# Show HN: GoRoute – Native Go LLM Gateway for Coding Agents (< 12MB RAM) > Source: > Published: 2026-10-22 11:04:00+00:00 **Sub-10ms Latency • < 12MB RAM • 35 CLI Agents • A2A Protocol • Zero Node.js Overhead** [Quickstart](#-quickstart) • [Architecture](#-architecture) • [Supported Agents](#-supported-coding-agents) • [Benchmarks](#-benchmarks) • [Features](#-features) • [Cheatsheet](#-cli-cheatsheet) **GoRoute** is an ultra-fast, single-binary LLM gateway engineered specifically for developers using autonomous AI coding agents (**OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Aider, Cline**, etc.). Instead of running bloated Node/Electron proxies that consume **600MB to 1.5GB of RAM**, GoRoute delivers identical multi-provider pooling, Google Antigravity OAuth rotation, Anthropic-to-OpenAI protocol normalization, and response caching inside a tiny **5.1MB footprint**. ``` ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ YOUR CODING AGENTS │ │ OpenCode • Claude Code • Cursor • Codex CLI • Aider • Roo │ └──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘ │ http://127.0.0.1:8128 (OpenAI /v1 & Anthropic /v1/messages) │ ▼ ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ⚡ GOROUTE CORE │ │ │ │ ┌───────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Dual-Protocol SSE │ │ 55 RTK Filters │ │ Session Account Affinity │ │ │ │ OpenAI ⇆ Anthropic │ │ 70-90% Noise Cut │ │ Prompt Cache Preservation │ │ │ └───────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Autonomous Token Health Scheduler & Router │ │ │ │ (Cascades across accounts on 429 quota or 503 limits; proactive refresh) │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ ┌───────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────┐ ▼ ▼ ▼ ┌───────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ Google Antigravity Pool │ │ AWS CodeWhisperer (Kiro) │ │ OpenAI / Codex Direct │ │ Multi-Account • Sonnet │ │ Context Auto-Pruning │ │ OpenAI Compatible API │ └───────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────┘ └───────────────────────────┘ npm install -g goroute # Or run directly via npx: npx goroute setup opencode curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ziuus/goroute/main/install.sh | bash brew install ziuus/goroute/goroute go install github.com/ziuus/goroute/cmd/goroute@latest goroute auth login antigravity ``` *Securely links your Antigravity accounts into GoRoute's encrypted local storage (`~/.goroute/vault.json`).* Auto-configure your favorite agent with one command: ``` # Configure OpenCode (writes config + registers provider credentials) goroute setup opencode # Configure Claude Code goroute setup claude # Configure OpenAI Codex CLI goroute setup codex # Configure ALL 18 supported agents in one click goroute setup all ``` Run GoRoute as a background service: ``` # Enable Linux background autostart (systemd user unit, ~5MB RAM): goroute autostart enable # Verify gateway status: goroute status ``` Or launch any agent with zero configuration using the universal proxy injector: ``` goroute run opencode goroute run claude goroute run aider --model openai/claude-3-7-sonnet ``` Tested on Linux x86_64 under 500 concurrent streaming requests: | Benchmark Metric | Traditional Gateways *(Node/Next.js/Python)* | GoRoute *(Pure Go)* | Efficiency Gain | |---|---|---|---| | **Idle Memory (RSS)** | `580 MB – 1,450 MB` | **`5.1 MB`** | **99.1% less RAM** | | **Memory Under 500 Req Load** | `850 MB – 2.1 GB` | **`16.5 MB`** | **98.0% less RAM** | | **Idle CPU Utilization** | `1.5% – 6.0%` background | **`0.0%`** (Sleep until epoll) | **Zero background waste** | | **Disk Footprint** | `~180 MB` (`node_modules` ) | **`13 MB`** (Static single binary) | **14x smaller** | | **Cold Startup Time** | `3,200 ms` | **`11 ms`** | **290x faster** | | **Gateway Port** | `20128` | **`8128`** | **Collision-free** | `goroute setup` automatically configures paths, headers, authentication keys, and provider manifests for: | Agent | Command | Target Config File | Features Supported | |---|---|---|---| | **Claude Code** | `goroute setup claude` | `~/.claude/settings.json` | Anthropic `/v1/messages` protocol + thinking | | **OpenCode** | `goroute setup opencode` | `~/.config/opencode/opencode.json` | Full models catalog, `auth.json` registration | | **Cursor IDE** | `goroute setup cursor` | `~/.config/Cursor/User/settings.json` | Custom OpenAI Base URL + `/v1/embeddings` | | **OpenAI Codex CLI** | `goroute setup codex` | `~/.codex/goroute.config.toml` | Custom profile, auto-compaction | | **Cline** | `goroute setup cline` | `~/.cline/data/secrets.json` | Act & Plan modes | | **Roo Code** | `goroute setup roo` | `~/.roo/settings-import.json` | Custom OpenAI compatible profile | | **OpenClaw** | `goroute setup openclaw` | `~/.openclaw/config.yaml` | Multi-agent execution harness | | **Hermes Agent** | `goroute setup hermes` | `~/.hermes/config.json` | In-flight reasoning inspection | | **Droid** | `goroute setup droid` | `~/.droid/settings.json` | Autonomous workspace workflows | | **Grok-Build** | `goroute setup grok-build` | `~/.grok/build.json` | Native reasoning compiler | | **Aider** | `goroute setup aider` | `~/.aider.conf.yml` | OpenAI base URL + git workflow routing | | **Kilo Code** | `goroute setup kilo` | `~/.local/share/kilo/auth.json` | Custom gateway key | | **Zed Editor** | `goroute setup zed` | `~/.config/zed/settings.json` | Assistant panel routing | | **Letta / MemGPT** | `goroute setup letta` | `~/.letta/config.json` | Stateful agent memory gateway | | **Warp Terminal** | `goroute setup warp` | `~/.warp/settings.json` | AI terminal command generator | | **DeepSeek TUI** | `goroute setup deepseek-tui` | `~/.deepseek/config.toml` | Interactive terminal reasoning | | **Charm Crush** | `goroute setup crush` | `~/.config/crush/crush.json` | Custom host setup | | **Continue (cn CLI)** | `goroute setup continue` | `~/.continue/config.yaml` | Chat completions + vector embeddings | | *+ 17 more tools* | `goroute setup all` | All local tools | 35 CLI agents configured in parallel with auto-backups | - **Universal Multi-Protocol Gateway** : - `POST /v1/chat/completions` (OpenAI format + SSE chunks) - `POST /v1/messages` (Native Anthropic format +`content_block_delta` SSE streaming) - `POST /api/chat` (Native Ollama emulation) - `GET /mcp` (Model Context Protocol native SSE server) - `GET /.well-known/agent.json` &`POST /api/a2a/tasks` (A2A Protocol v0.3) - - **Zero-Alloc In-Memory Cache** : - Repeated agent queries (e.g. title generation, linters, duplicate prompts) hit the internal cache and return `X-Cache: HIT` with**0ms latency** and**0 upstream tokens** . - Repeated agent queries (e.g. title generation, linters, duplicate prompts) hit the internal cache and return - **DuckDuckGo Web Search & Readability Scraper** : - Built-in `POST /v1/web/fetch` and`GET/POST /v1/search` with zero API keys required. Converts fetched HTML to clean GitHub-flavored Markdown. - Built-in - **Smart Quota Cascade & Multi-Account Pools** : - Dynamically rotates across accounts with configurable strategies: `Priority / Failover` ,`Round-Robin` , and`Fair-Share` . - Automatically isolates accounts on HTTP 429 quota exhaustion or 402 billing limits with proactive token cooldowns. - Dynamically rotates across accounts with configurable strategies: - **Context Pruning & Token Optimization** : - Single-pass $O(N)$ integer pruning algorithm trims duplicate prompt prefixes and keeps multi-turn transcripts within upstream limits without dropping active agent instructions. - Single-pass We welcome contributors! Check out our [open Good First Issues](https://github.com/ziuus/goroute/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22): - Adding a new provider adapter takes under 20 lines of pure Go in `pkg/providers/` . - Adding a new CLI tool integration is just 1 struct entry in `pkg/clitools/registry.go` . - Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/ziuus/goroute/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started in 2 minutes. GoRoute provides pre-compiled, optimized static binaries for all major platforms: | Platform | Architecture | Binary Format | Autostart Service | |---|---|---|---| | **Linux** | `x86_64` ,`arm64` | Native ELF | `systemd` user service | | **macOS** | Apple Silicon ( `arm64` ), Intel (`x86_64` ) | Mach-O | `launchd` / CLI | | **Windows** | `x64` ,`arm64` | Native `.exe` | Windows Task / CLI | | **NPM Wrapper** | Any Node.js 18+ environment | Universal JS runner | Auto-detects platform | ``` # Gateway Management goroute serve # Start gateway server (port 8128) goroute serve --no-dashboard # Headless mode (< 10MB RAM) goroute autostart enable # Enable system background service goroute autostart status # Check service status goroute autostart disable # Stop & disable service goroute status # Health check & model listing # Agent Setups goroute setup all # Configure all 14 coding agents goroute setup # Configure a specific agent (e.g. opencode, claude) goroute run [args...] # Launch agent with proxy env variables # Providers & Accounts goroute auth login antigravity # Interactive PKCE OAuth login goroute auth list # List connected provider accounts goroute catalog # View 25+ built-in provider presets ``` MIT © [ziuus](https://github.com/ziuus). 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