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.

lane - Skill - OpenSmartRoute

Imported from HaitianLiu5/Lane (skills/lane/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add HaitianLiu5/Lane --skill lane. Copyright stays with the author.

Lane CLI

Use lane to inspect or control the user's local Lane gateway. The user must first open the packaged Lane app and choose Settings → Command line → Install…. This is a one-time macOS authorization.

Agent-safe commands

Always request JSON and disable prompts:

lane status --json --no-input
lane start --json --no-input
lane stop --json --no-input
lane connection --json --no-input
lane providers list --json --no-input
lane models --json --no-input
lane open --json --no-input
lane schema --json --no-input

Add an API-key provider without exposing the secret in process arguments:

printf '%s\n' "$OPENAI_API_KEY" |
  lane providers add --kind openai --api-key-stdin --json --no-input

Provider removal is destructive and requires explicit confirmation:

lane providers remove --id PROVIDER_ID --force --json --no-input

Set the fallback model and inspect redacted diagnostics:

lane models set-default --id PROVIDER_ID/MODEL_ID --json --no-input
lane activity --json --no-input

Read lane schema --json instead of guessing supported commands. Exit code 0 means success, 2 means invalid usage, 4 means the integration is unavailable, and 8 means a retryable service failure.

Safety boundary

lane connection returns the Lane client key because it is required to call the gateway. Provider API keys are write-only through stdin. Stored provider API keys and OAuth tokens are never returned. UI-only preferences such as theme, Dock, and menu bar visibility stay in the app.

Install lane 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.

lane

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Lane CLI

Agent-safe commands

Safety boundary

Install lane 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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