Routing evidence · deterministic example
Provider availability at the decision time
Provider and CLI probes, independent quota windows, observed headroom, inferred exhaustion, freshness, and catalog coverage—kept honest when evidence is incomplete.
Decision time 2026-08-02 12:00 UTCFreshness limit 15 minutesRate lookback 1 hour
- CLI availability
- Available
- Freshness
- Fresh · 2 min
- Cost at decision
- List price available
Quota windows · kept separate
- Observed usage
- 800 / 1,000 · 80%
- Observed headroom
- 200 tokens
- Reset
- 15:00 UTC
ObservedProvider quota telemetry at 11:58 UTC
InferredExhaustion 14:00 UTC from 100 tokens/hour; before reset
- Observed usage
- 2,000 / 10,000 · 20%
- Observed headroom
- 8,000 tokens
- Reset
- Aug 7 · 12:00 UTC
ObservedProvider quota telemetry at 11:58 UTC
InferredExhaustion Aug 5 · 20:00 UTC; before reset
Model cost coverage
claude-sonnet-5List price available
- CLI availability
- Unavailable
- Freshness
- Fresh · 1 min
- Cost at decision
- List price available
Quota windows
- Observed usage
- 1,100 / 1,000 · 110%
- Observed headroom
- 0 tokens
- Reset
- 14:00 UTC
ObservedProvider quota telemetry at 11:59 UTC
InferredNo projection; observed headroom is exhausted
Model cost coverage
gpt-5.6-solList price available
- CLI availability
- Unknown
- Freshness
- Stale · 2 hours
- Cost at decision
- Unknown model cost
Quota windows
- Observed usage
- 10 / 1,000 · stale
- Observed headroom
- Not trusted
- Reset
- 18:00 UTC
ObservedLast observation 10:00 UTC exceeds freshness limit
InferredNo projection from stale quota
Model cost coverage
unrecognized-modelUnknown model cost
This snapshot does not select a model. The orchestrator establishes the correctness floor first, then consumes this evidence. Quota or cost must never lower that floor. See docs/concepts/provider-availability-snapshot.md.