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MIZAN.md's phase-numbered implementation order, PRODUCT_ARCHITECTURE's
"Deferred until Render revenue funds it" and "Shipped in", PSR_VS_EDGE's
current-state section, and the READMEs' passing-test counts were all reporting
where the work stood rather than what the system is. OWED_SURFACE keeps its
subject — surface that is specified but unbuilt — stated as the shape each unit
owes.

The channel sections follow the renamed slots: Params / ClientMessage /
ServerMessage, and Channel as the base class on both backends.

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PSR vs Edge Delivery

Two distinct layers. They are independent, and conflating them misreads both.

PSR — Preemptive Static Rendering

Protocol feature. Render HTML on mutation, not on request.

Mechanism: @client fires mutation → backend adapter triggers local render runtime → HTML stored locally.

Works on a $5 VPS with local Bun. No Edge required. PSR is part of the protocol; it's available to every Mizan deployment regardless of hosting.

The strategy is manifest-driven rather than hand-wired per view. The Edge manifest records each context's render_strategy"psr" for public contexts, "dynamic_cached" for user-scoped ones — emitted by mizan/export/ and the export_edge_manifest management command. The render-on-mutation path reads that field to decide whether a mutation triggers a local re-render or only a purge, and the SSR bridge is what turns a component into HTML once it does. The Edge layer consumes the same field for the same decision.

Edge Delivery — Mizan Render (Paid Product)

Pre-rendered HTML cached globally on Cloudflare CDN.

Uses fetch() to a render Worker on a separate domain (render.mizan.cloud) instead of cache.put(), because Workers Cache API is per-datacenter only. fetch() across zones goes through the global CDN cache path with Tiered Cache.

This layer is the paid Mizan Render product.

Caching modes

  • Public content — preemptive (render on mutation)
  • User-scoped content — reactive only (purge on mutation, render on next request)

Invariant

PSR logic does not couple to Cloudflare-specific APIs. PSR works without any cloud infrastructure. Edge delivery extends PSR; it does not replace it.