citations: space before the link, and a hover preview card

web: make 【domain】 citations real links

inject current date so models flag needs_web for recent events

web search: freshness-gated OpenRouter web plugin for the agents

progressive boss-fight status: reasoning ticker with arcade fallback phrases

streaming-first delivery: show drafts immediately, verify in parallel

cut easy-query latency: paid bid endpoints, low-effort verifier, grace-period bidding

speed up inference: speculative drafts in bids, early-exit bidding, shorter retry sleeps

checkpoint: current behavior before latency work

AuctionRouter: cost-aware multi-agent LLM router with auction-based selection and verification-gated escalation