Using language models or vector similarity to analyze the meaning of a user query and direct it to the most appropriate prompt, tool, or database.

A major mid-2020s MLOps term. It drapes directing a user question to a specific software tool in high-tech cognitive air-traffic control language.

• Air-Traffic Control Posture: Framing basic topic matching code as a synthetic air-traffic control switchboard.
• Sci-Fi Category Label: Making sending a request to a tool sound like navigating space lanes.
• Kitchen Reality Check: Like telling a diner where the restroom is and calling it "semantic routing."

Airplane! (1980s) scene where air traffic controllers watch flight paths on monitors, frantically flipping switches to reroute planes.

Reading the meaning of a user question to direct it to the right software tool or prompt.

“Semantic routing sends complex coding questions directly to specialized coding models.”

“Our software reads the topic of a customer query and routes tax questions to our tax tool and billing questions to accounting.”