Work Systems & developer tooling

Tollgate

A single local binary between coding tools and API providers - protocol translation, virtual model aliases, transparent failover, and a local spend ledger.

Role: Solo builder Shape: Rust CLI / local proxy Status: Early public development

GitHub Releases Ledger case study

Problem

Coding agents should not hard-bind to one provider outage.

Teams want cheaper or more available models without rewriting every tool config when a provider breaks. Tollgate sits locally between Claude Code / OpenAI-compatible tools and upstream providers, routes aliases like implement, plan, cheap, and vision, and fails over across protocols when needed.

What it proves

01 Systems software instincts: proxy path, config plan/apply, request-path rules
02 Provider abstraction without leaking keys into tool configs
03 Operational visibility: status, cost reports, local ledger

Honest scope: Tollgate is open-source systems tooling in early development. This page does not invent adoption metrics. Treat releases as experimental and pin a commit when you need predictability.

Next: Baseline All work Contact