[LilMGenius]

Summary

Role auto-assign moves a role off its current model whenever another model ties it on tier and price, and the tie always goes to the model the picker lists first. The picker lists native models before routed ones, so with Claude 5.5 and GPT-6 priced pairwise alike (Haiku 5.5 / Luna 0.60, Sonnet 5.5 / Sol 12, Opus 5.5 / Daybreak 24, Fable 5.1 / Astra 60 per 1M input plus output), every role currently on a routed Claude model is proposed onto the native GPT model at the same tier and the same price. The proposal changes the role without buying anything.

Trigger, on 2.91.0 with six roles on cpa/claude-sonnet-5-5: ocx agent roles suggest --model cpa/claude-opus-5-5 sizes all six standard and proposes gpt-6.1-sol for each, because cheapestSufficientCandidate in src/codex/role-auto-assign.ts sorts by tier, then price, then picker order.

The fix adds one tie-break between price and picker order: the model the role already uses. A role with no model, or whose model does not tie, is proposed exactly as before.

Verification

• bun test tests/routing/codex-role-auto-assign.test.ts (Bun 1.4.4 from the project): 12 pass. With src/codex/role-auto-assign.ts reverted, the new case fails (routed-mid proposed as native-mid).
• bun test tests/codex-integration/injection-model-suggest-routes.test.ts tests/server/codex-role-auto-assign-routes.test.ts: pass.
• bun run typecheck (tsc 7.0.2): exit 0. bun run structure:check: passed.
• Full suite (bun run test) not run: the change is one sort key in cheapestSufficientCandidate, and the three suites above are every test file that imports role-auto-assign or its management route.
• Replayed the live sizing answer and candidate list from ocx agent roles suggest --json on 2.91.0 through buildRoleProposals at this head: the six Sonnet roles stay on cpa/claude-sonnet-5-5, and the fast and frontier roles get the same proposals as before.

Out of scope: classifyRoleModelCandidates can still put two equally priced models in different tiers when the price rank split falls between them. The current catalog pairs them evenly, so it does not change this proposal set; it is a separate case.

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• Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
• Docs or release notes were updated when needed (structure/subagents.md).
• Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

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  • Role auto-assignment continues to select the lowest sufficient tier and lowest-priced candidate. When candidates tie on both, it now prefers the role’s current model if that model is among the tied options. If there is no current model, or it is not tied for selection, the picker’s original order determines which candidate is selected. This makes assignments more consistent with existing role settings while preserving the established fallback behavior.

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Candidate selection now prefers a role’s current model when candidates tie on tier and price. If the role has no current model, selection uses the picker’s original order.

Changes: Role model tie-breaking

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Candidate selection and validation src/codex/role-auto-assign.ts, tests/routing/codex-role-auto-assign.test.ts, structure/subagents.md	cheapestSufficientCandidate accepts the current model and prefers it after tier and price ties. buildRoleProposals passes the role’s model. Tests cover tied candidates with and without a current model, and the documentation describes the tie-break order.

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Independent source review (gpt-6.1-sol, dispatched by the triage manager, 2026-10-24) at head 3250b0f6ee:

VERDICT: PASS
LANE_ALL_REQUIRED: no

Reviewed current head 3250b0f6ee331a94829463cb00d81b909631ddfa, all three changed files.

No blocking code findings. src/codex/role-auto-assign.ts:110 correctly prefers the current model only after tier and price tie; line 146 supplies that model. The regression at tests/routing/codex-role-auto-assign.test.ts:122 covers retained routed models and picker fallback.

• No security-boundary or Windows-sensitive changes.
• Existing test registration is intact. layout.json remains 1,999 lines; structure/subagents.md is 561/600 lines. No changed-file ratchet violation.
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• Integration blocker: exact-head functional CI is action_required. A maintainer must authorize CI and obtain successful required checks before merging (MAINTAINERS.md:63). This source-review PASS does not certify merge readiness.

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[LilMGenius]

Thanks for the source review. The one gate left on this head is the functional CI run 39938226192, which is waiting for a maintainer to approve it on 3250b0f6ee. The branch is 8 commits behind dev with no conflict; I've left the head as reviewed so the PASS above still applies, and I'll rebase onto the tip if you'd rather it run there.

#7624 is stacked on this one, so it shrinks to its own commits once this lands.

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Integration evidence (owner decision decision:3499cac6, approved): independent gpt-6.1-sol review PASS — src/codex/role-auto-assign.ts prefers the current model only after tier and price tie, with the regression at tests/routing/codex-role-auto-assign.test.ts covering retained routed models and picker fallback. No security-boundary or Windows-sensitive change.

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Merged by the triage manager as maintainer integration (MAINTAINERS.md, dev only) under the owner's static-judgment rule while GitHub Actions is degraded; dev push CI will be checked when Actions recovers.