feat(#975): model roles — semantic indirection between phase policy and concrete model strings

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Summary

• Adds run.modelRoles map with shipped defaults (fast=sonnet, strong=opus, frontier=fable) so phase policy, --models, and ladder entries can reference roles with a role:<name> prefix instead of hard-coding model strings
• resolveRoleToModel is the single choke point — called inside resolvePhasePolicies so both ExecutionConfig producers resolve roles through the same function (no drift, AC-5)
• agents.model now accepts any free string instead of the closed haiku|sonnet|opus enum (AC-6)
• Adds requestedModel/resolvedModel fields to per-phase metrics and PhaseMarker for cross-time benchmark comparisons (AC-4)

AC Verification

AC	Description	Status	Evidence
AC-1	run.modelRoles parses; role:<name> dispatches with mapped model	✅	config-resolver.ts:resolveRoleToModel, resolvePhasePolicies wiring; 10 tests
AC-2	Missing role fails at config-resolution time naming role + available keys	✅	resolveRoleToModel throws before any session; 4 tests
AC-3	Raw model string passes through verbatim	✅	No role: prefix → early return; existing tests green + 3 new tests
AC-4	Metrics and phase marker record requestedModel + resolvedModel	✅	metrics-schema.ts, state-schema.ts updated; 4 metrics tests
AC-5	Both ExecutionConfig producers use same function (no second impl)	✅	buildExecutionConfig + commands/ready.ts both call resolvePhasePolicies; source-inspection drift guard (3 tests)
AC-6	agents.model free string; docs no longer rank capability	✅	z.string().default("haiku"); JSDoc updated; 4 tests

Key Decisions

• role: prefix is the dispatch signal — bare strings always pass through (AC-3 backward compat)
• Role resolution at dispatch time (config-resolution), not parse time — roster aliases are the safety net via fix(driver): result subtype "success" with is_error:true is reported as phase success — unrecognized model yields a zero-work "successful" phase #973's loud API 404
• String shorthand in map desugars to { "claude-code": value } only (per spike(config): model-role shape — flat map vs per-driver map, role vocabulary (gates the modelRoles feature) #974); cross-driver form uses object with driver keys
• sequant setup writes nothing for modelRoles — absent key → shipped defaults apply

Test Plan

• npm run build — passes (0 TypeScript errors)
• npm run lint — passes (0 ESLint errors)
• 34 new unit tests all green (AC-1 through AC-6)
• All pre-existing config-resolver.phase-policy.test.ts tests still pass (no regression)
• Full suite: pre-existing flaky failures unchanged (4 files, infrastructure-level flakes)

Closes #975

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Orchestrator verification (2026-08-29, commits d229de8 + 8bfb8fe)

Independently verified in the worktree after the AC-4 fix round: all model-roles suites pass (config-resolver 37 incl. AC-5 producer-2 drift guard; run-orchestrator AC-4 9/9; settings/metrics-schema), build + lint clean. Data-flow traced end to end: claude-code driver captures modelUsage → AgentPhaseResult.modelUsage → phase-executor extracts the first key as resolvedModel (phase-executor.ts:1381-1386) → enrichPhasePoliciesFromResults merges it per phase → the metrics record's phasePolicies at run-orchestrator.ts:1778. requestedModel is captured at resolution time for role: references.

Added in 8bfb8fe: a source-inspection guard pinning the metrics call site — the first QA pass's defect (fields declared, never populated) could otherwise recur by dropping the call while every helper unit test stays green.

Mutation-verified: AC-4 — replaced the metrics record's enrichPhasePoliciesFromResults(...) call with a plain config.phasePolicies pass-through; test "run-orchestrator's metrics record passes phasePolicies through enrichPhasePoliciesFromResults" failed; restored.

Honest divergence flagged for the owner — AC-4's phase-marker clause

AC-4 says run metrics and the phase marker record requested + resolved model. The metrics half is fully implemented and gated. The marker half is schema-only (PhaseMarkerSchema carries the optional fields) and — as written — architecturally misfit: SEQUANT_PHASE markers are emitted by the phase agents themselves from the skill templates, before the driver's modelUsage exists, so an agent cannot put the resolved concrete ID in its own marker (formatPhaseMarker has no production caller; markers come from skill-templated comments). Options: (a) accept metrics as AC-4's system of record (the #916/#944 consumers read metrics, not markers) and drop the marker clause; (b) a small follow-up threading requestedModel into the marker via the existing SEQUANT_* env contract (feasible) while resolvedModel stays metrics-only. Not silently rationalized — owner's call at review.