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cost-routing from the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/cost-routing@git:20261014.fb8dd14

Pins git:20261014.fb8dd14 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer
Path: cost-routing/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 2
Latest version: git:20261014.fb8dd14, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded: May 18, 2026
Size: 5,622 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: MIT

Top-level dispatcher that classifies every incoming request into scout / coder / architect tiers BEFORE any tool call. Routes Read, Grep, Glob, file-search, symbol-lookup, "where is X", and "list files matching Y" to haiku-scout. Routes known-location Edit, Write, multi-file refactor, test authoring, and bounded code changes to sonnet-coder. Reserves the main opus context for ambiguous design questions, ADRs, and tradeoff analysis. Use whenever a request lands in the main context and might…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Cost-Tier Routing

The main context runs on opus. Every Read, Grep, Glob, and Edit invoked at this tier bills at opus rates. Most operations don't need opus reasoning — they need a model that can run a command and report a result. This skill is the dispatch gate that stops opus from doing work haiku or sonnet would complete just as correctly for a fraction of the cost.

## The three tiers

| Tier          | Model  | Owns                                       | Example requests                                                                                       |
| ------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **scout**     | haiku  | Read-only lookup, search, location         | "Where is `Foo` defined?", "List files matching `*.test.ts`", "Count LOC in `src/`", "Read X and report Y" |
| **coder**     | sonnet | Bounded code changes at known locations    | "Add a test for `parseDate`", "Refactor `auth.ts` to use the new client", "Rename `A` → `B` repo-wide"  |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/cost-routing@sha256:6e56b8604871c716

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.fb8dd14, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_4srjrthmfpcornm6.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4srjrthmfpcornm6)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 18, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 148 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261014.fb8dd14 latest	2026-10-14	fb8dd14	5,622 B	A	view · diff
git:20260518.e462a2a	2026-05-18	e462a2a	5,090 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5622 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4srjrthmfpcornm6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=the-artificer-of-ciphers-llc/skills-from-the-artificer/cost-routing
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6e56b8604871c716538f23e57b168a8905845ef090502bcf8679fa8600ec8f24

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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