Detect Redundant Soroban State Mutations

[mijinummi]

🧠 Concept

Detect state updates that do not materially change contract state.

⚠️ Problem

Writing an unchanged value can consume resources without providing useful state changes.

📁 Implementation Scope

• packages/rules/soroban/state/
• packages/analyzers/soroban/state/

✅ Requirements

• Compare known old and new values
• Detect redundant writes
• Handle conditional mutations
• Generate optimization suggestions

🎯 Acceptance Criteria

• Redundant mutations detected
• Conditional paths analyzed
• Suggestions generated
• Tests implemented

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