Status: IN
The codebase implements an asymmetric cost model where writes push minimal data and make binding routing decisions, while reads absorb all deferred costs — lazy computation, consistency repair, data hydration, and metadata interpretation.
Write-side minimalism and read-side cost absorption are two faces of the same design tradeoff, consistently applied across KV, chat, news feed, autocomplete, and payment
Depends on (SL): write-time-decisions-are-lightweight-but-binding, read-path-absorbs-consistency-and-computation-cost