Categories
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Every modality of LLM work. Categories are intentionally orthogonal: each names one kind of work rather
than a model tier, fallback, or miscellaneous bucket. impact is how much dropping the tier costs you —
substrate/reasoning work compounds downstream (protect it), volume/interactive work does not.
The Systems column says which boundaries the category's calls cross today and which decision-shaped
work in it is queued for System 1 (two systems). A category is not a system: action
carries both, and the same is expected of predict and interaction as their decisions migrate.
| Category | Impact | Systems | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| generate | substrate | 2 | Scene generation & reconstruction — committed to the substrate. |
| plan | substrate | 1 (scene count) + 2 | Beat plans, reasoning graphs (CRG), phase graphs (PRG) — the causal spine. |
| extract | substrate | 1 (topic filing, location parents, findings routing, system invocations, paradigm detection) + 2 | Analysis pipeline — the knowledge graph every force/search reads from. |
| write | substrate | 2 | Prose generation — longest, highest-volume outputs. |
| predict | reasoning | 1 (stream-prior evidence, log type, attention, and new-outcome gating) + 2 | Variable logits (present/future/rescore) — decides which branches generate. |
| review | reasoning | 1 (prose / plan verdicts) + 2 | Branch / prose / plan quality judging — read-only critique. |
| synthesis | volume | 1 (research loop/reminder shape) + 2 | Editorial distillation — note-merge, chat-compact, report, search synthesis. |
| gameTheory | volume | 2 | Per-scene game-theory decomposition — additive, never mutates substrate. |
| question | volume | 2 | Learning question extraction — study aid over committed prose. |
| interaction | interactive | 2 | Chat, surveys, interviews, and the Pilot agentic turn. |
| action | interactive | 1 (agent seat) + 2 (table talk) | Live Scenario moves — on the play clock, latency-bound. |
| intuition | interactive | 1 (stream opening pricing) + 2 | Belief-stream landing distributions, log type, and horizon; creative micro-suggestions and outcome prose remain generated. |
The twelve were reviewed against the split (2026-09-19) and kept: each still names one kind of work, and
the system axis is carried per call, not per category. What the split does change is action's reading
— "latency-bound" is now met by System 1 for the seat's move itself, so the tier its profile assigns
governs only the generated remainder of a live turn.