---
title: "Best Practices"
description: "Identify your most frequent tasks and create skills for them. Start at 0.90 and adjust based on accuracy: Too many false positives? Increase threshold Too many LLM fallbacks? Decrease threshold The broker reduces costs, "
resource: https://www.aiagents.nexus/docs/manual/broker-routing/best-practices
generated: { by: "process:nexus-agent-assets", at: 2026-09-07T09:13:03Z }
status: stable
---

# Broker Best Practices

## 1. Define Skills for Common Tasks

Identify your most frequent tasks and create skills for them.

## 2. Monitor Routing Stats

```bash
naos broker stats
```

## 3. Tune Confidence Threshold

Start at 0.90 and adjust based on accuracy:
- Too many false positives? Increase threshold
- Too many LLM fallbacks? Decrease threshold

## 4. Use Specific Patterns

```yaml
# ✗ Too broad
patterns: ["data"]

# ✓ Specific
patterns: ["analyze data", "data analysis", "process dataset"]
```

## 5. Combine with Cost Controls

The broker reduces costs, but still set budgets as a safety net.