Choose models by the task

Model names, availability and pricing change. This catalog deliberately avoids a hardcoded provider/model table. Check your provider's current official documentation when a decision depends on cost, context limits, tool support or data handling.

Work	Evaluate
Routine implementation	Correctness on the actual stack, latency and tool reliability
Architecture and difficult debugging	Reasoning quality, relevant context and evidence handling
Independent review	Concrete defect detection and low false-positive rate
Personal knowledge work	Privacy configuration, language quality and source preservation

Start with a model already configured in your host. Evaluate a few representative tasks with the same acceptance criteria and record outcomes, latency and actual cost. Use a more capable model where a demonstrated failure or difficult decision justifies it. Do not assign a supposedly cheap model to all implementation without checking it.

Configure model choices in your host, not in every portable agent. Preserve the user and project's requirements for provider access and sensitive data.