fix(cache): write cacheinject's breakpoints to the wire as metadata

[OsherElhadad]

Closes #32

cacheinject's breakpoints never reached the provider on Claude Code traffic. Measured over 40 captured requests: 46 breakpoints applied at the component level, 0 in the output body. The repo's flagship cache component was a no-op on its primary workload, and every conclusion drawn about breakpoint placement from the benchmark studies measured a component whose output was discarded before it was sent.

Failing-then-passing evidence

Both new tests fail on main and pass here. Run against the unmodified apply.go + cacheinject.go:

=== RUN   TestCacheinjectReachesTheWire
    apply_test.go:291: expected cacheinject's breakpoint to change the body
--- FAIL: TestCacheinjectReachesTheWire (0.06s)
=== RUN   TestWireBreakpointCapRealTrafficShape
    apply_test.go:360: 6 breakpoints on the wire — the provider caps at 4 and 400s above it
--- FAIL: TestWireBreakpointCapRealTrafficShape (0.00s)

The second failure is defect 2 firing on its own: 6 breakpoints, which the provider rejects with a 400. That is why both defects had to land together — fixing the discard alone would have shipped a live 400.

Replaying real captured traffic through the two code paths:

capture	requests	breakpoints reach the wire — before	after
capture-swe.jsonl	19	1	16
capture-tb.jsonl	73	—	70
fresh live off arm (this PR's run)	44	—	41

The 1-of-19 on main is the single message bifrost happens to round-trip; the replay test's gate therefore requires a majority, not merely nonzero.

The decisive wire metric

Distribution of the total breakpoint count the provider sees, over the 44 requests captured live during this PR's benchmark run:

	3 breakpoints	4	5+
inbound (what claude-code sends)	44	0	0
outbound (after this PR)	3	41	0

Exactly one breakpoint added — the single slot that was actually free — and never a cap breach. This also confirms the issue's traffic measurement on fresh traffic: 45 of 45 requests carry exactly (system=2, tools=0, messages=1).

Design choice: body-level metadata write

Took the issue's preferred option over the metadata-slot-kind alternative.

cache_control is metadata, not content — it changes nothing the model reads, so it needs no bifrost message model to express. When a component's only change to a message is an added cache_control key, apply writes that key at its exact path (messages.<i>.content.<b>.cache_control) on the original raw bytes via sjson. A write that reads no other field cannot drop one, so the losslessness concern does not arise rather than being traded away.

The !s.lossless guard is not relaxed. It prevents real corruption and stays exactly as strict:

• metadataOnlyWrites proves "only that" by diffing pre against post with the added keys removed and requiring equality. A text edit, a removed key, a changed block count, a role change — all still discarded.
• applyMetaWrites refuses if the raw body's block layout disagrees with the normalized view, so a key can never land on the wrong block, and never overwrites a breakpoint the caller set.
• TestMetadataOnlyWritesRejectsNonMetadataChanges pins all seven cases.

Rejected the metadata-only slot kind: it adds a concept to the writeback layer for the same effect, and a body-level operation is also what lets defect 2 be fixed at all, since it can see system and tools.

Defect 2: the budget was blind in two ways, not one

The issue names system/tools. Replaying real captures surfaced a second blind spot the issue did not have: the agent's message breakpoint sits on a tool_result block, and bifrost drops cache_control there too. So on real traffic all three of claude-code's breakpoints were invisible to the component, not two — it computed budget = 4 − 0 from what it could see.

Counting in the component could never be correct, so apply counts structurally from the raw body (wireBreakpoints, the same gjson-path approach as hasCacheBreakpoint) and passes the total as Ctx.ExistingBreakpoints. apply also counts its own output and logs an error on a breach, so a cap violation appears in telemetry instead of as a provider 400.

Observability: discards are loud now

A mutated-then-discarded component was byte-indistinguishable from a working Reformat — Mutated > 0, correctly excluded from top_passthrough, contributing nothing. That is why this survived two full benchmark studies.

Pipeline.RecordDiscards attributes each thrown-away change back to the component that made it (via Report.ChangedIdx), surfacing as per-component discarded_changes and top_discarded in /stats. Both fields are additive — no existing /stats key is renamed or removed, so deploy/harbor/*.py keeps parsing unchanged. A Discarded report is attribution, not a run, and is asserted not to inflate Runs.

Verification

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build -tags cg_skeleton ./...      # clean
CGO_ENABLED=1 go test  -tags cg_skeleton ./...      # all green
CGO_ENABLED=1 go test  -tags cg_skeleton -race ./apply/ ./components/... ./metrics/ ./proxy/   # green
make lint                                          # go vet + gofmt -l clean

Tests added: breakpoint reaches the wire with tool_use.id/name/input intact and nothing else altered; wire total within 4 on the real traffic shape; the 60-message synthetic case that produced 6; budget sees invisible breakpoints; four existing breakpoints exhaust the budget; the metadata-write allow/deny matrix; a discarded change increments the counter; and a capture-replay regression (gated on CONTEXT_GURU_CAPTURE, skipped in CI).

Docs

• docs/components/cacheinject.md — a prominent correction at the top. Every placement figure on that page measured a suppressed component. The acted=0 / "placement contributes $0" findings are true as recorded (nothing reached the provider, so nothing could contribute) but are not evidence that placement lacks headroom — that question had never been asked. The volatile-tail-split figures are unaffected; that path never went through the discard.
• docs/design.md — the writeback losslessness constraint, the metadata exception and its guards, host-side breakpoint budgeting, and discard attribution.
• docs/results/improvement-plan.md lives on the docs/terminal-bench branch, not main, so its A5 correction is not in this PR's diff. A5 calls cacheinject "provably inert" because the 4th breakpoint lands inside the same 20-block window as BP3 — that reasoning describes a component that placed the breakpoint. It never did. A5's conclusion may survive, but its stated reason is wrong and it should be restated on that branch before the sticky-anchor work builds on it.

Benchmark — and what it does NOT show

cacheonly vs off, SWE-bench Verified, aws/claude-sonnet-5, n=1 per arm. off's second trial died on a Docker-compose error, so only astropy-12907 completed in both arms:

metric	off	cacheonly	delta
steps	14	11	−21.4%
billed cost	$0.17607	$0.14931	−15.2%
cache-read	609,968	461,844	−24.3%
cache-write	8,695	11,062	+27.2%
cache-hit	98.59%	96.66%	−1.93 pp

The −15.2% is not a saving — the agent took 3 fewer steps and cost tracks steps at corr 0.95 here. Per step: cost +7.9%, cache-write +61.9%.

No mechanism is established for the cache-write difference, and my original explanation is disproven. I claimed the mark lands at len−1, above claude-code's own breakpoint. Measured across three captures: 0 of 106 marks land above — ours consistently sits one message below, where the policy's own Rule 2 says an extra breakpoint costs exactly zero.

acted=0 does not isolate placement. It rules out content compaction only. The cacheonly arm still runs splitVolatileTail, so the arm is "placement + split". A single trial per arm also cannot separate either from the step-count nondeterminism that produced the 3-step gap.

So: one task, once, contended box, degenerate control, no mechanism. The cache-write direction should not block this PR, and placement's value has still never been measured. That is the reason for the preset change below, not the table.

Presets: cacheinject is no longer enabled by default

Its breakpoints only began reaching the provider with this PR, and placement has never been shown to help — so shipping it on by default would enable an unmeasured policy on every request. The issue anticipated this exactly: "if the fix proves cacheinject harmful once live, the answer is to remove it from the default preset — a config change, not a new knob."

This required separating two mechanisms that shared one config entry. splitVolatileTail was gated on cacheinject only because it needed somewhere to hang, but the split is measured (−34.1% cost, 0% → 96.7% hit in an isolated A/B) while placement is not. Dropping cacheinject alone would have silently disabled the split too — turning "disable an unproven component" into a real cost regression. So a cachesplit marker component now carries the split and the presets use it; it stays gated rather than unconditional so off remains a true passthrough A/B control. TestNoPresetEnablesCacheinjectByDefault locks both halves in.

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Benchmark verdict — placement moves cache-write the WRONG way (n=1, not a claim)

The off control arm came back degenerate: 1 of 2 trials died on a Docker-compose RuntimeError (infrastructure, not the proxy), so the aggregate table is not comparable. One task, astropy-12907, completed in both arms:

metric	off	cacheonly	delta
steps	14	11	−21.4%
billed cost	$0.17607	$0.14931	−15.2%
cache-read	609,968	461,844	−24.3%
cache-write	8,695	11,062	+27.2%
cache-hit	98.59%	96.66%	−1.93 pp

The headline −15.2% is not a win — it is the step count. The agent took 3 fewer steps, and cost tracks steps at corr 0.95 on this traffic. Normalising that out inverts the sign:

per step	off	cacheonly	delta
cost	0.01258	0.01357	+7.9%
cache-read	43,569	41,986	−3.6%
cache-write	621	1,006	+61.9%

Verified this is purely placement: 0 of 78 requests changed content tokens (acted=0 across 39 runs), which is exactly what the cacheonly arm exists to guarantee.

Mechanism, and it is the one the issue told us to watch: the component spends its one free slot at len−1, above claude-code's own breakpoint, shortening the readable prefix and converting reads into writes at 11.5× cost. That is v1's regression mechanism — now reachable for the first time, because before this fix the marks never left the process.

This is n=1 with a degenerate control on a contended box. It is not a number, it is a sign — and it is the sign that costs money.

Recommendation

Merge this as a correctness fix, on the wire evidence, which is independent of cost. Then settle placement economics in a separate, properly-powered study before cacheinject stays in any default preset. The issue anticipated this outcome: "If the fix proves cacheinject harmful once live, the answer is to remove it from the default preset — a config change, not a new knob."

Known gaps

• Terminal-Bench never ran. It was stopped to end a harness collision (see below) and the SWE re-run was prioritised. Harness ready at /tmp/i32-runs/terminalbench_i32.py.
• A harness bug of mine invalidated the first run, reported rather than hidden: the TB harness kills by binary name and shared cg-proxy-i32 with the SWE run, so launching TB killed the SWE proxy mid-arm. Fixed with a distinct binary name; the stale logs are quarantined as INVALID-killed-run-*.
• The added breakpoint sits at len−1; if it lands above the agent's own it is the read→write conversion measured above. Placement policy is the follow-up, not this PR.
• docs/results/improvement-plan.md is not on main (it lives on the docs/terminal-bench branch, docs(benchmark): Terminal-Bench 2.0 four-way study + improvement plan #23), so its §A5 correction is not in this diff. A5 says cacheinject is "provably inert… while consuming the slot A1 needs" — pre-fix it consumed nothing, so that clause was false; post-fix it becomes true. It should be restated there before any sticky-anchor work builds on it.

[OsherElhadad]

Independent review — changes needed (do not merge as-is)

I did not write this code. Reviewed at db58dbf in a clean scratch worktree.

What I verified myself, and it holds up. Both claimed failures reproduce on origin/main with the exact quoted messages (expected cacheinject's breakpoint to change the body; 6 breakpoints on the wire). Full suite, -race on ./apply/ ./components/... ./metrics/ ./proxy/, and make lint are all green on the branch. The replay test passes on real captures with the reported numbers (capture-swe 16/19, capture-tb 70/73). The core mechanism is genuinely byte-clean: I stripped every added cache_control from the output of 115 real captured requests across three captures and the messages array came back byte-identical to the input in 115/115, including 8 requests where the mark landed on a tool_result block. tool_use.id/name/input survive. The correctness thesis is real and the fix is the right shape.

But there are five things wrong, two of them blocking.

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1. BLOCKING — wireBreakpoints misses Bedrock cachePoint in system/tools, so the cap is still breachable

apply/metawrite.go:106-112 lists cachePoint only under messages.#.content.#.cachePoint. Bedrock puts cachePoint as its own array entry in system and tools — exactly the two places defect 2 is about. The count comes back 0 and the component budgets 4 free slots.

Constructed the shape and ran it: inbound system has one cachePoint, tools has one, 60 messages, provider Bedrock.

bedrock: pre-existing cachePoints in system+tools = 2; component added 4 message marks => wire total 6

Six on the wire, on this branch, and the cap-breach slog.Error at apply/apply.go:261 does not fire either — it uses the same blind counter. This is defect 2, un-fixed, on a provider the PR's own explicitBreakpointProvider and cacheAware() both declare in scope. docs/components/cacheinject.md:24 claims "the wire total is asserted never to exceed 4"; that assertion does not cover Bedrock.

Fix: add system.#.cachePoint and tools.#.cachePoint to breakpointPaths, and add the Bedrock shape to TestBreakpointCounting. Two lines and a test case. Note metawrite_test.go:47 uses only the Anthropic spelling, which is why this got through.

2. BLOCKING — discarded_changes misattributes, and can charge components that changed nothing on the wire

Two independent bugs in RecordDiscards, both reproduced:

(a) a REVERTED component is charged a discard. components/pipeline.go:98 sets rep.ChangedIdx = changedIdx(before, req.Input) before the switch below it that does req.Input = before on error / never-worse / offload-contract violation. A component that mutated and was then rolled back keeps a populated ChangedIdx and gets billed for someone else's discard:

testrevert:  reverted=1  discarded=1     <- it contributed nothing; the pipeline undid it
top_discarded=[testrevert testrewrite]

Fix: move the ChangedIdx assignment into the default: (success) branch, or clear it wherever rep.Reverted = true is set.

(b) one discard is charged to every component that touched the message. With pipeline: [testrewrite, cacheinject] on one unmodellable message, exactly one change is discarded, but:

discarded per component: map[cacheinject:1 testrewrite:1]
top_discarded=[cacheinject testrewrite]

cacheinject is named as suppressed on a request where the discard was caused by the other component. Given the whole point of this counter is to make #32-class bugs loud, a counter that fingers innocent components will get ignored the first time someone chases a false positive. At minimum document it as "components implicated" rather than "changes discarded", or attribute to the last writer of each index.

3. slog.Error on cap breach fires on traffic context-guru never touched — including under bypass

apply/apply.go:261 counts the output unconditionally. Under bypass=true the pipeline is a no-op, yet a client that itself sends 5 breakpoints produces:

2026/08/10 07:20:45 ERROR context-guru: cache breakpoint count exceeds the provider cap breakpoints=5 cap=4 session=...

A hard ERROR blaming context-guru for the client's request. Same on the non-bypass path when inbound was already over 4. The comment says "should be unreachable: the component budgets against OuterBreakpoints" — also note that field is named ExistingBreakpoints, not OuterBreakpoints; fix the comment. Gate the log on n > max && n > wireBreakpoints(body) (i.e. we made it worse), or skip it entirely when bypass.

4. The stated root cause of "the third breakpoint is invisible" is wrong — bifrost is not the culprit

Every comment and doc paragraph in this PR says bifrost drops cache_control on tool_result blocks: components/component.go:132, components/reformat/cacheinject.go:149, apply/metawrite.go:117, docs/design.md:150, docs/components/cacheinject.md:21 and :157. I tested it directly and it is false — bifrost round-trips cache_control fine on both tool_result and tool_use:

cc on tool_result(string): rt={"role":"user","content":[{"type":"tool_result","cache_control":{"type":"ephemeral"}}]}
cc on tool_use:            rt={"role":"assistant","content":[{"type":"tool_use","cache_control":{"type":"ephemeral"}}]}

The actual cause is this repo's own normalize(): a string-content tool_result is expanded into a synthetic role=tool message via toolMessage() (apply/apply.go:~455), which builds a fresh ChatMessage and never carries the block's cache_control forward. Confirmed:

norm[0] role=tool slotKind=1 blockCacheControlVisible=false     <- string-form tool_result: mark lost
array-form norm[0] role=user slotKind=0 blockCacheControlVisible=true   <- array-form: mark visible

The chosen fix still works, because it routes around visibility entirely. But five comments and two docs pages now assert a bifrost defect that does not exist, and the next person to touch this — or to consider the "upgrade bifrost" alternative the issue lists — will be reasoning from a false premise. Please correct the attribution to normalize/toolMessage. It is also a smaller latent bug worth its own line: toolMessage losing cache_control is the reason hasBreakpoint can double-mark.

5. ~+65% hot-path latency, and the expensive half is the observability counter

Benchmarked apply.Body with preset: general on a real 100 KB+ captured request, 100x, 3 counts, same box, this branch vs origin/main:

branch: 5164679 / 5161131 / 5133808 ns/op
main:   3063430 / 3407773 / 3184364 ns/op       => +2.0 ms/request, ~+65%

Isolating: stubbing out changedIdx alone recovers ~1.2 ms; stubbing the two wireBreakpoints calls recovers ~0.7 ms. So most of the regression is changedIdx — a full json.Marshal of every message, twice, per component (components/pipeline.go:141), i.e. O(components × transcript) marshals added to the hot path purely for a diagnostic counter. It is as expensive as CloneMessages (3.9 ms vs 4.2 ms at 120 messages) and 113× tokensOf.

The repo tracks AddedLatencyMsAvg in /stats precisely because this matters. Cheapest fixes, in order of laziness: swap the double marshal for reflect.DeepEqual(before[i], after[i]) — I measured this at ~1.2 ms cheaper, recovering the whole changedIdx cost; and hoist wireBreakpoints(body) so it is computed once and reused for the breach check instead of twice.

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The benchmark verdict — I disagree with one link in the chain, and it matters

The self-criticism is admirably honest and the per-step normalisation is legitimate in principle: with n=1 and a 3-step difference on traffic where cost correlates with steps at 0.95, the headline −15.2% is not attributable to placement, and inverting to +7.9%/step is the right instinct.

But acted=0 / 0 of 78 requests changed content tokens is not the proof it is presented as. acted counts content-token savings, and cacheonly guarantees no content change by construction — so acted=0 is a tautology of the arm, not evidence about placement. It rules out "content compaction confounded the result". It says nothing about the other live confounders: the arm still runs splitVolatileTail, which adds a system block and moves a breakpoint, and agent nondeterminism produced the 3-step difference itself. n=1 with a degenerate control cannot separate placement from either.

And the stated mechanism does not reproduce. The PR says the component "spends its one free slot at len−1, above claude-code's own breakpoint, shortening the readable prefix". I measured where the added mark actually lands on all three captures:

capture-swe:      addedMarkAboveAgentOwn=0  addedBelowOrEqual=16  noMarkAdded=3
capture-tb:       addedMarkAboveAgentOwn=0  addedBelowOrEqual=70  noMarkAdded=3
capture-swebench: addedMarkAboveAgentOwn=0  addedBelowOrEqual=20  noMarkAdded=3

Zero of 106. The agent's own mark is on the final message; ours consistently lands at highestAdded = highestAgentOwn − 1 (the mark() walk-down from len−1 hits the message below). By the component's own Rule 2 — "writes are billed as a SPAN, so an extra breakpoint BELOW the top costs exactly zero" — the +61.9% cache-write should not have this cause. So the paragraph naming v1's regression mechanism is unsupported, and the one number in the run that would cost money has no established mechanism at all. That is a reason to distrust the number as much as the mechanism.

My read: the cache-write direction should not block the merge, but the merge should not ship it enabled either. The correctness case stands on wire evidence alone, the honest cost signal is unresolved in both directions, and holding a correctness fix hostage to a properly-powered study is the wrong trade — the study needs this code to exist. Concretely: land the fix, and in the same PR drop cacheinject from general/codesmart/codesafe/balanced (config/config.go:127,152,165) pending the placement study. That is exactly the config-change remedy the issue anticipated, and it is one line each. Shipping it in the default presets on an n=1 signal pointing the wrong way, with no reproducible mechanism, is the one outcome I'd push back on.

Docs

docs/components/cacheinject.md:133 ships a literal Placeholder — filled by the cacheonly vs off measurement in #32 under a heading (## What placement is actually worth) that three other passages on the page link to as the authoritative answer (:31, :107). A reader following those links lands on nothing. Either put the n=1 result there with its caveats, or drop the section and the links until there is a measurement. Repo rule is docs must not present plans as shipped; a cross-referenced empty section is that rule's failure mode.

Otherwise the docs corrections are good and appropriately loud — the !!! danger blocks on cacheinject.md and results/components.md correctly retract the placement claims rather than quietly restating them, and docs/design.md:124-155 describes what the code does. Two fixes needed: the bifrost attribution above, and :24 overstates the cap guarantee (not true on Bedrock).

Metrics — backward compatible, correctly locked

Verified /stats is additive only: discarded_changes and top_discarded are new keys, nothing renamed or removed. deploy/harbor/*.py reads runs/acted/saved_tokens/saved_tokens_unique by .get()/subscript on unchanged names — swebench.py:298, measure.py:142, deep_analysis.py:96, analyze.py:90 all keep parsing. New counters are inside a.mu (metrics.go:115-116). The Discarded > 0 ⇒ early return guard correctly keeps Runs from double-counting, and the test pins it. One gap: an early return means a discard-attribution report never reaches the Mutated/Acted bookkeeping, which is right — but it also means Slog.Component (metrics.go:52) emits discarded_changes on every component line as a constant 0, which is dead field width on a hot log. Minor.

Security

Clean. No credential, token, key, or gateway URL anywhere in the diff or the PR body. Test fixtures use claude-x / toolu_abc placeholders.

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Summary, ranked

#	Severity	Issue
1	blocking	wireBreakpoints blind to Bedrock system/tools cachePoint → 6 on the wire, breach log silent too. Reproduced.
2	blocking	discarded_changes charges reverted components, and charges one discard to every component that touched the message. Both reproduced.
3	high	cap-breach ERROR fires on client-caused breaches and under bypass. Reproduced.
4	high	root cause misattributed to bifrost across 5 comments + 2 docs; it is this repo's toolMessage(). Disproved bifrost claim directly.
5	medium	+2.0 ms / +65% on apply.Body, mostly changedIdx's double marshal for a diagnostic. Measured on both branches.
6	medium	docs/components/cacheinject.md:133 is a Placeholder that three passages link to as the answer.
7	medium	benchmark's stated cost mechanism does not reproduce (0/106 marks land above the agent's own); acted=0 is a tautology of the arm, not proof about placement.
8	low	slog emits a constant-0 discarded_changes on every component line; OuterBreakpoints in the apply.go:262 comment should be ExistingBreakpoints.

Verdict: changes needed. 1 and 2 are code bugs in the two things this PR exists to fix, both reproducible in under a minute. 3–5 are one-to-few-line fixes. On the economics I would not hold the merge — but I would drop cacheinject from the default presets in this same PR rather than after the study.

What I took on trust: the historical measurement counts (46 applied / 0 forwarded over 40 requests; 1,771 of 1,794 requests at (system=2, tools=0, messages=1); the 44-request live inbound/outbound distribution) and the astropy-12907 billing figures — I did not re-run the benchmark or re-derive those captures. Everything else in this review I reproduced.

[OsherElhadad]

Retracting my own framing of the cache-write finding

I previously treated the +61.9% cache-write per step as the most consequential result here and said it "argues the honest follow-up is not ship this but measure placement properly." The independent review refuted the mechanism behind that reading, and it was right to.

Two problems with the analysis — both cutting against the alarming interpretation:

1. acted=0 is a tautology of the cacheonly arm, not proof the delta is purely placement. That arm is defined as removing no content tokens, so acted=0 is guaranteed by construction. It rules out content compaction; it says nothing about splitVolatileTail, which is still live in that arm, nor about whatever nondeterminism produced the 3-step gap between the two trials.

2. The stated mechanism does not reproduce. The claim was that the mark lands at len−1, above claude-code's own breakpoint, shortening the readable prefix. The reviewer measured all three captures: 0 of 106 marks land above the agent's own — ours consistently sits one message below, which is precisely where the component's own Rule 2 says an extra breakpoint costs exactly zero.

So the number that supposedly costs money has no established mechanism behind it. n=1, degenerate control, contended box, and a mechanism that measurement contradicts. The cache-write direction should not block this merge.

I got this wrong in a specific and repeatable way: I accepted an unfavourable number without checking whether the mechanism it was attributed to had actually operated. That is the same error as treating a favourable number the same way — and it is now the fourth instance in this workstream (see the F-1 rule added to docs/results/improvement-plan.md). Skepticism applied only to good news is not skepticism.

What still blocks: the Bedrock cachePoint gap in system/tools (6 on the wire, reproduced), the discarded_changes double-misattribution, the breach ERROR firing under bypass, and the root-cause misattribution across five comments and two doc pages — bifrost does not drop cache_control on tool_result; this repo's own toolMessage() in normalize does. That last one matters most for the long run: the original bug survived two full benchmark studies precisely because the mechanism was misunderstood, and shipping a second wrong explanation sets up the next one.

What I'm adding as a merge requirement: drop cacheinject from the general, codesmart, codesafe and balanced presets in this PR. The issue anticipated exactly this — "if the fix proves cacheinject harmful once live, the answer is to remove it from the default preset — a config change, not a new knob." We now have a live cost signal with no explanation and no demonstrated benefit. That is not grounds for calling it harmful, but it is ample grounds for not shipping it on by default while the properly-powered placement study is still outstanding. The component stays available for that study.