Auto-Select Best Model (Profile) Based on Task Type

[HadesArchitect]

Original: https://discord.com/channels/1349288496988160052/1349288496988160055/1379048316159135804

Implement an automated system within Kilocode.ai that intelligently selects the optimal Profile / AI model based on task type and requirements.

Problem

Users currently manage model selection manually across different providers and modes (orchestrator, code, etc.), creating workflow friction and inefficiency.

Solution

Develop a task-aware routing system that:

• Analyzes user prompts to identify task type (frontend development, complex integration, debugging, etc.)
• Automatically selects the most appropriate model based on performance/cost optimization
• Routes frontend tasks to cost-efficient models (e.g., Gemini 2.5 Flash)
• Routes complex integration tasks to advanced models (e.g., Sonnet/Opus 4)

[HadesArchitect]

I personally don't see it's happening any time soon. Although it sounds really great, automated profile selection is a super-opinionated thing which will be very different (and often contradictive) to different users. Implement it is not easy by itself, but implement it the way that most of users will agree it makes right choices - that seems hard-to-impossible to me.

[philipvas]

it seem that, in reality, you would be training a wholly separate model to view your context window and ask it which 3rd party coding model would optimally perform your task, but how would you train such a model-selection-model on all the possible prompts in combination with all the actual models (which are already pretty generalized and good...)

[HadesArchitect]

Absolutely agree.