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A Claude + Jev agent setup in 10 minutes

Asteri’s setup hands the small calls an agent makes, such as “retry?” or “enough sources?”, to Jev and not to a frontier model.

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Claude + Jev is the first agent setup where I stopped babysitting every single step

most agents burn frontier tokens on tiny calls like "retry?" or "enough sources?". this one hands them to a model that does 10,000 decisions for ~$0.42

10 min and it runs on your machine:

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How builders describe it

Asteri’s setup hands the small calls an agent makes, such as “retry?” or “enough sources?”, to Jev and not to a frontier model. The post gives about $0.42 for 10,000 decisions and says it runs on your machine.

The decision Jev makes

Pick an agent, a model, a skill from a catalog, or a function and its arguments.

Where it fits

Deciding which agent, model, skill or function should handle a request. Jev is a natural router: the options are fixed and the confidence tells you when to fall back. All 348 routing & model choice projects →

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