ModelRouter
Repository: https://atomgit.com/HeNanMU-EEA/ModelRouter
中文: README.md
AI-assisted: code and documentation were produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human.
An intranet gateway for people with several LLM subscriptions: configure once and
let multiple services share the upstream capacity. Pick a model explicitly, or let
AUTO choose by priority among the sources that are currently healthy.
The gateway itself is a single Go binary (~10 MB, no runtime dependencies). Adding
or switching an upstream is a sources entry in config.yaml (or the WebUI), or a
dropped-in .lua adapter — no Go changes, no rebuild. Changes submitted through
the WebUI take effect immediately; editing config.yaml or a .lua adapter file
directly requires a restart.
What it does
- One OpenAI-compatible API:
/v1/chat/completions,/v1/models,/v1/images/generations. Every source speaks the same shape outwards, includingreasoning_content,tool_callsandusage. - Many sources, one AUTO chain: configure any number of upstreams;
AUTOfollows the priority tiers saved in the WebUI, fails over between them, cools down broken sources and probes them back to health at half-cool. - Protocol differences live in Lua: each source binds a
.luaadapter that transforms requests, responses and stream chunks both ways, and can sign headers viabuild_headers(meta). Vendor knowledge stays out of the Go kernel. - Plugins are independent: business extensions (channel login, billing, quota
probing) are external Lua plugins loaded from
plugin_dir. They are not compiled into the binary and not shipped in release archives, and they talk to the kernel only through themodelrouterSDK. - Multi-tenant keys: gateway keys are separate from upstream keys, and can be scoped to a model set, an AUTO chain and a quota.
- Encrypted at rest: upstream keys, custom header values and gateway keys are
sealed with AES-256-GCM;
master.keyis 0600, or injected viaMODELROUTER_MASTER_KEY. - Observability: live source probing, HTTP access log, config-change audit, request and usage CSV export. Writes are kept off the request hot path.
Quick start
# LuaJIT development libraries are required; -tags luajit is mandatory
GOMODCACHE=... GOPROXY=off go build -tags luajit -o modelrouter ./cmd/modelrouter
# First run generates a default config and prints a random admin key
./modelrouter -config config.yaml
Depends on golua (LuaJIT bindings). Without
-tags luajitthe build falls back to gopher-lua, which behaves slightly differently.
No config in the repo: the repository ships no config file (they contain keys). The generated default binds
127.0.0.1:8080only; rotate the admin key in the WebUI after the first login.
# No key -> 401
curl http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/models
# Non-streaming ($KEY = the admin key printed at first start)
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"model":"AUTO","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}' \
http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/chat/completions
# Streaming
curl -N -H "Authorization: Bearer $KEY" \
-d '{"model":"AUTO","stream":true,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}' \
http://127.0.0.1:8080/v1/chat/completions
Any OpenAI SDK works: point base_url at the gateway and use an authorized gateway
key as api_key.
Documentation
The detailed documentation is currently written in Chinese.
| Topic | Document |
|---|---|
| Implementation and the full feature list | docs/features.md |
Configuration: config.yaml, model discovery, multiple keys |
docs/configuration.md |
| Routing: model routing, AUTO chain, cooldown, sources vs adapters, source templates | docs/routing.md |
| Adapters: Lua protocol and built-in adapters | docs/adapters.md · docs/lua-adapters-en.md (English) |
| Plugins: SDK contract, hooks, UI extensions, HTTP endpoints | docs/plugins.md |
| Desktop app: Headless / Desktop artifacts, build and run | docs/gui.md |
| Performance: measured memory use, tuning, thinking budget | docs/performance.md |
| WebUI usage | docs/webui.md |
| Development: layout, tests, branch and release discipline | docs/development.md · docs/git-workflow-en.md (English) |
| Deployment and migration | docs/deployment.md |
Renamed from llmsproxy
The product name has been ModelRouter for a while; the binary, config directory,
service name and environment variables are now modelrouter as well:
| Before | After |
|---|---|
llmsproxy (binary) |
modelrouter |
/etc/llmsproxy/ |
/etc/modelrouter/ |
llmsproxy.service |
modelrouter.service |
LLMSPROXY_* |
MODELROUTER_* |
Existing installs migrate with a dry-run-by-default script (copies, never moves, and can roll back):
sudo ./packaging/migrate-to-modelrouter.sh # preview
sudo ./packaging/migrate-to-modelrouter.sh --apply # apply
sudo ./packaging/migrate-to-modelrouter.sh --rollback --apply
Old paths and old environment variable names are still accepted on the read side,
so an upgrade cannot fail merely because of ordering. deploy.sh refuses to run
when it finds the old /etc/llmsproxy without a new config, because that would
deploy a gateway with no key and no sources.
The plugin SDK follows the same naming: the only public entry point is
modelrouter (llmsproxy remains a compatibility alias). See
docs/plugins.md.
Layout
cmd/modelrouter # entry point (pure Go server)
cmd/gui # Electron desktop shell (embeds the same core)
internal/config # config parsing, sealed storage, runtime file
internal/core # scheduling, kernel actions, state and audit
internal/lua # LuaJIT VM + elastic worker pool + built-in adapters (embed)
internal/lua/plugins # optional plugin examples (not shipped in binary/archives)
internal/provider # Provider(HTTP) + Registry(routing)
internal/gateway # OpenAI-compatible HTTP service + auth + streaming + WebUI
internal/types # unified format and OpenAI wire types
packaging/ # deb/rpm/tar packaging, systemd unit, migration script
docs/ # topic documentation
Development and tests
go test -tags luajit ./... # everything
go test -tags luajit ./internal/lua # one package (required for LuaJIT changes)
- Branch and release discipline: docs/git-workflow-en.md.
- Plugins live in
plugin_dir. The gateway never creates, overwrites or deletes plugin files, and a desktop upgrade never touches them either.
License
MIT License, see LICENSE.