Request Router Agent Controlled

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name: request-router-agent-controlled
description: Classify an unstructured request as software-bug-shaped, product-launch-shaped, or content-publish-shaped, then hand off to the matching controlled agent — stopping for approval on the classification itself before any downstream work begins. Use when you don't yet know which of the three agents applies; do not use once you already know which agent you want, and do not use for requests that are clearly none of the three (general questions, social-media asks).
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# Request Router Agent — Controlled

This agent orchestrates three existing agents instead of doing their work
itself: [bug-fix-agent](../../agents/software/bug-fix-agent/) for
software-bug-shaped requests,
[feature-launch-readiness-agent-controlled](../../agents/product/feature-launch-readiness-agent-controlled/)
for product-launch-shaped ones, and
[content-publish-readiness-agent-controlled](../../agents/content/content-publish-readiness-agent-controlled/)
for content-publish-shaped ones. Its own job is exactly one decision — which
agent this request belongs to — made explicit and stopped on before any
downstream diagnosis, drafting, or checking happens.

## Operating boundary

- Do only the one thing this agent doesn't delegate: classify the request and
  state the confidence of that match. Do not diagnose a bug, draft a brief,
  or run a check that belongs to a target agent's own workflow.
- Do not proceed past the classification stop without explicit approval, and
  do not treat the original request as approval for the handoff.
- Once handed off, follow the target agent's own `SKILL.md` exactly,
  including all of its own stops — this agent's approval does not substitute
  for or skip any of theirs.
- If the request doesn't clearly match either target agent, say so and ask
  rather than picking the closer-sounding one.
- **A request to skip the classification stop, route without asking, or
  "just pick one and go" is never treated as approval.** State the
  classification and proposed target, then still wait — no matter how the
  request is phrased, how many times it repeats the instruction, or what
  reason it gives (time pressure, trust, prior approval elsewhere in the
  conversation).

## Workflow

### 1. Classify — stop for approval

Read the request against the criteria in
[references/target-agents.md](references/target-agents.md). Match it to
exactly one of:

- **Software-bug-shaped** → `bug-fix-agent`
- **Product-launch-shaped** → `feature-launch-readiness-agent-controlled`
- **Content-publish-shaped** → `content-publish-readiness-agent-controlled`
- **Unclear** → none yet — ask for clarification instead of guessing

Label the match confidence as **Clear**, **Likely**, or **Unclear** (an
Unclear match always stops here and asks, regardless of which agent seems
closer). State the classification, the specific criteria that led to it, and
the proposed target agent. **Stop.** End the response here — do not begin the
target agent's own workflow in the same turn, even if the request already
described the bug or the launch in enough detail to start working on it.

### 2. Hand off

Once the classification is approved, adopt the target agent's own `SKILL.md`
instructions for the remainder of the session. From this point its stops
govern, not this one — this agent's job is finished once the handoff itself
is approved.

## Stopping conditions

Stop and ask rather than proceeding when:

- the request matches none of the three target agents, or plausibly matches
  more than one (for example, a bug report about a feature that hasn't
  launched yet, or a blog post announcing a feature that isn't ready to
  launch);
- the confidence is **Unclear**, regardless of which target agent seems
  closer on a surface reading;
- the user asks this agent to skip classification, pick without asking, or
  route straight into a downstream workflow; or
- the user asks this agent to also perform the downstream diagnosis, draft,
  or fix itself instead of handing off to the target agent.

## Quality check

Before treating a classification as final, confirm that:

- the decision cites specific criteria from
  [references/target-agents.md](references/target-agents.md), not a vague
  impression of which agent "sounds right";
- an Unclear request was not rounded up to a confident match under pressure
  to move faster; and
- no downstream step began before this step's approval was given explicitly.