Handing hard work to a frontier model, and watching it

Frontier seats are bought for frontier work. Everything else goes to a cheap model, and that is not a compromise — it is the reason there is quota left when something genuinely hard arrives.

Two jobs here: pick the seat, then keep an eye on the run.

1. Pick the seat

Only for work the router called hard, or that reached the escalate lane on evidence (jev lane step said escalate: the lane below failed twice, checks keep failing, security code changed, or Jev was unsure). Never because a stronger model exists. If you are about to use a frontier seat for a rename, a lookup, a format, or a summary, stop.

jev ladder choose       # Hermes: the jev_escalate tool, action "choose"