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Two complementary patterns for splitting work between an expensive and a cheap model. They read as a pair and cross-reference each other, so they go in together.

Advisory Strategy — the cheap model runs by default and consults a stronger model as an advisor on defined triggers (two failed attempts, self-contradiction, declared uncertainty). The advisor writes no code and runs no tools, so its share of the bill stays small.

Smart Plan, Cheap Execution — the strong model plans, the plan is checkpointed to a document, a cheap model executes it step by step.

Advisory Strategy is named after Anthropic's advisor strategy, which measured it: Sonnet 4.6 with an Opus advisor gained 2.7 points on SWE-bench Multilingual over Sonnet alone and cost 11.9% less per task; Haiku 4.5 more than doubled its BrowseComp score, 19.7% to 41.2%. The write-up presents the advisor arrangement as an inversion of plan-then-execute, so Smart Plan, Cheap Execution cites it as contrast rather than as evidence.

Replaces #43 and #44, which held the same two patterns on separate branches with an earlier draft of the text.

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npm run validate, npm run lint, 336 unit tests, and npm run build all pass. Both pages checked in the browser: headings, the Anthropic link, and the Related sidebar (similar-to / solves Sunk Cost) render correctly.

Two complementary ways to split work between an expensive and a cheap
model. Advisory Strategy runs the cheap model by default and escalates
to a stronger advisor on defined triggers; Smart Plan, Cheap Execution
has the strong model plan up front and a cheap model execute.

Advisory Strategy is named after and cites Anthropic's advisor strategy,
which measured it: https://claude.com/blog/the-advisor-strategy
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Superseded by #56, which renames the pattern to Advisor Strategy to match Anthropic's naming.

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