cache racks, policy gates, account bridges

self.md radar — 2026-07-27 agent infrastructure is showing its receipts: the useful layer today was not the chatbot, but the cache, gateway, policy file, and account bridge underneath it. OpenLake made long context look like a storage problem. FerroGate and Microsoft treated agent calls as traffic that needs budgets and identity. the grubbier subscription-wrapper repos showed the same pressure…