fix(honcho): dialectic lifecycle — defaults, retry, prewarm consumption

Several correctness and cost-safety fixes to the Honcho dialectic path
after a multi-turn investigation surfaced a chain of silent failures:

- dialecticCadence default flipped 3 → 1. PR #10619 changed this from 1 to
  3 for cost, but existing installs with no explicit config silently went
  from per-turn dialectic to every-3-turns on upgrade. Restores pre-#10619
  behavior; 3+ remains available for cost-conscious setups. Docs + wizard
  + status output updated to match.

- Session-start prewarm now consumed. Previously fired a .chat() on init
  whose result landed in HonchoSessionManager._dialectic_cache and was
  never read — pop_dialectic_result had zero call sites. Turn 1 paid for
  a duplicate synchronous dialectic. Prewarm now writes directly to the
  plugin's _prefetch_result via _prefetch_lock so turn 1 consumes it with
  no extra call.

- Prewarm is now dialecticDepth-aware. A single-pass prewarm can return
  weak output on cold peers; the multi-pass audit/reconcile cycle is
  exactly the case dialecticDepth was built for. Prewarm now runs the
  full configured depth in the background.

- Silent dialectic failure no longer burns the cadence window.
  _last_dialectic_turn now advances only when the result is non-empty.
  Empty result → next eligible turn retries immediately instead of
  waiting the full cadence gap.

- Thread pile-up guard. queue_prefetch skips when a prior dialectic
  thread is still in-flight, preventing stacked races on _prefetch_result.

- First-turn sync timeout is recoverable. Previously on timeout the
  background thread's result was stored in a dead local list. Now the
  thread writes into _prefetch_result under lock so the next turn
  picks it up.

- Cadence gate applies uniformly. At cadence=1 the old "cadence > 1"
  guard let first-turn sync + same-turn queue_prefetch both fire.
  Gate now always applies.

- Restored query-length reasoning-level scaling, dropped in 9a0ab34c.
  Scales dialecticReasoningLevel up on longer queries (+1 at ≥120 chars,
  +2 at ≥400), clamped at reasoningLevelCap. Two new config keys:
  `reasoningHeuristic` (bool, default true) and `reasoningLevelCap`
  (string, default "high"; previously parsed but never enforced).
  Respects dialecticDepthLevels and proportional lighter-early passes.

- Restored short-prompt skip, dropped in ef7f3156. One-word
  acknowledgements ("ok", "y", "thanks") and slash commands bypass
  both injection and dialectic fire.

- Purged dead code in session.py: prefetch_dialectic, _dialectic_cache,
  set_dialectic_result, pop_dialectic_result — all unused after prewarm
  refactor.

Tests: 542 passed across honcho_plugin/, agent/test_memory_provider.py,
and run_agent/test_run_agent.py. New coverage:
- TestTrivialPromptHeuristic (classifier + prefetch/queue skip)
- TestDialecticCadenceAdvancesOnSuccess (empty-result retry, pile-up guard)
- TestSessionStartDialecticPrewarm (prewarm consumed, sync fallback)
- TestReasoningHeuristic (length bumps, cap clamp, interaction with depth)
- TestDialecticLifecycleSmoke (end-to-end 8-turn session walk)

optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/honcho/SKILL.md

@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@ Controls **how often** dialectic and context calls happen.
 | Key | Default | Description |
 |-----|---------|-------------|
 | `contextCadence` | `1` | Min turns between context API calls |
-| `dialecticCadence` | `3` | Min turns between dialectic API calls |
+| `dialecticCadence` | `1` | Min turns between dialectic API calls |
 | `injectionFrequency` | `every-turn` | `every-turn` or `first-turn` for base context injection |
 
-Higher cadence values reduce API calls and cost. `dialecticCadence: 3` (default) means the dialectic engine fires at most every 3rd turn.
+Higher cadence values reduce API calls and cost. `dialecticCadence: 1` (default) fires every turn; set to `3` or higher to throttle for cost.
 
 ### Depth (how many)
 
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ Config file: `$HERMES_HOME/honcho.json` (profile-local) or `~/.honcho/config.jso
 | `contextTokens` | uncapped | Max tokens for the combined base context injection (summary + representation + card). Opt-in cap — omit to leave uncapped, set to an integer to bound injection size. |
 | `injectionFrequency` | `every-turn` | `every-turn` or `first-turn` |
 | `contextCadence` | `1` | Min turns between context API calls |
-| `dialecticCadence` | `3` | Min turns between dialectic LLM calls |
+| `dialecticCadence` | `1` | Min turns between dialectic LLM calls |
 
 The `contextTokens` budget is enforced at injection time. If the session summary + representation + card exceed the budget, Honcho trims the summary first, then the representation, preserving the card. This prevents context blowup in long sessions.