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arxiv: 2606.22902 · v3 · pith:I53B5DSLnew · submitted 2026-06-22 · 💻 cs.AI

Agent-as-a-Router: Agentic Model Routing for Coding Tasks

Pengfei Zhou , Zhiwei Tang , Yixing Ma , Jiasheng Tang , Yizeng Han , Zhenglin Wan , Fanqing Meng , Wei Wang
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classification 💻 cs.AI
keywords agentic routingLLM routingmodel selectioncumulative regretcoding tasksinformation deficitCodeRouterBenchC-A-F loop
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The pith

Framing model routing as an agentic Context-Action-Feedback loop that stores execution outcomes reduces cumulative regret by closing the information gap between available LLMs.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper identifies information deficit as the core limit on routing each coding task to the best available LLM. Static classification routers cannot learn from how models actually perform on the exact task, even when given task-level performance statistics. The proposed framework turns routing into a repeated loop: the Orchestrator picks a model, the Verifier evaluates the output, and the Memory records the grounded result to refine the next Context. This matters because users routinely access several frontier models whose strengths differ by task, so better selection directly improves both quality and cost. On a new benchmark of roughly ten thousand tasks with verified scores from eight models, the resulting system records the lowest cumulative regret on in-distribution cases and continues to improve on out-of-distribution agentic programming tasks.

Core claim

The authors formalize routing as a C-A-F loop in which an Orchestrator selects an LLM, a Verifier checks the result, and a Memory module accumulates execution-grounded feedback to update the Context for the next task. This active accumulation closes the information gap that static routers face, as evidenced by the performance lift from even simple dimension-level statistics and the further gains from the full agentic system on both in-distribution and out-of-distribution coding tasks.

What carries the argument

The C-A-F loop (Context->Action->Feedback->Context) instantiated through an Orchestrator, Verifier, and Memory module that stores execution-grounded experience.

If this is right

  • ACRouter records the lowest cumulative regret on in-distribution tasks drawn from the CodeRouterBench distribution.
  • The same routing framework generalizes to out-of-distribution agentic-programming tasks without retraining.
  • Augmenting a vanilla LLM router with task-dimension performance statistics already yields a 15.3 percent relative gain over a heuristic router.
  • The CodeRouterBench environment of roughly ten thousand task instances with verified scores from eight frontier LLMs supports regret-based comparison on streaming tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same feedback-accumulation pattern could be applied to non-coding domains where model strengths also vary by task type.
  • Over longer deployments the Memory module might allow the router to anticipate model suitability before any execution occurs.
  • Treating routing as an online learning process rather than a one-shot classification problem may reduce wasted API calls across any multi-model deployment.
  • The approach implies that routers can improve without access to model internals, relying only on observable task outcomes.

Load-bearing premise

Execution-grounded feedback stored in the Memory module can be used reliably by the Orchestrator and Verifier without introducing new errors or selection bias.

What would settle it

Running the full ACRouter system on a fresh stream of coding tasks and observing that its cumulative regret exceeds the regret of a static router supplied with the same task-level performance statistics would falsify the claim that the agentic loop closes the information gap.

read the original abstract

Real-world users typically have access to multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) from different providers, and these LLMs often excel at distinct domains, yet none dominate all. Consequently, routing each task to the most suitable model becomes critical for both performance and cost. Existing routers treat this as a static, one-off classification problem. However, we identify the performance bottleneck for these routers as information deficit: simply augmenting a vanilla LLM router with performance statistics at the task-dimension level yields a 15.3% relative gain, surpassing a heuristic router built on the same dimension-level priors. Motivated by this finding, we propose Agent-as-a-Router, a framework that formalizes routing as a C-A-F loop (Context->Action->Feedback->Context). It closes the information gap by accumulating execution-grounded experience during deployment. We instantiate this framework as ACRouter, composed of an Orchestrator, a Verifier, a Memory module, and introduce CodeRouterBench, an evaluation environment comprising ~10K task instances with verified scores from 8 frontier LLMs, enabling regret-based router comparison on streaming tasks. Experiments show that ACRouter achieves the lowest cumulative regret on in-distribution tasks and generalizes to out-of-distribution agentic-programming tasks, demonstrating that our routing framework actively closes the information gap. Codes and benchmarks are released at https://github.com/LanceZPF/agent-as-a-router.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that model routing for coding tasks is bottlenecked by information deficit, shows that augmenting a router with task-dimension performance statistics yields a 15.3% relative gain over a heuristic baseline, and introduces the Agent-as-a-Router (ACRouter) framework that formalizes routing as a Context-Action-Feedback loop. ACRouter comprises an Orchestrator, Verifier, and Memory module; it is evaluated on the new CodeRouterBench (~10K tasks across 8 LLMs) and reportedly achieves lowest cumulative regret on in-distribution tasks while generalizing to out-of-distribution agentic-programming tasks.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold after proper validation, the work would demonstrate that an agentic feedback loop can measurably close the information gap in LLM routing for coding, moving beyond static classification. The release of CodeRouterBench and code would also provide a reusable regret-based benchmark for streaming router evaluation.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The reported 15.3% relative gain from dimension-level statistics is presented as the key motivation, yet the abstract supplies no implementation details on how the statistics were collected, how the heuristic router was constructed, the number of tasks or runs, or any statistical significance test; without these the gain cannot be assessed as load-bearing evidence for the information-deficit premise.
  2. [Framework description / Experiments] Framework and Experiments (implied sections): The central claim that the C-A-F loop reliably closes the information gap via execution-grounded feedback assumes the Verifier and Orchestrator ingest Memory without introducing new errors or selection bias, but the manuscript provides no ablation on the Verifier, no analysis of feedback-error propagation, and no comparison of regret with vs. without the Verifier component.
  3. [Experiments / CodeRouterBench] Evaluation: CodeRouterBench is introduced with verified scores, yet the text gives no external validation of the benchmark (e.g., correlation with human judgments or comparison to existing coding benchmarks) and reports lowest cumulative regret without specifying the number of streaming tasks, variance across runs, or regret curves for the baselines.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The acronym C-A-F is introduced without an explicit expansion on first use in the abstract.
  2. [Abstract] The link to the GitHub repository is given but no commit hash or reproducibility instructions are supplied.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below, indicating where revisions will be made.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The reported 15.3% relative gain from dimension-level statistics is presented as the key motivation, yet the abstract supplies no implementation details on how the statistics were collected, how the heuristic router was constructed, the number of tasks or runs, or any statistical significance test; without these the gain cannot be assessed as load-bearing evidence for the information-deficit premise.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is too concise to include these details. The collection of task-dimension statistics, heuristic router construction, use of ~10K tasks across multiple runs, and statistical tests are described in the Experiments section. We will revise the abstract to add a brief clause referencing the experimental setup that supports the 15.3% gain. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Framework description / Experiments] Framework and Experiments (implied sections): The central claim that the C-A-F loop reliably closes the information gap via execution-grounded feedback assumes the Verifier and Orchestrator ingest Memory without introducing new errors or selection bias, but the manuscript provides no ablation on the Verifier, no analysis of feedback-error propagation, and no comparison of regret with vs. without the Verifier component.

    Authors: This observation is correct; the manuscript lacks an ablation isolating the Verifier and any analysis of error propagation or selection bias. We will add an ablation study comparing cumulative regret with and without the Verifier, together with a short discussion of feedback-error propagation, in the revised manuscript. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments / CodeRouterBench] Evaluation: CodeRouterBench is introduced with verified scores, yet the text gives no external validation of the benchmark (e.g., correlation with human judgments or comparison to existing coding benchmarks) and reports lowest cumulative regret without specifying the number of streaming tasks, variance across runs, or regret curves for the baselines.

    Authors: The benchmark uses verified scores from 8 LLMs on ~10K tasks; external validation via human correlation or comparison to other coding benchmarks was not performed and will be noted as a limitation. The Experiments section already reports the number of streaming tasks, run-to-run variance, and regret curves for all methods; we will make these quantities and the corresponding figures more explicitly referenced in the revision. revision: partial

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • External validation of CodeRouterBench (human judgment correlation or comparison to existing coding benchmarks), as this requires new experiments outside the scope of the submitted work.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical results independent of inputs

full rationale

The paper presents no equations, derivations, or self-citations that reduce its central claims to fitted quantities or prior inputs by construction. The 15.3% gain is reported as an independent observation from augmenting a baseline router with dimension-level statistics and is used only as motivation for the C-A-F framework; the headline experimental result (lowest cumulative regret on CodeRouterBench) is obtained from separate streaming-task evaluations of the full ACRouter system. No load-bearing premise collapses to a self-definition or renamed fit. The derivation chain is self-contained against the released benchmark and external model scores.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 3 invented entities

Review performed on abstract only; full paper text unavailable so ledger is limited to elements explicitly named.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption LLMs from different providers excel at distinct domains and none dominate all tasks
    Opening sentence of abstract used to motivate the routing problem.
invented entities (3)
  • C-A-F loop no independent evidence
    purpose: Formalizes routing as iterative Context-Action-Feedback-Context process
    Core framework introduced to close the information gap.
  • ACRouter no independent evidence
    purpose: Concrete system with Orchestrator, Verifier, and Memory modules
    Instantiation of the proposed framework.
  • CodeRouterBench no independent evidence
    purpose: Evaluation environment of ~10K tasks with verified scores from 8 LLMs
    New benchmark enabling regret-based comparison.

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    This is your baseline

    Start with DimensionBest: A static Memory + lookup achieves about 83% of oracle AvgPerf at near-zero overhead. This is your baseline

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    Trained classifiers achieve Perf/$ of 6.11–6.82 in Table 3

    Add a classifier: Swap the routing tool to a trained classifier (LogReg or RouteLLM) for cheaper deployment with comparable AvgPerf to DimensionBest. Trained classifiers achieve Perf/$ of 6.11–6.82 in Table 3

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    Initialize Memory with whatever priors you have; the C-A-F loop ensures convergence

    Complete the C-A-F loop (ACRouter): When deploying on new distributions, activate all three modules to close the feedback loop. Initialize Memory with whatever priors you have; the C-A-F loop ensures convergence

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    Customize tools: Swap evaluation tools in the Verifier (e.g., domain-specific tests), add custom routing tools

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    "" pairs_sum_to_zero takes a list of integers as an inp Qwen3.5 [score=1.00] ```python def pairs_sum_to_zero(l):

    Extend the benchmark: Add tasks via C-A-F. New models need responses + scoring; new dimensions need a task set + scoring function. E.3. Beyond Model Routing The C-A-F loop (observe context, act, receive feedback, update context) is not specific to model routing. The same paradigm applies to tool selection, API endpoint selection, prompt strategy selection...