How to Build a Model Router in the Harness
Frontier LLMs continue to be expensive. As agents become ubiquitous and operate at massive scale, this is cost prohibitive. Luckily, most agents don't need frontier-level intelligence for every task. Model labs even say so: Anthropic's guide to choosing a model notes that "for many applications, starting with a faster, more cost-effective model like Claude Haiku 4.5 can be the optimal approach."Past a certain point, you hit diminishing returns: a more capable model adds little quality while cost