diff --git a/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md b/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
index 06564ca76..fee116010 100644
--- a/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
+++ b/.claude/agents/prose-orchestrator.md
@@ -63,17 +63,28 @@ a walk.
    `VERDICT: HARNESS ERROR` with the message it printed. Never fall back
    to judging a walk with no record of what it did.
 
-Never pass a `model` when dispatching either agent — each definition
-names the model the result is trusted at, and overriding it makes a
-verdict unreliable.
+Never pass a `model` on a first walk or on any assertion — each
+definition names the model the result is trusted at. The single
+exception is the confirmation rerun in step 4, below.
 
 4. **Confirm a failure** — if the verdict is FAIL, destroy the world,
    build a fresh one, and repeat steps 2 and 3 once. A defect in the
-   prose reproduces; a one-off does not. Two outcomes:
+   prose reproduces; a one-off does not.
+
+   Dispatch this second walk with `model: opus`. Walks run on the model
+   the definition names; a failure is where it is worth spending more,
+   and a defect a stronger walker also hits is a defect. The model each
+   walk ran on is recorded and reported, so an escalated rerun is never
+   mistaken for a like-for-like one. Escalate here and nowhere else —
+   never on a first walk, and never for the asserter.
+
+   Three outcomes:
    - The second run also FAILs → a confirmed finding. Report the
      evidence from the second run.
-   - The second run PASSes → a non-reproducing failure. Report it as
-     `FLAKY`, quoting both, and resolve nothing yourself.
+   - The second run PASSes → report `FLAKY`, quoting both, and resolve
+     nothing yourself. Name both models: the same case passing on the
+     stronger walker is a fact about the walk, not about the prose.
+   - The second run returns `INVALID WALK` → follow step 5.
 
 5. **Retry an invalid walk** — if the verdict is `INVALID WALK`, the
    walker began mid-flow and the case was never actually exercised.
@@ -90,7 +101,8 @@ Return exactly this and nothing else:
 
 ```
 CASE: <case-id>
-MODEL: <the model the asserter reported, or `unrecorded`>
+MODEL: <the model the asserter reported, or `unrecorded`. On a confirmed or
+       flaky failure, both — the first walk's and the escalated rerun's>
 VERDICT: PASS | FAIL | FLAKY | INVALID | HARNESS ERROR
 PATH: <n>/<total> steps passed
 WORLD: PASS | FAIL
diff --git a/.claude/agents/prose-walker.md b/.claude/agents/prose-walker.md
index bfb5ddf8d..758d17e69 100644
--- a/.claude/agents/prose-walker.md
+++ b/.claude/agents/prose-walker.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name: prose-walker
 description: Executes workflow prose exactly as a live session would, against a disposable test world, and returns a transcript of what it did. Dispatched by prose-orchestrator during a prose-test run.
 tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Glob, Grep
-model: opus
+model: sonnet
 hooks:
   PreToolUse:
     - matcher: "Bash|Write|Edit|Read|Glob|Grep"
diff --git a/design/prose-tests.md b/design/prose-tests.md
index dba57d890..1970bcd02 100644
--- a/design/prose-tests.md
+++ b/design/prose-tests.md
@@ -119,15 +119,19 @@ testing.
   computation powers the PR-end suggestion — "these N cases intersect
   this PR's prose changes"), by hand-picked ids, or `--all`. An
   engine-only PR intersects nothing and suggests nothing.
-- **P6 — one model, chosen for trust.** Walker and asserter both run on
-  **Opus**. Measured, not assumed: across three runs a Sonnet walker
-  performed the walk correctly every time but narrated it in summary,
-  omitting the quoted evidence the asserter requires — even with a
-  worked transcript example in front of it. A tiered arrangement then
-  produces a disagreement on every case, which is noise, not a signal.
-  A result you cannot rely on is worth nothing, so the cheaper tier is
-  a false economy. The orchestrator never overrides the model: each
-  definition names the model its result is trusted at.
+- **P6 — the walker walks on Sonnet, the asserter judges on Opus, and a
+  failure escalates.** Both ran on Opus while the harness was reading only
+  an agent's closing message and mistaking a compressed summary for a
+  skipped step; with the walk captured turn by turn (P6e) that gap closed,
+  and a Sonnet walk of implementation-picks-first-task passed every step
+  with quoted evidence, matching an Opus walk of the same case action for
+  action. Judging stays on Opus — it is the cheap half and the half a
+  verdict rests on. A FAIL is reran once on Opus by the orchestrator,
+  because a failure is where spending more is worth it and a defect a
+  stronger walker also hits is a defect; the model of every walk is
+  recorded and reported, so an escalated rerun is never mistaken for a
+  like-for-like one. Escalation happens in the moment, never by editing
+  the definition.
 - **P6a — a FAIL is confirmed by repetition, not by promotion.** A
   failing case re-runs once from a fresh world at the same models. A
   defect in the prose reproduces; a one-off does not, and is reported