omp-llm-role 1.0.0 → 1.1.0

package/docs/dev/scoring.md

@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # Scoring
 
-Maintainer reference for the ranking math. The normative decisions live in
-[`spec.md`](spec.md) §4.1, §6 and §7; this page is the implementation-level
-companion: the exact transforms, the invariants a weight change must preserve,
-and the measured findings behind the shipped weights. All math is in
+Maintainer reference for the ranking math: the exact transforms, the invariants
+a weight change must preserve, and the measured findings behind the shipped
+weights. All math is in
 `src/engine.ts`; the shipped role defs are `DEFAULT_ROLES` in `src/settings.ts`;
 the archetype sets are `src/role-archetypes.ts`.
 
@@ -16,9 +15,9 @@ rank compression (real magnitude gaps now count) and field-dependent scales.
 
 | Class | Metrics | Transform | Anchors |
 |---|---|---|---|
-| index | `general`, `reasoning`, `math`, `code`, `agents`, `search`, `vision`, `tool_calling`, `long_context` | `(v+20)/80` | −20→0, +60→1; extrapolates outside (no clamp) |
+| index | `general`, `reasoning`, `math`, `code`, `agents`, `search`, `vision`, `tool_calling`, `long_context`, `index_communication`, `index_finance`, `index_healthcare`, `index_legal` | `(v+20)/80` | −20→0, +60→1; extrapolates outside (no clamp) |
 | benchmark, chance-anchored | `gpqa` | `(v−0.25)/0.75` | 4-way multiple choice, chance 0.25 |
-| benchmark, raw | `mrcr`, `aime`, `swe_bench`, `arc_agi`, `terminal_bench`, `tau_bench` | identity | pass rate 0–1, chance ≈ 0 |
+| benchmark, raw | `mrcr`, `aime`, `swe_bench`, `arc_agi`, `terminal_bench`, `tau_bench`, `simpleqa_score`, `hle_score`, `mmmu_score`, `mmmu_pro_score`, `mmmlu_score`, `browsecomp_score`, `swe_bench_pro_score`, `mcp_atlas_score`, `apex_agents_score`, `osworld_score`, `scicode_score`, `screenspot_pro_score`, `charxiv_r_score`, `frontiermath_score`, `toolathlon_score` | identity | pass rate 0–1, chance ≈ 0 |
 | throughput | `throughput` | `ln(v/10)/ln(30)` | 10→0, 300→1; clamped to [0,1] |
 | percentile / score | `website`, `writing` | identity | already 0–1 |
 | external benchmark | `bench:<id>`, `<ns>:<local>` | identity | normalized to 0–1 at parse time (`score / scoreMax`), so no new transform class |
@@ -35,13 +34,14 @@ rank compression (real magnitude gaps now count) and field-dependent scales.
 **Invariant — forward and inverse must agree.** The explorer's "what would it
 take to move up" targets come from `inverseCardinal(metric, t)`
 (`src/explorer/explain.ts`), which must invert `cardinalMetric` for every
-weightable metric. It handles `index` (`t·80−20`) and `throughput` (`10·30^t`,
-null outside [0,1]) and returns identity for everything else. That identity is
-correct for the raw benchmarks and the percentiles but **wrong for `gpqa`**,
-whose forward transform is chance-anchored: `t = 0.5` should map to raw 0.625,
-not 0.5. Before adding a metric to `KNOWN_METRICS`, check that both
-`cardinalMetric` and `inverseCardinal` handle its transform; a chance-anchored
-metric needs a matching inverse (read `BENCHMARK_CHANCE`).
+weightable metric. It handles `index` (`t·80−20`), `throughput` (`10·30^t`,
+null outside [0,1]), and a chance-anchored metric (`t·(1−chance)+chance`, reading
+`BENCHMARK_CHANCE` from the engine so the two can never drift); everything else
+is identity. Forward and inverse therefore agree for every weightable metric —
+`gpqa`'s `t = 0.5` maps to raw 0.625, not 0.5. Before adding a metric to
+`KNOWN_METRICS`, check that both `cardinalMetric` and `inverseCardinal` handle
+its transform; a chance-anchored metric needs a matching inverse (read
+`BENCHMARK_CHANCE`).
 
 ## Quality composite `q`
 
@@ -78,7 +78,139 @@ value = q − λ · priceEff
   model will actually run the role's level (see below); otherwise it is the bare
   billed price.
 - `value` is the sort key; ties break score desc → blended $/M asc → id asc
-  (determinism, spec §6.1).
+  (determinism).
+
+### Cache-read pricing (cache-hit rate)
+
+A role may declare an assumed **cache-hit rate** for its input tokens
+(`roles.<role>.cacheHitRate`, 0–1; `0`/absent = off). Agent loops resend the
+same system prompt every turn, so a cache-heavy role's invoice is dominated by
+cache reads; the knob prices that, opt-in, without touching any shipped role.
+
+- the route's billed price is `price = (3·input + output)/4` on the **listed**
+  input price; a hit rate `h` blends the endpoint's cache-read price into the
+  input term, `effInput = h·cacheRead + (1−h)·input`, giving
+  `billed = price + 3·(effInput − input)/4` (the output term is unchanged);
+- `blendRoutePool(routes, cacheHitRate)` weights by **`1/listedInput²`** — the
+  router's sort key — so the hit rate changes the per-route billed price, not the
+  routing probability: a cheap cache on a lightly-weighted route does not
+  dominate (user story 9);
+- a route with **no cache-read price** keeps its full input price
+  (`cacheReadPrice = null` → `effInput = input`), so missing data is not a silent
+  discount;
+- `endpointFilteredModel(model, filters, cacheHitRate)` recomputes the blend when
+  the role declares endpoint filters **or** a non-zero hit rate; the hit rate
+  composes with the filters (filter the pool first, then cache-price it);
+- `roleEffectivePrice`/`routeEffectivePrice` is the single per-route accessor the
+  blend, the pinned-route path and `roleMetricValue` share; a pinned role prices
+  its route's cache-adjusted billed price, and `maxPriceUsdPerM` caps the
+  thinking-adjusted `priceEff` (the same cap as the blend path);
+- `explainModel` mirrors all of it, carries `role.cacheHitRate`, and reports the
+  cache-adjusted `cost.billedPrice`; the SPA cost line appends `· cache <rate>`
+  when the rate is set;
+- with `cacheHitRate = 0` (absent) every path is **byte-identical** to the
+  uncached ranking. `resolveSettings` validates the rate to `[0, 1]` (a typo
+  cannot silently halve or double the price).
+
+### Route-aware pricing (provider pin)
+
+A role may pin its requests to one OpenRouter provider route
+(`roles.<role>.providerPin`). When it does, the role is priced by that
+route instead of the `1/price²` blend:
+
+- `pinnedRoute(model, pin)` (`src/engine.ts`) resolves the model's route by
+  **exact, tiered-verbatim** `providerSlug` — `deepinfra` and `deepinfra/fp8`
+  are different routes, with no normalization — and returns `null` on no match.
+- `priceEff` is the route's billed 3:1 price (cache-adjusted by the role's
+  `cacheHitRate` when set, see *Cache-read pricing*), scaled by the same
+  thinking factor and gated by the same `runsAtLevel` rule as an unpinned role:
+  the pin changes the base price, not the thinking math.
+- the `throughput` weight reads the route's p50, falling back to the model's
+  blended throughput when the route carries no p50 — a sparse route must not
+  zero the metric (an absent p50 is unknown, not slow).
+- `maxPriceUsdPerM` caps the pinned route price (the thinking-adjusted price the
+  role actually pays), like the blend cap.
+- `roleMetricValue(model, metric, route, cacheHitRate)` is the accessor `rankRole`
+  and `explainModel` share: for a pinned role it returns the route's cache-adjusted
+  billed price (`routeEffectivePrice`) and `throughput`, and the model's own value
+  for every other metric.
+- a model with **no matching route** is ineligible for that role
+  (`providerPinDrops` → `Decision.pinBlocked`, rendered `; pin-blocked: …`);
+  `explainModel` reports "no route matches the role's provider pin".
+- an **unpinned** role ignores `routes` entirely — the blend path is unchanged.
+
+The pin is a cost-and-throughput posture, not a quality edit: it moves the price
+axis to the route's billed price and the throughput axis to the route's p50,
+while every other weighted metric stays the model's own.
+
+## Capability presets (feature flags)
+
+One named flag per opt-in capability (`features.<id>` global,
+`roles.<role>.features.<id>` per role) applies the plugin's recommended settings
+to a role. The registry (`FEATURES` in `src/features.ts`) is the single source of
+truth; `expandFeatures(authored, globalFlags)` is the single implementation of
+the precedence rule, called by `resolveSettings` (per role) and by the explorer's
+`/api/rank`/`/api/explain` on the posted def. The rule:
+
+```
+effective def = shipped default  ⊕  preset(enabled flags)  ⊕  explicit user keys
+```
+
+A flag is on when `roles.<role>.features.<id>` is present (it wins either way)
+and otherwise when the global `features.<id>` is `true`; the preset fills only
+knobs the authored def does not already set, and an explicit key is merged last,
+so it always wins. Every flag ships **off** and no shipped role sets one, so with
+no flags the resolved roles are byte-identical to `DEFAULT_ROLES`. The effective
+def is what `rankRole`/`explainModel` see; the authored def (flags + explicit
+keys) is what the explorer edits and exports.
+
+What each recommendation does to the ranking math (grounded on the 2026-10-07
+cache, `default` role, 142 eligible):
+
+- **`endpointCeilings`** (`filters.tools: true`, `filters.minOutputTokens:
+  16384`) drops tool-incapable routes and routes whose output ceiling is below
+  16 384 tokens from the priced pool (see *Endpoint filters*): 142 → 132
+  eligible, leader unchanged (`deepseek-v4.1-flash`, 0.579 $/M). 16 384 is the
+  video's own threshold (19 endpoints cap output at or below it).
+- **`cachePricing`** (`cacheHitRate: 0.5`) reprices the role on a cache-heavy
+  loop's invoice (see *Cache-read pricing*): 142 eligible, leader unchanged, its
+  `priceEff` 0.579 → 0.508 (−12 %). 0.5 is the low end of the measured
+  third-party range (51–69 %), so the preset never over-credits a cache.
+- **`providerPinning`** (`preferOwnProvider: true`) prices a model on its own
+  lab's route where one exists, falling back to the default `1/price²` blend
+  otherwise. It is a **per-model policy, not a scalar** — the sensible pin
+  differs per model, so the bundle carries a policy field evaluated against the
+  model's own routes at rank time, not a slug baked into the lock file. The lab
+  match is a **slug prefix on the model's `orgId`** (exact, or `orgId` + `/`),
+  with the display `org` as a second try; there is no alias map in v1. Measured
+  coverage: 51 of the 149 routed models resolve to one of their own lab's routes
+  (33 on an exact slug match, 17 on an `orgId` prefix, 1 on the display-`org`
+  fallback), and 10 of 25 orgs match for no model (`zai-org` —
+  its lab route slug is `z-ai` — `google`, `qwen`, `inclusionai`, `nvidia`,
+  `microsoft`, `bytedance`, `thinking-machines`, `ibm`,
+  `gryphe`). An unmatched model keeps the blend, so the capability
+  **under-delivers rather than mis-pins**, and it **never changes eligibility**
+  (unlike the hard `providerPin`, which drops a model with no matching route).
+  The resolved route is the same basis a hard pin uses, so the preference moves
+  the **throughput** axis as well as the billed price — a role that routes to the
+  lab's endpoint gets that endpoint's p50 tok/s, not the blend's. Measured on the
+  2026-10-07 cache, the `default` leader's `priceEff` rises 0.579 → 0.975 while
+  its `value` *rises* 0.8132 → 0.8172, because its own lab route's p50 throughput
+  is higher than the blend's, so `q` moves too. That is deliberate (the pin path
+  has always priced and measured on the pinned route); a role that wants the
+  blend's throughput should leave the flag off.
+- **`costCap`** (`filters.maxPriceUsdPerM: 10`) drops the priciest tail of the
+  eligible pool: 142 → 135 (the top ≈5 %), leader unchanged. The pool's p90 is
+  7.8 and p95 8.9 $/M, and every role leader sits at 0.58–0.85 $/M, so the
+  preset never excludes today's leader.
+
+**Interaction with the switch hysteresis.** `switchMargin`/`priceSwitchFraction`
+compare a challenger against the incumbent on `value` and `priceEff`. A flag that
+reprices the **whole field** (`cachePricing`, `providerPinning`) moves **both
+sides** of that comparison, so it can hold a switch that would otherwise happen
+(or vice versa). Flip such a flag **between runs**, not mid-day: the day gate
+stamps one run per UTC day, and a mid-day flag change would compare a
+half-repriced field against a stale incumbent.
 
 ## Eligibility
 
@@ -88,13 +220,40 @@ A model ranks for a role only when:
   **independent of weights** — the shipped defaults require `throughput`
   without weighting it, so validation checks `required ⊆ KNOWN_METRICS`, not
   `required ⊆ weights`);
-- it has a billed price (`m.price != null`);
-- `filters.image` (if set) is satisfied (`m.multimodal`).
+- it has a billed price (`m.price != null`; a pinned role uses its matching
+  route's price — see *Route-aware pricing*);
+- `filters.image` (if set) is satisfied (`m.multimodal`);
+- the role's **endpoint filters** (if any) are satisfied (below);
+- for a **pinned** role, the model has a route matching `providerPin`
+  (`pinnedRoute != null`) — a route-less model is ineligible.
 
-`filters.image` is the only filter the engine implements; spec §6.3 also names
-`filters.maxPriceUsdPerM` / `filters.minContextTokens` as schema capability, but
-`rankRole` does not enforce them and `resolveSettings` does not validate them.
-Filters apply before ranking eligibility so percentile norms stay on the
+### Endpoint filters
+
+`RoleDef.filters` carries four endpoint filters beyond `image`:
+`tools` (boolean), `minContextTokens`, `minOutputTokens` and `maxPriceUsdPerM`
+(numbers; `0`/`false` = off). They gate the **eligible standard-tier route pool**
+— the same pool the `1/price²` blend uses — before the blend:
+
+- `routePassesEndpointFilters` drops a route failing any declared filter; a
+  `null` capability field is **kept** (missing data is not a capability failure);
+- `modelPassesEndpointFilters` requires at least one surviving route — a model
+  whose every standard-tier route fails (or that has no route data) is
+  ineligible, and the single-find-route fallback does not resurrect it;
+- `minContextTokens` filters the **endpoint** `context_length`, not the
+  model-level `context`;
+- `maxPriceUsdPerM` caps the thinking-adjusted `priceEff` (the price the role
+  actually pays), not the bare billed blend;
+- a role that declares `tools`/`minContextTokens`/`minOutputTokens` is **priced**
+  on the surviving pool: `endpointFilteredModel` recomputes `price`/`throughput`
+  as the `1/price²` blend over the routes that clear the filters
+  (`blendRoutePool`), so the role is priced on the routes the router would
+  actually choose from — not the model's full-route blend. No endpoint filter
+  leaves the model's own blend unchanged.
+
+`endpointFilterDrops(def, models)` lists the ranking ids the gate removed (they
+pass every other eligibility gate but have no capable route) for the decision
+log. `resolveSettings` validates all four; no shipped role sets an endpoint
+filter. Filters apply before ranking eligibility so percentile norms stay on the
 unfiltered pool.
 
 ## Pareto frontier (★)
@@ -134,6 +293,20 @@ instead of 0, so absence is not a coverage penalty. None of the three may be a
   fill. Making it per-metric is a one-line change (`CAPABILITY_FILL`).
 - The report marks a filled value `~` in the model column.
 
+### The 0-fill posture
+
+`code`, `agents`, `tool_calling`, `math` and `vision` are deliberately
+**0-filled** — a missing value scores 0, not the capability fill. This is a
+cost-conservative choice, not an oversight: capability-filling them at 0.195
+promotes expensive models, because the fill lifts every uncovered model's `q`
+and the expensive models are the ones the source tends to cover. Measured on the
+2026-10-03 caches, filling these metrics flips `slow` #1 muse-spark-1.3 →
+gpt-6-astra and `plan` #1 hy4-preview → gpt-5.6-sol. The 0-fill keeps the
+ranking on the models the source actually measured; the cost is that a model
+missing a weighted metric is penalized for a coverage gap (see rule 4), which is
+why the defaults weight these metrics at reduced share and never add them to
+`required`.
+
 ## Thinking price factor
 
 Roles with a `thinking` level rank on the thinking-adjusted price.
@@ -195,6 +368,136 @@ Naming the archetype's own specialist set is a no-op (the focus share equals its
 archetype share). A named metric already in the weights is reported as a
 duplicate; a name outside the known-metric set is unknown.
 
+**The nine-axis focus-metric gate.** A focus metric that is fill-0 and covers too
+little of the field turns `q` into a coverage score (a missing weighted metric
+contributes 0 while occupying its denominator share). `assessFocusMetric(models,
+metric, declared, source?)` (`src/agent-create.ts`) is the one rule, returning a
+`FocusMetricAssessment` with nine axes, each `{ …, status: "ok" | "below-bar" |
+"unknown" }`:
+
+- **coverage** (`FocusCoverageEntry`) — the share of the pool carrying the metric
+  (not the imputed fill). Safe when the source is capability-filled (`fill > 0`,
+  so absence is a known non-penalty) **or** the share clears
+  `FOCUS_COVERAGE_FLOOR` (0.35). This is `focusCoverageOk`, the coverage branch.
+- **dispersion** — IQR/median of the cardinal-normalized covered values (the
+  engine's `cardinalMetric` first, so index and 0–1 metrics are comparable),
+  below-bar under `FOCUS_DISPERSION_FLOOR` (0.05). A saturated metric cannot
+  separate models. Fewer than two covered values, or a zero median, is `unknown`.
+- **composition** — an org whose pool share is ≥ `FOCUS_ORG_MIN_SHARE` (0.1) but
+  which carries no covered model is flagged (`omittedOrgs`); a smaller provider's
+  absence is not a false positive.
+- **freshness** — the newest covered model's `releaseDate` against the pool's
+  newest, below-bar beyond `FOCUS_STALENESS_MONTHS` (1). A missing date on either
+  side degrades to `unknown`.
+- **trust** — the self-reported share of the payload's covered entries (the
+  per-entry `self_reported` flag, read by `parseBenchmarkPayloadMeta`), below-bar
+  above `FOCUS_SELF_REPORTED_MAX_SHARE` (0.5). A mostly vendor-submitted source
+  cannot be trusted to rank on. The `source` argument carries the cached trust
+  inputs (`cachedSourceInfo`: the source's scores cache for the payload meta, the
+  catalog cache for the row); a payload with no entry flags (a declared or
+  writing source) or no covered entries is `unknown` — never a silent `ok`.
+  `verified` is uniformly `false` upstream today, so it is carried but not gated.
+  The axis also carries the catalog row's `is_community` flag as `community` — a
+  community-submitted benchmark is visible even when the payload half is absent
+  (no per-entry flags); it is an annotation, never a gate (it never changes
+  `status` and `belowBarReason` has no community branch).
+- **modality** — the catalog row's `modality` (e.g. `text`/`image`/`audio`/
+  `video`/`multimodal`) and the payload's per-entry `multimodal` share, read by
+  `parseBenchmarkPayloadMeta` and carried on `BenchmarkCatalogEntry`. This axis
+  is an **annotation, never a gate**: there is no role modality field, so it is
+  never `below-bar` and never a drop reason (`belowBarReason` has no modality
+  branch). It is `unknown` only when neither the catalog row nor the payload
+  carries a modality signal.
+- **maintenance** — the catalog row's `updated_at` age in months against
+  `FOCUS_DATASET_STALENESS_MONTHS` (12), with `version_count`/`star_count`
+  carried as supporting detail. This is the **dataset-date** axis, distinct from
+  `freshness` (the **model-date** axis): freshness asks whether the benchmark
+  tracks the model field, maintenance asks whether the benchmark *project* is
+  alive. A benchmark whose dataset was last touched years ago but whose rows
+  happen to include one recent model passes freshness and is caught here. Like
+  modality it is an **annotation, never a gate**: `belowBarReason` has no
+  maintenance branch, so a stale dataset is warned but never drops a discovered
+  candidate. It is `unknown` when the catalog row is absent or its `updated_at`
+  is missing/unparseable.
+- **provenance** — the benchmark's owner (the catalog row's `dataset_org_id`,
+  falling back to `dataset_slug`) and the source's own per-entry org mix (the
+  dominant lab and its share, read by `parseBenchmarkPayloadMeta` from each row's
+  `organization_id`, falling back to `provider_id`), below-bar above
+  `FOCUS_PROVENANCE_DOMINANT_SHARE` (0.5 — a **chosen, tunable heuristic**, not a
+  measured value). This is the **source's own claim** about who publishes the
+  benchmark and whose scores it carries: an independent cross-check on the
+  pool-derived `composition` axis, **not a replacement for it** (the composition
+  rule is unchanged). `compositionAgreement` records whether the two concur:
+  `"disagree"` when exactly one of the two flags `below-bar`, `"agree"` when both
+  or neither do, `"unknown"` when the payload carries no org mix. Like modality
+  and maintenance it is an **annotation, never a gate**: `belowBarReason` has no
+  provenance branch, so a vendor-populated source is warned but never drops a
+  discovered candidate. It is `unknown` when there is neither an owner nor a
+  payload org mix.
+- **cross-source** — the zeroeval per-entry price/throughput/context
+  (`BenchmarkPayloadMeta.crossSource`, keyed by the entry's `model_id`) compared
+  against the plugin's own `price`/`throughput`/`context`. The join is **direct
+  on the bare id** (the generic llm-stats benchmark's `entries[].model_id` is the
+  llm-stats id, the same space as `Model.id`); only models present in the map AND
+  carrying the metric count toward `compared`. price compares zeroeval's 3:1
+  blend `(3·input + output)/4` against `m.price` ($/M), context compares
+  `row.context` against `m.context`, and the relative divergence is
+  `|a − b| / max(a, b, 1e-9)`; `priceDivergence`/`contextDivergence` are the
+  median over the models compared on that axis (`null` when none). An axis is
+  `unknown` when nothing was compared on it, else `ok` within
+  `PRICE_AGREEMENT_TOLERANCE` (0.5 — a **chosen, tunable heuristic**), else
+  `below-bar`. `speedAgreement` is **informational only** and excluded from
+  `status`: the units differ (zeroeval `speed_rps` is requests/s, the plugin's
+  `throughput` is output tok/s) and re-deriving throughput from `speed_rps` is
+  explicitly out of scope. `status` is `unknown` when `compared === 0`, else
+  `below-bar` when `priceAgreement` or `contextAgreement` is `below-bar`, else
+  `ok`. Like modality, maintenance and provenance it is an **annotation, never a
+  gate**: `belowBarReason` has no cross-source branch, and the axis never feeds
+  `price`/`weightPrice` or any ranking input — the `1/price²` blend is unchanged.
+  (A future option, recorded here only: use zeroeval's list price as a fallback
+  fill for a model with no OpenRouter route.)
+
+An empty pool (unknown field size) or `covered === 0` (the metric's scores were
+not loaded) reports **all nine axes `unknown`**, coverage included — never a
+silent `ok`. `belowBarReason(assessment)` names the failed axis.
+
+**Enforcement.** The pre-fetch catalog gate is count-only (`modelCount >= 3`); the
+create-agent gate then probe-fetches each selected candidate's source
+(`loadBenchmarkScores`), joins it onto the ranking universe, and assesses the
+joined pool. A **discovered** candidate below-bar on any gating axis is dropped
+non-fatally with a reason naming the axis; a **user-named** metric is never
+dropped — it is annotated and warned. The report prints the nine signals and
+warns per below-bar axis; the explorer's `/api/bootstrap` carries
+`focusAssessments` and the SPA renders a `table.focus` (below-bar warned,
+`unknown` muted, never green); the CLI report annotates a role's focus metrics
+(`focusLine`). The genuine hazard is the six raw pass-rate metrics (`gpqa`,
+`aime`, `swe_bench`, `arc_agi`, `terminal_bench`, `tau_bench`), which are fill-0
+and reachable from discovery via the catalog→shipped mapping;
+`writing`/`website`/`bench:<id>` are capability-filled at 0.195 and stay
+weightable at any coverage.
+
+**Focus cap.** The focus set is capped at `FOCUS_METRIC_CAP` (3) in priority
+order (named/linked first, then discovery order), so one benchmark keeps a
+decisive share instead of five sharing the budget; the metrics beyond the cap are
+reported as dropped. The cap is applied before the share math, so the kept set
+still receives `clamp(specialistShare, 0.25, 0.40)` split evenly and both
+invariants hold exactly.
+
+### Zeroeval catalog benchmarks — none added
+
+No zeroeval catalog benchmark adds an independent axis at usable coverage, so
+none is weighted in a shipped role. Measured over the 400-model ranking field
+(2026-10-03): `mmlu-pro` is the only catalog benchmark that clears the 35%
+`FOCUS_COVERAGE_FLOOR` (142/400 = 35.5%), but it correlates r 0.90–0.92 with
+`general`/`reasoning`; `HLE` is the next best at 26% and does not clear the bar.
+The role-relevant benchmarks are 17–30% coverage and collinear with an existing
+index (`toolathlon` 0.89 with `tool_calling`, `swe-bench-pro` 0.91 with `code`,
+`terminal-bench-2.1` 0.94 with `code`, `mcp-atlas` 0.80 with `agents`,
+`browsecomp` 0.97 with `search`, `deepswe-1.1` 0.80 with `agents`, `lvbench`
+0.95 with `vision`). The six shipped-but-unweighted raw benchmarks (`gpqa`,
+`aime`, `swe_bench`, `arc_agi`, `terminal_bench`, `tau_bench`) are all redundant
+with an index or 5–6% coverage — do not weight them.
+
 ## Weight design rules
 
 The shipped weights (`DEFAULT_ROLES`) and the archetype sets
@@ -217,19 +520,48 @@ The shipped weights (`DEFAULT_ROLES`) and the archetype sets
    100%-coverage backbone plus the partial-coverage trio at reduced share;
    `mrcr`/`search` are unweighted and `long_context` is capped at 0.14.
    `website`/`long_context`/`writing` are capability-filled rather than
-   0-filled.
+   0-filled. The nine-axis focus-metric gate (above) is the automated check for
+   this rule: it drops a discovered candidate that is below-bar on coverage,
+   dispersion, composition, freshness or trust (modality, maintenance,
+   provenance and cross-source are annotations, never a drop).
 5. **Non-collinear differentiation.** The capability indices are one latent
-   factor (Pearson r over the pool: general↔reasoning 0.99, code↔agents 0.95,
+   factor (Pearson r over the pool: general↔reasoning 0.984, code↔agents 0.95,
    general↔code 0.94), so re-weighting them barely separates roles.
    Differentiate on the independent axes instead — throughput (r 0.13 with
-   general), price (r ≈ 0), and the specialist metrics.
+   general), price (r ≈ 0), and the specialist metrics. The `general`+`reasoning`
+   pair is the extreme case: at r 0.984 they are ~one latent factor, so
+   `default`/`slow`/`plan`/`advisor` merge them into a single `general` weight —
+   a pure relabel (the combined capability share is unchanged, so no share is
+   freed and none is reallocated; the ranking is ≈ unchanged, near-tie
+   reorderings only).
 6. **λ from the intended posture.** `λ = (w_price/(1−w_price))/20` is the
    quality-per-dollar exchange rate; a price weight whose leader-flip threshold
-   is 10–30× away is decoration. `plan`/`advisor` carry price 0.12/0.20
-   (λ 0.00682/0.0125); `tiny` stays at 0.40.
-7. **`website` vs `code` collinearity.** They correlate at r = 0.876, so
-   `designer` weights `website` 0.18 with `code` trimmed to 0.10 (the old
-   0.10/0.18 pair double-counted one capability axis).
+   is 10–30× away is decoration. `advisor` carries price 0.20 (λ 0.0125),
+   `plan` 0.25 (λ 0.01667); `tiny` stays at 0.40.
+   - **Measure the leader-flip threshold on the *reachable* pool** — the pool
+     the selector is actually chosen from (candidates the probe walk marks `ok`
+     or `unknown`). The full-pool threshold is a stability check only. Measured
+     2026-10-03 (issue #16): `plan`'s reachable threshold was w_price 0.2175
+     (Hy4 preview → DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) against a full-pool 0.311 (Muse Spark
+     1.3 → Qwen3.8 Flash), so price 0.25 flips the actionable pick while the
+     full-pool #1 is unchanged.
+   - **Degenerate case.** When the value leader is also the quality leader the
+     formula `(q_QL − q_VL)/(p_QL − p_VL)` is 0/0 — *undefined*, not zero, and
+     it does **not** mean "no price weight dethrones the leader". The leader
+     still flips at `min` over the cheaper challengers X of
+     `(q_leader − q_X)/(pEff_leader − pEff_X)`.
+   - **Coverage caveat.** A reachable flip can land on a model whose weighted
+     metric is *imputed*, not measured. `long_context` covers 39% of the `plan`
+     pool (56/142), and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash's `index_long_context` is null —
+     llm-stats reads that as insufficient evidence, not zero — so it scores the
+     0.195 capability fill against Hy4 preview's measured 18.9. Read the flip as
+     partly a data-coverage artefact.
+7. **`website` vs `code` collinearity.** They correlate at r = 0.890 over the
+   covered pool, so `designer` weights `website` 0.18 with `code` trimmed to
+   0.06 (the old 0.10/0.18 pair double-counted one capability axis). The freed
+   0.04 goes to the independent axes (`price` +0.02, `throughput` +0.02) per
+   rule 5, giving `general` 0.26, `vision` 0.18, `throughput` 0.15, `price`
+   0.17, `website` 0.18, `code` 0.06.
 
 ## Value-review findings (2026-09-30)
 
@@ -250,6 +582,431 @@ one." Three findings, each measured on that day's caches:
   GLM-5.3 → DeepSeek −0.004 q for 4.6× less money; `vision` −0.041 for 18×;
   `designer` −0.010 for 26×; `task` +0.007 for 4.6×).
 
+## Value-review findings (2026-10-03)
+
+Three measured defects in the shipped weights, each fixed in issue #13 (all
+numbers from the 2026-10-03 caches: 400 models, 151 throughput-matched, 150
+priced):
+
+- **`math` is collinear and sparse in `plan`/`slow`.** Over the eligible pool
+  `math` correlates with `reasoning` at r 0.919 and is missing for 18% of the
+  pool, so a model without `math` data loses up to 0.090 `q` for `plan` (share
+  0.156) and 0.049 for `slow` (share 0.084) — a coverage penalty, not a quality
+  signal. `advisor` had already dropped `math` for this reason (2026-09-30);
+  `plan`/`slow` were left behind. Fix: drop `math` from both and move its share
+  to the consolidated `general` axis (capability-preserving, 100% coverage) —
+  not `throughput`, which would contradict `slow`'s "speed as tiebreakers"
+  description and flip both leaders to a cheap/fast model. `plan`'s description
+  drops `math` in the same change.
+- **`smol`/`commit` price weight does not bind.** Both are described as
+  "cheap", but the value leader is also the quality leader, so the price term is
+  not what picks #1. The leader-flip threshold is λ* 0.0367 (`smol`, w_price*
+  0.423) and 0.0402 (`commit`, w_price* 0.446) against the current λ 0.0214
+  (w_price 0.30) and 0.0286 (w_price 0.35). Fix: raise both `w_price` to 0.45
+  (the measured binding threshold), rescaling the non-price weights
+  proportionally — a posture change, not a capability change.
+- **The capability weights are ~one latent factor.** `general`~`reasoning` r
+  0.984 over the eligible pool; `default`/`slow`/`plan`/`advisor` each spend
+  55–74% of their non-price budget on that pair. The split buys almost nothing —
+  merging leaves `default`'s top-3 identical and only swaps #4/#5. Fix: merge
+  `general`+`reasoning` into `general` in those four roles as a pure relabel (no
+  reallocation).
+
+Measured effect: `slow` #1 glm-5.3 → muse-spark-1.3, `plan` #1 hy4-preview →
+muse-spark-1.3, `smol`/`commit` #1 muse-spark-1.1 → deepseek-v4.1-flash;
+`default`/`advisor` keep their #1 (near-tie reorderings only).
+
+## Value-review findings (2026-10-03, issue #16 — `plan` cost posture)
+
+`plan` did not honour the stated "cheapest model that can do the task" stance:
+its price weight (0.12, λ 0.00682) was decoration on the pool the selector is
+actually chosen from.
+
+- **The reachable pool, not the full pool, is the decision pool.** The shipped
+  `plan` pick was Hy4 preview ($2.32/M); DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash ($0.43/M, 5.4×
+  cheaper) is reachable on this account and lost by 0.013 value. Hy4's whole
+  edge is `long_context` (measured 18.9 vs DeepSeek's null → capability fill
+  0.195); DeepSeek leads the measured axes (`general` 51.2 vs 50.4, 81 vs 36
+  tok/s). Fix: raise `plan`'s `price` 0.12 → 0.25 (λ 0.01667), rescaling the
+  non-price weights by 0.852273 — `general` 0.6, `long_context` 0.116676,
+  `throughput` 0.033324 (Σ(non-price) = 0.75 = 1 − price; `q` unchanged).
+  Measured reachable flip 0.2175, full-pool 0.311, so 0.25 flips the actionable
+  pick (Hy4 → DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash) and leaves the full-pool #1 (Muse Spark 1.3)
+  in place. `long_context` stays weighted — it is the only non-collinear
+  capability axis in `plan`; dropping it would collapse the role onto `general`.
+- **The flip rides on imputed data.** 5 of the 7 reachable `plan` models are
+  `long_context`-imputed; the metric covers 39% of the pool. If the account's
+  provider whitelist changes, `qwen3.8-flash` (same $0.43/M, higher q) strictly
+  dominates DeepSeek and takes the reachable #1 with no weight edit.
+
+## Domain-knowledge axis: measured, not landed (2026-10-05, issue #23)
+
+The llm-stats `index_finance`/`index_legal`/`index_healthcare` scores were
+evaluated as a domain-knowledge axis and **not landed** — no role weights them.
+Measured over the 2026-10-05 400-model field (clean HEAD `a201a3b`, throwaway
+worktree):
+
+- **Coverage**: `index_finance` 228/400 (57.0%), `index_legal` 213/400 (53.3%),
+  `index_healthcare` 248/400 (62.0%), `general` 377/400 (94.3%).
+- **Correlation with `general`** (full covered pool): finance 0.6981, legal
+  0.6632, healthcare 0.8449. Among the domains: finance↔legal 0.9529,
+  finance↔healthcare 0.9417, legal↔healthcare 0.9464 — one latent factor.
+- **On the eligible covered pool** (domain + `general` + price + throughput):
+  finance 0.408, legal 0.388, healthcare 0.797.
+- **0-fill leader flip** (`default`, share taken from `code`+`agents`): full pool
+  flips at 0.03–0.06 (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash $0.24 → Muse Spark 1.3 $2.00 /
+  GPT-5.6 Sol $6.13); reachable pool (73 models) at 0.04–0.17; covered pool at
+  0.17–0.20.
+- **Capability-fill measurement** (real fill branch): no leader flip on the full
+  pool at shares 0.05–0.20; on the reachable pool it flips at 0.05
+  (finance/legal) and 0.20 (healthcare), always to the **cheaper** model.
+
+**Verdict: do not land.** r with `general` is 0.66–0.84, the 0-fill is a coverage
+lottery (the cheap leader has no domain data), and the capability fill still
+flips the leader on the reachable pool — neither posture is stable.
+Counter-evidence for the record: on the eligible covered pool finance/legal
+correlate only 0.39–0.41 with `general`, so the metric does carry independent
+signal mid-ranking; it just does not move the leader at a plausible share.
+
+## Truthfulness axis: measured, not landed (2026-10-06, issue #24)
+
+The llm-stats `simpleqa_score` was evaluated as a truthfulness axis and **not
+landed** — no role weights it. Measured over the 2026-10-06 400-model field:
+
+- **Coverage**: `simpleqa_score` 47/400 (11.8%); default-eligible 18/142 (12.7%);
+  catalog-resolvable 16/137 (11.7%); allowed-keyed 7/65 (10.8%); probe-walk
+  reachable **0/3**.
+- **Correlation with `general`**: full pool 0.68, eligible 0.75, catalog 0.70,
+  allowed 0.89. `hle_score` correlates 0.88 with `general` (collinear), and
+  `simpleqa_score` vs `hle_score` is 0.35 — the two truthfulness metrics are not
+  interchangeable.
+- **0-fill leader flip** (`default`): the full pool flips at share 0.21 to
+  `gemini-3-flash-preview` ($1.125/M vs the leader's $0.598/M — 1.9× more
+  expensive); the capability fill flips to the pricier model too. The
+  allowed-pool top-10 **all** have `simpleqa_score = null`.
+
+**Verdict: do not land.** The 0-fill is a pure coverage lottery for exactly the
+models the selector chooses from (the reachable pool has no covered model at
+all), and the capability fill reproduces the cost-promotion failure mode the
+0-fill posture exists to avoid.
+
+## Guardrail/alignment axis: measured, not landed (2026-10-06, issue #31)
+
+The catalog's guardrail/alignment entries were evaluated as a "completes the
+objective without tripping guardrails" axis and **not landed** — no role weights
+one. Measured over the 2026-10-06 400-model field (clean HEAD `01fd7f2`,
+throwaway worktree, `loadRankData({ roles: {} })` + `loadBenchmarkCatalog(false)`):
+the catalog carries 745 entries; 57 match a guardrail/alignment keyword
+(`guardrail`, `alignment`, `safety`, `attack`, `jailbreak`, `harm`, `refusal`,
+`automationbench`, `agentdojo`, `siren`, `trust`, `toxicity`, `bias`) in
+id/name/description/categories; 30 of those clear the pre-fetch count gate
+(`modelCount >= 3`).
+
+- **The semantically-relevant entries are at one model.** The pair the issue
+  names — `siren-agentdojo-attack-success` and `siren-agentdojo-utility` — and
+  `automationbench-aa` each carry `modelCount = 1`, below the count gate, so none
+  is even probe-fetchable. The rest of the `safety` category is the same:
+  `air-bench`, `wmdp`, `wmdp-bio`, `wmdp-chem`, `wmdp-cyber`, `cyberseceval-4`,
+  `cve-bench`, `cwe-bench`, `cathedralbench`, `gray-swan-ipi`, `mask`,
+  `miabench`, `biolp-bench`, `cloningscenarios`, `protocolqa`,
+  `protocolqa-open-ended`, `google-real-world-vulnerability-discovery`,
+  `ci-memories-coverage`, `ci-memories-violation` are all 1 model; `cybench`,
+  `mimo-cyber-bench`, `vct` are 2. Nothing in the catalog measures
+  guardrail-compliance at usable coverage.
+- **Coverage**: the best-covered candidate is 20/400 = **5.0%**
+  (`automationbench`, `cybergym`, `winogrande`; the llm-stats per-benchmark
+  endpoint caps `entries` at 20, so `automationbench` 22 and `winogrande` 23 load
+  only 20). Every other candidate is 0.7–4.0%. The 35% `FOCUS_COVERAGE_FLOOR` is
+  7× away from the best candidate and ~50× from the median. `general` covers
+  377/400 (94.3%) for scale. (The generic `bench:<id>` source is
+  capability-filled at 0.195, so `assessFocusMetric`'s coverage axis reads `ok`
+  for all of them — the raw share is the binding number here.)
+- **Correlation with `general`** (covered pool): the safety/security entries are
+  collinear — `capture-the-flag-challenges` 1.00, `figqa` 1.00, `exploitbench`
+  0.97, `sec-bench-pro` 0.97, `cybersecurity-ctfs` 0.97, `alignbench` 0.97,
+  `attaq` 0.93, `internal-research-debugging-evaluation` 0.92, `xstest` 0.91,
+  `exploitgym` 0.89. The only low-correlation candidate is `automationbench`
+  (r 0.24 with `general`, 0.30 with `agents`, 0.61 with `tool_calling`) — but it
+  is an agentic-automation benchmark (categories `reasoning|agents|tool_calling`),
+  not a guardrail axis, and it covers 5.0%.
+- **0-fill leader flip** (`default`, share taken from the collinear `code`+`agents`
+  block = 0.2842; baseline leader `deepseek-v4.1-flash` $0.599/M): most of the
+  flips that happen go to **pricier** models — `capture-the-flag-challenges` 0.04 →
+  `gpt-5.6-sol` ($6.13/M, 10.2×), `exploitbench` 0.04 → `glm-5.3` ($2.47/M,
+  4.1×), `internal-research-debugging-evaluation` 0.06 → `gpt-5.6-sol` (10.2×),
+  `cybersecurity-ctfs` 0.21 → `gpt-5.3-codex` ($4.81/M, 8.0×), `exploitgym` 0.22
+  → `gpt-5.6-sol` (10.2×), `cybergym` 0.30 → `mimo-v2.6-pro` ($0.543/M, cheaper),
+  `alignbench` 0.32 → `qwen3-14b` ($0.165/M, cheaper), `voicebench-avg` 0.14 →
+  `inkling-small` ($0.638/M, ≈same), `winogrande` 0.20 → `mimo-v2.5-pro`
+  ($0.622/M, ≈same). The capability-fill posture (the real posture for
+  `bench:<id>`) moves the thresholds only slightly (`exploitgym` 0.16,
+  `cybersecurity-ctfs` 0.26, `alignbench` 0.37) and never changes the direction.
+  `automationbench`, `attaq`, `xstest`, `pope`, `figqa`, `sec-bench-pro`,
+  `crag`, `big-bench`, `vqav2` do not flip the leader at any share up to 0.40 —
+  they are the least-covered entries.
+
+**Verdict: do not land.** No candidate clears the coverage bar (best 5.0% vs the
+35% floor), the semantically-relevant guardrail entries are at one model, and the
+safety/security entries that do carry data are collinear with `general`
+(r 0.89–1.00). The one low-correlation candidate (`automationbench`, r 0.24) is
+an agentic-automation benchmark, not a guardrail axis, and still covers only 5.0%.
+The 0-fill is a cost-promotion lottery: most of the flips that happen land on
+models 3–10× more expensive than the leader. No declarative source is authored —
+the catalog is the only fetchable guardrail-adjacent data and it is too sparse.
+
+### Candidate table (modelCount ≥ 3, 2026-10-06 field)
+
+`flip0` = 0-fill leader-flip share; `flipCap` = capability-fill (0.195) share;
+`none` = no flip up to 0.40. `rAgents` is `n/a` when fewer than 3 covered models
+carry `agents`.
+
+| catalog id | metric | modelCount | covered/400 | r(general) | r(agents) | dispersion | flip0 | flipCap |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| automationbench | bench:automationbench | 22 (20 loaded) | 20 (5.0%) | 0.24 | 0.30 | 0.62 | none | none |
+| cybergym | bench:cybergym | 20 | 20 (5.0%) | 0.48 | 0.75 | 0.14 | 0.30 → mimo-v2.6-pro | 0.30 → mimo-v2.6-pro |
+| winogrande | bench:winogrande | 23 (20 loaded) | 20 (5.0%) | 0.60 | n/a | 0.13 | 0.20 → mimo-v2.5-pro | 0.24 → mimo-v2.5-pro |
+| global-mmlu-lite | bench:global-mmlu-lite | 16 | 16 (4.0%) | 0.88 | n/a | 0.33 | 0.15 → inkling-small | 0.18 → inkling-small |
+| healthbench-professional | bench:healthbench-professional | 14 | 14 (3.5%) | 0.95 | 0.93 | 0.14 | 0.06 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.09 → gpt-5.6-sol |
+| healthbench | bench:healthbench | 13 | 13 (3.3%) | 0.70 | 0.84 | 0.08 | 0.07 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.10 → gpt-5.6-sol |
+| healthbench-hard | bench:healthbench-hard | 11 | 11 (2.8%) | 0.66 | 0.61 | 0.46 | 0.12 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.30 → gpt-6.1-sol |
+| exploitbench | bench:exploitbench | 8 | 8 (2.0%) | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.57 | 0.04 → glm-5.3 | 0.06 → glm-5.3 |
+| exploitgym | bench:exploitgym | 8 | 8 (2.0%) | 0.89 | 0.84 | 0.69 | 0.22 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.16 → muse-spark-1.3 |
+| sec-bench-pro | bench:sec-bench-pro | 7 | 7 (1.8%) | 0.97 | 0.96 | 0.25 | none | none |
+| global-mmlu | bench:global-mmlu | 7 | 7 (1.8%) | 0.98 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.20 → mimo-v2.5-pro | 0.25 → mimo-v2.5-pro |
+| alignbench | bench:alignbench | 5 | 5 (1.3%) | 0.97 | n/a | 0.10 | 0.32 → qwen3-14b | 0.37 → qwen3-14b |
+| bfcl-v2 | bench:bfcl-v2 | 5 | 5 (1.3%) | 0.74 | n/a | 0.10 | 0.34 → llama-3.3-70b-instruct | 0.40 → llama-3.3-70b-instruct |
+| healthbench-consensus | bench:healthbench-consensus | 5 | 5 (1.3%) | 0.79 | 0.55 | 0.004 | 0.04 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.05 → gpt-5.6-sol |
+| xstest | bench:xstest | 4 | 4 (1.0%) | 0.91 | n/a | 0.035 | none | none |
+| tempcompass | bench:tempcompass | 4 | 4 (1.0%) | 1.00 | 0.74 | 0.13 | 0.28 → seed-2.0-mini | 0.34 → seed-2.0-mini |
+| vlmsarebiased | bench:vlmsarebiased | 4 | 4 (1.0%) | 0.89 | 0.84 | 0.17 | 0.36 → seed-2.0-mini | none |
+| attaq | bench:attaq | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.93 | n/a | 0.014 | none | none |
+| pope | bench:pope | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.42 | n/a | 0.018 | none | none |
+| capture-the-flag-challenges | bench:capture-the-flag-challenges | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.04 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.05 → gpt-5.6-sol |
+| cybersecurity-ctfs | bench:cybersecurity-ctfs | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.97 | n/a | 0.52 | 0.21 → gpt-5.3-codex | 0.26 → gpt-5.3-codex |
+| figqa | bench:figqa | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 1.00 | n/a | 0.35 | none | none |
+| internal-research-debugging-evaluation | bench:internal-research-debugging-evaluation | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.13 | 0.06 → gpt-5.6-sol | 0.08 → gpt-5.6-sol |
+| voicebench-avg | bench:voicebench-avg | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 1.00 | n/a | 0.10 | 0.14 → inkling-small | 0.18 → inkling-small |
+| vqav2 | bench:vqav2 | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.76 | n/a | 0.018 | none | none |
+| big-bench | bench:big-bench | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.39 | n/a | 0.045 | none | none |
+| crag | bench:crag | 3 | 3 (0.7%) | 0.90 | n/a | 0.08 | none | none |
+
+Not loadable (404 on the per-benchmark endpoint): `alpacaeval-2.0` (4),
+`automationbench-1.0.6` (5), `vqav2-(val)` (3). Below the count gate (1–2 models):
+the `siren-agentdojo-*` pair, `automationbench-aa`, and the rest of the `safety`
+category listed above.
+
+## Per-task cost composite: measured, not landed (2026-10-06, issue #32)
+
+Issue #32 asked to rank on a per-task cost/throughput composite **when a per-task
+token profile is available**, keeping the current $/M price as the fallback, and
+to quantify the gap and defer when no profile source exists. **Verdict: defer.**
+No per-task (or per-role) token profile exists, so the $/M price stays the price
+axis. The closest available source — OpenRouter's per-model analytics, which the
+plugin already downloads and ignores — is a *platform-wide, per-request* profile,
+not the role's workload; using it would price OpenRouter's traffic mix, not the
+plugin's.
+
+### What the $/M proxy assumes
+
+`priceEff` is the billed 3:1 blend `(3·p_in + p_out)/4` scaled by the role's
+thinking factor. A per-task price is `tokens_per_task × priceEff`, so the proxy
+makes two assumptions the composite would relax:
+
+1. **A fixed 3:1 input:output token mix** (output = 25% of the mix). Measured on
+   6,813 real assistant turns in this repo's sessions: **5.74:1** (output =
+   14.8%). The blend over-weights the output price by ~1.7×. Per-model
+   `p_out/p_in` spans 0.8–800 (median 4.19) over the 448 OpenRouter models with
+   both prices, so the correction is a per-model price rescale of up to 1.72×.
+2. **A model-independent token count per task.** If `tokens_per_task` is constant
+   across models, the per-task price is a constant × `priceEff` — a pure λ
+   rescale with no ranking change. The composite only bites when
+   `tokens_per_task` varies by model (a verbose/retrying model costs more per
+   task).
+
+### Source 1 — a published per-task metric: none
+
+- **llm-stats leaderboard** (`LlmStatsRow`, 56 fields in the 2026-10-06 cache):
+  `input_price`/`output_price` ($/M), `throughput` (output tok/s), `latency`
+  (TTFT), the index/benchmark scores, `params`, `training_tokens`. No
+  token-usage, cost-per-task or output-tokens-per-task field. `training_tokens`
+  is a pretraining count, not per-task usage.
+- **Benchmark catalog** (`loadBenchmarkCatalog`, 745 entries): every entry is
+  `{id, name, description, categories, modelCount}`. No token/cost field; the
+  descriptions mention "token" only as context length.
+
+### Source 2 — omp's recorded per-role usage: auxiliary-only
+
+omp's session jsonl carries a dedicated `model_usage` event with a `role` tag
+(`{type:"model_usage", purpose, role, api, provider, model, usage:{input, output,
+cacheRead, cacheWrite, totalTokens, cost}}`). Across all 433 session files it
+holds **2,833 records, 2 roles, 2 models** — `typesafe` (2,832; the judge role)
+and `tiny` (1) — and every record is an *auxiliary* call: `judge_batch` 2,235,
+`unexpected-stop` 255, `auto-thinking` 218, `find` 122, `judge` 3. The main
+assistant turn's usage sits on the `message` record with `model` but **no role
+tag** (6,813 turns, 7 models, 36.9M input / 6.4M output). So omp records per-role
+usage only for harness-internal calls, never for the role's own work, and never
+per task. The plugin's own `llm-role-history.jsonl` records per-role *decisions*
+(`role, from, to, reason, score, bestScore, currentScore`) with no token fields.
+
+### Source 3 — OpenRouter analytics: a per-model profile, but not per-task/per-role
+
+The OpenRouter find payload the plugin already fetches
+(`openrouter.ai/api/frontend/v1/models/find`, cached as
+`openrouter-fetched-data.json`) carries `data.analytics`: per permaslug+variant,
+`count` (requests), `total_prompt_tokens`, `total_completion_tokens`,
+`total_native_tokens_reasoning`, `total_native_tokens_cached`, `total_usage` ($),
+`total_tool_calls`, `date`. `src/` reads none of it (`grep analytics src/` → no
+hits). It is a real per-model token+cost profile, but it does not satisfy the
+issue's requirement:
+
+- **Platform-wide, not the role's workload.** The plugin's own measured
+  input/req is **~10–14× lower** than the platform's prompt/req for the same
+  models (deepseek-v4.1-flash 4,451 vs 57,018; glm-5.3 4,533 vs 63,434;
+  mimo-v2.6-pro 7,556 vs 80,780; hy4-preview 9,302 vs 113,793). The platform's
+  prompt/req reflects long-context agentic traffic, not omp's turns. Output/req
+  is closer (deepseek 955 vs 926; glm-5.3-flash 906 vs 931), so the *verbosity*
+  signal is usable but the *workload* signal is not.
+- **Per-request, not per-task.** `count` is API calls; an agent task spans many.
+- **Single-day snapshot** (576/625 entries dated 2026-09-29), so it is
+  stale-prone.
+- **152/400 coverage** (standard variant, `count > 0`); the other 248 models
+  would fall back to $/M, giving a mixed axis.
+- **Not per-role.** The issue allows "per role, or per model × role"; this is
+  per-model only.
+
+### Measured effect (if the analytics were used as the profile)
+
+Re-ranking the 2026-10-06 field with `priceEff × (tokens_per_task / median)`,
+uncovered models at the $/M fallback (t = 1):
+
+| role | current #1 | composite #1 | change |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `default` | deepseek-v4.1-flash | deepseek-v4.1-flash | same |
+| `plan` | muse-spark-1.3 | qwen3.8-flash | changed |
+| `slow` | muse-spark-1.3 | deepseek-v4.1-flash | changed |
+| `smol` | muse-spark-1.1 | mercury-2 | changed |
+
+The output-only variant (completion+reasoning per request, the model-controlled
+part) changes the same three roles. So the composite is not inert — but the
+change is driven by the platform's workload mix (tokens/req spans 437–114,810,
+262×), not by the role's task. The token-mix correction alone (3:1 → 5.74:1) does
+**not** change any leader (only a #5 swap in `default`).
+
+### Verdict
+
+**Do not land.** No per-task token profile exists: the published sources carry no
+per-task metric, omp's per-role usage is auxiliary-only (2 roles, 2 models), and
+the one per-model profile the plugin already has (OpenRouter analytics) is
+platform-wide aggregate traffic whose prompt/req is ~10–14× the plugin's own
+measured input/req. Landing it would price OpenRouter's workload mix, not the
+role's, and would change 3 of 4 leaders on that basis. The $/M proxy remains the
+price axis.
+
+**What would change the verdict:** a per-role (or per-model × role) token count
+from the plugin's own recorded usage. The plugin already sees the main-turn usage
+per model (session jsonl) and the role→model mapping (config.yml); recording the
+role alongside the turn's usage would give a per-role profile the composite could
+use without the platform-workload confound. Until then this is a measurement, not
+a weight change.
+
+## Agentic multi-agent axes: measured, not landed (2026-10-06, issue #33)
+
+The named multi-agent behaviours — delegation, small agent teams (SATs), agent
+handoffs, agent swarms, failure recovery / self-healing, agent-to-agent
+communication — were searched for in the llm-stats benchmark catalog and
+**not landed** — no role weights an axis for them, because no source measures
+them.
+
+**Sweep.** The catalog (745 entries) was swept on `id`/`name`/`description`/
+`categories` for `delegat`, `swarm`, `handoff`, `recover`, `self-heal`, `a2a`,
+`agent-to-agent`, `negotiat`, `multi-agent`, `team`, `coordination`,
+`orchestrat`, `collaborat`, `subagent`. **Zero hits** for delegat / swarm /
+handoff / recover / self-heal / a2a / agent-to-agent / negotiat / subagent. The
+17 hits that did match are:
+
+| catalog id | models | matched | what it actually measures |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `supergpqa` | 37 | collaborat | graduate QA; "Human-LLM **collaborative** filtering" is annotation methodology |
+| `mcp-atlas` | 36 | coordinat | **single-agent** tool use ("coordinate and utilize multiple tools") |
+| `tau2-telecom` | 36 | coordination | dual-control **human↔agent** conversation (Dec-POMDP) |
+| `hmmt-2025` | 33 | team | math competition **team rounds** |
+| `multichallenge` | 32 | collaborat | multi-turn conversation (instruction retention, self-coherence) |
+| `hmmt25` | 28 | team | math competition team rounds |
+| `tau2-airline` | 24 | coordination | dual-control human↔agent conversation |
+| `automationbench` | 22 | orchestrat | **single-agent** tool orchestration |
+| `big-bench` | 3 | collaborat | "**collaborative** benchmark" = many contributors |
+| `phibench` | 3 | team | Microsoft internal math/coding benchmark |
+| `acebench` | 2 | multi-agent | the **only** multi-agent eval (an "Agent" sub-type); 2 models |
+| `mcp-universe` | 1 | orchestrat | single-agent MCP tool orchestration |
+| `cathedralbench` | 1 | team | red-team cyber |
+| `groundui-1k` | 2 | coordinat | UI grounding |
+| `swe-bench-verified-(agentic-coding)` | 2 | coordinat | single-agent coding |
+| `swe-bench-verified-(agentless)` | 2 | coordinat | single-agent coding |
+| `swe-bench-verified-(multiple-attempts)` | 1 | coordination | single-agent coding |
+
+A broader sweep of the agentic vocabulary (`agent`, `tool`, `plan`, `memory`,
+`workflow`, `long-horizon`, `computer-use`, `mcp`, `environment`, `simulat`,
+`theory of mind`, `cooperat`, `adversar`, …) returns ~40 agentic benchmarks
+(`toolathlon` 42, `terminal-bench-2` 53, `agents-last-exam` 21, `t2-bench` 23,
+`nl2repo` 23, `osworld-2.0` 15, `claw-eval` 14, `tau3-banking` 12, `mcp-mark` 9,
+`coworkbench` 6, `vending-bench-2` 4, …). **Every one is single-agent**
+long-horizon / tool-use / computer-use; none scores delegation, teams, handoffs,
+swarms, recovery or a2a. The nearest thing to a multi-agent axis in the whole
+catalog is `acebench`'s "Agent (multi-agent interactions)" sub-type, at 2 models.
+
+**Four-axis gate on the candidates with ≥ 3 models** (metric = `bench:<id>`,
+generic llm-stats source, joined direct on `model_id`):
+
+| candidate | catalog | loaded | covered | dispersion | composition | freshness | r(general) | r(agents) | gate |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `supergpqa` | 37 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.062 | below-bar (Google, OpenAI) | 3.2 mo | 0.867 | 0.765 | reject |
+| `mcp-atlas` | 36 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.092 | ok | 1.1 mo | 0.607 | 0.695 | reject |
+| `tau2-telecom` | 36 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.061 | below-bar (Qwen, Google) | 4.3 mo | 0.735 | 0.429 | reject |
+| `hmmt-2025` | 33 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.048 | below-bar (Google) | 3.4 mo | 0.615 | 0.199 | reject (dispersion) |
+| `multichallenge` | 32 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.194 | below-bar (Google) | 3.8 mo | 0.355 | 0.326 | reject |
+| `hmmt25` | 28 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.147 | below-bar (Google, OpenAI) | 1.1 mo | **0.909** | 0.712 | reject (collinear) |
+| `tau2-airline` | 24 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.149 | below-bar (Google) | 5.7 mo | 0.694 | 0.439 | reject |
+| `automationbench` | 22 | 20 | 20/400 (5.0%) | 0.622 | ok | 0.0 mo | 0.242 | 0.299 | **clears all axes** |
+| `big-bench` | 3 | 3 | 3/400 (0.8%) | 0.045 | below-bar | 27.1 mo | 0.389 | — | reject |
+| `phibench` | 3 | 3 | 3/400 (0.8%) | 0.128 | below-bar | 17.0 mo | 0.993 | — | reject |
+| `acebench` | 2 | 2 | 2/400 (0.5%) | 0.000 | below-bar | 12.8 mo | — | — | reject (below 3-model floor) |
+| `mcp-universe` | 1 | 1 | 1/400 (0.3%) | — | below-bar | 9.9 mo | — | — | reject (below 3-model floor) |
+
+`automationbench` is the only candidate that clears the implemented nine-axis
+gate (dispersion 0.62, composition ok, freshness ok, r(general) 0.24,
+r(agents) 0.30) — but it measures **single-agent tool orchestration**, not
+delegation / teams / handoffs / swarms / recovery / a2a, and it covers 5% of the
+field. Landing it under an agentic-axis label would be mislabeling, and the
+issue forbids a stub or synthetic axis.
+
+**Coverage ceiling (structural).** The per-benchmark endpoint caps `entries` at
+`BENCHMARK_ENTRY_CAP = 20` regardless of `limit`/`offset`/`page`/`per_page`, so
+a generic `bench:<id>` metric can never cover more than 20 of the 400 models —
+5.0%, against a `FOCUS_COVERAGE_FLOOR` of 0.35 (≥ 140 models). The best-covered
+agentic candidate in the catalog (`toolathlon`, 42) would still load ≤ 20. The
+top of the catalog by `model_count` is general-knowledge / coding (`gpqa` 250,
+`mmlu-pro` 142, `aime-2025` 122, `swe-bench-verified` 116, `humanity's-last-exam`
+104, `mmlu` 103); the highest-modelCount **agentic** entry is `toolathlon` at 42,
+and the field already carries `toolathlon_score` (42 covered) from the index
+payload.
+
+**The general agentic axis is already covered; the multi-agent sub-axes are
+not.** The field already carries agentic proxies, all in `KNOWN_METRICS`:
+`agents` (index) 192/400 (48.0%, r(general) 0.918), `tool_calling` 202/400
+(50.5%, r(general) 0.799, r(agents) 0.879), `mcp_atlas_score` 36 (9.0%),
+`toolathlon_score` 42 (10.5%), `osworld_score` 21 (5.3%), `apex_agents_score` 10
+(2.5%). The agentic-adjacent candidates that do have data are collinear with
+them (`osworld` r(general) 0.927 / r(agents) 0.921; `browsecomp` 0.897 / 0.916;
+`toolathlon` 0.828 / 0.858; `mcp_atlas` 0.772 / 0.805), so even a landed
+tool-orchestration axis would add little independent signal.
+
+**Verdict: do not land.** No catalog benchmark measures the named axes; the one
+multi-agent eval is below the 3-model floor; the endpoint cap makes the coverage
+bar unreachable for any generic benchmark; and the agentic-adjacent candidates
+are either collinear with the shipped `agents`/`tool_calling` indices or measure
+single-agent tool use. The honest outcome is the recorded evidence, mirroring
+the domain-knowledge (#23) and truthfulness (#24) verdicts.
+
 ## Changing a weight — checklist
 
 1. Keep Σ = 1 and Σ(non-price) = 1 − w_price (rescale the others; do not touch
@@ -264,3 +1021,7 @@ one." Three findings, each measured on that day's caches:
 4. Re-run the report (`node src/cli/llm-role-rank.ts --top 5`) and check the stderr
    match/eligible counts; the explorer's `Δ` column measures against the role's
    effective def.
+5. A price-weight change is a posture change: measure the leader-flip threshold
+   on the **reachable** pool (rule 6), not the full pool, and record both
+   numbers (reachable and full-pool) in the review. A threshold measured on the
+   wrong pool reads as decoration when it is binding, or vice versa.