The `x/auth` module presently has no transaction handlers of its own, but does expose the special `AnteHandler`, used for performing basic validity checks on a transaction, such that it could be thrown out of the mempool.
The `AnteHandler` can be seen as a set of decorators that check transactions within the current context, per [ADR 010](https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/blob/v0.43.0-alpha1/docs/architecture/adr-010-modular-antehandler.md).
Note that the `AnteHandler` is called on both `CheckTx` and `DeliverTx`, as Tendermint proposers presently have the ability to include in their proposed block transactions which fail `CheckTx`.
## Decorators
The auth module provides `AnteDecorator`s that are recursively chained together into a single `AnteHandler` in the following order:
-`SetUpContextDecorator`: Sets the `GasMeter` in the `Context` and wraps the next `AnteHandler` with a defer clause to recover from any downstream `OutOfGas` panics in the `AnteHandler` chain to return an error with information on gas provided and gas used.
-`RejectExtensionOptionsDecorator`: Rejects all extension options which can optionally be included in protobuf transactions.
-`MempoolFeeDecorator`: Checks if the `tx` fee is above local mempool `minFee` parameter during `CheckTx`.
-`ValidateBasicDecorator`: Calls `tx.ValidateBasic` and returns any non-nil error.
-`TxTimeoutHeightDecorator`: Check for a `tx` height timeout.
-`ValidateMemoDecorator`: Validates `tx` memo with application parameters and returns any non-nil error.
-`ConsumeGasTxSizeDecorator`: Consumes gas proportional to the `tx` size based on application parameters.
-`DeductFeeDecorator`: Deducts the `FeeAmount` from first signer of the `tx`. If the `x/feegrant` module is enabled and a fee granter is set, it deducts fees from the fee granter account.
-`SetPubKeyDecorator`: Sets the pubkey from a `tx`'s signers that does not already have its corresponding pubkey saved in the state machine and in the current context.
-`ValidateSigCountDecorator`: Validates the number of signatures in `tx` based on app-parameters.
-`SigGasConsumeDecorator`: Consumes parameter-defined amount of gas for each signature. This requires pubkeys to be set in context for all signers as part of `SetPubKeyDecorator`.
-`SigVerificationDecorator`: Verifies all signatures are valid. This requires pubkeys to be set in context for all signers as part of `SetPubKeyDecorator`.
-`IncrementSequenceDecorator`: Increments the account sequence for each signer to prevent replay attacks.
