{
  "type": "question",
  "question": "When should the audit happen?",
  "answer": "Engage early enough that findings can still change the design, and late enough that the code is stable — in practice, when the circuits and protocol are feature-complete and the specification is written, not when the launch date is three weeks away. The specification is the binding constraint: an auditor cannot tell you a circuit is underconstrained without a statement of what it was supposed to constrain. Budget separate time for a fix-review round. See Section 03.",
  "url": "https://zkpick.com/faq/when-should-the-audit-happen/",
  "markdown": "https://zkpick.com/md/faq/when-should-the-audit-happen.md",
  "section": {
    "number": "03",
    "url": "https://zkpick.com/audit/"
  },
  "updated": "2026-09-12",
  "version": "1.3",
  "canonical": "https://zkpick.com/faq/when-should-the-audit-happen/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "authors": [
    "MarketComp"
  ]
}