atris 3.58.8 → 3.59.0

package/lib/engine-registry.js

@@ -1,15 +1,22 @@
 'use strict';
 
 const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
 const path = require('path');
 const childProcess = require('child_process');
+const crypto = require('crypto');
 const {
   RUNNER_PROFILE_DEFS,
   RUNNER_PROFILE_ALIASES,
   RUNNER_PROFILE_NAMES,
   HIDDEN_PROFILE_NAMES,
+  EFFORT_WORDS,
+  engineTakesModel,
+  engineEffortLevels,
 } = require('./runner-command');
 const { rankEnginesDetailed, routerPickExplanation } = require('./router-brain');
+// Friendly name for a saved model: claude-opus-5-5 reads as "opus 5.5".
+const { modelLabel: rosterModelLabel } = require('./roster-models');
 
 const ENGINE_REGISTRY_SCHEMA = 'atris.engine_registry.v2';
 const ENGINE_TIERS = Object.freeze(['fast', 'pro', 'max']);
@@ -42,14 +49,20 @@ function engineFailureHealthStatus(result) {
 
 const ENGINE_SEED_META = Object.freeze({
   'atris-fast': Object.freeze({ tier: 'fast', roles: Object.freeze(['navigator']), models: Object.freeze(['atris fast']), duty: 'learning', fallback_order: 10 }),
-  codex: Object.freeze({ tier: 'pro', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), models: Object.freeze(['codex']), fallback_order: 10 }),
-  claude: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['validator', 'executor']), models: Object.freeze(['opus 5', 'opus 4.8', 'fable', 'haiku']), fallback_order: 20 }),
+  // roster_only_roles: jobs a roster pick may give this engine, but the router
+  // never hands it on its own. Claude and haiku can own search when picked;
+  // with no pick, search stays with atris-fast, then composer. Codex can own
+  // review when picked; it stays out of roles, so every review list built
+  // from roles (the router, one lap, wish audit, the chart) is unchanged.
+  codex: Object.freeze({ tier: 'pro', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), roster_only_roles: Object.freeze(['validator']), models: Object.freeze(['codex']), fallback_order: 10 }),
+  claude: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['validator', 'executor', 'navigator']), roster_only_roles: Object.freeze(['navigator']), models: Object.freeze(['opus 5.5', 'opus 5', 'opus 4.8', 'fable', 'haiku']), fallback_order: 20 }),
   cursor: Object.freeze({ tier: 'pro', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), models: Object.freeze(['composer 2.5', 'grok 4.6', 'kimi 3']), fallback_order: 30 }),
-  devin: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), models: Object.freeze(['built-in router']), duty: 'errands', fallback_order: 40 }),
-  grok: Object.freeze({ tier: 'pro', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), models: Object.freeze(['grok 4.6', 'grok 4.5']), fallback_order: 45 }),
-  fable: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['validator', 'executor']), models: Object.freeze(['opus 5', 'opus 4.8', 'fable', 'haiku']), duty: 'leader', fallback_order: 50 }),
+  // Devin gathers context for search only when a roster picks it.
+  devin: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), roster_only_roles: Object.freeze(['navigator']), models: Object.freeze(['built-in router']), duty: 'errands', fallback_order: 40 }),
+  grok: Object.freeze({ tier: 'pro', roles: Object.freeze(['executor']), models: Object.freeze(['grok 4.7 fast', 'grok 4.7']), fallback_order: 45 }),
+  fable: Object.freeze({ tier: 'max', roles: Object.freeze(['validator', 'executor']), models: Object.freeze(['opus 5.5', 'opus 5', 'opus 4.8', 'fable', 'haiku']), duty: 'leader', fallback_order: 50 }),
   composer: Object.freeze({ tier: 'fast', roles: Object.freeze(['navigator', 'executor']), models: Object.freeze(['composer 2.5']), fallback_order: 60 }),
-  haiku: Object.freeze({ tier: 'fast', roles: Object.freeze(['validator']), models: Object.freeze(['haiku']), fallback_order: 70 }),
+  haiku: Object.freeze({ tier: 'fast', roles: Object.freeze(['validator', 'navigator']), roster_only_roles: Object.freeze(['navigator']), models: Object.freeze(['haiku']), fallback_order: 70 }),
   agy: Object.freeze({
     tier: 'pro',
     roles: Object.freeze(['executor']),
@@ -163,6 +176,7 @@ function normalizeEngineEntry(id, saved = {}) {
   const health = { status };
   if (status !== 'ready' && savedHealth.last_failure_ts) health.last_failure_ts = String(savedHealth.last_failure_ts);
   return {
+    ...saved,
     id,
     name: id,
     bin: def.bin,
@@ -185,6 +199,7 @@ function seededRegistry(root = process.cwd(), preloadedRaw = null) {
     if (id) savedById.set(id, entry);
   }
   return {
+    ...raw,
     schema: ENGINE_REGISTRY_SCHEMA,
     updated_at: new Date().toISOString(),
     // Hidden profiles are registered engines too: they seed, route, and take
@@ -275,6 +290,1264 @@ function readEngineRegistry(root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
   return registry;
 }
 
+const ENGINE_JOBS = Object.freeze({ search: 'navigator', build: 'executor', review: 'validator' });
+const ENGINE_JOB_ALIASES = Object.freeze({ navigator: 'search', builder: 'build', executor: 'build', reviewer: 'review', validator: 'review' });
+const MACHINE_ROSTER_SCHEMA = 'atris.machine_roster.v1';
+// The owner's own job for small, tightly specified builds. A build resolved
+// with lowStakes checks this pick first, then the plain build pick.
+const SMALL_BUILD_JOB = 'small-build';
+
+function rosterJob(name) {
+  const job = String(name || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  return ENGINE_JOBS[job] ? job : ENGINE_JOB_ALIASES[job] || '';
+}
+
+// "Small Build!" and "small build" save under the same key, small-build.
+function rosterJobSlug(name) {
+  return String(name || '').trim().toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '');
+}
+
+// The roster key for any job name: the three built-in jobs keep their role
+// keys (navigator, executor, validator), so every saved roster still reads
+// the same; any other name is a custom job under its slug. A built-in job
+// only answers to its exact name or alias: "builder!" would slug onto build
+// and quietly replace the real build pick, so it gets no key at all.
+function rosterJobKey(name) {
+  const builtIn = rosterJob(name);
+  if (builtIn) return ENGINE_JOBS[builtIn];
+  const slug = rosterJobSlug(name);
+  if (!slug || rosterJob(slug)) return '';
+  return slug;
+}
+
+// The plain refusal for a job name that has no key.
+function rosterJobNameError(name) {
+  const near = rosterJob(rosterJobSlug(name));
+  if (near) return `"${String(name || '').trim()}" is too close to the built-in ${near} job. type ${near} to change that job, or pick another name`;
+  return 'name the job, for example: build, review, search, or "small build"';
+}
+
+function rosterJobLabel(key) {
+  const builtIn = Object.keys(ENGINE_JOBS).find((job) => ENGINE_JOBS[job] === key);
+  return builtIn || String(key || '').replace(/-/g, ' ');
+}
+
+// A name says its kind when exactly one of build, review, or search is a
+// word in it: "small build" is a build, "deep review" is a review.
+function inferJobKind(name) {
+  const words = rosterJobSlug(name).split('-');
+  const kinds = Object.keys(ENGINE_JOBS).filter((kind) => words.includes(kind));
+  return kinds.length === 1 ? kinds[0] : '';
+}
+
+// The role a saved custom pick runs as, read from its like field. '' means
+// the pick does not say a kind the roster knows, so it never routes.
+function customPickRole(pick) {
+  const kind = rosterJob(pick && pick.like);
+  return kind ? ENGINE_JOBS[kind] : '';
+}
+
+// Only an object naming an engine counts as a pick; a hand edit that left a
+// string or a list reads as no pick.
+function rosterPickObject(value) {
+  return value && typeof value === 'object' && !Array.isArray(value) && value.engine ? value : null;
+}
+
+function pickRoleForKey(key, pick) {
+  return ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key) ? key : customPickRole(pick);
+}
+
+// Custom job keys set in a roster, in saved order.
+function customRosterJobKeys(roster) {
+  return Object.keys(roster || {}).filter((key) => !ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key) && rosterPickObject(roster[key]));
+}
+
+// A pick that can decide right now: it names a kind, has not expired, names
+// an engine and model that can run, and that engine (or its backup) is ready.
+// A pick that cannot run never sets the job's kind, so it cannot block a
+// ready all-projects pick of another kind.
+function rosterPickLive(pick, now, registry) {
+  const role = customPickRole(pick);
+  if (!role || !canonicalEngineName(pick.engine)) return false;
+  return Boolean(rosterChoiceForPick(pick, role, registry, { label: rosterJobLabel(role), now }));
+}
+
+// The role a job name resolves as: a built-in job's own role, else the kind
+// of the first live pick in line (this project, then all projects), then the
+// kind the name says, then any saved kind. An expired or broken project pick
+// never decides the kind, so it cannot hide a live all-projects pick.
+function rosterJobRole(name, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
+  const key = rosterJobKey(name);
+  if (!key) return '';
+  if (ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key)) return key;
+  const session = options.sessionRosterPicks || readSessionRosterLayer({ ...options, root }).picks;
+  const project = options.projectRosterPicks || readProjectRoster(root, options).picks;
+  const machine = options.machineRosterPicks || readMachineRoster(options);
+  const picks = [session && session[key], project && project[key], machine && machine[key]].map(rosterPickObject).filter(Boolean);
+  const registry = options.registry || readEngineRegistry(root, { persist: false });
+  const live = picks.find((pick) => rosterPickLive(pick, options.now, registry));
+  if (live) return customPickRole(live);
+  const kind = inferJobKind(name);
+  if (kind) return ENGINE_JOBS[kind];
+  return picks.map(customPickRole).find(Boolean) || '';
+}
+
+function rosterDate(now = new Date()) {
+  const date = new Date(now);
+  if (Number.isNaN(date.getTime())) throw new Error('invalid roster date');
+  return date;
+}
+
+function localDay(date) {
+  return new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate());
+}
+
+function localDayText(date) {
+  const pad = (value) => String(value).padStart(2, '0');
+  return `${date.getFullYear()}-${pad(date.getMonth() + 1)}-${pad(date.getDate())}`;
+}
+
+// until dates are local calendar days, inclusive: a pick set until
+// 2026-10-24 still holds all day on the 24th, wherever this machine is.
+function rosterUntil(now, days) {
+  const date = localDay(rosterDate(now));
+  date.setDate(date.getDate() + days);
+  return localDayText(date);
+}
+
+// Only a real YYYY-MM-DD calendar day counts. Anything else ("garbage",
+// "2026-9-1", "9999", "2026-02-30") reads as already expired.
+function parseRosterUntil(value) {
+  const match = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})$/.exec(String(value || '').trim());
+  if (!match) return null;
+  const [year, month, day] = match.slice(1).map(Number);
+  const date = new Date(year, month - 1, day);
+  if (date.getFullYear() !== year || date.getMonth() !== month - 1 || date.getDate() !== day) return null;
+  return date;
+}
+
+// A ROSTER.md line with no until never expires; a saved JSON pick always
+// carries its date.
+function rosterPickExpired(pick, now = new Date()) {
+  if (pick && pick.never_expires === true && !pick.until) return false;
+  const until = parseRosterUntil(pick && pick.until);
+  if (!until) return true;
+  return localDay(rosterDate(now)).getTime() > until.getTime();
+}
+
+// Claude-family engines run through the claude CLI, which rejects loose
+// spellings like "opus-5.5". Assign saves the id the CLI accepts, and every
+// read normalizes again, so older saved picks and hand edits work too.
+const CLAUDE_FAMILY_ENGINES = Object.freeze(['claude', 'fable', 'haiku']);
+const CLAUDE_MODEL_ALIASES = Object.freeze(['opus', 'sonnet', 'haiku', 'fable', 'opusplan', 'default']);
+const CLAUDE_MODEL_DATED_IDS = Object.freeze({ 'claude-haiku-4-5': 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001' });
+const CLAUDE_MODEL_SPELLING = /^(opus|sonnet|haiku|fable)[\s_-]*(\d+)(?:[\s._-]+(\d+))?$/;
+const CLAUDE_LONG_CONTEXT = /\s*\[1m\]$/;
+
+// Grok takes friendly names too: "grok 4.7 fast" is grok-4.7-build-fast and
+// "grok 4.7" is grok-4.7. Any full grok- id passes through as typed.
+const GROK_MODEL_SPELLING = /^grok[\s_-]*(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(?:[\s_-]+(?:build[\s_-]+)?(fast))?$/;
+
+function normalizeGrokModel(raw) {
+  const match = GROK_MODEL_SPELLING.exec(raw.toLowerCase());
+  if (match) return `grok-${match[1]}${match[2] ? '-build-fast' : ''}`;
+  if (/^grok-[a-z0-9][a-z0-9._-]*$/i.test(raw)) return raw;
+  throw new Error(`grok does not know the model "${raw}". use grok 4.7 fast, grok 4.7, or a full grok- id`);
+}
+
+function normalizeRosterModel(engineId, value) {
+  const raw = String(value || '').trim();
+  if (!raw) return '';
+  if (engineId === 'grok') return normalizeGrokModel(raw);
+  if (!CLAUDE_FAMILY_ENGINES.includes(engineId)) return raw;
+  // "[1m]" asks the claude cli for the long context window; keep it on
+  // whatever name it follows.
+  const suffix = CLAUDE_LONG_CONTEXT.test(raw) ? '[1m]' : '';
+  const base = raw.replace(CLAUDE_LONG_CONTEXT, '').trim();
+  const lower = base.toLowerCase();
+  if (CLAUDE_MODEL_ALIASES.includes(lower)) return `${lower}${suffix}`;
+  const match = CLAUDE_MODEL_SPELLING.exec(lower.replace(/^claude[\s_-]*/, ''));
+  if (match) {
+    const id = `claude-${match[1]}-${match[2]}${match[3] ? `-${match[3]}` : ''}`;
+    return `${CLAUDE_MODEL_DATED_IDS[id] || id}${suffix}`;
+  }
+  if (lower.startsWith('claude-')) return `${base}${suffix}`;
+  throw new Error(`${engineId} does not know the model "${raw}". use opus, sonnet, haiku, fable, opusplan, default, a version like opus 5.5, sonnet 5, haiku 4.5, or fable 5.1, or a full claude- id; add [1m] for the long context window`);
+}
+
+// A saved pick's model, normalized the same way assign does. null means the
+// saved name is one the claude cli would reject, so the pick cannot run.
+function savedRosterModel(engineId, value) {
+  try {
+    return normalizeRosterModel(engineId, value);
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
+
+// A registry saved before an engine learned a job keeps its old role list;
+// the roster still honors the job the engine can do today, including a job
+// it only takes by roster pick.
+function engineHasRole(engine, role) {
+  if (!engine) return false;
+  if (Array.isArray(engine.roles) && engine.roles.includes(role)) return true;
+  const seed = ENGINE_SEED_META[engine.id];
+  return Boolean(seed && (seed.roles.includes(role) || (seed.roster_only_roles && seed.roster_only_roles.includes(role))));
+}
+
+// A job this engine only takes by roster pick. Read from the seed, so a
+// registry saved with the role behaves the same as a fresh one.
+function routerSkipsRole(engine, role) {
+  const seed = engine && ENGINE_SEED_META[engine.id];
+  return Boolean(seed && seed.roster_only_roles && seed.roster_only_roles.includes(role));
+}
+
+function machineRosterFile(options = {}) {
+  return options.machineRosterFile
+    || process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH
+    || path.join(os.homedir(), '.atris', 'roster.json');
+}
+
+// The all-projects ROSTER.md. A scratch roster.json path (tests, sandboxes)
+// keeps its markdown beside it, so pointing one override away from the home
+// folder moves both files.
+function machineRosterMarkdownFile(options = {}) {
+  if (options.machineRosterMarkdownFile) return options.machineRosterMarkdownFile;
+  if (process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_MD_PATH) return process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_MD_PATH;
+  if (options.machineRosterFile || process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH) {
+    return path.join(path.dirname(machineRosterFile(options)), 'ROSTER.md');
+  }
+  return path.join(os.homedir(), '.atris', 'ROSTER.md');
+}
+
+function projectRosterFile(root = process.cwd()) {
+  return path.join(root, 'atris', 'ROSTER.md');
+}
+
+// A git worktree of this project shares its roster: when the worktree has no
+// atris/ROSTER.md of its own (an uncommitted file never reaches it), the main
+// checkout's file applies. Read from the .git pointer file; no git process.
+function projectRosterRoot(root = process.cwd()) {
+  if (fs.existsSync(projectRosterFile(root))) return root;
+  const main = mainCheckoutRoot(root);
+  return main && fs.existsSync(projectRosterFile(main)) ? main : root;
+}
+
+// The main checkout behind a git worktree, read from the .git pointer file
+// with no git process. '' when root is not a linked worktree.
+function mainCheckoutRoot(root = process.cwd()) {
+  try {
+    const pointer = /^gitdir:\s*(.+)$/m.exec(fs.readFileSync(path.join(root, '.git'), 'utf8'));
+    if (!pointer) return '';
+    const gitdir = path.resolve(root, pointer[1].trim());
+    if (path.basename(path.dirname(gitdir)) !== 'worktrees') return '';
+    return path.dirname(path.dirname(path.dirname(gitdir)));
+  } catch {
+    return '';
+  }
+}
+
+// The machine roster is personal policy from the home folder. Test runs never
+// read it unless they point at a file on purpose, so one person's picks
+// cannot change what the suite routes to.
+function machineRosterEnabled(options = {}) {
+  if (options.machineRoster === false) return false;
+  if (options.machineRosterFile || options.machineRosterMarkdownFile) return true;
+  if (process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH || process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_MD_PATH) return true;
+  return !process.env.NODE_TEST_CONTEXT;
+}
+
+function readMachineRosterJson(options = {}) {
+  if (!machineRosterEnabled(options)) return {};
+  try {
+    const parsed = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(machineRosterFile(options), 'utf8'));
+    return parsed && parsed.roster && typeof parsed.roster === 'object' ? parsed.roster : {};
+  } catch {
+    return {};
+  }
+}
+
+// The all-projects picks: ROSTER.md when it exists, else the older JSON file.
+function readMachineRoster(options = {}) {
+  return readMachineRosterLayer(options).picks;
+}
+
+function writeAtomic(file, body) {
+  fs.mkdirSync(path.dirname(file), { recursive: true });
+  const tmp = `${file}.${process.pid}.${Date.now()}.tmp`;
+  fs.writeFileSync(tmp, body, 'utf8');
+  fs.renameSync(tmp, file);
+}
+
+function writeMachineRoster(roster, options = {}) {
+  if (!machineRosterEnabled(options)) throw new Error('the all-projects roster is off in test runs; set ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH to a scratch file');
+  const body = { schema: MACHINE_ROSTER_SCHEMA, updated_at: new Date().toISOString(), roster };
+  writeAtomic(machineRosterFile(options), `${JSON.stringify(body, null, 2)}\n`);
+}
+
+// --- ROSTER.md: words to picks ------------------------------------------
+
+const MONTH_NAMES = Object.freeze(['january', 'february', 'march', 'april', 'may', 'june', 'july', 'august', 'september', 'october', 'november', 'december']);
+
+// Month and day words: "oct 24", "october 24 2026", "24 oct 2026".
+function readRosterDateWords(text) {
+  const raw = String(text || '').trim().toLowerCase().replace(/,/g, ' ').replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+  const monthFirst = /^([a-z]+)\.?\s+(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?(?:\s+(\d{4}))?$/.exec(raw);
+  const dayFirst = /^(\d{1,2})(?:st|nd|rd|th)?\s+([a-z]+)\.?(?:\s+(\d{4}))?$/.exec(raw);
+  const monthWord = monthFirst ? monthFirst[1] : dayFirst ? dayFirst[2] : '';
+  const day = Number(monthFirst ? monthFirst[2] : dayFirst ? dayFirst[1] : NaN);
+  const yearText = monthFirst ? monthFirst[3] : dayFirst ? dayFirst[3] : '';
+  if (!monthWord || monthWord.length < 3) return null;
+  const month = MONTH_NAMES.findIndex((name) => name.startsWith(monthWord) || (monthWord === 'sept' && name === 'september'));
+  if (month === -1) return null;
+  const build = (year) => {
+    const date = new Date(year, month, day);
+    return date.getMonth() === month && date.getDate() === day ? date : null;
+  };
+  return { month, day, year: yearText ? Number(yearText) : null, build };
+}
+
+// "2026-10-24", "oct 24 2026", "october 24, 2026", or "24 oct 2026". The year
+// is required: a year-less date would have to guess its year from when the
+// file was saved, and an unrelated edit would then revive a passed pick.
+// null means the words are not a full date.
+function parseRosterUntilWords(text) {
+  const raw = String(text || '').trim();
+  if (!raw) return null;
+  const iso = parseRosterUntil(raw);
+  if (iso) return localDayText(iso);
+  const words = readRosterDateWords(raw);
+  if (!words || words.year === null) return null;
+  const date = words.build(words.year);
+  return date ? localDayText(date) : null;
+}
+
+// The full date a year-less "oct 24" most likely meant (the nearest one not
+// in the past), offered in the warning. null when the words are no date.
+function yearlessRosterDate(text, now = new Date()) {
+  const words = readRosterDateWords(text);
+  if (!words || words.year !== null) return null;
+  const today = localDay(rosterDate(now));
+  for (const year of [today.getFullYear(), today.getFullYear() + 1, today.getFullYear() + 4]) {
+    const date = words.build(year);
+    if (date && date.getTime() >= today.getTime()) return localDayText(date);
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// "max 20 min", "max 90s", "max 2h": the time cap for one line, in seconds.
+// null means the words are not a time cap.
+const MAX_UNITS = Object.freeze({
+  s: 1, sec: 1, secs: 1, second: 1, seconds: 1,
+  m: 60, min: 60, mins: 60, minute: 60, minutes: 60,
+  h: 3600, hr: 3600, hrs: 3600, hour: 3600, hours: 3600,
+});
+
+function parseRosterMax(text) {
+  const match = /^max\s+(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*([a-z]+)$/i.exec(String(text || '').trim());
+  if (!match) return null;
+  const unit = MAX_UNITS[match[2].toLowerCase()];
+  const seconds = unit ? Math.round(Number(match[1]) * unit) : 0;
+  return seconds > 0 ? seconds : null;
+}
+
+function rosterMaxText(seconds) {
+  const value = Number(seconds);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(value) || value <= 0) return '';
+  if (value % 3600 === 0) return `max ${value / 3600}h`;
+  if (value % 60 === 0) return `max ${value / 60} min`;
+  return `max ${value}s`;
+}
+
+// Why an engine cannot take an effort word, in one plain sentence.
+function effortRefusal(engineId, effort) {
+  const levels = engineEffortLevels(engineId);
+  if (!levels.length) return `${engineId} cannot take an effort level`;
+  return `${engineId} takes effort ${levels.join(', ')}, not "${effort}"`;
+}
+
+// A saved effort word this engine takes, '' for none, null when it cannot.
+function savedRosterEffort(engineId, value) {
+  const effort = String(value || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (!effort) return '';
+  return engineEffortLevels(engineId).includes(effort) ? effort : null;
+}
+
+// Words that name an engine, a model, or both, then an optional effort word,
+// turned into one engine, one model, and one effort the engine takes.
+// "devin swe-2-max", "claude haiku", "opus 5.5", "codex gpt-6-astra medium".
+// Throws a plain sentence when the words name nothing or the engine cannot
+// take the model or effort.
+function resolveRosterWords(text) {
+  const all = String(text || '').trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ').split(' ').filter(Boolean);
+  const last = all.length > 1 ? all[all.length - 1].toLowerCase() : '';
+  const effort = EFFORT_WORDS.includes(last) ? last : '';
+  const read = resolveEngineModelWords((effort ? all.slice(0, -1) : all).join(' '));
+  if (read.model && !engineTakesModel(read.engine)) throw new Error(`${read.engine} runs one fixed model and cannot take "${read.model}"`);
+  if (effort && !engineEffortLevels(read.engine).includes(effort)) throw new Error(effortRefusal(read.engine, effort));
+  return { ...read, effort };
+}
+
+// Friendly tool names a roster line may use in place of an engine id.
+const ROSTER_TOOL_NAMES = Object.freeze({
+  'claude code': 'claude',
+  ccs: 'claude',
+  'atris fast': 'atris-fast',
+  gemini: 'agy',
+  antigravity: 'agy',
+});
+const ROSTER_TOOL_WORDS = /^(claude code|ccs|atris fast|gemini|antigravity)(?:\s+(.*))?$/i;
+
+// The engine id for a tool name a person typed: an engine id, an alias, or a
+// friendly name like "claude code". '' when it names no engine.
+function rosterToolName(name) {
+  const lower = String(name || '').trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ').toLowerCase();
+  return ROSTER_TOOL_NAMES[lower] || canonicalEngineName(lower);
+}
+
+// How a roster line names an engine: "claude code" for claude, "atris fast"
+// for atris-fast, the id for the rest.
+function rosterToolLabel(engineId) {
+  if (engineId === 'claude') return 'claude code';
+  if (engineId === 'atris-fast') return 'atris fast';
+  return engineId;
+}
+
+function resolveEngineModelWords(text) {
+  const clean = String(text || '').trim().replace(/\s+/g, ' ');
+  if (!clean) throw new Error('names no engine');
+  const lower = clean.toLowerCase();
+  const words = clean.split(' ');
+  const friendly = ROSTER_TOOL_WORDS.exec(clean);
+  if (friendly) {
+    const engine = ROSTER_TOOL_NAMES[friendly[1].toLowerCase()];
+    const rest = String(friendly[2] || '').trim();
+    if (!rest) return { engine, model: '' };
+    try {
+      return { engine, model: normalizeRosterModel(engine, rest) };
+    } catch {
+      throw new Error(`${engine} cannot take the model "${rest}"`);
+    }
+  }
+  const first = canonicalEngineName(words[0].toLowerCase());
+  const rest = words.slice(1).join(' ');
+  const model = (engine, value) => {
+    try {
+      return normalizeRosterModel(engine, value);
+    } catch {
+      throw new Error(`${engine} cannot take the model "${value}"`);
+    }
+  };
+  if (first && !rest) return { engine: first, model: '' };
+  const bare = lower.replace(CLAUDE_LONG_CONTEXT, '').replace(/^claude[\s_-]*/, '');
+  if (CLAUDE_MODEL_SPELLING.test(bare) || lower.startsWith('claude-')) return { engine: 'claude', model: model('claude', clean) };
+  if (GROK_MODEL_SPELLING.test(lower) || lower.startsWith('grok-')) return { engine: 'grok', model: model('grok', clean) };
+  if (first) {
+    const value = first === 'grok' && /^\d/.test(rest) ? `grok ${rest}` : rest;
+    return { engine: first, model: model(first, value) };
+  }
+  if (/^(opus|sonnet|haiku|fable|opusplan)\b/.test(lower)) return { engine: 'claude', model: model('claude', clean) };
+  if (/^grok/.test(lower)) return { engine: 'grok', model: model('grok', clean) };
+  if (/^swe-/.test(lower)) return { engine: 'devin', model: clean };
+  if (/^gemini-/.test(lower)) return { engine: 'agy', model: clean };
+  throw new Error(`"${clean}" is not an engine or a model atris knows`);
+}
+
+// What an engine can do by its seed, used to check hand-written lines before
+// any registry is read.
+function engineCanTake(engineId, role) {
+  const seed = ENGINE_SEED_META[engineId];
+  return Boolean(seed && engineHasRole({ id: engineId, roles: Array.from(seed.roles) }, role));
+}
+
+// One line value, "<words>[, backup <words>][, until <date>]", checked
+// against the kind of job it fills. Throws a plain sentence on anything wrong.
+function rosterPickFromValue(value, role, options = {}) {
+  const kind = Object.keys(ENGINE_JOBS).find((name) => ENGINE_JOBS[name] === role) || role;
+  const parts = String(value || '').split(',').map((part) => part.trim()).filter(Boolean);
+  // "until oct 24, 2026": a lone year belongs to the part before it.
+  for (let i = parts.length - 1; i > 0; i -= 1) {
+    if (/^\d{4}$/.test(parts[i])) parts.splice(i - 1, 2, `${parts[i - 1]} ${parts[i]}`);
+  }
+  if (!parts.length) throw new Error('names no engine');
+  let [main, ...extras] = parts;
+  if (/^(backup|until|max)\b/i.test(main)) throw new Error('names no engine before its backup, until, or max');
+  // "codex medium max 20 min" with no comma still reads the cap.
+  const inlineMax = /\s+(max\s+\d+(?:\.\d+)?\s*[a-z]+)$/i.exec(main);
+  if (inlineMax) {
+    main = main.slice(0, inlineMax.index);
+    extras = [inlineMax[1], ...extras];
+  }
+  const primary = resolveRosterWords(main);
+  if (!engineCanTake(primary.engine, role)) throw new Error(`${primary.engine} cannot do ${kind} work`);
+  let backup = null;
+  let until = '';
+  let untilYearless = '';
+  let maxSeconds = null;
+  let namedModel = false;
+  let namedEffort = false;
+  for (const raw of extras) {
+    // "max: 20 min" and "until: 2026-10-24" read like "max 20 min".
+    const part = raw.replace(/^(max|until)\s*:\s*/i, '$1 ');
+    const backupMatch = /^backup\s+(.+)$/i.exec(part);
+    const untilMatch = /^until\s+(.+)$/i.exec(part);
+    const maxMatch = /^max\b/i.test(part) && !/^max$/i.test(part);
+    const modelMatch = /^model\s*(?::\s*|\s+)(.+)$/i.exec(part);
+    const effortMatch = /^effort\s*(?::\s*|\s+)(.+)$/i.exec(part);
+    if (modelMatch && !namedModel) {
+      if (primary.model) throw new Error(`names two models for ${primary.engine}`);
+      const words = modelMatch[1].trim();
+      if (!engineTakesModel(primary.engine)) throw new Error(`${primary.engine} runs one fixed model and cannot take "${words}"`);
+      try {
+        primary.model = normalizeRosterModel(primary.engine, words);
+      } catch {
+        throw new Error(`${primary.engine} cannot take the model "${words}"`);
+      }
+      namedModel = true;
+    } else if (effortMatch && !namedEffort) {
+      if (primary.effort) throw new Error(`names two efforts for ${primary.engine}`);
+      const effort = effortMatch[1].trim().toLowerCase();
+      if (!EFFORT_WORDS.includes(effort) || !engineEffortLevels(primary.engine).includes(effort)) throw new Error(effortRefusal(primary.engine, effort));
+      primary.effort = effort;
+      namedEffort = true;
+    } else if (backupMatch && options.worker) {
+      throw new Error('a worker line takes no backup; put the backup on the next line');
+    } else if (backupMatch && !backup) {
+      backup = resolveRosterWords(backupMatch[1]);
+      if (!engineCanTake(backup.engine, role)) throw new Error(`the backup ${backup.engine} cannot do ${kind} work`);
+    } else if (untilMatch && !until) {
+      const words = untilMatch[1].trim();
+      until = parseRosterUntilWords(words);
+      if (!until) {
+        untilYearless = yearlessRosterDate(words, options.now);
+        if (!untilYearless) throw new Error(`"${words}" is not a date; use 2026-10-24 or oct 24 2026`);
+        // Kept as typed, so the pick reads as expired until the year is added.
+        until = words;
+      }
+    } else if (maxMatch && maxSeconds === null) {
+      maxSeconds = parseRosterMax(part);
+      if (!maxSeconds) throw new Error(`"${part}" is not a time cap; use max 20 min, max 90s, or max 2h`);
+    } else {
+      throw new Error(`does not understand "${part}"`);
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    engine: primary.engine,
+    model: primary.model,
+    ...(primary.effort ? { effort: primary.effort } : {}),
+    backup: backup ? backup.engine : '',
+    ...(backup && backup.model ? { backup_model: backup.model } : {}),
+    ...(backup && backup.effort ? { backup_effort: backup.effort } : {}),
+    ...(maxSeconds ? { max_seconds: maxSeconds } : {}),
+    until,
+    ...(until ? {} : { never_expires: true }),
+    ...(untilYearless ? { until_needs_year: untilYearless } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+// A job line's name part, "small build (like build)", split into the name
+// and the kind it says it is like.
+function splitJobName(text) {
+  const match = /^(.*?)\s*\(\s*like\s+([a-z]+)\s*\)\s*$/i.exec(String(text || '').trim());
+  return match ? { name: match[1].trim(), like: match[2].trim().toLowerCase() } : { name: String(text || '').trim(), like: '' };
+}
+
+function rosterFileLabel(file, root = process.cwd()) {
+  const abs = path.resolve(file);
+  const rel = path.relative(path.resolve(root), abs);
+  if (rel && !rel.startsWith('..') && !path.isAbsolute(rel)) return rel;
+  const home = os.homedir();
+  const fromHome = path.relative(home, abs);
+  if (fromHome && !fromHome.startsWith('..') && !path.isAbsolute(fromHome)) return `~/${fromHome}`;
+  return abs;
+}
+
+// One worker line, "<tool>[, model: <m>][, effort: <e>][, max: <cap>][,
+// until <date>]", checked against the kind of job it serves. Throws a plain
+// sentence on anything wrong.
+function rosterWorkerFromValue(value, role, options = {}) {
+  const pick = rosterPickFromValue(value, role, { ...options, worker: true });
+  return {
+    engine: pick.engine,
+    model: pick.model,
+    ...(pick.effort ? { effort: pick.effort } : {}),
+    ...(pick.max_seconds ? { max_seconds: pick.max_seconds } : {}),
+    until: pick.until,
+    ...(pick.never_expires ? { never_expires: true } : {}),
+    ...(pick.until_needs_year ? { until_needs_year: pick.until_needs_year } : {}),
+  };
+}
+
+// A job heading, "## small build (like build)", read as a job: its key, its
+// label, and the kind of work it is. error says why it is not one.
+function rosterJobHeading(title) {
+  const { name, like } = splitJobName(title);
+  const key = rosterJobKey(name);
+  if (!key) return { error: rosterJobNameError(name) };
+  const builtIn = ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key);
+  const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+  const likeKind = like ? rosterJob(like) : '';
+  if (like && !likeKind) return { key, label, error: `"like ${like}" is not search, build, or review` };
+  if (builtIn && likeKind && ENGINE_JOBS[likeKind] !== key) return { key, label, error: `${label} is a built-in job and cannot be like ${likeKind}` };
+  const kind = builtIn ? label : likeKind || inferJobKind(name);
+  if (!kind) return { key, label, error: `say what kind of job "${label}" is, for example "## ${label} (like build)"` };
+  return { key, label, kind, builtIn };
+}
+
+// Does this worker line start with a tool name? Only then does a line under
+// a heading that is not a job deserve a warning; "- remember to renew" under
+// "## notes" is just a note.
+function namesATool(value) {
+  const first = String(value || '').split(',')[0].trim();
+  if (rosterToolName(first)) return true;
+  try {
+    resolveEngineModelWords(first);
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+// A job's workers in order, whichever shape wrote them. A one-line pick reads
+// as its engine, then its backup: the backup never expires and runs even with
+// a model it cannot use, the way a one-line backup always has.
+function pickWorkers(pick) {
+  if (!pick) return [];
+  if (Array.isArray(pick.workers)) return pick.workers;
+  const cap = Number(pick.max_seconds) > 0 ? { max_seconds: Number(pick.max_seconds) } : {};
+  const list = [{
+    engine: pick.engine,
+    model: pick.model || '',
+    ...(pick.effort ? { effort: pick.effort } : {}),
+    ...cap,
+    until: pick.until,
+    ...(pick.never_expires ? { never_expires: true } : {}),
+    ...(pick.line ? { line: pick.line } : {}),
+  }];
+  if (pick.backup) {
+    list.push({
+      engine: pick.backup,
+      model: pick.backup_model || '',
+      ...(pick.backup_effort ? { effort: pick.backup_effort } : {}),
+      ...cap,
+      until: '',
+      never_expires: true,
+      lenient_model: true,
+      backup: true,
+      ...(pick.line ? { line: pick.line } : {}),
+    });
+  }
+  return list;
+}
+
+// Read one ROSTER.md into picks keyed like the JSON roster, the raw team
+// lines, and one warning per line that could not be used. Never throws on
+// what the file says. A sectioned job's pick carries its workers in order;
+// engine, model, and backup mirror its first two good workers.
+function parseRosterMarkdown(text, file, options = {}) {
+  const { scanRosterMarkdown, jobSections } = require('./roster-markdown');
+  const display = rosterFileLabel(file, options.root || process.cwd());
+  const picks = {};
+  const team = [];
+  const warnings = [];
+  const warn = (entry, message) => warnings.push({ file: display, line: entry.lineNumber, text: entry.raw, message });
+  const scan = scanRosterMarkdown(text);
+  const sections = new Map(jobSections(scan).map((section) => [section.heading.index, section]));
+  const done = new Set();
+  const readSection = (section) => {
+    const { heading, workers: lines } = section;
+    const job = rosterJobHeading(heading.title);
+    if (job.error) {
+      if (lines.some((entry) => namesATool(entry.value))) warn(heading, `${job.error}, so the section is skipped`);
+      return;
+    }
+    const { key, label, kind, builtIn } = job;
+    if (picks[key]) {
+      warn(heading, `sets ${label} a second time; line ${picks[key].line} wins`);
+      return;
+    }
+    const workers = [];
+    for (const entry of lines) {
+      try {
+        const worker = rosterWorkerFromValue(entry.value, ENGINE_JOBS[kind], options);
+        workers.push({ ...worker, line: entry.lineNumber, text: entry.raw });
+        if (worker.until_needs_year) warn(entry, `has no year in its until date, so this ${label} worker counts as expired; write until ${worker.until_needs_year}`);
+      } catch (error) {
+        warn(entry, `${error.message}, so ${label} skips this worker`);
+        workers.push({ engine: rosterToolName(String(entry.value).split(',')[0]) || '', model: '', until: '', error: error.message, line: entry.lineNumber, text: entry.raw });
+      }
+    }
+    const good = workers.filter((worker) => !worker.error);
+    if (!good.length) return;
+    const [first, second] = good;
+    picks[key] = {
+      engine: first.engine,
+      model: first.model,
+      ...(first.effort ? { effort: first.effort } : {}),
+      backup: second ? second.engine : '',
+      ...(second && second.model ? { backup_model: second.model } : {}),
+      ...(first.max_seconds ? { max_seconds: first.max_seconds } : {}),
+      until: first.until,
+      ...(first.never_expires ? { never_expires: true } : {}),
+      ...(builtIn ? {} : { like: kind }),
+      workers,
+      file: display,
+      line: heading.lineNumber,
+    };
+  };
+  for (const entry of scan.entries) {
+    if (entry.section === 'job') {
+      if (!done.has(entry.headingIndex)) {
+        done.add(entry.headingIndex);
+        readSection(sections.get(entry.headingIndex));
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (entry.malformed) {
+      warn(entry, entry.section === 'team' ? 'is not "member: job or engine", so it is skipped' : 'is not "job: engine", so it is skipped');
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (entry.section === 'team') {
+      team.push({ member: entry.name.trim().toLowerCase(), value: entry.value, line: entry.lineNumber, text: entry.raw, file: display });
+      continue;
+    }
+    const { name, like } = splitJobName(entry.name);
+    const key = rosterJobKey(name);
+    if (!key) {
+      warn(entry, `${rosterJobNameError(name)}, so the line is skipped`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const builtIn = ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key);
+    const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+    const likeKind = like ? rosterJob(like) : '';
+    if (like && !likeKind) {
+      warn(entry, `"like ${like}" is not search, build, or review, so ${label} uses the next pick in line`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (builtIn && likeKind && ENGINE_JOBS[likeKind] !== key) {
+      warn(entry, `${label} is a built-in job and cannot be like ${likeKind}, so the line is skipped`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    const kind = builtIn ? label : likeKind || inferJobKind(name);
+    if (!kind) {
+      warn(entry, `say what kind of job "${label}" is, for example "${label} (like build)", so the line is skipped`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    if (picks[key]) {
+      warn(entry, `sets ${label} a second time; line ${picks[key].line} wins`);
+      continue;
+    }
+    try {
+      const pick = rosterPickFromValue(entry.value, ENGINE_JOBS[kind], options);
+      picks[key] = { ...pick, ...(builtIn ? {} : { like: kind }), file: display, line: entry.lineNumber };
+      if (pick.until_needs_year) {
+        warn(entry, `has no year in its until date, so ${label} counts as expired; write until ${pick.until_needs_year}`);
+      }
+    } catch (error) {
+      warn(entry, `${error.message}, so ${label} uses the next pick in line`);
+    }
+  }
+  return { picks, team, warnings };
+}
+
+function readRosterMarkdownLayer(scope, file, options = {}) {
+  let text;
+  try {
+    text = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+  return { scope, format: 'markdown', path: file, ...parseRosterMarkdown(text, file, options) };
+}
+
+function readProjectRoster(root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
+  const md = readRosterMarkdownLayer('project', projectRosterFile(projectRosterRoot(root)), { ...options, root });
+  if (md) return { ...md, file: rosterFileLabel(md.path, root) };
+  const registry = options.registry || readEngineRegistry(root, { persist: false });
+  const picks = registry.roster && typeof registry.roster === 'object' && !Array.isArray(registry.roster) ? registry.roster : {};
+  const jsonFile = engineRegistryFile(root);
+  return { scope: 'project', format: Object.keys(picks).length ? 'json' : 'none', path: jsonFile, file: rosterFileLabel(jsonFile, root), picks, team: [], warnings: [] };
+}
+
+function readMachineRosterLayer(options = {}) {
+  const root = options.root || process.cwd();
+  if (!machineRosterEnabled(options)) return { scope: 'machine', format: 'none', path: '', file: '', picks: {}, team: [], warnings: [] };
+  const mdFile = machineRosterMarkdownFile(options);
+  const md = readRosterMarkdownLayer('machine', mdFile, { ...options, root });
+  if (md) return { ...md, file: rosterFileLabel(mdFile, root) };
+  const picks = readMachineRosterJson(options);
+  const jsonFile = machineRosterFile(options);
+  return { scope: 'machine', format: Object.keys(picks).length ? 'json' : 'none', path: jsonFile, file: rosterFileLabel(jsonFile, root), picks, team: [], warnings: [] };
+}
+
+// --- session changes ----------------------------------------------------
+//
+// A session file sits above this project and all projects, one job at a
+// time: a job it names replaces that job's whole list for this shell only.
+// The key is ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSION, else the terminal's own session id. Agent
+// shells have no terminal, so they set the variable. A file no resolution
+// has read for a day is ignored and removed on the next read.
+
+const SESSION_ROSTER_TTL_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+const NO_SESSION_MESSAGE = 'this shell has no session to attach changes to; set ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSION=<name> and run it again';
+let terminalSessionMemo;
+
+function terminalSessionKey() {
+  if (terminalSessionMemo === undefined) {
+    try {
+      terminalSessionMemo = require('../utils/auth').getTerminalSessionId() || '';
+    } catch {
+      terminalSessionMemo = '';
+    }
+  }
+  return terminalSessionMemo;
+}
+
+// Test runs only key off ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSION, never the terminal around them.
+function rosterSessionKey(options = {}) {
+  if (options.sessionKey !== undefined) return String(options.sessionKey || '').trim();
+  const named = String(process.env.ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSION || '').trim();
+  if (named) return named;
+  if (process.env.NODE_TEST_CONTEXT) return '';
+  return terminalSessionKey();
+}
+
+function sessionRosterDir(options = {}) {
+  if (options.sessionRosterDir) return options.sessionRosterDir;
+  if (process.env.ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSIONS_DIR) return process.env.ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSIONS_DIR;
+  if (options.machineRosterFile || process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH) return path.join(path.dirname(machineRosterFile(options)), 'sessions');
+  return path.join(os.homedir(), '.atris', 'sessions');
+}
+
+// Like the all-projects roster: off in test runs unless a test points the
+// home folder somewhere scratch.
+function sessionRosterEnabled(options = {}) {
+  if (options.sessionRoster === false) return false;
+  if (options.sessionRosterDir || process.env.ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSIONS_DIR) return true;
+  if (options.machineRosterFile || process.env.ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH) return true;
+  return !process.env.NODE_TEST_CONTEXT;
+}
+
+// The file name is a short readable part of the key plus a hash of the whole
+// key, so "shell/b" and "shell-b", or two long keys that only differ at the
+// end, never share a file. Only letters, digits, _ . - reach the name, and it
+// never starts with a dot or dash, so a key cannot climb out of the folder.
+function sessionRosterFile(options = {}) {
+  const key = rosterSessionKey(options);
+  if (!key) return '';
+  const readable = key.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9_.-]/g, '-').replace(/^[.-]+/, '').slice(0, 32).replace(/[.-]+$/, '');
+  const hash = crypto.createHash('sha256').update(key).digest('hex').slice(0, 12);
+  return path.join(sessionRosterDir(options), `roster-${readable ? `${readable}-` : ''}${hash}.md`);
+}
+
+function sessionClock(options = {}) {
+  const at = options.sessionClock !== undefined ? new Date(options.sessionClock).getTime() : Date.now();
+  return Number.isFinite(at) ? at : Date.now();
+}
+
+// Remove a session file nobody has read for a day. true when it was stale.
+function dropStaleSessionFile(file, clock) {
+  try {
+    if (clock - fs.statSync(file).mtimeMs <= SESSION_ROSTER_TTL_MS) return false;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+  try { fs.unlinkSync(file); } catch {}
+  return true;
+}
+
+function readSessionRosterLayer(options = {}) {
+  const root = options.root || process.cwd();
+  const key = sessionRosterEnabled(options) ? rosterSessionKey(options) : '';
+  const file = key ? sessionRosterFile(options) : '';
+  const empty = { scope: 'session', format: 'none', key, path: file, file: file ? rosterFileLabel(file, root) : '', picks: {}, team: [], warnings: [] };
+  if (!file || !fs.existsSync(file)) return empty;
+  const clock = sessionClock(options);
+  if (dropStaleSessionFile(file, clock)) return { ...empty, stale: true };
+  const md = readRosterMarkdownLayer('session', file, { ...options, root });
+  if (!md) return empty;
+  // Reading marks the file used, so an active session never goes stale.
+  try { fs.utimesSync(file, new Date(clock), new Date(clock)); } catch {}
+  return { ...md, key, file: rosterFileLabel(file, root) };
+}
+
+// Every other stale session roster in the folder goes when one is written.
+function sweepStaleSessionRosters(options = {}) {
+  const dir = sessionRosterDir(options);
+  const clock = sessionClock(options);
+  let names = [];
+  try { names = fs.readdirSync(dir); } catch { return; }
+  for (const name of names) {
+    if (/^roster-.+\.md$/.test(name)) dropStaleSessionFile(path.join(dir, name), clock);
+  }
+}
+
+function clearSessionRoster(options = {}) {
+  const key = rosterSessionKey(options);
+  if (!key) throw new Error(NO_SESSION_MESSAGE);
+  const file = sessionRosterFile(options);
+  if (!sessionRosterEnabled(options) || !fs.existsSync(file)) return false;
+  fs.unlinkSync(file);
+  return true;
+}
+
+// Every layer at once: this session's changes, this project's roster, and
+// the all-projects roster, each from ROSTER.md when it exists, else from the
+// older JSON file.
+function readRosterState(root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
+  return {
+    session: readSessionRosterLayer({ ...options, root }),
+    project: readProjectRoster(root, options),
+    machine: readMachineRosterLayer({ ...options, root }),
+  };
+}
+
+// --- writing the sectioned shape ------------------------------------------
+
+// A model the way a person writes it on a worker line, when that spelling
+// reads back as the same model; else the saved id itself.
+function workerModelText(engine, model) {
+  const label = rosterModelLabel(model);
+  try {
+    if (normalizeRosterModel(engine, label) === model) return label;
+  } catch {}
+  return model;
+}
+
+// One worker line: "- claude code, model: opus 5.5, effort: high, max: 20 min, until 2026-10-24".
+function workerLineText(worker) {
+  const parts = [rosterToolLabel(worker.engine)];
+  if (worker.model) parts.push(`model: ${workerModelText(worker.engine, worker.model)}`);
+  if (worker.effort) parts.push(`effort: ${worker.effort}`);
+  if (Number(worker.max_seconds) > 0) parts.push(`max: ${rosterMaxText(worker.max_seconds).replace(/^max /, '')}`);
+  if (worker.until) parts.push(`until ${worker.until}`);
+  return `- ${parts.join(', ')}`;
+}
+
+// "## small build", or "## quick fixes (like build)" when the name does not
+// say its kind.
+function jobHeadingText(key, like = '') {
+  const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+  const custom = !ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key);
+  const likeText = custom && like && inferJobKind(label) !== like ? ` (like ${like})` : '';
+  return `## ${label}${likeText}`;
+}
+
+// A one-line pick as worker lines with the same meaning: the engine keeps
+// the line's until, the backup never expires, and both keep the time cap. A
+// backup model the engine cannot run was never used, so it is left off.
+function workerLinesForPick(pick) {
+  return pickWorkers(pick).map((worker) => {
+    const model = worker.lenient_model ? savedRosterModel(worker.engine, worker.model) || '' : worker.model;
+    return workerLineText({ ...worker, model });
+  });
+}
+
+function jobBlock(key, pick) {
+  return [jobHeadingText(key, pick.like || ''), ...workerLinesForPick(pick)];
+}
+
+// The first write to a layer with no ROSTER.md carries its JSON picks over,
+// dates included. The JSON file stays where it is, untouched.
+function rosterMarkdownFromPicks(picks) {
+  const { ROSTER_MARKDOWN_TEMPLATE } = require('./roster-markdown');
+  const keys = [...ENGINE_ROLES.filter((role) => role in (picks || {})), ...customRosterJobKeys(picks)];
+  const order = ['executor', 'validator', 'navigator'];
+  keys.sort((a, b) => {
+    const ai = order.indexOf(a);
+    const bi = order.indexOf(b);
+    return (ai === -1 ? 99 : ai) - (bi === -1 ? 99 : bi);
+  });
+  const blocks = keys
+    .map((key) => ({ key, pick: rosterPickObject(picks[key]) }))
+    .filter(({ key, pick }) => pick && (ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key) || customPickRole(pick)))
+    .map(({ key, pick }) => [...jobBlock(key, pick), '']);
+  return [...ROSTER_MARKDOWN_TEMPLATE, ...blocks.flat()].join('\n');
+}
+
+function isBlankLine(line) {
+  return !String(line || '').trim();
+}
+
+// A ROSTER.md in the one-line shape, rewritten into sections with the same
+// meaning: each good job line becomes its own "## job" section (the backup is
+// the second worker), team lines become "- member: value", and comments,
+// notes, and every other line stay where they were. A line that could not be
+// used stays as written, so it still warns; a second line for a job that was
+// already set turns into a comment, since it never counted.
+function sectionedRosterText(text, file, options = {}) {
+  const { scanRosterMarkdown, joinLines, OLD_ROSTER_NOTE, ROSTER_NOTE } = require('./roster-markdown');
+  const scan = scanRosterMarkdown(text);
+  const oldJobs = scan.entries.filter((entry) => entry.section === 'jobs' && !entry.malformed);
+  const plainTeam = scan.entries.filter((entry) => entry.section === 'team' && !entry.dashed && !entry.malformed);
+  const oldNote = scan.lines.some((line) => line.trim() === OLD_ROSTER_NOTE);
+  if (!oldJobs.length && !plainTeam.length && !oldNote) return text;
+  const { picks } = parseRosterMarkdown(text, file, options);
+  const pickAt = new Map(Object.entries(picks).filter(([, pick]) => !pick.workers).map(([key, pick]) => [pick.line, key]));
+  const byIndex = new Map(scan.entries.map((entry) => [entry.index, entry]));
+  const firstJob = oldJobs.length ? oldJobs[0].index : -1;
+  const SLOT = '\u0000';
+  const kept = [];
+  const moved = [];
+  const blocks = [];
+  scan.lines.forEach((raw, index) => {
+    const entry = byIndex.get(index);
+    if (index === firstJob) kept.push(SLOT);
+    if (entry && entry.section === 'jobs' && !entry.malformed) {
+      const key = pickAt.get(entry.lineNumber);
+      if (key) {
+        // A comment right above the line and a note at its end go with it.
+        const above = [];
+        while (kept.length && kept[kept.length - 1] !== SLOT && /^\s*<!--.*-->\s*$/.test(kept[kept.length - 1])) above.unshift(kept.pop());
+        const [heading, ...workers] = jobBlock(key, picks[key]);
+        const note = /\s*(<!--.*?-->)\s*$/.exec(raw);
+        blocks.push('', ...above, `${heading}${note ? ` ${note[1]}` : ''}`, ...workers);
+        return;
+      }
+      const sameJob = rosterJobKey(splitJobName(entry.name).name);
+      if (sameJob && picks[sameJob]) {
+        moved.push(`<!-- never used, ${rosterJobLabel(sameJob)} was set on another line: ${raw.trim()} -->`);
+        return;
+      }
+      // A line that could not be used keeps warning above the sections.
+      moved.push(raw);
+      return;
+    }
+    if (entry && entry.section === 'team' && !entry.dashed && !entry.malformed) {
+      kept.push(`${/^\s*/.exec(raw)[0]}- ${raw.trim()}`);
+      return;
+    }
+    kept.push(raw.trim() === OLD_ROSTER_NOTE ? ROSTER_NOTE : raw);
+  });
+  const out = [];
+  for (const line of kept) {
+    if (line === SLOT) out.push(...moved, ...blocks, '');
+    else out.push(line);
+  }
+  // One blank line between blocks, never two, and none at the very end.
+  const tidy = out.filter((line, index) => !(isBlankLine(line) && index > 0 && isBlankLine(out[index - 1])));
+  while (tidy.length && isBlankLine(tidy[tidy.length - 1])) tidy.pop();
+  return joinLines(tidy, scan.newline);
+}
+
+// Where an assign writes: this session, all projects (--everywhere), or this
+// project.
+function rosterWriteTarget(options, root) {
+  if (options.session && options.everywhere) throw new Error('pick one: --session or --everywhere');
+  if (options.session) {
+    if (!rosterSessionKey(options)) throw new Error(NO_SESSION_MESSAGE);
+    if (!sessionRosterEnabled(options)) throw new Error('session changes are off in test runs; set ATRIS_ROSTER_SESSIONS_DIR to a scratch folder');
+    return { scope: 'session', file: sessionRosterFile(options), layer: readSessionRosterLayer({ ...options, root }) };
+  }
+  if (options.everywhere) {
+    if (!machineRosterEnabled(options)) throw new Error('the all-projects roster is off in test runs; set ATRIS_MACHINE_ROSTER_PATH to a scratch file');
+    return { scope: 'machine', file: machineRosterMarkdownFile(options), layer: readMachineRosterLayer({ ...options, root }) };
+  }
+  return { scope: 'project', file: projectRosterFile(projectRosterRoot(root)), layer: null };
+}
+
+// The new list of worker lines for one assign. null removes the job.
+function assignedWorkerLines(key, engineName, options, context) {
+  const { registry, savedPick, currentLines, currentWorkers, jobName } = context;
+  const builtIn = ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key);
+  const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+  if (options.clear) return { lines: null };
+  if (options.remove !== undefined) {
+    const tool = rosterToolName(options.remove);
+    if (!tool) throw new Error(`unknown tool "${options.remove}"`);
+    const keep = currentLines.filter((line, index) => currentWorkers[index].engine !== tool);
+    if (keep.length === currentLines.length) throw new Error(`${label} has no ${tool} worker to remove`);
+    return { lines: keep.length ? keep : null };
+  }
+  const likeName = String(options.like || '').trim();
+  const likeKind = likeName ? rosterJob(likeName) : '';
+  if (likeName && !likeKind) throw new Error(`unknown kind "${likeName}". use --like search, build, or review`);
+  if (builtIn && likeKind && ENGINE_JOBS[likeKind] !== key) throw new Error(`${label} is a built-in job; --like is only for your own jobs`);
+  const savedKind = builtIn ? '' : Object.keys(ENGINE_JOBS).find((kind) => ENGINE_JOBS[kind] === customPickRole(savedPick)) || '';
+  const kind = builtIn ? label : likeKind || inferJobKind(jobName) || savedKind;
+  if (!kind) throw new Error(`say what kind of job "${label}" is: add --like search, --like build, or --like review`);
+  const role = ENGINE_JOBS[kind];
+  const engineId = rosterToolName(engineName);
+  const engine = registry.engines.find((entry) => entry.id === engineId);
+  if (!engine) throw new Error(`unknown engine "${engineName}"`);
+  if (!engineHasRole(engine, role)) throw new Error(`${engine.id} cannot do ${builtIn ? label : `${kind} work, so it cannot take ${label}`}`);
+  // --backup takes engine words with an optional model and effort, the
+  // same as a written line: --backup "claude opus 5.5".
+  const backupName = String(options.backup || '').trim();
+  if (backupName && options.add) throw new Error('use --backup without --add; --add puts a worker at the end of the list');
+  let backupRead = null;
+  if (backupName) {
+    try {
+      backupRead = resolveRosterWords(backupName);
+    } catch (error) {
+      throw new Error(rosterToolName(backupName.split(' ')[0]) ? `the backup ${error.message}` : `unknown backup engine "${backupName}"`);
+    }
+  }
+  const backup = backupRead ? registry.engines.find((entry) => entry.id === backupRead.engine) : null;
+  if (backupName && !backup) throw new Error(`unknown backup engine "${backupName}"`);
+  if (backup && !engineHasRole(backup, role)) throw new Error(`${backup.id} cannot do ${builtIn ? label : `${kind} work, so it cannot back up ${label}`}`);
+  // No --days means the worker holds until someone changes the line.
+  const days = options.days === undefined ? null : Number(options.days);
+  if (days !== null && (!Number.isSafeInteger(days) || days < 1)) throw new Error('days must be a positive whole number');
+  const model = normalizeRosterModel(engine.id, options.model);
+  if (model && !engineTakesModel(engine.id)) throw new Error(`${engine.id} runs one fixed model and cannot take "${model}"`);
+  const effort = String(options.effort || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (effort && !EFFORT_WORDS.includes(effort)) throw new Error(`"${effort}" is not an effort; use ${EFFORT_WORDS.join(', ')}`);
+  if (effort && !engineEffortLevels(engine.id).includes(effort)) throw new Error(effortRefusal(engine.id, effort));
+  const maxSeconds = options.max === undefined ? null : parseRosterMax(`max ${String(options.max).replace(/^max\s*:?\s*/i, '')}`);
+  if (options.max !== undefined && !maxSeconds) throw new Error(`"${options.max}" is not a time cap; use --max "20 min", --max 90s, or --max 2h`);
+  const now = rosterDate(options.now);
+  const line = workerLineText({
+    engine: engine.id,
+    model,
+    ...(effort ? { effort } : {}),
+    ...(maxSeconds ? { max_seconds: maxSeconds } : {}),
+    until: days ? rosterUntil(now, days) : '',
+  });
+  const heading = jobHeadingText(key, builtIn ? '' : kind);
+  if (options.add) return { lines: [...currentLines, line], heading };
+  // A note the person left at the end of the old lead line stays with the lead.
+  const leadNote = currentLines.length ? /\s*(<!--.*?-->)\s*$/.exec(currentLines[0]) : null;
+  const lead = leadNote ? `${line} ${leadNote[1]}` : line;
+  // The new lead replaces the first line; the same tool and model further
+  // down would only repeat it, so that line goes.
+  const same = (index) => currentWorkers[index].engine === engine.id && (currentWorkers[index].model || '') === model;
+  const rest = currentLines.filter((text, index) => index > 0 && !same(index));
+  if (!backup) return { lines: [lead, ...rest], heading };
+  const backupLine = workerLineText({
+    engine: backup.id,
+    model: backupRead.model || '',
+    ...(backupRead.effort ? { effort: backupRead.effort } : {}),
+    ...(maxSeconds ? { max_seconds: maxSeconds } : {}),
+    until: '',
+  });
+  // Lead first, backup second, then every old worker in its old order with
+  // its settings as written, keeping only the first line for each tool and
+  // model pair: claude on haiku and claude on opus are two workers. The old
+  // lead stays when it is a different pair, and then its note stays on its
+  // own line.
+  const pair = (tool, pinned) => `${tool}\u0000${pinned || ''}`;
+  const placed = [pair(engine.id, model), pair(backup.id, backupRead.model || '')];
+  const taken = new Set(placed);
+  const others = currentLines.filter((text, index) => {
+    const worker = pair(currentWorkers[index].engine, currentWorkers[index].model);
+    if (taken.has(worker)) return false;
+    taken.add(worker);
+    return true;
+  });
+  const keptOldLead = currentLines.length > 0
+    && !placed.includes(pair(currentWorkers[0].engine, currentWorkers[0].model));
+  return { lines: [keptOldLead ? line : lead, backupLine, ...others], heading };
+}
+
+// Assign one job by editing its section in ROSTER.md: this project's
+// atris/ROSTER.md, ~/.atris/ROSTER.md with everywhere, or this session's file
+// with session. The default sets the lead worker (the first line) and keeps
+// the rest; add appends a worker; remove drops every worker on that tool;
+// backup sets the second worker; clear removes the job. Only that job's
+// section changes; comments, order, and every other line stay as written. A
+// file still in the one-line shape is rewritten into sections first, with
+// the same meaning. The three built-in jobs keep their role keys; any other
+// name is a custom job whose kind (search, build, or review) comes from
+// --like, its name, or its saved section, and tools are checked against it.
+function setRosterPick(jobName, engineName, options = {}, root = process.cwd()) {
+  const { replaceJobSection, scanRosterMarkdown, jobSections } = require('./roster-markdown');
+  const key = rosterJobKey(jobName);
+  if (!key) throw new Error(rosterJobNameError(jobName));
+  const registry = readEngineRegistry(root, { persist: false });
+  const target = rosterWriteTarget(options, root);
+  const layer = target.layer || readProjectRoster(root, { ...options, registry });
+  const file = target.file;
+  const existing = fs.existsSync(file) ? fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8') : null;
+  if (existing === null && (options.clear || options.remove !== undefined) && !Object.keys(layer.picks || {}).length) return {};
+  const base = existing !== null ? sectionedRosterText(existing, file, { ...options, root }) : rosterMarkdownFromPicks(layer.picks);
+  const parsed = parseRosterMarkdown(base, file, { ...options, root });
+  const savedPick = rosterPickObject(parsed.picks[key]);
+  const section = jobSections(scanRosterMarkdown(base)).find((entry) => rosterJobHeading(entry.heading.title).key === key);
+  const workerEntries = section ? section.workers : [];
+  const currentWorkers = workerEntries.map((entry) => {
+    const worker = savedPick && savedPick.workers ? savedPick.workers.find((item) => item.line === entry.lineNumber) : null;
+    return worker || { engine: rosterToolName(String(entry.value).split(',')[0]), model: '' };
+  });
+  const { lines, heading } = assignedWorkerLines(key, engineName, options, {
+    registry,
+    savedPick,
+    currentLines: workerEntries.map((entry) => entry.raw),
+    currentWorkers,
+    jobName,
+  });
+  const next = replaceJobSection(base, {
+    matches: (title) => rosterJobHeading(title).key === key,
+    // Only an assign names a heading, and only when the job's kind changes;
+    // otherwise the heading stays exactly as the person wrote it.
+    heading: section && heading && rosterJobHeading(section.heading.title).kind === rosterJobHeading(String(heading).replace(/^#+\s*/, '')).kind
+      ? ''
+      : heading,
+    lines,
+  });
+  writeAtomic(file, next);
+  if (target.scope === 'session') {
+    sweepStaleSessionRosters(options);
+    return readSessionRosterLayer({ ...options, root }).picks;
+  }
+  return target.scope === 'machine' ? readMachineRoster(options) : readProjectRoster(root, options).picks;
+}
+
+function renewRoster(roster, date) {
+  const next = { ...(roster || {}) };
+  for (const key of [...ENGINE_ROLES, ...customRosterJobKeys(next)]) {
+    if (next[key]) next[key] = { ...next[key], until: rosterUntil(date, 30), set_at: date.toISOString() };
+  }
+  return next;
+}
+
+// Renew every dated line in one ROSTER.md for thirty days. Only the date
+// after "until" changes; lines with no until never expire, so they stay
+// exactly as written, and so does everything else on a renewed line.
+function renewRosterMarkdown(file, date, options = {}) {
+  const { rewriteRosterValues } = require('./roster-markdown');
+  const text = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
+  const parsed = parseRosterMarkdown(text, file, options);
+  const renewLines = new Set();
+  for (const pick of Object.values(parsed.picks)) {
+    if (!Array.isArray(pick.workers)) {
+      if (pick.until) renewLines.add(pick.line);
+      continue;
+    }
+    for (const worker of pick.workers) if (!worker.error && worker.until) renewLines.add(worker.line);
+  }
+  const until = rosterUntil(date, 30);
+  const next = rewriteRosterValues(text, (entry) => {
+    if ((entry.section !== 'jobs' && entry.section !== 'job') || !renewLines.has(entry.lineNumber)) return undefined;
+    return entry.raw.replace(/(,\s*until\s*:?\s+)(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})/i, `$1${until}`);
+  });
+  if (next !== text) writeAtomic(file, next);
+}
+
+// Confirm renews this project's picks and the all-projects picks together.
+// In a ROSTER.md only lines that carry an until date are renewed.
+function confirmRoster(root = process.cwd(), now = new Date(), options = {}) {
+  const date = rosterDate(now);
+  const projectMd = projectRosterFile(projectRosterRoot(root));
+  if (fs.existsSync(projectMd)) {
+    renewRosterMarkdown(projectMd, date, { ...options, root, now: date });
+  } else {
+    const registry = readEngineRegistry(root, { persist: false });
+    if (registry.roster) writeEngineRegistry(root, { ...registry, updated_at: date.toISOString(), roster: renewRoster(registry.roster, date) });
+  }
+  if (machineRosterEnabled(options)) {
+    const machineMd = machineRosterMarkdownFile(options);
+    if (fs.existsSync(machineMd)) {
+      renewRosterMarkdown(machineMd, date, { ...options, root, now: date });
+    } else {
+      const machine = readMachineRosterJson(options);
+      if (Object.keys(machine).length) writeMachineRoster(renewRoster(machine, date), options);
+    }
+  }
+  return readProjectRoster(root, { ...options, now: date }).picks;
+}
+
 function engineRegistryView(root = process.cwd()) {
   return readEngineRegistry(root).engines;
 }
@@ -295,13 +1568,131 @@ function resolveRegisteredEngine(name, root = process.cwd()) {
   return engine;
 }
 
+const ROSTER_SOURCES = Object.freeze({ session: 'this session', project: 'this project', machine: 'all projects' });
+const ROSTER_LAYERS = Object.freeze(['session', 'project', 'machine']);
+
+// A pick's workers, each with the engine it would run (model, effort, and
+// time cap pinned) or the reason it is skipped: bad line, expired, bad model,
+// or not ready (down, or it cannot do this kind of work).
+function rosterWorkerWalk(pick, role, registry, now) {
+  const ready = registry.engines
+    .filter((engine) => engine.health && engine.health.status === 'ready')
+    .filter((engine) => engineHasRole(engine, role));
+  return pickWorkers(pick).map((worker) => {
+    if (worker.error) return { worker, skip: 'bad line', engine: null, raw: null };
+    if (rosterPickExpired(worker, now)) return { worker, skip: 'expired', engine: null, raw: null };
+    const saved = savedRosterModel(worker.engine, worker.model);
+    if (saved === null && !worker.lenient_model) return { worker, skip: 'bad model', engine: null, raw: null };
+    const raw = ready.find((engine) => engine.id === worker.engine) || null;
+    if (!raw) return { worker, skip: 'not ready', engine: null, raw: null };
+    // A backup runs its own model and effort, never the lead's.
+    const model = saved || '';
+    const effort = savedRosterEffort(raw.id, worker.effort);
+    const maxSeconds = Number(worker.max_seconds) > 0 ? Number(worker.max_seconds) : 0;
+    const engine = model || effort || maxSeconds
+      ? {
+        ...raw,
+        ...(model ? { roster_model: model } : {}),
+        ...(effort ? { roster_effort: effort } : {}),
+        ...(maxSeconds ? { roster_max_seconds: maxSeconds } : {}),
+      }
+      : raw;
+    return { worker, skip: '', engine, raw };
+  });
+}
+
+// One pick's walk down its workers in order. The first worker that can run
+// leads; null means the next pick in line decides. A custom pick only counts
+// when its kind matches the role being resolved. team is every worker that
+// can run, lead first.
+function rosterChoiceForPick(pick, role, registry, { key, label, source, scopeText = '', now } = {}) {
+  if (!pick || !pick.engine) return null;
+  if (key !== undefined && pickRoleForKey(key, pick) !== role) return null;
+  const walk = rosterWorkerWalk(pick, role, registry, now);
+  const leadIndex = walk.findIndex((step) => !step.skip);
+  if (leadIndex === -1) return null;
+  const lead = walk[leadIndex];
+  const after = walk.slice(leadIndex + 1).filter((step) => !step.skip);
+  const first = walk[0];
+  const why = first.skip === 'expired' ? 'expired'
+    : first.skip === 'bad model' ? `names a model ${first.worker.engine} cannot run`
+      : first.skip === 'bad line' ? 'has a bad first line'
+        : 'is not ready';
+  return {
+    engine: lead.engine,
+    backup: leadIndex === 0 && after.length ? after[0].raw : null,
+    team: [lead.engine, ...after.map((step) => step.engine)],
+    lead_index: leadIndex,
+    walk,
+    source,
+    job: label,
+    pick,
+    reason: leadIndex === 0
+      ? `roster pick for ${label}${scopeText}: ${lead.engine.id}`
+      : `roster pick for ${label}${scopeText} ${why}, using backup: ${lead.engine.id}`,
+  };
+}
+
+const ROSTER_SCOPE_TEXT = Object.freeze({ session: ' (this session)', project: '', machine: ' (all projects)' });
+
+// Walk one job's roster layers in order: this session, this project, all
+// projects. Within a layer the job's workers go in order. The first worker
+// that can run wins; null means the next job in line (or the router) decides.
+function rosterChoiceForKey(key, role, registry, machine, options = {}) {
+  const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+  const session = options.sessionRosterPicks || {};
+  const layers = [
+    { source: 'session', pick: session[key] },
+    { source: 'project', pick: registry.roster && registry.roster[key] },
+    { source: 'machine', pick: machine && machine[key] },
+  ];
+  for (const { source, pick } of layers) {
+    const choice = rosterChoiceForPick(pick, role, registry, {
+      key,
+      label,
+      source,
+      scopeText: ROSTER_SCOPE_TEXT[source],
+      now: options.now,
+    });
+    if (choice) return choice;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+// The jobs to try, in order: the named job (options.job), else small build
+// for a low-stakes build, then the role's own job.
+function rosterJobKeysFor(role, options = {}) {
+  const named = options.job ? rosterJobKey(options.job) : '';
+  const first = named || (role === 'executor' && options.lowStakes === true ? SMALL_BUILD_JOB : '');
+  return first && first !== role ? [first, role] : [role];
+}
+
+// The registry with this project's picks swapped in from wherever they live
+// now: atris/ROSTER.md when it exists, else the roster saved in engines.json.
+function withProjectRoster(registry, root, options = {}) {
+  const roster = options.projectRosterPicks || readProjectRoster(root, { ...options, registry }).picks;
+  return { ...registry, roster };
+}
+
+function rosterChoice(role, registry, options = {}) {
+  const machine = options.machineRosterPicks || readMachineRoster(options);
+  const sessionRosterPicks = options.sessionRosterPicks || readSessionRosterLayer(options).picks;
+  for (const key of rosterJobKeysFor(role, options)) {
+    const choice = rosterChoiceForKey(key, role, registry, machine, { ...options, sessionRosterPicks });
+    if (choice) return choice;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
 function resolveEngineForRoleRanked(role, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
   const normalizedRole = String(role || '').trim().toLowerCase();
   if (!ENGINE_ROLES.includes(normalizedRole)) {
     throw new Error(`Unknown role "${role}". Known roles: ${ENGINE_ROLES.join(', ')}`);
   }
-  const engines = engineRegistryView(root)
+  const registry = readEngineRegistry(root);
+  const engines = registry.engines
     .filter((engine) => engine.roles.includes(normalizedRole))
+    .filter((engine) => !routerSkipsRole(engine, normalizedRole))
     .filter((engine) => engine.health && engine.health.status === 'ready')
     .sort((a, b) => {
       const byOrder = Number(a.fallback_order) - Number(b.fallback_order);
@@ -313,11 +1704,43 @@ function resolveEngineForRoleRanked(role, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
     lowStakes: options.lowStakes,
     stakes: options.stakes,
   });
-  return {
-    engine: ranked.candidates[0] || null,
-    reason: routerPickExplanation(ranked),
-    ranked: ranked.candidates,
-  };
+  const choice = rosterChoice(normalizedRole, withProjectRoster(registry, root, options), options);
+  if (choice) {
+    // The job's own workers go first, in order, then the router's list.
+    const after = choice.walk.slice(choice.lead_index + 1).filter((step) => !step.skip).map((step) => step.raw);
+    const lead = [choice.engine, ...after].filter((engine, index, list) => list.findIndex((other) => other.id === engine.id) === index);
+    const leadIds = new Set(lead.map((engine) => engine.id));
+    return {
+      engine: choice.engine,
+      reason: choice.reason,
+      source: choice.source,
+      job: choice.job,
+      team: choice.team,
+      ranked: [...lead, ...ranked.candidates.filter((candidate) => !leadIds.has(candidate.id))],
+    };
+  }
+  return { engine: ranked.candidates[0] || null, reason: routerPickExplanation(ranked), source: 'router', team: [], ranked: ranked.candidates };
+}
+
+// The ordered team for one job: every worker that can run right now, lead
+// first, each with its model, effort, and time cap pinned. Split work goes
+// across the team in this order. With no roster line the router's single
+// pick is the whole team.
+function resolveJobTeam(job, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
+  const key = rosterJobKey(job);
+  if (!key) throw new Error(rosterJobNameError(job));
+  const label = rosterJobLabel(key);
+  const role = rosterJobRole(job, root, options);
+  if (!role) return { job: label, key, role: '', source: 'none', lead: null, team: [], reason: `${label} names no kind of work yet` };
+  const custom = !ENGINE_ROLES.includes(key);
+  const resolved = resolveEngineForRoleRanked(role, root, { ...options, ...(custom ? { job: key } : {}) });
+  const team = resolved.team && resolved.team.length ? resolved.team : resolved.engine ? [resolved.engine] : [];
+  return { job: label, key, role, source: resolved.source, lead: resolved.engine || null, team, reason: resolved.reason };
+}
+
+// True when a roster line (not the router) decided.
+function rosterDecided(source) {
+  return ROSTER_LAYERS.includes(source);
 }
 
 function resolveEngineForRole(role, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
@@ -330,6 +1753,22 @@ function resolveEngineForRole(role, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
   return picked.engine;
 }
 
+// Everything the roster pins on this job's live pick when that pick is this
+// exact engine: roster_model, roster_effort, roster_max_seconds. {} otherwise.
+// A caller that already chose an engine (a mission's preferred engine,
+// --engine) still gets the pins.
+function rosterPinFor(role, engineId, root = process.cwd(), options = {}) {
+  const normalizedRole = String(role || '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  if (!ENGINE_ROLES.includes(normalizedRole) || !engineId) return {};
+  const choice = rosterChoice(normalizedRole, withProjectRoster(readEngineRegistry(root, { persist: false }), root, options), options);
+  if (!choice || choice.engine.id !== engineId) return {};
+  const pin = {};
+  for (const field of ['roster_model', 'roster_effort', 'roster_max_seconds']) {
+    if (choice.engine[field]) pin[field] = choice.engine[field];
+  }
+  return pin;
+}
+
 function resolveEngineForRoleWithPreference(role, root = process.cwd(), preferredEngineId = '', options = {}) {
   const requested = String(preferredEngineId || '').trim();
   if (!requested) {
@@ -341,8 +1780,9 @@ function resolveEngineForRoleWithPreference(role, root = process.cwd(), preferre
   }
   const preferred = resolveRegisteredEngine(requested, root);
   if (preferred.health && preferred.health.status === 'ready') {
+    const pin = rosterPinFor(role, preferred.id, root, options);
     return {
-      engine: preferred,
+      engine: Object.keys(pin).length ? { ...preferred, ...pin } : preferred,
       requested_engine: preferred.id,
       engine_fallback_reason: null,
     };
@@ -413,6 +1853,35 @@ function engineDoctorReport(root = process.cwd()) {
 
 module.exports = {
   ENGINE_ROLES,
+  ENGINE_JOBS,
+  SMALL_BUILD_JOB,
+  ROSTER_SOURCES,
+  rosterJobKey,
+  rosterJobLabel,
+  rosterJobNameError,
+  rosterJobRole,
+  inferJobKind,
+  readRosterState,
+  rosterPickFromValue,
+  rosterChoiceForPick,
+  customRosterJobKeys,
+  setRosterPick,
+  confirmRoster,
+  normalizeRosterModel,
+  rosterModelLabel,
+  parseRosterUntil,
+  rosterPickExpired,
+  rosterPinFor,
+  rosterMaxText,
+  mainCheckoutRoot,
+  ROSTER_LAYERS,
+  rosterDecided,
+  rosterToolLabel,
+  rosterWorkerWalk,
+  resolveJobTeam,
+  rosterSessionKey,
+  clearSessionRoster,
+  NO_SESSION_MESSAGE,
   ENGINE_DUTIES,
   ENGINE_HEALTH_STATUSES,
   engineRegistryFile,