Kiah, 2026-09-01: “I’m leaning toward you picking it cause it is usually going to be during the planning stage and both karens will be reviewing anyway and I get the plan in approvals before ok’ing anything … as long as in the hermes orchestration skill it provides a heads up getting put on the plan approval gate for why it wants something other than the default model then we should be good.”
What you see before OK’ing a plan. The lane line is inside the card’s Details, so it is read at the gate, not in the plan body.
Why: the watcher-cursor durability question needs a walked code path, not a summary.
What changed: Plan v6 adds the diagnosis step and names its seats.
Model lanes: claude:Karen → deep — diagnosis across hub-room.mjs and the wake ledger; two max-turns errors on this question yesterday. codex:Sol → default. claude:Fable → default.Recommendation: approve; deep is the policy lane for diagnosis, and the seat returns to standard when the step closes.
Decision requested: approve Plan v6 including the named lanes.
After your approval the Hub rotates the named seat. No second tap. The receipt names the plan that authorised it and the evidence; Revert lasts until the next turn completes.
- Why (from the plan): diagnosis across hub-room.mjs and the wake ledger; two max-turns errors yesterday
- Successor opened · model read back: claude-opus-5 · tools: Read Grep Glob · now current · old line closed
- Seat never empty: the 3:03 PM ask was answered by the successor
A trigger fires that the approved plan did not name. Nothing moves; the room asks you, with the evidence, and names the surface that can approve.
- Trigger: 2 consecutive unusable replies (timeouts at 3:41 and 3:47)
- Not named in the approved plan, so it needs your word here or a Plan v7
- Seat unchanged until you answer: Fable stays deep · fable-5
- From Draft A: the evidence-cited ask card and its buttons, now used only for rotations the plan did not name.
- From Draft B: the receipt with one-tap revert, now authorised by the approved plan rather than a config allow-list, so no policy amendment and no spend meter are needed for v1.
- New: the
Model lanes:line at the plan approval gate, written by the Hermes orchestration skill. Default seats say “default”; anything else carries its why. - From Draft C: nothing. The dial is not built. Kiah can still change a seat by editing the plan or answering an ask; a free-hand dial in the room would bypass the gate he chose.
- Times are Pacific. No session ids, keys, or credentials appear here. Dollar figures were dropped: no spend meter exists.