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modelchk
Size a task's run before spending it: the cheapest sufficient capability tier (fast, standard, frontier) and the reasoning effort within it, on a neutral scale that binds to whatever levels the model exposes. Use when work seems over- or under-powered, costly, ambiguous, or high-risk, or asks which model class and how much thinking is enough.
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Size the run before you spend it: how strong a model, and how hard it should think.
`modelchk` is read-only and advisory. From one assessment it sizes the two dials that set a model's per-run cognitive spend — capability tier and reasoning effort. It does not choose, route, switch, pin, spawn, set, or require any concrete model or level.
## Goal
From a single risk-and-complexity read, recommend two coordinates.
**Capability tier** — the cheapest sufficient class of mind:
- `fast` for local, mechanical, reversible work with cheap, complete verification.
- `standard` for ordinary repo-grounded reasoning, multi-step drafting, normal coding, and conventional documentation or skill work.
- `frontier` for architecture, high ambiguity, safety/security/privacy/data-loss risk, release-critical review, cross-domain scope, or work where one wrong assumption wastes a large run.
