diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8ba6d1f0c..c0a7078ee 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ honcho = ["honcho-ai>=2.0.1,<3"]
 mcp = ["mcp>=1.2.0,<2"]
 homeassistant = ["aiohttp>=3.9.0,<4"]
 sms = ["aiohttp>=3.9.0,<4"]
-acp = ["agent-client-protocol>=0.8.1,<1.0"]
+acp = ["agent-client-protocol>=0.8.1,<0.9"]
 dingtalk = ["dingtalk-stream>=0.1.0,<1"]
 rl = [
   "atroposlib @ git+https://github.com/NousResearch/atropos.git",
diff --git a/tests/test_anthropic_error_handling.py b/tests/test_anthropic_error_handling.py
index d6b8717bf..3d7660aa8 100644
--- a/tests/test_anthropic_error_handling.py
+++ b/tests/test_anthropic_error_handling.py
@@ -217,10 +217,17 @@ def test_529_overloaded_is_retried_and_recovers(monkeypatch):
 
 
 def test_429_exhausts_all_retries_before_raising(monkeypatch):
-    """429 must retry max_retries times, not abort on first attempt."""
+    """429 must retry max_retries times, then return a failed result.
+
+    The agent no longer re-raises after exhausting retries — it returns a
+    result dict with the error in final_response.  This changed when the
+    fallback-provider feature was added (the agent tries a fallback before
+    giving up, and returns a result dict either way).
+    """
     agent_cls = _make_agent_cls(_RateLimitError)  # always fails
-    with pytest.raises(_RateLimitError):
-        _run_with_agent(monkeypatch, agent_cls)
+    result = _run_with_agent(monkeypatch, agent_cls)
+    resp = str(result.get("final_response", ""))
+    assert "429" in resp or "retries" in resp.lower()
 
 
 def test_400_bad_request_is_non_retryable(monkeypatch):