Semantic Routing
Selecting the model, agent, tool, knowledge base or resource best suited to the actual intention of a request.
Abstract
Semantic routing is becoming an important technology for coordinating large language models, specialised agents, tools and knowledge sources. This paper proposes that semantic routing is only one instance of a broader class of operations.
ZEON Key 153 describes a passage function: the ability to identify a state, recognise a relevant transition, orient the elements involved and perform a transformation without losing coherence. This document introduces a first taxonomy of twenty digital applications of this principle, ranging from semantic routing and capability routing to distributed memory, multi-agent orchestration, governance and ZEON OS.
ZEON Key 153 should not be reduced to a routing algorithm. It can be understood as a key of passage between two states, two spaces of meaning, two capabilities or two forms of organisation.
Core operation:
identify a state, recognise the relevant passage, perform the transformation, and preserve the coherence of what crosses the threshold.
identify a state, recognise the relevant passage, perform the transformation, and preserve the coherence of what crosses the threshold.
Semantic routing is one of its most visible applications, but it does not exhaust either the nature or the potential of Key 153. The key opens a broader family of digital applications in which a system must select, connect, translate, assemble, orient or transform heterogeneous elements while preserving the meaning that relates them.
Explore the related ZEON prototypeA Taxonomy of Digital Applications
Cognitive Routing
Directing a task towards the appropriate mode of reasoning: analysis, synthesis, calculation, creativity, critique, simulation or decision.
Capability Routing
Identifying the human, software or artificial capability most relevant to a particular situation.
Dynamic Agent Assembly
Forming a temporary collective of specialised agents around a task, then dissolving it once the task has been completed.
Document Navigation
Building reading and exploration paths through semantic proximity, beyond fixed trees, folders and taxonomies.
Distributed Memory
Retrieving the memory, context, conversation or fragment that is genuinely useful to the present action.
Knowledge Discovery
Connecting distant domains in order to reveal analogies, hypotheses and relationships that were previously invisible.
Knowledge Fusion
Bringing heterogeneous sources together, identifying convergence and contradiction, and producing a coherent representation.
Workflow Orchestration
Selecting the next step dynamically according to the actual situation, rather than following a predetermined scenario.
Resource Allocation
Distributing computation, storage, bandwidth or energy according to the nature, meaning and priority of requests.
Distributed Search
Finding the right person, laboratory, community or partner within a distributed network.
Capability Markets
Matching people and systems through capabilities, intentions and complementarities rather than through keywords alone.
Semantic Social Networks
Creating relationships around shared spaces of meaning rather than popularity, engagement capture or attention-maximising mechanisms.
Multi-AI Systems
Distributing tasks across several models or model families, each being engaged for the capability it performs best.
Human–AI Dialogue
Adapting vocabulary, depth, rhythm and explanatory level to the real needs and context of the human interlocutor.
Personalised Learning
Creating evolving learning paths in which each concept is introduced when it can genuinely be received and integrated.
Weak-Signal Detection
Connecting dispersed events in order to recognise emerging dynamics before they become obvious.
Distributed Governance
Directing a decision towards the people who are concerned, capable or legitimate to contribute to it.
Internet of Agents
Enabling agents to discover and cooperate with one another through capabilities, intentions and semantic position rather than fixed addresses alone.
ZEON OS
Orchestrating passages between humans, AI systems, documents, memories, capabilities, keys, processes, territories and ecosystems.
From Semantic Routing to Coherence Routing
Conventional routing identifies a destination. Semantic routing identifies a destination according to meaning. Coherence routing goes one step further: it seeks the passage through which a transformation can take place while preserving the integrity of the elements involved and the relationship between them.
Key 153 can therefore be understood as a general technology of oriented transformation. It does not merely ask where something should go. It asks what must be preserved, what must be translated, which threshold must be crossed, and what new configuration can emerge without breaking continuity.
Semantic routing is one application of ZEON Key 153.
ZEON Key 153 is, more broadly, a technology of coherent passage.
ZEON Research Series
This document belongs to a broader body of ZEON research on capabilities, the reading of reality, relational infrastructures and human–AI systems. The first three Working Papers are currently published in French.
Towards a Civilisation of Capabilities
The civilisational horizon: why the capacity to transmit, develop and organise capabilities may become a central measure of society.
Reading the Forces of Reality
A path of discernment for recognising the forces, tensions, narratives and transformations acting within a real situation.
The Anatomy of ZEON
A map of the ZEON ecosystem, its functions, its components, its artefacts and its infrastructure of capabilities.
ZEON Systems
The main public entrance to ZEON Systems, its research, its Forge and its evolving ecosystem.
How to Use This Page
This page may be used as an introduction, an exploration map or a preliminary design framework.
It first shows that Key 153 is not limited to semantic routing. It can then be used to identify, within a digital project, the points at which an operation of passage, selection, translation, assembly or orchestration is required.
Each numbered class may be developed independently as a prototype, architecture, demonstrator, research programme or derived key. The taxonomy is therefore not intended as a closed catalogue. It is a starting point for recognising a shared operation across apparently different technical fields.
The page may also be shared with researchers, software architects, AI engineers, designers of multi-agent systems and institutional partners in order to open a concrete discussion about the digital applications of ZEON Key 153.
ZEON Key 153 is the Key of the World Walker — the one who creates passages, connects separated realities and enables a transformation to cross from one world into another without losing its coherence.