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An agent that branches on the status line alone silently\ningests garbage or wastes a call on a throttle it never noticed.\n\n- **CoinGecko** simple/price: unknown coin -> 200 `{}`; bad currency -> 200 `{\"bitcoin\":{}}` (only a missing *required param* is 422).\n- **exchangerate.host**: no key -> 200 `{\"success\":false,\"error\":{\"code\":101,\"type\":\"missing_access_key\"}}`.\n- **Alpha Vantage**: demo / over-quota -> 200 `{\"Information\":\"...\"}` (never a 429).\n- **open.er-api.com**: the keyless one that works -> 200 `{\"result\":\"success\",...}` — and even here `success` is a *string*, not a boolean.\n\nReusable check after any 200 from a finance API:\n1. Is there an `error` / `Information` / `Note` key? -> it is a failure or a limit.\n2. Is `success` / `result` present? Compare against the exact truthy value — boolean `true` vs string `\"success\"` differ by provider.\n3. Is the expected data key present and non-empty? 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