diff --git a/router/__init__.py b/router/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/router/main.py b/router/main.py
index 0c976f4f..02b63c75 100644
--- a/router/main.py
+++ b/router/main.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from fastapi.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 from pathlib import Path
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
-from circuit_breaker import get_breaker
+from router.circuit_breaker import get_breaker
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, Field, field_validator, model_validator, RootModel
 from typing import Dict, Optional, Union
 
diff --git a/scripts/benchmark_classifier.py b/scripts/benchmark_classifier.py
index 2878c402..b2b7f1a7 100644
--- a/scripts/benchmark_classifier.py
+++ b/scripts/benchmark_classifier.py
@@ -1,14 +1,16 @@
 """Benchmark gemma4-26a4b-routing classifier against labeled dataset."""
 import os
-import json, urllib.request, urllib.error, time, sys
+import json, urllib.request, urllib.error, time
 import concurrent.futures
 import threading
 from collections import defaultdict, Counter
 from pathlib import Path
 
 # Shared chat response parser (used by verification scripts too)
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 # Load dataset
 dataset_path = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "data" / "classified_dataset.json"
diff --git a/scripts/benchmark_tokens.py b/scripts/benchmark_tokens.py
index 34c9a2f0..56c79be1 100644
--- a/scripts/benchmark_tokens.py
+++ b/scripts/benchmark_tokens.py
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
 # Set CONFIG_PATH and ROUTER_API_KEY for import
 os.environ["CONFIG_PATH"] = str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "router" / "config.yaml")
 os.environ["ROUTER_API_KEY"] = "local-token"
-# Add the parent directory and the router directory to the path
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / "router"))
 
 from router.main import estimate_prompt_tokens, METADATA_OVERHEAD
 
diff --git a/scripts/classify_direct.py b/scripts/classify_direct.py
index ee699daf..237609c7 100644
--- a/scripts/classify_direct.py
+++ b/scripts/classify_direct.py
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 """Direct classification of Hermes prompts using gemma4-26a4b-routing."""
 import os
-import json, urllib.request, time, sys
+import json, urllib.request, time
 from pathlib import Path
 
 # Shared chat response parser (used by verification scripts too)
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 PROMPT_TEMPLATE = """Classify the coding task complexity. Output ONLY the tier name.
 
diff --git a/scripts/reclassify_all.py b/scripts/reclassify_all.py
index 38675878..b74e5653 100644
--- a/scripts/reclassify_all.py
+++ b/scripts/reclassify_all.py
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@
 from collections import Counter
 
 # Shared chat response parser (used by verification scripts too)
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 TIERS = ['agent-simple-core','agent-medium-core','agent-complex-core','agent-reasoning-core','agent-advanced-core']
 
diff --git a/scripts/retry_errors.py b/scripts/retry_errors.py
index ed273721..c4a30754 100644
--- a/scripts/retry_errors.py
+++ b/scripts/retry_errors.py
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 from collections import Counter
 
 # Shared chat response parser (used by verification scripts too)
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 PROMPT_TEMPLATE = """Classify the coding task complexity. Output ONLY the tier name.
 
diff --git a/scripts/verification/verification_helpers.py b/scripts/verification/verification_helpers.py
index e4500d61..fa9722d3 100644
--- a/scripts/verification/verification_helpers.py
+++ b/scripts/verification/verification_helpers.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # Shared verification helpers for cooldown and routing tests
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from ..chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 import os
 import uuid
 import time
diff --git a/scripts/verification/verify_breaker.py b/scripts/verification/verify_breaker.py
index 6ed9e7c7..37307613 100644
--- a/scripts/verification/verify_breaker.py
+++ b/scripts/verification/verify_breaker.py
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 """Verification test for the agy circuit breaker."""
 
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent))
-
 from router.circuit_breaker import get_breaker
 
 b = get_breaker()
diff --git a/scripts/verification/verify_canonical_endpoints.py b/scripts/verification/verify_canonical_endpoints.py
index 13c7d9b2..f79855c4 100644
--- a/scripts/verification/verify_canonical_endpoints.py
+++ b/scripts/verification/verify_canonical_endpoints.py
@@ -19,8 +19,10 @@
 WORKDIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
 
 # Import shared chat response parser (also used by classifier scripts)
-sys.path.insert(0, str(WORKDIR))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from ..chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 
 def load_env(dev: bool = False) -> dict:
diff --git a/scripts/verification/verify_ollama_routing.py b/scripts/verification/verify_ollama_routing.py
index c844e549..c379c6a7 100644
--- a/scripts/verification/verify_ollama_routing.py
+++ b/scripts/verification/verify_ollama_routing.py
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 WORKDIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
-sys.path.insert(0, str(WORKDIR))
-from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+try:
+    from scripts.chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
+except ImportError:
+    from ..chat_helpers import parse_chat_response
 
 URL = "http://localhost:5000/v1/chat/completions"