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Show HN: Strot – Compile an LLM's intent once, run decisions locally

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NEWS ABSTRACT10/22/2026 · one shared analysis

STROT is a project that compiles a decision task (a query plus a set of permitted actions) into a frozen standalone Python pipeline using an LLM, once at compile time. A small local model then makes decisions on CPU without runtime API calls, producing bounded typed-JSON output. The example shows support-ticket triage into actions such as billing_dispute and technical_defect, with per-action confidence scores. The source is a GitHub README page for the STROT-Compiler repository, referencing arXiv:2505.01636 and a PyPI package.

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It proposes moving LLM-driven classification and routing work to compile time, which could lower runtime cost and variability for small local models if the approach holds up.

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Source claims not independently checked; the example confidence scores and accuracy claims come from the README and no benchmark results are reproduced here.

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