Cost stance: balanced

Session effort runs medium, fan-out stays at six subagents or fewer, fast mode is off unless asked, and a task ends with /clear, not /compact. Past 160,000 tokens of context a call costs more; the feed says so. Past 400,000, about 3.3× the cost per call, the turn’s end is blocked once: write the handoff, then start a fresh session. Spend the effort dial on judgment work and keep gathering cheap. The table also prices each role and band: class, effort, soft budget. Tier comes from delegation; this one sets how much. Cache rules: cache-hygiene.md.