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feat(route): give the advisor a writer, on a need and per row

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route.sh now emits `--advisor opus` into the startup command it prints.
The flag existed and worked, but nothing generated it, so it went unused:
the only mechanism that ever set an advisor here was `/advisor`, which
writes the global advisorModel setting -- every session, every repo -- and
was abandoned for burning quota. Nothing replaced it.

Two independent triggers, almost disjoint by construction:

  rows 1-2  always. Sonnet main model, so opus is a capability LIFT rather
            than a peer. Load-bearing: every fallback is one row cheaper and
            the cheap rows are Sonnet, so this makes the quota fallback safe.
  rows 3-4  only at reversibility=costly|one-way. Opus main model, so the
            advisor buys peer review where a mistake is not cheap to undo.
  rows 5-6  never. The CLI rejects every advisor for a Fable main model.

costly forces row 3 and one-way forces row 4, so a Sonnet row always has
reversibility=cheap and neither rule reaches the other's rows.
verification=none is deliberately not a third trigger: beyond the stakes
rule it adds only cheap-to-reverse mistakes, docs sessions among them.
Applied per ROW, so fallback-command carries its own correct answer.

route-selftest.sh 56 -> 73. Section 14 gates the three CLI facts the rule
rests on against the installed claude without spending a token: advisor
validation runs before the empty-prompt check, so `-p ""` reaches the
validator and stops. --help cannot gate this -- it short-circuits before
option validation, so an unknown flag would pass the gate untested.

Three pre-existing checks updated rather than worked around: two asserted
whole command strings that now carry the advisor, and section 11's effort
extraction swallowed the tail of the command line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01X8N8hQEJSWWtieWUx37txT
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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ description: >-
user names no repo and no tool — choosing *between* repos is this skill. Not for
"where were we" inside the current repo: that is this repo's own STATE.md,
already injected at session start.
version: "0.12.1"
version: "0.13.0"
---
# board — which repo deserves the next session

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skills/coord-send/SKILL.md
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@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ description: >-
covers retiring a broadcast that has become wrong or obsolete: "retract that
broadcast", "that announcement is outdated, pull it", "trekk tilbake kringkastingen",
"den broadcasten er utdatert".
version: "0.12.1"
version: "0.13.0"
---
# coord-send — natural-language front door for inter-repo messages

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ description: >-
the operator names no model and no tool — choosing the model for the next
session IS this skill. Not for choosing which REPO gets the next session:
that is the `board` skill.
version: "0.12.1"
version: "0.13.0"
---
# route — what the next session should run with
@ -181,9 +181,24 @@ Give the operator the two closing-line items and nothing more:
the working directory is already right. If the next step belongs in a
different repo, say so in plain words — that is a different tab, not a `cd`.
**Paste `command` verbatim, `--advisor opus` included.** The calculator decides
the advisor per row, and it is not decoration: on a Sonnet row it is what lifts
the session to Opus judgement at Sonnet cost, which is what makes the cheaper
`fallback-command` safe to take under quota pressure. Dropping it because it
looks like noise silently removes that. Equally, never *add* it to a command
that came back without one — an unconditional advisor is the global
`advisorModel` setting, which costs quota in every session in every repo and is
the failure mode this rule replaces. `route.sh --help` carries the full rule.
If `command` and `fallback-command` are the same as the current session's model,
say `/clear` is enough instead — but only if no newly installed plugin or skill
needs a fresh process to be picked up.
**`--advisor` is part of that comparison, not an afterthought.** It is a launch
flag, so `/clear` reuses the process and keeps whatever advisor the session
started with. If `command` carries `--advisor opus` and this session was not
launched with it, `/clear` is *not* enough — the operator needs `/exit` and the
full command, or the advisor silently never appears.
Do not paste the whole output block. One row, the rule that produced it, the
command.