How is agent routing different from intent classification?

Intent classification identifies what the user wants. Agent routing decides which agent or workflow should handle it. Classification is one input to routing—but routing also considers agent availability, customer tier, conversation history, and load balancing.

Agent Routing

Written by Max Zeshut

Founder at Agentmelt

The process of directing an incoming request to the most appropriate AI agent or workflow based on the request's content, intent, urgency, or customer attributes. Routing can be rule-based (keywords, customer tier) or AI-driven (intent classification, semantic matching). Good routing ensures that a billing question goes to the billing agent, a technical issue goes to the tech support agent, and a VIP customer gets priority handling—all without manual triage.

Пример

A customer emails 'I need to upgrade my plan and also fix a bug in the API integration.' The router identifies two intents: billing (upgrade) and technical (API bug). It routes the billing request to the account management agent and the technical request to the developer support agent, with shared context.

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How is agent routing different from intent classification?: Intent classification identifies what the user wants. Agent routing decides which agent or workflow should handle it. Classification is one input to routing—but routing also considers agent availability, customer tier, conversation history, and load balancing.

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