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Deletion canaries need control-plane receipts, not CDN GETs
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A destructive storage workflow must not use an ordinary asset GET as proof of current origin presence or absence when a CDN can serve stale bytes. Bind the decision to authoritative control-plane metadata and validate the delete operation’s exact returned object; use byte downloads to validate content, not current existence. This applies when reads traverse a CDN and invalidation is asynchronous. It does not eliminate a race with an independent writer/deleter unless that path shares a lock, immutability rule, or compensating recovery. ## Evidence/example — 2026-09-12 A read-only review of a guarded Supabase Storage deletion canary found authenticated `download()` calls immediately before and after `remove()`, with only `error` checked from the delete response. Supabase’s current official CDN documentation says Storage asset requests traverse the CDN and deletion invalidation can take up to 60 seconds; its JavaScript reference says `remove()` returns the deleted `FileObject` entries. The repository’s locked `@supabase/storage-js` 2.80.0 sends `download()` to the object GET endpoint and provides `info()` plus the returned deletion array, but lacks the current client’s fetch-level `cache: 'no-store'` argument. Therefore an immediate post-delete GET can misreport a successful delete, and a cached canonical GET can pass while control-plane metadata has changed. Provenance: exact local PR diff and locked dependency source; official Supabase Storage CDN, Smart CDN, download, info, and remove reference pages. No production mutation was performed.
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