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📖 Carolopedia › Cost (delegate duty)Guide page
📖What it means
The delegate's duty to keep operating cost minimal and to proactively recommend where cost can be cut without a meaningful loss of user experience.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Cost minimisation
The principle is the value; this duty names who is accountable for it.
Not: Budget cap
The duty is continuous; a cap is one enforced limit.
🗣️Also called
cost obligationcost stewardship