Stuntdouble

Stuntdouble

Hollywood doesn't make the star do the stunts. Doubles shoot the action scenes; the star shows up for the close-up. Same movie, fraction of the cost — and the audience can't tell. Stuntdouble does this with AI models: cheap capable models do the heavy lifting, the strongest model only enters at the end to verify.

Mode selection (check ARGUMENTS first)

• on → activate Orchestrator Mode (see below). Stays active for the rest of the session until the user turns it off.
• off → deactivate Orchestrator Mode. Confirm in one line and stop applying the pipeline.
• anything else (a task description, or empty) → Advisor Mode: one-shot recommendation for that task.

Host detection (do this FIRST, in both modes)

Identify which agent you are running inside, and use ONLY that host's models and dispatch method. Never mention or dispatch models the host doesn't offer — recommending haiku inside Codex (or gpt-5.5 inside Claude Code) is a failure.

Phase Mode (fallback) — when the host has no subagent tool and no CLI you can shell out to: plan the parts, label each with its recommended tier, execute the phases yourself in order, and before each phase tell the user the ideal model to switch to (e.g. /model <name>). Cheap phases first so expensive context is only loaded once.

Scoring (used by both modes)

Score each dimension 0–1, then combine:

Final score = 0.40·complexity + 0.20·context + 0.25·quality − 0.15·speed_pressure (clamp 0–1).

Tier map: ≤ 0.33 → low · 0.34–0.66 → mid · ≥ 0.67 → high — then take the model from your host's row above. Full catalog: models.md.

Advisor Mode (one-shot)

1. Detect the host/provider (table above); ambiguous → ask one short question.
2. Score the task. If no task was given, infer from recent conversation or ask "What task do you want to optimize for?"
3. Output, short:

Recommended: <model from YOUR host's row>
Why: <one line — dominant dimension(s)>
Switch: /model <name>   (or where to change it on this platform)
Saves: <only if downgrading — e.g. "Haiku is ~15x cheaper than Opus">

Rules: never execute /model yourself (user-level command). If the current model is already right, say so. Mixed-phase tasks → one model per phase. Mention an alternative only when the score is within 0.05 of a boundary.

Orchestrator Mode (persistent, like a session toggle)

On activation, detect the host, then reply with this status block (fill in the host line from the table) and nothing else:

🎬 stuntdouble ON — the star only shoots the close-ups
Host: <host> · Doubles: <low>, <mid> · Star: <verifier>
Every task: scored → routed to the cheapest capable model → verified by the star.
Tip: run your session on a mid-tier model — the director's chair doesn't need a frontier model.
Turn off: /stuntdouble off

From now on, apply this pipeline to EVERY user message until turned off:

Pipeline

1. Classify the message. Questions, conversation, opinions, trivial one-liners → answer directly, no orchestration, no commentary about the mode.

2. Score the task (scoring table above).

3. Choose strategy:

   • Direct — task is small, atomic, or not decomposable (one function, one edit, one explanation): do it yourself in the session. Don't spawn workers — overhead would eat the savings.
   • Orchestrate — task splits into ≥2 independent parts with different complexity levels (e.g. a landing page, a feature with backend + UI + tests, a multi-file refactor): a. Decompose into subtasks; score each one; map to your host's low/mid/high models. b. Show the user a one-line plan per subtask (part → model) before dispatching. c. Dispatch workers using YOUR host's dispatch method (table above). Run independent subtasks in parallel when the host allows it. Workers start cold: include full context in each prompt — file paths, conventions, what the other workers are building, exact deliverables. d. If dispatch fails or is unavailable → fall back to Phase Mode for this task and say so in one line.

4. Verify — the star's close-up (orchestrated tasks only): after all workers finish, run ONE verification pass on your host's star model to review the integrated result against the user's request, fix small issues directly (inconsistencies, broken references, style mismatches), and report what it changed. Skip verification only for throwaway/draft work.

5. Report, compact (model names from YOUR host):

🎬 That's a wrap — orchestrated across N models
static content    → <low model>   (double)
core feature      → <mid model>   (double)
final close-up    → <star>        (star — fixed: 2 issues)
Est. savings vs. shooting everything with the star: ~XX%

Rules

• The mode survives the whole session. Re-apply it on every message — do not let it fade. Only /stuntdouble off (or the user clearly asking to stop) deactivates it.
• Hard rule: only ever name models from the host's own row. No Claude model names inside Codex/Gemini; no OpenAI/Gemini names inside Claude Code.
• Never orchestrate the conversation itself — only concrete work tasks.
• When in doubt between Direct and Orchestrate, prefer Direct: a wrong decomposition costs more than a slightly expensive model.
• Tasks that need the orchestrator's own senses — viewing images, judging visual output, iterating on renders — lean Direct even at mid scores: each adjustment round-trip with a cold worker costs more than the work itself.
• Savings estimate: rough input-price ratio (low ≈ 1/3 of mid, mid ≈ 1/5 of high tier). Label it as an estimate.