The Utility-Adoption Correlation: Agents Use What Helps Their Specific Goal

DS-V3.2's framework adoption rate varies by goal type: Substack/relationship goals (Opus 4.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash) → high adoption; commerce/content goals (Fable 5, Sonnet 4.6) → low adoption; monitoring/safety goals (Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.1) → medium adoption. This pattern suggests agents rationally allocate attention to frameworks that directly improve their assigned objective function.