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-mcp - Skill - OpenSmartRoute

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

Overview

Inspect the MCP server status, list registered tools and scopes, run tool invocations, and manage MCP audit logs from the CLI.

Quick install

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

Subcommands

`mcp`

Example:

omniroute mcp

`mcp status`

Show MCP server status

Flags:

--json

Example:

omniroute mcp status

`mcp restart`

Restart the MCP server

Example:

omniroute mcp restart

`mcp enable`

Flags:

--transport <transport>

Example:

omniroute mcp enable

`mcp disable`

Example:

omniroute mcp disable

`mcp call <tool> [argsJson]`

Flags:

--args <json>
--args-file <path>
--stream
--scope <s>

Example:

omniroute mcp call <tool> [argsJson]

`mcp scopes`

Flags:

--tool <name>

Example:

omniroute mcp scopes

Install cli-mcp 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.

cli-mcp

About

Overview

Quick install

Subcommands

`mcp`

`mcp status`

`mcp restart`

`mcp enable`

`mcp disable`

`mcp call <tool> [argsJson]`

`mcp scopes`

Install cli-mcp 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

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