# The Chat Pane: Three Surfaces

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# The Chat Pane: Three Surfaces

The decision layer: which of the three surfaces you want, and the finding that two of them need no code at all. Carries the honesty mechanisms of the host panel as a list, the vault setup with its two key tiers, and the default-model bug in which alphabetical vendor matching silently picked the oldest model on the key.

Document

01__the-chat-pane.md

Kind

The commission

Length

about 1.4k words

Pack

llms.sgit.ai brief pack v0.33.62, 24 August 2026

Licence

CC BY 4.0, Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship

Raw

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## What it produced on this site

- [The decision table](../chat-pane/index.md#decide)
- [The honesty mechanisms](../chat-pane/index.md#honesty)
- [Defaults are a design decision](../openrouter/index.md#defaults)

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