Disclosure and availability: DaoXE is a service we operate. It is not available in mainland China. This article is for developers in regions allowed by the service terms.
Most coding assistants still speak one common dialect: OpenAI Compatible with a custom base URL.
That is convenient for migration. It is not the whole story of a multi-model gateway.
I run coding clients against DaoXE, a multi-protocol API gateway that exposes more than Chat Completions. This post is the practical setup path I use for Cline, Continue, Roo Code, Aider, and similar tools: one base URL, one key, live model discovery, and no hardcoded model IDs from blog posts.
If you want the protocol-level checklist first, start with:
