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fix(multi-agent): drop best from the role model values and the frontier default #7990
Description
Refs: #6916
Agent Brief
Type: Bug
Summary: best stops being a role model value, a frontier alias and an accepted --session-model, per the owner decision on #6916.
Current behavior:
The multi-agent config reference lists best as a role model alias and the frontier default is fable,best; the bundled defaults repeat both; resolve-roles.sh's ALIASES accepts best, which also validates --session-model; the setup skill and the drift-audit workflow's model list name it. The sub-agents docs list only sonnet, opus, haiku, fable and inherit as subagent aliases (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents.md, choose a model).
Desired behavior:
best is accepted nowhere: a role model of best and --session-model best are rejected with the resolver's usual unknown-alias error, so a caller omits the session model and the session counts as frontier (an unknown session already does). The frontier default is fable. The config reference and route skill point at sub-agents#choose-a-model and model-config#model-aliases, with as-of dates and recheck triggers, wherever they still restate the alias list or the subagent model fallback; existing pointers stay.
Key interfaces:
- resolve-roles.sh ALIASES and its
--session-modelvalidation. - The
frontierdefault androles.<role>.modelvalues in the bundled defaults and config reference. - The drift-audit workflow's MODELS list.
Acceptance criteria:
-
git grep -n -w best -- plugins/multi-agent/reference plugins/multi-agent/scripts/resolve-roles.sh plugins/multi-agent/workflows plugins/multi-agent/skills/setupreturns no model-alias use. -
scripts/run-test-file.sh plugins/multi-agent/scripts/resolve-roles.test.shpasses, including a case where--session-model bestis rejected and a case where an omitted session model fans out off frontier. -
check-skill.shpasses for each edited skill. - A multi-agent changelog fragment is added and
scripts/check-changelog-fragments.shpasses.
Out of scope:
- Eval sample text that quotes a past
bestsession. - The session-flow orchestrate pointers and the full repo-mode sweep (sibling children).
This was generated by AI during backlog shaping. Split from #6916; the owner approved filing it in an attended backlog-shaping session on 2026-10-18.
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