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Records the result of the second head-to-head with minpeter/kiro-lb, written from the merged tree after the seven Kiro layers landed (#5967, #5981, #5991, #5994, #5996, #6001, #6002).

devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md compares all 35 rows of the research inventory against dev at 54ed02be17 and kiro-lb at bee73b3, each with the regression test that proves the opencodex side. Every adopted row reaches parity or better. Eight axes where kiro-lb still leads are listed with the reason we did not follow (IDE wire fingerprint, extra endpoint dialects, paid endpoint probe, MCP web search, per-model credit estimates, dashboard device-login UI, operations dashboard, connect/read timeout split), plus the static context-window fallback, and the behaviours verified only against fixtures rather than a live Kiro account.

Docs only; no code change.

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  • Mechanical check per the 080 method: all 21 tests/... paths named in the document exist at 54ed02be17, and each of the 35 inventory row IDs appears exactly once.
  • An independent accuracy review spot-checked the rows against both source trees, confirmed all 38 quoted test names, and narrowed three verdicts it found overstated (C3, P1/P2, E6).
  • bun run privacy:scan, bun run structure:check, tests/test-layout.test.ts, tests/ci-workflows/repo-hygiene.test.ts — pass.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. (Docs only; kiro-lb is cited by identifier and file:line, no code copied.)

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    • Added a head-to-head report comparing opencodex and kiro-lb across adopted, kept, and rejected items. The report finds parity or better across all 20 adopted items, while noting kiro-lb leads on eight compared axes.
    • Documented remaining gaps, fixture-only evidence limitations, scope decisions, row-level findings, and verification results.

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test(kiro): evaluate auto-selection after setup — the 070 projection test captured its clock before writing the exhaustion verdict, so under load the verdict looked future-dated and the account read as not exhausted. It failed once in a manually dispatched dev CI run (run 36273574652, shard 2/4, batch 27); the evaluation clock now follows every write, and the test passed 8/8 when run in the same file batch locally.

Row-by-row comparison of the 35 inventory rows against merged dev
(54ed02b) and kiro-lb bee73b3, each with its proving test. Every adopted
row reaches parity or better; eight axes where kiro-lb still leads are listed
with the reason, along with the behaviours verified only against fixtures.
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The change adds a report comparing opencodex at 54ed02be17 with kiro-lb at bee73b3. It also updates the Kiro auto-selection test to capture its evaluation time after setup.

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Parity comparison and test clock update

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Scope and row-level findings
devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md
Defines the comparison and records verdicts for the compared rows, with cited tests or rejection reasons.
Differences, decisions, and evidence gaps
devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md
Lists axes where kiro-lb leads, narrowed scope decisions, and fixture-only evidence gaps.
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devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md
Reports privacy and structure checks and a mechanical check of cited test paths and row IDs.
Auto-selection test clock
tests/providers/kiro/kiro-auto-selection.test.ts
Captures evalNow after setup and uses it for eligibility and per-account projection checks, including the future-time suspended-account check.

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The report overstates parity, misdescribes the context-window fallback, and miscounts remaining lead areas. These are localized documentation corrections; the test-clock change itself is supported, so merge risk is low, though the report should be corrected before it guides parity decisions.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md: Adds the report’s comparison scope, commit references, sourcing statement, and conclusion: adopted rows reach parity or better, Keep and Reject decisions stand, and the stated goal of being ahead on every compared axis is unmet.
  • observed — Modified behavior in devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md: Adds a row-by-row comparison table covering the listed onboarding, refresh, account state, polling, transport, refusal, load, metering, catalogue, and other axes. Each row records the implementations, verdict, and a proving test or reason for rejecting adoption.
  • observed — Modified behavior in devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md: Adds the axes where kiro-lb still leads and the stated reasons for not following them yet, including IDE fingerprint, endpoint dialects, paid probing, MCP search, credit estimates, dashboard features, static context fallback, and timeout splitting.
  • observed — Modified behavior in devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md: Records narrowed decisions for native login, per-account capacity, and auto-selection fields, including the stated re-login restriction, 250 ms wait and retryable 503 account_capacity, and GUI omission of those fields.
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| U1 per-model credit estimates | Measured credits (`providerCredits`) are the source of truth; an estimate beside them is a weaker second number. |
| Dashboard device-login UI | Native device login ships in the CLI and management API (060, option a); the dashboard still uses kiro-cli. A device-code dialog is the follow-up. |
| Operations dashboard | Routable state and quota gauges are in the API, CLI and metrics export (070), not rendered in the GUI; the `health` field does not yet reflect Kiro suspension/exhaustion. |
| C3 static context fallback | Without catalogue evidence our static GPT-5.6 window is 272k (`src/providers/kiro-models.ts:34`) where kiro-lb records 1M; the observed catalogue raises it when an account reports it. |

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P2 Badge State that all live accounts need catalog evidence

When a pool has multiple live accounts and only one reports the 1M GPT-5.6 limit, the observed catalog does not raise the effective window as stated. kiroObservedContextWindow marks the roster unknown if any live account lacks that model limit, adds the 272k static fallback, and returns the minimum, so it remains 272k until every live account reports a higher limit. Qualify this row accordingly so the C3 comparison does not overstate when parity is reached.

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fences a re-login), refresh stays leased where kiro-lb falls back to an unleased refresh, credentials are
never reloaded from an unrelated source, region values are validated, and polling is on demand; load
spreading is now at parity (deterministic, opt-in least-loaded against kiro-lb's weighted race or
deterministic most-credits mode). Kiro-lb still leads on eight axes listed

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Correct the distinct-axis count.

Lines 65–73 contain nine table rows, but W1/W2 IDE wire fingerprint names two axes. The section therefore lists ten distinct axes. Change “eight” to “ten” at line 17.

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이 PR은 코드를 바꾸지 않는다. Kiro 레이어 일곱 개(#5967, #5981, #5991, #5994, #5996, #6001, #6002)가 dev에 들어간 뒤, 조사표 35줄을 kiro-lb bee73b3과 다시 견준 기록이다. 파일은 devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md 하나다. 비교 기준은 opencodex 54ed02be17이다. 가져온 줄에는 테스트 이름을 붙이고, 안 가져온 줄에는 이유를 적었다. 바탕 브랜치는 dev다.

가져오기로 한 기능은 대체로 따라잡았거나 우리가 더 낫다. kiro-lb가 아직 앞서는 항목은 일부러 안 따라간 것으로 적혀 있다. 다만 앞부분 숫자와 창 크기 문장이 아래 표, 그리고 kiroObservedContextWindow와 안 맞는다.

라인 - devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md 17줄. "eight"인데 65–73줄 표는 아홉 줄이다. PR 본문도 여덟 개를 센 다음 정적 컨텍스트 창을 따로 더한다. 아홉으로 고치면 된다. W1/W2는 이 문서에서 한 줄이다. 둘로 쪼개 열이라고 고치면 다시 틀린다.

라인 - 같은 파일 54줄, 72줄. src/providers/kiro-model-catalog.ts 129–142줄 kiroObservedContextWindow는 다시 로그인이 필요 없는 계정을 본다. 그중 하나라도 그 모델 한도가 없으면 272k 바닥을 넣고, 넣은 값 중 가장 작은 수를 쓴다. 계정 하나가 1M을 보고해도 풀 창은 안 올라간다. 남은 계정이 모두 한도를 보고할 때만 바닥이 빠지고, 그때도 최솟값이다. 54줄 테스트 이름(섞인 명단은 알려진 창 중 가장 작은 값보다 크게 말하지 않음)이 이 동작과 맞다. 72줄 "한 계정이 보고하면 올라간다"는 그보다 넓다.

라인 - 같은 파일 11줄. "채택한 20줄은 전부 동률 이상"인데 표의 C3와 E6는 일부만 동률이다. C3는 목록 증거가 있을 때 동률이고, 정적 272k는 kiro-lb가 앞선다. E6는 헤더 시간 초과를 504로 바꾸는 쪽만 동률이고, 연결 시간과 읽기 시간을 나누는 쪽은 아직 뒤다. 19줄은 목표 문장을 그대로 두면 못 맞춘다고 이미 적었다. 11줄을 그 범위에 맞춰라.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

  • 11줄의 "채택한 줄"이 001에서 가져오기로 한 조각만 말하는지, 조사표 축 전체를 말하는지. 조각이면 C3와 E6의 남은 차이는 65줄 표에만 두면 된다. 전체이면 11줄은 표와 반대다.
  • 70–71줄 대시보드 로그인 화면과 운영 대시보드는 35줄 조사표 밖이다. 남은 일 목록에 둘지는 이 기록의 범위다.
  • 바탕은 dev다. types.ts/config.ts 분할과 겹치지 않아서 닫을 중복은 아니다.

너의 추천
문장만 고치고 머지하면 된다. 17줄은 아홉. 72줄은 "다시 로그인할 필요 없는 계정이 모두 그 모델 한도를 보고할 때만, 그중 가장 작은 창으로 올라간다. 하나라도 없으면 272k 바닥이 남는다." 11줄은 "가져온 범위는 동률 이상이다. C3 정적 창과 E6의 연결/읽기 시간 분리는 아래 표에 남은 차이다."

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The projection test captured its clock before writing the exhaustion
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account read as not exhausted. It failed once in a batched dev CI run. The
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🟡 Minor · Limit the parity claim to the adopted portions covered by the… · 081_head_to_head_result.md:12-19

devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md:12-19
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Limit the parity claim to the adopted portions covered by the evidence.

devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md:11 states that all 20 adopted rows reach parity or better. The same report records two full-axis gaps:

  • C3 uses a 272k static fallback when catalogue evidence is unavailable, versus kiro-lb’s 1M.
  • E6 passes one timeout to the Kiro transport path and does not separate connect and read timeouts.

These qualifications support parity only for the adopted portions covered by the tests. The blanket statement can mislead readers about current full-axis capability.

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-Every one of the 20 adopted rows (18 adopted in 001, plus S1/F and P8/J, which landed on dev outside this unit) now reaches parity with kiro-lb or better, each with a named test; the two Keep rows (A7, M) hold, and the 13 Reject rows keep their reasons.
+The adopted portions of the 20 rows (18 adopted in 001, plus S1/F and P8/J, which landed on dev outside this unit) reach parity with kiro-lb or better where covered by the named tests; C3 retains a weaker static fallback and E6 retains a connect/read timeout gap. The two Keep rows (A7, M) hold, and the 13 Reject rows keep their reasons.
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-below. Each is a deliberate choice or needs live evidence we do not have, so **the goal criterion "ahead on
-every compared axis" is not met as written**; "ahead or at parity on every adopted axis" is.
+below. Each is a deliberate choice or needs live evidence we do not have, so **the goal criterion "ahead on
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In @devlog/_plan/260926_kiro_lb_parity2/081_head_to_head_result.md around lines
12 - 19, Narrow the parity claims in the report to the adopted portions
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🟡 Minor · Describe the account-wide fallback and minimum limit · 081_head_to_head_result.md:63-73

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Describe the account-wide fallback and minimum limit

The C3 row implies that one account’s catalogue report can raise the GPT-5.6 window. kiroObservedContextWindow only removes the 272,000 static floor when every live account reports a limit for that model. It then returns the smallest reported limit. Otherwise, the static floor remains in the minimum. This value is published as the model’s contextWindow, so the current wording can mislead readers about supported context.

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-| C3 static context fallback | Without catalogue evidence our static GPT-5.6 window is 272k (`src/providers/kiro-models.ts:34`) where kiro-lb records 1M; the observed catalogue raises it when an account reports it. |
+| C3 static context fallback | Without catalogue evidence our static GPT-5.6 window is 272k (`src/providers/kiro-models.ts:34`) where kiro-lb records 1M; the observed catalogue can replace that floor only when every remaining account reports a limit, and returns the smallest reported limit. |
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the summary to explicitly preserve the C3 static-fallback and E6
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