CliGate

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CliGate is a local AI control plane built around two core capabilities:

• Assistant: a resident private assistant that stays available in the background, understands user tasks, remembers context, uses tools, schedules work, operates channels, and can execute actions through MCP, skills, desktop automation, shell/file tools, or delegated runtimes.
• Model Proxy: one local API and model-routing layer for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, and API-compatible clients, with unified accounts, API keys, model mapping, logs, usage, and cost visibility.

It keeps both layers local-first on localhost: the assistant acts like a personal operator for real tasks, while the proxy owns provider access, routing, credentials, unified model names, and observability.

Why CliGate

• One local dashboard for a resident private assistant and unified model routing
• Assistant tasks with memory, approvals, follow-ups, scheduled work, channels, and tool execution
• Account pools, API keys, local runtimes, app routing, and model mapping in one proxy layer
• Channels for Telegram, Feishu, and DingTalk workflows
• Local-first deployment without a hosted relay

What It Includes

Assistant

• Dashboard chat and Assistant Tasks for personal task execution
• A persistent assistant agent with task records, memory, policies, approvals, and resumable executions
• Tool execution through skills, MCP, shell/file tools, scheduled tasks, channels, and optional desktop automation
• Optional delegation to Codex / Claude Code runtime sessions when a task needs an external coding agent
• Telegram, Feishu, and DingTalk channel workflows

Model Proxy

• Anthropic Messages, OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, Codex, and Gemini-compatible endpoints
• One-click configuration for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and OpenClaw
• ChatGPT, Claude, and Antigravity account pools
• API key pools for OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Vertex AI, MiniMax, Moonshot, ZhipuAI, DeepSeek, Qwen, and OpenRouter
• Routing priority, app-level bindings, provider model mapping, and free-model routing
• Optional local model routing through Ollama-style runtimes

Observability and operations

• Usage and pricing views
• Request logs and live log streaming
• API explorer
• Tool installer and CLI config helpers
• Resources catalog for free/trial model providers

Quick Start

1. Start CliGate

npx cligate@latest start

Or install globally:

npm install -g cligate
cligate start

Or use a desktop release package:

1. Download the installer or app package for your platform from Releases.
2. Install or open the package, then launch CliGate.
3. CliGate will start the local service and open the desktop window automatically.

Default dashboard:

http://localhost:8081

2. Add at least one working credential

Use the dashboard:

• Accounts for ChatGPT / Claude / Antigravity
• API Keys for provider keys
• Local Models for on-device runtimes

3. Choose your first path

For Assistant use, open Chat or Assistant Tasks and tell the private assistant what you want done.

For Model Proxy use, point a CLI tool or API-compatible client to CliGate.

Claude Code:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=http://localhost:8081
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=any-key
claude

Codex CLI:

# ~/.codex/config.toml
chatgpt_base_url = "http://localhost:8081/backend-api/"
openai_base_url = "http://localhost:8081"

Gemini CLI and OpenClaw can also be configured from the dashboard.

User Paths

Assistant users

Use Chat, Assistant Tasks, Conversation Records, Scheduled, Skills, MCP, and channels to ask the resident assistant to execute real tasks, remember context, use tools, send follow-ups, and keep working in the background.

Model Proxy users

Start the service, add one credential, run one-click config, and send your first proxied request from Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, or an API-compatible client.

Dashboard operators

Use the dashboard to manage accounts, API keys, routing priority, model mapping, local runtimes, pricing, request logs, usage, channel settings, skills, MCP, and desktop-agent settings.

Documentation

Start here if you want the shortest path to the right document:

• Documentation Hub
• Product Manual (English)
• Product Manual (Chinese)
• Architecture
• API Reference
• App Routing
• Accounts
• OpenClaw Integration
• Screenshot Guide
• Release Guide
• Community
• Contributing
• Security
• Support
• Changelog

After the server starts, a lightweight product guide is also available at:

• http://localhost:8081/manual/
• http://localhost:8081/resources/

Local Architecture

Assistant Surfaces
  Web Chat / Assistant Tasks / Telegram / Feishu / DingTalk / Scheduled Tasks
           |
           v
Private Assistant and Tools
  Memory / Policies / Skills / MCP / Desktop Agent / Shell + File Tools / Optional Codex + Claude Code Delegation
           |
           v
CliGate Local Control Plane (localhost:8081)
           |
           +--> Model Proxy
           |    - Protocol translation
           |    - Account and API key routing
           |    - App-level bindings and model mapping
           |    - Local model routing
           |
           v
Upstream Providers and Local Runtimes
  OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / Vertex AI / Kilo / Ollama / others

API Surface

See docs/API.md for more detail.

Community

• GitHub Discussions
• Issues
• Discord
• X
• Community Guide
• Releases

If you plan to contribute, read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Disclaimer

CliGate is an independent open-source project and is not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or other upstream providers.