This release rebuilds how you pick and pay for models. The desktop app's routing drawer becomes a Models & routing dialog: three presets — Best, Balanced, Frugal — that resolve against the keys you actually have and are priced live from the models.dev catalog, next to a map of where every lane's tokens go and what each one cost you over the last month. Underneath, every surface learns to fail over: hand a model a fallback chain and Empryo rides it down on its own when a provider falters, resuming mid-stream without dropping what already streamed. The desktop app also starts notifying you properly and wears real provider logos, and the website it deploys alongside is largely new.

• Models & routing, redesigned. (desktop) The routing drawer is now a Models & routing dialog built around a single dial — Best, Balanced, or Frugal. The presets aren't hardcoded model names; they're relationships to your chat model, resolved live against the keys you've configured and priced from the models.dev catalog, so they work for any provider — including LLM Gateway's full catalog. A token flow map shows where each lane's tokens go — chat, the subagents it dispatches, on-demand web research, after-edit cleanup and review, the goal-loop judge, and background work — with price bands and 30-day spend per lane. Routing, Behaviors and Failover each get their own tab.
• Automatic model failover, on every surface. Give a model a fallback chain and Empryo fails over on its own: it orders the candidates by health, resumes mid-stream without losing streamed output or completed tool calls, and sends permanent provider errors (401, 400, 404) straight down the chain instead of retrying a lost cause. A user abort always wins. Configure no chains and nothing about your setup changes.
• Notifications that reach you. (desktop) Delivery is now platform-correct, background turns can chime when they finish, and a short what's-new recap greets you after an update.
• Provider brand marks throughout. (desktop) Real provider logos now appear in the topbar model trigger, every picker, the wizard steps, and the routing and failover chips — lazy-loaded, so boot stays light. Alongside them: dialogs and drawers are lighter glass, selection rings are crisp insets, pickers are roomier, and list surfaces take type-to-search.
• Smaller conveniences. /cost is now an alias for /usage. The stash janitor prunes anything older than 30 days and caps the store at 200 rows. And a debug bundle plus a hang sampler make a stuck run far easier to report.

• Desktop polish. The restore toast and the message composer each got a round of fixes.

• empryo.com ships with this release. The deploy brings a new Spore landing page, the benchmarks program with console-verified round pages and two accompanying blog posts, site-wide ⌘K search, live GitHub star counts, a providers page that leads with LLM Gateway, and raw-markdown mirrors of every docs and blog page plus an llms-full.txt so agents can read the site directly. It also fixes a hydration error on the documentation pages that has been live in production.
• Every macOS and Linux build is still executed before it ships — empryo doctor must load the native runtime and parse real code inside a Linux container, and under Rosetta for Intel macOS.