Operator direction 2026-07-15: the orchestration layer itself (builder
sessions, cold verifiers) must run on Mistral or hermes+Ornith/MLX too.
The protocol already carries everything in files+issues; new model-fleet
section defines the evidence-gated ladder — verifier roles migrate
first (cross-family refutation is stronger verification), scoped
builders benched on unchanged acceptance gates, Claude default until
the bench says otherwise. D2 row records the direction; spike = erp#63.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>