How would you route requests across models or deployments?

Uses explicit capability and risk policy to route by task while preserving evaluation, version attribution, budgets, and fallback semantics.

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I route from trusted application context such as task type, required capability, risk, region, latency target, and tenant policy. Each route names an evaluated model and configuration that is known to satisfy that task. The selected route is recorded on the trace so quality, cost, and failures can be compared accurately.

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Model routing, capability policy, tenant controls, health, and measurable outcomes.

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Routing is a product and reliability policy, not a random choice of the cheapest available model.
I route from trusted application context such as task type, required capability, risk, region, latency target, and tenant policy. Each route names an evaluated model and configuration that is known to satisfy that task. The selected route is recorded on the trace so quality, cost, and failures can be compared accurately.
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A simple classifier may use a smaller model, while a complex grounded explanation can use a more capable one. Health-aware routing can move between equivalent deployments, but switching to a materially different model is a product change with its own evaluation and output behavior. Tenant budgets, data residency, provider approval, and context limits constrain the eligible set before any optimization.

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Routing solely by model price.
Treating all healthy deployments as behaviorally equivalent.
Allowing the model to choose an unauthorized provider.

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