intent-router

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Classify the information-need of a query and dispatch it to the appropriate retrieval or reasoning strategy. Use before read-side memory access, before multi-strategy retrieval, or any time you'd otherwise default to "one retriever for everything". Returns a strategy label, a token budget, and a retrieval depth so downstream handlers can be specialised. Backed by Pre-Route (arxiv 2605.10235v2) and MemFlow (arxiv 2605.03312v1), which together show LLMs possess latent routing ability elicitable via a structured prompt — and that externalising the routing decision improves small-model performance by ~2x. Triggers: "route this", "what strategy", "before retrieving", "intent classification", or any query whose ideal handling depends on what KIND of question it is.