danielmiessler · elhoim · Jul 26, 2026 · Jul 26, 2026
diff --git a/LifeOS/install/LIFEOS/TOOLS/models.ts b/LifeOS/install/LIFEOS/TOOLS/models.ts
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ export function pinnedModelForEffort(level: EffortLevel): string {
  */
 export const CURRENT: Record<ClaudeTier, string> = {
   fable: "claude-fable-5",
-  opus: "claude-opus-4-8",
+  opus: "claude-opus-5",
   sonnet: "claude-sonnet-5",
   haiku: "claude-haiku-4-5-20251001",
 };

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Council/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Council/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.1.18
 description: "Multi-agent collaborative debate producing visible round-by-round transcripts with real intellectual friction — members are topic-briefed custom agents, run as a 3-round DEBATE or a 1-round QUICK check, to find the best path. USE WHEN council, debate, multiple perspectives, weigh options, deliberate, get different views, what would experts say, pros and cons. NOT FOR pure adversarial attack (use RedTeam)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## Customization

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Evals/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Evals/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.2.17
 description: "AI agent evaluation framework with three grader types (code-based, model-based, human) and pass@k/pass^k scoring over agent transcripts, tool-call sequences, and multi-turn conversations; covers capability and regression evals. USE WHEN eval, evaluate, benchmark, regression test, compare models, create judge, test agent, pass@k, scenario simulation. NOT FOR scientific method framing (use Science)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## Customization

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Ideate/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Ideate/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.0.16
 description: "Evolutionary ideation engine — loop-controlled multi-cycle idea generation through phases of dreaming, cross-domain stealing, recombination, fitness testing, selection, and Lamarckian meta-learning, producing ranked novel solution candidates with provenance. USE WHEN ideate, id8, novel ideas, evolve ideas, dream up solutions, innovate, breakthrough ideas, idea evolution, multi-cycle creativity, need genuinely new approaches. NOT FOR quick single-pass brainstorming (use BeCreative)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## Customization

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Knowledge/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Knowledge/SKILL.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ description: "Manage the LifeOS Knowledge Archive — a curated, typed graph of
 argument-hint: [search|add|harvest|develop|ingest|contradictions|graph|retrieve|mine|<query>]
 effort: low
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 # Knowledge Skill

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/Research/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/Research/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.5.9
 description: "Multi-agent web research with mandatory URL verification, confidence-tagged output, and four depth modes (quick to deep investigation). USE WHEN research, do research, quick research, extensive research, deep investigation, find information, investigate, extract alpha, analyze content, retrieve content, AI trends, enhance content, extract knowledge, web scraping, YouTube extraction, map landscape, competitive analysis, find it, find this, find this product, identify this, what is this, what's that thing, track down, locate, help me find, I can't find X online, can't find it online, source this — never substitute raw WebSearch/WebFetch for a multi-source find/identify/investigate request. NOT FOR people/company/entity deep background (use _OSINT), academic papers (use ArXiv), JSON entity extraction (use _PARSER), or content-adaptive wisdom extraction (use ExtractWisdom)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## ⚠️ MANDATORY TRIGGER

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/RootCauseAnalysis/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/RootCauseAnalysis/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.0.5
 description: "Structured incident investigation using Five Whys, Fishbone, blameless Postmortem, Fault Tree, Kepner-Tregoe, and FMEA — traces failures to systemic root causes rather than blaming humans. USE WHEN root cause, RCA, 5 whys, fishbone, postmortem, incident analysis, fault tree, why does this keep failing, blameless, recurring bug. NOT FOR systemic loops (use SystemsThinking)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## Customization

diff --git a/LifeOS/install/skills/SystemsThinking/SKILL.md b/LifeOS/install/skills/SystemsThinking/SKILL.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version: 1.0.5
 description: "Structural analysis of complex systems — Iceberg model, Causal Loop feedback diagrams, archetype matching, Meadows leverage points, and concept maps — grounded in the premise that behavior is generated by structure. USE WHEN systems thinking, causal loop, feedback loops, archetypes, leverage points, iceberg model, fix the system, why does this keep happening, recurring problem, second-order effects. NOT FOR incident causal chains (use RootCauseAnalysis)."
 effort: high
 context: fork
+background: false
 ---
 
 ## Customization