Deep
Deep mode is Babel’s higher-ceremony path: it loads the governed pipeline (OLS v9) and the CLI executor with verification gates. Independent adversarial QA is optional; Desktop requires a different enabled model on the same provider when it is selected. Desktop Plan and Deep currently require OpenRouter.
node .\babel-cli\dist\index.js deep "Harden the migration path and verify it"What Deep adds over Chat
Section titled “What Deep adds over Chat”- An orchestrator and pipeline stages (QA review, executor loop).
- A verifier contract finalize step rather than the chat honesty gate alone.
- More structure intended for riskier changes.
What Deep does not guarantee
Section titled “What Deep does not guarantee”This is important and stated in the product’s own status documentation:
- Deep is not a blanket reliability upgrade. Route availability does not mean Deep is more reliable than chat for ordinary tasks.
- Deep is still maturing. It is under the same active-qualification boundary as the rest of the ordinary coding loop.
- More ceremony means more time and more provider cost per task, not a correctness score.
When to reach for Deep
Section titled “When to reach for Deep”- Changes where an independent adversarial review pass is worth its cost.
- Tasks where you want the full governed pipeline’s gates, not just the chat completion honesty gate.