Notes

Research and operating data from building and running Orbit, a local-first runtime for coding agents. Each note publishes the data behind it.

• September 26, 2026

  Do orchestrating agents pick their own provider's models?

  Five orchestrating agents split five features into 500 Orbit tasks and chose a model for each. Four gave their own provider about its share of the menu. Claude Opus 5.5 gave Anthropic's models 74%.