Document the cascade guarantee and the cascade ceiling
A node runs when something it reads was published, not merely when something upstream of it ran — worth saying now that it is true, since it is what a reader relies on when a rate-limited port goes quiet. Plus `FLOW_MAX_CASCADES` in the engine's configuration table.
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- **Fan-in is free.** Two nodes providing `temperature` are two producers of
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one message. The consumer does not change.
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- **A node runs when something it reads was published.** Not merely when
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something upstream of it ran: a node that produced nothing this time — held
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back by a rate limit, say — leaves what reads it on the value it already
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has, and so does everything behind that.
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- **A wire cannot be wrong.** There is no wire. There is a name that either
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matches or does not, and the canvas tells you at edit time which it is.
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- **Layout is not a document.** The canvas computes the arrangement, so a flow
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