Update to Empire LLM for Codex

{
  "description": "Resolve and enforce Empire LLM economic boundaries before external-model routing. Use when a user asks for free-only or Absolute Zero models, prefers free or value routing, requests frontier models, sets a spending ceiling or target language, previews a route, asks why a model was chosen, or wants to prevent paid fallback.",
  "included_files": [
    {
      "relative_path": "agents/openai.yaml",
      "size_in_bytes": 206
    }
  ],
  "name": "empire-cost-policy",
  "skill_md_contents": "---\nname: empire-cost-policy\ndescription: Resolve and enforce Empire LLM economic boundaries before external-model routing. Use when a user asks for free-only or Absolute Zero models, prefers free or value routing, requests frontier models, sets a spending ceiling or target language, previews a route, asks why a model was chosen, or wants to prevent paid fallback.\n---\n\n# Empire Cost Policy\n\nKeep Codex as lead. Resolve the user's economic boundary before invoking\n`$empire-review`, `$empire-handoff`, `$empire-image`, or `$empire-video`; treat\nthe result as enforcement data, not as a model-ranking hint.\n\nResolve the Empire Review root as the sibling `../empire-review` directory and\nrun its `scripts/empire_router.py` commands.\n\n## Interpret user intent\n\nMap language precisely:\n\n- `only` means `hard_lock`; never cross the selected lane.\n- `prefer` means `prefer`; use that lane when eligible and allow disclosed fallback.\n- `try first` means `try_first`; make one governed attempt before another lane.\n- `free` or `Absolute Zero` means `free` / `absolute_zero`.\n- `mid-tier` or `best value` means `value` / `value_paid`.\n- `premium`, `best`, or `frontier` means `frontier` / `frontier_quality`.\n- No explicit boundary means `auto` / `adaptive`.\n\nOpenAI models remain excluded because Codex is already the OpenAI lead. Never\nweaken privacy, evidence, modality, language, context, or budget gates to obtain\na route.\n\n## Set or inspect policy\n\nSave a default:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" mode set free \\\n  --selection-strength hard_lock\n```\n\nInspect or reset it:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" mode status\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" mode reset\n```\n\nTreat a policy stated in the current conversation as request/session scope by\npassing `--cost-mode`, `--selection-strength`, and `--language` to every Empire\noperation in that session. Do not silently persist it as a user default unless\nthe user asks to save it.\n\nSet a saved target locale only when requested:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" language set es-PR\n```\n\nIf current catalog or benchmark data lacks language evidence, report it as\n`unverified`; never invent a proficiency score.\n\n## Inspect and preview\n\nList a live lane:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" models \\\n  --cost-mode free --task review --language es-PR --refresh\n```\n\nPreview without dispatch or reservation:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" route \\\n  --repo \"$PWD\" --task \"Review the current diff\" \\\n  --cost-mode free --selection-strength hard_lock\n```\n\nUse `explain` with the same arguments for score dimensions, provider policy,\nand alternatives. A preview must return `dispatch_performed: false` and must\nnot reserve budget.\n\n## Enforce cost\n\n- Free hard-lock requires a zero projected total and disables paid fallback.\n- Count prompt, completion, fixed request, and every planned billable tool unit.\n- Fail closed when a planned tool's price is unavailable.\n- Distinguish explicit `:free` routes from `openrouter/free`; disclose that the\n  generic router does not guarantee a served model.\n- Show expected cost and reserved maximum separately.\n- Use project budget commands for accumulated local enforcement:\n\n```bash\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" budget set \\\n  --repo \"$PWD\" --limit-usd 1.00\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" budget status --repo \"$PWD\"\npython3 \"$EMPIRE_REVIEW_ROOT/scripts/empire_router.py\" budget history --repo \"$PWD\"\n```\n\nWhen no model satisfies a hard lock, return Codex-only. Do not reinterpret a\ndecline as permission to spend.\n\nFor image and video generation, `free` remains the same Absolute Zero hard\nlock. Paid media routes currently use `auto` plus approval of the exact route\nand maximum cost. Do not translate `value` or `frontier` into an unsupported\nmedia-quality ranking; explain that the media catalog does not yet provide the\nevidence needed for those lanes. Pass the resolved free/auto mode to both media\npreview and generation so the approval token cannot cross an economic lane.\n"
}