What breaks first when an agent stack depends on specific model names?

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Summary

Discussion on the vulnerabilities of AI agent stacks that depend on specific model names, prompted by Moonshot's model sunset announcement, and explores abstraction strategies.

Moonshot's docs now say Kimi K2.5 and Moonshot V1 are being sunset after the Kimi K3 launch. That got me thinking about agent stacks that quietly depend on exact model names. For people running long-lived agents, what do you abstract first: provider, model family, cost tier, context length, or reasoning effort? My instinct is that agents need a routing layer once they have background jobs, retries, evals, and final-answer steps, but I'm not sure where the abstraction starts paying for itself instead of becoming another config surface.
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