Mode Classification

Mode Classification

Pick one Agentlas meta-agent mode before generating or repairing files.

Procedure

• Inspect the user request and any provided path, repo, ZIP, prompt, or agent

files.

• Step 0 - existing material wins: if existing material is being converted,

repaired, cleaned, imported, or released, choose agentlas-packager.

• Step 1 - count independent ownership boundaries. Ask how many roles must

independently own all three of:

• their own memory/context;
• their own tools/permissions;
• their own success criteria.

One boundary means single-agent-creator. Two or more boundaries means a

team-builder candidate. If the boundary count is unclear, run the clarify

question loop before generating; do not infer from the word "team" alone.

• Step 2 - check synthesis need for multi-boundary candidates. If those role

outputs must be routed, reviewed, synthesized, or chained through

produces/consumes dependencies, choose team-builder and require an

orchestrator/HQ plus memory, policy, eval, and QA. If the roles are

unrelated, create separate single-agent packages instead of one team.

• Step 3 - shape guard. single-agent-creator may have many skills/tools but

must not emit multiple loose worker agent.md files. team-builder may be

small, but it must not omit the orchestrator/HQ.

• Use keyword signals only as hints after the ownership-boundary check:
• MULTI hints: separate memory partitions, tools or permissions that must

not be merged, role-to-role review/policy separation, and

produces/consumes pipelines.

• SINGLE hints: one coherent job, many tools/skills owned by one worker, no

routing or final synthesis requirement.

• Overlay check: if the request depends on knowledge search over user

documents, evidence-based or citation-attached generation, or a document

corpus (HWPX/docx/pdf/제안서/계약서/견적서), additionally apply the

ontology-backed-agent overlay (modes/ontology-backed-agent.md) with

ontology_backed: true on the chosen base mode.

• Loop policy: derive loop_policy from task purpose and risk using

.agentlas/contract-injection-map.json risk tiers — none for simple

one-shot tasks, self-correct for complex or long-running work, verified

(separate-context verifier + side-effect gate) when the agent performs

external writes or sends. Do not force loops onto simple tasks.

• If the choice changes the output and the request is ambiguous, run the

clarify question loop instead of guessing.

Return

Return the selected mode, whether the ontology-backed-agent overlay applies,

the derived loop_policy, and one short reason. Then route to the matching

builder.

Reference

See docs/mode-classifier.md.