This project is a token-efficient routing agent built for Track 1, modeled on how enterprises control AI spend: cheap local compute handles routine work, and premium API calls are reserved for tasks that genuinely need them. Incoming tasks are classified by a zero-cost keyword router into the eight capability categories. Each task then flows through a tiered pipeline that escalates only as far as necessary. Tier 0 uses deterministic solvers: a safe arithmetic evaluator computes exact answers to numeric expressions at zero token cost. Tier 1 runs a compact quantized open-weight model locally inside the container. It handles the objective, self-contained categories — mathematical reasoning, logical deduction, named-entity recognition, code debugging, and code generation — producing answers with no external API calls and therefore zero scored tokens.
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