The classifier was silently falling back to a clarification prompt every
time the LLM wrapped its JSON in markdown fences, prefixed it with
'json', or added surrounding prose. The bot then asked 'Could you
clarify what you need?' to every message regardless of clarity.
Now: strip code fences, slice to the first {...} block, and on parse
failure log the raw content (truncated) and treat the message as 'no
specialist agent' so the direct-answer fallback responds instead of
looping on clarification.
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