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research-router

Cost-routing helper. Reads RESEARCH_MODEL from config and decides whether a bulk-research call should run on Claude or be delegated to a cheaper model (DeepSeek Pro/Flash via OpenRouter). Reserves Claude for ground-truth, meeting-prep, draft-outreach, recommendation engine. Skills that produce many cheap research artifacts (discovery, ecosystem, financials briefs) call this first.

npx claudepluginhub danielrosehill/claude-code-plugins --plugin career

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Most career-os work is reasoning over user-specific context — Claude is right. But bulk web-shaped research (domain enumeration, ecosystem mapping, public-financials briefs) is cost-dominated. This skill is the routing decision: should *this* call use Claude, or hand off to a cheaper model.

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Research Router

Most career-os work is reasoning over user-specific context — Claude is right. But bulk web-shaped research (domain enumeration, ecosystem mapping, public-financials briefs) is cost-dominated. This skill is the routing decision: should this call use Claude, or hand off to a cheaper model.

The skill itself doesn't call any model — it returns a routing decision the caller acts on.

Inputs

$ARGUMENTS:

Required: --task=<task-name> — the calling skill or task type (e.g. discover-by-domain, brief-company-financials, meeting-prep).
Optional: --override=<model> — force a specific routing target.

Procedure

1. Load config

Read config.yaml (or workspace config). Keys:

RESEARCH_MODEL — claude (default) | deepseek-pro | deepseek-flash | auto.
OPENROUTER_MCP — name of installed OpenRouter MCP, if any.

If config missing, default to claude and note "no router configured."

2. Classify task

Two sets:

Always Claude (high-context, user-specific reasoning):

ground-truth, meeting-prep, draft-outreach, suggest-companies, route-capture, weekly-plan, weekly-log, self-healing-context.

Routable (bulk, web-shaped, structurally similar across runs):

discover-by-domain, discover-by-geography, discover-remote-friendly, companies-like-x, chunked-discovery.
brief-company-financials, brief-recruitment-profile, brief-glassdoor-signal.
find-conferences, find-communities, find-jobs-boards, find-hackathons, map-investors.
salary-research, branding-assessment.

3. Decide

RESEARCH_MODEL	Always-Claude task	Routable task
`claude`	claude	claude
`deepseek-pro`	claude	deepseek-pro
`deepseek-flash`	claude	deepseek-flash
`auto`	claude	deepseek-flash if `OPENROUTER_MCP` set, else claude

--override wins over the table.

4. Return routing decision

Print one line:

route: <claude|deepseek-pro|deepseek-flash> via <claude|openrouter:<mcp>>
reason: task=<task> RESEARCH_MODEL=<value>

Caller reads stdout and dispatches accordingly.

Guardrails

Never silently route an "Always Claude" task — those are quality-load-bearing.
If RESEARCH_MODEL=deepseek-* but OPENROUTER_MCP not configured, downgrade to claude and warn.
Routing is per-call; not sticky across a session.

Failure modes

Config unreadable → default to claude.
Unknown task name → return route: claude with reason: unknown task, defaulting to claude.