CORSOrigins is the PLATFORM-scope CORS allowlist EdgeCORS admits: an exact origin, a bare host, or a "*.host" wildcard. Writable only by a SuperAdmin — CORS is evaluated before identity, so it has no tenant to scope to.
Mode is the abuse gate's posture for THIS scope: "shadow" scores traffic and records the verdict without acting on it, "live" enforces it. Unset means shadow. It is the one per-org field that does NOT inherit. Every other field here layers a platform default under the org's own value, which is right for a default: a tenant that sets no rate ceiling should get the platform's. Mode is not a default, it is an ARMING DECISION — it is what makes a statistical judgement start refusing real traffic — and inheriting it means arming one scope arms every tenant that never asked for it, without a write to their row and without anything in their config changing. So a tenant is live only if that tenant's OWN row says live, and the platform row's mode governs exactly one scope: the anonymous lane, which has no tenant of its own. It is also not self-service. Writing it requires SuperAdmin (see the /v1/gateway config op): the subject of an abuse control does not get to switch the control off.
OrgRPM is the org's OWN authenticated rate ceiling, requests per minute, as ScopeRateLimit enforces it. Unset inherits the platform default, then the static boot default.