Albert Kim@hkalbert7151054

KORA is a token-efficient routing agent for the hybrid local-remote setting of Track 1. Most routing systems optimize the remote call. KORA asks a different question first: should the remote call happen at all? A deterministic decision layer resolves routine work locally, with zero remote inference, and escalates to a remote model only when nothing cheaper is confident. Because the AMD Developer Hackathon scores remote token usage, avoided calls translate directly into a lower score. The routing core is answer-blind: it decides how to handle each unit of work before generating an answer, keeping the decision deterministic and reproducible rather than delegating it to a probabilistic classifier. This makes routing decisions auditable, which we see as the foundation for a broader execution control layer for agentic workflows. For this hackathon we focus on validating the routing tier: deterministic-first deflection, local escalation, and remote inference only when needed.

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