Bake-off is closed — Opus 4.8/medium is the standing default, Sonnet arms
cancelled, per-task logging retired. Cost is no longer a model-selection
input: billing is hard-capped, so Opus's real cost is Pro daily-limit hits,
an accepted trade. Max is the fix, not a downgrade.
Also adds the warning that bit twice in one session: task descriptions and
handoffs decay. #149's "delete the stale playbook" hazard was already done
the night before, and session_handoff.md had been asserting a FALSE
passwordless-sudo alarm plus a DEAD root token as live into every session
for 3 days. Check the artifact before doing the work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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