OmniRoute/docs

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OmniRoute Documentation	3.8.40	2026-06-28

OmniRoute Documentation

Navigable index of the OmniRoute documentation set. Topics are grouped by intent so you can find what you need quickly.

Looking for the project overview, install steps, or release notes? See the root README.md, ROADMAP.md, CHANGELOG.md, and CONTRIBUTING.md.

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For Non-Tech Users

Simple guides for using OmniRoute — no technical background needed.

getting-started/

• QUICK-START.md — install and run OmniRoute in 3 minutes.
• AUTO-COMBO-GUIDE.md — let OmniRoute pick the best AI for you.
• PROVIDERS-GUIDE.md — how to connect AI providers.
• FREE-TIERS-GUIDE.md — get free AI with no credit card.
• WEB-COOKIE-GUIDE.md — web cookie providers (session-credential setup).

guides/

• SETUP_GUIDE.md — first-time setup of OmniRoute.
• USER_GUIDE.md — daily usage of the dashboard and API.
• THINKING_BUDGET.md — thinking/reasoning budget modes (passthrough vs auto-strip).
• FEATURES.md — dashboard feature gallery.
• CHAOS-MODE.md — multi-model parallel/collaborative execution (setup, permissions, API).
• TIERS.md — OmniRoute tiers explained (user guide).
• USAGE_QUOTA_GUIDE.md — usage, quota & spend tracking.
• COST_TRACKING.md — cost and spend tracking.
• FREE_PROVIDER_RANKINGS.md — free provider rankings (Arena ELO).
• DOCKER_GUIDE.md — running OmniRoute under Docker, including runtime RAM for coding agents.
• ELECTRON_GUIDE.md — desktop (Electron) builds.
• TERMUX_GUIDE.md — running on Android via Termux.
• PWA_GUIDE.md — installing the dashboard as a PWA.
• REMOTE-MODE.md — exposing OmniRoute remotely + scoped tokens.
• HEADLESS.md — headless mode: proxy engine only, no dashboard (OMNIROUTE_HEADLESS=1 / serve --headless).
• CLI-INTEGRATIONS.md — master table of setup-* CLI integrations.
• OPENCODE-V2-PLUGIN.md — installing and configuring the OpenCode v2 plugin.
• CLAUDE-CODE-CONFIGURATION.md — Claude Code CLI with OmniRoute.
• CODEX-CLI-CONFIGURATION.md — Codex CLI with OmniRoute.
• KIRO_SETUP.md — Kiro setup.
• ANTIGRAVITY-ONBOARDING.md — Antigravity (Google One AI) onboarding.
• MANAGEMENT-AUTH.md — management authentication.
• I18N.md — translation and locale workflow.
• TROUBLESHOOTING.md — detailed troubleshooting reference.
• UNINSTALL.md — clean removal steps.

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For Tech Users

Technical documentation for developers and contributors.

architecture/

How the system is put together — read these to understand the runtime, code layout, and resilience model.

• ARCHITECTURE.md — high-level system architecture (request pipeline, layers, modules).
• CODEBASE_DOCUMENTATION.md — engineering reference for the codebase.
• REPOSITORY_MAP.md — directory-by-directory navigation guide.
• AUTHZ_GUIDE.md — authorization pipeline (route classifier + policy engine).
• RESILIENCE_GUIDE.md — provider circuit breaker, connection cooldown, and model lockout.
• QUALITY_GATES.md — quality-gate scripts and CI jobs inventory.
• MONITORING_SECTIONS.md — monitoring/costs dashboard navigation.
• cluster-decisions.md — optional sidecar/cluster profile decisions.
• DESIGN_SYSTEM.md — design system & visual identity.
• ROUTER_BACKENDS.md — router backends & embedded services architecture contract (ADR).
• admission-lanes.md — the two admission-lane systems and what gates each.
• persistence-backend-boundary.md — pluggable persistence boundary (ADR).

reference/

Lookup material — API surface, environment variables, CLI flags, provider catalog.

• API_REFERENCE.md — REST API endpoints and shapes.
• PROVIDER_REFERENCE.md — auto-generated provider catalog (do not edit by hand).
• REMOVED_PROVIDERS.md — providers removed at their operator's request; never reintroduce without written permission.
• PROVIDER_PLUGIN_MANIFEST.md — sidecar-safe provider plugin contract for Bifrost and CLIProxyAPI migration.
• openapi.yaml — OpenAPI spec for the public API.
• ENVIRONMENT.md — environment variables reference.
• FEATURE_FLAGS.md — feature flags and their defaults.
• CLI-TOOLS.md — bundled CLI commands.
• FREE_TIERS.md — free-tier LLM provider directory.
• FREE_PROXIES_API.md — free proxies API.
• RELAY_BACKEND_STRATEGY.md — relay backend strategy.
• RELAY_TROUBLESHOOTING.md — relay troubleshooting.

frameworks/

Pluggable subsystems exposed to clients, agents, and operators.

• MCP-SERVER.md — Model Context Protocol server.
• A2A-SERVER.md — Agent-to-Agent (A2A) JSON-RPC server.
• ACP.md — Agent Client Protocol.
• AGENT_PROTOCOLS_GUIDE.md — A2A / ACP / Cloud agent overview.
• AGENTBRIDGE.md — IDE agent bridge.
• AGENT-SKILLS.md — agent skills catalog.
• CLOUD_AGENT.md — cloud agent runtime and providers.
• SKILLS.md — Skills framework (sandboxed extension).
• MEMORY.md — persistent memory (FTS5 + Qdrant).
• WEBHOOKS.md — webhook events and dispatch.
• EVALS.md — eval suites.
• GAMIFICATION.md — gamification & leaderboard system.
• EMBEDDED-SERVICES.md — embedded sidecar services (9Router, CLIProxyAPI).
• NOTION_CONTEXT.md — Notion context source.
• OBSIDIAN_CONTEXT.md — Obsidian context source.
• LOCAL_CORPUS_CONTEXT.md — local corpus context source (approved directory exposed to MCP).
• OPENCODE.md — OpenCode integration.
• OPEN_SSE_ARCHITECTURE.md — open-sse streaming engine internals.
• PLAYGROUND_STUDIO.md — Playground Studio UI.
• SEARCH_TOOLS_STUDIO.md — Search Tools Studio UI.
• TRAFFIC_INSPECTOR.md — traffic inspector (MITM).
• PLUGINS.md — CLI plugin system overview.
• PLUGIN_SDK.md — plugin SDK reference.
• PLUGIN_MARKETPLACE.md — plugin marketplace.
• RADAR.md — Radar free-model catalog overlay (optional, off by default).

routing/

Combo routing, scoring, and replay.

• AUTO-COMBO.md — Auto-Combo (multi-factor scoring, 20 strategies).
• QUOTA_SHARE.md — quota sharing engine.
• REASONING_REPLAY.md — reasoning replay cache.
• REASONING_ROUTING.md — reasoning routing rules (effort/budget rule engine).

security/

Guardrails, compliance, stealth, and the mandatory patterns for handling public credentials and error messages.

• GUARDRAILS.md — PII, prompt injection, vision guardrails.
• COMPLIANCE.md — audit trails and compliance.
• STEALTH_GUIDE.md — TLS / fingerprint stealth.
• PUBLIC_CREDS.md — mandatory pattern for embedding public upstream OAuth client_id/secret + Firebase Web keys without tripping secret scanners.
• ERROR_SANITIZATION.md — mandatory pattern for routing every error response through sanitizeErrorMessage to prevent stack-trace exposure.
• ROUTE_GUARD_TIERS.md — route-guard classification tiers.
• CLI_TOKEN.md — CLI machine-ID token (HMAC + legacy SHA-256) auth.
• EGRESS_POLICY.md — egress IP family (IPv4/IPv6) policy.
• BAN_DETECTION.md — account-ban / banned-keyword detection.
• AGENTROUTER_WAF.md — agentrouter.org WAF.
• CORS.md — CORS configuration & security.
• MITM-TPROXY-DECRYPT.md — transparent MITM decrypt.
• SUPPLY_CHAIN.md — supply-chain gates (SLSA, SBOM, Trivy, osv-scanner, Scorecard).
• SOCKET_DEV_FINDINGS.md — supply-chain finding attestations.

compression/

Prompt compression engines, rules, and language packs.

• COMPRESSION_GUIDE.md — top-level compression overview.
• COMPRESSION_ENGINES.md — available compression engines.
• COMPRESSION_RULES_FORMAT.md — rule file format.
• COMPRESSION_LANGUAGE_PACKS.md — language packs.
• RTK_COMPRESSION.md — RTK engine deep dive.
• CONTEXT_EDITING.md — delegated context editing (Anthropic).
• EXTENDING_COMPRESSION.md — adding a custom compression engine.

providers/

Provider-specific integration guides.

• CLAUDE_WEB.md — Claude Web (cookie-auth) provider.
• CHATGPT_WEB.md — ChatGPT Web (Codex) provider and common-provider retirement note.
• COPILOT-M365.md — Microsoft 365 Copilot (BizChat) provider.
• ALIBABA-QWEN-PROVIDER-FAMILIES.md — Alibaba and Qwen provider families.
• AGENTROUTER.md — AgentRouter setup.
• ZED-DOCKER.md — Zed IDE integration under Docker.
• CURSOR-DOCKER.md — Cursor model listing under Docker.

comparison/

• OMNIROUTE_VS_ALTERNATIVES.md — how OmniRoute compares to alternatives.

ops/

Release, deployment, proxies, tunnels, coverage, database, monitoring.

• RELEASE_CHECKLIST.md — release flow checklist.
• RELEASE_GREEN.md — keeping the PR queue and release branch green.
• BRANCHING_MODEL.md — branching & release model.
• RELEASE_STRATEGY.md — LTS rail: branches, npm channels, forward-port, rail labels.
• MERGE_TRAIN.md — merge queue & manual merge-train runbook.
• HOMOLOGATION.md — homologation suite (npm run homolog).
• QUALITY_GATE_PLAYBOOK.md — quality-gate playbook.
• RUNNER_BOX.md — self-hosted runner box operations.
• BRANCH_PROTECTION_MAIN.md — main branch protection.
• CONTRIBUTION_GOLDEN_PATH.md — contribution golden path (focused checks per change type).
• COVERAGE_PLAN.md — test coverage plan.
• LTS_GO_NO_GO.md — 3.9.0 LTS GO/NO-GO checklist (rail gates + closing battery).
• DATABASE_GUIDE.md — DB schema and operations.
• SQLITE_RUNTIME.md — SQLite driver resolution chain.
• REDIS_PRODUCTION_CONFIG.md — Redis production configuration.
• MONITORING_GUIDE.md — monitoring & observability.
• FLY_IO_DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md — Fly.io deployment.
• VM_DEPLOYMENT_GUIDE.md — generic VM deployment.
• PROXY_GUIDE.md — upstream proxy configuration.
• TUNNELS_GUIDE.md — Cloudflare tunnel and friends.

diagrams/

Mermaid sources and exported SVG/PNG diagrams referenced from the docs above. See diagrams/README.md.

i18n/

Translated mirrors of the documentation in 66 locales (plus the English originals — 67 languages in total). See i18n/README.md for the supported language list.

screenshots/

Static screenshots used by the dashboard and the README. Not part of the doc body.

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