diff --git a/kong/kustomization.yaml b/kong/kustomization.yaml
index c923648..59304f8 100644
--- a/kong/kustomization.yaml
+++ b/kong/kustomization.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ resources:
   - rest/path-rewrite-bindings.yaml
   - rest/kongplugin.yaml
   - rest/rate-limiting.yaml
-  - rest/proxy-cache.yaml
   - rest/audit-log.yaml
   - rest/audit-log-body-capture.yaml
   - rest/audit-log-body-capture-bindings.yaml
diff --git a/kong/rest/pluginbindings.yaml b/kong/rest/pluginbindings.yaml
index e7748a8..a3d677f 100644
--- a/kong/rest/pluginbindings.yaml
+++ b/kong/rest/pluginbindings.yaml
@@ -36,24 +36,6 @@ spec:
 ---
 apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1alpha1
 kind: KongPluginBinding
-metadata:
-  name: ${NAME}-workforce-api-proxy-cache-binding
-  namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
-spec:
-  controlPlaneRef:
-    type: konnectNamespacedRef
-    konnectNamespacedRef:
-      name: ${CONTROL_PLANE_REF_NAME}
-  pluginRef:
-    name: ${NAME}-workforce-api-proxy-cache
-  targets:
-    serviceRef:
-      group: configuration.konghq.com
-      kind: KongService
-      name: ${NAME}-workforce-api
----
-apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1alpha1
-kind: KongPluginBinding
 metadata:
   name: ${NAME}-workforce-api-audit-log-binding
   namespace: ${NAMESPACE}
diff --git a/kong/rest/proxy-cache.yaml b/kong/rest/proxy-cache.yaml
index eedf6d9..9c1f179 100644
--- a/kong/rest/proxy-cache.yaml
+++ b/kong/rest/proxy-cache.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+# NOT APPLIED — deliberately unreferenced by kustomization.yaml.
+#
+# This cached every GET on the whole service for 60 seconds, and these are
+# read-write APIs. Kong's proxy cache has **no invalidation on write**: a POST
+# that changes a product passes through the same gateway, and the gateway goes
+# on serving the value it captured before, for up to a minute, with nothing in
+# the response saying so.
+#
+# It produced a real wrong answer. An agent woken by a stock event read the
+# figure from before that event and reported, in one sentence, "68 in stock,
+# above the threshold" and "it crossed the threshold, from 68".
+#
+# Kept here rather than deleted so that reinstating it is a decision, not a
+# rediscovery. If it comes back, it belongs on reference data that is not
+# written through this gateway, bound per route — or with `cache_control: true`
+# so the API declares what is cacheable, which is the owner's call and not the
+# gateway's.
+#
 apiVersion: configuration.konghq.com/v1
 kind: KongPlugin
 metadata: