There's no way to get an ultrahonk verification key through `UltraHonkBackend`

[TomAFrench]

Currently it's impossible to get the verification key for a circuit from the backend without directly using the cbinds. This requires the user to:

1. Spin up another instance of barretenberg
2. base64 decode and decompress their bytecode before passing it to acirWriteVkUltraHonk
3. Know that they need to wrap the response in a RawBuffer and pass it to acirVkAsFieldsUltraHonk

What should be simple then requires copying out bb.js internals and multiple function calls.

[ledwards2225]

Does UltraHonkBackend::getVerificationKey not work for this purpose?

[TomAFrench]

This returns a Uint8Array but in order to feed this into a circuit I need to get the verification key as fields. I don't know offhand how to decompose the binary representation into fields.

[saleel]

generateProofForRecursiveAggregation() got removed in 13217. This method used to return proof and VK in fields which we were able to feed in to nargo.execute() of the recursive circuit IIRC.
I think we need to bring it back.

[ledwards2225]

@saleel Is this something you're able to support us on?

[johnathan79717]

@TomAFrench: Could AztecProtocol/aztec-packages#19718 solve this issue?

[TomAFrench]

That output looks great for feeding into a Nargo.toml!