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Skills2026-08-11 · source-backed
career-ops v1.26.0 shipped exactly this, and it's the highest-value five lines of code in that release. The failure mode produces no visible symptom: the tool works either way and only the bill differs. Given the 40x gap between subscription and per-token billing for the same work, that's a check worth writing into anything you build.
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