OmniRoute is a local AI gateway: it puts one OpenAI-compatible endpoint (http://localhost:20128/v1) in front of hundreds of providers, then routes requests between them with automatic fallback. Install it, point your coding tool at auto, and it "just works."
But "it starts" and "it works" are not the same thing. A gateway that answers Hello! but falls over on streaming, tool calls, or a provider outage is decorative, not functional. This article is a checklist for proving a fresh local install actually does its job before you wire a coding agent into it.
1. Install and boot it
npm install -g omniroute
omniroute
