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+"""
+EIP-2780 probe: warm/cold-aware top-frame delegation resolution.
+
+EIP-2780 is internally inconsistent about the regular-gas charge for
+resolving an EIP-7702 delegation at the top transaction frame:
+
+- The normative "Transaction's top-level gas costs" bullet and the
+  reference-cases table charge an unconditional ``COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS``
+  (``TX_BASE_COST + 2 * COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS``).
+- The "Interactions" note says the delegation target is charged
+  ``COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS`` on first touch or warm thereafter, following
+  the standard EIP-2929 ``accessed_addresses`` model (warm/cold-aware).
+
+``test_warmth_invariants.py`` pins the first reading: the access list
+does not waive the cold charge. This module pins the second: when the
+delegation target is already warm (listed in the access list), the
+top-frame resolution should cost ``WARM_ACCESS`` instead of
+``COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS``.
+
+The implementation charges the cold rate unconditionally
+(``interpreter.py`` charges ``GasCosts.COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS`` before
+adding the target to ``accessed_addresses``), so this test is
+``xfail(strict=True)``: it flips to passing once the contradiction is
+resolved in favour of the warm/cold-aware reading and the spec adopts
+it, at which point ``strict`` forces the marker's removal.
+"""
+
+import pytest
+from execution_testing import (
+    AccessList,
+    Account,
+    Alloc,
+    Fork,
+    Op,
+    RecipientType,
+    StateTestFiller,
+    Transaction,
+)
+
+from ...prague.eip7702_set_code_tx.spec import Spec as Spec7702
+from .spec import ref_spec_2780
+
+REFERENCE_SPEC_GIT_PATH = ref_spec_2780.git_path
+REFERENCE_SPEC_VERSION = ref_spec_2780.version
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.valid_from("Amsterdam")
+
+
+@pytest.mark.xfail(
+    strict=True,
+    reason="EIP-2780 charges COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS unconditionally at the "
+    "top frame; the Interactions note requires WARM_ACCESS for an "
+    "access-listed (warm) delegation target. Pending disambiguation.",
+)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "value",
+    [
+        pytest.param(0, id="zero_value"),
+        pytest.param(1, id="non-zero_value"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_top_frame_delegation_in_access_list_is_warm(
+    fork: Fork,
+    pre: Alloc,
+    state_test: StateTestFiller,
+    value: int,
+) -> None:
+    """
+    Recipient holds a pre-existing EIP-7702 delegation whose target is
+    in the access list, so the target is warm when the top frame
+    resolves it. Under the EIP-2929 warm/cold-aware reading the
+    resolution costs ``WARM_ACCESS`` rather than
+    ``COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS``: the sole difference from
+    ``test_top_frame_charges_delegation_in_access_list`` is that one
+    constant, a 2,900 gas swing.
+    """
+    sender_initial_balance = 10**18
+    sender = pre.fund_eoa(sender_initial_balance)
+
+    delegated_to = pre.deploy_contract(code=Op.STOP)
+    target_code = Spec7702.delegation_designation(delegated_to)
+    target = pre.deploy_contract(code=target_code)
+    access_list = [AccessList(address=delegated_to, storage_keys=[])]
+
+    gas_costs = fork.gas_costs()
+    intrinsic_gas = fork.transaction_intrinsic_cost_calculator()(
+        access_list=access_list,
+        sends_value=bool(value),
+        recipient_type=RecipientType.DELEGATION_7702,
+        return_cost_deducted_prior_execution=True,
+    )
+    cold_top_frame_gas = fork.transaction_top_frame_gas_calculator()(
+        sends_value=bool(value),
+        recipient_type=RecipientType.DELEGATION_7702,
+    )
+    # Warm/cold-aware reading: the access-listed delegation target
+    # resolves warm, so the top frame should charge WARM_ACCESS in
+    # place of the calculator's unconditional COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS.
+    warm_top_frame_gas = (
+        cold_top_frame_gas
+        - gas_costs.COLD_ACCOUNT_ACCESS
+        + gas_costs.WARM_ACCESS
+    )
+
+    gas_price = 1_000_000_000
+    # Budget the worst case (cold) so the transaction always runs to
+    # completion; the warm/cold discrepancy then surfaces purely as the
+    # sender's gas balance instead of an out-of-gas halt.
+    gas_limit = intrinsic_gas + cold_top_frame_gas + 1000
+
+    expected_gas_used = intrinsic_gas + warm_top_frame_gas
+
+    tx = Transaction(
+        ty=1,
+        sender=sender,
+        to=target,
+        value=value,
+        access_list=access_list,
+        gas_limit=gas_limit,
+        gas_price=gas_price,
+    )
+
+    sender_final_balance = (
+        sender_initial_balance - value - expected_gas_used * gas_price
+    )
+
+    post = {
+        sender: Account(nonce=1, balance=sender_final_balance),
+        target: Account(balance=value, code=target_code),
+    }
+
+    state_test(pre=pre, tx=tx, post=post)