route-three-brain

route-three-brain is a skill for Claude Code from ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo. It costs 100 tokens per session (700 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A routing guide for deciding whether Claude, Codex/GPT-5.5, or Gemini should handle a task. Claude is assigned generation and coding, Codex review and correctness checks, and Gemini large-repository or multi-document analysis.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose a model for building, reviewing, debugging, checking security, or analyzing a large codebase or document set.
Why use it?
It removes uncertainty about which model should do a particular job and reduces the risk of asking a model to review its own work. It also accounts for whether the required command-line tools are available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the designer-pro-and-seo plugin — 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose a model for building, reviewing, debugging, checking security, or analyzing a large codebase or document set.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zacharticulatev/designer-pro-and-seo/route-three-brain
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.

Any agent
npx skills add ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo --skill route-three-brain
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install designer-pro-and-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 14 agents, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 100 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 700 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00100 $0.00700
Opus 5 $0.00050 $0.00350
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00070

Measured 12d ago against content hash 781012093ef6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

route-three-brain 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 12d 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.

skills/route-three-brain/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

route-three-brain

Family: routing Status: Stable

Purpose

The decision layer for cross-model routing. Three models, three roles:

  • Claude — primary driver for code, content, design generation, conversation.
  • Codex / GPT-5.5 — adversarial review, second-opinion debugging, deep correctness/security checking.
  • Gemini — large-context whole-repo analysis, multi-document synthesis, big structured-data passes.

Hard rule: Claude never reviews Claude — same architecture, same blind spots. If the user says "check your work" / "review this" / "is this right" / "second opinion" / "sanity check," route to Codex via route-codex-review.

Triggers

  • "three brain" / "tri-brain" / "route this" / "which model"
  • "delegate to codex" / "delegate to gemini" / "best model for X"

Inputs

  • Task description; the current output (if asking for review/handoff)
  • Constraints (cost, time, privacy)

Steps

  1. Startup self-check (once per session). Verify the tools exist: codex --version and gemini --version. If one is missing, announce it once and route only to what's available.
  2. Classify the task:
    • Build/generate/converse → Claude keeps it.
    • Review / verify / debug a substantial output, or any risk-path edit (auth, billing, migrations, deploy, secrets) → Codex via route-codex-review.
    • Needs more context than one window (whole repo, many docs) → Gemini via route-gemini-context.
  3. Announce forced routes in one line before running (so the user can interrupt): [three-brain] routing to Codex (review) — risk path: src/auth/.
  4. Execute the handoff via the execution skills and integrate the result — diff where models agree/disagree and adjudicate by evidence, not by averaging.

Outputs

  • A routing decision with justification
  • The integrated result of any executed handoff

Dependencies

  • route-codex-review (Codex execution), route-gemini-context (Gemini execution)
  • The codex and gemini CLIs installed (or the adjacent openai-codex / cc-gemini-plugin tools); degrades to a recommendation when neither is present

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

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. 12d ago First seen · 66 lines · 100 tokens per session scan A 781012093ef6

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route-three-brain is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZachArticulateV/designer-pro-and-seo (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 100 tokens to every session and 700 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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