Triage: Routing Software Engineering Tasks to Cost-Effective LLM Tiers via Code Quality Signals
arXiv:2604.07494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context: AI coding agents route every task to a single frontier large language model (LLM), paying premium inference cost even when many tasks are routine. Objectives: We propose Triage, a framework that uses code health metrics — indicators of software maintainability — as a routing signal to assign each task to the cheapest model tier whose output passes the same verification gate as the expensive model. Methods: Triage defines three capability tiers (light, […]