---
title: "Preview Auto Router Classifier Prompt"
method: POST
path: "/auto_router/classifier/default_prompt"
tags: ["model management"]
---

# Preview Auto Router Classifier Prompt

`POST /auto_router/classifier/default_prompt`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.sea-lion.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.sea-lion.ai/auto_router/classifier/default_prompt`
- Auth: API key in header `x-litellm-api-key`

Get the system prompt an auto-router's LLM classifier sends for an edited tier set

## Request body

- AutoRouterClassifierPromptPreviewRequest: A POST rather than query params: the classification sections are the operator's own text, which must not reach access logs through a URL.
  - `tier_definitions` TierDefinition[], nullable
    - `name` string, required: Tier name; becomes a value the LLM classifier can return and a key of `tiers`
    - `description` string, nullable: What belongs in this tier; rendered as this tier's bullet in the classifier rubric. Required unless the name is a built-in tier (NON_REASONING, SIMPLE, MEDIUM, COMPLEX, REASONING), which inherits the built-in criteria when omitted
  - `tier_labels` object, nullable
  - `classification_rubric` 'legacy' | 'agentic' | 'chat' | 'business': Which calibration examples, and for BUSINESS which tier criteria, the built-in classifier rubric carries.
  - `context_window_size` integer
  - `classification_prompt` string, nullable
  - `classification_examples` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- AutoRouterClassifierDefaultPromptResponse: The built-in system prompt an auto-router's LLM classifier uses when none is configured. Served so the dashboard's prompt editor prefills the rubric the proxy actually sends, rather than a copy in the frontend that drifts the moment the rubric is edited.
  - `system_prompt` string, required

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

## Changes

- **2026-10-21** `f2fb14eab3f5`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/sea-lion/apis/litellm-api/changes/auto_router/classifier/default_prompt/post.md)

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