Emergency triage compute budgeting
#17 · Domain: Emergency medicine (START) · Category: adaptive · Difficulty: 🟢 Low
Core principle
Treat maximum survival — not fairness of equal compute.
AI problem addressed
Formatting and research questions get same budget.
Implementation
| Class | Examples | Budget | | Immediate | Safety, legal, medical | Max | | Delayed | Research, planning | Standard | | Minor | Format, rewrite | Minimal | | Deceased | Out of scope, malformed | Reject early |
Boundaries
- Prototype as prompt scaffold (🟢) before full pipeline middleware (🟡/🔴)
- Category router:
ai-transfer-adaptive - Catalog:
ai-transfer-ecosystem-primer - Runtime plugin id:
start_triage - Also implements:
quality_cost_tradeoff - Merge notes: Also absorbs
quality_cost_tradeoff— ROI/budget tier is START classing.