plastic-agent-advisor

# Agent Advisor Plastic ships two consultation agents, never dispatched by the auto pipeline, summoned only when you decide the reasoning is worth buying: - **`plastic-advisor`** ("the real advisor"): the frontier model itself, expensive, billed through usage credits. Spawn it for a few rounds on the hardest problem, then close the session. - **`plastic-faux-advisor`** ("the imitation advisor"): an ordinary model carrying the same reasoning discipline inline in its own body, so it reasons the same disciplined way at a fraction of the cost. The cheaper default. ## When to consult (and when not to) Buy a consultation for: decisions with one-way doors (architecture, migration order, public contracts); turning a goal plus evidence into a step plan with checks; adversarial review of your plan or conclusion before an irreversible step; a deadlock after two failed attempts where you cannot say why; ranking several plausible options when the ordering decides where you spend the next day. Never buy a consultation for: anything a tool can answer (search, reading code, running tests, documentation), writing code at volume, confirming a decision you already made, style or naming a linter would settle, or anything reversible and cheap you have not tried first. The full buy/never-buy list, the tier table, and the entry test live in `references/advisor-protocol.md`; read it before writing a brief for the first time in a session. ## Routing: which advisor answers 1. Read the h...