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## Why `UnavailableDummyTools` kept synthetic placeholder tools alive for historical tool calls whose backing MCP tool was no longer available. That path adds stale model-visible tool specs and special routing at the point where unavailable MCP calls should use ordinary current-tool handling. This removes the runtime backfill instead of preserving a second compatibility lane. ## Is it safe to remove? The unavailable tools were added in #17853 after a CS issue when a previously-called MCP tool failed to load and was omitted from the CS spec. Now that we have tool search, I think this is resolved: - API merges tools from previous TST output into effective tool set so theyre always in CS spec - if an MCP tool surfaced by TST later becomes unavailable, the model can still call it and it will just return model-visible error - both TST output and function call output are dropped on compaction so model will not remember old calls to MCP post compaction ## What changed - Delete unavailable-tool collection, placeholder handler, router/spec plumbing, and obsolete placeholder coverage. - Keep `features.unavailable_dummy_tools` as a removed no-op feature tombstone so existing configs still parse cleanly. - Add an integration-style `tool_search` regression test showing that a deferred MCP tool surfaced through `tool_search` still routes through MCP and returns a model-visible tool-call error rather than `unsupported call`. ## Verification - `cargo test -p codex-core tool_search`