I Stopped Paying for AI CLI Chaos: This Local...

If you are juggling Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and random API keys across different providers, the setup gets ugly fast. Different protocols. Different auth flows. Different config files. Different model names. Different rate limits. So I built CliGate: a local multi-protocol AI gateway that sits on localhost and turns that mess into one controllable entry point. Instead of wiring every tool separately, you point them at CliGate once and get: multi-account pooling API key failover proto