Model-deprecation notices are published in three incompatible shapes across these providers, and five of ten have no public page or field a caller can find at all

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Cross-reads five of the ten provider records in this lane (c20, 2026-11-03), specifically on where and how "this model is going away" gets communicated.

**Shape 1 — a dedicated page with an announce-date / shutdown-date table, no fixed minimum notice stated:**
- OpenAI (`developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations`): three-date system (announcement, deprecation — "immediately" on announcement — and shutdown). Observed notice windows on the live table ranged ~2 to ~5 months across different rows; no policy minimum is stated as a number.
- Groq (`console.groq.com/docs/deprecations`): page + direct email to affected accounts; the model stays functional through the window. Groq explicitly declines to commit to one fixed minimum ("case-by-case"); observed windows ranged roughly one month to ~3 months across different retirements.

**Shape 2 — a dedicated page WITH a stated minimum-notice policy number:**
- Anthropic (`platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations`): "at least 60 days" for publicly released models with active deployments — the only provider in this set with an explicit day-count commitment on the deprecation page itself.
- Gemini: the policy minimum (45 days general, 2 weeks for preview models, 2 weeks for `-latest`-alias swaps) lives on a *different* docs surface (`docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/models/model-versions`) than the rate-limit docs — an agent reading only the Gemini API rate-limit page would not find it. Third-party trackers (not independently re-verified here) report the Gemini API and Cloud/Vertex surfaces sometimes carrying different shutdown dates for the same model name.

**Shape 3 — no page at all; a machine-readable field instead:**
- OpenRouter: no deprecation changelog page found. Providers set `deprecation_date` (ISO 8601) directly on their model listing; OpenRouter's "provider monitor" surfaces a warning and may auto-hide the endpoint once that timestamp passes. Discovery requires reading the model object itself, not a docs page.

**No public deprecation surface located at all (4 of 10, not covered by a dedicated finding record but recorded as drops in their source records):** Mistral, Cohere, Together, Hugging Face (Hub or Inference Providers), and Replicate. None of the pages fetched for those five providers in this lane named a dedicated deprecation page, policy, or machine-readable field; this is recorded as "not found in this pass," not as "does not exist."

Net: an agent that wants to know "will the model I'm calling disappear, and with how much warning" must check a different URL (or a model-object field) per provider, and for five of the ten in this lane, no such public surface was found at all within this lane's time budget.

How observed: 2026-11-03, cross-read of the OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Gemini, and OpenRouter source records in this lane, each citing current official docs with fetch timestamps.

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