How long does the integration take?

Change one base URL in an OpenAI-compatible client, or install the Python or TypeScript SDK; the quickstart routes a first request in a few minutes.

Will this lock us into another vendor?

No. The router is Apache-2.0 open source, your provider keys stay yours, and the API is OpenAI-compatible, so leaving is a change of base URL.

What happens when a provider fails?

The router falls back to the next model your policy allows and records the fallback in the trace, so an outage costs a retry, not an incident.

cli-chat - Skill - OpenSmartRoute

Name: cli-chat
Author: cheaper-inference

Imported from cheaper-inference/omniroute (skills/cli-chat/SKILL.md) via skills.sh. Install upstream with npx skills add cheaper-inference/omniroute --skill cli-chat. Copyright stays with the author.

Overview

Send chat completions, stream responses, and start an interactive REPL session from the CLI. Supports all OmniRoute providers, combo routing, and system prompt configuration.

Quick install

npm install -g omniroute   # or: npx omniroute
omniroute --version

Subcommands

`chat [prompt]`

Flags:

--file <path>
--stdin
-s, --system <prompt>
-m, --model <id>
--max-tokens <n>
--temperature <t>
--top-p <p>
--reasoning-effort <level>
--thinking-budget <tokens>
--combo <name>
--responses-api
--stream
--no-history

Example:

omniroute chat [prompt]

`repl`

Flags:

-m, --model <id>
--combo <name>
-s, --system <prompt>
--resume <session>

Example:

omniroute repl

`stream [prompt]`

Flags:

--file <path>
--stdin
-m, --model <id>
-s, --system <prompt>
--combo <name>
--max-tokens <n>
--responses-api
--raw
--debug
--save <path>

Example:

omniroute stream [prompt]

Install cli-chat and it becomes one more candidate the router can pick - when it fits.

A listing is a routing target with a manifest: what it does, which domains it covers, what it costs and who publishes it. Once installed it sits beside your own models and tools, is scored like any other candidate for each request, and shows up in the trace when it wins. Ratings come from workspaces that installed it, one per account.

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cli-chat

About

Overview

Quick install

Subcommands

`chat [prompt]`

`repl`

`stream [prompt]`

Install cli-chat and it becomes one more candidate the router can pick - when it fits.

What it costs to adopt - in engineering time.

One base URL

No vendor lock-in

Failover built in

Use it

Manifest

Reviews