Stories A promise's telling

Work

Most of the work is built by the cheapest model that passes a fixed test, so the two Claude plans spend their limit on judgement, never on volume.

The seven beats

World: A board of 2,006 work leaves, two Claude Code plans that hit their limit every week, and a bake that has priced seven API models against the same fixed tests. Groups
Cast: Tony, who told Donal the framework would multiply development. Opus, which writes the rules and the templates. DeepSeek Flash and the cheap models, which build and write tests. The fixed test and the cross-check, the only judges. Actors
Knock: 'that is getting very rate limited so we want to use deepseek flash especially to work faster and save money' signal
Want: Build most of the board without waiting for a plan to reset, for a few dollars of API. Things
Way: Opus writes one template per family; cheap models write tests from it; DeepSeek Flash builds; the cross-check accepts only what every surviving test passes; the plans take the secure lane and whatever nothing cheap could pass. Paths
Turn: Six real cards: DeepSeek Flash passed all six for under a tenth of a cent each while the Claude door answered 429. The limit, not the price, was the problem. Events
Lesson: Open. Learning

This story carries its beats but no written telling yet — text/work.md has no “The story” section.

Every link here was checked against the repo when the page was built. 4 names the story uses could not be found and are shown without a link.

Each opens a chat with that agent.

Each opens the skill's page.

The flows this story walks — trigger → step → step.

trigger: a sized leaf → agent: maker writes the card → tool: testgen → tool: bake.sh → tool: crosscheck → tool: mark/warn

Receivers and scripts it signals.

What it holds; a told promise opens its own story.

Every event is a signal; each names the path it marks or warns.

agent:run · from bake.sh family → model: mark on an accepted card, warn on a red tags: bake

API cash for cheap builds and tests (~$71 for the whole counted workload, mid case)
the two plans' fees ($300 a month), unchanged