Routing Agent | AI Agent Types | Agentic Swarm

The Routing Agent selects the best agents, models, tools, and workflows for each task, optimizing for cost, speed, and quality.

Why it matters

Where a task is sent decides how well and how cheaply it gets done. Routing keeps the system efficient as it scales.

Use cases

• Sending billing questions to a finance agent
• Classifying intent and routing accordingly
• Picking a faster model for low-risk steps
• Rerouting when an agent is busy

Inputs

• The task plan
• Available resources and their strengths
• Cost, load, and performance signals
• Routing rules

Outputs

• Task-to-resource assignments
• Explicit cost and quality tradeoffs
• Reassignments when needed

Failure modes

• Sending hard work to weak agents
• Ignoring cost until it compounds
• No reroute when a resource stalls
• Static rules that never adapt