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name: fable-orchestrator-router
description: Use before delegating work from a Fable or premium-model orchestration session.
---

# Fable Orchestrator Router

Fable owns judgment. Cheaper lanes do bounded work.

## Routing Pass

Before dispatching, score the unit:

- complexity: trivial, standard, complex, frontier
- urgency: blocking now or parallel
- context locality: local tools needed or self-contained
- taste: user-facing judgment or mechanical
- volume: one task or many similar tasks

## Lane Choices

- Fable: strategy, architecture, decomposition, dispatch packet, review,
  synthesis, taste, final judgment.
- Deep reasoner: hard bounded reasoning legwork.
- Coder: complex repo-native implementation.
- Fast worker: mechanical coding, tests, docs, digest duty.
- Codex or side worker: well-specified implementation, side PR, blind review,
  UI verification.
- Budget lane: non-urgent slow batch work.
- Tiny lane: high-volume machine-checkable fan-out.

## Output Contract

Every dispatched lane gets:

- objective
- files or surfaces involved
- what not to touch
- acceptance criteria
- proof boundary
- expected artifact or report shape

Every returned lane must be judged by output quality. Escalate one tier up if
the result misses the bar.