Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
4Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
Model CatalogArea: what it touches
In DevelopmentKind: in v2.1.224,
What probably matters to youSection of the release
Cost multipliers per effort level ship in the model catalog and remote schema with no reader.
What
Four entries in the bundled model list now carry a cost multiplier per effort level, for example low: 0.47, medium: 0.74, high: 1, xhigh: 2.41, max: 5.59 on one and a gentler xhigh: 1.6, max: 1.7 on others, alongside the existing default effort of high. The remote config schema was extended to match, each level an optional positive number, so a server can override them. No code in this build reads the values back.
Details
The data is present in every build, which points at cost-aware effort selection landing later.
Evidence
effort_cost_index
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.