Frugal Rerouter is a ChatGPT Skill that intelligently routes your AI requests to the right tool — automatically. Cut costs without cutting quality.
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You open ChatGPT and ask it to do everything — research, coding, summarising, writing — even when a cheaper or more specialised tool would do it better and cost far less.
Frugal Rerouter solves this. It acts as an intelligent dispatcher that classifies your task, evaluates the best tool for the job, and either handles it directly or hands you a ready-to-use prompt for the right platform.
| Feature | Description |
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| 🧠 Intelligent Task Classification | Auto-categorises tasks: Research, Generation, Coding, Summarisation, Multi-step, Reasoning, and more |
| ⚖️ Cost-Aware Routing | Decides HANDLE_HERE vs ROUTE based on complexity, cost, and tool strengths |
| 📎 Auto Prompt Generation | Generates ready-to-paste, tool-specific prompts when routing externally |
| 🔧 Memory-Backed Config | Learns your available tools and subscription tiers over time |
| 🎯 Zero Wasted Tokens | Delegates low-complexity tasks to free/cheaper tools automatically |
Your Request
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│ Task Classification │ → Research / Code / Generate / Summarise / Reason
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│ Complexity Scoring │ → Low / Medium / High
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HANDLE_HERE ROUTE
(ChatGPT) (Best external tool)
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Ready-to-use prompt Model recommendation
Best for structured outputs, multi-step workflows, and integration tasks — handled directly.
Real-time research, web queries, and deep research workflows.
Long-context processing and multimodal (image/video) tasks.
- Claude App → Writing, reasoning, and analysis
- Claude Code → Full codebase analysis and refactoring
- Claude Cowork → Collaborative and iterative workflows
- DeepSeek Chat → Low-cost reasoning and Q&A
- DeepSeek Coder → Cost-efficient code generation
Every routing decision is returned as structured, actionable Markdown:
# 🧠 Frugal Rerouter Decision
## 📌 Task Summary
What you asked for, distilled in one line.
## 🧭 Classification
Task type · Complexity level · Token estimate
## ⚖️ Routing Decision
HANDLE_HERE → ChatGPT executes directly
ROUTE → [Tool Name] with ready-to-use prompt below
## 💡 Reasoning
Why this tool? Cost comparison + quality rationale.
## 🚀 Execution Plan
Step-by-step instructions or direct output.
## 📎 Prompt File (if routed)
Copy-paste prompt, pre-formatted for the target tool.- Download the
frugal-rerouter.zipfrom the/frugal-rerouterfolder - Go to ChatGPT → My GPTs → Create a GPT → Configure
- Upload the skill zip via the Knowledge section or paste the instructions
- Activate and start any conversation with your task — Frugal Rerouter classifies and routes automatically
- 💰 Reduce AI spend across personal or team workflows
- 🎯 Automatically pick the best tool for every task type
- ✍️ Automate prompt engineering — no more manually reformatting for each AI
- 👥 Standardise AI usage across teams with consistent routing rules
- 🔬 Research workflows — route to Perplexity, synthesise with ChatGPT
- Cost estimation per request (tokens × model price)
- Confidence scoring for routing decisions
- Multi-step cross-tool orchestration (chain Perplexity → ChatGPT → Claude)
- Persistent external memory integration
- User-defined routing rules and tool preferences
- Usage dashboard — track savings over time
Contributions are welcome! Great places to start:
- Add support for new AI tools (Grok, Mistral, Llama)
- Improve task classification logic
- Add routing rules for domain-specific use cases (legal, medical, code review)
Please open an issue before submitting a large PR so we can align on direction.
MIT License © Tushar Jhanwar
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