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AI-generatedDefault consistency level for SpiceDB cached permission checks
SpiceDB maintains a caching layer for relationship tuples and permission checks to reduce latency for repeated access patterns. When a read request omits a consistency token, the server may return a result retrieved from this cache, which can represent a permission state that does not include recent write operations. This behavior enables the fastest possibl