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The competitive bottom assumption breaks down when a single agent dominates, distillation quality is poor, or prompts are highly heterogeneous; the mitigation is to introduce a reserve price based on the historical difficulty of prompts, and if no agent bids above the reserve price, fall back to a default high-capability agent.
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