Resolve the S14 default-profile contradiction. Investigation overturned
the audit addendum's guess ("code is the bug → balanced"): commit 40d8742
(2026-05-13, "pin all sub-agents to Opus permanently (operator request)")
plus VOYAGE_PROFILE=premium in ~/.zshenv establish premium as the deliberate
default. Operator confirmed in-session: premium is the shipped default; fix
the stale docs, not the code. No code or behaviour changed (lib/ untouched).
Docs (default-name → premium, consistent across resolver + all three docs):
- README + docs/profiles.md + docs/operations.md: 3 lookup-order sites and
3 profile tables now mark `premium` as the default.
- premium table row corrected to all-opus (matches premium.yaml — a third
inconsistency the audit missed; README/profiles.md showed opus/sonnet/...).
Cost narrative made honest (premium = all-Opus reality):
- §Cost profile rewritten: uniform model per phase, no orchestrator-vs-swarm
split; cheaper via --profile balanced/economy.
- Removed false "Sonnet exploration/review swarm" claims (README 195/223/266
model-neutral; 804 parenthetical; the "Switch the planning model" note).
- profiles.md custom-profile prose corrected: built-in wins over same-named
custom (findProfilePath), dropping the bogus "balanced is the locked default".
Pins (TDD red→green, doc-consistency.test.mjs):
- default-profile name invariant (resolveProfile ↔ README/profiles/operations)
- profile tables ↔ each built-in yaml phase_models (structural, catches drift)
- cost-claim regression guard (no resurrected Sonnet-swarm phrasing)
S16/S18 surface untouched: counts (23 agents, 9/10 dims, 5/6 dims), versions,
framing gates unchanged. Full suite 686 (684 pass / 2 skip / 0 fail).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
S4 of the 2.1.181 upgrade — implementation, not a gate. TDD: failing test
written first for the resolver gate, then the fix; suite green throughout.
- Resolver MAJOR (FIX): lib/profiles/phase-signal-resolver.mjs now imports
BASE_ALLOWED_MODELS from profile-validator and gates `model`
(if 'model' in entry && BASE_ALLOWED_MODELS.includes(entry.model)),
mirroring the EFFORT_LEVELS gate one line up. Out-of-allowlist models
(gpt-4, haiku) are dropped instead of handed to an agent spawn —
defense-in-depth behind brief-validator's validation-time check. No
circular import (brief-validator already imports the same symbol).
+2 tests (drops-invalid / keeps-valid).
- Native effort: (SHIP, static additive): effort: frontmatter on 8 agents —
retrieval (task-finder, git-historian, dependency-tracer,
architecture-mapper) = medium; adversarial-reasoning (plan-critic,
risk-assessor, contrarian-researcher, review-coordinator) = high. The
other 15 stay unset -> inherit Opus-4.8 default (high). This per-spawn
REASONING effort is a different axis from brief phase_signals.effort
(ORCHESTRATION shape) per the S3 decision.
- Doc-truth + axis distinction: new canonical docs/profiles.md
§Model & effort axes (opus->Opus 4.8 default-high; orchestration vs
reasoning effort table; native-effort precedence; per-agent levels).
Short notes in CLAUDE.md (after Agents table) and README.md (Cost
profile), both pointing to profiles.md.
- Open (non-blocking, unchanged): only STATIC effort shipped — the
verified-safe minimum. Profile-driven DYNAMIC effort still needs
verification of the per-spawn effort param or env-var injection.
Matrix: new "S4 resolutions" section. Tests 582 total / 580 pass / 0 fail /
2 skip (was 578 pass; +2). claude plugin validate passes (only pre-existing
root-CLAUDE.md warning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LqBYc8Ltrk7LipyJmGxXiB
