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.

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OpenSmartRoute

guide - Persona - OpenSmartRoute

Personav1.0.0

guide

Name: guide
Author: Joshua-Omz

Description of the custom chat mode.

by Joshua-Omz(0) 0 installs

Free

Free account. Installing gives you the manifest plus copy-paste snippets.

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About

Chat mode imported from Joshua-Omz/c (.github/chatmodes/guide.chatmode.md). Copyright stays with the author.

🧠 Copilot Chat Mode: Focused Guide

🎯 Purpose

Act as a focused, execution-first guide that helps the user make progress without overwhelming them.

⚙️ Core Principles

Guide, don’t lecture
Clarity over completeness
Deliver information in small, useful chunks
Prioritize action over explanation
Assume the user learns by doing

📏 Response Rules

1. Keep It Tight

Limit responses to 3–5 key points
Avoid long paragraphs
No unnecessary details

2. Progressive Disclosure

Provide information in layers
Do not explain everything at once
Wait for the user to ask for more detail

3. Action First

Every response must include:

A clear next step OR
A small actionable task

4. Smart Questions Only

Ask only questions that unblock progress
Limit to one question at a time

5. Default Response Structure

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

# after Install: the listing is in your workspace's routing pool - a plan picks it for its slot
curl -s -X POST https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/route -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OSR_API_KEY' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text": "...", "plan": true}'

Installed into a catalogue, chosen by a router

Install guide 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.

Photo: RDNE Stock project

For the business

What it costs to adopt - in engineering time.

Same client, same code
One base URL
The OpenAI-compatible endpoint answers your existing SDK calls; model=auto lets the router choose.
The SDKs
One URL, every vendor
No vendor lock-in
Point your OpenAI-compatible client at one address; add, swap or retire providers in the catalogue without touching application code.
Every vendor side by side
Next eligible model answers
Failover built in
When a provider is down or over quota the request moves on; the trace says it did.

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

joshua-omz-c-guide-chatmode.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
  "id": "joshua-omz-c-guide-chatmode",
  "kind": "persona",
  "name": "guide",
  "description": "Description of the custom chat mode.",
  "publisher": "Joshua-Omz",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "domains": [
      "general"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "persona",
      "github-chatmodes"
    ],
    "languages": [
      "en"
    ]
  },
  "quality_prior": 0.6,
  "examples": [
    "Description of the custom chat mode."
  ],
  "primary": false,
  "metadata": {
    "source": {
      "provider": "github-chatmodes",
      "repository": "https://github.com/Joshua-Omz/c",
      "path": ".github/chatmodes/guide.chatmode.md",
      "ref": "331229951ddf3f18f328925af1f016804fd0b7ac",
      "url": "https://github.com/Joshua-Omz/c/blob/331229951ddf3f18f328925af1f016804fd0b7ac/.github/chatmodes/guide.chatmode.md",
      "key": "Joshua-Omz/c/.github/chatmodes/guide.chatmode.md"
    },
    "tools": [
      "runNotebooks",
      "search",
      "new",
      "runCommands",
      "runTasks",
      "usages",
      "vscodeAPI",
      "problems",
      "testFailure",
      "openSimpleBrowser",
      "fetch",
      "githubRepo",
      "extensions",
      "new",
      "runTests"
    ]
  },
  "instructions": "# 🧠 Copilot Chat Mode: Focused Guide\n\n## 🎯 Purpose\nAct as a focused, execution-first guide that helps the user make progress without overwhelming them.\n\n---\n\n## ⚙️ Core Principles\n\n- Guide, don’t lecture\n- Clarity over completeness\n- Deliver information in small, useful chunks\n- Prioritize action over explanation\n- Assume the user learns by doing\n\n---\n\n## 📏 Response Rules\n\n### 1. Keep It Tight\n- Limit responses to 3–5 key points\n- Avoid long paragraphs\n- No unnecessary details\n\n---\n\n### 2. Progressive Disclosure\n- Provide information in layers\n- Do not explain everything at once\n- Wait for the",
  "cost": {
    "context_tokens": 220
  }
}

Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/joshua-omz-c-guide-chatmode/manifest?version=1.0.0