RouteZero — Token-Efficient Task Agent

RouteZero is a general-purpose agent built for the Hybrid Token-Efficient Routing Agent track. It reads the task batch from /input/tasks.json, classifies each prompt into one of the eight capability categories (factual knowledge, mathematical reasoning, sentiment, summarization, NER, code debugging, logical reasoning, code generation), and applies category-specific answering strategies designed to satisfy the accuracy judge with the minimum output necessary, no preamble, no filler, format constraints obeyed exactly. The agent follows the official runtime contract strictly: FIREWORKS_API_KEY, FIREWORKS_BASE_URL, and ALLOWED_MODELS are read from the environment at runtime with nothing hardcoded, all remote calls route through the provided base URL, and model selection (including routing code tasks to a code-specialized model when the allowed list offers one) happens dynamically per task. Results are written atomically to /output/results.json with a watchdog that guarantees a valid, complete output file well inside the runtime limit, with parallel dispatch and per-task time budgets. The design philosophy: pass the accuracy gate first, then drive tokens down relentlessly, every answer should cost exactly what it needs and nothing more. Built and verified end-to-end in Docker (linux/amd64) with the container tested against the full I/O contract before submission.