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  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "status": "Beta",
   "source": "https://www.1password.dev/environments/mcp-server",
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