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Good Judgment, Bad Advice: Decision-Model Controllers Raise Agent Cost Without Improving Success

A study of a typed decision model, Jev 1.13, consulted only at deterministic decision points in a Claude Sonnet 5.5 terminal agent found the controller raised agent cost without improving task success, according to the research. The work examined whether delegating small stop, verify, or change-approach decisions to cheaper models makes agent scaffolds cheaper without degrading performance.

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Agent scaffolds increasingly delegate small decisions (whether to stop, verify, or change approach) to cheaper models. We ask whether a typed decision model, Jev 1.13, consulted only at deterministic decision points, makes a Claude Sonnet 5.5 terminal agent cheaper without making it worse. In a pre-

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