I Stopped Paying for AI CLI Chaos: This Local Gateway Makes Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini Work as One

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 protocol translation app-level routing free-model fallback a visual dashboard for everything What CliGate actually does CliGate is an open-source local proxy for AI coding tools and model APIs. It currently supports: Claude Code via Anthropic Messages API Codex CLI via OpenAI Responses API, Chat Completions, and the Codex internal endpoint Gemini CLI via Gemini API compatibility OpenClaw via provider injection That means one local service can sit between your tools and multiple upstream providers