model-route

model-route is a command for coding agents from yeaight7/agent-powerups. It costs 18 tokens per session (270 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that recommends a model tier for a coding task based on its complexity, risk, and available budget. It distinguishes Fast, Standard, and Deep tiers for increasingly demanding work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deciding which model level should handle a rename, multi-file change, architecture question, security audit, or similar task. You can provide a task description and an optional low, medium, or high budget.
Why use it?
It helps match task difficulty and risk to an appropriate amount of model reasoning and cost. It also states when the task should be moved to a higher tier.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/yeaight7/agent-powerups/model-route
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yeaight7/agent-powerups

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Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 270 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00018 $0.00270
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00135
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 3d ago against content hash d73635d44c1a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

model-route scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/model-route.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

/model-route — Model Tier Recommendation

Evaluate the current task and recommend the appropriate model tier.

Usage

/model-route [task-description] [--budget low|med|high]

Tier Routing

Tier Use when
Fast Deterministic, single-file, low blast radius (rename, format, classify)
Standard Multi-file implementation, refactor, bounded code review — default
Deep Architecture, security audit, root-cause analysis, pre-release verification

Required Output

  1. Recommended tier and why
  2. Confidence: high / medium / low
  3. Escalation condition: what would cause you to move up one tier
  4. Budget note (if --budget was specified): whether the recommendation changes

Escalation Rule

Escalate only after the lower tier fails with a clear reasoning gap — not because the task feels important.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS:

  • [task-description] — optional free-text description of the task
  • --budget low|med|high — optional cost constraint
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 37 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A d73635d44c1a

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model-route is a command published in the GitHub repository yeaight7/agent-powerups (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 270 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.