Route Eight Real Tasks to the Right Claude Feature and Model Tier
Build a routing matrix that sends eight recurring work tasks to a specific Claude product feature and model tier, with the cost, speed, and quality tradeoff written out for each. Then test three of your routings head to head on the same input and revise the matrix where the evidence disagrees with you. Includes a context-management plan for long-running work. No coding required.
2 hrs
Est. time
4
Outcomes
8
Rubric criteria
65%
Pass score
What you'll learn
Skills you'll have real reps in after shipping this.
See how it works
Routing work to the right destination
Every task carries a different mix of volume, difficulty, and lifespan. The matrix makes that routing explicit so the choice stops depending on whichever surface happened to be open.
The scenario
Most teams settle on one Claude habit and apply it to everything: a single chat thread, whatever model is selected by default, and no thought about which surface fits the job. That works until it does not. A recurring weekly report gets rebuilt from scratch every time because nobody set up a Project to hold the context. A quick reformatting job runs on the slowest, most expensive tier for no gain. A long research thread degrades because the conversation outgrew what could usefully be held in context and nobody restarted it.
Choosing well requires knowing what each surface is for. Projects persist instructions and knowledge across conversations. Artifacts give you a document or piece of work you can iterate on beside the chat rather than inside it. Research mode goes and gathers material before answering. Model tiers trade cost and speed against depth, with the lighter tiers suited to high-volume, well-specified work and the heavier ones earning their cost on genuinely hard reasoning. This task makes you commit to a routing for eight real tasks and then check three of those commitments against an actual head-to-head run, because a routing matrix nobody tested is a set of assumptions in a table.
Your role
You are the person your team asks which Claude setup to use for a given job. Your deliverable is a routing matrix for eight recurring tasks, three head-to-head comparisons that test your own calls, and a context-management plan for work that outlives a single conversation.
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Learning resources
What you'll build in this Claude model selection task
This is a build-and-submit task rather than a guided lab, and it requires no coding. You take eight recurring tasks from your own work and route each one to a specific Claude product feature and model tier, writing out the cost, speed, and quality tradeoff behind every assignment instead of recording the choice on its own.
The part that makes it more than a table is the testing. You pick three routings you were genuinely unsure about, run the same input under both options, paste the verbatim output from each side, and revise the matrix wherever the evidence disagrees with your original call. At least one test has to conclude that the lighter or cheaper option was good enough, with the bar for good enough set before you looked. A context-management plan covering when to restart, when to summarize, and what to persist into a Project closes the document.
Grading is rubric-based and explainable. Your submission is scored against weighted criteria covering coverage, tradeoff reasoning, the head-to-head evidence, the evidence-driven revision, and the context plan, with per-criterion feedback quoted from your document. The pass threshold is 65 percent and you can resubmit. Product and model selection is a scored domain on the Claude Certified Associate Foundations exam.