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Should a KV-aware router learn cache state from engine KV events or its own prefix tree? Size the index and staleness.

The event index is smaller than people expect and cheaper to feed. The approximate tree is free until a burst shortens the cache lifetime under it. The answer sizes both, then shows the minute when the tree starts lying.

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