Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model
Source: Hacker News ↗ (cross-verified by 2 outlets — full list below)
Experiential, an open‑source gateway and router for agent workflows, was launched to let developers run a local OpenAI‑compatible gateway that can route requests to a variety of providers, models, and reasoning‑effort settings. The tool’s first‑run wizard guides users through selecting a provider, model, and budget, then generates a one‑time key that can be used to query the gateway via standard OpenAI‑style HTTP calls, for example by setting EXP_GATEWAY_KEY and posting a chat completion request to http://127.0.0.1:8000/v1/chat/completions. A hosted version of the gateway is also available at platform.experientiallabs.ai, exposing the same API at https://api.experientiallabs.ai/v1, and can be invoked directly by coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex through copy‑paste prompts that automate the setup.
The platform is designed to optimize agent traffic by ingesting OpenTelemetry traces from existing workflows, allowing users to build a simulation of their agent’s behavior and then fine‑tune a router against that data. Developers can download a public terminal‑tasks trace dataset from Hugging Face, run the exp build command to configure providers, models, and a budget, and then use exp optimize to fine‑tune an open‑source model with the Tinker tool. This process creates a private gateway that serves the routed requests, enabling performance improvements and cost control while keeping telemetry anonymous and free of any prompt or content data.
Telemetry is collected by default through PostHog, but it is strictly anonymous, excluding any prompts, traces, actions, observations, paths, model names, credentials, or raw customer content. Users can toggle telemetry on or off via the exp config telemetry commands, with the setting stored locally in .exp/settings.toml. The project includes development tooling such as uv for dependency management, ruff for formatting and linting, and pytest for testing, and its repository and documentation follow conventions outlined in AGENTS.md, positioning Experiential as a unified control plane that bridges closed, open‑source, local, and custom models for agent‑driven applications.
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