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Model catalog ships per-effort cost multipliers

Bundled models carry per-effort cost multipliers, though nothing in this build reads them.

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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.

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