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Plain composer prompts with no route in force get a turn-scoped effort from $.model.classify (design/analysis/coding/bookkeeping/chat → phase effort, effort only, never the model). Bounded by a 3 s clock race, a user interrupt neither counts nor writes, three failures in a row pause it for cooldownMinutes (one toast, status marker, cleared by /route reload). No dialog, no routing.json write on a classified route. New Config key `classify` (default on, pickSwitch), `/route classify on|off` session toggle, `/route show` line and argumentHint. An explicit user /effort beats the guess (engineBase check). Docs: README classifier paragraph, USAGE row + sentence, CHANGELOG, effort-shift.md. Kit suite 428 tests.
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# Route doctrine — phase-level model and effort on the main loop (BDR-107)
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Shared include, companion of `lib/model-gate.md`: the gate fixes WHICH model
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reflects, the model-router mod (`mods/model-router`) fixes HOW HARD each
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phase thinks. Rungs: low (fix a line, run a script) · medium (day-to-day) ·
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high (refactor, resisting bug) · xhigh (architecture, audit before
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validation) · max (stuck error, judged need).
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## The tool
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`mcp__model-router__route` (params `phase` | `effort` | `clear`). It is a
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deferred tool: when not loaded, run
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`ToolSearch("select:mcp__model-router__route")` once per session. A route
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applies from the next request on, paired with
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another tool call or not (pairing only saves a request). The answer always
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names the id and effort main runs on. A skill with a row routes itself on
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load; a skill without one changes nothing, the last ROWED skill wins.
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## Wiring points
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1. Dispatch span starts → `route(phase="orchestrate")`, sent with the
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dispatch.
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2. Reflection resumes (challenge synthesis, verdict, plan revision) →
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`route(phase="reflect")` or `"plan"` per the skill's own level; the line
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before every `lib/challenge-plan.md` call.
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3. Bookkeeping tail (memory commit, doc commit) → `route(phase="apply")`.
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4. Escalation → `route(phase="escalate")`: verify-secure loop caps and
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ship-feature STEP 4b. Not automatic: the challenge fail-safe and "gone
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WRONG → STOP"; their STOP text names the levers below.
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5. Built-in judgment dispatch (`general-purpose` `model="opus"`, `model:
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"fable"` skill-runners) → explicit `effort=` on the Agent call (`xhigh`
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for opus reviewers, `high` for fable runners). A main route never
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reaches a child. Typed agents run on their row, never on a shift.
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6. After a prose gate that ends the turn, the resumed reflection phase
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starts with its own route call.
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## Run slot and levers
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A best-tier skill row survives the end of the turn (a run spans prose
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gates); `/route clear`, `/route off` and a user `/model` drop it. Levers for a
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relaunch: `ultrathink` in the prompt (turn floor) or `/route effort=max`
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(sticky, `/route clear` after).
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Builtin `/effort` is NOT a lever inside a run: rows and routes outrank it.
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## Limits
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- A skill typed while a background agent is live routes only through the
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typed marker (unverified live 2026-10-10).
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- Headless (`-p`, SDK) runs the hooks, so routing works there too.
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- A plain typed prompt with no route in force gets its turn effort from a
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small-model classifier (effort only; `/route classify off`; never `-p`).
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- Mod off: typed agents fall back to their `model:`/`effort:` frontmatter.
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- First use of a row asks once, with context (Later, Keep or Change: model,
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then effort, then Everywhere or this project only); the answer is kept in
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`mods/model-router/routing.json`. `/route pending` lists what is still
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unconfirmed, `/route ask off|on` toggles the dialog, `/route forget
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<name|all|projects>` takes a decision back.
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Measure the split any time: `python3 ~/.claude/lib/effort-audit.py`
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(thinking/output/cache tokens per scope, model and effort).
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## Never
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- A route inside a dispatched agent: its row rules there.
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- Max is for diagnosis, not for retrying the same fix harder.
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