china-model-selection-guide_skill

Overview

This skill provides a compact China-focused model selection and task-routing guide for Doubao-Seed-2.0-Code, GLM-5, MiniMax-M2.5, and Kimi-K2.5. It helps teams pick the best-fit model based on input type, task complexity, engineering constraints, and delivery goals. The skill also defines a default multi-model pipeline for staged projects and mandates a consistent recommendation output format.

How this skill works

The guide first triages by input type (visual, long-text, structured prompts) and task complexity (reasoning, cross-language, execution-heavy). It applies tie-break rules that prioritize hard constraints (vision, long context, cross-language, agentic planning), then cost/latency, then project phase to select primary and fallback models. For composite tasks it prescribes a default pipeline: GLM-5 for planning, Doubao for visual/frontend, MiniMax for backend/automation, and Kimi for large-document handoff. Every recommendation includes decision, rationale, risks, and an execution-ready prompt draft.

When to use it

• Choosing a single model for a new engineering or product task
• Designing a staged pipeline that uses multiple models per phase
• Routing tasks according to input modality (images, long text, code)
• Balancing quality versus latency and cost under engineering constraints
• Preparing handoff prompts and rollback strategies for production

Best practices

• Start by answering two triage questions: core input type and task complexity
• Prioritize hard constraints (vision, long-context, cross-language) before cost
• Use GLM-5 for architecture, decomposition, and agentic planning
• Route visual/frontend work to Doubao-Seed-2.0-Code and cross-language code to MiniMax-M2.5
• Send large document sets or full codebase handoffs to Kimi-K2.5 for downstream tasks

Example use cases

• Build a UI mockup-to-code pipeline: Doubao primary, MiniMax fallback for integration scripts
• Refactor a multilingual codebase: plan with GLM-5, implement cross-language patches with MiniMax
• Process dozens of technical docs for release notes and API docs: Kimi-K2.5 primary
• Complex system design and agent planning: GLM-5 primary with Kimi for documentation handoff
• Multi-phase product delivery: planning (GLM-5) → frontend (Doubao) → backend (MiniMax) → docs (Kimi)