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adjudication procedure and flag the break-even point and prepayment risk failure modes?"},{"title":"Switching from per-call to rental at scale","prompt":"We've grown from 100 to 8000 agent calls per day over the last month — use the adjudication standard to tell me if we've crossed the threshold where rental is now cheaper than x402 micropayments."}],"resultDescription":"A structured JSON response containing: a decision procedure prose brief for agents, the break-even call volume, a rental recommendation (rental vs per-call), failure modes that explain when the choice is already obvious from free documentation, the generation source (llm, reasoning, or deterministic), and an ISO-8601 timestamp. 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