{"slug":"model-registry-refresh","title":"model-registry-refresh","summary":"Re-verify and extend catalog/model-registry.json — the fail-closed model-name and reasoning-effort matrix scripts/model-policy.mjs validates against — via delegated Context7-backed research, orchestrator-owned registry edits, and the full validation chain; use when a policy check","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:50:40.478999Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: model-registry-refresh\ndescription: \"Re-verify and extend catalog/model-registry.json — the fail-closed model-name and reasoning-effort matrix scripts/model-policy.mjs validates against — via delegated Context7-backed research, orchestrator-owned registry edits, and the full validation chain; use when a policy check fails on an unregistered model, a provider ships new models, or the registry has gone stale.\"\nallowed-tools: [\"Agent\", \"Read\", \"Edit\", \"Bash\"]</h2>\n<h1>Model Registry Refresh</h1>\n<h2>Doctrine</h2>\n<p><code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> is the single source of truth <code>scripts/model-policy.mjs</code> fails closed\nagainst. Every model name and reasoning-effort value it accepts must trace to official documentation\nwith a citation — never to memory, never to a plausible-sounding guess at a slug. This skill is the\nrepeatable workflow for keeping that registry accurate without letting research cost dominate the\norchestrator's context.</p>\n<h2>When to run</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><code>npm run model-policy:check</code> fails with an error naming a model \"not in the verified model\nregistry\" — the registry is missing a model the policy (or an operator) wants to use.</li>\n<li>A provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor) ships new models or retires old ones and the catalog\nneeds to reflect current reality.</li>\n<li>Quarterly staleness check — <code>last_refreshed</code> in <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> is more than\n~3 months old.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Step 1 — delegate research to Haiku Explore agents</h2>\n<p>Fan out one Haiku <code>Explore</code> agent per harness (or per namespace, for codex) using the Context7 MCP\ntools (<code>mcp__Context7__resolve-library-id</code> then <code>mcp__Context7__query-docs</code>) plus official docs\nURLs already cited in the registry. Each research task must:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ask for <strong>exact slugs/IDs</strong>, not families — <code>gpt-5.5</code> not \"the gpt-5 line\".</li>\n<li>Ask for <strong>reasoning-effort support per model</strong>, not per harness — some models in a family\npredate newer effort levels (see <code>o1</code>/<code>o3</code>/<code>o4-mini</code> lacking <code>none</code>/<code>minimal</code>/<code>xhigh</code> in the\ncurrent registry).</li>\n<li>Ask for <strong>failure-mode evidence</strong> — what error shape a bad model name or unsupported effort\nactually produces (HTTP status, error code/type), so <code>docs/model-policy-matrix.md</code>'s failure\ntable stays accurate.</li>\n<li><strong>Require a source citation per claim</strong> — a Context7 library ID + section, or an official docs\nURL. A finding without one is not actionable.</li>\n<li><strong>Require an explicit <code>UNVERIFIED</code> flag</strong> on anything the agent could not confirm from a primary\nsource (e.g. inferred from a changelog mention, or contradicted between two docs). Do not let\nan agent silently round an uncertain claim into a confident one.</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Example prompt template (adapt per harness/namespace):</p>\n<pre><code>Research current [codex OpenAI models | codex Ollama routing | codex OpenRouter routing |\nclaude-code subagent model/effort fields | cursor subagent model field] using Context7\n(resolve-library-id then query-docs) and official docs. Report, for each model/field:\nexact slug or ID, supported reasoning-effort values (if any), and the error shape observed\nor documented for an invalid value (HTTP status + error code/type). Cite the Context7 library\nID + section or the exact docs URL for every claim. If you cannot confirm a claim from a\nprimary source, prefix it UNVERIFIED and say why. Do not guess slugs from training data.\n</code></pre>\n<p>Run these Explore agents in parallel; each is scoped to one harness or namespace so the\ncitations stay traceable to a narrow question.</p>\n<h2>Step 2 — orchestrator updates the registry</h2>\n<p>The orchestrator, not a delegate, edits <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code>:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add new models with <code>last_verified</code> (today's date) and a <code>source</code> where the schema allows it;\nupdate the relevant namespace's <code>sources</code> array if a new canonical URL was used.</li>\n<li><strong>Prefer the readable alias over a dated snapshot ID.</strong> Anthropic's convention\n(<a href=\"https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/model-ids-and-versions\">model-ids-and-versions</a>):\nfrom the 4.6 generation on, IDs are dateless <em>and are themselves the pinned\nsnapshot</em> (<code>claude-opus-5</code>, <code>claude-sonnet-4-6</code>) — there is no alias to add.\nBefore 4.6, the canonical ID carries a snapshot date and the API also exposes\na shorter alias pointing at the most recent dated snapshot: register <strong>both</strong>,\nand write the alias (<code>claude-sonnet-4-5</code>) as the entry an operator reaches\nfor, keeping the dated form (<code>claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929</code>) for when an exact\nsnapshot is required. Never invent an alias for a dateless ID, and never drop\nthe dated entry. Apply the same instinct to other providers: register the\nform a human can recognize, not only the fully-qualified one.</li>\n<li><strong>A capability is only real on the surface this registry governs.</strong> The\nregistry validates <code>codex.toml</code>, subagent frontmatter and <code>.agent.md</code> — not\nevery API a provider ships. A field documented on one route, present in an\nenum, or shown in a web UI is not evidence the configured surface accepts it.\nThree concrete cases this rule came from: Ollama documents <code>reasoning_effort</code>\non <code>/v1/chat/completions</code> but omits it from <code>/v1/responses</code>, which is the\nroute the namespace configures (so it stays fail-closed); OpenRouter <em>does</em>\ndocument it on its Responses route, but with a narrower four-value list than\nits chat-completions surface (so the narrower list is what is registered);\nand <code>ultra</code> sat in the Codex <code>ReasoningEffort</code> enum and the ChatGPT desktop\npicker while the CLI effort list stopped at Max, so it was excluded — until\nthe CLI docs and config reference listed it (2026-09-23), when it was\nregistered only on the models whose catalog entry advertises it, while\n<code>persistent</code>, still enum-only, stayed out. Ask \"which surface, and does\n<em>that</em> one document it?\" before widening any vocabulary, and ask again at\nevery refresh: the answer changes.</li>\n<li>Bump the registry-level <code>last_refreshed</code> date.</li>\n<li><strong>Never remove a model still referenced by <code>catalog/model-policy.json</code></strong> without first\nmigrating the policy rule(s) that reference it to a replacement model — check with\n<code>npm run model-policy:report</code> before deleting anything.</li>\n<li>Treat every <code>UNVERIFIED</code>-flagged finding from Step 1 as a blocker, not a data point to\nmerge as-is — either verify it directly or leave the registry unchanged for that item.</li>\n<li>Validate the edit against <code>schemas/model-registry.schema.json</code> structurally (required fields,\nanchored <code>match</code> patterns, <code>last_verified</code> date format) before moving on.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Step 3 — sync the human-readable matrix</h2>\n<p>Delegate to a Sonnet writer subagent to update <code>docs/model-policy-matrix.md</code> so its tables match\nthe registry exactly (namespace tables, verified-model tables, failure modes, enforcement\nboundaries). Give the delegate the exact diff you made to <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> in Step 2\nand instruct it to touch only <code>docs/model-policy-matrix.md</code> — no other file, no commits.</p>\n<h2>Step 4 — verify</h2>\n<p>Run in order, orchestrator-owned:</p>\n<pre><code>npm run model-policy:check          # registry schema + policy resolves against it\nnpm run validate                    # full gate suite\nnpm run asset-integrity:write       # LAST — after every other write has settled\n</code></pre>\n<p>The orchestrator reviews the full diff (registry, matrix doc, any touched harness projections)\nand is the only one who commits. A delegate's self-report that research or writing is \"done\" is\nnot verification — read the diff and run the gates yourself before accepting.</p>\n<h2>Delegation defaults</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Haiku</strong> — research only (Step 1): Context7 lookups, docs reading, citation gathering. Never\nwrites to <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> or any tracked file.</li>\n<li><strong>Sonnet</strong> — writing only (Step 3): syncing <code>docs/model-policy-matrix.md</code> prose/tables to a\nregistry diff the orchestrator already made. Never edits <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> itself.</li>\n<li><strong>Orchestrator</strong> — owns <code>catalog/model-registry.json</code> edits, schema/gate verification, and the\ncommit. This is the same split <code>.claude/skills/agentic-delegation/SKILL.md</code> codifies more\ngenerally: cheap parallel research to Haiku or Sonnet, prose writing to Sonnet, and code edits,\njudgment, and commits with the Opus 5.5 orchestrator.</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":8165,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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