The provider registry already declares whether a provider is local, free over
the network, or paid over the network via its A/N/P constructors, but nothing
downstream could read that, so anything needing to know whether resolving
through a provider can spend the user's credit had to re-derive it by
string-matching provider names.
Expose it as providerTierFor(name) over the same table and carry the derived
value on the resolve event alongside the provider it came from. Sparse: absent
when the record carries no provider or the name is not declared. A name declared
under two media types must carry one tier; the index throws at import rather
than silently picking one.
Covered by unit tests on the lookup and by end-to-end cases that spawn the real
CLI and read the value off the payload a local server receives, one per tier.
Miguel Ángel
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