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 # Changelog
 
+## [Unreleased]
+
+**The paid evals that still pinned older models now run on the current generation, and two cases that went red on the move are repaired at their cause.** Garry's direction (2026-10-18) is to stop testing older frontier models, so these files are re-baselined as a fresh measured reference rather than held to a threshold change.
+
+### Changed
+- **Old-model pins:** the `claude-opus-4-7` pins in `skill-e2e-plan`, `skill-e2e-plan-prosons`, `skill-e2e-design`, `skill-e2e-office-hours-phase4` and `skill-e2e-qa-bugs` now follow `resolveEvalModel('capture')` (Opus 5.5). The overlay benchmark fixtures pin `claude-opus-5-5` and `claude-sonnet-5-5`, the cookie workflow judge pins `claude-sonnet-5-5`, and `codex-sol-scope-termination` runs on `gpt-6.1-sol` while still rendering the `gpt-5.6-sol` overlay.
+- **/setup-browser-cookies:** the workflow is now five ordered steps. It checks for Aside first and ends there on `READY`, since no import is needed. It then asks every decision (source and profile, domains and target, verification, storage reset, all cookies) before any `$B` command, prepares gstack's browser (verification variables before the daemon starts, the fallback, the `Mode: cdp` stop), imports, and reports on three lines: Imported, Storage reset, Sign-in. The `{{BROWSE_SETUP}}` block, which contradicted the Aside probe, is gone from this skill.
+- **Gate integrity:** no threshold, trial count, case kind or assertion changed. Free-test edits follow the new cookie template: two phrase and order assertions, the approval fixture's reverse edits, and the positional-literals checksum list, which no longer includes this skill.
+
+### Fixed
+- **plan-review-prosons-hardstop-neg:** on Opus 5.5 one trial in three stopped with a provider refusal (`stop_reason: refusal`, category `reasoning_extraction`) on the turn that writes the captured question. Replays of the refused request were stopped 7 of 16 times with the capture prompt's "verbatim" and "Do NOT paraphrase. This is a format-capture test." wording and 0 of 24 without it. The shared prosons capture prompt now asks for "the text of the single AskUserQuestion you would have made", with the same required parts. The decision content and every assertion are unchanged; all four prosons cases pass 3/3.
+- **Cookie workflow judge:** on `claude-sonnet-5-5` it scored clarity 3, completeness 4, actionability 3 against the old template. The rewritten template scores 4/4/4 with unchanged thresholds.
+
 ## [1.91.144.0] - 2026-10-18
 
 **The paid PR gate now tests Claude Opus 5.5 instead of Fable 5.1. Its first full Opus gate went 132/132 green and recorded $32.33, against Fable's $93.16 mean over ten full gates.** Garry's direction (2026-10-18) is to test each lab's best code model. Calibration run 39157502890 passed all 108 rule cases and 24 judges on one attempt each, with no reused receipts, on the same case set every Fable gate passed. Opus 5.5 sessions cost $30.86 (Fable: $90.49), judges $1.44 and Haiku side calls $0.08; with the unrecorded PTY sessions estimated, the full-gate scale is $37.13 against $106.17. Output tokens fell 37% (thinking 69%) and session time from 11,859 s to 6,159 s. The Claude CLI runs Opus 5.5 at medium effort by default and Fable at high.