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You should already get the desired behavior for free. When you create the dynamic_reconfigure server in your node, it initializes the configuration in these steps:

Load default values as defined in the .cfg.
Query parameter server for each parameter, overwriting the default value if it's set.
Clamp all parameters to the ranges defined in the .cfg.

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