feat(models): condense memory and default helpers to Haiku 5.5

docs/model-catalog.json

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-5", "label": "Sonnet 5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-4-6", "label": "Sonnet 4.6", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]", "label": "Sonnet 4.6 · 1M", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
+      { "id": "claude-haiku-5-5", "label": "Haiku 5.5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001", "label": "Haiku 4.5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null }
     ],
     "codex": [

src/main/config.ts

@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ export function resetConfig(): HarnessConfig {
  *  src/renderer/src/store/config.ts reads. */
 const MODEL_GOD = 'claude-opus-4-8';                  // orchestration — highest capability
 const MODEL_WORKER = 'claude-sonnet-4-6';             // general execution
-const MODEL_HELPER = 'claude-haiku-4-5-20251001';     // narrow, cheap helpers
+const MODEL_HELPER = 'claude-haiku-5-5';              // narrow, cheap helpers
 
 /** Minimal structural shape for tiering — a subset of AgentMeta so config.ts
  *  stays free of a hive.ts import. */

src/main/pricing.ts

@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ export interface ModelPrice {
 const OPUS: ModelPrice = { inputPerM: 15, outputPerM: 75, cacheReadPerM: 1.5, cacheWritePerM: 18.75 };
 const SONNET: ModelPrice = { inputPerM: 3, outputPerM: 15, cacheReadPerM: 0.3, cacheWritePerM: 3.75 };
 const HAIKU: ModelPrice = { inputPerM: 0.8, outputPerM: 4, cacheReadPerM: 0.08, cacheWritePerM: 1.0 };
+// Haiku 5.5 lists far below the row above, so it cannot share it.
+const HAIKU_5_5: ModelPrice = { inputPerM: 0.1, outputPerM: 0.5, cacheReadPerM: 0.01, cacheWritePerM: 0.125 };
 
 /** When the model id is unknown, assume Sonnet (the historical default). */
 const DEFAULT_PRICE: ModelPrice = SONNET;
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ export function normalizeModel(model: string | undefined | null): string {
 export function priceFor(model: string | undefined | null): ModelPrice {
   const m = normalizeModel(model).toLowerCase();
   if (m.includes('opus')) return OPUS;
+  if (m.includes('haiku-5-5')) return HAIKU_5_5;
   if (m.includes('haiku')) return HAIKU;
   if (m.includes('sonnet')) return SONNET;
   return DEFAULT_PRICE;

src/main/reflect.ts

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import { runHiddenClaude } from './hiddenClaude';
 /** Total memory.md budget — mirrors the janitor's CONTEXT_BUDGET_BYTES (128 KB). */
 const BUDGET_BYTES = 131_072;
 /** Cheap tail-summarizer (DECIDED by god). The verify gate covers quality. */
-const CONDENSE_MODEL = 'claude-haiku-4-5';
+const CONDENSE_MODEL = 'claude-haiku-5-5';
 /** Hard cap so a wedged headless run can't stall the reflect loop, for a small
  *  eviction payload. Scaled up (see `summarize`) for larger ones — a fixed cap
  *  was a chunk of the 'hidden session timed out' abort class: a big eviction

src/shared/modelCatalog.json

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-5", "label": "Sonnet 5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-4-6", "label": "Sonnet 4.6", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]", "label": "Sonnet 4.6 · 1M", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
+      { "id": "claude-haiku-5-5", "label": "Haiku 5.5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null },
       { "id": "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001", "label": "Haiku 4.5", "minAppVersion": null, "maxAppVersion": null }
     ],
     "codex": [

test/helper-model.test.cjs

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * The model a narrow helper agent (triage, routing, verification, formatting)
+ * gets by default. It has to be one the app ships in its catalog: the settings
+ * picker can only show what the catalog lists, and an id the CLI has never
+ * shipped fails every turn.
+ */
+
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const fs = require('node:fs');
+const path = require('node:path');
+const loadTs = require('./load-ts.cjs');
+
+const { modelForRole } = loadTs('src/main/config.ts');
+const catalog = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'src/shared/modelCatalog.json'), 'utf8'));
+
+test('a narrow helper defaults to Haiku 5.5', () => {
+  for (const role of ['triage', 'router', 'verifier', 'formatter', 'summarizer', 'classifier', 'labeler']) {
+    assert.equal(modelForRole({ role }), 'claude-haiku-5-5', role);
+  }
+});
+
+test('the helper default is a model the catalog lists', () => {
+  const helper = modelForRole({ role: 'triage' });
+  assert.ok(catalog.providers.claude.some((m) => m.id === helper), helper);
+});

test/model-catalog.test.cjs

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ const SHIPPED = {
     ["claude-sonnet-5", "Sonnet 5"],
     ["claude-sonnet-4-6", "Sonnet 4.6"],
     ["claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]", "Sonnet 4.6 · 1M"],
+    ["claude-haiku-5-5", "Haiku 5.5"],
     ["claude-haiku-4-5-20251001", "Haiku 4.5"]
   ],
   antigravity: [

test/pricing-haiku.test.cjs

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+'use strict';
+
+/**
+ * The fallback price table, for the Haiku generations. The live path takes
+ * Claude's own per-model cost; this table is what a cost estimate falls back to
+ * when that is missing, so a Haiku 5.5 session priced as Haiku 4.5 would read
+ * eight times too expensive.
+ */
+
+const test = require('node:test');
+const assert = require('node:assert/strict');
+const loadTs = require('./load-ts.cjs');
+
+const { priceFor, estimateCostUsd } = loadTs('src/main/pricing.ts');
+
+test('Haiku 5.5 falls back to its own list price', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(priceFor('claude-haiku-5-5'), {
+    inputPerM: 0.1, outputPerM: 0.5, cacheReadPerM: 0.01, cacheWritePerM: 0.125,
+  });
+  // A million of each kind of token, priced end to end.
+  const usd = estimateCostUsd('claude-haiku-5-5', {
+    inputTokens: 1e6, outputTokens: 1e6, cacheReadTokens: 1e6, cacheWriteTokens: 1e6,
+  });
+  assert.ok(Math.abs(usd - 0.735) < 1e-9, String(usd));
+});
+
+test('Haiku 4.5 keeps the price it had', () => {
+  assert.deepEqual(priceFor('claude-haiku-4-5-20251001'), {
+    inputPerM: 0.8, outputPerM: 4, cacheReadPerM: 0.08, cacheWritePerM: 1.0,
+  });
+});

test/reflect.test.cjs

@@ -251,6 +251,19 @@ test('timeout budget scales with the eviction payload size', async () => {
   assert.ok(calls[0].opts.timeoutMs > 180_000, 'a large eviction payload must get more than the base budget');
 });
 
+test('the condenser summarizes with Haiku 5.5, a model the app ships in its catalog', async () => {
+  // A slug the CLI does not know fails every condense with a 400, and the janitor
+  // would abort on every pass without ever shrinking a memory file.
+  const { home } = homeWith('a1', fixture({ sections: [section('a', 300), section('b', 300)] }));
+  const { MemoryReflector, calls } = loadReflectWithStub(() => ({ ok: false, error: 'hidden session timed out' }));
+  const reflector = makeReflector({ MemoryReflector }, home, { recentKeep: 1 });
+  await reflector.reflectNow('a1');
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(calls[0].opts.model, 'claude-haiku-5-5');
+  const catalog = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '..', 'src/shared/modelCatalog.json'), 'utf8'));
+  assert.ok(catalog.providers.claude.some((m) => m.id === calls[0].opts.model), 'the condenser model is in the catalog');
+});
+
 test('repro: unparseable response aborts cleanly, no wasted retry', async () => {
   const { home, mem } = homeWith('a1', fixture({
     sections: [section('old one', 300), section('old two', 300), section('newest', 300)]