coordination: Orchestrating tasks across teams—frontend, smart-contract, audit—introduced communication overhead.

3. CODI Solution

DAO Vault integrated CODI to automate and coordinate every stage:

1. Scaffold Agent: Generated multisig vault boilerplate—accounts, instruction handlers, and Anchor macros—via a single init --template multisig command.

2. A2A Orchestration: The Planner triggered audit-agent, which on completion programmatically invoked a patch-agent for auto-fixes, then notified test-agent.

3. Audit Agent: Produced a 15-page Markdown and JSON report, covering reentrancy checks, authority enforcement, and misuse scenarios. Findings were surfaced instantly in the UI.

4. Test Agent: Auto-generated comprehensive TypeScript tests covering key rotation, threshold signatures, and error conditions based on code annotations.

5. Deploy Agent: Deployed to Devnet and provided transaction logs for immediate verification.

All steps executed within a cohesive A2A workflow, eliminating manual handoffs and boilerplate.

4. Implementation Details

• Command Flow:

• A2A Hooks:

  • audit-agent published audit/complete, triggering test-agent.

  • patch-agent ran automatically on audit/findings with --fix flag.

• Configuration:

  tomlCopyEdit[agents]
  scaffold = true
  audit    = true
  test     = true
  deploy   = true
  
  [audit]
  
  

• CI/CD Integration: Incorporated into GitHub Actions with conditional deploys only on main branch merges.

5. Results & Metrics

The chart above demonstrates a 99% reduction in overall workflow time. Manual vetting (240 minutes) vs CODI’s inline audit (2 minutes) highlights the massive efficiency gain.

Key Outcome: DAO Vault slashed end-to-end development time from 8.5 hours to 5 minutes, accelerating feature rollouts and hackathon demos.

6. Benefits

• Speed & Agility: Rapid scaffolding and deployment enabled same-day contract launches.

• Security: Inline AI-driven audits with auto-fixes reduced critical vulnerabilities by 80% compared to previous external audits.

• Quality Assurance: Full test coverage for multisig edge-cases ensured robust recovery and signature logic.

• Team Efficiency: A2A orchestration removed manual coordination, allowing developers to focus on protocol design rather than tooling.

7. Lessons Learned

• Template Investment: Defining custom scaffold templates (multisig) unlocks maximum productivity.

• Threshold Settings: Configuring high-severity audit thresholds in codi.toml enforces stronger controls.

• Automated Fixes: Leveraging --fix in audit-agent saves time but should be reviewed manually for critical code paths.

Conclusion

DAO Vault’s case study exemplifies CODI’s transformative impact on multisig contract development. By harnessing A2A orchestration, MCP-driven context, and AI agents, they achieved an end-to-end workflow in under five minutes—overpowering traditional days-long processes. For teams building secure on-chain systems, CODI is the only dev you’ll ever need.