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A Slack agent, twice as fast

Jev made our Slack agent 2x faster ⚡️ Our agent can be quite slow because it needs to read skills and figure out which tools to call. We used @typesafeai's new model to speed this up by first passing it the prompt and classifying the best skill, tool and params to use before handing it to the agent

John Yeo

John Yeo

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Jev made our Slack agent 2x faster ⚡️ Our agent can be quite slow because it needs to read skills and figure out which tools to call. We used @typesafeai's new model to speed this up by first passing it the prompt and classifying the best skill, tool and params to use before handing it to the agent

01 / The Decision

Evaluate input state and return typed decision for A Slack agent, twice as fast.

Jev sits between the incoming context and the next system action. Rather than generating lengthy, slow natural language that requires brittle regex parsing, Jev returns non-autoregressive, calibrated probabilities that downstream code can immediately execute.

02 / Typed Outputs
01actionPrimary action
02confidenceConfidence score
03fallbackFallback route

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