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Design question: per-request routing transparency, x402 USDC settlement frequency, model-spec drift across 41+ models #167

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Hi — I'm working on OM World, a protocol for a decentralized intent economy. ClawRouter is one of the most operationally-deployed pieces of OpenClaw-adjacent infrastructure (OM World also runs on OpenClaw), and the agent-native + x402 + multi-model framing hits multiple of our primitives at once.

1. Per-request routing transparency. When ClawRouter picks model X over model Y for a given request, what does the caller learn about that choice — only the model used, the full routing rationale (latency, cost, capability fit), or nothing? For agent workflows the routing decision can affect downstream outcomes the principal cares about.

2. x402 USDC settlement frequency. Per-call USDC settlement at sub-cent costs has a settlement-cost question — does ClawRouter settle every call on-chain (expensive), batch settle (introduces counterparty risk between batches), or use a channel-style state-update with periodic finalization?

3. Model-spec drift across 41+ models. Each model has different capabilities, context windows, tool-call surfaces. Across 41+ models, how does the routing layer keep its per-model capability model fresh — vendor docs polling, runtime probing, manual catalog updates? Stale capability data leads to routing failures that look like model failures.

Happy to share OM World's Tool Registry + Mandate specs. The OpenClaw-ecosystem alignment is a natural overlap — our spec needs to compose cleanly with routers like ClawRouter, and your operational reality would inform what we leave open.

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