Open-source Routed routes Agent Skills in under 20ms with zero tokens, fully offline on CPU

iAmQubick · reddit · 2026-09-07

A developer released Routed, an MIT-licensed local-first router for agent skills, addressing the trade-off between stuffing every skill into the system prompt (context bloat) and paying for an LLM router turn (1,000+ tokens, 2+ seconds latency).

How it works: a 4-part hybrid scoring pipeline — quantized ONNX embeddings (60%, Arctic Embed S / MiniLM) + Okapi BM25 (25%) + exact/alias match (10%) + metadata (5%) — completes lookups in under 20ms entirely on CPU with no prompt data leaving the machine.

Environments: auto-detects and injects adapters for Cursor, Claude Code, LM Studio, Ollama, Windsurf, OpenCode, Continue, Codex and more; trigger skills with /route, with compound-intent support.

v1.1.0 adds an MCP server mode (model sees one routeskill tool, schemas injected on demand) and native multilingual understanding across 100+ languages. Pre-built binaries available for macOS, Linux and Windows.

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