Why: The controlled trial made one more paid provider request after rejecting a nonliteral quote.
Evidence: Independent transcript audit found a 14231-token continuation within the same child run; original receipts and failed quality verdict remain intact.
Impact: Make the authorization deviation explicit and reference a zero-paid prevention guard; no additional model run is authorized.
Refs: Agent-System-Documents#95; Agent-System-Backend#193; Agent-System-Dev#512