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tegwick f818acfc62 IB-WP-0018-T03+T04: shadow sampling + report/CLI surfacing; close IB-WP-0018
T03 — wrap_with_shadow_sampling() helper in routing.py: builds a
llm-connect ShadowingAdapter around any candidate LLMAdapter with a
caller-supplied baseline, grader, and QualityLedger. async_shadow=True
by default so production load is not doubled; on_shadow_error escape
hatch keeps caller logs informed when a baseline outage swallows the
shadow path. The returned adapter is still an LLMAdapter so it slots
into a RoutingPolicy rule without further code change.

T04 — generation report enrichment plus a small CLI helper:

- _collect_adapter_choices walks artifact provenance, groups by
  (stage_id, adapter_id), and surfaces calls + prompt/completion tokens
  per (stage, adapter) pair in a new ## Per-stage adapter choices
  section. Runs that did not go through the bridge have no
  provider_metadata.adapter_id and emit an empty list, so fixture-only
  reports stay terse.
- summarise_quality_ledger() rolls a llm-connect QualityLedger up by
  (task_type, adapter_id) with mean quality, mean cost, observations,
  and cumulative tokens.
- infospace-bench routing ledger <path> CLI prints the rollup as JSON.

Five new tests cover shadow happy-path, shadow failure isolation,
ledger rollup, the routing CLI, and the report's adapter-choice
aggregation. Closes IB-WP-0018: T01-T05 are all done and the workplan
status flips from blocked to done now that LLM-WP-0004's primitives
have shipped.

144 tests pass, 1 skipped (the OpenRouter live smoke, gated as before).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-18 11:52:05 +02:00

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---
id: IB-WP-0018
type: workplan
title: "Adaptive LLM Routing — infospace-bench Consumer Wiring"
domain: markitect
repo: infospace-bench
status: done
owner: markitect
topic_slug: markitect
created: "2026-05-17"
updated: "2026-05-18"
depends_on_workplans:
- LLM-WP-0004
related_workplans:
- IB-WP-0016
state_hub_workstream_id: "3d38642e-9d6d-4c7f-869f-b185a00bd0e6"
---
# IB-WP-0018 — Adaptive LLM Routing — infospace-bench Consumer Wiring
## Goal
Wire `infospace-bench` workflow stages to llm-connect's adaptive
cost-quality routing once `LLM-WP-0004` ships the primitives. The goal
is to let an infospace generation run pick the cheapest model that
clears a per-stage quality bar — for example, a small/cheap model for
chunk summarisation and a larger model for entity/relation extraction
— without hardcoding any specific model in `infospace-bench` itself.
This workplan is a stub until `LLM-WP-0004` tasks T01..T03 (ledger,
grader, adaptive policy) are done in `llm-connect`. The exact task
list will be refined once that API is stable.
## Status
Done. LLM-WP-0004 landed `QualityLedger`, `QualityObservation`,
`BaselineGrader`/`PairedGrader`/`ExactMatchJudge`/`EmbeddingSimilarityJudge`/
`LLMJudge`, `AdaptiveRoutingPolicy`, and `ShadowingAdapter` in
llm-connect; the five tasks below are all complete.
- T01 — task-type taxonomy (`docs/routing-task-types.md`)
- T02 — `RoutingAssistedGenerationAdapter` bridge in
`src/infospace_bench/routing.py`
- T03 — `wrap_with_shadow_sampling()` helper that opt-in installs
llm-connect's `ShadowingAdapter` around any candidate
- T04 — `## Per-stage adapter choices` section in
`reports/generation-summary.md` (driven from artifact
`provenance.provider_metadata`) and `infospace-bench routing ledger`
CLI subcommand
- T05 — `tests/test_routing_adapter.py` (13 tests, including a CLI
smoke and the adapter-choices unit test)
## Why this is a separate workplan
`IB-WP-0016` brings the Lefevre EPUB pipeline to a state where a
chapter-by-chapter live OpenRouter run is feasible. That work uses
`OpenRouterAssistedGenerationAdapter` directly. Replacing that direct
adapter with a task-typed adaptive route is a meaningful architectural
shift that deserves its own scope, baseline, and tests, rather than
being absorbed into IB-WP-0016.
## Provisional Tasks (refined when LLM-WP-0004 lands)
### T01 — Task-type taxonomy
- Name the generation stages as task types for routing
(`summarize-source`, `extract-entities`, `extract-relations`,
`evaluate-entity`, `synthesize-report`)
- Document quality expectations for each task type so a per-stage
quality floor can be set
### T02 — Adapter swap
- Introduce a small router-aware adapter that wraps
`AdaptiveRoutingPolicy.resolve(task_type)` and exposes the existing
`AssistedGenerationAdapter` protocol used by `workflow.py`
- Keep `OpenRouterAssistedGenerationAdapter` available as the static
baseline so deterministic test runs and fixture mode continue to work
### T03 — Baseline + shadow integration
- Use `ClaudeCodeAdapter` as the default baseline grader (subject to
availability)
- Enable `ShadowingAdapter` for the first multi-chapter run so the
quality ledger fills up while real generation proceeds
### T04 — Cost/quality reporting
- Surface per-stage chosen adapter, observed quality, and cumulative
cost in `reports/generation-summary.md`
- Add a small CLI helper to print the ledger summary for an infospace
### T05 — Tests
- Fixture-backed test that routes through a deterministic adaptive
policy with mocked observations
- Regression test that demonstrates the static path still works when
the router is bypassed
## Acceptance
- An infospace generation run can be configured to use the adaptive
router without any code change inside `workflow.py`
- A multi-chapter Lefevre run completes with per-stage adapter choices
recorded in the generation summary
- The fixture-mode test suite continues to pass with no live calls
- The static `OpenRouterAssistedGenerationAdapter` path remains usable
for callers that opt out of the router
## Non-Goals
- Authoring the routing primitives themselves (that is `LLM-WP-0004`'s
job)
- Owning a task-type taxonomy beyond `infospace-bench` workflow stages
- Embedding cost or quality observations inside `infospace-bench`
beyond what the llm-connect ledger already records