docs: simplify routing choices

[ryan-lempka]

Lead with Auto, Task, and Execution. Align the README and docs while keeping the full routing catalog available. No config or behavior changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated routing guidance to recommend Auto as the starting strategy and clarify Auto, Task, and Execution route types and behavior.
  • Expanded routing documentation with strategy details, configuration guidance, escalation and custom routing links, and experimental Prefill Router information.
  • Added introductory context for Task and Execution routing.
  • Updated benchmark terminology and linked entries directly to relevant documentation.
  • Improved navigation labels and ordering for routing documentation.

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Changes

Routing documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Routing model and strategy catalog docs/routing_algorithms/overview.md, docs/getting_started.md	The documentation now presents Auto, Task, and Execution as the primary routing choices. It also lists routing strategies and documents the experimental Prefill Router.
Route-specific documentation and navigation docs/routing_algorithms/llm_classifier_routing.md, docs/routing_algorithms/stage_router_routing.md, mkdocs.yml	Task and Execution pages describe their configuration types. Routing navigation uses the new labels and order.
README routing entry points README.md	The README adds the three-choice routing guide and updates benchmark names and links.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ad43

Readers may be misled about which route type the quickstart configures; the impact is limited to documentation accuracy.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the documentation changes that simplify and reorganize routing choices.

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Auto, Task, Execution share the fare
Classifiers choose, stages guide
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Inline comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Line 265: Update the quickstart note near the Auto route configuration to
remove the incorrect statement that it uses stage_router directly; retain the
source-build requirement and ensure the note accurately describes the type =
"auto" route.

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• README.md
• docs/getting_started.md
• docs/routing_algorithms/llm_classifier_routing.md
• docs/routing_algorithms/overview.md
• docs/routing_algorithms/stage_router_routing.md
• mkdocs.yml

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