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    Helpers on another model. This is the last of the three releases.

    • A helper can run on a different model. A helper is still the chat's own
      model by default. On each model's page, Helpers lists other models this
      one may send helpers to. Each is either offered to the model, so it can
      choose that model itself, or by hand only, so it is used once somebody adds
      it to a chat. When there is more than one choice, subagent_run gains a
      model argument limited to exactly those models, and the model is told what
      each is for. A helper on another model runs with that model's own default
      reasoning effort, never the parent's, which it might refuse. It reads its own
      data group's memories and notes.

    • The composer's Helpers button lists the models designated for the chat's
      model. Tick one to add it to this chat, on the new-chat screen as well.

    • Capacity is decided by logic, not by the model. Two new switches, both off
      by default, so nothing changes until they are set:

      • Serves one request at a time, on a model. It cannot be its own helper,
        because the helper would wait behind the reply that is waiting for it.
      • Holds one model at a time, on a connection (llama-swap in front of one
        GPU). Its models may still be their own helpers, but never send one to
        another model on the same connection, because loading it would unload the
        model whose reply is waiting.

      A model with no helper it can use is no longer offered subagent_run at all,
      instead of being offered a tool that refuses every call. Asking a friend and
      the crowd are not affected: both are sequential, and the wait for a model to
      load is accepted there.

    • The model rules apply to helpers too. A designation the model chooses
      itself must be allowed by the rules. One added to a chat by hand needs what a
      crowd member added by hand needs. A model in another data group needs a rule
      that allows it.

    • Your own helper models. With the new Choose their own helper models
      permission (off by default), Settings → Models lets a person designate helpers
      for their models. These are added to the instance's, and a row of theirs for
      the same pair replaces the instance's.

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