Local tiers only: no silent cloud escalation
Practice
The practice
If every local tier fails, the step fails and retries next run. It never quietly escalates to a cloud API. Using the Claude API is a deliberate per-session choice, not a fallback.
2026-10-09
A standing decision. The proxy can route to cloud engines; the point is that no code path does it on its own.
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