Profiles — the allocation matrix

# 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.

| Category | Budget | **Balanced** | Performance | Frontier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| generate | Bal | **Perf** | Perf | Front |
| plan | B | **Bal** | Perf | Front |
| extract | B | **Bal** | Perf | Front |
| predict | B | **Bal** | Perf | Front |
| write | B | **Bal** | Perf | Front |
| review | B | **B** | Bal | Perf |
| synthesis | B | **B** | Bal | Perf |
| gameTheory | B | **B** | Bal | Bal |
| interaction | B | **B** | Bal | Perf |
| action | B | **Bal** | Bal | Bal |
| intuition | B | **Bal** | Bal | Perf |
| question | B | **Bal** | Bal | Bal |

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.

| Profile | Every category → |
|---|---|
| **All Budget** | Budget |
| **All Balanced** | Balanced |
| **All Performance** | Performance |
| **All Frontier** | Frontier (Kimi K3) |

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).

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