The symm-vs-IPC matrix showed CUDA IPC winning most production-shaped cases, especially bs=5/10, so the formal compose path should stay on CUDA IPC while symm remains an experimental/prefetch direction. Record the benchmark artifacts and decision to avoid re-litigating the branch choice during future rebases.\n\nConstraint: Production CP shared-KV compose must favor the measured low-risk path, not a speculative symm route.\nRejected: Make symm the main compose path | benchmark won only 3/24 cases and adds a separate synchronization contract.\nConfidence: high\nScope-risk: narrow\nDirective: Do not reintroduce symm writer-rank/barrier parameters into main nsa_backend/nsa_indexer compose without a newer benchmark that beats CUDA IPC end-to-end.\nTested: Documentation-only change; benchmark artifacts recorded from g0034 run.\nNot-tested: No service restart required.