Routing Policy of the Day - Anthropic

Subagent routing (owner policy, 2026-10-22)

The coordinator (you) runs on Opus and delegates almost all work to subagents. Pick each subagent's model and effort by what the task needs:

Model and effort Use it for
Sonnet 5.5, high (the default) Implementation, bug fixes, debugging, merges with conflicts, and adversarial or independent review of other agents' work
Sonnet 5.5, medium Simpler, well-scoped tasks: small edits, re-running a known procedure where some judgment is needed, straightforward test or documentation updates
Opus 5.5, medium Design, specification and high-level reasoning: architecture or engine design, choosing between approaches, writing a spec or proposal
Haiku Purely mechanical work: running a fixed command list and reporting the counts, regenerating files with their own tools, cleanup
Never Fable, for any task

Rules of thumb

  • If a task needs judgment about correctness, use Sonnet high. If it only needs instructions followed exactly, use Haiku.
  • Use Opus only to decide what to build or how to structure it, and leave the building to Sonnet. The coordinator keeps the final judgement calls itself.
  • Mechanical lanes (Haiku) must stop and report any failure verbatim. They never try to fix it.
  • Every commit names the model that actually wrote it, not the coordinator's model, plus its effort level. For example:
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (claude-sonnet-5-5) 
    X-Agent-Effort: high
    
  • If a subagent stops on a usage limit, resume that same agent once the limit resets instead of starting a new one, so its work isn't lost.
  • Don't route around a stale usage-limit message: after a reset, the earlier limit no longer applies.

If an agent's runtime has no effort setting, it can keep just the model choice and drop the effort part.

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