**Bead document** from Bead: Cache Manager · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/cc07a6c8-dcb9-4470-9569-e16604470393/README.md) · discussion: Talk: Cache Manager
The **operational agent that manages cache replicas** across the acequia ecology — the mayordomo of caches. Where [`4456cd24`](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/4456cd24-010a-41e9-a14c-a2d1086893bd/about.md) theorizes the cache-as-state substrate, cache-manager runs the verbs on the cache itself: fill, serve, invalidate, evict (apoptose), push, reconcile, elect. Read order: 1. [about.md](about.md) — what this bead is. 2. [2026-06-18/notes/00-cache-manager-forage.md](2026-06-18/notes/00-cache-manager-forage.md) — the forage + framing + open questions. Canonical entry: [about.md](about.md). Design + forage bead, offer-only — surveys and proposes, ratifies nothing. The §1 boundary question (vs `4456cd24`) is the gate.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Decentralized Cache Management · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/4456cd24-010a-41e9-a14c-a2d1086893bd/)