Both fixtures, run from homesrv across the LAN with the proxy env stripped.
Routing: 84.4% full / 93.5% intent-only at p50 329ms through the cascade, against
72.7% / 77.9% at p50 0.80-1.04s for Qwen3-1.7B. Talk: 25/27 against 20/27, with
knowledge 9/9. Nudges 15/15. Settles #485's first assumption by measurement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NJYcaBiuny9UGSpFweQVQ1
modelSeam builds an llm.Pair when a workstation is configured and hands it to
the router and the replier. Both are the silent half of the degradation rule:
the big model is only better there, and he is never told which model answered.
No block, no probe, and the box behaves exactly as it did.