Switchyard

Switchyard routes and translates LLM traffic for coding agents and API clients. It supports OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages.

Choose a Path

Goal	Path	Start here
Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenClaw through Switchyard	Launcher Path	Install and launch an agent
Run Switchyard as a standalone proxy for API clients	Server Path	Build and run the Rust server
Add Switchyard routing to a Rust application	Library Path	switchyard-libsy

The Launcher Path installs the switchyard CLI and hosts the native Rust server through its packaged PyO3 binding. The Server Path builds and runs the standalone switchyard-server binary.

Explore

• Core Concepts: learn the LLM client, target, and route layers
• Routing Algorithms: choose how requests select a model
• Architecture: understand the proxy and library components
• CLI Reference: inspect supported launcher commands and options
• Context-Window Handling: configure eviction and retry behavior

Reference

• switchyard-server: server configuration, endpoints, and metrics
• switchyard-libsy: embeddable routing algorithms
• switchyard-protocol: provider-neutral API types
• switchyard-translation: protocol translation