Release 18
Fewer desk errors: clean first-try outputs, budgets that fit the job, stop distances stated up front
Far fewer desk sessions stumble on their first answer, budget notices are quieter, and the readiness report counts desk errors.
What changed for people using Bellwether
- The desk stops tripping over itself. On the day reports from 10–11 September, roughly seven in ten portfolio-manager and researcher sessions had their first structured answer rejected and had to retry, a handful of Critic sessions ran out of budget before finishing, and three buys were refused for stops set too tight. This release fixes the causes: sessions get a budget sized to the job they are about to do (inside the role cap and the day's reservation, never above), the desk accepts a first answer that is right but wrapped oddly (and keeps the model's original attempt on file), and the minimum stop distance is shown to the Portfolio Manager as a number from the same rule the Executor enforces, so proposals arrive already compliant. Measured live on the pinned models: first-try structured answers went from 0 of 20 valid to 20 of 20, budget-error sessions 0, too-tight stops 0, Quant reports 27 of 27 valid.
- Quieter alerts. "Not enough budget left for this session" is now a single deduplicated notice with plain wording, not a repeated critical alert.
- Readiness knows about desk errors. The readiness report gains a "desk error sessions in the last day" check, so a bad day shows up as red instead of being discovered in a transcript.
- Help and console copy: the Guidance article now explains that the rule reading for a saved note arrives from the desk a few seconds after you save; an example in the Guidance panel and help was replaced with a neutral one.
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