Profiles — the allocation matrix

Each column is one profile; read it top-to-bottom to see every category's tier. B=Budget, Bal=Balanced, Perf=Performance, Front=Frontier. Balanced is the shipped default (DEFAULT_PROFILE_ID = "balanced-smart") and is the original hand-tuned allocation.

Smart profiles

Intelligent per-category curves — substrate/reasoning work is the last to drop and first to rise; latency-bound and pure-volume work is the first to drop and is capped below Frontier.

Design notes:

• Budget protects generate at Balanced — dropping the substrate-committed scene generator to the cheapest model poisons everything downstream. "Cheap but not stupid."
• Performance lifts substrate + reasoning to Performance; latency-bound action stays at Balanced (a slow move freezes the play clock).
• Frontier puts substrate + reasoning + conversation on Kimi K3, but caps action, gameTheory, and question below it — the frontier tier's cost/latency isn't worth it there.

Singular profiles

Naive "pin every category to one tier" modes.

Custom allocations layer per-category overrides on top of any base profile (a Director pins a few categories in the AI Profiles modal; the rest follow the base).