diff --git a/eval-plan/SKILL.md b/eval-plan/SKILL.md
index af3649093..c86726696 100644
--- a/eval-plan/SKILL.md
+++ b/eval-plan/SKILL.md
@@ -185,13 +185,8 @@ page or drop the arm. Copy the priced arms into the Arms section. An arm identit
 `<model>#<loadout>` (for example `claude-opus-5-5#no-gstack`) is priced by its model and
 gets its own pilot attempts; naming one identity twice is `EVAL_ARM_DUPLICATE`.
 
-Models under test are frontier models: today `claude-opus-5-5` and `gpt-6.1-sol`, plus
-at most one named low-cost primary. Haiku and Sonnet are not models under test: they
-are not stand-ins for a frontier model, and a tier-transfer arm (Haiku to Sonnet, say)
-belongs only in a preregistration that states it is asking about that tier. A result
-measured only on Haiku or Sonnet carries no KEEP, FIX-METHOD or CUT-CANDIDATE verdict.
-Judges, cross-family review voices and a harness's shipped housekeeping model are not
-models under test, and the rule leaves them alone
+Models under test are frontier models (`claude-opus-5-5`, `gpt-6.1-sol`, at most one named
+low-cost primary); a Haiku or Sonnet arm only with a stated tier question
 (docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md#frontier-models-under-test).
 
 When the repo commits `.gstack/eval-models.json` (allow, deny, per-scope lists, families
@@ -248,10 +243,7 @@ the budget the run will use. The checklist printed must be all `ok`:
   with no text is a repeat of the same failure at the same price.
 - `CHECK: reservation-fits-cap` (with `--cap <cap-usd>`) — one call, the largest row plus the
   output budget, priced, fits under the cap; a provider refuses a reservation the cap cannot hold.
-- `CHECK: frontier` (printed when an arm is Haiku or Sonnet) — `refused` when every arm is one,
-  `warn` when some are. Either way it prices the whole plan on Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol: put
-  that number in the budget before you swap the arms. `--tier-question "<what you ask about
-  that tier>"` passes only when the preregistration states that question.
+- `CHECK: frontier` — Haiku/Sonnet arms: `refused` if all (pass `--tier-question "<why>"`), `warn` if some; re-costs on frontier prices.
 - `DRY_RUN_ROW:` lines name rows missing a field; fix the rows, not the prompt.
 
 `DRY_RUN_RESULT: pass` writes `dry-run.json` to `--out`; the pilot refuses to start on
diff --git a/eval-plan/SKILL.md.tmpl b/eval-plan/SKILL.md.tmpl
index daa4bf73c..e33a79590 100644
--- a/eval-plan/SKILL.md.tmpl
+++ b/eval-plan/SKILL.md.tmpl
@@ -107,13 +107,8 @@ page or drop the arm. Copy the priced arms into the Arms section. An arm identit
 `<model>#<loadout>` (for example `claude-opus-5-5#no-gstack`) is priced by its model and
 gets its own pilot attempts; naming one identity twice is `EVAL_ARM_DUPLICATE`.
 
-Models under test are frontier models: today `claude-opus-5-5` and `gpt-6.1-sol`, plus
-at most one named low-cost primary. Haiku and Sonnet are not models under test: they
-are not stand-ins for a frontier model, and a tier-transfer arm (Haiku to Sonnet, say)
-belongs only in a preregistration that states it is asking about that tier. A result
-measured only on Haiku or Sonnet carries no KEEP, FIX-METHOD or CUT-CANDIDATE verdict.
-Judges, cross-family review voices and a harness's shipped housekeeping model are not
-models under test, and the rule leaves them alone
+Models under test are frontier models (`claude-opus-5-5`, `gpt-6.1-sol`, at most one named
+low-cost primary); a Haiku or Sonnet arm only with a stated tier question
 (docs/TESTING_INTERNALS.md#frontier-models-under-test).
 
 When the repo commits `.gstack/eval-models.json` (allow, deny, per-scope lists, families
@@ -170,10 +165,7 @@ the budget the run will use. The checklist printed must be all `ok`:
   with no text is a repeat of the same failure at the same price.
 - `CHECK: reservation-fits-cap` (with `--cap <cap-usd>`) — one call, the largest row plus the
   output budget, priced, fits under the cap; a provider refuses a reservation the cap cannot hold.
-- `CHECK: frontier` (printed when an arm is Haiku or Sonnet) — `refused` when every arm is one,
-  `warn` when some are. Either way it prices the whole plan on Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol: put
-  that number in the budget before you swap the arms. `--tier-question "<what you ask about
-  that tier>"` passes only when the preregistration states that question.
+- `CHECK: frontier` — Haiku/Sonnet arms: `refused` if all (pass `--tier-question "<why>"`), `warn` if some; re-costs on frontier prices.
 - `DRY_RUN_ROW:` lines name rows missing a field; fix the rows, not the prompt.
 
 `DRY_RUN_RESULT: pass` writes `dry-run.json` to `--out`; the pilot refuses to start on
diff --git a/test/fixtures/context-budget.json b/test/fixtures/context-budget.json
index ba51a7dba..6aa0d150f 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/context-budget.json
+++ b/test/fixtures/context-budget.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "diagram": 4286,
     "document-generate": 6013,
     "document-release": 4454,
-    "eval-plan": 4887,
+    "eval-plan": 5458,
     "freeze": 1115,
     "gstack": 5350,
     "gstack-upgrade": 6297,