1: personal ultra and I have subs through each company I consult with. I also have subs to all other models as well. Cheaper tiers. Daily is opus. Use other models for other work.
2: only some decision models for testing. Experimentation.
3: herdr and all cli.
4: all custom built. Yes.
5: yes my own. - personal assistant.
An example. I can feed it shorts and create one pagers.
My workflow has changed since the 5.5 models dropped. They need less skills and guardrails.
I can set up my orchestrator to run unattended for longer with simpler goals.