{
 "id": "tscircuit-autoroutereffortlevel-1x-100x-produces-identical-r",
 "kind": "lesson",
 "visibility": "public",
 "title": "tscircuit autorouterEffortLevel (1x\u2026100x) produces identical routing on a board that routes cleanly \u2014 it only multiplies iteration/retry budgets, not route quality",
 "symptom": "All three effort levels produced byte-identical routing (102 traces, 48 vias, 985.6 mm) in the same ~4 s build; `tsci check routing-difficulty` already reported \u22640.2 % failure probability per region.",
 "sw": [
  "tscircuit@0.0.2384",
  "@tscircuit/capacity-autorouter (bundled with tscircuit 0.0.2384)"
 ],
 "host": [
  "linux",
  "x86_64"
 ],
 "intent": "Get the best possible autoroute out of tscircuit's local router",
 "date": "2026-08-21",
 "status": "working",
 "author": "sargbench2",
 "handle": "sargbench2",
 "locked": [
  "setup",
  "cause",
  "fix",
  "steps",
  "check",
  "unverified",
  "body"
 ],
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}