The dialog now explains what it asks about: the skill's description (from
its SKILL.md frontmatter, five YAML forms, first sentence, cleaned), the
agent's description (from agent.offer), the phase's new 'about' line in
routing.json, and the real model id and effort the next step runs on.
Options Later / Keep / Change; Change asks the model (fable, opus, sonnet,
haiku with their tier role), then the effort among those the phases of
that model offer, then the scope; the pair maps to an existing phase (rows
stay phase names; the row's current phase wins a tie; same phase = Keep).
A main-loop phase (T3) is Later / Keep only. A main-row change toasts the
real decision and the /route switch hint when the pick is a downgrade.
Descriptions pass a hardened read (name allowlist, stat kind, size cap)
and clean(). Kit suite 190 → 232; W3-A dialog tests migrated.
Contract .claude/tasks/contracts/2026-10-11-model-router-w3b-dialog-1240.md,
plan r3: 3 lenses (2 BLOCKERs: inline rows, phase edits) + 1 confirmation,
feater + 2 rounds, GATE 0 MET, verifier CONFORME (3rd pass), security PASS.
routing.json (tracked, reached through the plugin directory) is now the
single source of the phase table and of every skill/agent row, plus the
decisions: confirmed rows/phases, changed rows (from/to) and projects
exceptions keyed by a normalized git remote (credentials never stored, no
machine paths). First use of a rowed typed skill, a rowed agent spawn or a
main-loop phase opens the engine's dialog (Later / Keep / two alternative
phases; Other = a phase name); a change asks Everywhere or This project
only. One dialog at a time, never in headless, never inside an agent,
never written by the model: only a dialog answer or /route ask writes,
serialized, size-capped, never creating the file. Layers: routing.json <
~/.claude/model-router.json; the project tree is never read. /route
pending, /route ask on|off. Census reads rows and phases from the file and
tolerates a user-changed row (WARN). Kit suite 86 → 190 tests.
Contract .claude/tasks/contracts/2026-10-10-model-router-w3a-confirm-1201.md,
plan r4: 3 lenses + 1 confirmation, feater + 4 rounds, GATE 0 MET,
verifier CONFORME then re-verify after security, security BLOCK(1) fixed
then PASS. Live: T2 dialogs answered by the user from the hot-loaded mod.
The 15 Skill(effort-*) citers now call mcp__model-router__route per phase
(orchestrate at a dispatch span, reflect/plan for the skill's own level,
apply at the bookkeeping tail, escalate at the verify-secure caps); built-in
judgment dispatches carry an explicit effort= param. lib/effort-shift.md is
the route doctrine, lib/model-gate.md the mod rule (route answer = witness,
/route on as remedy). Deleted: skills/effort-*, lib/effort-pins.txt/.sh,
lib/model-check.sh, their tests, the installers' re-apply blocks. The mod
drops its Skill(effort-*) bridge. The tracked model:/effort: frontmatter
stays as the off-state floor, census-locked equal to the rows
(lib/tests/effort-routing.test.sh rewritten, 140 checks; analyzer → xhigh).
Contract .claude/tasks/contracts/2026-10-10-model-router-w2b-1045.md, plan
r4 § W2-B: GATE 0 MET, verifier ECARTS(7) then CONFORME 10/10, security
PASS, full make test green (design-tool-gate env red only).
- lib/effort-pins.txt (map) + lib/effort-pins.sh (idempotent re-apply)
replace the hardcoded brainstorming/writing-plans loop; called after the
last vendoring step of install-plugins.sh AND update-all.sh (the resync
dropped the pins until the next make plugin)
- design stack high uniform (last loaded wins), superpowers, agent-skills,
21st pack pinned from the map; skills-perso low, pdf-translate medium,
site-motion high
- doctrine: design stack loads paired with the first Read; one level per
stack (CLAUDE.global.md, lib/effort-shift.md)
- lib/effort-audit.py prints thinking coverage per scope (sub-agent records
carry no thinking count on ~94 % of requests)
- census map-driven + fixture suite lib/tests/effort-pins.test.sh; docs
README/USAGE/CHANGELOG; contract + TODO plan
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