Route ronin workflows by task profile

[drrius]

ronin should trust distinct jobs and reproducible evidence, not model plurality.

This change:

• defines explore, implement, judge, explain, and verify as behavioral task profiles
• makes model and reasoning-effort routing optional capability, latency, cost, or tool-fit choices
• reports fresh context, model relationship, and provider relationship independently, with honest joint provenance tiers
• updates delegated workflows, reviewer prompts, playbooks, setup, adapters, and guides to use the profile contract
• adds a machine-readable profile contract, installed readback, routing fixtures, semantic guards, and strict typechecking for repository tests
• tightens the README opening and removes obsolete caveat and Cursor-coexistence sections carried from the original branch

Single-model hosts remain complete supported environments. Cross-provider review stays available as an explicit escalation, but reviewer count or model agreement never substitutes for evidence or acceptance verification.

Validation:

• bun run check
• 37 profile and routing tests, 127 assertions
• 58 tooling tests, 219 assertions
• strict repository-test and tooling typechecks
• deterministic build and isolated-home install, reinstall, readback, and exact uninstall
• zero-vulnerability Bun audit
• git diff --check

Review:

• fresh-context Codex judge: approved with no findings
• Claude Opus 5 at xhigh effort: cross-provider approval with no findings

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Note

High Risk
This changes core delegation contracts, skill names, install path, and release verification across the whole distribution; consumers and CI must adopt the new ronin-* commands and skills-CLI install model.

Overview
Ronin stops routing on models and host adapters. Delegation is defined by five task profiles (explore, implement, judge, explain, verify) in skills/ronin-core/task-profiles.json, with subagents inheriting the active model and reviews reported as self-review or fresh-context-review. HOST_CONTRACT.md and workflow skills are updated to match; docs and guides drop /setup-ronin, models.yaml, and cross-provider review framing.

Public surface is curated and namespaced. Retained skills move to the ronin-* prefix (43 skills); upstream arena, automate-me, and setup-pstack are removed. ronin-architect replaces parallel arena-style runs with explicitly named structural directions, per-direction explore workers, and a judge synthesis step.

Distribution and verification simplify. The adapters/ tree and Bun global install/uninstall paths go away; install is documented via npx skills, and build ships skills + docs only. verify.mjs adds profile/host-contract semantic checks, expects 43 skills, bans legacy model-role and “manufactured diversity” copy in key docs, and removes isolated-home install lifecycle tests from the gate.

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Restore the Cursor coexistence warning

When Cursor's pstack plugin and a global ronin installation are both visible to Cursor, only these three entry points are renamed; PORTING.md:27 confirms that the other leaves retain their upstream names and are indistinguishable in Cursor's picker. Commands such as /how, /arena, and /swarm can therefore still collide, so claiming both sets can sit side by side while deleting the host-targeted installation guidance can cause users to invoke the wrong implementation. Restore that guidance or qualify the claim.

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[drrius]

Superseded by a smaller product boundary. The replacement PR keeps the principles, namespaces every retained skill, and removes the adapter and model-routing layers.