diff --git a/.github/workflows/factory.yml b/.github/workflows/factory.yml
index 8438851..0270669 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/factory.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/factory.yml
@@ -7,15 +7,14 @@
 name: factory
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: "*/10 * * * *" # the dispatcher's backstop: GitHub fires a schedule late or not at all under load
+    - cron: "*/10 * * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       issue: { description: Objective issue number (empty runs the dispatcher), required: false }
       harness: { description: "Override FACTORY_HARNESS for this run (claude | codex | copilot)", required: false }
-      wake: { description: "Set by a wake job only (the deadline it slept to); leave empty", required: false }
-  issues: # a new Objective dispatches at once (labelled at creation, or labelled later); closed: an Objective blocked by that issue is ready now
-    types: [opened, labeled, closed]
-  pull_request: # fires because the App (not the job token) applies factory:review, a human marks a Question draft ready (the App's own ready mark starts no job), a Factory PR merged (siblings may be stale now), or the merge queue dropped one (the dispatcher re-enqueues it once, then Blocks)
+  issues: # a new Objective dispatches at once (labelled at creation, or labelled later); the cron is only the sweep
+    types: [opened, labeled]
+  pull_request: # fires because the App (not the job token) applies factory:review, a human marks a Question draft ready, a Factory PR merged (siblings may be stale now), or the merge queue dropped one (the dispatcher re-enqueues it once, then Blocks)
     types: [labeled, ready_for_review, closed, dequeued]
   check_suite: # CI from a GitHub App outside Actions finished on a factory/ branch: a stage waiting on it resumes, or the dispatcher's merge pass runs
     types: [completed]
@@ -24,10 +23,10 @@ on:
       - Quality
     types: [completed]
 env:
-  FACTORY_HARNESS: claude # claude | codex | copilot
-  FACTORY_MODEL: claude-opus-5-5
-  FACTORY_SUBAGENT_MODEL: claude-sonnet-5-5
-  FACTORY_REVIEWER_MODEL: claude-fable-5-2
+  FACTORY_HARNESS: copilot # claude | codex | copilot
+  FACTORY_MODEL: ""
+  FACTORY_SUBAGENT_MODEL: ""
+  FACTORY_REVIEWER_MODEL: ""
   FACTORY_CREDENTIAL: plan # api; plan only for your own repository
   FACTORY_MAX_CONCURRENT: 5
   FACTORY_DAILY_USD: 25
@@ -42,7 +41,6 @@ env:
   FACTORY_PROTECTED_PATHS: /scripts/ci/setup.sh
   FACTORY_CI_CHECKS: quality
   FACTORY_NODE_VERSION: 22 # the Node.js your CI uses
-  FACTORY_WORKER_SECRETS: AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY=WORKER_AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY # gate v0.9.23 relay leg: relayed, metered against max_usd
 permissions: # the job token reads code and Actions; every write goes through the App's token
   contents: read
   actions: read # the dispatcher sums today's usage artifacts; doctor lists the CI workflow's triggers
@@ -50,15 +48,13 @@ permissions: # the job token reads code and Actions; every write goes through th
   # id-token: write         # Claude workload identity federation only
 jobs:
   dispatch:
-    # Ticks: the */10 cron only (a backstop: GitHub fires schedules late or not at all; other schedules are other
-    # jobs'), a manual run, a new Objective's label, any issue closing (it may block an Objective), Factory's own jobs'
-    # last steps (a slot freed, a failed or requeued start), a merged Factory PR, the merge queue dropping one
-    # (only GitHub and people with write access dequeue), the queue watch, and, without a sandbox, CI finishing on a
-    # factory/ branch (the merge pass merges a PR whose checks just went green; with a sandbox the gate job takes those
-    # events and ticks this job itself).
+    # Ticks: the cron, a manual run, a new Objective's label, the review job's last step (a worker slot freed), a merged
+    # Factory PR, the merge queue dropping one (only GitHub and people with write access dequeue), the queue watch, and,
+    # without a sandbox, CI finishing on a factory/ branch (the merge pass merges a PR whose checks just went green; with
+    # a sandbox the gate job takes those events and ticks this job itself).
     if: >-
-      (github.event_name == 'schedule' && github.event.schedule == '*/10 * * * *') || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
-      (github.event_name == 'issues' && (github.event.action == 'closed' || github.event.label.name == 'factory:objective' || (github.event.action == 'opened' && contains(join(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, ','), 'factory:objective')))) ||
+      github.event_name == 'schedule' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
+      (github.event_name == 'issues' && (github.event.label.name == 'factory:objective' || (github.event.action == 'opened' && contains(join(github.event.issue.labels.*.name, ','), 'factory:objective')))) ||
       (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'closed' && github.event.pull_request.merged == true && startsWith(github.head_ref, 'factory/')) ||
       (github.event_name == 'pull_request' && github.event.action == 'dequeued' && startsWith(github.head_ref, 'factory/') && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository)
       || (github.event_name == 'check_suite' && startsWith(github.event.check_suite.head_branch, 'factory/')) ||
@@ -66,14 +62,9 @@ jobs:
     concurrency: { group: factory-dispatch, cancel-in-progress: false } # ticks run one at a time
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 15 # a tick takes seconds; a hung one would hold every later tick for the runner's six hours
-    outputs:
-      issues: "${{ steps.f.outputs.issues }}"
-      count: "${{ steps.f.outputs.count }}"
-      queue_watch: "${{ steps.f.outputs.queue_watch }}"
-      wake_at: "${{ steps.f.outputs.wake_at }}"
-      wake_kind: "${{ steps.f.outputs.wake_kind }}"
+    outputs: { issues: "${{ steps.f.outputs.issues }}", count: "${{ steps.f.outputs.count }}", queue_watch: "${{ steps.f.outputs.queue_watch }}" }
     steps:
-      - uses: clockgrove/factory@6b76ddac5eec8503b20473eb087dc147e318546e
+      - uses: clockgrove/factory@v0.9.4
         id: f
         with: { mode: dispatch, issue: "${{ inputs.issue }}", app_id: "${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_ID }}", app_private_key: "${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}" }
   queue-watch:
@@ -93,41 +84,13 @@ jobs:
     permissions: { contents: read, actions: write } # actions: write only for the dispatcher tick
     concurrency: { group: factory-queue-watch, cancel-in-progress: false }
     steps:
-      - uses: clockgrove/factory@6b76ddac5eec8503b20473eb087dc147e318546e
+      - uses: clockgrove/factory@v0.9.4
         id: w
         with: { mode: watch, pr: "${{ needs.dispatch.outputs.queue_watch }}", app_id: "${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_ID }}", app_private_key: "${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}" }
       - name: Dispatch tick (a watched PR left the queue or stalled there, or the watch's time is up)
         if: steps.w.outputs.tick == 'true'
         env: { GH_TOKEN: "${{ github.token }}", GH_REPO: "${{ github.repository }}" } # no checkout here: gh names the repository from GH_REPO
         run: gh workflow run factory.yml
-  wake:
-    # The dispatcher's own next tick, for a wait only time ends (GitHub's cron fires late or not at all): a sandbox
-    # stage's lease end (a stage that died silently), a retry the sandbox vendor's quota set, the next try of a start
-    # that failed another way (three failures Block), the UTC day's turn when daily_usd held work back, or one retry
-    # of a read that failed. The dispatcher arms one only when no wake already queued or sleeping ticks before it;
-    # none is ever cancelled, and a second one only ticks twice. It sleeps on a hosted runner and holds one of the
-    # account's concurrent-job slots while it sleeps. Cost: a public repository pays nothing and sleeps to every wait
-    # (a deadline past 350 minutes in hops, each a plain tick that arms the rest). A private one pays about $0.36 a
-    # sleeper-hour (a 2-core Linux runner at $0.006 a minute), so it sleeps only to the short waits (a quota retry, a
-    # failed start's retry, a read retry: minutes each); a lease end and the day's turn wait for events and the cron.
-    name: wake (${{ needs.dispatch.outputs.wake_kind }} ${{ needs.dispatch.outputs.wake_at }})
-    needs: dispatch
-    if: needs.dispatch.outputs.wake_at != ''
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 355
-    permissions: { actions: write } # the dispatcher tick only
-    steps:
-      - name: Sleep to the deadline, then tick the dispatcher
-        env: { GH_TOKEN: "${{ github.token }}", GH_REPO: "${{ github.repository }}", WAKE_AT: "${{ needs.dispatch.outputs.wake_at }}", WAKE_KIND: "${{ needs.dispatch.outputs.wake_kind }}" }
-        run: |
-          left=$(( $(date -u -d "$WAKE_AT" +%s) - $(date -u +%s) ))
-          if [ "$left" -gt 21000 ]; then
-            sleep 21000
-            gh workflow run factory.yml || { sleep 30; gh workflow run factory.yml; }
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          if [ "$left" -gt 0 ]; then sleep "$left"; fi
-          gh workflow run factory.yml -f wake="$WAKE_KIND $WAKE_AT" || { sleep 30; gh workflow run factory.yml -f wake="$WAKE_KIND $WAKE_AT"; }
   work:
     needs: dispatch
     if: needs.dispatch.outputs.count != '' && needs.dispatch.outputs.count != '0'
@@ -139,7 +102,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0, persist-credentials: false }
-      - uses: clockgrove/factory@6b76ddac5eec8503b20473eb087dc147e318546e
+      - uses: clockgrove/factory@v0.9.4
         id: f
         with:
           mode: work
@@ -149,10 +112,8 @@ jobs:
           app_private_key: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           anthropic_api_key: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }} # Claude; empty with federation
           codex_api_key: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY }} # Codex; reaches the harness step only
-          codex_gateway_key: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_CODEX_GATEWAY_KEY }} # Codex through the Vercel AI Gateway; wins over CODEX_API_KEY when set
           copilot_github_token: ${{ secrets.COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Copilot; a token with only the Copilot Requests permission (required)
           ai_gateway_api_key: ${{ secrets.AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY }} # optional: red-check triage reruns flaky CI jobs instead of a fix pass, and the drift advisory flags a drifting worker on its progress comment; empty turns both off
-          worker_secret_values: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_WORKER_SECRET_VALUES }} # optional, with FACTORY_WORKER_SECRETS in the env block: SOURCE=value lines for the worker's shell only; a dedicated key with a gateway-side budget (docs/PLAN.md, Worker secrets)
           # anthropic_oidc_exchange_url: ${{ vars.ANTHROPIC_OIDC_EXCHANGE_URL }} # Claude federation (with id-token: write above)
           claude_code_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }} # credential: plan only; your own repository only
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7
@@ -166,7 +127,7 @@ jobs:
     name: review (${{ github.head_ref }})
     if: >-
       github.event_name == 'pull_request' && startsWith(github.head_ref, 'factory/') && github.event.pull_request.head.repo.full_name == github.repository &&
-      ((github.event.action == 'labeled' && github.event.label.name == 'factory:review') || (github.event.action == 'ready_for_review' && github.event.sender.type != 'Bot'))
+      ((github.event.action == 'labeled' && github.event.label.name == 'factory:review') || github.event.action == 'ready_for_review')
     runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
     timeout-minutes: 240
     permissions: { contents: read, issues: write, actions: write } # actions: write here, for the tick below and triage's rerun of failed CI jobs
@@ -174,7 +135,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v7
         with: { fetch-depth: 0, persist-credentials: false }
-      - uses: clockgrove/factory@6b76ddac5eec8503b20473eb087dc147e318546e
+      - uses: clockgrove/factory@v0.9.4
         id: f
         with:
           mode: review
@@ -184,10 +145,8 @@ jobs:
           app_private_key: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
           anthropic_api_key: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
           codex_api_key: ${{ secrets.CODEX_API_KEY }}
-          codex_gateway_key: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_CODEX_GATEWAY_KEY }}
           copilot_github_token: ${{ secrets.COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           ai_gateway_api_key: ${{ secrets.AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY }}
-          worker_secret_values: ${{ secrets.FACTORY_WORKER_SECRET_VALUES }} # with FACTORY_WORKER_SECRETS: the fix and answer passes only, never the reviewer
           # anthropic_oidc_exchange_url: ${{ vars.ANTHROPIC_OIDC_EXCHANGE_URL }}
           claude_code_oauth_token: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v7