route_intent
Route an ambiguous request: commit, present options, or clarify
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Entropy routing over competing interpretations — the model proposes, the deterministic core disposes. YOU generate the candidate readings of the user’s message (3–7 short hypotheses covering the plausible interpretations, INCLUDING likely-typo readings, idiom-vs-literal readings, and domain senses) and pass them as hypotheses, ideally with your own likelihoods (0–1 per reading) AND a paraphrase per reading — the user’s message rewritten unambiguously under that interpretation, so the user can VERIFY intent by recognition before anything commits (one misread prompt skews a whole thread). The router computes the posterior and its normalized entropy T̂ and returns the decision: commit (one reading dominates), commit_with_note (close alternative disclosed), present_options (several readings live), or clarify (ask before acting — open-endedly when nothing discriminates). Thresholds adapt to the user’s ReceiverProfile (AR widens/narrows the commit region; high FT discloses near-ties). This tool is the commit-vs-clarify AUTHORITY in the pipeline. Omitting hypotheses falls back to a generic six-intent PRODUCT-ROUTING starter set — do not use the fallback for interpreting arbitrary sentences. Deterministic, stateless, read-only. Benchmarked: RTEB v1.1 (developer-bench grade; see docs/routing.md).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| text | string | yes | The user’s raw message. |
| hypotheses | array | no | Candidate interpretations. Omit to use a generic six-intent starter set plus a catch-all. |
| likelihoods | object | no | Optional externally computed likelihood per hypothesis id (e.g. model-derived) — replaces the lexical scorer. |
| profile | object | no | The user’s ReceiverProfile from calibrate_profile. Shapes commit-vs-clarify thresholds. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"text": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 5000,
"description": "The user’s raw message."
},
"hypotheses": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 64
},
"label": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 200
},
"cues": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 64
},
"maxItems": 32,
"description": "Lexical cues for the built-in scorer; omit when passing likelihoods."
},
"paraphrase": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 500,
"description": "The user’s message REWRITTEN UNAMBIGUOUSLY under this reading. Strongly recommended: when the router asks, the user verifies intent by reading these restatements, not by decoding labels."
},
"prior": {
"type": "number",
"exclusiveMinimum": 0
}
},
"required": [
"id",
"label"
],
"additionalProperties": false
},
"minItems": 2,
"maxItems": 24,
"description": "Candidate interpretations. Omit to use a generic six-intent starter set plus a catch-all."
},
"likelihoods": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0
},
"description": "Optional externally computed likelihood per hypothesis id (e.g. model-derived) — replaces the lexical scorer."
},
"profile": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"TI": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Temporal Integration: 0 = bottom line first, 100 = full context first"
},
"SG": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Signal Gain: 0 = flat and factual, 100 = warm and expressive"
},
"FT": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Filtering Threshold: 100 = explicit and literal, 0 = subtext lands"
},
"UE": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Update Elasticity: 100 = pushback welcome, 0 = prefers consistency"
},
"AR": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": 0,
"maximum": 100,
"description": "Ambiguity Resolution: 100 = commit to best reading, 0 = clarify first"
}
},
"required": [
"TI",
"SG",
"FT",
"UE",
"AR"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "The user’s ReceiverProfile from calibrate_profile. Shapes commit-vs-clarify thresholds."
}
},
"required": [
"text"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}