Cost stance: frugal

Session effort runs low unless the task is design or adversarial review. Subagents are gatherers only, fan-out no wider than three, and fast mode is never used. Agent teams are off. End a task with /clear, never /compact. Past 160,000 tokens of context the feed says a call costs more; past 200,000 the turn’s end is blocked once: write the handoff, then start a fresh session. Before a model call, try a deterministic command — the test, the linter, the exit code. The table prices each role and band: class, effort, budget. Tier comes from delegation. Cache: cache-hygiene.md.