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@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ Active infrastructure addons from `infrastructure/addons/kustomization.yaml`:
 Chart/source strategy:
 
 - Vendored charts are intentional: `cert-manager`, `traefik`, `kube-prometheus-stack`, `tailscale-operator`, and `rancher` live under `infrastructure/charts/`.
-- External Secrets, Loki, and Promtail use Flux `OCIRepository` sources.
+- External Secrets, Loki, and Promtail use Flux `OCIRepository` sources; deploy gates cap OCI retry time and rely on cached artifacts when available.
 - NFS storage is raw Kubernetes manifests, not a Helm chart.
 - Rancher backup/restore is not part of the current live graph.