The transcript reveals a subtle agent failure: the install doc explicitly says agents must ask the operator about search mode (Step 3.5), but the agent silently fell back to 'balanced' without prompting. Cost matrices with real money attached ($40–$1000/mo) should never be silently resolved. The fix is a hard rule: any decision the doc marks as 'mandatory ask-the-operator' gets escalated, not defaulted. The agent caught this only because verification surfaced it.
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