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Strict-cost spec: L2 recon n=2 (sonnet controller $6.68/$8.05, judgment clean, escalation points unstressed)

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 ### L2 — Controller tier (est. −$4-5/run; the biggest single lever, gated hardest)
 ### L2 — Controller tier (est. −$4-5/run; the biggest single lever, gated hardest)
 
 
-**Status 2026-06-11: recon positive, gates still owed.** Sonnet-controller
-run 1 (claude-sonnet coding-agent): all gates green at **$6.68** / 31 min
-(combo band $11.67-14.84), 26/26 dispatches model-explicit, review loops
-and omnibus-fixer rules followed, and the controller caught a fixer
-side-effect (`go mod tidy` removed cobra) before re-review — real
-adjudication, not silent absorption. But the run surfaced zero
-BLOCKED/⚠️ events (the escalation points were never stressed) and the
-final review ran on sonnet rather than the most capable tier. The N=5
-quality gates + full judgment audit below remain mandatory before any
-skill change.
+**Status 2026-06-11: recon positive (n=2), gates still owed.**
+Sonnet-controller runs (claude-sonnet coding-agent): all gates green at
+**$6.68 and $8.05** / 31-41 min (combo band $11.67-14.84), tokens inside
+the combo band — no cheap-controller turn inflation. 26/26 and 31/31
+dispatches model-explicit, with heavier (and sane) haiku tiering than
+opus controllers showed; review loops, per-task Important→fix→re-review,
+and omnibus-fixer rules followed in both runs; the run-1 controller
+caught a fixer side-effect (`go mod tidy` removed cobra) before
+re-review — real adjudication, not silent absorption. But neither run
+surfaced a BLOCKED/⚠️ event (the escalation points were never stressed)
+and final reviews ran on sonnet rather than the most capable tier. The
+N=5 quality gates + full judgment audit below remain mandatory before
+any skill change.
 
 
 The controller is half the dollars solely because it inherits the session
 The controller is half the dollars solely because it inherits the session
 model. Its turn floor is prompt-immune, so the lever is the rate per turn —
 model. Its turn floor is prompt-immune, so the lever is the rate per turn —