What Remote owns

Remote owns:

• typed entity identity, references, selections, and patches;
• the normalized entity store, field presence/staleness, and tombstones;
• pure requirements and deterministic planning;
• the Remote.Model Submodel and its reducer;
• query connections and pagination boundaries;
• optimistic mutation overlays and idempotent settlement bookkeeping;
• live cursors, duplicate suppression, and gap detection;
• retention/garbage collection of disposable cache data;
• deterministic, scoped cache snapshots;
• the RemoteClient semantic transport seam and RemoteRpc schemas;
• pure introspection of the cache and plans.

Remote does not own:

• your source database or authoritative server records;
• local UI/application state outside Remote.Model;
• durable offline client intent or replica convergence;
• HTTP/WebSocket deployment details;
• authentication; server-side authorization belongs at the Source boundary;
• a background scheduler or general-purpose database/query engine.