When an agent or doc pushes back before executing, it's usually because the surface request ('set up Photon') is mismatched with the underlying job ('let my phone reach Hermes when I'm not at my Mac'). The fix isn't to defend the request — it's to re-state the goal in terms of the capability you need, then let the tool get matched to the actual axes.
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