workflows: downshift routine nodes to haiku#3
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Applied a systematic model audit to the 15 default workflows. Moved
routine nodes (create-pr, fix-failures, loop counters, status reports)
from Sonnet/Opus to Haiku 4.5. Kept Opus for:
- The 5 security-audit analysis agents (injection, auth, privacy,
config-deps, logic) + synthesize
- archon-adversarial-dev's core GAN loop
- All `implement` / `implement-tasks` nodes in feature-dev,
idea-to-pr, plan-to-pr, ralph-dag, fix-github-issue
Upgraded archon-adversarial-dev's `plan` to Opus (spec-writing from
scratch in an adversarial context needs depth Sonnet doesn't provide).
Expected impact: ~35-40% cost reduction on the routine nodes that
dominate cron-driven archon runs, without sacrificing quality on the
heavy-reasoning paths.
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Adds three custom archon workflows that were living untracked in the working tree (pr-maintenance, security-audit, test-audit). Applies the same haiku/sonnet downshifts from #3 to their routine nodes (create-pr, fix-failures, fix-security, coverage-gap-agent, flaky-test-agent). Also commits the Phase 11 prepare-merge + Phase 12 watch-and-merge auto-merge additions to archon-fix-github-issue.yaml (watch-and-merge uses haiku — polling loop, not reasoning) and the Phase 9 auto-merge step in archon-idea-to-pr.yaml. Gitignores *.jks — keystore files must never be committed.
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* chore(homebrew): update formula to v0.3.6 * feat: open PRs as ready by default + pr-maintenance draft promotion (#1) * Fix pr-maintenance cron: prepend user bins to PATH When cron invoked the script every 15 min, PATH was the minimal /usr/bin:/bin. archon (installed at ~/.bun/bin/archon) was not findable, so every "launching archon" step died with: /mnt/ext-fast/archon/scripts/pr-maintenance-cron.sh: line 59: archon: command not found As a result PRs that needed conflict resolution stopped being processed — they just accumulated as DIRTY or UNKNOWN. Prepend $HOME/.bun/bin, $HOME/.local/bin, and /usr/local/bin to PATH at the top of the script. Works from cron and from an interactive shell unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * feat: open PRs as ready by default + pr-maintenance draft promotion Archon workflows previously created PRs with --draft, which meant even a CI-green PR would sit idle until a human marked it ready. Combined with the Phase 1 merge filter in pr-maintenance-cron.sh (which skips drafts), a green draft could linger indefinitely. This change removes --draft from all three unconditional gh pr create invocations so PRs open ready-for-review by default: - .archon/workflows/defaults/archon-fix-github-issue.yaml - .archon/workflows/defaults/archon-piv-loop.yaml - .archon/workflows/defaults/archon-ralph-dag.yaml Also includes the already-in-tree pr-maintenance-cron.sh additions that complement this: - Phase 0: promote any CLEAN draft PRs to ready (belt-and-suspenders for PRs that still open as drafts from other sources). - Surface gh pr merge stderr to the cron log so real failures (perms, branch protection, etc.) are diagnosable instead of silently swallowed. Together these eliminate "green draft sitting idle" as a failure mode. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * workflows: downshift routine nodes to haiku, keep opus for heavy reasoning (#3) Applied a systematic model audit to the 15 default workflows. Moved routine nodes (create-pr, fix-failures, loop counters, status reports) from Sonnet/Opus to Haiku 4.5. Kept Opus for: - The 5 security-audit analysis agents (injection, auth, privacy, config-deps, logic) + synthesize - archon-adversarial-dev's core GAN loop - All `implement` / `implement-tasks` nodes in feature-dev, idea-to-pr, plan-to-pr, ralph-dag, fix-github-issue Upgraded archon-adversarial-dev's `plan` to Opus (spec-writing from scratch in an adversarial context needs depth Sonnet doesn't provide). Expected impact: ~35-40% cost reduction on the routine nodes that dominate cron-driven archon runs, without sacrificing quality on the heavy-reasoning paths. * workflows: add custom workflows + auto-merge phases Adds three custom archon workflows that were living untracked in the working tree (pr-maintenance, security-audit, test-audit). Applies the same haiku/sonnet downshifts from #3 to their routine nodes (create-pr, fix-failures, fix-security, coverage-gap-agent, flaky-test-agent). Also commits the Phase 11 prepare-merge + Phase 12 watch-and-merge auto-merge additions to archon-fix-github-issue.yaml (watch-and-merge uses haiku — polling loop, not reasoning) and the Phase 9 auto-merge step in archon-idea-to-pr.yaml. Gitignores *.jks — keystore files must never be committed. * deps: add @openai/codex-sdk For using Codex as a provider in archon workflows alongside Claude. Also bumps internal workspace versions 0.3.5 → 0.3.6 (bun regenerated on install). --------- Co-authored-by: Rasmus Widing <rasmus.widing@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Applied a systematic model audit to the default workflows. Moved routine nodes (create-pr, fix-failures, loop counters, status reports) from Sonnet/Opus to Haiku 4.5. Kept Opus for heavy-reasoning paths (adversarial-dev's plan/GAN loop, implement nodes).
Per-file changes (all under
.archon/workflows/defaults/)archon-adversarial-dev.yaml:planupgraded toopus(spec-writing from scratch needs depth)archon-architect.yaml:fix-failures,create-pr-> haikuarchon-create-issue.yaml:report-failure,create-issue-> haikuarchon-fix-github-issue.yaml:extract-issue-number,create-pr-> haikuarchon-piv-loop.yaml:fix-feedback-> haikuarchon-refactor-safely.yaml:execute-refactoropus->sonnet,fix-failures/create-pr-> haikuarchon-test-loop-dag.yaml:loop-counter,report-> haikuarchon-workflow-builder.yaml:save-or-report-> haikuExpected ~35-40% cost reduction on routine nodes that dominate cron-driven archon runs.
Test plan
python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(...)")