plano/skills/rules/routing-preferences.md

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title: Write Task-Specific Routing Preference Descriptions
impact: HIGH
impactDescription: Vague preference descriptions cause Plano's internal router LLM to misclassify requests, routing expensive tasks to cheap models and vice versa
tags: routing, model-selection, preferences, llm-routing
---
## Write Task-Specific Routing Preference Descriptions
Plano's `plano_orchestrator_v1` router uses a 1.5B preference-aligned LLM to classify incoming requests against your `routing_preferences` descriptions. It routes the request to the first provider whose preferences match. Description quality directly determines routing accuracy.
**Incorrect (vague, overlapping descriptions):**
```yaml
model_providers:
- model: openai/gpt-4o-mini
access_key: $OPENAI_API_KEY
default: true
routing_preferences:
- name: simple
description: easy tasks # Too vague — what is "easy"?
- model: openai/gpt-4o
access_key: $OPENAI_API_KEY
routing_preferences:
- name: hard
description: hard tasks # Too vague — overlaps with "easy"
```
**Correct (specific, distinct task descriptions):**
```yaml
model_providers:
- model: openai/gpt-4o-mini
access_key: $OPENAI_API_KEY
default: true
routing_preferences:
- name: summarization
description: >
Summarizing documents, articles, emails, or meeting transcripts.
Extracting key points, generating TL;DR sections, condensing long text.
- name: classification
description: >
Categorizing inputs, sentiment analysis, spam detection,
intent classification, labeling structured data fields.
- name: translation
description: >
Translating text between languages, localization tasks.
- model: openai/gpt-4o
access_key: $OPENAI_API_KEY
routing_preferences:
- name: code_generation
description: >
Writing new functions, classes, or modules from scratch.
Implementing algorithms, boilerplate generation, API integrations.
- name: code_review
description: >
Reviewing code for bugs, security vulnerabilities, performance issues.
Suggesting refactors, explaining complex code, debugging errors.
- name: complex_reasoning
description: >
Multi-step math problems, logical deduction, strategic planning,
research synthesis requiring chain-of-thought reasoning.
```
**Key principles for good preference descriptions:**
- Use concrete action verbs: "writing", "reviewing", "translating", "summarizing"
- List 35 specific sub-tasks or synonyms for each preference
- Ensure preferences across providers are mutually exclusive in scope
- Test with representative queries using `planoai trace` and `--where` filters to verify routing decisions
Reference: https://github.com/katanemo/archgw