Every AI router I tried optimized for one thing: cost. None could answer the question I actually cared about: how confident are we that this answer is correct, and what breaks if it's wrong?
So I built Hydra, a local-first CLI I'm calling a Trust Control Plane. Instead of routing purely on price, it routes on calibrated confidence, on your own hardware.
How it works
Run hydra probe and it discovers every model on your machine: CLI agents, API keys, and local servers. Then hydra dispatch classifies a task and routes it down a cost ladder to the cheapest head that clears your bar.
Three mechanisms drive the router:









