The old overload policy had dead controls (maxQueueDepth, rateLimitPerCustomer never read)
and trivial flat penalties. This replaces it with a full serving pipeline where deployed
models form a fleet, requests route through priority/degradation logic, and policy choices
create meaningful strategic tradeoffs.
New serving pipeline: fleet building from deployed models (size/quant/MoE multipliers),
demand categorization by 5 priority tiers, enterprise capacity reservation, priority-ordered
serving with overflow behaviors (queue/reject/degrade), auto-degradation to faster models
under load, and Batch API to fill idle capacity at discounted rates.
4 new research nodes gate features progressively: Intelligent Request Routing, Priority
Queue System, Request Batching, and Auto-Scaling. New dedicated Serving page with pipeline
metrics, model fleet utilization, and research-gated policy controls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>