@rangojs/router 0.0.0-experimental.f2d1a2f1 → 0.0.0-experimental.f4a8e8de

package/src/cache/cf/cf-cache-store.ts

@@ -34,59 +34,205 @@ import type {
   CacheGetResult,
   CacheItemResult,
   CacheItemOptions,
+  ShellCacheEntry,
+  CacheReadError,
 } from "../types.js";
+import { CACHE_READ_ERROR } from "../types.js";
 import {
   _getRequestContext,
   type RequestContext,
 } from "../../server/request-context.js";
+import { INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG } from "../../internal-debug.js";
 import { VERSION } from "@rangojs/router:version";
+import {
+  isPerClientSignalHeader,
+  stripPerClientSignals,
+} from "../../browser/cookie-name.js";
 import {
   resolveTtl,
   resolveSwrWindow,
   DEFAULT_FUNCTION_TTL,
 } from "../cache-policy.js";
+import { reportCacheError, reportingAsync } from "../cache-error.js";
+import type { CacheErrorCategory } from "../cache-error.js";
+import { bufferToBase64, base64ToBuffer } from "./cf-base64.js";
+import {
+  KV_KEY_PRESERVED_PREFIX_BYTES,
+  KV_MAX_KEY_BYTES,
+  KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL,
+  kvKeyByteLength,
+  kvKeyDigest,
+  remainingCacheControl,
+  truncateToBytes,
+} from "./cf-kv-utils.js";
+import {
+  TAG_MARKER_CACHE_PREFIX,
+  TAG_MARKER_ABSENT,
+  getTagMarkerMemo,
+  getTagMarkerInflight,
+} from "./cf-tag-marker-memo.js";
+import { createCloudflareZonePurge } from "./cf-zone-purge.js";
 
 // ============================================================================
 // Constants
 // ============================================================================
+//
+// Header names, KV prefixes, and timeout/interval defaults live in
+// cf-cache-constants.ts so collaborator modules can share them without a
+// circular import back to this class. They are re-exported below so existing
+// import paths (`../cf-cache-store`, `./cf-cache-store.js`) still resolve.
+import {
+  CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER,
+  CACHE_STATUS_HEADER,
+  CACHE_TAGS_HEADER,
+  CACHE_TAGGED_AT_HEADER,
+  TAG_MARKER_PREFIX,
+  CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER,
+  CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER,
+  CACHE_ORIG_CC_HEADER,
+  MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL,
+  EDGE_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  EDGE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  KV_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+} from "./cf-cache-constants.js";
+
+// Re-export the public constants so consumers/tests importing them from
+// cf-cache-store keep working after the move.
+export {
+  CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER,
+  CACHE_STATUS_HEADER,
+  CACHE_TAGS_HEADER,
+  CACHE_TAGGED_AT_HEADER,
+  TAG_MARKER_PREFIX,
+  CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER,
+  MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL,
+  EDGE_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  EDGE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+  KV_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+};
+
+// The tag-marker prefix/sentinel and per-request memo helpers (with their
+// module-singleton WeakMaps) live in cf-tag-marker-memo.ts; imported above.
 
-/** Header storing timestamp when entry becomes stale */
-export const CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER = "x-edge-cache-stale-at";
+/**
+ * Per-request memo of the derived cache-key base URL.
+ *
+ * deriveBaseUrl() is a pure function of the live request URL, but keyToRequest
+ * calls it on EVERY cache operation (each segment/item get/set/delete, each
+ * KV->L1 promote, each tag-marker read), so a page composed of many cached
+ * entries re-parses the same request.url and re-runs the host validation tens
+ * of times. Keying by the request-context object collapses that to one derive
+ * per request. Keyed by ctx alone (not by store) because the derived value
+ * depends only on the request URL, not on which store asked.
+ */
+const derivedBaseUrlMemo = new WeakMap<object, string>();
 
-/** Header storing cache status: HIT | REVALIDATING */
-export const CACHE_STATUS_HEADER = "x-edge-cache-status";
+// Pure KV helpers (key byte-length limits, expirationTtl floor, stale-path
+// Cache-Control recompute) live in cf-kv-utils.ts; imported above.
 
 /**
- * Maximum age in seconds for REVALIDATING status before allowing new revalidation.
- * After this period, a stale entry in REVALIDATING status will trigger revalidation again.
- * @internal
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned about tag machinery configured without a
+ * KV namespace, so the warning fires once per process rather than per request
+ * (CFCacheStore is constructed per request).
  */
-export const MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL = 30;
+const warnedNoKvReadInvalidation = new Set<string>();
 
-// ============================================================================
-// Types
-// ============================================================================
+/**
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned about a tagInvalidationTtl below KV's
+ * expirationTtl floor, so the floor warning fires once per process rather than
+ * once per request (CFCacheStore is constructed per request).
+ */
+const warnedTagInvalidationTtlFloor = new Set<string>();
 
-// Re-exported from the canonical home so cf-cache-store consumers keep
-// importing `ExecutionContext` from this module without a second interface
-// drifting over time.
-export type { ExecutionContext } from "../../types/request-scope.js";
-import type { ExecutionContext } from "../../types/request-scope.js";
+/**
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned about the shell family being inert
+ * (getShell/putShell no-op without a KV namespace), so a ppr route hitting the
+ * silent fail-open warns once per isolate instead of on every request.
+ */
+const warnedShellFamilyInert = new Set<string>();
 
 /**
- * Minimal Cloudflare KV Namespace interface.
- * Avoids hard dependency on @cloudflare/workers-types.
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned that tag invalidation is writing KV
+ * markers with no expiry (tagInvalidationTtl unset), so the unbounded-growth
+ * warning fires once per process rather than once per invalidateTags call
+ * (CFCacheStore is constructed per request; invalidateTags runs per marker
+ * batch). Distinct from the floor warning: that one only fires for a positive
+ * below-floor value, never for the unset (no-expiry) default that this bounds.
  */
-export interface KVNamespace {
-  get(key: string, options?: { type?: string }): Promise<any>;
-  put(
-    key: string,
-    value: string,
-    options?: { expirationTtl?: number },
-  ): Promise<void>;
-  delete(key: string): Promise<void>;
+const warnedNoTagInvalidationTtl = new Set<string>();
+
+/**
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned that an entry's tag set produced a
+ * Cache-Tag header over Cloudflare's aggregate limit, so the header was
+ * omitted (the entry stays cacheable and marker-invalidatable; it just cannot
+ * be evicted per-tag by a purge). Once per process, not per write.
+ */
+const warnedCacheTagHeaderOverflow = new Set<string>();
+
+/**
+ * Stores (by namespace) already warned that an over-limit tag set made an
+ * entry UNCACHEABLE in KV-less purge mode: with no Cache-Tag tokens a purge
+ * cannot evict it, and with no KV there is no marker fallback either, so
+ * caching it would serve stale until TTL while updateTag() reports success.
+ * Once per process, not per write.
+ */
+const warnedCacheTagOverflowUncacheable = new Set<string>();
+
+/**
+ * Max length of one emitted `rg:*` Cache-Tag token. Cloudflare caps a purge
+ * API tag value at 1,024 characters and the aggregate Cache-Tag header at
+ * 16 KB; an application tag is unbounded, so an over-long token is collapsed
+ * to a deterministic hash (see boundedTagToken) instead of being allowed to
+ * fail the whole L1 write. 256 keeps headers compact while leaving room for
+ * long-but-reasonable tag names under any namespace.
+ */
+const CACHE_TAG_TOKEN_MAX = 256;
+
+/**
+ * Cloudflare's documented aggregate Cache-Tag header limit (16 KB). A tagged
+ * entry whose tokens would exceed it gets NO Cache-Tag header (plus a
+ * once-per-namespace warning) rather than a failed cache write; the read path
+ * then falls back to the marker check for that entry (see isL1Invalidated).
+ */
+const CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES = 16 * 1024;
+
+/**
+ * FNV-1a 64-bit hash of a tag value, hex-encoded. Used to bound over-long
+ * Cache-Tag tokens: deterministic (write-time token === purge-time token) and
+ * collision-safe in the failure direction — a collision over-purges (an extra
+ * eviction, healed by the next render), never serves stale.
+ * @internal
+ */
+function fnv1a64(input: string): string {
+  let hash = 0xcbf29ce484222325n;
+  for (let i = 0; i < input.length; i++) {
+    hash ^= BigInt(input.charCodeAt(i));
+    hash = (hash * 0x100000001b3n) & 0xffffffffffffffffn;
+  }
+  return hash.toString(16).padStart(16, "0");
 }
 
+// ============================================================================
+// Types
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// The shared public types (KVNamespace, CFCacheReadDebugEvent, CFCacheDebug,
+// CFCacheStoreOptions) live in cf-cache-types.ts; imported and re-exported below
+// so existing import paths still resolve. The private KV envelope interfaces
+// stay here with the methods that read/write them.
+import type {
+  KVNamespace,
+  CFCacheReadDebugEvent,
+  CFCacheDebug,
+  CFCacheStoreOptions,
+} from "./cf-cache-types.js";
+export type {
+  KVNamespace,
+  CFCacheReadDebugEvent,
+  CFCacheDebug,
+  CFCacheStoreOptions,
+};
+
 /**
  * KV envelope for segment cache entries.
  * @internal
@@ -107,132 +253,167 @@ interface KVSegmentEnvelope {
 interface KVItemEnvelope {
   /** RSC-serialized return value */
   v: string;
-  /** Handle data */
-  h?: Record<string, Record<string, unknown[]>>;
+  /** RSC-encoded handle data (see handle-snapshot.ts encodeHandles) */
+  h?: string;
   /** When entry becomes stale (ms epoch) */
   s: number;
   /** When entry hard-expires (ms epoch) */
   e: number;
+  /** Cache tags (for distributed tag invalidation) */
+  t?: string[];
+  /** Timestamp when tags were attached (ms epoch) */
+  ta?: number;
 }
 
 /**
- * KV envelope for document cache entries.
+ * Coupled Cache API/KV envelope for PPR shell cache entries.
  * @internal
  */
-interface KVResponseEnvelope {
-  /** Response body as base64-encoded string (safe for binary payloads) */
-  b: string;
-  /** HTTP status code */
-  st: number;
-  /** HTTP status text */
-  stx: string;
-  /** Serialized headers as key-value pairs */
-  hd: [string, string][];
+interface CFShellEnvelope {
+  /**
+   * base64-encoded prelude bytes. Absent iff `no` (navigationOnly entries
+   * store no document half — ShellCacheEntry.prelude).
+   */
+  p?: string;
+  /** postponed state JSON, or null (DATA variant — no holes). Absent iff `no`. */
+  po?: string | null;
+  /** React.version captured at prerender time */
+  rv: string;
+  /** Build version captured at prerender time (ShellCacheEntry.buildVersion) */
+  bv?: string;
+  /** Capture-generation start time (ms epoch), used by tag marker checks. */
+  c: number;
   /** When entry becomes stale (ms epoch) */
   s: number;
   /** When entry hard-expires (ms epoch) */
   e: number;
-}
-
-export interface CFCacheStoreOptions<TEnv = unknown> {
-  /**
-   * Cache namespace. If not provided, uses caches.default (recommended).
-   * Only set this if you need isolated cache storage.
-   */
-  namespace?: string;
-
-  /**
-   * Base URL for cache keys.
-   *
-   * If not provided, derives from request hostname via requestContext:
-   * - Production domains → uses `https://{hostname}/`
-   * - Dev/preview (localhost, workers.dev, pages.dev) → uses internal fallback URL
-   */
-  baseUrl?: string;
-
-  /** Default cache options */
-  defaults?: CacheDefaults;
-
+  /** Cache tags (for distributed tag invalidation) */
+  t?: string[];
+  /** Timestamp when tags were attached (ms epoch) */
+  ta?: number;
+  /** initialTheme the capture render was built with (resume theme fidelity) */
+  i?: string;
+  /** Capture data snapshot: recorded cache-store hits/writes for HIT parity */
+  sn?: import("../types.js").ShellSnapshotRecord[];
   /**
-   * Cloudflare ExecutionContext for non-blocking cache writes.
-   * Pass the `ctx` from your worker's fetch handler.
-   *
-   * @example
-   * ```typescript
-   * new CFCacheStore({ ctx: env.ctx })
-   * ```
+   * ShellCacheEntry.docKey. Must round-trip: navigation-replay eligibility
+   * requires the exact canonical doc segment record named here — dropping the
+   * field reads back as "no consumable record" and every partial navigation
+   * reports `no-segment-snapshot` after a KV round trip (the memory store
+   * passes the entry by reference, so only envelope stores can lose it).
    */
-  ctx: ExecutionContext;
-
+  dk?: string;
   /**
-   * Optional KV namespace for L2 cache persistence.
-   *
-   * When provided, KV acts as a global fallback behind the per-colo Cache API.
-   * On L1 miss, KV is checked and hits are promoted back to L1.
-   * On writes, data is persisted to both L1 and KV.
-   *
-   * @example
-   * ```typescript
-   * new CFCacheStore({ ctx: env.ctx, kv: env.CACHE_KV })
-   * ```
+   * ShellCacheEntry.handlerLiveHoles. Must round-trip: the serve side arms the
+   * handler-free fast path on `!entry.handlerLiveHoles`, so dropping the flag
+   * here silently fast-pathed handler-live entries after a KV round trip —
+   * their holes only a handler re-run can fill.
    */
-  kv?: KVNamespace;
+  lh?: boolean;
+  /** ShellCacheEntry.transitionWhen; conditional transitions must re-run. */
+  tw?: true;
+  /** ShellCacheEntry.navigationOnly; its partial-context prelude is not document-safe. */
+  no?: true;
+}
 
-  /**
-   * Cache version string override. When this changes, all cached entries are
-   * effectively invalidated (new keys won't match old entries).
-   *
-   * Defaults to the auto-generated VERSION from `rsc-router:version` virtual module.
-   * Only set this if you need a custom versioning strategy.
-   */
-  version?: string;
+type CFShellDebugOutcome =
+  | "l1-hit"
+  | "l1-miss"
+  | "kv-hit"
+  | "kv-miss"
+  | "kv-promoted"
+  | "marker-invalidated"
+  | "l1-stored"
+  | "kv-stored"
+  | "write-invalidated";
+
+interface CFShellDebugDetails {
+  tier?: "l1" | "kv";
+  reason?:
+    | "absent"
+    | "timeout"
+    | "error"
+    | "non-200"
+    | "corrupt"
+    | "malformed"
+    | "expired"
+    | "unavailable";
+  freshness?: "fresh" | "stale";
+  status?: number;
+  matchMs?: number;
+  bodyReadMs?: number;
+  markerMs?: number;
+  readMs?: number;
+  expiresAt?: number;
+  remainingTtl?: number;
+}
 
-  /**
-   * Custom key generator applied to all cache operations.
-   * Receives the full RequestContext (including env) and the default-generated key.
-   * Return value becomes the final cache key (unless route overrides with `key` option).
-   *
-   * @example Using headers for user segmentation
-   * ```typescript
-   * keyGenerator: (ctx, defaultKey) => {
-   *   const segment = ctx.request.headers.get('x-user-segment') || 'default';
-   *   return `${segment}:${defaultKey}`;
-   * }
-   * ```
-   *
-   * @example Using env bindings for multi-region
-   * ```typescript
-   * keyGenerator: (ctx, defaultKey) => {
-   *   const region = ctx.env.REGION || 'us';
-   *   return `${region}:${defaultKey}`;
-   * }
-   * ```
-   *
-   * @example Using cookies for locale-aware caching
-   * ```typescript
-   * keyGenerator: (ctx, defaultKey) => {
-   *   const locale = cookies().get('locale')?.value || 'en';
-   *   return `${locale}:${defaultKey}`;
-   * }
-   * ```
-   */
-  keyGenerator?: (
-    ctx: RequestContext<TEnv>,
-    defaultKey: string,
-  ) => string | Promise<string>;
+/** Validate the coupled PPR shell envelope before any field reaches resume. */
+function isShellEnvelope(value: unknown): value is CFShellEnvelope {
+  if (value == null || typeof value !== "object") return false;
+  const envelope = value as Partial<CFShellEnvelope>;
+  return (
+    // Document half: required unless the envelope is navigationOnly (`no`),
+    // which stores neither field. Tolerate a legacy navigationOnly envelope
+    // that still carries them.
+    (typeof envelope.p === "string" ||
+      (envelope.p === undefined && envelope.no === true)) &&
+    (envelope.po === null ||
+      typeof envelope.po === "string" ||
+      (envelope.po === undefined && envelope.no === true)) &&
+    typeof envelope.rv === "string" &&
+    (envelope.bv === undefined || typeof envelope.bv === "string") &&
+    typeof envelope.c === "number" &&
+    Number.isFinite(envelope.c) &&
+    typeof envelope.s === "number" &&
+    Number.isFinite(envelope.s) &&
+    typeof envelope.e === "number" &&
+    Number.isFinite(envelope.e) &&
+    (envelope.t === undefined ||
+      (Array.isArray(envelope.t) &&
+        envelope.t.every((tag) => typeof tag === "string"))) &&
+    (envelope.ta === undefined ||
+      (typeof envelope.ta === "number" && Number.isFinite(envelope.ta))) &&
+    (envelope.i === undefined || typeof envelope.i === "string") &&
+    (envelope.sn === undefined || Array.isArray(envelope.sn)) &&
+    (envelope.dk === undefined || typeof envelope.dk === "string") &&
+    (envelope.lh === undefined || typeof envelope.lh === "boolean") &&
+    (envelope.tw === undefined || envelope.tw === true) &&
+    (envelope.no === undefined || envelope.no === true)
+  );
 }
 
 /**
- * Cache status values for the x-edge-cache-status header.
+ * KV envelope for document cache entries.
  * @internal
  */
-export type CacheStatus = "HIT" | "REVALIDATING";
+interface KVResponseEnvelope {
+  /** Response body as base64-encoded string (safe for binary payloads) */
+  b: string;
+  /** HTTP status code */
+  st: number;
+  /** HTTP status text */
+  stx: string;
+  /** Serialized headers as key-value pairs (client-facing; no internal headers) */
+  hd: [string, string][];
+  /** When entry becomes stale (ms epoch) */
+  s: number;
+  /** When entry hard-expires (ms epoch) */
+  e: number;
+  /** Cache tags (for distributed tag invalidation) */
+  t?: string[];
+  /** Timestamp when tags were attached (ms epoch) */
+  ta?: number;
+}
 
 // ============================================================================
 // CFCacheStore Implementation
 // ============================================================================
 
 export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
+  readonly supportsPassiveShellReads: true = true;
+  /** True when constructed without KV: the shell family no-ops (see ctor). */
+  readonly shellFamilyInert?: boolean;
   readonly defaults?: CacheDefaults;
   readonly keyGenerator?: (
     ctx: RequestContext<TEnv>,
@@ -240,10 +421,18 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
   ) => string | Promise<string>;
 
   private readonly namespace?: string;
-  private readonly baseUrl: string;
+  private readonly explicitBaseUrl?: string;
   private readonly waitUntil?: (fn: () => Promise<void>) => void;
   private readonly version?: string;
+  private readonly edgeLookupTimeoutMs: number;
+  private readonly edgeReadTimeoutMs: number;
+  private readonly kvReadTimeoutMs: number;
+  private readonly debug?: (event: CFCacheReadDebugEvent) => void;
   private readonly kv?: KVNamespace;
+  private readonly onRevalidateTag?: (tags: string[]) => Promise<void>;
+  private readonly tagPurge?: (cacheTags: string[]) => Promise<void>;
+  private readonly tagInvalidationTtl?: number;
+  private readonly tagCacheTtl: number;
 
   constructor(options: CFCacheStoreOptions<TEnv>) {
     if (!options.ctx) {
@@ -255,52 +444,251 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     }
 
     this.namespace = options.namespace;
-    this.baseUrl = options.baseUrl ?? this.deriveBaseUrl();
+    // Base URL is resolved lazily per cache operation (see resolveBaseUrl).
+    // The store is constructed before the per-request context ALS is entered
+    // (the cache factory runs ahead of runWithRequestContext in the handler),
+    // so deriving the host here would always miss the request and fall back to
+    // the internal host. Only the explicit override can be captured eagerly.
+    this.explicitBaseUrl = options.baseUrl;
     this.defaults = options.defaults;
     this.version = options.version ?? VERSION;
+    // Coalesce only finite numbers to the override; a non-finite value (NaN from
+    // `Number(env.UNSET)`, or Infinity) would otherwise sail past `?? DEFAULT`
+    // (which only replaces null/undefined) into setTimeout, where NaN/Infinity
+    // are spec-coerced to ~1ms and silently turn the budget into a near-100%
+    // false-miss on that tier. A genuine finite 0 or negative still passes
+    // through and disables the budget per the documented `<= 0` contract.
+    const finiteBudget = (
+      value: number | undefined,
+      fallback: number,
+    ): number =>
+      typeof value === "number" && Number.isFinite(value) ? value : fallback;
+    this.edgeLookupTimeoutMs = finiteBudget(
+      options.edgeLookupTimeoutMs,
+      EDGE_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    );
+    this.edgeReadTimeoutMs = finiteBudget(
+      options.edgeReadTimeoutMs,
+      EDGE_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    );
+    this.kvReadTimeoutMs = finiteBudget(
+      options.kvReadTimeoutMs,
+      KV_READ_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    );
+    this.debug =
+      options.debug === true
+        ? (event) =>
+            console.log(`[CFCacheStore:debug] ${JSON.stringify(event)}`)
+        : typeof options.debug === "function"
+          ? options.debug
+          : undefined;
     this.keyGenerator = options.keyGenerator;
     this.waitUntil = (fn) => options.ctx.waitUntil(fn());
     this.kv = options.kv;
+    // The shell family requires KV (getShell/putShell no-op without it — see
+    // warnShellFamilyInertOnce). Declaring it lets scheduleShellCapture skip
+    // captures whose write could only no-op instead of burning a background
+    // render per MISS that still occupies the serialized capture queue.
+    this.shellFamilyInert = options.kv ? undefined : true;
+    this.onRevalidateTag = options.onRevalidateTag;
+    // tagPurge accepts a ready purge function or a credentials object; the
+    // object form is normalized through the built-in zone purge client, which
+    // validates zoneId/apiToken eagerly so an unset env var fails at
+    // construction instead of on the first updateTag().
+    this.tagPurge =
+      typeof options.tagPurge === "function"
+        ? options.tagPurge
+        : options.tagPurge
+          ? createCloudflareZonePurge(options.tagPurge)
+          : undefined;
+    // tagInvalidationTtl feeds KV's expirationTtl, which CF rejects below
+    // KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL (60s) -- a too-small finite value would make EVERY
+    // marker write throw and break ALL invalidation. Floor it (and warn once);
+    // a non-finite/non-positive value falls back to the no-expiry default
+    // (markers persist) rather than silently sailing a NaN into expirationTtl.
+    this.tagInvalidationTtl = this.sanitizeTagInvalidationTtl(
+      options.tagInvalidationTtl,
+    );
+    // tagCacheTtl gates the L1 marker cache via `> 0`. A non-finite value (NaN
+    // from `Number(env.UNSET)`) is not null/undefined, so `?? 0` would let it
+    // through and silently disable the cache while reading as "configured".
+    // finiteBudget coerces non-finite/null/undefined to 0; the `> 0` guard then
+    // collapses a finite non-positive value to the documented 0 = disabled.
+    const tagCacheTtl = finiteBudget(options.tagCacheTtl, 0);
+    this.tagCacheTtl = tagCacheTtl > 0 ? tagCacheTtl : 0;
+
+    // Read-side tag invalidation requires KV: isGloballyInvalidated() compares an
+    // entry's taggedAt against the per-tag KV marker and short-circuits to "not
+    // invalidated" when no KV namespace is configured. A consumer who wires the
+    // tag machinery (tagCacheTtl for L1 markers, or onRevalidateTag for CDN purge)
+    // but omits kv gets only the purge fired - marker writes are skipped without
+    // kv - yet every tagged read still serves stale data with no other signal.
+    // Surface that misconfiguration. Exception: with tagPurge configured (purge
+    // mode) L1 eviction is the purge itself, so a KV-less store is a supported
+    // L1-only configuration, not a silent no-op.
+    if (
+      !this.kv &&
+      !this.tagPurge &&
+      (this.tagCacheTtl > 0 || this.onRevalidateTag)
+    ) {
+      this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+        warnedNoKvReadInvalidation,
+        `[CFCacheStore] tagCacheTtl/onRevalidateTag is configured without a KV ` +
+          `namespace, so tag invalidation has NO read-side effect: tagged reads ` +
+          `are never treated as invalidated and serve stale data. Configure ` +
+          `{ kv } for distributed tag invalidation.`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Warn about a namespace-scoped misconfiguration once per namespace per
+   * isolate. `seen` is the module-level Set for that message family -- Sets
+   * are module-level (not instance fields) so re-constructed stores in the
+   * same isolate don't re-warn.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private warnOncePerNamespace(seen: Set<string>, message: string): void {
+    const id = this.namespace ?? "default";
+    if (seen.has(id)) return;
+    seen.add(id);
+    console.warn(message);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Validate a consumer-supplied tagInvalidationTtl against CF KV's expirationTtl
+   * floor. A finite value below KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL is raised to it (with a
+   * one-time warning) so invalidation keeps working instead of every marker
+   * write throwing; a non-finite or non-positive value returns undefined (the
+   * no-expiry default). The warning still notes the sizing rule: the TTL must
+   * exceed the largest entry TTL+SWR or invalidated entries can resurrect.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private sanitizeTagInvalidationTtl(
+    value: number | undefined,
+  ): number | undefined {
+    if (value == null) return undefined;
+    if (!Number.isFinite(value) || value <= 0) return undefined;
+    if (value < KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL) {
+      this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+        warnedTagInvalidationTtlFloor,
+        `[CFCacheStore] tagInvalidationTtl ${value} is below Cloudflare KV's ` +
+          `${KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL}s expirationTtl floor; raising to ` +
+          `${KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL}. It must still exceed your largest entry ` +
+          `TTL+SWR or invalidated entries can resurrect when the marker expires.`,
+      );
+      return KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL;
+    }
+    return value;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Emit a debug event if `debug` is enabled. Swallows sink errors so a faulty
+   * debug callback can never break a cache read.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private emitDebug(event: CFCacheReadDebugEvent): void {
+    if (!this.debug) return;
+    try {
+      this.debug(event);
+    } catch {
+      // A broken debug sink must not affect the request.
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Build-time-gated shell tier trace for deployed cross-colo diagnostics. */
+  private debugShell(
+    key: string,
+    outcome: CFShellDebugOutcome,
+    details: CFShellDebugDetails = {},
+  ): void {
+    if (!INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG) return;
+    const request = _getRequestContext()?.request as
+      | (Request & { cf?: { colo?: unknown } })
+      | undefined;
+    const ray = request?.headers.get("cf-ray") ?? undefined;
+    const cfColo = request?.cf?.colo;
+    const colo =
+      typeof cfColo === "string"
+        ? cfColo
+        : ray?.includes("-")
+          ? ray.slice(ray.lastIndexOf("-") + 1)
+          : undefined;
+    console.log(
+      `[CFCacheStore][shell] ${JSON.stringify({
+        key,
+        outcome,
+        at: Date.now(),
+        ray,
+        colo,
+        ...details,
+      })}`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Resolve the cache-key base URL for the current cache operation.
+   * Prefers an explicit `baseUrl` option; otherwise derives it from the live
+   * request. Called per operation (from keyToRequest), which runs inside the
+   * request-context ALS, so deriveBaseUrl sees the request and can use the
+   * production host instead of the internal fallback.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private resolveBaseUrl(): string {
+    return this.explicitBaseUrl ?? this.deriveBaseUrl();
   }
 
   /**
    * Derive base URL from request hostname via requestContext.
    * Uses internal fallback for dev/preview environments and untrusted hostnames.
+   * Must run inside the request context (invoked lazily via resolveBaseUrl).
    * @internal
    */
   private deriveBaseUrl(): string {
-    const fallback = "https://rsc-cache.internal.com/";
+    const fallback = "https://rsc-dummy-host-1.com/";
 
     const ctx = _getRequestContext();
     if (!ctx?.request) {
       return fallback;
     }
 
-    try {
-      const url = new URL(ctx.request.url);
-      const hostname = url.hostname;
-
-      // Use fallback for dev/preview environments
-      if (
-        hostname === "localhost" ||
-        hostname === "127.0.0.1" ||
-        hostname.endsWith(".workers.dev") ||
-        hostname.endsWith(".pages.dev")
-      ) {
-        return fallback;
-      }
+    // The result is deterministic per request, but keyToRequest calls this on
+    // every cache operation; memoize per request context (see derivedBaseUrlMemo).
+    const memoized = derivedBaseUrlMemo.get(ctx);
+    if (memoized !== undefined) {
+      return memoized;
+    }
 
-      // Validate hostname: must be a valid domain (alphanumeric, hyphens, dots)
-      // to prevent host header injection into cache keys
-      if (!/^[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+$/.test(hostname) || hostname.length > 253) {
+    const derived = ((): string => {
+      try {
+        const url = new URL(ctx.request.url);
+        const hostname = url.hostname;
+
+        // Use fallback for dev/preview environments
+        if (
+          hostname === "localhost" ||
+          hostname === "127.0.0.1" ||
+          hostname.endsWith(".workers.dev") ||
+          hostname.endsWith(".pages.dev")
+        ) {
+          return fallback;
+        }
+
+        // Validate hostname: must be a valid domain (alphanumeric, hyphens, dots)
+        // to prevent host header injection into cache keys
+        if (!/^[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+$/.test(hostname) || hostname.length > 253) {
+          return fallback;
+        }
+
+        // Use actual hostname for production
+        return `https://${hostname}/`;
+      } catch {
         return fallback;
       }
+    })();
 
-      // Use actual hostname for production
-      return `https://${hostname}/`;
-    } catch {
-      return fallback;
-    }
+    derivedBaseUrlMemo.set(ctx, derived);
+    return derived;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -314,10 +702,297 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     return caches.default;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Race an async cache read against a latency budget. Shared by all three read
+   * tiers (L1 match, L1 body, L2/KV) so the timeout policy lives in one place:
+   * on timeout it returns `{ value: undefined, timedOut: true }` and logs
+   * `${label} exceeded ${budgetMs}ms; treating as miss`; the abandoned read is
+   * left to settle in the background (late rejection swallowed) rather than
+   * aborted, since the underlying CF primitives expose no cancellation. A budget
+   * <= 0 disables the bound and awaits the read directly. `read` is a thunk so
+   * the disabled path and the raced path start the read identically.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async readWithTimeout<T>(
+    read: () => Promise<T>,
+    budgetMs: number,
+    label: string,
+  ): Promise<{ value: T | undefined; timedOut: boolean }> {
+    if (budgetMs <= 0) return { value: await read(), timedOut: false };
+
+    let timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined;
+    const timeout = new Promise<{ timedOut: true }>((resolve) => {
+      timer = setTimeout(() => resolve({ timedOut: true }), budgetMs);
+    });
+    try {
+      const readPromise = read();
+      // The losing branch keeps running; ensure a late rejection can't surface
+      // as an unhandled rejection once we've stopped awaiting it.
+      readPromise.catch(() => {});
+      const result = await Promise.race([
+        readPromise.then((value) => ({ timedOut: false as const, value })),
+        timeout,
+      ]);
+      if (result.timedOut) {
+        console.warn(
+          `[CFCacheStore] ${label} exceeded ${budgetMs}ms; treating as miss`,
+        );
+        return { value: undefined, timedOut: true };
+      }
+      return { value: result.value, timedOut: false };
+    } finally {
+      if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read from the L1 edge cache under the edgeLookupTimeoutMs budget. A `match`
+   * slower than the budget is abandoned and reported as a miss
+   * (`{ response: undefined, timedOut: true }`) so a degraded colo cannot stall
+   * the request; callers fall through to their normal miss path (L2/KV or
+   * render). The `timedOut` flag lets callers distinguish an abandoned slow
+   * match from a genuine miss for debug reporting; `error` is set when the
+   * `match` itself rejected (a transient L1 infra error) so the caller can
+   * report it as cache-read while still degrading to L2/KV -- distinct from a
+   * genuine miss (no entry), which sets neither flag.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async matchWithTimeout(
+    cache: Cache,
+    request: Request,
+  ): Promise<{
+    response: Response | undefined;
+    timedOut: boolean;
+    error?: unknown;
+  }> {
+    let matchError: unknown;
+    const { value, timedOut } = await this.readWithTimeout(
+      // A fast match rejection is caught at the thunk and reported as a miss
+      // (response undefined), so the caller falls through to L2/KV rather than
+      // escaping to the outer catch -- symmetric with the body-read thunk. The
+      // error is captured (not swallowed) so the caller can surface it via
+      // onError as a cache-read degradation.
+      () =>
+        cache.match(request).catch((e) => {
+          matchError = e;
+          return undefined;
+        }),
+      this.edgeLookupTimeoutMs,
+      "edge cache lookup",
+    );
+    return { response: value, timedOut, error: matchError };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read and JSON-parse a matched L1 Response's body under the edgeReadTimeoutMs
+   * budget. CF resolves `match()` with a lazily-streamed body, so the latency
+   * tail surfaces here -- after matchWithTimeout has already passed -- not in the
+   * match itself. On timeout `undefined` is returned so the caller falls through
+   * to L2/KV or render.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async readJsonWithTimeout<T>(
+    response: Response,
+  ): Promise<{ value: T | undefined; errored: boolean; error?: unknown }> {
+    // A FAST json() rejection (a corrupt body, or a foreign 200 non-JSON
+    // response that collided on this key) is caught at the thunk and turned into
+    // a miss, so the caller falls through to L2/KV exactly like a body-timeout
+    // -- instead of escaping to get()/getItem()'s outer catch, which returns
+    // null WITHOUT ever consulting KV. The catch lives here, not in
+    // readWithTimeout, so the L2/KV tier keeps propagating a genuine kv.get
+    // rejection to its own error sink. The `errored` flag lets the caller emit a
+    // distinct "body-error" debug outcome rather than masquerading as a timeout.
+    // On a TIMEOUT the json() promise is still pending, so the catch has not
+    // fired: errored stays false and the outcome is correctly a body-timeout. A
+    // late rejection after the timeout only mutates the closure flag, which the
+    // already-returned object no longer reads.
+    let errored = false;
+    let error: unknown;
+    const { value } = await this.readWithTimeout<T | undefined>(
+      () =>
+        (response.json() as Promise<T>).catch((e) => {
+          errored = true;
+          error = e;
+          return undefined;
+        }),
+      this.edgeReadTimeoutMs,
+      "edge cache body read",
+    );
+    return { value, errored, error };
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Self-heal a corrupt L1 entry, then return the fall-through result. Reports
+   * the corruption as cache-corrupt (so an onError consumer sees it distinctly
+   * from a transient outage), runs the caller's L2/KV fall-through, and evicts
+   * the faulty per-colo entry ONLY when that fall-through found no good copy.
+   *
+   * The conditional evict is the load-bearing detail: when KV DOES serve a copy,
+   * kvGet* has already scheduled a same-key promote (`cache.put`); an eager
+   * `cache.delete` here would race that put with no CF Cache API ordering
+   * guarantee and could clobber the freshly-restored entry. So in that case we
+   * lean on #558's heal-by-overwrite (the non-suppressed fall-through promotes /
+   * a fresh render re-`set`s over the bad entry) and skip the delete. Only when
+   * this request's fall-through found no copy (=== null) is the eager evict
+   * scheduled -- useful then, since nothing else will overwrite the poison entry.
+   * A null fall-through can also be a KV-read TIMEOUT rather than a genuine miss:
+   * a concurrent request that read KV successfully may be promoting the same key,
+   * and this evict could race it. That is benign -- the worst case is one wasted
+   * colo-local promote, never a wrong served value, and the next read self-heals
+   * -- so we accept it rather than suppressing the evict on a timeout (which
+   * would strand the poison entry when KV really is empty). The evict is
+   * non-blocking (waitUntil) so it never adds latency to the degraded read.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async healCorruptL1<T>(
+    cache: Cache,
+    request: Request,
+    error: unknown,
+    label: string,
+    fallThrough: () => Promise<T | null>,
+  ): Promise<T | null> {
+    reportCacheError(
+      error ?? new Error("corrupt/partial L1 body"),
+      "cache-corrupt",
+      `[CFCacheStore] ${label}: corrupt L1 body`,
+    );
+    const result = await fallThrough();
+    if (result === null) {
+      const evict = (): Promise<void> =>
+        reportingAsync(
+          () => cache.delete(request),
+          "cache-delete",
+          `[CFCacheStore] ${label}: evict corrupt L1`,
+        );
+      if (this.waitUntil) this.waitUntil(evict);
+      else void evict();
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Re-put a stale L1 entry marked REVALIDATING, so concurrent requests serve it
+   * without each triggering a revalidation. Shared by get()/getItem().
+   *
+   * The write is NON-BLOCKING (waitUntil) and best-effort by design:
+   * - It runs in waitUntil, so it never adds the put latency to the served stale
+   *   read and a put failure can never turn that good read into a miss. The put
+   *   is still initiated synchronously (this.waitUntil invokes its callback
+   *   immediately), so concurrent readers see the marker land at the same time an
+   *   awaited write would -- awaiting only blocks the current request.
+   * - The background revalidation's fresh set() is gated behind a full re-render,
+   *   so it lands well after this put; a stale-clobbers-fresh race would require
+   *   this single put to be slower than that entire render+set, and self-heals
+   *   within MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL.
+   *
+   * Cache-Control is recomputed to the REMAINING ttl from the stored hard-expiry
+   * deadline (see remainingCacheControl), not copied from the original
+   * full-window header -- copying it would restart CF retention on every re-arm
+   * and pin a perpetually-failing entry past hard-expiry. A legacy/tampered entry
+   * without a valid deadline floors to max-age=1 and self-heals via KV.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private markRevalidating(
+    cache: Cache,
+    request: Request,
+    sourceHeaders: Headers,
+    status: number,
+    body: string,
+  ): void {
+    const reputNow = Date.now();
+    const headers = new Headers(sourceHeaders);
+    headers.set(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER, "REVALIDATING");
+    headers.set(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER, String(reputNow));
+    headers.set("Cache-Control", remainingCacheControl(headers, reputNow));
+    const markerResponse = new Response(body, { status, headers });
+    const write = async (): Promise<void> => {
+      try {
+        await cache.put(request, markerResponse);
+      } catch {
+        // Best-effort: a failed marker write must not affect the served read;
+        // the entry simply re-arms on the next stale read.
+      }
+    };
+    if (this.waitUntil) this.waitUntil(write);
+    else void write();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Document-tier counterpart of markRevalidating for getResponse's herd guard.
+   * The segment/item tiers JSON-parse the body, so they re-put with a string
+   * body; document bodies are streamed verbatim, so we re-put with a CLONED
+   * response body (`response.clone()`) supplied by the caller -- the original
+   * body still streams to the client while the marker carries the clone. Same
+   * REVALIDATING status header, same revalidating-at stamp, same
+   * remainingCacheControl re-put math as markRevalidating, so the document tier
+   * suppresses concurrent revalidation for the identical MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL
+   * window the segment tier does. Best-effort and non-blocking: a failed marker
+   * write must not affect the served stale read.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private markResponseRevalidating(
+    cache: Cache,
+    request: Request,
+    clonedResponse: Response,
+  ): void {
+    const reputNow = Date.now();
+    const headers = new Headers(clonedResponse.headers);
+    headers.set(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER, "REVALIDATING");
+    headers.set(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER, String(reputNow));
+    headers.set("Cache-Control", remainingCacheControl(headers, reputNow));
+    const markerResponse = new Response(clonedResponse.body, {
+      status: clonedResponse.status,
+      statusText: clonedResponse.statusText,
+      headers,
+    });
+    const write = async (): Promise<void> => {
+      try {
+        await cache.put(request, markerResponse);
+      } catch {
+        // Best-effort: see markRevalidating.
+      }
+    };
+    if (this.waitUntil) this.waitUntil(write);
+    else void write();
+  }
+
   // ============================================================================
   // Segment Cache Methods
   // ============================================================================
 
+  /**
+   * Guard the segment tier against a `keyGenerator` that returns a key colliding
+   * with a reserved tag-marker namespace: `__tag__/` (the KV marker key) or
+   * `__tagmarker__/` (the L1 Cache API marker request). The item/doc tiers are
+   * internally prefixed (`fn:`/`doc:`) so only the bare segment key can collide;
+   * a collision would let a segment write clobber - or a segment read/delete
+   * evict - a live tag marker, silently breaking invalidation. Report loudly
+   * (so a misconfigured keyGenerator surfaces immediately) and treat the segment
+   * operation as a miss/no-op rather than corrupting the marker namespace.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private isReservedSegmentKey(
+    key: string,
+    category: CacheErrorCategory,
+  ): boolean {
+    const reserved = key.startsWith(TAG_MARKER_PREFIX)
+      ? TAG_MARKER_PREFIX
+      : key.startsWith(TAG_MARKER_CACHE_PREFIX)
+        ? TAG_MARKER_CACHE_PREFIX
+        : null;
+    if (!reserved) return false;
+    reportCacheError(
+      new Error(
+        `segment key "${key}" collides with the reserved "${reserved}" ` +
+          `tag-marker namespace; the operation is ignored. Fix the store ` +
+          `keyGenerator so it does not produce keys with this prefix.`,
+      ),
+      category,
+      "[CFCacheStore] reserved key",
+    );
+    return true;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Get cached entry data by key.
    *
@@ -329,50 +1004,237 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
    * On L1 miss, falls back to KV (L2) if configured.
    * KV hits are promoted to L1 in the background.
    */
-  async get(key: string): Promise<CacheGetResult | null> {
+  async get(key: string): Promise<CacheGetResult | null | CacheReadError> {
+    if (this.isReservedSegmentKey(key, "cache-read")) return null;
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(key);
-      const response = await cache.match(request);
+      const matchStart = Date.now();
+      const {
+        response,
+        timedOut,
+        error: matchError,
+      } = await this.matchWithTimeout(cache, request);
+      const matchMs = Date.now() - matchStart;
 
       if (!response) {
+        if (matchError) {
+          // A match REJECTION is reported as cache-read and still degrades to
+          // L2/KV -- a real KV value (or KV's own CACHE_READ_ERROR) stands on
+          // its own. But a null KV result (unconfigured namespace, kv-miss,
+          // kv-timeout) is NOT proof of absence under a rejected L1 match:
+          // the only real signal this read produced is the failure, so
+          // surface CACHE_READ_ERROR instead of a replayable miss (the PPR
+          // seeded fallback must render uncached, not substitute the doc
+          // record for a partition the store could not actually read).
+          reportCacheError(
+            matchError,
+            "cache-read",
+            "[CFCacheStore] get L1 match",
+          );
+          if (this.debug)
+            this.emitDebug({
+              op: "get",
+              key,
+              // Distinct from a genuine absence: surface it as match-error so
+              // debug agrees with the cache-read already routed to onError,
+              // instead of masquerading as l1-miss.
+              outcome: "match-error",
+              matchMs,
+            });
+          const kvResult = await this.kvGetSegment(key);
+          return kvResult ?? CACHE_READ_ERROR;
+        }
+        // An abandoned slow match (timedOut) keeps the fail-open latency-budget
+        // policy: degrade to L2/KV, and a KV null stays a miss.
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "get",
+            key,
+            outcome: timedOut ? "match-timeout" : "l1-miss",
+            matchMs,
+          });
         return this.kvGetSegment(key);
       }
 
+      // A non-200 entry (a cached error response, or a foreign response that
+      // landed on this key) is not valid segment data; treat it as a miss
+      // rather than JSON-parsing garbage and serving it as a hit.
+      if (response.status !== 200) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "get",
+            key,
+            outcome: "non-200",
+            status: response.status,
+            matchMs,
+          });
+        // Degraded fall-through: suppress revalidation so a broken L1 entry hit
+        // concurrently serves KV-stale, not a herd. See kvGetSegment.
+        return this.kvGetSegment(key, { suppressRevalidate: true });
+      }
+
+      // Tag invalidation: an entry whose tags were invalidated after it was
+      // cached is treated as a miss, so the next render re-populates it. We
+      // return null (re-render locally) rather than falling through to KV. In
+      // the common case the L1 entry and its KV twin were written together with
+      // the same taggedAt, so kvGetSegment's own tag check would miss too and a
+      // fall-through is pure cost. The tiers CAN diverge -- another colo may have
+      // already re-rendered and written a fresher KV envelope -- in which case a
+      // fall-through could serve that copy instead of re-rendering here.
+      // Capturing that cross-colo optimization is a deferred follow-up, not a
+      // correctness gap: this colo's next read after its own re-render self-heals.
+      const tagInfo = this.readTagInfo(response.headers);
+      // Measure the marker-resolution tail (memo -> L1 marker cache -> KV) only
+      // when debug is on, so the hot path pays nothing. It is the serial read
+      // that sits between matchMs and bodyReadMs for a tagged entry.
+      const markerStart = this.debug ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const invalidated = await this.isL1Invalidated(
+        tagInfo.tags,
+        tagInfo.taggedAt,
+        response.headers,
+      );
+      const markerMs = this.debug ? Date.now() - markerStart : undefined;
+      if (invalidated) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "get",
+            key,
+            outcome: "tag-invalidated",
+            status: response.status,
+            matchMs,
+            markerMs,
+          });
+        return null;
+      }
+
       // Read status headers
       const status = response.headers.get(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER);
-      const age = Number(response.headers.get("age") ?? "0");
       const staleAt = Number(
         response.headers.get(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER) ?? "0",
       );
+      const revalidatingAt = Number(
+        response.headers.get(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER) ?? "0",
+      );
 
-      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && Date.now() > staleAt;
+      const now = Date.now();
+      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && now > staleAt;
+      // Recency comes from our explicit revalidating-at stamp, not CF's `Age`
+      // header (see CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER). An absent/zero stamp counts
+      // as "not recent" so a dropped revalidation re-arms instead of pinning.
       const isRevalidating =
-        status === "REVALIDATING" && age < MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL;
+        status === "REVALIDATING" &&
+        revalidatingAt > 0 &&
+        now - revalidatingAt < MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL * 1000;
+
+      // Single emitter for the post-header L1 outcomes. Undefined (so the event
+      // object is never allocated) when debug is off; the informational-only
+      // `age` header is read lazily inside for the same reason.
+      const debugRead = this.debug
+        ? (
+            outcome: CFCacheReadDebugEvent["outcome"],
+            bodyReadMs: number,
+            shouldRevalidate?: boolean,
+          ) =>
+            this.emitDebug({
+              op: "get",
+              key,
+              outcome,
+              status: response.status,
+              cacheStatus: status,
+              staleAt,
+              revalidatingAt,
+              ageHeader: response.headers.get("age"),
+              isStale,
+              isRevalidating,
+              shouldRevalidate,
+              matchMs,
+              markerMs,
+              bodyReadMs,
+            })
+        : undefined;
 
       // Case 1: Fresh or already being revalidated - just return data
       if (!isStale || isRevalidating) {
-        const data = (await response.json()) as CachedEntryData;
+        const bodyStart = Date.now();
+        const {
+          value: data,
+          errored,
+          error,
+        } = await this.readJsonWithTimeout<CachedEntryData>(response);
+        const bodyReadMs = Date.now() - bodyStart;
+        if (data === undefined) {
+          debugRead?.(errored ? "body-error" : "body-timeout", bodyReadMs);
+          // A body-ERROR (corrupt/foreign body) self-heals via healCorruptL1:
+          // report cache-corrupt, fall through to L2/KV (which overwrites the
+          // bad entry), and evict only if KV had no good copy to promote. A
+          // body-TIMEOUT is a degraded read of a likely-valid entry: leave it
+          // intact and suppress revalidation so a stalling colo cannot herd.
+          if (errored)
+            return this.healCorruptL1(cache, request, error, "get", () =>
+              this.kvGetSegment(key, { suppressRevalidate: false }),
+            );
+          return this.kvGetSegment(key, { suppressRevalidate: true });
+        }
+        debugRead?.(
+          isRevalidating ? "l1-revalidating-guarded" : "l1-fresh",
+          bodyReadMs,
+          false,
+        );
         return { data, shouldRevalidate: false };
       }
 
-      // Case 2: Stale and needs revalidation - atomically mark REVALIDATING
-      const [b1, b2] = response.body!.tee();
-
-      const headers = new Headers(response.headers);
-      headers.set(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER, "REVALIDATING");
+      // Case 2: Stale and needs revalidation.
+      // Read the body under the edge-read budget BEFORE writing the REVALIDATING
+      // marker. CF can resolve match() fast but stall the body stream; the prior
+      // approach teed the stream and awaited cache.put(b1) first, which blocked
+      // on that same stalled stream so the read budget could never fire on a
+      // stale hit. Reading first bounds the stall and lets us skip marking an
+      // entry we could not even read.
+      const bodyStart = Date.now();
+      const {
+        value: data,
+        errored,
+        error,
+      } = await this.readJsonWithTimeout<CachedEntryData>(response);
+      const bodyReadMs = Date.now() - bodyStart;
+      if (data === undefined) {
+        debugRead?.(errored ? "body-error" : "body-timeout", bodyReadMs);
+        // Heal + conditionally evict a body-error, suppress a body-timeout; see
+        // Case 1.
+        if (errored)
+          return this.healCorruptL1(
+            cache,
+            request,
+            error,
+            "get(revalidating)",
+            () => this.kvGetSegment(key, { suppressRevalidate: false }),
+          );
+        return this.kvGetSegment(key, { suppressRevalidate: true });
+      }
 
-      // Blocking write - must complete before returning to prevent race
-      await cache.put(
+      // Mark REVALIDATING so concurrent requests don't all revalidate, then
+      // return the stale data. The marker write is non-blocking and best-effort
+      // (see markRevalidating) -- it must not add latency to, or fail, the served
+      // stale read.
+      this.markRevalidating(
+        cache,
         request,
-        new Response(b1, { status: response.status, headers }),
+        response.headers,
+        response.status,
+        JSON.stringify(data),
       );
 
-      const data = (await new Response(b2).json()) as CachedEntryData;
+      debugRead?.("l1-stale-revalidate", bodyReadMs, true);
       return { data, shouldRevalidate: true };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] get failed:", error);
-      return null;
+      // reportCacheError logs and routes to onError (cache-read); the debug
+      // emit is the separate wrangler-tail signal. Keep both observability paths.
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] get");
+      if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "error" });
+      // Distinct from a miss so the PPR replay composition renders uncached
+      // instead of substituting the seeded doc record (CACHE_READ_ERROR).
+      return CACHE_READ_ERROR;
     }
   }
 
@@ -387,6 +1249,8 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     ttl: number,
     swr?: number,
   ): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.isReservedSegmentKey(key, "cache-write")) return;
+    if (this.skipUncacheableTagSet(data.tags)) return;
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(key);
@@ -396,32 +1260,60 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
       const totalTtl = ttl + swrWindow;
       const staleAt = Date.now() + ttl * 1000;
 
-      const body = JSON.stringify(data);
+      // Stamp the tag timestamp at write time and carry it (with the tags)
+      // into both the L1 body and the KV envelope so reads can run the
+      // invalidation check.
+      const taggedAt =
+        Array.isArray(data.tags) && data.tags.length > 0
+          ? Date.now()
+          : undefined;
+      const dataToStore: CachedEntryData = taggedAt
+        ? { ...data, taggedAt }
+        : data;
+
+      // Serialize the segment payload exactly once: L1 stores the JSON body
+      // directly, and kvSetSegment embeds the same string as envelope.d so the
+      // (potentially large) Flight/segment tree is not walked a second time.
+      const body = JSON.stringify(dataToStore);
       const response = new Response(body, {
         headers: {
           "Content-Type": "application/json",
           "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${totalTtl}`,
           [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(staleAt),
+          // Absolute hard-expiry deadline so a stale-path re-put can recompute a
+          // shrinking max-age instead of restarting retention (see
+          // remainingCacheControl / CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER).
+          [CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER]: String(staleAt + swrWindow * 1000),
           [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+          ...this.tagHeaderEntries(dataToStore.tags, taggedAt),
         },
       });
 
       const putPromise = cache.put(request, response);
 
       if (this.waitUntil) {
-        // Non-blocking write
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          await putPromise;
-        });
+        // Non-blocking write. These store-level background tasks intentionally
+        // omit the reportingAsync ctx argument: the store is a request-agnostic
+        // singleton and this.waitUntil is the execution context's, not a single
+        // request's, so a failure is reported console-loud only (it cannot be
+        // attributed to one request's onError). The request-scoped tag verbs
+        // (revalidateTag / stale-revalidation) DO thread their captured ctx.
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () => putPromise,
+            "cache-write",
+            "[CFCacheStore] L1 write",
+          ),
+        );
       } else {
         // Blocking fallback
         await putPromise;
       }
 
-      // L2: persist to KV
-      this.kvSetSegment(key, data, staleAt, totalTtl);
+      // L2: persist to KV (reuses `body` as envelope.d)
+      this.kvSetSegment(key, body, staleAt, totalTtl, swrWindow);
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] set failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-write", "[CFCacheStore] set");
     }
   }
 
@@ -429,25 +1321,26 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
    * Delete a cached entry from L1 and L2.
    */
   async delete(key: string): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (this.isReservedSegmentKey(key, "cache-delete")) return false;
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const result = await cache.delete(this.keyToRequest(key));
 
       // L2: delete from KV
       if (this.kv && this.waitUntil) {
-        const kvKey = this.toKVKey(key);
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          try {
-            await this.kv!.delete(kvKey);
-          } catch {
-            // KV delete failures are non-critical
-          }
-        });
+        const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(key);
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () => this.kv!.delete(kvKey),
+            "cache-delete",
+            "[CFCacheStore] delete L2",
+          ),
+        );
       }
 
       return result;
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] delete failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-delete", "[CFCacheStore] delete");
       return false;
     }
   }
@@ -467,26 +1360,132 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(`doc:${key}`);
-      const response = await cache.match(request);
+      // The document path is outside the debug surface (op is only get/getItem),
+      // so the match-timeout flag is not surfaced as an event here -- though
+      // matchWithTimeout still warns on a slow match. A miss or timeout falls
+      // through to the KV document path and then render.
+      const { response, error: matchError } = await this.matchWithTimeout(
+        cache,
+        request,
+      );
 
       if (!response || response.status !== 200) {
+        // A transient L1 match rejection (matchError set; only ever set when
+        // response is undefined) is surfaced as cache-read before degrading to
+        // L2/KV -- matching get()/getItem(). A genuine miss or a non-200 hit
+        // carries no matchError and reports nothing.
+        if (matchError)
+          reportCacheError(
+            matchError,
+            "cache-read",
+            "[CFCacheStore] getResponse L1 match",
+          );
         return this.kvGetResponse(key);
       }
 
+      // Tag invalidation check (treat invalidated entry as a miss).
+      const tagInfo = this.readTagInfo(response.headers);
+      if (
+        await this.isL1Invalidated(
+          tagInfo.tags,
+          tagInfo.taggedAt,
+          response.headers,
+        )
+      ) {
+        return null;
+      }
+
       // Check staleness
       const staleAt = Number(response.headers.get(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER) || 0);
-      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && Date.now() > staleAt;
+      const now = Date.now();
+      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && now > staleAt;
+
+      // Thundering-herd guard, mirroring the segment (get) and item (getItem)
+      // tiers. Without it, every concurrent stale reader returned
+      // shouldRevalidate=true and document-cache.ts scheduled a fresh render for
+      // each one. Recency comes from our own revalidating-at stamp, not CF's Age
+      // header (see CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER); an absent/zero stamp counts as
+      // "not recent" so a dropped revalidation re-arms instead of pinning.
+      const status = response.headers.get(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER);
+      const revalidatingAt = Number(
+        response.headers.get(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER) ?? "0",
+      );
+      const isRevalidating =
+        status === "REVALIDATING" &&
+        revalidatingAt > 0 &&
+        now - revalidatingAt < MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL * 1000;
+
+      // L1 document bodies are streamed through verbatim - unlike the segment/
+      // item tiers (which JSON-parse and so structurally detect corruption) and
+      // the KV doc tier (validated in kvGetResponse, KV being the real partial-
+      // read vector). Integrity here relies on the Cache API: cache.put stores a
+      // response atomically or fails, so a truncated body is not served back. We
+      // deliberately do NOT buffer+hash the body to re-verify it: that would
+      // defeat streaming the document and add a full read to every cache hit.
+
+      if (isStale && !isRevalidating) {
+        // First stale reader within the window: mark REVALIDATING (non-blocking,
+        // best-effort) so concurrent readers below see the guard and suppress,
+        // then return shouldRevalidate=true so this caller revalidates. Clone the
+        // matched response for the marker since its original body must still
+        // stream to the client.
+        this.markResponseRevalidating(cache, request, response.clone());
+        return {
+          response: this.toClientResponse(response),
+          shouldRevalidate: true,
+        };
+      }
 
+      // Fresh, or stale-but-already-REVALIDATING: serve without scheduling a
+      // (re-)revalidation. A recent marker already has a render in flight.
       return {
-        response,
-        shouldRevalidate: isStale,
+        response: this.toClientResponse(response),
+        shouldRevalidate: false,
       };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] getResponse failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] getResponse");
       return null;
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Strip internal edge headers and restore the author's Cache-Control before a
+   * cached document Response is served to a client. L1 entries carry the
+   * internal staleness/status headers and a rewritten Cache-Control; none of
+   * those should reach the browser or an upstream CDN.
+   */
+  private toClientResponse(response: Response): Response {
+    const headers = new Headers(response.headers);
+    const originalCacheControl = headers.get(CACHE_ORIG_CC_HEADER);
+    if (originalCacheControl !== null) {
+      headers.set("Cache-Control", originalCacheControl);
+    } else {
+      headers.delete("Cache-Control");
+    }
+    headers.delete(CACHE_ORIG_CC_HEADER);
+    headers.delete(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER);
+    headers.delete(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER);
+    headers.delete(CACHE_TAGS_HEADER);
+    headers.delete(CACHE_TAGGED_AT_HEADER);
+    // Remove OUR namespaced tokens from Cache-Tag while preserving any the
+    // document author set (setTagHeaders appended ours onto theirs). The
+    // author's tags may be load-bearing for their own CDN purging; ours are
+    // internal storage bookkeeping and must not leak to clients.
+    this.stripInternalCacheTags(headers);
+    // Internal stale-path bookkeeping (hard-expiry deadline + REVALIDATING
+    // stamp). Carried on doc L1 entries for the herd guard; never serve them.
+    headers.delete(CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER);
+    headers.delete(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER);
+    // Finding #3 (read side): strip per-client signals a pre-fix or
+    // pinned-version L1 entry may carry. See the read-side note in the design doc.
+    stripPerClientSignals(headers);
+    return new Response(response.body, {
+      status: response.status,
+      statusText: response.statusText,
+      headers,
+    });
+  }
+
   /**
    * Store a Response with TTL and optional SWR window (for document-level caching).
    * When KV is configured, also persists to L2.
@@ -496,7 +1495,9 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     response: Response,
     ttl: number,
     swr?: number,
+    tags?: string[],
   ): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.skipUncacheableTagSet(tags)) return;
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(`doc:${key}`);
@@ -505,6 +1506,8 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
       const swrWindow = resolveSwrWindow(swr, this.defaults);
       const totalTtl = ttl + swrWindow;
       const staleAt = Date.now() + ttl * 1000;
+      const taggedAt =
+        Array.isArray(tags) && tags.length > 0 ? Date.now() : undefined;
 
       // Clone body for potential KV write before consuming it for L1
       const [l1Body, kvBody] = this.kv
@@ -513,10 +1516,27 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
           : [null, null]
         : [response.body, null];
 
-      // Clone and add cache headers
+      // Clone and add cache headers. The author's Cache-Control is stashed and
+      // replaced with a long max-age so the CF Cache API holds the entry across
+      // the SWR window; getResponse restores the original before serving.
       const headers = new Headers(response.headers);
+      // Finding #3: never persist a per-client signal in the shared L1 entry
+      // (the platform's Set-Cookie rejection is unverified and ignores the
+      // directive anyway). See stripPerClientSignals.
+      stripPerClientSignals(headers);
+      const originalCacheControl = response.headers.get("Cache-Control");
+      if (originalCacheControl !== null) {
+        headers.set(CACHE_ORIG_CC_HEADER, originalCacheControl);
+      }
       headers.set("Cache-Control", `public, max-age=${totalTtl}`);
       headers.set(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER, String(staleAt));
+      // Absolute hard-expiry deadline so a stale-path REVALIDATING re-put can
+      // recompute a shrinking max-age (remainingCacheControl) instead of
+      // restarting retention. Mirrors set()/setItem(). Stripped by
+      // toClientResponse before serving.
+      headers.set(CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER, String(staleAt + swrWindow * 1000));
+      // Internal tag headers (stripped by toClientResponse before serving).
+      this.setTagHeaders(headers, tags, taggedAt);
 
       const toCache = new Response(l1Body, {
         status: response.status,
@@ -528,9 +1548,13 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
 
       if (this.waitUntil) {
         // Non-blocking write
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          await putPromise;
-        });
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () => putPromise,
+            "cache-write",
+            "[CFCacheStore] L1 write",
+          ),
+        );
       } else {
         // Blocking fallback
         await putPromise;
@@ -538,35 +1562,43 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
 
       // L2: persist to KV (KV requires expirationTtl >= 60s)
       if (this.kv && this.waitUntil && totalTtl >= 60) {
-        const kvKey = this.toKVKey(`doc:${key}`);
+        const kvKey = await this.toDocKVKey(key);
+        // Finding #3: never persist a per-client signal in the KV envelope.
         const headersArray: [string, string][] = [];
-        response.headers.forEach((v, k) => headersArray.push([k, v]));
+        response.headers.forEach((v, k) => {
+          if (isPerClientSignalHeader(k)) return;
+          headersArray.push([k, v]);
+        });
         // Read body as ArrayBuffer and encode to base64 to preserve binary payloads
         const bodyBuf = kvBody
           ? await new Response(kvBody).arrayBuffer()
           : new ArrayBuffer(0);
         const bodyBase64 = bufferToBase64(bodyBuf);
 
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          try {
-            const envelope: KVResponseEnvelope = {
-              b: bodyBase64,
-              st: response.status,
-              stx: response.statusText,
-              hd: headersArray,
-              s: staleAt,
-              e: staleAt + swrWindow * 1000,
-            };
-            await this.kv!.put(kvKey, JSON.stringify(envelope), {
-              expirationTtl: totalTtl,
-            });
-          } catch (error) {
-            console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV putResponse failed:", error);
-          }
-        });
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () => {
+              const envelope: KVResponseEnvelope = {
+                b: bodyBase64,
+                st: response.status,
+                stx: response.statusText,
+                hd: headersArray,
+                s: staleAt,
+                e: staleAt + swrWindow * 1000,
+                t: tags,
+                ta: taggedAt,
+              };
+              return this.kv!.put(kvKey, JSON.stringify(envelope), {
+                expirationTtl: totalTtl,
+              });
+            },
+            "cache-write",
+            "[CFCacheStore] kvPutResponse",
+          ),
+        );
       }
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] putResponse failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-write", "[CFCacheStore] putResponse");
     }
   }
 
@@ -583,48 +1615,174 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(`fn:${key}`);
-      const response = await cache.match(request);
+      const matchStart = Date.now();
+      const {
+        response,
+        timedOut,
+        error: matchError,
+      } = await this.matchWithTimeout(cache, request);
+      const matchMs = Date.now() - matchStart;
 
-      if (!response) return this.kvGetItem(key);
+      if (!response) {
+        // Transient match error reported cache-read; still degrades to L2/KV.
+        if (matchError)
+          reportCacheError(
+            matchError,
+            "cache-read",
+            "[CFCacheStore] getItem L1 match",
+          );
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "getItem",
+            key,
+            // match-error (rejection) vs l1-miss (absence); see get().
+            outcome: matchError
+              ? "match-error"
+              : timedOut
+                ? "match-timeout"
+                : "l1-miss",
+            matchMs,
+          });
+        return this.kvGetItem(key);
+      }
+
+      // Non-200 entry is not a valid cached function result; treat as a miss.
+      if (response.status !== 200) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "getItem",
+            key,
+            outcome: "non-200",
+            status: response.status,
+            matchMs,
+          });
+        // Degraded fall-through: suppress revalidation so a broken L1 entry hit
+        // concurrently serves KV-stale instead of spawning a herd (see get()).
+        return this.kvGetItem(key, { suppressRevalidate: true });
+      }
+
+      // Tag invalidation check (treat invalidated entry as a miss). Measure the
+      // marker-resolution tail only under debug (see get()).
+      const tagInfo = this.readTagInfo(response.headers);
+      const markerStart = this.debug ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const invalidated = await this.isL1Invalidated(
+        tagInfo.tags,
+        tagInfo.taggedAt,
+        response.headers,
+      );
+      const markerMs = this.debug ? Date.now() - markerStart : undefined;
+      if (invalidated) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({
+            op: "getItem",
+            key,
+            outcome: "tag-invalidated",
+            status: response.status,
+            matchMs,
+            markerMs,
+          });
+        return null;
+      }
 
       const staleAt = Number(
         response.headers.get(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER) ?? "0",
       );
       const status = response.headers.get(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER);
-      const age = Number(response.headers.get("age") ?? "0");
+      const revalidatingAt = Number(
+        response.headers.get(CACHE_REVALIDATING_AT_HEADER) ?? "0",
+      );
 
-      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && Date.now() > staleAt;
+      const now = Date.now();
+      const isStale = staleAt > 0 && now > staleAt;
+      // Recency from our explicit stamp, not CF's `Age` header (see get()).
       const isRevalidating =
-        status === "REVALIDATING" && age < MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL;
-
-      const data = (await response.json()) as {
+        status === "REVALIDATING" &&
+        revalidatingAt > 0 &&
+        now - revalidatingAt < MAX_REVALIDATION_INTERVAL * 1000;
+
+      // Single emitter for the post-header L1 outcomes (see get()). Undefined
+      // when debug is off, so the event object is never allocated on the hot
+      // path; the informational-only `age` header is read lazily inside.
+      const debugRead = this.debug
+        ? (
+            outcome: CFCacheReadDebugEvent["outcome"],
+            bodyReadMs: number,
+            shouldRevalidate?: boolean,
+          ) =>
+            this.emitDebug({
+              op: "getItem",
+              key,
+              outcome,
+              status: response.status,
+              cacheStatus: status,
+              staleAt,
+              revalidatingAt,
+              ageHeader: response.headers.get("age"),
+              isStale,
+              isRevalidating,
+              shouldRevalidate,
+              matchMs,
+              markerMs,
+              bodyReadMs,
+            })
+        : undefined;
+
+      const bodyStart = Date.now();
+      const {
+        value: data,
+        errored,
+        error,
+      } = await this.readJsonWithTimeout<{
         value: string;
-        handles?: Record<string, Record<string, unknown[]>>;
-      };
+        handles?: string;
+      }>(response);
+      const bodyReadMs = Date.now() - bodyStart;
+      if (data === undefined) {
+        debugRead?.(errored ? "body-error" : "body-timeout", bodyReadMs);
+        // Heal + conditionally evict a body-error, suppress a body-timeout; see
+        // get().
+        if (errored)
+          return this.healCorruptL1(cache, request, error, "getItem", () =>
+            this.kvGetItem(key, { suppressRevalidate: false }),
+          );
+        return this.kvGetItem(key, { suppressRevalidate: true });
+      }
 
       if (!isStale || isRevalidating) {
+        debugRead?.(
+          isRevalidating ? "l1-revalidating-guarded" : "l1-fresh",
+          bodyReadMs,
+          false,
+        );
         return {
           value: data.value,
           handles: data.handles,
           shouldRevalidate: false,
+          tags: tagInfo.tags,
         };
       }
 
-      // Stale and needs revalidation — mark REVALIDATING atomically
-      const headers = new Headers(response.headers);
-      headers.set(CACHE_STATUS_HEADER, "REVALIDATING");
-      await cache.put(
+      // Stale and needs revalidation -- mark REVALIDATING (non-blocking,
+      // best-effort, remaining-ttl) and return the stale value. See get() /
+      // markRevalidating for the full rationale.
+      this.markRevalidating(
+        cache,
         request,
-        new Response(JSON.stringify(data), { status: 200, headers }),
+        response.headers,
+        200,
+        JSON.stringify(data),
       );
 
+      debugRead?.("l1-stale-revalidate", bodyReadMs, true);
       return {
         value: data.value,
         handles: data.handles,
         shouldRevalidate: true,
+        tags: tagInfo.tags,
       };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] getItem failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] getItem");
+      if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "error" });
       return null;
     }
   }
@@ -638,6 +1796,7 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     value: string,
     options?: CacheItemOptions,
   ): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.skipUncacheableTagSet(options?.tags)) return;
     try {
       const cache = await this.getCache();
       const request = this.keyToRequest(`fn:${key}`);
@@ -647,64 +1806,514 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
       const totalTtl = ttl + swrWindow;
       const staleAt = Date.now() + ttl * 1000;
 
-      const body = JSON.stringify({ value, handles: options?.handles });
+      const tags = options?.tags;
+      const taggedAt =
+        Array.isArray(tags) && tags.length > 0 ? Date.now() : undefined;
+
+      // Serialize value/handles once; L1 body and KV envelope.v/h share the
+      // escaped strings so a large RSC payload is not re-escaped for L2.
+      const valueJson = JSON.stringify(value);
+      const handlesJson =
+        options?.handles !== undefined
+          ? JSON.stringify(options.handles)
+          : undefined;
+      const body =
+        handlesJson !== undefined
+          ? `{"value":${valueJson},"handles":${handlesJson}}`
+          : `{"value":${valueJson}}`;
       const response = new Response(body, {
         headers: {
           "Content-Type": "application/json",
           "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${totalTtl}`,
           [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(staleAt),
+          // Absolute hard-expiry deadline; see set() / remainingCacheControl.
+          [CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER]: String(staleAt + swrWindow * 1000),
           [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+          ...this.tagHeaderEntries(tags, taggedAt),
         },
       });
 
       const putPromise = cache.put(request, response);
 
       if (this.waitUntil) {
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          await putPromise;
-        });
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () => putPromise,
+            "cache-write",
+            "[CFCacheStore] L1 write",
+          ),
+        );
       } else {
         await putPromise;
       }
 
-      // L2: persist to KV (KV requires expirationTtl >= 60s)
+      // L2: persist to KV (KV requires expirationTtl >= 60s). Wire shape matches
+      // JSON.stringify(KVItemEnvelope); field names differ from L1 so we assemble
+      // from the pre-escaped value/handles pieces rather than re-stringifying.
       if (this.kv && this.waitUntil && totalTtl >= 60) {
-        const kvKey = this.toKVKey(`fn:${key}`);
-        this.waitUntil(async () => {
-          try {
-            const envelope: KVItemEnvelope = {
-              v: value,
-              h: options?.handles,
-              s: staleAt,
-              e: staleAt + swrWindow * 1000,
-            };
-            await this.kv!.put(kvKey, JSON.stringify(envelope), {
-              expirationTtl: totalTtl,
-            });
-          } catch (error) {
-            console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV setItem failed:", error);
-          }
-        });
+        const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(`fn:${key}`);
+        const expiresAt = staleAt + swrWindow * 1000;
+        let envelopeJson = `{"v":${valueJson}`;
+        if (handlesJson !== undefined) envelopeJson += `,"h":${handlesJson}`;
+        envelopeJson += `,"s":${staleAt},"e":${expiresAt}`;
+        if (tags !== undefined) envelopeJson += `,"t":${JSON.stringify(tags)}`;
+        if (taggedAt !== undefined) envelopeJson += `,"ta":${taggedAt}`;
+        envelopeJson += `}`;
+        this.waitUntil(() =>
+          reportingAsync(
+            () =>
+              this.kv!.put(kvKey, envelopeJson, {
+                expirationTtl: totalTtl,
+              }),
+            "cache-write",
+            "[CFCacheStore] kvSetItem",
+          ),
+        );
       }
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] setItem failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-write", "[CFCacheStore] setItem");
     }
   }
 
   // ============================================================================
-  // Key Helpers
+  // Shell Cache Methods (PPR shell resume) — Cache API L1 + KV L2
   // ============================================================================
+  //
+  // KV remains the durable, cross-colo shell tier. Cache API is a per-colo
+  // read-through accelerator: writes populate both tiers, and a valid KV hit
+  // promotes the same coupled envelope into L1. The family still requires KV;
+  // without it, getShell/putShell no-op and PPR fails open to a full HTML render.
+  //
+  // Shell L1 hits deliberately keep the KV generation-marker check even in
+  // purge mode. A shell's taggedAt is its CAPTURE START, not its write time: an
+  // invalidation can purge while an older capture is still running, then that
+  // capture can land after the purge. The marker check rejects that resurrection.
 
   /**
-   * Convert string key to Request object for CF Cache API.
-   * Includes version in URL if specified (for cache invalidation on code changes).
+   * Warn once per isolate that the shell family is inert: getShell/putShell
+   * are ONLY called for routes that declared the `ppr` path option, so firing
+   * here (not in the constructor) scopes the warning to apps that actually
+   * use PPR — a KV-less CFCacheStore is a perfectly fine config otherwise.
+   * Without it, the correctness-first fail-open (issue #651) is invisible:
+   * every ppr route is a permanent MISS with zero diagnostics.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private warnShellFamilyInertOnce(): void {
+    this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+      warnedShellFamilyInert,
+      `[CFCacheStore] a ppr route resolved to this store, but no KV namespace ` +
+        `is configured, so the shell family (getShell/putShell) is a no-op: ` +
+        `every ppr route stays a permanent shell MISS (the page still serves ` +
+        `via a full render). Bind a KV namespace and pass it — ` +
+        `new CFCacheStore({ ctx, kv: env.CACHE_KV }) — or use a shell-capable ` +
+        `store via createRouter({ cache }).`,
+    );
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Get a cached PPR shell entry from Cache API, falling through to KV and
+   * promoting a valid KV hit. Both tiers store one envelope so the prelude,
+   * postponed state, snapshot, versions, and generation metadata cannot mix.
+   * SWR remains a plain staleness flag; the capture scheduler's module-level
+   * in-flight set is the recapture stampede guard.
+   */
+  async getShell(
+    key: string,
+  ): Promise<{ entry: ShellCacheEntry; shouldRevalidate?: boolean } | null> {
+    if (!this.kv) {
+      this.warnShellFamilyInertOnce();
+      return null;
+    }
+    try {
+      const cache = await this.getCache();
+      const request = this.keyToRequest(`shell:${key}`);
+      const matchStartedAt = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const {
+        response,
+        timedOut,
+        error: matchError,
+      } = await this.matchWithTimeout(cache, request);
+      const matchMs = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG
+        ? Date.now() - matchStartedAt
+        : undefined;
+
+      if (!response) {
+        if (matchError) {
+          reportCacheError(
+            matchError,
+            "cache-read",
+            "[CFCacheStore] getShell L1 match",
+          );
+        }
+        this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", {
+          reason: matchError ? "error" : timedOut ? "timeout" : "absent",
+          matchMs,
+        });
+        return this.kvGetShell(key);
+      }
+      if (response.status !== 200) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", {
+          reason: "non-200",
+          status: response.status,
+          matchMs,
+        });
+        return this.kvGetShell(key);
+      }
+
+      const bodyStartedAt = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const { value, errored, error } =
+        await this.readJsonWithTimeout<unknown>(response);
+      const bodyReadMs = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG
+        ? Date.now() - bodyStartedAt
+        : undefined;
+      if (value === undefined) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", {
+          reason: errored ? "corrupt" : "timeout",
+          matchMs,
+          bodyReadMs,
+        });
+        if (errored) {
+          return this.healCorruptL1(cache, request, error, "getShell", () =>
+            this.kvGetShell(key),
+          );
+        }
+        return this.kvGetShell(key);
+      }
+      if (!isShellEnvelope(value)) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", {
+          reason: "malformed",
+          matchMs,
+          bodyReadMs,
+        });
+        return this.healCorruptL1(
+          cache,
+          request,
+          new Error("malformed/partial L1 shell envelope"),
+          "getShell",
+          () => this.kvGetShell(key),
+        );
+      }
+
+      const now = Date.now();
+      if (now > value.e) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", {
+          reason: "expired",
+          matchMs,
+          bodyReadMs,
+          expiresAt: value.e,
+        });
+        return this.kvGetShell(key);
+      }
+
+      // Unlike other L1 families, shells always check the durable generation
+      // marker. See the capture-start/purge race documented above.
+      const markerStartedAt = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const invalidated = await this.isGloballyInvalidated(value.t, value.ta);
+      const markerMs = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG
+        ? Date.now() - markerStartedAt
+        : undefined;
+      if (invalidated) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "marker-invalidated", {
+          tier: "l1",
+          matchMs,
+          bodyReadMs,
+          markerMs,
+        });
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      const shouldRevalidate = value.s > 0 && now > value.s;
+      this.debugShell(key, "l1-hit", {
+        freshness: shouldRevalidate ? "stale" : "fresh",
+        matchMs,
+        bodyReadMs,
+        markerMs,
+        expiresAt: value.e,
+      });
+      return {
+        entry: this.shellEnvelopeToEntry(value),
+        shouldRevalidate,
+      };
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] getShell");
+      this.debugShell(key, "l1-miss", { reason: "error" });
+      return this.kvGetShell(key);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Store a PPR shell envelope in Cache API and, when its retention meets KV's
+   * 60-second floor, KV. The shared write is registered with waitUntil and
+   * awaited so invalidation rejection can be acknowledged to the capture
+   * scheduler. Short-lived shells remain useful in L1 even though KV rejects
+   * them.
+   */
+  async putShell(
+    key: string,
+    entry: ShellCacheEntry,
+    ttlSeconds?: number,
+    swrSeconds?: number,
+    tags?: string[],
+  ): Promise<"stored" | "invalidated" | void> {
+    // KV remains required for durable generation markers and cross-colo reads.
+    if (!this.kv) {
+      this.warnShellFamilyInertOnce();
+      return;
+    }
+    if (!this.waitUntil) return;
+    try {
+      const ttl = resolveTtl(ttlSeconds, this.defaults, DEFAULT_FUNCTION_TTL);
+      const swrWindow = resolveSwrWindow(swrSeconds, this.defaults);
+      const totalTtl = ttl + swrWindow;
+
+      const retentionTtl =
+        tags && tags.length > 0 && this.tagInvalidationTtl
+          ? Math.min(totalTtl, this.tagInvalidationTtl)
+          : totalTtl;
+      const now = Date.now();
+      const staleAt = now + ttl * 1000;
+      const expiresAt = now + retentionTtl * 1000;
+      const taggedAt =
+        Array.isArray(tags) && tags.length > 0 ? entry.createdAt : undefined;
+
+      const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(`shell:${key}`);
+      const writeKv = retentionTtl >= KV_MIN_EXPIRATION_TTL;
+
+      const write = (async (): Promise<"stored" | "invalidated" | void> => {
+        if (
+          tags &&
+          tags.length > 0 &&
+          (await this.isGloballyInvalidated(tags, entry.createdAt))
+        ) {
+          this.debugShell(key, "write-invalidated");
+          return "invalidated";
+        }
+
+        const envelope: CFShellEnvelope = {
+          // Presence-keyed: a navigationOnly entry has no document half, and an
+          // omitted key (vs an explicit undefined) also keeps it out of the
+          // serialized JSON.
+          ...(entry.prelude !== undefined ? { p: entry.prelude } : {}),
+          ...(entry.postponed !== undefined ? { po: entry.postponed } : {}),
+          rv: entry.reactVersion,
+          bv: entry.buildVersion,
+          c: entry.createdAt,
+          s: staleAt,
+          e: expiresAt,
+          t: tags,
+          ta: taggedAt,
+          i: entry.initialTheme,
+          sn: entry.snapshot,
+          dk: entry.docKey,
+          lh: entry.handlerLiveHoles,
+          tw: entry.transitionWhen,
+          no: entry.navigationOnly,
+        };
+        const body = JSON.stringify(envelope);
+        const writes: Promise<boolean>[] = [
+          (async () => {
+            try {
+              const cache = await this.getCache();
+              await cache.put(
+                this.keyToRequest(`shell:${key}`),
+                this.shellEnvelopeResponse(body, envelope),
+              );
+              this.debugShell(key, "l1-stored", {
+                expiresAt: envelope.e,
+              });
+              return true;
+            } catch (error) {
+              reportCacheError(
+                error,
+                "cache-write",
+                "[CFCacheStore] putShell L1",
+              );
+              return false;
+            }
+          })(),
+        ];
+        if (writeKv) {
+          writes.push(
+            (async () => {
+              try {
+                await this.kv!.put(kvKey, body, {
+                  expirationTtl: retentionTtl,
+                });
+                this.debugShell(key, "kv-stored", {
+                  expiresAt: envelope.e,
+                });
+                return true;
+              } catch (error) {
+                reportCacheError(
+                  error,
+                  "cache-write",
+                  "[CFCacheStore] putShell L2",
+                );
+                return false;
+              }
+            })(),
+          );
+        }
+        return (await Promise.all(writes)).some(Boolean) ? "stored" : undefined;
+      })();
+      this.waitUntil(async () => {
+        await write;
+      });
+      return await write;
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-write", "[CFCacheStore] putShell");
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Rebuild the public shell entry from its validated storage envelope. */
+  private shellEnvelopeToEntry(envelope: CFShellEnvelope): ShellCacheEntry {
+    return {
+      prelude: envelope.p,
+      postponed: envelope.po,
+      reactVersion: envelope.rv,
+      buildVersion: envelope.bv,
+      initialTheme: envelope.i,
+      snapshot: envelope.sn,
+      docKey: envelope.dk,
+      handlerLiveHoles: envelope.lh,
+      transitionWhen: envelope.tw,
+      navigationOnly: envelope.no,
+      createdAt: envelope.c,
+    };
+  }
+
+  /** Build the Cache API representation of the coupled shell envelope. */
+  private shellEnvelopeResponse(
+    body: string,
+    envelope: CFShellEnvelope,
+  ): Response {
+    const remainingTtl = Math.max(
+      1,
+      Math.floor((envelope.e - Date.now()) / 1000),
+    );
+    return new Response(body, {
+      headers: {
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`,
+        [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.s),
+        [CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.e),
+        [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+        ...this.tagHeaderEntries(envelope.t, envelope.ta),
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  /** KV shell fallback with corruption checks and background L1 promotion. */
+  private async kvGetShell(
+    key: string,
+  ): Promise<{ entry: ShellCacheEntry; shouldRevalidate?: boolean } | null> {
+    if (!this.kv) return null;
+    try {
+      const readStartedAt = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(`shell:${key}`);
+      const { value: envelope, timedOut } =
+        await this.kvGetOrEvict<CFShellEnvelope>(
+          kvKey,
+          isShellEnvelope,
+          "getShell",
+        );
+      const readMs = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG
+        ? Date.now() - readStartedAt
+        : undefined;
+      if (timedOut || !envelope) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "kv-miss", {
+          reason: timedOut ? "timeout" : "unavailable",
+          readMs,
+        });
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      const now = Date.now();
+      if (now > envelope.e) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "kv-miss", {
+          reason: "expired",
+          readMs,
+          expiresAt: envelope.e,
+        });
+        return null;
+      }
+      const markerStartedAt = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG ? Date.now() : 0;
+      const invalidated = await this.isGloballyInvalidated(
+        envelope.t,
+        envelope.ta,
+      );
+      const markerMs = INTERNAL_RANGO_DEBUG
+        ? Date.now() - markerStartedAt
+        : undefined;
+      if (invalidated) {
+        this.debugShell(key, "marker-invalidated", {
+          tier: "kv",
+          readMs,
+          markerMs,
+        });
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      const shouldRevalidate = envelope.s > 0 && now > envelope.s;
+      this.debugShell(key, "kv-hit", {
+        freshness: shouldRevalidate ? "stale" : "fresh",
+        readMs,
+        markerMs,
+        expiresAt: envelope.e,
+      });
+      this.promoteShellToL1(key, envelope);
+      return {
+        entry: this.shellEnvelopeToEntry(envelope),
+        shouldRevalidate,
+      };
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] kvGetShell");
+      this.debugShell(key, "kv-miss", { reason: "error" });
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Promote a valid KV shell into the per-colo Cache API tier. */
+  private promoteShellToL1(key: string, envelope: CFShellEnvelope): void {
+    if (!this.waitUntil) return;
+    this.waitUntil(() =>
+      reportingAsync(
+        async () => {
+          if (Date.now() > envelope.e) return;
+          const cache = await this.getCache();
+          const body = JSON.stringify(envelope);
+          await cache.put(
+            this.keyToRequest(`shell:${key}`),
+            this.shellEnvelopeResponse(body, envelope),
+          );
+          this.debugShell(key, "kv-promoted", {
+            remainingTtl: Math.max(
+              1,
+              Math.floor((envelope.e - Date.now()) / 1000),
+            ),
+            expiresAt: envelope.e,
+          });
+        },
+        "cache-write",
+        "[CFCacheStore] promoteShellToL1",
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+
+  // ============================================================================
+  // Key Helpers
+  // ============================================================================
+
+  /**
+   * Convert string key to Request object for CF Cache API.
+   * Includes version in URL if specified (for cache invalidation on code changes).
    * @internal
    */
   private keyToRequest(key: string): Request {
     const encodedKey = encodeURIComponent(key);
     // Include version in URL path to invalidate cache when version changes
     const versionPath = this.version ? `v/${this.version}/` : "";
-    return new Request(`${this.baseUrl}${versionPath}${encodedKey}`, {
+    return new Request(`${this.resolveBaseUrl()}${versionPath}${encodedKey}`, {
       method: "GET",
     });
   }
@@ -712,11 +2321,866 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
   /**
    * Convert string key to KV key string.
    * Uses same version prefix as Cache API for consistent invalidation.
+   *
+   * Single chokepoint for EVERY KV family (segments, items, shells, documents
+   * via toDocKVKey, tag markers via tagMarkerKey): a composed key over
+   * Cloudflare KV's 512-byte limit is normalized to a preserved readable
+   * prefix plus a SHA-256-derived 128-bit digest of the FULL key. Without
+   * this, kv.put/get reject with `414 ... exceeds key length limit of 512`
+   * and the entry silently never reaches L2 (observed in production for
+   * "use cache" items whose serialized args — e.g. a CMS query object — blow
+   * the cap; autobarn pilot). Keys are opaque storage identifiers, so
+   * normalization is semantics-preserving as long as distinct logical keys
+   * stay distinct: colliding requires an identical 400-byte prefix AND a
+   * 128-bit SHA-256 collision. Deterministic, so every family's read, write,
+   * and delete paths agree on the stored key.
    * @internal
    */
-  private toKVKey(key: string): string {
+  private async toKVKey(key: string): Promise<string> {
     const versionPath = this.version ? `v/${this.version}/` : "";
-    return `${versionPath}${key}`;
+    const composed = `${versionPath}${key}`;
+    if (kvKeyByteLength(composed) <= KV_MAX_KEY_BYTES) return composed;
+    const prefix = truncateToBytes(composed, KV_KEY_PRESERVED_PREFIX_BYTES);
+    return `${prefix}~${await kvKeyDigest(composed)}`;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Host token for the current request, used to namespace the document KV key.
+   * Derived from the same resolveBaseUrl() that namespaces the L1 (Cache API)
+   * tier, so a doc entry's KV twin lands under the identical host bucket.
+   * Falls back to "_" if the base URL cannot be parsed (it always carries a
+   * trailing-slash origin, so parsing succeeds in practice).
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private docKVHost(): string {
+    try {
+      return new URL(this.resolveBaseUrl()).host || "_";
+    } catch {
+      return "_";
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convert a document key to its host-namespaced KV key. The L1 tier already
+   * namespaces document entries by host via keyToRequest/resolveBaseUrl, but the
+   * KV fallback keyed only on `doc:{key}`, so two hosts serving the same path
+   * could collide on the KV tier (one host serving another's cached document).
+   * Prefixing the host closes that cross-host collision. Deterministic per
+   * (host, key). Segment/fn/tag-marker KV keys keep toKVKey unchanged: tag
+   * markers are intentionally global (invalidation must cross hosts), and the
+   * document tier is the one with a request-host context here.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private toDocKVKey(key: string): Promise<string> {
+    return this.toKVKey(`h/${this.docKVHost()}/doc:${key}`);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Best-effort delete of a single KV key, reporting (not swallowing) a delete
+   * failure as cache-delete. Used by the corrupt-entry self-heal paths.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async evictKvKey(kvKey: string, label: string): Promise<void> {
+    try {
+      await this.kv!.delete(kvKey);
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportCacheError(
+        error,
+        "cache-delete",
+        `[CFCacheStore] ${label}: evict failed`,
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Schedule a corrupt-entry KV eviction as a NON-BLOCKING background task
+   * (waitUntil) instead of awaiting it on the request path. The corrupt read has
+   * already resolved to a miss; awaiting an unbounded kv.delete here would re-add
+   * exactly the multi-second stall the read budgets exist to prevent when the KV
+   * namespace is degraded. evictKvKey never rejects (it reports its own failure),
+   * so the fire-and-forget fallback is safe when no waitUntil is available.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private scheduleKvEvict(kvKey: string, label: string): void {
+    const evict = (): Promise<void> => this.evictKvKey(kvKey, label);
+    if (this.waitUntil) this.waitUntil(evict);
+    else void evict();
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * KV-get a JSON envelope, EVICTING the key only when it is genuinely corrupt.
+   *
+   * Reads as { type: "text" }, NOT { type: "json" }, on purpose: the "json" form
+   * fuses the network read and the JSON parse, so a transient KV outage (5xx/429/
+   * network blip) is indistinguishable from a malformed body and would delete a
+   * still-good cross-colo entry - a self-inflicted miss storm. Reading text lets a
+   * transient read error propagate to the caller's outer catch (reported
+   * cache-read, the entry left intact); only a JSON.parse failure on a body that
+   * WAS successfully read - or an envelope that parses but fails `validate`
+   * (fields missing from a truncated write) - is true corruption that evicts +
+   * reports cache-corrupt. A MISSING key (kv.get -> null) is a normal miss.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async kvGetOrEvict<T>(
+    kvKey: string,
+    validate: (envelope: T) => boolean,
+    label: string,
+  ): Promise<{ value: T | null; timedOut: boolean }> {
+    // Bound the read with the KV latency budget (inherited from #558) so a
+    // degraded namespace cannot pin the request. readWithTimeout reports
+    // timedOut on budget expiry; a transient read REJECTION (5xx/429/network)
+    // instead propagates out to the caller's outer catch (reported cache-read,
+    // the entry left intact) -- deliberately NOT caught as corruption.
+    const { value: raw, timedOut } = await this.readWithTimeout<unknown>(
+      () => this.kv!.get(kvKey, { type: "text" }),
+      this.kvReadTimeoutMs,
+      "KV read",
+    );
+    if (timedOut) return { value: null, timedOut: true };
+    if (raw == null) return { value: null, timedOut: false }; // missing = miss
+
+    // Real CF KV with { type: "text" } returns a string: parse + structurally
+    // validate it; a parse/validate failure on a successfully-read body is the
+    // only true corruption (evict + cache-corrupt). A KV binding that already
+    // returns a parsed object (some shims/tests) is used as-is.
+    let envelope: T;
+    if (typeof raw === "string") {
+      try {
+        envelope = JSON.parse(raw) as T;
+      } catch (error) {
+        reportCacheError(
+          error,
+          "cache-corrupt",
+          `[CFCacheStore] ${label}: corrupt JSON in KV, evicting`,
+        );
+        this.scheduleKvEvict(kvKey, label);
+        return { value: null, timedOut: false };
+      }
+    } else {
+      envelope = raw as T;
+    }
+
+    // A body that parses to null or a primitive ('null', '42', 'true', '"x"')
+    // is not a valid envelope. Guard it BEFORE validate(): the property-reading
+    // validators throw on a null/primitive rather than returning false, which
+    // would escape to the caller's outer catch as a transient cache-read and
+    // leave the bad key un-evicted (re-failing every read until its KV TTL). The
+    // typeof check short-circuits validate() so it only ever runs on an object.
+    if (
+      envelope == null ||
+      typeof envelope !== "object" ||
+      !validate(envelope)
+    ) {
+      reportCacheError(
+        new Error("malformed/partial KV envelope"),
+        "cache-corrupt",
+        `[CFCacheStore] ${label}: malformed envelope, evicting`,
+      );
+      this.scheduleKvEvict(kvKey, label);
+      return { value: null, timedOut: false };
+    }
+    return { value: envelope, timedOut: false };
+  }
+
+  // ============================================================================
+  // Tag Invalidation (single-store: markers live in this.kv)
+  // ============================================================================
+
+  /** KV key for a tag's invalidation marker. */
+  private tagMarkerKey(tag: string): Promise<string> {
+    return this.toKVKey(`${TAG_MARKER_PREFIX}${tag}`);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Header entries carrying an entry's tags (JSON-encoded, comma-safe) and the
+   * timestamp they were attached. Returns an empty object when there are no
+   * tags so untagged entries stay header-free and skip the invalidation check.
+   *
+   * Also stamps the namespaced `Cache-Tag` header (see entryCacheTags) so a
+   * Cloudflare purge-by-tag can evict the entry — the mechanism purge mode
+   * (tagPurge) relies on. Written unconditionally (not only in purge mode):
+   * it costs a small header and makes existing entries purgeable the moment a
+   * consumer turns purge mode on, with no re-render needed.
+   */
+  private tagHeaderEntries(
+    tags: string[] | undefined,
+    taggedAt: number | undefined,
+  ): Record<string, string> {
+    if (!Array.isArray(tags) || tags.length === 0 || !taggedAt) return {};
+    const entries: Record<string, string> = {
+      // encodeURIComponent so the value is pure ASCII: HTTP header values are
+      // ByteStrings, but JSON.stringify leaves codepoints > U+00FF (emoji/CJK)
+      // verbatim, which makes new Response({ headers }) throw and the outer
+      // try/catch silently drop the whole entry from cache. Decoded in
+      // readTagInfo. The L1 marker Cache-Tag path encodes for the same reason.
+      [CACHE_TAGS_HEADER]: encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(tags)),
+      [CACHE_TAGGED_AT_HEADER]: String(taggedAt),
+    };
+    // Over Cloudflare's aggregate Cache-Tag limit the header is OMITTED — the
+    // entry still caches and stays marker-invalidatable; it just cannot be
+    // purge-evicted per tag (isL1Invalidated falls back to the marker check
+    // for such entries, so purge mode stays correct). Emitting a header over
+    // the limit would instead risk failing the whole L1 write. The KV-LESS
+    // purge-mode combination never reaches here: there the marker fallback
+    // has no KV to consult, so skipUncacheableTagSet rejects the write first.
+    const cacheTag = this.entryCacheTagHeader(tags);
+    if (cacheTag !== null) {
+      entries["Cache-Tag"] = cacheTag;
+    } else {
+      this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+        warnedCacheTagHeaderOverflow,
+        `[CFCacheStore] an entry's ${tags.length} tags produce a Cache-Tag ` +
+          `header over Cloudflare's ${CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES}-byte ` +
+          `limit; the header was omitted. The entry stays cacheable and ` +
+          `marker-invalidatable, but a purge-by-tag cannot evict it (purge ` +
+          `mode falls back to the marker check for it). Reduce the number ` +
+          `of tags per entry.`,
+      );
+    }
+    return entries;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Joined entry Cache-Tag header value for `tags`, or null when it would
+   * exceed Cloudflare's aggregate header limit. Tokens are pure ASCII
+   * (encodeURIComponent output), so .length is bytes.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private entryCacheTagHeader(tags: string[]): string | null {
+    const joined = this.entryCacheTags(tags).join(",");
+    return joined.length <= CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES ? joined : null;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Write-path gate for the one configuration where an over-limit tag set has
+   * NO invalidation path: purge mode WITHOUT KV. There the entry Cache-Tag
+   * tokens are the only eviction mechanism, and a tag set whose header
+   * overflows CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES gets no tokens — a purge could never
+   * evict the entry and there is no KV marker fallback, so it would serve
+   * stale until TTL while updateTag() reports success. Returns true (and
+   * warns once) so the caller SKIPS caching: the route simply renders fresh,
+   * which is the fail-safe direction. With KV configured the omitted-header
+   * entry falls back to the marker check (see tagHeaderEntries), and KV-less
+   * MARKER mode keeps its documented no-read-side-invalidation semantics —
+   * neither is gated.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private skipUncacheableTagSet(tags: string[] | undefined): boolean {
+    if (!this.tagPurge || this.kv) return false;
+    if (!Array.isArray(tags) || tags.length === 0) return false;
+    if (this.entryCacheTagHeader(tags) !== null) return false;
+    this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+      warnedCacheTagOverflowUncacheable,
+      `[CFCacheStore] an entry's ${tags.length} tags produce a Cache-Tag ` +
+        `header over Cloudflare's ${CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES}-byte limit. ` +
+        `In purge mode without KV those tokens are the only invalidation ` +
+        `path, so the entry was NOT cached (it renders fresh instead of ` +
+        `becoming un-invalidatable). Reduce the number of tags per entry, ` +
+        `or configure { kv } to get the marker fallback.`,
+    );
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Merge the internal tag headers onto an existing Headers instance. The
+   * from-scratch paths spread tagHeaderEntries() into an object-literal init;
+   * the document put/promote paths build a Headers first, so they .set() each
+   * entry instead — except `Cache-Tag`, which is APPENDED: a document author
+   * may have set their own Cache-Tag, and clobbering it would break their CDN
+   * purging. Append produces the comma-merged list CF expects.
+   */
+  private setTagHeaders(
+    headers: Headers,
+    tags: string[] | undefined,
+    taggedAt: number | undefined,
+  ): void {
+    for (const [name, value] of Object.entries(
+      this.tagHeaderEntries(tags, taggedAt),
+    )) {
+      if (name === "Cache-Tag") headers.append(name, value);
+      else headers.set(name, value);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /** Read an entry's tags/taggedAt back from its headers. */
+  private readTagInfo(headers: Headers): {
+    tags?: string[];
+    taggedAt?: number;
+  } {
+    const rawTags = headers.get(CACHE_TAGS_HEADER);
+    const rawTaggedAt = headers.get(CACHE_TAGGED_AT_HEADER);
+    if (!rawTags || !rawTaggedAt) return {};
+    try {
+      const taggedAt = Number(rawTaggedAt);
+      // A corrupt/non-numeric tagged-at header yields NaN. isGloballyInvalidated
+      // short-circuits on a falsy taggedAt (NaN is falsy), so returning
+      // { taggedAt: NaN } would make the entry permanently NON-invalidatable -
+      // a revalidateTag could never evict it. Treat a non-finite stamp the same
+      // as the missing-header case (untagged): drop both tags and taggedAt so the
+      // entry is re-rendered/re-tagged rather than silently un-invalidatable.
+      if (!Number.isFinite(taggedAt)) return {};
+      return {
+        tags: JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent(rawTags)) as string[],
+        taggedAt,
+      };
+    } catch {
+      return {};
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Whether an entry tagged at `taggedAt` with `tags` has been invalidated since.
+   * Reads the per-tag invalidation markers from KV and returns true if any tag's
+   * latest invalidation is at or after taggedAt (>= so a same-millisecond
+   * invalidate wins, favouring freshness over staleness). Fails open: KV errors
+   * never turn a hit into a wrongful miss-storm beyond this single read.
+   */
+  private async isGloballyInvalidated(
+    tags: string[] | undefined,
+    taggedAt: number | undefined,
+  ): Promise<boolean> {
+    // Array.isArray (not just truthiness): a non-array tags value - direct store
+    // misuse like setItem(k, v, { tags: "products" }), or a skewed KV envelope -
+    // must fail safe to "not invalidated" rather than throwing `.map` on every
+    // read (which the outer catch would mis-report as a transient cache-read).
+    if (!this.kv || !Array.isArray(tags) || tags.length === 0 || !taggedAt)
+      return false;
+    const ctx = _getRequestContext();
+    const memo = ctx ? getTagMarkerMemo(ctx, this) : undefined;
+    const inflight = ctx ? getTagMarkerInflight(ctx, this) : undefined;
+    try {
+      const markers = await Promise.all(
+        tags.map((tag) => this.readTagMarker(tag, memo, inflight)),
+      );
+      for (const marker of markers) {
+        if (marker != null && marker >= taggedAt) return true;
+      }
+      return false;
+    } catch (error) {
+      reportCacheError(
+        error,
+        "cache-read",
+        "[CFCacheStore] tag invalidation check",
+      );
+      return false;
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tag-invalidation check for an L1 (Cache API) hit. In purge mode (tagPurge
+   * configured), invalidateTags() evicts L1 entries via a Cloudflare
+   * purge-by-tag call, so a hit that SURVIVED is trusted without a per-read
+   * marker lookup — that skipped lookup is the entire point of purge mode.
+   * Only the per-request memo is consulted (synchronous, no KV read) so a
+   * request that ran updateTag() still masks its own entries during the purge
+   * propagation window (read-your-own-writes).
+   *
+   * The trust is conditional on the entry actually CARRYING this store's
+   * entry Cache-Tag tokens (`headers`): an entry a purge cannot reach — one
+   * written before the tokens existed, or whose tag set overflowed the
+   * Cache-Tag header limit — keeps the full marker check, or purge mode
+   * would serve it stale until TTL with no eviction path.
+   *
+   * Without tagPurge this is the full marker cascade. KV-tier reads and
+   * shells always use isGloballyInvalidated directly: purge cannot reach KV,
+   * so the markers stay their invalidation mechanism.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async isL1Invalidated(
+    tags: string[] | undefined,
+    taggedAt: number | undefined,
+    headers: Headers,
+  ): Promise<boolean> {
+    if (!this.tagPurge) return this.isGloballyInvalidated(tags, taggedAt);
+    if (!Array.isArray(tags) || tags.length === 0 || !taggedAt) return false;
+    if (!this.hasEntryCacheTags(headers)) {
+      return this.isGloballyInvalidated(tags, taggedAt);
+    }
+    const ctx = _getRequestContext();
+    if (!ctx) return false;
+    const memo = getTagMarkerMemo(ctx, this);
+    for (const tag of tags) {
+      const marker = memo.get(tag);
+      if (marker != null && marker >= taggedAt) return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  /** Synthetic Cache API request for a tag's L1-cached invalidation marker. */
+  private tagMarkerRequest(tag: string): Request {
+    return this.keyToRequest(`${TAG_MARKER_CACHE_PREFIX}${tag}`);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Read a tag's latest invalidation timestamp (or null if never invalidated)
+   * through the cascade: per-request memo -> per-colo L1 cache (only when
+   * tagCacheTtl > 0) -> KV (the global truth). The memo is always consulted
+   * first so it stays authoritative within a request (read-your-own-writes),
+   * and every KV/L1 result is written back into the memo. A Cache API miss
+   * always falls through to KV; absence is represented by a cached sentinel,
+   * never by a miss.
+   *
+   * Concurrent reads of the same tag within a request share one in-flight read
+   * (the resolved-value memo only collapses sequential reads; parallel segment
+   * loading would otherwise issue one KV read per concurrent reader).
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async readTagMarker(
+    tag: string,
+    memo: Map<string, number | null> | undefined,
+    inflight: Map<string, Promise<number | null>> | undefined,
+  ): Promise<number | null> {
+    if (memo && memo.has(tag)) return memo.get(tag) ?? null;
+
+    // Collapse concurrent (not-yet-resolved) reads of this tag onto one promise.
+    if (inflight) {
+      const pending = inflight.get(tag);
+      if (pending) return pending;
+      const read = this.fetchTagMarker(tag, memo);
+      inflight.set(tag, read);
+      try {
+        return await read;
+      } finally {
+        // Resolved values now live in the memo; drop the in-flight entry.
+        inflight.delete(tag);
+      }
+    }
+
+    return this.fetchTagMarker(tag, memo);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Uncached body of readTagMarker: L1 (per-colo Cache API, opt-in via
+   * tagCacheTtl) -> KV. Writes the resolved value back into the memo.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async fetchTagMarker(
+    tag: string,
+    memo: Map<string, number | null> | undefined,
+  ): Promise<number | null> {
+    // Write the resolved marker into the memo WITHOUT clobbering a value a
+    // concurrent invalidateTags() wrote during our await. The router resolves
+    // sibling slots in parallel, so a slot's updateTag() can land the
+    // authoritative invalidatedAt into the memo while this read is still in
+    // flight; overwriting it with our (pre-invalidation) read result would break
+    // read-your-own-writes for the rest of the request. If the tag was memoized
+    // mid-read, that value wins and is returned. Without a memo, the read result
+    // stands as-is.
+    const memoize = (read: number | null): number | null => {
+      if (memo && memo.has(tag)) return memo.get(tag) ?? null;
+      memo?.set(tag, read);
+      return read;
+    };
+
+    // L1 (per-colo) marker cache - opt-in via tagCacheTtl. Bounded by the same
+    // edge budgets as data reads (inherited from #558) so a degraded colo cannot
+    // stall a tagged read; a miss, timeout, or error all fall through to KV.
+    if (this.tagCacheTtl > 0) {
+      try {
+        const cache = await this.getCache();
+        const { response: hit, error: matchError } =
+          await this.matchWithTimeout(cache, this.tagMarkerRequest(tag));
+        // A transient match REJECTION is captured (not thrown) by
+        // matchWithTimeout; surface it as cache-read like the data read paths
+        // before falling through to KV, rather than silently dropping it.
+        if (matchError)
+          reportCacheError(
+            matchError,
+            "cache-read",
+            "[CFCacheStore] tag marker L1 match",
+          );
+        if (hit) {
+          const { value: body } = await this.readWithTimeout(
+            () => hit.text(),
+            this.edgeReadTimeoutMs,
+            "tag marker L1 body read",
+          );
+          if (body !== undefined) {
+            const value = body === TAG_MARKER_ABSENT ? null : Number(body);
+            return memoize(value);
+          }
+        }
+      } catch {
+        // Fall through to KV on any L1 read error.
+      }
+    }
+
+    // KV (global truth), bounded by the KV budget. On TIMEOUT fail OPEN: treat
+    // the marker as absent (-> entry not invalidated -> served) so a degraded
+    // namespace cannot pin every tagged read behind a slow global lookup. A
+    // transient REJECTION instead propagates to isGloballyInvalidated's catch
+    // (reported cache-read), which also fails open. Either way one slow tag
+    // never amplifies into a per-segment stall.
+    const { value: raw, timedOut } = await this.readWithTimeout<string | null>(
+      async () => this.kv!.get(await this.tagMarkerKey(tag), { type: "text" }),
+      this.kvReadTimeoutMs,
+      "tag marker KV read",
+    );
+    if (timedOut) {
+      // Memoize the fail-open result so the rest of this request is consistent
+      // (and does not re-pay the timeout per segment sharing the tag).
+      return memoize(null);
+    }
+    const value = raw != null ? Number(raw) : null;
+    const resolved = memoize(value);
+
+    // Populate L1 for subsequent reads in this colo (non-blocking). Use the
+    // resolved (memo-aware) value so a marker invalidated mid-read is not
+    // re-cached stale into this colo's L1.
+    if (this.tagCacheTtl > 0) {
+      const put = () => this.putTagMarkerL1(tag, resolved);
+      if (this.waitUntil) this.waitUntil(put);
+      else void put();
+    }
+    return resolved;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Namespace token used inside every `rg:*` Cache-Tag. encodeURIComponent'd
+   * like the tag values: a raw namespace containing a comma would split into
+   * bogus tokens inside the comma-delimited Cache-Tag header — breaking both
+   * stripInternalCacheTags (internal tokens would leak to clients) and the
+   * purge match (the purged tag string never equals any stored token).
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private nsToken(): string {
+    return encodeURIComponent(this.namespace ?? "default");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Cloudflare Cache-Tags written on a tag's L1 marker entry, namespaced per
+   * store so purges never collide with other Cache-Tags in the zone. Three
+   * tiers, broad to specific:
+   *   rg:{ns}            - everything this store cached (deploy/nuclear reset)
+   *   rg:{ns}:lk         - all tag-lookup markers
+   *   rg:{ns}:lk:{tag}   - this tag's lookup (the normal updateTag purge target)
+   * The namespace and tag value are encodeURIComponent'd so commas/spaces
+   * can't corrupt the comma-delimited Cache-Tag header.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private lookupCacheTags(tag: string): string[] {
+    const ns = this.nsToken();
+    return [`rg:${ns}`, `rg:${ns}:lk`, this.lookupPurgeTag(tag)];
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Build one `{prefix}{tag}` Cache-Tag token, bounded to CACHE_TAG_TOKEN_MAX:
+   * an over-long encoded tag collapses to `{prefix}h:{fnv1a64(tag)}` so a
+   * legally-long application tag can never blow Cloudflare's per-tag purge
+   * limit (1,024 chars) or bloat the header. Deterministic, so the write-time
+   * token and the invalidate-time purge token always agree.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private boundedTagToken(prefix: string, tag: string): string {
+    const token = `${prefix}${encodeURIComponent(tag)}`;
+    if (token.length <= CACHE_TAG_TOKEN_MAX) return token;
+    return `${prefix}h:${fnv1a64(tag)}`;
+  }
+
+  /** The specific Cache-Tag a consumer purges to evict tag `tag`'s lookup. */
+  private lookupPurgeTag(tag: string): string {
+    return this.boundedTagToken(`rg:${this.nsToken()}:lk:`, tag);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Cloudflare Cache-Tags written on a tagged DATA entry (segment/item/doc),
+   * mirroring the lookup-marker tiers but under `:e` (entry):
+   *   rg:{ns}       - everything this store cached (deploy/nuclear reset)
+   *   rg:{ns}:e     - all data entries
+   *   rg:{ns}:e:{t} - entries carrying tag `t` (the purge-mode invalidation
+   *                   target; see CFCacheStoreOptions.tagPurge)
+   * Namespace and tag value encodeURIComponent'd like the lookup tier.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private entryCacheTags(tags: string[]): string[] {
+    const ns = this.nsToken();
+    return [
+      `rg:${ns}`,
+      `rg:${ns}:e`,
+      ...tags.map((tag) => this.entryPurgeTag(tag)),
+    ];
+  }
+
+  /** The specific Cache-Tag purged to evict entries carrying tag `tag`. */
+  private entryPurgeTag(tag: string): string {
+    return this.boundedTagToken(`rg:${this.nsToken()}:e:`, tag);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Whether an L1 entry's stored headers carry this store's entry Cache-Tag
+   * tokens — i.e. whether a purge-by-tag can actually evict it. False for an
+   * entry written before this feature existed, or one whose tag set exceeded
+   * CACHE_TAG_HEADER_MAX_BYTES (header omitted). Purge mode only trusts
+   * entries a purge can reach; the rest keep the marker check.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private hasEntryCacheTags(headers: Headers): boolean {
+    const raw = headers.get("Cache-Tag");
+    if (raw === null) return false;
+    const tier = `rg:${this.nsToken()}:e`;
+    return raw.split(",").some((token) => {
+      const trimmed = token.trim();
+      return trimmed === tier || trimmed.startsWith(`${tier}:`);
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Drop this store's namespaced tokens (`rg:{ns}` and `rg:{ns}:*`) from a
+   * Cache-Tag header, keeping author-set tokens intact. Deletes the header
+   * when nothing remains. Serve-path counterpart of setTagHeaders' append.
+   * An author token that exactly equals a reserved `rg:{ns}` tier is stripped
+   * too — `rg:` is this store's documented-reserved Cache-Tag prefix.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private stripInternalCacheTags(headers: Headers): void {
+    const raw = headers.get("Cache-Tag");
+    if (raw === null) return;
+    const ns = this.nsToken();
+    const kept = raw
+      .split(",")
+      .map((token) => token.trim())
+      .filter(
+        (token) =>
+          token.length > 0 &&
+          token !== `rg:${ns}` &&
+          !token.startsWith(`rg:${ns}:`),
+      );
+    if (kept.length > 0) headers.set("Cache-Tag", kept.join(","));
+    else headers.delete("Cache-Tag");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Write a tag marker value into the per-colo L1 Cache API with tagCacheTtl.
+   * `null` is stored as the TAG_MARKER_ABSENT sentinel so "no marker yet" is
+   * cacheable (most tags are never invalidated - that is where the read savings
+   * come from). The entry also carries a namespaced Cache-Tag so an external
+   * purge-by-tag (via onRevalidateTag) can evict it across colos promptly,
+   * rather than waiting out tagCacheTtl. Best-effort.
+   * @internal
+   */
+  private async putTagMarkerL1(
+    tag: string,
+    value: number | null,
+    opts?: { critical?: boolean },
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    if (this.tagCacheTtl <= 0) return;
+    try {
+      const cache = await this.getCache();
+      const body = value != null ? String(value) : TAG_MARKER_ABSENT;
+      await cache.put(
+        this.tagMarkerRequest(tag),
+        new Response(body, {
+          headers: {
+            "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${this.tagCacheTtl}`,
+            "Cache-Tag": this.lookupCacheTags(tag).join(","),
+          },
+        }),
+      );
+    } catch (error) {
+      // The read-path populate is best-effort: a failed populate just means the
+      // next read consults KV. The invalidation WRITE-THROUGH (critical) is not
+      // - silently swallowing it would leave this colo's stale marker (often the
+      // ABSENT sentinel) authoritative for tagCacheTtl while updateTag reports
+      // success. Surface it, and best-effort delete the L1 marker so the next
+      // read re-reads KV, which already holds the fresh marker (written before
+      // this write-through in invalidateTags).
+      if (opts?.critical) {
+        reportCacheError(
+          error,
+          "cache-invalidate",
+          "[CFCacheStore] tag marker L1 write-through",
+        );
+        await reportingAsync(
+          async () => {
+            const cache = await this.getCache();
+            await cache.delete(this.tagMarkerRequest(tag));
+          },
+          "cache-delete",
+          "[CFCacheStore] tag marker L1 evict after failed write-through",
+        );
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Invalidate every entry tagged with any of `tags`. Receives the whole batch
+   * from one updateTag()/revalidateTag() call so the eager-purge hook fires
+   * ONCE (one CDN purge request, not one per tag). For each tag: records the KV
+   * marker (the durable cross-colo truth that reads compare taggedAt against),
+   * writes the fresh marker straight into this colo's L1 (write-through, NOT
+   * delete - a delete would let the next read re-read a not-yet-converged KV
+   * value and re-arm the stale window), and memoizes it for same-request
+   * read-your-own-writes. In purge mode (tagPurge) it then AWAITS the
+   * consumer's purge-by-tag call with the entry Cache-Tags — the eviction the
+   * per-read marker skip on L1 hits relies on. Finally fires onRevalidateTag
+   * with the namespaced lookup Cache-Tags so a consumer purge evicts the
+   * cached lookups in other colos promptly (otherwise they converge within
+   * tagCacheTtl).
+   *
+   * Durable-write integrity: the in-memory write-through (memo + L1) for a tag
+   * runs ONLY after that tag's KV marker write is confirmed. If any KV write
+   * fails (transient error; over-limit keys are normalized by toKVKey rather
+   * than rejected), this rejects with the
+   * failed tags so an awaiting updateTag() surfaces the failure instead of
+   * silently reporting success while other requests/colos serve stale data. The
+   * eager purge still fires for the whole batch first (it is additive).
+   */
+  /**
+   * Shell tag-generation gate (SegmentCacheStore.isTagsInvalidatedSince): the
+   * SAME KV markers used by runtime envelopes also evict immutable build shells
+   * and captures whose write races updateTag(). Thin public wrapper over the
+   * private envelope check (marker >= since, fail open).
+   */
+  async isTagsInvalidatedSince(
+    tags: string[],
+    sinceMs: number,
+  ): Promise<boolean> {
+    return this.isGloballyInvalidated(tags, sinceMs);
+  }
+
+  async invalidateTags(tags: string[]): Promise<void> {
+    if (tags.length === 0) return;
+    const invalidatedAt = Date.now();
+    const ctx = _getRequestContext();
+    const memo = ctx ? getTagMarkerMemo(ctx, this) : undefined;
+
+    if (!this.kv && !this.onRevalidateTag && !this.tagPurge) {
+      console.warn(
+        `[CFCacheStore] invalidateTags had no effect: configure a KV namespace ` +
+          `for distributed invalidation, a tagPurge hook for purge-by-tag ` +
+          `eviction, or an onRevalidateTag hook.`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    const failedTags = new Set<string>();
+    const errors: unknown[] = [];
+    if (this.kv) {
+      // Markers written with no expiry (tagInvalidationTtl unset) never expire,
+      // so high-cardinality tags accumulate KV keys unboundedly with no reaper.
+      // Warn once per namespace at the batch entry point (not per marker write,
+      // which would fire once per tag). Kept separate from the floor warning:
+      // that path only fires for a positive below-floor value, never the unset
+      // default sanitizeTagInvalidationTtl passes through as undefined.
+      if (!this.tagInvalidationTtl) {
+        this.warnOncePerNamespace(
+          warnedNoTagInvalidationTtl,
+          `[CFCacheStore] invalidateTags is writing KV markers with no expiry ` +
+            `(tagInvalidationTtl is unset): high-cardinality tags accumulate KV ` +
+            `keys unboundedly (storage + list-scan cost) with no reaper. Set ` +
+            `tagInvalidationTtl above your largest entry TTL+SWR to bound marker ` +
+            `growth; setting it too small resurrects invalidated entries.`,
+        );
+      }
+      await Promise.all(
+        tags.map(async (tag) => {
+          // An over-limit tag no longer rejects: tagMarkerKey normalizes
+          // through toKVKey, and the marker read path derives the key the same
+          // way, so oversized tags invalidate correctly instead of erroring.
+          const markerKey = await this.tagMarkerKey(tag);
+          try {
+            await this.kv!.put(markerKey, String(invalidatedAt), {
+              ...(this.tagInvalidationTtl
+                ? { expirationTtl: this.tagInvalidationTtl }
+                : {}),
+            });
+          } catch (error) {
+            failedTags.add(tag);
+            errors.push(error);
+          }
+        }),
+      );
+    }
+
+    // Write-through memo + L1 only for tags with a confirmed durable marker, and
+    // only when KV is configured. Markers are read exclusively through
+    // isGloballyInvalidated(), which short-circuits to "not invalidated" when
+    // !this.kv; writing memo/L1 markers without KV would be dead state no read
+    // path ever consults — EXCEPT the memo in purge mode: isL1Invalidated()
+    // consults it (and only it) on every L1 hit, so a KV-less purge-mode store
+    // still writes the memo for same-request read-your-own-writes. The
+    // onRevalidateTag purge below still fires regardless (it is additive and
+    // external to the marker cascade). The memo write is synchronous
+    // (read-your-own-writes); the L1 Cache API writes are independent, so fan
+    // them out in parallel rather than awaiting each.
+    const lookupMarkerCacheActive = Boolean(this.kv) && this.tagCacheTtl > 0;
+    if (this.kv || this.tagPurge) {
+      const l1Writes: Promise<void>[] = [];
+      for (const tag of tags) {
+        if (failedTags.has(tag)) continue;
+        memo?.set(tag, invalidatedAt);
+        if (lookupMarkerCacheActive) {
+          l1Writes.push(
+            this.putTagMarkerL1(tag, invalidatedAt, { critical: true }),
+          );
+        }
+      }
+      if (l1Writes.length > 0) await Promise.all(l1Writes);
+    }
+
+    // Purge mode: evict the tagged L1 entries across every colo via the
+    // consumer's purge-by-tag call. AWAITED, and a failure is correctness-
+    // bearing (unlike onRevalidateTag): with the per-read marker lookup skipped
+    // on L1 hits, a dropped purge leaves L1 serving stale until TTL — so it
+    // surfaces through updateTag() like a failed marker write. Fired for the
+    // whole batch regardless of marker outcome (purging is additive and
+    // idempotent; a retry re-runs both). Lookup Cache-Tags ride along when the
+    // L1 marker cache is active (tagCacheTtl > 0 AND kv — without kv no lookup
+    // entries are ever written) so a single purge call also converges other
+    // colos' cached lookups (no separate onRevalidateTag needed).
+    let purgeError: unknown;
+    if (this.tagPurge) {
+      const purgeTags = tags.flatMap((tag) =>
+        lookupMarkerCacheActive
+          ? [this.entryPurgeTag(tag), this.lookupPurgeTag(tag)]
+          : [this.entryPurgeTag(tag)],
+      );
+      try {
+        await this.tagPurge(purgeTags);
+      } catch (error) {
+        purgeError = error ?? new Error("tagPurge rejected");
+        reportCacheError(
+          purgeError,
+          "cache-invalidate",
+          "[CFCacheStore] tagPurge hook",
+        );
+      }
+    }
+
+    // One batched eager purge of the lookup markers for the whole call. Fired
+    // regardless of KV write outcome (it is additive and uses pure string ops).
+    if (this.onRevalidateTag) {
+      try {
+        await this.onRevalidateTag(tags.map((tag) => this.lookupPurgeTag(tag)));
+      } catch (error) {
+        reportCacheError(
+          error,
+          "cache-invalidate",
+          "[CFCacheStore] onRevalidateTag hook",
+        );
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (failedTags.size > 0 || purgeError) {
+      const parts: string[] = [];
+      if (failedTags.size > 0) {
+        parts.push(
+          `${failedTags.size}/${tags.length} tag marker write(s) failed: ` +
+            `${[...failedTags].join(", ")}`,
+        );
+      }
+      if (purgeError) {
+        parts.push(
+          `the tagPurge purge-by-tag call failed (tagged L1 entries stay ` +
+            `stale until TTL)`,
+        );
+      }
+      const err = new Error(
+        `[CFCacheStore] ${parts.join("; ")}. Those tags may still serve ` +
+          `stale data across requests/colos; retry the invalidation.`,
+      );
+      (err as Error & { cause?: unknown }).cause = errors[0] ?? purgeError;
+      throw err;
+    }
   }
 
   // ============================================================================
@@ -729,63 +3193,122 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
    * Promotes hits to L1 via waitUntil.
    * @internal
    */
-  private async kvGetSegment(key: string): Promise<CacheGetResult | null> {
+  private async kvGetSegment(
+    key: string,
+    opts?: { suppressRevalidate?: boolean },
+  ): Promise<CacheGetResult | null | CacheReadError> {
     if (!this.kv) return null;
 
     try {
-      const kvKey = this.toKVKey(key);
-      const raw = await this.kv.get(kvKey, { type: "json" });
-      if (!raw) return null;
+      const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(key);
+      const { value: envelope, timedOut } =
+        await this.kvGetOrEvict<KVSegmentEnvelope>(
+          kvKey,
+          (e) =>
+            typeof e.e === "number" && typeof e.s === "number" && e.d != null,
+          "kvGetSegment",
+        );
+      if (timedOut) {
+        // Abandoned slow KV read: no envelope, so no promote-to-L1. Distinct
+        // from a genuine kv-miss so the degradation is visible on wrangler tail.
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "kv-timeout" });
+        return null;
+      }
+      if (!envelope) {
+        // Missing key, or a corrupt entry already evicted + reported by
+        // kvGetOrEvict. Either way a miss.
+        if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "kv-miss" });
+        return null;
+      }
 
-      const envelope = raw as KVSegmentEnvelope;
       const now = Date.now();
 
       // Hard-expired — treat as miss
-      if (now > envelope.e) return null;
+      if (now > envelope.e) {
+        if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "kv-miss" });
+        return null;
+      }
 
-      const shouldRevalidate = now > envelope.s;
+      // Tag invalidation check (also covers the KV tier, not just L1).
+      if (
+        await this.isGloballyInvalidated(envelope.d.tags, envelope.d.taggedAt)
+      ) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "tag-invalidated" });
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      // When this is a degraded L1 fall-through (body-timeout / non-200), the
+      // caller asks us to suppress revalidation: KV has no REVALIDATING herd
+      // guard, so N concurrent degraded reads would otherwise each spawn a
+      // render exactly when the colo is already struggling. We still serve the
+      // stale data and still promote to L1; only the revalidation is withheld.
+      const stale = now > envelope.s;
+      const shouldRevalidate = stale && !opts?.suppressRevalidate;
 
       // Promote to L1 in background
       this.promoteSegmentToL1(key, envelope);
 
+      if (this.debug)
+        this.emitDebug({
+          op: "get",
+          key,
+          outcome: !stale
+            ? "kv-fresh"
+            : opts?.suppressRevalidate
+              ? "kv-stale-suppressed"
+              : "kv-stale",
+          shouldRevalidate,
+        });
       return { data: envelope.d, shouldRevalidate };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV get failed:", error);
-      return null;
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] kvGetSegment");
+      if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "get", key, outcome: "error" });
+      // A KV failure is NOT proof of absence: returning null classified it a
+      // real miss and let the PPR seeded fallback substitute the doc record
+      // for a key partition the store could not actually read. Same sentinel
+      // as get()'s own catch — lookupRouteDetailed classifies it `error` and
+      // the render stays uncached. (A kvGetOrEvict TIMEOUT above stays null
+      // by design: it is a bounded-latency degrade of a likely-healthy read,
+      // and serving the equivalent seeded record there is the fallback
+      // working as intended, not a masked failure.)
+      return CACHE_READ_ERROR;
     }
   }
 
   /**
    * Write segment data to KV.
+   *
+   * `dataJson` is the already-serialized CachedEntryData body also stored in
+   * L1 — embedded as envelope.d without a second JSON.stringify walk.
    * @internal
    */
   private kvSetSegment(
     key: string,
-    data: CachedEntryData,
+    dataJson: string,
     staleAt: number,
     totalTtl: number,
+    swrWindow: number,
   ): void {
     // KV requires expirationTtl >= 60s. Skip write for short-lived entries.
     if (!this.kv || !this.waitUntil || totalTtl < 60) return;
 
-    const kvKey = this.toKVKey(key);
-    const swrWindow = totalTtl * 1000 - (staleAt - Date.now());
-    const expiresAt = staleAt + swrWindow;
-
-    this.waitUntil(async () => {
-      try {
-        const envelope: KVSegmentEnvelope = {
-          d: data,
-          s: staleAt,
-          e: expiresAt,
-        };
-        await this.kv!.put(kvKey, JSON.stringify(envelope), {
-          expirationTtl: totalTtl,
-        });
-      } catch (error) {
-        console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV set failed:", error);
-      }
-    });
+    const expiresAt = staleAt + swrWindow * 1000;
+    // Same wire shape as JSON.stringify({ d, s, e }) — dataJson is already
+    // valid JSON for CachedEntryData, so embedding it avoids re-walking the tree.
+    const envelopeJson = `{"d":${dataJson},"s":${staleAt},"e":${expiresAt}}`;
+
+    this.waitUntil(() =>
+      reportingAsync(
+        async () =>
+          this.kv!.put(await this.toKVKey(key), envelopeJson, {
+            expirationTtl: totalTtl,
+          }),
+        "cache-write",
+        "[CFCacheStore] kvSetSegment",
+      ),
+    );
   }
 
   /**
@@ -795,58 +3318,115 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
   private promoteSegmentToL1(key: string, envelope: KVSegmentEnvelope): void {
     if (!this.waitUntil) return;
 
-    this.waitUntil(async () => {
-      try {
-        const now = Date.now();
-        const remainingTtl = Math.max(1, Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000));
-        const cache = await this.getCache();
-        const request = this.keyToRequest(key);
-
-        const response = new Response(JSON.stringify(envelope.d), {
-          headers: {
-            "Content-Type": "application/json",
-            "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`,
-            [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.s),
-            [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
-          },
-        });
-
-        await cache.put(request, response);
-      } catch (error) {
-        console.error("[CFCacheStore] L1 promote failed:", error);
-      }
-    });
+    this.waitUntil(() =>
+      reportingAsync(
+        async () => {
+          const now = Date.now();
+          const remainingTtl = Math.max(
+            1,
+            Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000),
+          );
+          const cache = await this.getCache();
+          const request = this.keyToRequest(key);
+
+          const response = new Response(JSON.stringify(envelope.d), {
+            headers: {
+              "Content-Type": "application/json",
+              "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`,
+              [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.s),
+              // Carry the hard-expiry deadline so a promoted entry that later
+              // goes stale re-puts with the correct remaining ttl (see set()).
+              [CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.e),
+              [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+              // Preserve tags across KV->L1 promotion so the promoted entry
+              // stays tag-invalidatable.
+              ...this.tagHeaderEntries(envelope.d.tags, envelope.d.taggedAt),
+            },
+          });
+
+          await cache.put(request, response);
+        },
+        "cache-write",
+        "[CFCacheStore] promoteSegmentToL1",
+      ),
+    );
   }
 
   /**
    * KV fallback for function cache reads.
    * @internal
    */
-  private async kvGetItem(key: string): Promise<CacheItemResult | null> {
+  private async kvGetItem(
+    key: string,
+    opts?: { suppressRevalidate?: boolean },
+  ): Promise<CacheItemResult | null> {
     if (!this.kv) return null;
 
     try {
-      const kvKey = this.toKVKey(`fn:${key}`);
-      const raw = await this.kv.get(kvKey, { type: "json" });
-      if (!raw) return null;
+      const kvKey = await this.toKVKey(`fn:${key}`);
+      const { value: envelope, timedOut } =
+        await this.kvGetOrEvict<KVItemEnvelope>(
+          kvKey,
+          (e) =>
+            typeof e.v === "string" &&
+            typeof e.e === "number" &&
+            typeof e.s === "number",
+          "kvGetItem",
+        );
+      if (timedOut) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "kv-timeout" });
+        return null;
+      }
+      if (!envelope) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "kv-miss" });
+        return null;
+      }
 
-      const envelope = raw as KVItemEnvelope;
       const now = Date.now();
 
-      if (now > envelope.e) return null;
+      if (now > envelope.e) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "kv-miss" });
+        return null;
+      }
 
-      const shouldRevalidate = now > envelope.s;
+      // Tag invalidation check (also covers the KV tier, not just L1).
+      if (await this.isGloballyInvalidated(envelope.t, envelope.ta)) {
+        if (this.debug)
+          this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "tag-invalidated" });
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      // Degraded fall-through suppresses revalidation (no KV herd guard); see
+      // kvGetSegment. Still serves stale and still promotes.
+      const stale = now > envelope.s;
+      const shouldRevalidate = stale && !opts?.suppressRevalidate;
 
       // Promote to L1
       this.promoteItemToL1(key, envelope);
 
+      if (this.debug)
+        this.emitDebug({
+          op: "getItem",
+          key,
+          outcome: !stale
+            ? "kv-fresh"
+            : opts?.suppressRevalidate
+              ? "kv-stale-suppressed"
+              : "kv-stale",
+          shouldRevalidate,
+        });
       return {
         value: envelope.v,
         handles: envelope.h,
         shouldRevalidate,
+        tags: envelope.t,
       };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV getItem failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] kvGetItem");
+      if (this.debug) this.emitDebug({ op: "getItem", key, outcome: "error" });
       return null;
     }
   }
@@ -858,28 +3438,41 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
   private promoteItemToL1(key: string, envelope: KVItemEnvelope): void {
     if (!this.waitUntil) return;
 
-    this.waitUntil(async () => {
-      try {
-        const now = Date.now();
-        const remainingTtl = Math.max(1, Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000));
-        const cache = await this.getCache();
-        const request = this.keyToRequest(`fn:${key}`);
-
-        const body = JSON.stringify({ value: envelope.v, handles: envelope.h });
-        const response = new Response(body, {
-          headers: {
-            "Content-Type": "application/json",
-            "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`,
-            [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.s),
-            [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
-          },
-        });
-
-        await cache.put(request, response);
-      } catch (error) {
-        console.error("[CFCacheStore] L1 item promote failed:", error);
-      }
-    });
+    this.waitUntil(() =>
+      reportingAsync(
+        async () => {
+          const now = Date.now();
+          const remainingTtl = Math.max(
+            1,
+            Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000),
+          );
+          const cache = await this.getCache();
+          const request = this.keyToRequest(`fn:${key}`);
+
+          const body = JSON.stringify({
+            value: envelope.v,
+            handles: envelope.h,
+          });
+          const response = new Response(body, {
+            headers: {
+              "Content-Type": "application/json",
+              "Cache-Control": `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`,
+              [CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.s),
+              // Carry the hard-expiry deadline; see promoteSegmentToL1 / set().
+              [CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER]: String(envelope.e),
+              [CACHE_STATUS_HEADER]: "HIT",
+              // Preserve tags across KV->L1 promotion (the item tier previously
+              // dropped them, permanently disabling tag invalidation here).
+              ...this.tagHeaderEntries(envelope.t, envelope.ta),
+            },
+          });
+
+          await cache.put(request, response);
+        },
+        "cache-write",
+        "[CFCacheStore] promoteItemToL1",
+      ),
+    );
   }
 
   /**
@@ -892,32 +3485,82 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
     if (!this.kv) return null;
 
     try {
-      const kvKey = this.toKVKey(`doc:${key}`);
-      const raw = await this.kv.get(kvKey, { type: "json" });
-      if (!raw) return null;
+      const kvKey = await this.toDocKVKey(key);
+      // The document path is debug-silent (op is only get/getItem): a KV-read
+      // timeout here is bounded for resilience parity (kvGetOrEvict applies the
+      // budget) but emits no kv-timeout event, so its absence from the debug
+      // stream is expected. A null envelope is a miss -- missing key, a budget
+      // timeout, or a corrupt entry already evicted + reported by kvGetOrEvict.
+      const { value: envelope } = await this.kvGetOrEvict<KVResponseEnvelope>(
+        kvKey,
+        (e) =>
+          typeof e.b === "string" &&
+          typeof e.st === "number" &&
+          typeof e.e === "number" &&
+          typeof e.s === "number" &&
+          // stx is optional but, if present, must be a string (feeds Response).
+          (e.stx === undefined || typeof e.stx === "string") &&
+          // hd must be an array of [name, value] string tuples; a malformed
+          // shape would otherwise throw in `new Headers(hd)`. Validate it here
+          // so a faulty envelope is a fail-open MISS, never a thrown read.
+          Array.isArray(e.hd) &&
+          e.hd.every(
+            (entry) =>
+              Array.isArray(entry) &&
+              entry.length === 2 &&
+              typeof entry[0] === "string" &&
+              typeof entry[1] === "string",
+          ),
+        "kvGetResponse",
+      );
+      if (!envelope) return null;
 
-      const envelope = raw as KVResponseEnvelope;
       const now = Date.now();
 
       if (now > envelope.e) return null;
 
+      // Tag invalidation check (also covers the KV tier, not just L1).
+      if (await this.isGloballyInvalidated(envelope.t, envelope.ta)) {
+        return null;
+      }
+
       const shouldRevalidate = now > envelope.s;
 
-      // Reconstruct Response (decode base64 → binary)
-      const headers = new Headers(envelope.hd);
-      const bodyBuffer = base64ToBuffer(envelope.b);
-      const response = new Response(bodyBuffer, {
-        status: envelope.st,
-        statusText: envelope.stx,
-        headers,
-      });
+      // Reconstruct Response: decode base64 -> binary, rebuild headers/status.
+      // Corrupt/partial base64 throws in atob; malformed `hd` or an out-of-range
+      // `st` throws in new Headers/new Response. Any of these is a faulty entry,
+      // so evict it and miss rather than re-failing every read until TTL.
+      let response: Response;
+      try {
+        // Finding #3 (read side): strip per-client signals a stale envelope may
+        // carry. Inside the try so a malformed `hd` evicts (not throws through);
+        // mutates `hd` in place so promoteResponseToL1 re-seeds from it too.
+        envelope.hd = envelope.hd.filter(
+          ([name]) => !isPerClientSignalHeader(name),
+        );
+        const bodyBuffer = base64ToBuffer(envelope.b);
+        const headers = new Headers(envelope.hd);
+        response = new Response(bodyBuffer, {
+          status: envelope.st,
+          statusText: envelope.stx,
+          headers,
+        });
+      } catch (error) {
+        reportCacheError(
+          error,
+          "cache-corrupt",
+          "[CFCacheStore] kvGetResponse: corrupt response envelope, evicting",
+        );
+        this.scheduleKvEvict(kvKey, "kvGetResponse");
+        return null;
+      }
 
       // Promote to L1
       this.promoteResponseToL1(key, envelope);
 
       return { response, shouldRevalidate };
     } catch (error) {
-      console.error("[CFCacheStore] KV getResponse failed:", error);
+      reportCacheError(error, "cache-read", "[CFCacheStore] kvGetResponse");
       return null;
     }
   }
@@ -929,52 +3572,46 @@ export class CFCacheStore<TEnv = unknown> implements SegmentCacheStore<TEnv> {
   private promoteResponseToL1(key: string, envelope: KVResponseEnvelope): void {
     if (!this.waitUntil) return;
 
-    this.waitUntil(async () => {
-      try {
-        const now = Date.now();
-        const remainingTtl = Math.max(1, Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000));
-        const cache = await this.getCache();
-        const request = this.keyToRequest(`doc:${key}`);
-
-        const headers = new Headers(envelope.hd);
-        headers.set("Cache-Control", `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`);
-        headers.set(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER, String(envelope.s));
-
-        const bodyBuffer = base64ToBuffer(envelope.b);
-        const response = new Response(bodyBuffer, {
-          status: envelope.st,
-          statusText: envelope.stx,
-          headers,
-        });
-
-        await cache.put(request, response);
-      } catch (error) {
-        console.error("[CFCacheStore] L1 response promote failed:", error);
-      }
-    });
-  }
-}
-
-// ============================================================================
-// Base64 Helpers (binary-safe response body encoding for KV)
-// ============================================================================
-
-/** Encode ArrayBuffer to base64 string. */
-function bufferToBase64(buffer: ArrayBuffer): string {
-  const bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
-  let binary = "";
-  for (let i = 0; i < bytes.length; i++) {
-    binary += String.fromCharCode(bytes[i]!);
-  }
-  return btoa(binary);
-}
-
-/** Decode base64 string to ArrayBuffer. */
-function base64ToBuffer(base64: string): ArrayBuffer {
-  const binary = atob(base64);
-  const bytes = new Uint8Array(binary.length);
-  for (let i = 0; i < binary.length; i++) {
-    bytes[i] = binary.charCodeAt(i);
+    this.waitUntil(() =>
+      reportingAsync(
+        async () => {
+          const now = Date.now();
+          const remainingTtl = Math.max(
+            1,
+            Math.floor((envelope.e - now) / 1000),
+          );
+          const cache = await this.getCache();
+          const request = this.keyToRequest(`doc:${key}`);
+
+          const headers = new Headers(envelope.hd);
+          const originalCacheControl = headers.get("Cache-Control");
+          if (originalCacheControl !== null) {
+            headers.set(CACHE_ORIG_CC_HEADER, originalCacheControl);
+          }
+          headers.set("Cache-Control", `public, max-age=${remainingTtl}`);
+          headers.set(CACHE_STALE_AT_HEADER, String(envelope.s));
+          // Carry the hard-expiry deadline so the document herd guard's
+          // markResponseRevalidating re-put can compute the remaining window
+          // (matches promoteSegmentToL1/promoteItemToL1); without it a stale
+          // re-put would floor to max-age=1 and churn the KV-promoted twin.
+          headers.set(CACHE_EXPIRES_AT_HEADER, String(envelope.e));
+          // Re-attach the internal tag headers (envelope.hd is client-facing
+          // and intentionally excludes them) so the promoted entry stays
+          // invalidatable.
+          this.setTagHeaders(headers, envelope.t, envelope.ta);
+
+          const bodyBuffer = base64ToBuffer(envelope.b);
+          const response = new Response(bodyBuffer, {
+            status: envelope.st,
+            statusText: envelope.stx,
+            headers,
+          });
+
+          await cache.put(request, response);
+        },
+        "cache-write",
+        "[CFCacheStore] promoteResponseToL1",
+      ),
+    );
   }
-  return bytes.buffer;
 }