| FMRS | 54 / 100 · D | 79 / 100 · B |
| Reliability | 8 / 20 | 12 / 20 |
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| Security and permissions | 8 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
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| Maintenance | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Documentation | 13 / 20 | 18 / 20 |
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| Setup experience | 12 / 20 | 15 / 20 |
| Best for | - Developers who need a unified AI endpoint
- Users of Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Codex, or other coding agents
- Teams interested in free tiers, cost-aware routing, and local deployment
| - Developers auditing NPM dependencies within AI workflows
- Teams performing supply chain security assessments
- Users of Claude Desktop, Cursor, or VS Code
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| Not for | - Users who only need one model through its official client
- Users unwilling to manage provider keys, quotas, and routing policies
- Users seeking a hosted cloud service or official product integration not documented in the source
| - Projects outside the NPM ecosystem (e.g., pure Python/Go)
- Environments without network access to deps.dev, OSV.dev, and the npm registry
- Scenarios requiring maintenance by an official upstream vendor
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| Required permissions | - Access to the local OmniRoute gateway and its MCP interfaces
- Use of configured provider credentials or built-in keyless free providers
- MCP access to routing, providers, combos, cache, compression, and memory; remote tokens support read, write, and admin scopes
- Process-spawning routes remain restricted to loopback access
| - Network access to the NPM registry and external services (deps.dev, OSV.dev, OpenSSF, npms.io, GitHub)
- Read access to workspace lockfiles (pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock., yarn.lock) for cache invalidation
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| Risks and side effects | - Automatic fallback may send requests to different providers or models
- Remote MCP exposes access to 104 tools, subject to token scopes and configuration
- Free tiers, quotas, provider terms, and availability may change; the README notes ToS flags for some providers
- Aggressive compression can alter context wording, although code, URLs, JSON, and structured data are preserved
| - Third-party READMEs and changelogs are untrusted external content; they are wrapped in tags with _meta flags but should still be handled cautiously
- Depends on availability and accuracy of external services
- Batch requests are capped at 25 packages to prevent registry enumeration; larger sets require batching
- Third-party open source project, not officially maintained by NPM or Anthropic
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| Supported clients | Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code | Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor |
| Tools | 0 | 19 |