What is skill routing for Claude Code?
Skill routing is the layer that automatically invokes the right Claude Code skill for each prompt, based on your intent and context. You never pick or remember which one to run. You just prompt.
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How skill routing works
Load once
Install a Flow and its FLOW.md routing table loads into context a single time, about 1,368 tokens.
Stay in focus
A hook re-asserts that table on every prompt, about 160 tokens, so it never falls out of context, not even after a compaction.
Auto-invoke
Your agent matches what you asked against the table and fires the skill itself. You never pick or remember.
Why route instead of invoking by hand?
Skills are powerful, but the agent only uses one if you remember to ask for it by name. On a long task you forget, or you pick the wrong one, and the discipline slips. Routing removes that burden: the right skill fires on intent, every prompt, so test-driven development, review, and verification happen because the hook enforces them, not because you remembered.
It is also cheaper. Re-reading a full workflow every turn burns thousands of tokens. Routing reads it from context for about 160 tokens a prompt.
We built Flowy this way, by prompting through our own superpowers-flow. The routing is the product. Superpowers is one skill set it carries, not the foundation.
FAQ
What is skill routing for Claude Code?
Skill routing is the layer that automatically selects and invokes the right Claude Code skill for each prompt, based on your intent and context, so you never have to pick or remember which skill to run.
How does skill routing work?
A routing table (a FLOW.md) loads into context once. After that, a hook re-asserts that table on every prompt, about 160 tokens, so your agent can match what you asked against it and invoke the matching skill itself, instead of re-reading the whole workflow every turn.
Do I still choose which skill to run?
No. That is the point. With routing you just prompt in plain English; the right skill fires on its own. Without routing, you are the router: you pick the skill, remember the discipline, and wire each one up.
What does skill routing cost in tokens?
About 1,368 tokens once to load the Flow, then roughly 160 tokens per prompt to keep it in focus. Over a 50-prompt session that is about 7 times cheaper than re-reading the full workflow on every turn.
Stop invoking skills. Just prompt.
Free and open-source. Install the engine once, add any Flow.
> /plugin marketplace add flowy-sh/flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-core> /plugin install flowy-superpowers> /flowy-superpowers:activate